Trek guest actors in maybe surprising roles

Watching Barney Miller during dinner this week. James Gregory's off-the-wall Inspector Luger pops up often.

 

The 1970 Dan August episode with the oh-so-70s title "Invitation to Murder" featured Michael Strong as a sleazy lawyer.

 

Busy day in the various pasts! The Barney Miller ep "Werewolf" (Oct 1976) has Janet MacLachlan as a nurse giving Swine Flu shots, and Jon Lormer as a robbery victim.

 

John Hoyt as Grandpa Stanley Kanisky in Gimmie a Break.

 

Finding that many Trek actors have been in Adam-12 (1968-75), here is Warren Stevens/Rojan in "The Dinosaur" 1971

 

Sonny and Cher's Sept 1973 season opener gives us Teri getting fashion advice from Cher's nutty Laverne character.

 

Tonight's "Creature Features" movie "Evilspeak" is brought to you by Clint Howard.

 

A few from early 1966 on Gunsmoke...

Steve Ihnat and Charles Dierkop in "My Father's Guitar."


France Nuyen and Michael Ansara in "Honor Before Justice."





Leonard Nimoy (title role) and Richard Webb in "The Treasure of John Walking Fox."

 

Hollywood Indian trifecta.

 

Trying to think of another, but I think that's the first time I've seen an Asian actor play a Native American. Fascinating, to coin a phrase.

 

More Mr. Novak this morning ...

Jeanne Bal and Oliver McGowan in the episode "Moment Without Armor." Bal is wonderful in her regular role as the assistant principal -- she should have had a bigger career.



This episode also has a Trek writer and director connection:

 

Kathryn Hays (Gem from the Empath) is a mother confronting a newly hired baby nurse in "One of the Family" from Hitchcock's Masterpieces - available on youtube.

 

Closest I can think of in in Savage Innocents, we’re several Inuit characters were played by Asian actors. And the lead was played by Anthony Quinn, a Hispanic actor.

 

Kathy Brown glides gracefully through a Gene Roddenberry script for Have Gun - Will Travel, as a fallen woman who buys a saloon in a new town in order to go straight and leave her past behind, but encounters the puritanical and megalomaniacal "Marshal of Sweetwater."









That stagecoach driver just had to stick his nose in. He looks like he has a nose for trouble. Well, it was no skin off his nose. Nosy fella. Nose.
What?

 

Morgan Woodward heads up a pack of salty-looking characters tracking the man Paladin is bringing in, in the Have Gun - episode "Man in an Hourglass."

 

There are a ton of familiar character actors on this show, many of them from western shows and movies of the day. Some of them look like they were on a lunch break from a John Wayne movie.

 

Watched another Sonny & Cher last night, and Teri Garr was everywhere being cute and sexy, or just background. Passenger on a train. Floozy in a pizza place. Another kooky launderette skit with Laverne, and, in a French Foreign Legion prize fighter skit (??) she wheeled a stoic George Forman onstage on a trolly while wearing a French maid costume :O. But my screen-grab attempts were foiled by her very animated performance - she didn't stand still for a single frame!

 

Of course she didn't. That would have made it easy.