Trek guest actors in maybe surprising roles

[Ar-Pharazon]

Not 100%, but pretty close.

My question after 259 pages is are there really any appearances left to discover, or are we repeating previous posts?

Luckily, I don’t care enough to go back and look.

Any less than 100%, maybe it should be in General Trek? I always thought it was in General myself, until I searched for it.

 

[1001001]

Any less than 100%, maybe it should be in General Trek? I always thought it was in General myself, until I searched for it.

I tried that once, and got a lot of angry posts and PM’s.

It will stay here.

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

I tried that once, and got a lot of angry posts and PM’s.

It will stay here.

That's some serious gatekeeping right there

 

[1001001]

That's some serious gatekeeping right there

TOS regulars (those who are still here anyway) are not playing around.

 

[Forbin]

Yes, it's in the TOS forum, so TOS only actors (No, I'm not a mod, and I apologize to 1001001 for acting like one) - if we opened it up to every Trek series it would feature eleventy-billion actors and not be as special. Sure, there have been a few times someone has popped in without knowing that and posted a TNG or DS9 actor.
And yeah, we are repeating ourselves a bit - for example, I covered Mannix years ago, but someone is watching it new now and posting guests. On the other hand, I'm always watching 60s and 70s shows I hadn't seen before (as are others here) and finding TOS actor appearances that we haven't featured here before.
This is a warm little corner of the internet for me, kind of like finding old family photos.
Of course there'd be nothing wrong with starting a similar thread in the TNG, DS9, etc, forums. Or even in General Trek for all series.

 

[1001001]

I’m fine to let this one keep rolling merrily along.

If one was started in GTD there would be overlap with this one, so maybe better in individual forums like this one.

 

[Forbin]

That's some serious gatekeeping right there

I really don't get that. TOS topics in the TOS forum? How is that wrong?

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

I really don't get that. TOS topics in the TOS forum? How is that wrong?

That statement was related to the subject of @1001001 moving the thread to General Trek and the pushback he got

 

[ItsGreen]

Forbin wrote: "And yeah, we are repeating ourselves a bit - for example, I covered Mannix years ago, but someone is watching it new now and posting guests. On the other hand, I'm always watching 60s and 70s shows I hadn't seen before (as are others here) and finding TOS actor appearances that we haven't featured here before."

Should have let me know about your coverage of Mannix, I see now back in 2014-
I'll end my Mannix run as they are repeating the series starting again with season 1 with this last one, Sandra Smith/Janet Lester (last Trek episode and my last Mannix post) on Mannix.

 

[Forbin]

Forbin wrote: "And yeah, we are repeating ourselves a bit - for example, I covered Mannix years ago, but someone is watching it new now and posting guests. On the other hand, I'm always watching 60s and 70s shows I hadn't seen before (as are others here) and finding TOS actor appearances that we haven't featured here before."

Should have let me know about your coverage of Mannix, I see now back in 2014-
I'll end my Mannix run as they are repeating the series starting again with season 1 with this last one, Sandra Smith/Janet Lester (last Trek episode and my last Mannix post) on Mannix.

Oh heck, it doesn't matter to me. You grabbed different pix than I did, with a cool presentation. All good.

 

[J.T.B.]

My question after 259 pages is are there really any appearances left to discover, or are we repeating previous posts?

Oh not even close, this thread could go on for years more.

Cellmates John Hoyt, Jeff Corey and Whit Bissell in Brute Force, 1947.

 

[Forbin]

Heck I've got two season of Have Gun left to watch, six of Rawhide, The Rookies is on the pile, a bootleg of Name of the Game....
I'm watching some new stuff for a while now, though.

 

[J.T.B.]

Three OS actors in the first scene of the episode that brought Burt Reynolds to Gunsmoke:



Ed Peck, James Doohan...


... and Bill Zuckert.


"Quint Asper Comes Home," 1962.

 

[Christopher]

A number of Trek connections in the opening season 2 arc of Zorro. The most embarrassing one is Ken Lynch in a recurring redface role as the world's least convincing Native American. In episode 2.3, Michael Forest plays one of his co-conspirators. Meanwhile, Episode 2.2 was written by Gene L. Coon, and I think they're shooting around Vasquez Rocks, though I haven't seen the iconic cliff yet. (A non-Trek notable, Lee Van Cleef, has a role in 2.1.)

A lot of season 1, by the way, was written and sometimes directed by John Meredyth Lucas. And a number of episodes have matte paintings by Albert Whitlock, who did all of TOS's matte paintings. (The rest of the matte paintings are by Peter Ellenshaw, who IIRC was Disney's main matte artist at the time.)

 

[Christopher]

The second arc of Zorro season 2 has another pair of Trek guests in recurring roles -- Perry Lopez and BarBara Luna as a pair of hotheaded peasants rebelling against a corrupt government official cracking down on their community. Luna has a musical number in her opening scene, and her character can't keep her hands off Don Diego, even though Lopez's character is her boyfriend. After all, why should Marlena Moreau settle for Lt. Rodriguez when she can have Professor Robinson?

 

[Forbin]

We're watching Twilght Zone DVDs for dinner this week, and were delighted to have come around to Shatner's iconic "Terror at 20,000 Feet." We also noticed for the first time that the gremlin on the wing has soles on his feetie pajamas.

Also I just started watching the 80s goofy detective/action show "Riptide" for the first time in 40 years (The one with the pink helicopter). I noticed the art director on the pilot episode is Matt Jefferies!

 

[Christopher]

Zorro season 2 continues to be a bumper crop for TOS and other classic-TV guest stars. In episode 11, Whit Bissell plays a popinjay comandante in part 2 of a 4-part arc featuring Richard Anderson as Don Diego's practical-joking romantic rival. Episode 14 has John Hoyt as a landowning don and Arthur Batanides as his scheming vaquero. And episode 15 has Tige Andrews as a thief out to steal a shipment of tax money.

Episode 14 was kind of disturbing, because it focuses on the system of peonage in which the Spanish colonizers educated and converted Native Americans and made them "pay" for their education with several years of indentured servitude -- basically one step above slavery, but the series shows that Don Diego is perfectly okay with it as long as the peons are treated well. (I referred to BarBara Luna's and Perry Lopez's characters as "peasants" above, but they were actually peons -- I was unsure of that.)

Episode 16, up next for me, begins a 4-part arc with Cesar Romero as a character billed as "The Gay Caballero," the name of the 1940 movie where Romero played the Cisco Kid. It's a title that sounds very different to modern ears, and I wonder if it was an inspiration for the 1981 spoof movie Zorro, the Gay Blade, in which George Hamilton played both Zorro and his twin brother who was flamingly gay in the modern sense.

 

[ItsGreen]

Antoinette Bower/"Sylvia" as the husbands victim (Dick Van Dyke)
and Michael Strong/"Roger Corby" both in Columbo, "Negative Reaction"
"Were you a witness to what he just did?"

 

[Nerys Myk]

Leslie Parrish as a moon maid in Missile To The Moon.

 

[Christopher]

Zorro hasn't had any Trek guests in a while, but if I may be forgiven the digression, there have been other classic-TV guests of some interest.

Cesar Romero must've been quite a big star in the late '50s, since for his 4-episode arc as Don Diego's con-artist uncle, they actually redid the show's opening titles to say "Starring Guy Williams and Cesar Romero." But the Joker just barely avoided Commissioner Gordon (or vice-versa), since the next episode after Romero's arc features Neil Hamilton as a stern don who clashes with a peon played by Robert Vaughn. (Napol-peon Solo?)

Then, after a 3-part arc written as a vehicle for Mouseketeer Annette Funicello (and heavily featuring Vasquez Rocks), there's another 3-part arc whose villain is none other than Jonathan Harris! I didn't know he and Guy Williams co-starred in something before Lost in Space, though they only have a few fairly brief direct interactions. (The plot of that one involves an American mountain man who walked into town, and it presumes that the border between Spanish and US territory in 1820 was the Sierra Nevada Mountains, which is nearly a thousand miles farther west than it actually was.)