Trek guest actors in maybe surprising roles

[FormerLurker]

John Fiedler was in a lot of things (as many people were back then) - he had such a distinctive face and voice! The only series in which I remember him being a regular, though, was a Dabney Coleman project called "Buffalo Bill". It didn't last long.

You didn't watch The Bob Newhart Show?

 

[JonnyQuest037]

Saw an Odd Couple last night (The Dog Story", season 5) with RedJack as the owner of a Lassie-like acting collie who's really mean to his dog. Felix makes him break down and admit he always want to be an actor, sucked at it, and is taking it out on the dog.

John Fiedler actually originated the part of Vinnie in the original 1965 production of The Odd Couple on Broadway. He reprised the role in the 1968 movie version with Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau. Oddly, he played a different character on the TV series. He was also the nervous Juror #2 in the movie version of 12 Angry Men.

 

[mb22]

Not to mention the voice of Piglet in the Disney Winnie the Pooh films.

 

[BK613]

And he makes an appearance at the end of True Grit as the lawyer J. Noble "she draws him like a gun" Dagget.

 

[A beaker full of death]

You didn't watch The Bob Newhart Show?

I did when it was on, but I have to admit I didn't remember him from it. I see he had a recurring role.

 

[A beaker full of death]

John Fiedler actually originated the part of Vinnie in the original 1965 production of The Odd Couple on Broadway. He reprised the role in the 1968 movie version with Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau. Oddly, he played a different character on the TV series. He was also the nervous Juror #2 in the movie version of 12 Angry Men.

Which, of course, co-starred Jack Klugman as a street-wise kid. I feel like we're playing seven degrees of.... which, I guess, we are.
In that case, I urge that we extend the game to creators, as well. For instance, Gene Rodenberry wrote a lot of Have Gun Will Travel. Which, on at least one occasion, featured music by Fred Steiner.
So many of those wonderful old shows feature great, forgotten music.

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[J.T.B.]

You didn't watch The Bob Newhart Show?

My favorite John Fiedler moment on TBNS: Bob agrees to let the therapy group appear on a local TV show, but Mr. Peterson isn't so sure. "When I get excited, my voice tends to sound rather high," he says, which of course gets a laugh. When they tape the show, Bob asks Peterson to tell something about himself. Peterson starts talking about how he laid down the law to his wife. "I told her, I'm the man of this house," he says and as he goes on his voice goes up and up and becomes a squeak and then gets so high that it is no longer even audible, though he is still carrying on vehemently.

 

[johnnybear]

Sharon Acker as Christine Callaghan in Lucky Jim (1957)
JB

 

[Greg Cox]

FYI: Svengoolie is airing "The 4-D Man" tonight, starring Gary Lansing AND Lee Meriwether.

 

[J.T.B.]

Robert "Gary Seven" Lansing!

 

[The Old Mixer]

This week's 50th anniversary Ironside ("Warrior's Return," Mar. 5, 1970) had me going that De Kelley dunnit, given the combination of his having a prominent special guest star billing at the beginning of the episode and yet only appearing in one scene in the first three acts (with Barbara Anderson questioning him, no less). De was playing a jewelry salesman who was one of a handful of suspects in his store's burglary; the chief suspect was engraver Ned Romero. (The owner dunnit, for the insurance.) De's character smoothly used the opportunity to try to sell Eve a ring!

And the very next week, the show's top billing goes to Guest Star William Shatner! ("Little Jerry Jessup," Mar. 12, 1970)

ETA: He even gets to push the chair!

 

[FormerLurker]

FYI: Svengoolie is airing "The 4-D Man" tonight, starring Gary Lansing AND Lee Meriwether.

Robert "Gary Seven" Lansing!

He won't come here and "D'oh!" if you don't quote him, you know.

 

[PCz911]

DC Fontana interviewed here

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some star trek , but a whole lot of westerns

 

[MGagen]

Just snagged 1959's Beast from Haunted Cave off TCM. Mainly recorded it because it stars TOS's own Apollo, Michael Forest, as a hunky, pipe-smoking ski instructor who falls in with some criminals plotting a heist, only to find himself fighting a rampaging monster from an abandoned gold mine. A low budget monster flick, but it had a few creepy, moments. Forest does his best with some very low rent material.

 

[Forbin]

Aaaand I just turn the TV on and there's James Gregory again!
Rawhide, a season 6 episode, "Incident of the Peyote Cup".

 

[The Old Mixer]

Aaaand I just turn the TV on and there's James Gregory again!
Rawhide, a season 6 episode, "Incident of the Peyote Cup".

And today he's on The High Chaparral, alongside Richard Evans.

 

[J.T.B.]

And today he's on The High Chaparral, alongside Richard Evans.

Image here.

 

[Forbin]

The Magnificent Miss Newmar gives a delightful comic performance on F-Troop as "Yellow Bird," who was kidnapped by Apaches as a little girl. Of course she falls for Wilton and wants him for her own.

 

[Forbin]

I Spy, season 3. Roger C. Carmel wears "The Red Sash of Courage" as the mayor of a small Greek town, to confront Kelly over the presumed (wrongly, for once) dishonoring of his daughter, Louise Sorrel! Oh, and, some commie spy stuff happens too.

 

[J.T.B.]

In The Virginian, "The Challenge," 1966:

Ed Peck as a lawman,


Grant Woods,


and Barbara Anderson with an "Introducing" credit.


BTW, a pre-Ironside pairing of Anderson and Don Galloway.