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Susan Oliver, but not as Vina...

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It's often interesting to see a familiar Trek actor in another role. I've seen Susan Oliver only as Vina in The Cage yet this week I finally saw her in another role: as Audrey Williams, the wife of legendary country singer Hank Williams played by George Hamilton in the 1964 film Your Cheatin' Heart.

It was interesting because occasionally I half expected the scenery to dissolve as just another Talosian illusion.

Hmm. Could Pike have fantasized about being a mid 20th century Country singer? :lol:
 
Or how about Pike fantasizing about being an incompetent orderly? That's another Susan Oliver role I remember.

Alternatively, I'm trying to imagine Jerry Lewis playing Captain Pike... Excuse me, I need to get some aspirin; I suddenly have a headache for some reason.

Robert
 
I remember seeing Susan Oliver in The Wild Wild West's "The Night Dr. Loveless Died" which episode also featured Anthony Caruso, (Bela Oxmyx) Robert Ellenstein (later the Federation Council President in TVH) and, of course, Michael Dunn. She wasn't playing Vina again, but her character was still being used to decoy the hero.

I also remember her appearance in American Sportsman as herself, flying gliders.
 
I remember seeing Susan Oliver once more as an Orion slave girl, although this time with red hair that was on fire, rubbing herself up against my...

...oh, wait, that was in a dream.

Never mind.

Nice find about I-Spy on Hulu. I remember that show fondly. I may have to watch one or two.
 
Imagine my surprise whilst I watched bits of The Sound of Music :lol:
Some actors take vary varied roles
 
She was a very busy character actress. You can see her in dozens of TV shows throughout the 1960's and 1970's. She died too young.
 
She was also in an episode of Any Griffith, and somehow looked even more beautiful than usual.
 
If you haven't seen Susan Oliver outside of Trek, you must not watch must classic TV. She's been in tons of stuff and has many, many memorable guest star roles. There's a great Alfred Hitchcock episode at Hulu called "Annabel", where she becomes the victim of a stalker played by Dean Stockwell. She also directed an episode of M*A*S*H
 
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She played Roger C. Carmel's wife in the movie "Hardly Working" which was supposed to be Jerry Lewis's big comedy comeback back in 1981 or so.

Harry Mudd married to Vina? Yeow! :eek:
 
Kelso said:
She was also in the I SPY episode "One Thousand Fine"... which is on HULU.
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Yeah, neat find. And remarkably, just 3 episodes later in My Mother, The Spy is Sally Kellerman (Dr. Elizabeth Dehner from Where No Man Has Gone Before)
 
ToddPence said:
If you haven't seen Susan Oliver outside of Trek, you must not watch must classic TV. She's been in tons of stuff and has many, many memorable guest star roles.
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True, but then as a character actress one might not notice or remember since a lot of those old shows are not as well recirculated and remembered as TOS.
 
She was also in the first two-part episode of The Fugitive, playing Kimble's first love interest after his wife's death. It was a really great episode called "Never Wave Goodbye," and like all episodes of that series, the guest cast was astoundingly good. Oliver, Will Kaluva, Robert Duvall . . .

She was everywhere, really. For me it was hard to NOT run into her when watching shows from my childhood.
 
^I'd forgotten about that Fugitive 2 part episode. I really liked "The Fugitive"; I caught the entire series when A&E reran it in the late 80s. Robert Duvall guest starred in another ep that I remember, "Brass Ring" which also had the very pretty looking Angie Dickinson.

"The Fugitive" had a lot of other Star Trek guest stars including Shatner. Another ep that stuck in my memory was "Joshua's Kingdom" with Kim Darby and Harry Towns (Incidentally it also had Tom Skerritt) that aired right around the same time as their Star Trek appearances. Kim Darby played an unwed teenage mother and Townes played her religious father who couldn't come to terms with the situation.

I was surprised that a TV show with this kind of subject matter was aired in the fall of '66. "The Fugitive" seemed to be a progressive show for its time.

Robert
 
"Never Wave Goodbye" - my favorite Fugitive episode of all time. Awesome two-parter. They even lifted a scene from it to use in the Harrison Ford movie.

"Joshua's Kingdom" had another Star Trek connection as it was produced by John Meredyth Lucas.
 
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Basill said:
Kelso said:
She was also in the I SPY episode "One Thousand Fine"... which is on HULU.
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Yeah, neat find. And remarkably, just 3 episodes later in My Mother, The Spy is Sally Kellerman (Dr. Elizabeth Dehner from Where No Man Has Gone Before)
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Much later Sally Kellerman was Rodney Dangerfield's love interest in "Back To School"... loved the way she read poetry in that deep sexy voice.
I believe that is also her in the candy bar commercial, where she talks to the candy bar so sexily at the checkout.
 
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