No one knew who he was then. Also in at least one of those pics I see Murray Langston (later to become "known" as The Unknown Comic) and Freeman King ("Your Culture Announcer").
Trek guest actors in maybe surprising roles
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While it's true that he wasn't a stand up comic just yet, Steve Martin had already been awarded a Prime Time Emmy for writing in the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour and appeared in some of their sketches. I remember Steve being interviewed and the clip of his first appearance on a Smothers Brothers PBS retrospective.
Is he the foreground guy with the big gray beard? I don't even recognize him.
No, I didn't get him in any of the screen grabs. Stand by.
Okee doke, here's Steve on Sonny & Cher in 1972. He was very hairy 
First as a mincing 70s cliche gay in the All in the Family number, then as a Russian revolutionary in that last-mentioned sketch, then as his dignified self (?) doing a quick one-liner in a party sketch.
First as a mincing 70s cliche gay in the All in the Family number, then as a Russian revolutionary in that last-mentioned sketch, then as his dignified self (?) doing a quick one-liner in a party sketch.
Speaking of
I always thought Richard Long should have played a relative Dr. McCoy.
I think he was doing stand up and comedy writing. Wiki has him performing in clubs in 1967 around the time he worked on the Smothers Brothers.
I wonder if the photo on the back of the Steve Martin Brothers album was taken in that period.
Front cover for contrast
I recently saw Carolyn Nelson of "The Deadly Years" ("I guess he thought he'd signed it") on The Beverly Hillbillies - S6E29 "From Rags to Riches." It was a small secretarial part, but it just took me a second to place her.
John Hoyt, Ron Stein in The Gladiators, an episode of Planet of The Apes! Mark Lenard appeared as Urko but only in the first act in his office.
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Alfred Ryder in The Borderland, an episode of the original Outer Limits with narration by Vic Perrin!
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Surprised not by the type of role so much as by the fact that I didn't recognize him until the end credits.
William Shatner in the Gunsmoke season 12 episode "Quaker Girl", as "Fred Bateman". Apparently, all it takes is a mustache to disguise him.
William Shatner in the Gunsmoke season 12 episode "Quaker Girl", as "Fred Bateman". Apparently, all it takes is a mustache to disguise him.
I wish all the women in that lineup had been former Talosian performers in "The Cage".They're everywhere!!
Meg Wylie as a little old lady with a rap sheet as long as your tentacle in the Barney Miller episode "The Massage Parlor."
The lineup!
Dan August, "Murder of a Small Town," (A Quinn Martin Production!™) gives us Montalban as a Mexican-American labor leader in an episode involving bussing, immigration, and racial tensions following the death of a little girl in a suspicious school bus accident.
Here's professionalism - in the last pic you can see Mantalban has just taken a swig of a real beer, and it's foaming all over the place. He completely ignored it and went on with the scene.
Here's professionalism - in the last pic you can see Mantalban has just taken a swig of a real beer, and it's foaming all over the place. He completely ignored it and went on with the scene.
Last nights episode of "Mission: Impossible", "Echoes of Yesterday" had Rollin and Willy in Nazi uniforms. I wonder if they were the same ones used in the episode "Patterns of Force", seeing as "Mission" and "Star Trek" both filmed on the Desilu lot and probably had access to the same wardrobe department.
Oh, I have no doubt!
Tried a random "so bad it's good" horror film on Prime today. It was just plain bad. The unintelligible "Track of the Vampire" (1966) (Theatrical title "Blood Bath"), however, featured William Campbell as a mad artist, and briefly had shirtless Sid Haig as one of a group of art-obsessed beatniks in a coffee house, staring at a metronome with an eyeball on it..
The only thing that kept me hanging on for 40 minutes was the lovely Lori Saunders (Bobbi Jo Bradley, my favorite of the sisters from "Petticoat Junction") performing endless scenes of ballet on a beach, which I understand was added from outtakes for the TV version. But no matter how much I love bad movies, I bailed on this one. Life is too short.
The only thing that kept me hanging on for 40 minutes was the lovely Lori Saunders (Bobbi Jo Bradley, my favorite of the sisters from "Petticoat Junction") performing endless scenes of ballet on a beach, which I understand was added from outtakes for the TV version. But no matter how much I love bad movies, I bailed on this one. Life is too short.
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