Trek guest actors in maybe surprising roles

[J.T.B.]

Not guest star related but - was recently watching the 1967 MANNIX episode "The Many Deaths of St. Christopher" and saying to myself, "This episode's musical score reminds me very strongly of STAR TREK's "The Empath". Then the credits roll and it says "Music by George Duning". Well, knock me over with a feather.

What, you didn't read that 300 posts ago?
http://www.trekbbs.com/threads/trek...surprising-roles.205921/page-54#post-11326970

I said "Metamorphosis," though.

 

[ToddPence]

I did not. It did remind me more of "The Empath". Just goes to show how distinctive Dunning's music was.

 

[Forbin]

In an early episode of Have Gun, Will Travel, we find Anthony Caruso as a "civilized" Cherokee Indian settler being harassed by the local land baron.

There were a lot of Italian Indians in the 60s!

 

[Forbin]

Come to think of it, that's typical early 60s TV - the script preaches tolerance and equality towards Native Americans, but casts a white man in the role.

 

[Joel_Kirk]

I just found out the actor who portrayed Robert Tomlinson portrays a character named Admiral Garrett for the new extension in Star Trek Online. Garrett is the contact for 'your' character while in the 23rd century.

 

[JonnyQuest037]

I saw Stanley Adams on an episode of Andy Griffith tonight. He played the brother of Otis, the town drunk.

 

[Forbin]

I saw Stanley Adams on an episode of Andy Griffith tonight. He played the brother of Otis, the town drunk.

Oh, that's excellent casting!

 

[Forbin]

Reggie Nalder showed up once again as a scuzzy henchman, in the 3rd season It Takes a Thief ep, "The Steal Driving Man." The ep also featured lots of stock footage from the film Grand Prix, including scenes of the race in the rain when the rest of the surrounding scenes were sunny and dry . Notable non-Trek guest stars were Dick Smothers in a dramatic role as a race car driver, and Mario Andretti as himself!

 

[HGN2001]

Watching the first episode on the recent DVD set of THE LONER (the Rod Serling western series with Lloyd Bridges) and two original-Trek actors appeared, First up, Whit Bissell (manager Lurry in Tribbles):

Later on, John Hoyt, Dr Boyce from the original pilot appeared:

Harry

 

[HGN2001]

In the second episode, Rob Soble appeared, looking like he's familiar in western settings:

In the same episode were two actors very much on the periphery of STAR TREK-TOS, so they really don't count: Bill Quinn, who played McCoy's dying father in STAR TREK V, along with the main guest star here, Jack Lord, always rumored to be in line for the captain's chair early on:

 

[johnnybear]

Well he did play the original Felix leiter in Dr.No! Plus he was also the human traitor George Vikor in The Invaders!
JB

 

[ToddPence]

Malachi Throne as a baddie in the Superman musical IT'S A BIRD! IT'S A PLANE!

 

[johnnybear]

Let us not forget that Malachai Throne was with William shatner in The Outer Limits episode, Cold Hands, Warm Heart as well!
JB

 

[DarrenTR1970]

Just caught the end of Kojak on Decades TV and there was Malachi Throne facing off against Jack McGee with the Romulan female commander caught in between.

 

[Christopher]

Just caught the end of Kojak on Decades TV and there was Malachi Throne facing off against Jack McGee with the Romulan female commander caught in between.

Just to avoid confusion, I take it you mean Jack Colvin, who played Jack McGee in The Incredible Hulk, rather than the actor who's actually named Jack McGee? I suppose you must, since the real McGee's filmography only goes back to 1985.

 

[johnnybear]

Good point there, Chris! Everyone thought of Colvin as McGee back in the seventies and eighties due to The Incredible Hulk and never realized that there was an actor going by that very name in real life!
JB

 

[J.T.B.]

I don't remember seeing Diana Muldaur much in movies, but I did just see her in a short scene with with Burt Lancaster in The Swimmer, 1968.

 

[DarrenTR1970]

Flipping through the channels and I caught Ian Wolfe being cross examined by James Sikking on The Rookies Decades binge.

 

[Forbin]

Late 3rd season (1970) ep of It Takes a Thief featured Charlie X as an Air Force security guard. Pretty much a background role with only a couple of lines, though. Too lazy for screencaps this weekend.

Earl Holliman played a NORAD security officer who went into paranoid delusions and almost started WWIII, because of a prescription steroid overdose . I'm adding him to the list of people who should have guest starred on TOS, along with the previous episode's Stephanie Powers .

 

[HGN2001]

A year before he was an Air Force Colonel in STAR TREK's "Tomorrow Is Yesterday", Ed Peck appeared in Rod Serling's CBS series THE LONER, playing a member of a religious order being hounded by the big man in town, in "The Kingdom Of McComb".