Trek guest actors in maybe surprising roles

[DarrenTR1970]

I was trying to remember the name of a song this afternoon and it led me down the YouTube rabbit hole and I found this gem.

You Kill Me - YouTube

I actually remember the night this premiered on "Late Night with David Letterman" back in the mid-eighties. Teri came out from backstage, and Paul stepped out from behind his keyboards and went over to the desk where they talked with Dave about what the song was about and filming the video.

 

[Forbin]

That was way too long a thread drift with way too long posts.

 

[johnnybear]

Hagan Beggs in An Act of Piracy, an episode of The Six Million Dollar Man!
JB

 

[Daddy Todd]

Recall that Stanley Kubrick inquired after an effect used in Who for his upcoming movie, Journey Beyond the Stars (ultimately released as 2001).

Kubrick lived in, and 2001 was produced in, the UK. Kubrick may have been a regular Dr. Who viewer on the BBC. No need for kinescopes to cross the Atlantic for Kubrick to be cognizant of Dr. Who.

 

[Neopeius]

Kubrick lived in, and 2001 was produced in, the UK. Kubrick may have been a regular Dr. Who viewer on the BBC. No need for kinescopes to cross the Atlantic for Kubrick to be cognizant of Dr. Who.

Huh! Thank you for that.

 

[Forbin]

The Have Gun - Will Travel episode "Fight at Adobe Wells," cowritten by Sam Peeples, features two future "Devil in the Dark" alumni - Ken Lynch as a rich asshole, and Brad Weston as Quanah Parker.

 

[Forbin]

John Fiedler, Atlanta CSI! ... as an investigator in Burt Reynolds' own Dirty-Harry-esque cop film, Sharky's Machine (1981).

 

[PCz911]

Perhaps not so surprising, though, given the numbers of US military personnel stationed in Japan at the time (not a few with families including small children.)

That was me. As a military dependent (aka military brat), I will forever love the super cheesy kamen rider and machinga zeto….

 

[CorporalCaptain]

Not sure if listed already.

The Horror at 37,000 Feet [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Horror_at_37,000_Feet].

Chuck Connors
William Shatner
France Nuyen

Paul Winfield
Darleen Carr

 

[Forbin]

John Lormer as a sleepy stagecoach passenger in the Rawhide episode "The Incident of the Last Chance"

 

[johnnybear]

Louie Elias in The Midas Touch, an episode of The Six Million Dollar Man!
JB

 

[johnnybear]

Julie Newmar in Black Magic, an episode of The Bionic Woman!
JB

 

[Tango]

David Opatoshu in The Bionic Woman episodes Doomsday is Tomorrow!
JB

Followed by the episode "The Yesterday Machine"?

 

[johnnybear]

"I am not aware of an episode in that series by that title." As said in my best 'Nimoy' Spock!
JB

 

[ItsGreen]

A younger Skip Homeier aka Melakon as Billy Jack in 1957 "The Tall T"

 

[Neopeius]

So, I'm putting together the summer rerun of "The Menagerie" for next Wednesday, and I noticed a peculiar phenomenon. All my life, Commodore Mendez was just Commodore Mendez, a cool Trek character who lived in isolation to everything else.

Now that I've watched so much 60s tv in context, I now don't see Mendez so much as I see Malachi Throne. After all, I've seen Throne in a half dozen other compelling roles, and Mendez is just another of them.

I know this is how it is with contemporary TV--all these shows we watch in 2022 are mostly collections of actors we've seen elsewhere, so we first identify the character with the actor. But Trek, because of its age, and because most people don't watch a lot of 60s TV, has always been a collection of Trek characters, not 60s actors. That's changing for me.

Just a side effect of living in the past, breaking the magic a little bit. Does this resonate at all with folks in this thread?

 

[Forbin]

Rowdy Yates bumps into expat English bartender John Hoyt (with J. Pat O'Mally hanging around the bar) in the Rawhide episode "Incident in the Garden of Eden," also featuring the ever-stunning Debra Paget as the love interest.

 

[FormerLurker]

A younger Skip Homeier aka Melakon as Billy Jack in 1957 "The Tall T"

When did he switch over from his child-actor sobriquet Skippy to the adult Skip anyway?

 

[M'Sharak]

When did he switch over from his child-actor sobriquet Skippy to the adult Skip anyway?

About 1948 or '49, looks like -- age 18 or 19.

 

[J.T.B.]

John Hoyt (third from right) and David Frankham (right) in The Outer Limits, "Don't Open Till Doomsday," 1964: