So I have the TV on but I'm not really watching it, it segued from Twilight Zone to Perry Mason a while ago. I look up and I see an older woman in the witness chair...and I think "I know her, who is that?", then I realize she played The Keeper in The Cage. Mind you, the only times I've EVER seen her face, it had a throbbing latex prosthesis around it - and yet I was able to recognize Meg Wylie playing a woman her own age.
Trek guest actors in maybe surprising roles
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I'm pretty sure Malachi Throne doubled up as the professor and submarine commander in Jonny Quest's "Arctic Splashdown"
Wylie was born in 1917. In the sixties she often played characters somewhat older than she actually was.
Is the character credited as The Keeper? The other Talosians address them as "Magistrate".
Spock referred to her/him as the Keeper too
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Ned Romero, Stewart Moss and Keith Andes in Trial of Terror, an episode of Cannon
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Paul Carr as Paris and Joseph Ruskin as Sardis in The Time Tunnel episode Revenge of The Gods!
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Glen Corbett in Murder By The Numbers, an episode of Cannon
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Not sure if this counts, but there's an episode of The Shannara Chronicles series where characters have found a copy of TMP and are watching it so we see a scene from that movie where Kirk and Spock are talking. It's not really William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy acting in the show, but we do see them.
Terrence O'Connor, Meg Wylie, Michael Strong and Paul Comi in A Well Remembered Terror, an episode of Cannon
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Crying shame that Martin Landau never crossed over into the Star Trek universe.
Watched the classic 60s thriller The Satan Bug this weekend, and hey look! There's Jimmy Doohan! He had a minor role as a detective on the team looking for the stolen virus. He had no dialog, and died dramatically after a few minutes.
Creature Features aired that movie a while ago - really enjoyed it.
An early police procedural movie The Naked City (1948) aired on Turner Classic Movies recently had two TOS guest stars. One of the detectives was played by David Opatoshu who was Anon7 in the Episode A Taste of Armageddon. James Gregory who was Doctor Adams in the episode Dagger of the Mind, had a small role as a beat cop.
The movie inspired a popular TV series a decade later, a semi-anthology drama that ran for five years. It was one of the shows that Gene Roddenberry cited in the TOS writers' bible as an example of the kind of grounded, believable character drama he wanted TOS to be.
I just watched an interesting episode today of Fantasy Island. 
Star Trek's Lt Angela Martine from Balance of Terror, gets Khan to arrange a babysitter for her wild children. And Khan tricks Spock's mom and her daughter (not Michael Burnham) to do it.
From Fantasy Island, first season, 14th episode "King for a Day/Instant Family"
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Star Trek's Lt Angela Martine from Balance of Terror, gets Khan to arrange a babysitter for her wild children. And Khan tricks Spock's mom and her daughter (not Michael Burnham) to do it.
From Fantasy Island, first season, 14th episode "King for a Day/Instant Family"
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Trek guest actors in maybe surprising roles
I just stumbled into the 1959 film "Li'l Abner" which features both Leslie Parrish (who appeared in Who Mourns for Adonais?) and Julie Newmar (who appeared in Friday's Child). I thought some of you might be interested in seeing clips with them, and maybe sharing clips you've run across of...
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