I used to joke that there must be a Canadian law mandating Blu Mankuma to appear in every TV series made in the country.
Fix, Hoyt, Bissell, Schallert.
The big four of "Hey. It's that guy" character actors.
The big four of "Hey. It's that guy" character actors.
Perhaps one or more acted in 14 films one year like John Carradine did, though he was a tad more nameworthy as a whole.
Then there's Jeannie Malone who may be in more TOS episodes than not. I think her largest TREK cameo bit might be the blueshirt who fell down and went boom in the SPOCK'S BRAIN teaser.
That would explain all of them appearing on Star Trek.
Star Trek being sold to the network by Roddenberry as Wagon Train to the stars, would of course have a lot of the actors that guest-starred on Wagon Train.
I looked at Spock's Brain on Trekcore and didn't see Jeannie anywhere?
That doesn't necessarily follow, as that was just the elevator pitch to summarize for network executives that he was aiming to make a classy adult drama with a pseudo-anthology format focusing on guest stars (a plan that changed once Nimoy became the breakout star and Shatner insisted on equal attention). It was more a shorthand for the type of show he wanted to make than a specific intention to emulate Wagon Train directly. After all, if that had been the goal, you'd think they would have tried to get some of the regular cast members of WT, but not one of them ever appeared in ST.
But Wagon Train was a very successful show that ran for eight seasons and 284 episodes, and that had a guest star-driven format. So there's a high probability that any actor in 1960s Hollywood who'd been active prior to 1965 would have guest-starred on Wagon Train at least once. You could no doubt find multiple WT veterans in the casts of dozens of later shows.
Thanks to your post, I now realize Jeanne was usually blonde......and the blue lady in SPOCK'S BRAIN was brunette. My previous info was mostly from IMDB.
Robert Walker Jr. on a episode of the Fall Guy and Paul Carr on an episode of Mannix this morning.
Morgan Woodward was in at least ten "Wagon Train" episodes too...
Ha!
James Gregory on this morning episode of "The High Chaparral" wearing a fake beard.
Now he's appearing this evening episode of "The Virginian" with an eyepatch.
James Gregory on this morning episode of "The High Chaparral" wearing a fake beard.
Now he's appearing this evening episode of "The Virginian" with an eyepatch.
I've been seeing a lot of James Gregory as Inspector Luger in reruns of Barney Miller, which I'm rewatching for the first time in decades. It's reminding me how much I hated Inspector Luger.
He could have been---and was-----far worse as a Senator.
One of the best movies of its type, the Manchurian Candidate...He could have been---and was-----far worse as a Senator.
The sign of a skilled actor!
The wife and I have been watching Barney Miller too - it's in our dinner-time rotation with a bunch of other great sitcoms of the past. We were teenagers when it was on the air, so it's great reminiscence of the times.
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Just saw a Barney Miller episode featuring TOS guests Janet MacLachlan as a nurse and Jon Lormer as a tourist, as well as TNG/VGR guest Kenneth Tigar in his debut as Mr. Kopeckne, who thinks he's a werewolf. Plus, of course, regular cast member Ron Glass, who was also in VGR. (No James Gregory this week.)
Screen grabs of the first two mentioned, which I posted when I watched the ep a while ago:
It's kind of startling to realize that Barney Miller began only 6 years after TOS ended, since TOS was technically before my time (I was less than a year old when it ended), so I tend to think of it as part of an earlier era. But it's close enough that the shared guests aren't that much older in the later show.
Meanwhile, as soon as they mentioned Mr. Kopeckne (or Koepeknie, as IMDb spells it), I remembered that he was Kenneth Tigar, but I was surprised by how young Tigar looked at the time, since I'm used to seeing him in later productions. I could've sworn he was around in the '60s, but it looks like his TV career didn't begin until 1970. (Although I'd forgotten that he appeared in a season 2 Miller episode in a different role.)
Meanwhile, as soon as they mentioned Mr. Kopeckne (or Koepeknie, as IMDb spells it), I remembered that he was Kenneth Tigar, but I was surprised by how young Tigar looked at the time, since I'm used to seeing him in later productions. I could've sworn he was around in the '60s, but it looks like his TV career didn't begin until 1970. (Although I'd forgotten that he appeared in a season 2 Miller episode in a different role.)
was always hoping they would have Bart Simpson as a guest star on TNG.....
Do you mean Nancy Cartwright or the cartoon character?
