Trek guest actors in maybe surprising roles

[Kraig]

No, this person had a brief speaking role at the beginning of the movie.
He looked like a TOS actor, but i could be mistaken; however, I have seen him in other roles, the name just escaped me.

That leaves us with Jon Lormer: Though uncredited in Two on a Guillotine as a minister at a funeral, Lormer had multiple roles in the original Star Trek series. His appearances included:

Dr. Theodore Haskins in "The Cage" and "The Menagerie"

Tamar in "The Return of the Archons"

An old man in "For the World Is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky"

 

[Nude Colonel Stuart]

That leaves us with Jon Lormer: Though uncredited in Two on a Guillotine as a minister at a funeral, Lormer had multiple roles in the original Star Trek series. His appearances included:

Dr. Theodore Haskins in "The Cage" and "The Menagerie"
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Tamar in "The Return of the Archons"
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An old man in "For the World Is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky"
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Triple toast. Quadruple if you count his killing off in ROOSTER COGBURN.

 

[Forbin]

TOS movie-era hit: Rosanna [de]Soto (Azetbur in ST:VI) as an exotic dancer in the 1979 Barney Miller episode "Strip Joint." Bonus Zephram Cochran appearance.
Some pix here:

"Barney Miller" Strip Joint (TV Episode 1979) ⭐ 7.9 | Comedy, Drama

25m | TV-PG

www.imdb.com

 

[Forbin]

Sid Haig had a juicy role as an evil henchman in the 1973 Pam Grier revenge film "Coffy."

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[Christopher]

I doubt Sid Haig had a lot of roles that weren't evil henchmen. If he wasn't a henchman, he was the villain who employed the evil henchmen, like Dragos in Jason of Star Command.

 

[Forbin]

I doubt Sid Haig had a lot of roles that weren't evil henchmen. If he wasn't a henchman, he was the villain who employed the evil henchmen, like Dragos in Jason of Star Command.

He was definitely not romantic lead material!

 

[DarrenTR1970]

Clint Howard as a boy looking for God to help his wounded father, on this morning's episode of Bonanza on the new WestTV channel.

 

[Forbin]

John Abbott (Ayelborne) guest starred on the episode of Flipper I watch this morning on Prime (S1 E9). He played "Mr. Marvello," a hard luck ventriloquist who gets fired from a carny, but then meets Flipper and decides a talking dolphin would make a great act.

"Flipper" Mr. Marvello (TV Episode 1964) ⭐ 6.1 | Adventure, Family

30m

www.imdb.com

 

[ZapBrannigan]

John Abbott (Ayelborne) guest starred on the episode of Flipper I watch this morning on Prime (S1 E9). He played "Mr. Marvello," a hard luck ventriloquist who gets fired from a carny, but then meets Flipper and decides a talking dolphin would make a great act.

"Flipper" Mr. Marvello (TV Episode 1964) ⭐ 6.1 | Adventure, Family

30m

www.imdb.com

That sounds like a pretty good Land of the Giants episode, "The Marionettes." There, of course, you have Don Marshall ("Mr. Boma") and Janos Prohaska in his gorilla suit.

Also, Lost in Space had a Dr. Marvello in "Space Circus." So, lots of déjà vu in that Flipper.

 

[Forbin]

Would you believe Anthony Caruso on a 1952 episode of The Abbott and Costello Show? Lou got a job selling "Pots and Pans" (the episode title) so he decides to cook dinner for everyone to demonstrate them. Abbott buys a live duck and tells Lou to dress it. So Lou makes it a little outfit. Lou can't kill it, so Mr. Fields hires a hit man to kill the duck. Enter "Scarpuss" Anthony Caruso - who also can't do it, because "Why, a duck saved my life once!" The show is on Prime for free.

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[Roundabout]

I didn't recognize her at first, with the green makeup.

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But when the character spoke, her voice sounded surprisingly familiar. She sounded just like Carolyn in "Who Mourns for Adonais". I, then, looked at her more closely, and lo and behold, it was indeed Leslie Parrish.

That's her, playing a (fake) alien from Venus, in The Wild Wild West episode "The Night of the Flying Pie Plate". I saw it on Pluto TV the other night.

Weirdly enough, her character's alien name is Morn. And Morn was, ironically, the most talkative of the three alien sisters.

Aliens go hand and hand with Star Trek. But aliens in The Wild Wild West, that was wild. Of course, the whole alien set up was a con job, in order to steal gold that the US government had stored in town.

William Windom also guest starred in the episode. His character was part of the con job as well.

 

[Christopher]

Weirdly enough, her character's alien name is Morn.

Not weird at all for someone pretending to be from Venus, aka the Morning Star (or Evening Star, depending on where it is in its orbit). Although the etymology of "Alna" and "Pan" is more cryptic.

 

[Roundabout]

Not weird at all for someone pretending to be from Venus, aka the Morning Star (or Evening Star, depending on where it is in its orbit). Although the etymology of "Alna" and "Pan" is more cryptic.

Wasn't aware of that. Just learned something new.


I thought Parrish's character being named Morn was amusing because of the Star Trek connection. The only other Morn character that I'm aware is the other alien Morn, you know, the barfly at Quark's.

And Parrish did appear in the TOS episode titled "Who Mourns for Adonais". I know, mourn has a completely different meaning than Morn. But that's more Morns than I ever expected.

 

[Christopher]

I thought Parrish's character being named Morn was amusing because of the Star Trek connection. The only other Morn character that I'm aware is the other alien Morn, you know, the barfly at Quark's.

Yes, that part was self-evident. But I'm sure there have been other characters named Morn over the course of history. DS9's Morn, of course, was named as an homage to Norm from Cheers.

And Parrish did appear in the TOS episode titled "Who Mourns for Adonais". I know, mourn has a completely different meaning than Morn. But that's more Morns than I ever expected.

Which DS9's writers took advantage of when they named an episode "Who Mourns for Morn."

 

[Forbin]

The episode of Abbott and Costello I watched this morning was a western spoof (there seemed to be some impression in 1952 TV that the wild west was still stuck in 1880 - Superman did it too). The boys went to Hillary's dude ranch and helped the local sheriff arrest "Black Bart," played by Anthony Caruso in his 2nd appearance.

 

[Forbin]

Felt a need to watch both of Arny's Conan films this weekend. Jeff Corey was a hoot as Sarah Douglas' grand vizier, chief wizard or whatever ya call it.

 

[FormerLurker]

Until Grace Jones javelined him.

 

[Daddy Todd]

Grace Jones

 

[Forbin]

I kinda have the opposite reaction, but she was definitely perfect in this role.

 

[DarrenTR1970]

Last night on Svenghoolie, he aired a movie I'd long read about but never seen, "The Curse of the Undead" 1959, billed as the first "Vampire Western".
Who should show up as the kindly town doctor?
John Hoyt.
He seemed to make a living playing doctors/scientists.