Trek guest actors in maybe surprising roles

[DarrenTR1970]

Gene wrote quite a few of them! Some, you can even see similarities to some Trek episodes. I recall one with someone in a wagon trying to find husbands for three women.

He certainly had an affinity for the name 'Robert April.' That showed up in an episode written by him,

 

[Forbin]

Well this was surprising! Blonde Elinor Donahue doing some cheesecake. Posted on a celebrity nostalgia group on FB.

 

[DarrenTR1970]

I looked over to see Fred Freiderger wrote tonight's episode of Have Gun Will Travel.

 

[DarrenTR1970]

What it is with Robert Lansing and giant animals? First it was 'Empire of the Ants', and now Creature Features is airing 'Island Claws' another 'when animals attack' movie.

 

[Forbin]

Jeff Corey in "The Night Off," a 3rd season Night Court ep, as an older judge showing signs of dementia (combined with stress disorder from feeling he hasn't done any good and everyone he deals with lies to him).

 

[Forbin]

A nice little surprise while watching "The Flight that Disappeared" on Amazon Prime. It's a 1961 sci fi suspense piece concerning an airliner that's pulled out of time by people of the future, so three scientists aboard can stand trial for the crime of planning to invent a doomsday weapon that destroyed all life in an alternate future. A very Roddenberryish plot, but alas, he was not involved. But in a minor role, one of the passengers aboard was Meg Wiley.

 

[Elder Knight]

Julie Newmar:

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[Forbin]

Beautiful.

 

[ZapBrannigan]

Airplane! has wrecked me for stills like this. I can only think of hilarious things being said.

 

[DarrenTR1970]

An adjacent Trek Actor in a surprise role - I believe I have now seen all five of Jill Ireland's future husband Charles Bronson's appearances on 'Have Gun Will Travel'.

 

[Forbin]

Popped up a digital file of Casino Royale to see how the quality was, and hey! There's Barbara Bouchet with a normal hairstyle!

 

[Forbin]

Today's lunchtime viewing was the Outer Limits episode "The Invisible Enemy." Adam West took top billing as the stiff commander of a Mars mission, but our own Rudi Solari, billed second, gave the more energetic wise-guy performance:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0667840/mediaviewer/rm2504811520?ref_=ttmi_mi_all_sf_10

 

[Forbin]

And today's Outer Limits brought me to the very classic "I, Robot." I'd remembered Nimoy was in it, but I didn't know Marianna Hill costarred, and it also featured Peter Brocco and John Hoyt. This one was worthy of a collage:

 

[Forbin]

And there's Warren Stevens again, in the 1955 Science Fiction Theater episode "Barrier of Silence." He's a scientist who's been subjected to sensory deprivation as a form of torture for interrogation, and is found in a coma. His colleagues set up an electronic "cone of silence" to recreate the conditions and bring him out of it. His wife is played by Phillis Coates, George Reeves' first Lois Lane. That sound lab sure has funky decor!

 

[M'Sharak]

That sound lab sure has funky decor!

Could almost be an actual acoustic chamber, though. It's not one I can recall seeing before, but the shapes seen on the wall are no more odd than shapes currently used in acoustic treatment / tuning of performance halls and recording studios, serving to break up direct reflection of sound waves and prevent the chamber from being able to resonate at any specific frequency in the form of a standing wave.

 

[Forbin]

Could almost be an actual acoustic chamber, though. It's not one I can recall seeing before, but the shapes seen on the wall are no more odd than shapes currently used in acoustic treatment / tuning of performance halls and recording studios, serving to break up direct reflection of sound waves and prevent the chamber from being able to resonate at any specific frequency in the form of a standing wave.

I understand that's what it' supposed to be, but I've never seen such a huge variety of shapes in such haphazard arrangements. The sound rooms I've been in are usually just one shape covering a whole wall.

 

[Forbin]

The hits keep coming! Today's Outer Limits watch was "The Inheritors (Part 1)". LORD Garth is the principal among several soldiers wounded in the head by bullets made from the same meteor, who all gain high IQs and come together to build a starship.

 

[M'Sharak]

I understand that's what it' supposed to be, but I've never seen such a huge variety of shapes in such haphazard arrangements. The sound rooms I've been in are usually just one shape covering a whole wall.

It seems to be proportional to the size of the budget involved -- the more money is spent on a project, the more shapes are likely to be deployed. If you see only one basic shape repeated everywhere (say, the entire room is done in acoustic tile or there are a few identical panels attached to the largest block walls), it's evidence that there probably wasn't a great deal of funding allotted for the job.

 

[Forbin]

Jan Shutan brings home the groceries, but knows nothing about the plot, in "The Inheritors (Part 2)"

 

[Forbin]

Never ending! Watching The Munsters for dinner. John Hoyt popped in for a short scene in the ep "Sleeping Cutie." That's Gavin McLeod with him as a 'beatnik' actor.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0653101/characters/nm0398466