And Skip Homeier...
It came as a shock to learn that that craggy face belonged to a former child actor (he was actually called Skippy). Growing up does funny things to the way people look.
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It came as a shock to learn that that craggy face belonged to a former child actor (he was actually called Skippy). Growing up does funny things to the way people look.
Another major classic of the 50th anniversary era gives us...Butch Cassidy vs. Ted Cassidy:
Charles Dierkop is also in that scene, and Jeff Corey has relatively high billing in the film.
Charles Dierkop is also in that scene, and Jeff Corey has relatively high billing in the film.
"Rules? In a knife fight? There are no rules!"
Probably the most iconic line of that man's career. And people still remember him best for "You rang?"
He was one of the first actors to ever mention The Old Ones as well! 
He ended up playing Bigfoot in The Six Million Dollar Man after Andre The Giant didn't return!
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He ended up playing Bigfoot in The Six Million Dollar Man after Andre The Giant didn't return!
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He was seven inches shorter than Andre, and less than half his weight, and in his first turn as Bigfoot, had to wear Andre's costume. The way they padded him up made him look like a teddy bear.
His interview in Starlog #115 (Feb 1987, published posthumously) touches on that. The Six Million Dollar Man was apparently the most miserable acting experience of his career. It was filmed during a heat wave and felt like 200 degrees inside the suit, plus the heavy makeup, creature contact lenses, clamp-on teeth, and heavy high-heeled boots. I hope he knew that his suffering was not in vain, that Bigfoot brought kids a lot of enjoyment.
Well he only had to wear one of the white contact lenses for his second appearance in the final season where Bigfoot finally adapts to the earth's atmosphere after his alien masters decide to return home without him!
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David Opatoshu is the top-billed guest in this week's 50th anniversary Ironside, "L'Chayim" (Dec. 4, 1969), as the rabbi of a synagogue whose Torah is stolen.
I'm sure this one has been mentioned already, but Warren Stevens (in a dodgy toupee), as a crippled man who walks in the final scene before dying of a heart attack, in this morning's sorta Christmas themed episode of 'Have Gun Will Travel'.
Lee Meriwether:
Malachi Throne:
Vic Perrin:
And Nimoy in really good old-age makeup:
Mission: Impossible, "Robot" (Nov. 30, 1969). This one had a two-day ticking clock from the time Jim listened to the tape.
Malachi Throne:
Vic Perrin:
And Nimoy in really good old-age makeup:
Mission: Impossible, "Robot" (Nov. 30, 1969). This one had a two-day ticking clock from the time Jim listened to the tape.
Here's something I was surprised to learn. I'm watching 'Panic In Year Zero' with Ray Milland and Frankie Avalon and there's Byron Morrow (Admiral Komack) as a gas thief and Rex Holman (Morgan Earp) as a thug who rapes Ray Milland's daughter.
Did you say that James Gregory was onscreen as a Union general in the first F Troop episode or in the first episode of F Troop that you watched this weekend?
James Gregory is listed as playing Major Duncan in "Too Many Cooks Spoil the Troop" 29 March 1966, and again in "Lieutenant O'Rourke, Front and Center", 26 April 1966, and Big Jim Parker in "Carpetbagging, Anyone?" 16 March 1967, according to IMDB.
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0339834/?ref_=tt_cl_t11
It doesn't list him as a general in any episode of F Troop, nor in any role in the first episode of F troop: "Scourge of the West", 14 September 1965. A Barry Kelley is listed as "The General" in "Scourge of the West".
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0574648/fullcredits?ref_=tt_cl_sm#cast
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0445868/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cl_t7
So if James Gregory portrayed a union general in "Scourge of the West", or any other episode of F Troop, that was probably an un credited role.
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Walter Bacon in 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea (1954)
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The pilot episode, for a fleeting second amongst a group of other officers, at the beginning. I'll check again if I remember next weekend.
I think you're probably remembering Barry Kelley, who appears in a scene near the beginning:
He's not entirely dissimilar in appearance to Gregory in an also-bearded role from around the same time:
https://www.aveleyman.com/ActorCredit.aspx?ActorID=9209
https://www.aveleyman.com/ActorCredit.aspx?ActorID=7000
Yellowface was around a lot longer than just YOLT, sadly.
I was reminded of this in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Where Leonardo DiCaprio's character was the former A-list movie actor who's now playing villain-of-the-week roles on various TV shows to anoint a new up & comer.Possibly stretching the definition of "guest star", here's Jeffrey Hunter as a construction foreman/insurance scam ringleader in The Green Hornet episode, "Freeway to Death".
MeTV is currently airing a 1959 episode of Wagon Train, "The Estaban Zamora Story," that has Phillip Pine and Leonard Nimoy playing brothers. (Their dad is Ernest Borgnine, FWIW.)
Funny thing is I looked up because when Pine was talking, I thought he sounded like Shatner...and there's Nimoy instead!
Funny thing is I looked up because when Pine was talking, I thought he sounded like Shatner...and there's Nimoy instead!
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