Single-handedly responsible for some of the strangest acting choices ever to appear on screen.
Trek guest actors in maybe surprising roles
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Single-handedly responsible for some of the strangest acting choices ever to appear on screen.
Agreed, you never know what you're going to get when you see him in something new.
Saw the classic Twlight Zone ep "I am the Night - Color Me Black" last night. No, it wasn't a Batman story. A small town full of angry, vengeful people clamor for the hanging of a man who killed a prominent, but vile citizen. It was probably self-defense, but no one cares about that, they just gleefully want him executed. But the morning of the execution, the sun doesn't come up. At all. It's 9:30 AM, but the sun still isn't up. They argue, they wonder, and still they hang him. And still the sun doesn't come up - things just get even darker.
Anyhoo, Paul Fix plays a cynical and philosophical newspaper reporter, very much in the mode of Gene Kelly in Inherit the Wind.
Anyhoo, Paul Fix plays a cynical and philosophical newspaper reporter, very much in the mode of Gene Kelly in Inherit the Wind.
A really fun Dan August ep as far as guest stars, Trek and ortherwise. "The Manufactured Man" featured two feeders of Vaal - Keith Andes and David Soul - as a candidate and his estranged son:
That covers the Trek connection, but also on hand were murder suspects Billy Dee Williams and a very shaggy (it was 1970) Harrison Ford, tho never in a scene together. Keeping with sci fi connections, Barney Phillips (the 3-eyed counter man from that Twilight Zone ep) , and Richard Anderson (Steve Austin's boss) are regulars. And what the hell, Gary Busey was a tomato-throwing hippie in a rally scene. And also what the hell, Mickey Roonie was the campaign manager.
That covers the Trek connection, but also on hand were murder suspects Billy Dee Williams and a very shaggy (it was 1970) Harrison Ford, tho never in a scene together. Keeping with sci fi connections, Barney Phillips (the 3-eyed counter man from that Twilight Zone ep) , and Richard Anderson (Steve Austin's boss) are regulars. And what the hell, Gary Busey was a tomato-throwing hippie in a rally scene. And also what the hell, Mickey Roonie was the campaign manager.
And Anthony Geary (not yet known as 'Luke' on General Hospital) making a no-doubt brief appearance as "Hippie #1".
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Jeff Hunter! As the crooked head of a crooked construction company doing crooked insurance fraud, on the Green Hornet episode "Freeway to Death."
I didn't recognize him at first, because he was wearing Clark Kent Glasses™.
This ep also featured a murder committed by driving a bulldozer at a construction shack at 5MPH while the victim stood in the doorway frozen in fear for about 60 seconds, then slammed the door
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I didn't recognize him at first, because he was wearing Clark Kent Glasses™.
This ep also featured a murder committed by driving a bulldozer at a construction shack at 5MPH while the victim stood in the doorway frozen in fear for about 60 seconds, then slammed the door
.
James Doohan in an uncredited role as a government agent in "The Satan Bug" tonight on Creature Features.
The A team?Flash: Paul Carr doesn't make it through a Green Hornet episode.
"Seek, Stalk and Destroy" involves a Korean War tank crew who steals a tank to break their former commander out of jail. He's innocent, I tells ya!
Was Paul Carr the Sean Bean of his day?
Or the Elisha Cook, Jr., perhaps.
Ian Wolf pops up in the Green Hornet ep "Alias the Scarf." He plays the sculptor for a wax museum premiering statues of the Hornet and Kato. Museum owner John Carradine bears a striking resemblance to the statue of "The Scarf," which seems to come to life at night to continue the legendary killer's spree.
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