Trek guest actors in maybe surprising roles

[johnnybear]

Lupus? Lupus? I always call him Norberg myself!
JB

 

[ChasFink]

Lupus? Lupus? I always call him Norberg myself!
JB

And boy, did he take locksmithing seriously!

 

[A beaker full of death]

Can you name this tv show?

 

[ZapBrannigan]

Mannix. I'll bet Leslie Parrish herself suggested re-using the dress.

Does anyone know the title without looking it up?

 

[J.T.B.]

I don't remember the title but it's one of the season one "Intertect" episodes. It has come up here a few times before.

 

[Forbin]

Such an extraordinary beauty, she was.

 

[Forbin]

BTW, (and off topic) I saw Peter Lupus in 'Muscle Beach Party' recently. It was 1964, and he was officially billed under the name "Rock Stevens."

 

[Kor]

BTW, (and off topic) I saw Peter Lupus in 'Muscle Beach Party' recently. It was 1964, and he was officially billed under the name "Rock Stevens."

Yeah, I guess at that point he must have still felt like his Greek name wasn't mainstream-sounding enough for American audiences.

Speaking of Greek... Michael Forest of "Who Mourns for Adonais" previously played the title character in Roger Corman's 1961 masterpiece Atlas.

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I don't know how popular this movie was at the time, or if audiences watching Star Trek would have made a connection between his mythical character in Atlas and his role as Apollo.

Kor

 

[Maurice]

Dunno if anyone's posted this before, but I randomly turned on an video of an old The Lone Ranger TV show and who should pop up but DeForest Kelly.

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[A beaker full of death]

De Kelley was something of a matinee idol for a while before his star fizzled. Not sure what went wrong.

 

[ChasFink]

De Kelley was something of a matinee idol for a while before his star fizzled. Not sure what went wrong.

Thinking of Kelley in all the western roles he had reminded me of a story I read which is retold on another forum (http://www.bonanzaboomers.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=15453).

DeForest Kelley [was in] the 1965 movie called Town Tamer.... DeForest was due to film a fight scene and...Michael Landon came by to watch DeForest shooting and out of the blue Michael asked if he could be DeForest's stunt double and do the fight scene himself. This caused quite an uproar as Paramount were afraid that if Michael got hurt they would have to stop the Bonanza production, and he was told “no” he couldn't do it. Michael, it seemed, wouldn't give up and he went to the top and promised he wouldn't get hurt. In the end Paramount relented and let him do the fight scene for DeForest.

DeForest, when later making another movie shortly afterwards was asked by the director who was doubling for him lately and DeForest replied "Michael Landon!"

 

[J.T.B.]

Amazon Prime now has Movin' On for streaming, which is an unexpected blast from my early childhood. The first episode had a twofer of Michael J. Pollard and Elisha Cook Jr. They were in the same scenes but their faces weren't in the same shot.

 

[The Old Mixer]

And there's Pollard on a 1964 episode of The Lucy Show that Decades is showing as I type this.

 

[The Old Mixer]

Catching some Lucy Show in the background, I can see where Trek being produced by Desilu could have gone horribly wrong. Imagine if you dare "Spock Discovers Wayne Newton."

Fortunately, I have the sound down.

 

[CorporalCaptain]

Caught William Schallert as a clerk in Some Came Running, starring Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, and Shirley MacLaine. I know Schallert is in everything, so it's not really surprising, but I guess this is further evidence that he's really in everything.

That's an outstanding movie, by the way.

 

[gottacook]

On MeTV, I just caught an episode of 77 Sunset Strip with DeForest Kelley in a major guest role and Grace Lee Whitney in a minor one. The main female guest star was Cloris Leachman. I searched this thread for 'Sunset Strip' but no one seems to have mentioned it before. The episode according to IMDB is "88 Bars," 1 November 1963.

 

[Forbin]

88 Bars on 77 Sunset strip? Were they singing 99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall while watching Route 66??

 

[FormerLurker]

And listening to 33 1/3 rpm records?

 

[Forbin]

Been a while! I cracked open the Mod Squad disks again, and found a couple of Klingons working together!

That's the season 3 episode "A Double for Danger."

 

[johnnybear]

Both guys wearing syrups too!
JB