Trek guest actors in maybe surprising roles

[M'Sharak]

Highly recommended. I first saw it in elementary school on 16mm, '81 or '82.

After I finished the post above, I clicked on @Sci 's spoiler tag, only to realize that it contained a very familiar still photo which not only condenses that particular scene to a single moment, but also succinctly illustrates the types of characters with which both actors were long associated to the point of typecasting.

 

[J.T.B.]

I clicked on @Sci 's spoiler tag,

I'm not following.

 

[M'Sharak]

I'm not following.

My mistake. Your spoiler tag.

Different shades, but you're both currently wearing avatars with bright red backgrounds, and my mind went:
Red-->Sci.

 

[Forbin]

The Outer Limits episode "O.B.I.T." with Harry Townes and Jeff Corey is so full of great cinematography, and such a great Corey rant, I can't pick just a couple of pix.

 

[Forbin]

Sally Kellerman gets hooked up to a mind-reading machine in the Outer Limits ep "The Human Factor."

 

[johnnybear]

The Human Factor 'Bear' was always shown in photos as an icy monster covered in frost with white or yellow gaping sockets! But in the televised episode we got a guy whose features were easily on view covered in frost instead!
JB

 

[M'Sharak]

The Human Factor 'Bear' was always shown in photos as an icy monster covered in frost with white or yellow gaping sockets! But in the televised episode we got a guy whose features were easily on view covered in frost instead!
JB

What you're describing doesn't seem to match either the story for either the 1963 episode or the 2002 episode which used the same title to go with a different story! Some series other than The Outer Limits?

 

[johnnybear]

No the episode is the 1963 edition! Harry Guardino's character is the bad guy and swops minds with Gary Merrill's nice guy! Guardino keeps seeing the image of a man he let die years earlier out in the snow and he is haunting him as such as no one else can see him! When they swop minds, Merrill can see the ghost instead! In production photos the creature is like a Yeti covered in frosty mush and with glowing white/yellow eyes but in the recorded episode it is a man covered in said icy mush with a blank stare, he might have had a helmet too I can't recall exactly but nothing like the monster they advertised!
JB

 

[Forbin]

The Human Factor 'Bear' was always shown in photos as an icy monster covered in frost with white or yellow gaping sockets! But in the televised episode we got a guy whose features were easily on view covered in frost instead!
JB

It was supposed to be the ghost of a soldier that fell into a crevasse and froze to death. Either way works, I guess.

 

[Forbin]

The Outer Limits ep "One Hundred Days of the Dragon" features Phillip Pine as the vice president.

 

[M'Sharak]

It was supposed to be the ghost of a soldier that fell into a crevasse and froze to death. Either way works, I guess.

I looked it up. Someone had made a mock-up sculpture of an idea for the ghost, but it didn't move and there was no feasible way to film it. So they didn't.

Yet some people still remembered the never-used "Chill Charlie" sculpture years later, but not so much the ghost of Pvt. Gordon who was seen in the televised episode.

 

[DarrenTR1970]

I have the official "Outer Limits" companion and I can confirm that there was a sculpture made of "Chill Charlie" but he didn't photograph well under the studio lights so they used an actor with make-up instead.

"Chill Charlie" did show up in several pictures used to promote the "Outer Limits" first season.

"Chill Charlie" wasn't even supposed to be in the episode, but the network insisted on a "Bear", so the script had to be (re) written to accommodate the hallucinations.

Of note, the book says that this episode marks Sally Kellerman's first television role. Joseph Stefano had seen Kellerman onstage at a local theater and approached her after the show and said to her that if he ever became a producer and got his own tv show, Sally would be the first person he would cast. When it came time to film the episode, true to his word, Stefano cast Kellerman in the role. He named Sally's character "Ingrid" after Ingrid Bergman in a nod to Hitchcock. Based on this episode, Sally was immediately signed to The William Morris Agency.

 

[Forbin]

The OL episode "The Architects of Fear" has no immediately obvious Trek actors in it, but the credits reveal Janos Prohaska (who has literally played a bear!) as the man-made alien,
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0667826/mediaviewer/rm1096109056/

 

[M'Sharak]

The OL episode "The Architects of Fear" has no immediately obvious Trek actors in it, but the credits reveal Janos Prohaska (who has literally played a bear!) as the man-made alien,
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0667826/mediaviewer/rm1096109056/

Ep does have an uncredited Vic Perrin providing a voice part, though.

 

[johnnybear]

The frozen ghost spectre looked way more fearsome than the simple iced soldier that we did get! The story was more about the mind transference between Harry Guardino and Gary Merrill, oh, and a bag of sunflower seeds!
JB

 

[Forbin]

Ep does have an uncredited Vic Perrin providing a voice part, though.

Yes, he's the "Control Voice" narrating the whole series.

 

[ItsGreen]

Two pre Trek stars in an episode of Perry Mason 1963, Antoinette Bower/"Sylvia" and Frank Overton/"Elias Sandoval"

 

[Okmyx]

Just saw Harry Mudd in an old episode of High Chaparral (Season 4 Episode 14 The New Lion of Sonora)
Here's a 6 minute clip ...

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[Forbin]

Have Gun - Will Travel, "Squatters' Rights" features Warren Stevens as the rancher who wants to kill a squatter on his land, Hal Needham (again) as one of his flunkies, and Natalie Norwick as the squatter's wife.

That's an 1847 .44 Colt Walker Dragoon Warren has there. I bought one out of curiosity after I saw The Outlaw Josie Wales (Kim Darby also has one in True Grit). Freakin' thing weighs five pounds! Here's what one looks like shooting at night with a 35 grain black powder charge:

 

[ItsGreen]

One of Clint's screen matched blank firing prop Walkers went up for sale in 2020, sold for $90,625.
If you notice in the movie/promo photos, sometimes he has a black powder nipple cylinder, other times he has the conversion to blank cartridges prop. (p.s. I own a Cimarron Arms "Man With No Name" .38 1851 Colt Navy conversion with snake grips like he had in "The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly" of course not as heavy as the Walker but still a heavy front foward pistol)
https://usm.propstoreauction.com/lot-details/index/catalog/267/lot/62620?