Trek guest actors in maybe surprising roles
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Check the other officers in the room in that scene, one of them is who I thought was Gregory. It WAS a fleeting glimpse, I admit.
Possibly Alan Hewitt, standing just to the right of the seated General (General's left) — his voice is in a register quite similar to Gregory's. People who were watching TV in that era might recognize him as Detective Brennan from My Favorite Martian.
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Alan Hewitt, who ended up wearing a red prickly mask for Lost in Space's The Phantom Family as Lemnoc?
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As a matter of fact...Alan Hewitt, who ended wearing a red prickly mask for Lost in Space's The Phantom Family as Lemnoc?
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While posting in the thread on salt vampire biology, I learned that Sandra Lee Gimpel (the stuntwoman in the salt vampire suit, and also one of the Talosian supernumaries in The Cage) was one of the "fighting Girl Scouts" in Airplane! (you know, in the bar scene).
Ah, yeah, that's who I thought was Gregory. Thanks. Never mind.Even in '65 I couldn't imagine a show wasting him on such a tiny role.
Well, Allan Hewitt's character is probably an officer but not a general. When officers wear their jackets in Civil War scenes, you don't need to see their rank insignia. Company grade officers would have a single row of buttons, while field officers wore two rows of evenly spaced buttons. Brigadier generals had two rows, each with 8 buttons in 4 groups of 2 buttons, and major generals had two rows, each with 9 buttons in 3 groups of 3 buttons.
Sp the character you thought was a general portrayed by James Gregory would be a second lieutenant, lieutenant, or captain serving as an aide to the seated general, and portrayed by Alan Hewitt..
Those are sack or fatigue coats, not the frock coat. Though similar styles were worn by officers in the field during the Civil War, they are actually 1870s-type five button undress coats, which became Hollywood's go-to for the army in most any Western. But either way, no rank by buttons, they were the same for all.
Either he was considered an up and coming star and failed to impress later on or he just loved wearing prickly red masks on sixties sci-fi TV shows!!!
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By the time he appeared in the prickly red mask, he'd been working steadily in the business for 30 years, starting on NYC stage circa mid-1930s and moving to California and film & television in the 50s and 60s.Either he was considered an up and coming star and failed to impress later on or he just loved wearing prickly red masks on sixties sci-fi TV shows!!!
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In light of @Forbin 's comments upthread, this trivia bit might be good for a chuckle:
From the 1975 convention in Chicago I believe?
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A name of interest makes it into one of Stan's responses in the letter column of Fantastic Four #95 (cover date Feb. 1970):
Anne Greco does ring a bell somehow, who is she?
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