Trek guest actors in maybe surprising roles

[Christopher]

And then he guns down Sam Drucker with such efficiency that Daniel Craig took notice.

If we're talking about familiar actors in unexpected roles, a young Daniel Craig guest-starred in the first two parts of the concluding 4-parter of the 1990 Family Channel Zorro series starring DS9's Duncan Regehr as Zorro and J.G. Hertzler as the regular villain, Alcalde de Soto. Craig played the assistant to the 4-parter's main guest villain, played by James Horan. So baby James Bond worked for Future Guy, swordfought twice with Shakaar, and got killed by General Martok.

 

[Greg Cox]

Haven't had a chance to watch it yet, but I see BarBara Luna guest-stars in yesterday's episode of HAVE GUN WILL TRAVEL on MeTV.

 

[Forbin]

If we're talking about familiar actors in unexpected roles, a young Daniel Craig guest-starred in the first two parts of the concluding 4-parter of the 1990 Family Channel Zorro series starring DS9's Duncan Regehr as Zorro and J.G. Hertzler as the regular villain, Alcalde de Soto. Craig played the assistant to the 4-parter's main guest villain, played by James Horan. So baby James Bond worked for Future Guy, swordfought twice with Shakaar, and got killed by General Martok.

Well, we are, but we're strictly talking about actors who appeared in TOS in this thread.

 

[DarrenTR1970]

Last night on Burke's Law, Elisha Cook Jr. appeared, disguised as a Mexican.

 

[Greg Cox]

Found time to watch that HAVE GUN WILL TRAVEL ep. Luna plays "Lupita," a Mexican peasant girl out to avenge her brother's death, in an episode titled "Silver Convoy."

 

[Forbin]

Found time to watch that HAVE GUN WILL TRAVEL ep. Luna plays "Lupita," a Mexican peasant girl out to avenge her brother's death, in an episode titled "Silver Convoy."

I must have done screen grab of that back there somewhere, but I'm too lazy to look.

 

[Forbin]

Totally at random, looking for something nostalgic and genre-y to watch, I came across "Curse of the Black Widow" on Amazon Prime. It's a 1977 ABC Friday Night Movie about murders that MAY have been perpetrated by a giant spider, and it's a Dan Curtis movie! And holy crap, what a cast of 70s TV actors!! Including, for our purposes, Jeff Corey, who was supposed to be playing an old Native American (???!!!) watchmen in a deserted factory, who knew the ancient legend of the spider women.

If you are my age and loved those 70s TV horror movies, it's a ton of fun. Check out that cast!

Curse of the Black Widow (TV Movie 1977) ⭐ 5.7 | Crime, Horror, Mystery

1h 40m | Unrated

www.imdb.com

 

[Forbin]

Staying in the bad horror movie mode, today I tried to watch "Grave of the Vampire" from 1972. Amazon Prime has it in VHS SLP quality. I think the budget was "hey, meet at my house, I have a super-8 camera and an idea!" I lasted only as long as it took to finish my lunch.

Anyhoo, the vampire is Michael Pataki. Though he takes second billing to William Smith.

Grave of the Vampire (1972) ⭐ 5.0 | Horror

1h 31m | X

www.imdb.com

 

[The Old Mixer]

I was just disappointed in the Trek reunion that didn't happen. Jane Wyatt guest-starred in an episode of Here Come the Brides, but didn't share a single scene with series regular Mark Lenard. At least not in the syndication edit.

 

[Forbin]

Aye, it's always more fun if i can get a screen cap of more than one in a scene together.

 

[The Old Mixer]

Those two in particular. She did have lots of screen time with Robert Brown, FWIW.

 

[ZapBrannigan]

I was just disappointed in the Trek reunion that didn't happen. Jane Wyatt guest-starred in an episode of Here Come the Brides, but didn't share a single scene with series regular Mark Lenard. At least not in the syndication edit.

That's what I would have been waiting for, too. How do they look together?

I imagine when TV guest stars "meet again" on the set of another show, there is little more to it than "Hey, how's it going?" To them it's just another job, and familiar faces might be welcome, but no big deal.

One case I do wish we could know about was when Ricardo Montalban and Madlyn Rhue re-united for another job. What did they say to each other? They played a married couple on Bonanza ("Day of Reckoning," 1960), then saw each other again for "Space Seed," and then a third time on Fantasy Island ("The Perfect Gentleman," 1982, with Triskelion's Joseph Ruskin). But again, it was probably just "Hey, I remember you." Something like that.

 

[mb22]

I wonder if Rhue brought up TWOK in 1982.

 

[ZapBrannigan]

I wonder if Rhue brought up TWOK in 1982.

Fantasy Island might have been shot at a point in '82 when Rhue and Montalban didn't know about TWOK yet. But it's frustrating to learn that Rhue was still photogenic and well enough to work that year, before her battle with multiple sclerosis, and yet she wasn't in the film.

Does anybody know the real reason they didn't cast her? It's not like she would have cost a fortune, and Khan's wrath didn't have to be about her death.

 

[DarrenTR1970]

I don't have my Mission: Impossible book handy, but I know that the final episode of the fifth season had three guest stars who had all appeared together in a previous series, and, according to the female co-star, she said it felt like "old home week" as the three of them would spend their down time talking and joking together and talking to the crew, many of whom had worked on the previous show

 

[Christopher]

I don't have my Mission: Impossible book handy, but I know that the final episode of the fifth season had three guest stars who had all appeared together in a previous series, and, according to the female co-star, she said it felt like "old home week" as the three of them would spend their down time talking and joking together and talking to the crew, many of whom had worked on the previous show

If you mean Trek guests, that doesn't seem to apply to the season 5 finale, "The Merchant," but the preceding episode, "The Party," features Antoinette Bower, Alfred Ryder, and Arthur Batanides as well as Leonard Nimoy.

 

[mb22]

Fantasy Island might have been shot at a point in '82 when Rhue and Montalban didn't know about TWOK yet. But it's frustrating to learn that Rhue was still photogenic and well enough to work that year, before her battle with multiple sclerosis, and yet she wasn't in the film.

Does anybody know the real reason they didn't cast her? It's not like she would have cost a fortune, and Khan's wrath didn't have to be about her death.

Principle shooting was from November 9, 1981 to January 29, 1982. The Fantasy Island episode aired in the fall and was no doubt shot after TWOK.

Rhue's potential casting in TWOK is discussed here.

 

[Forbin]

Ha! Watching the first ep of season 2 of Fallout last night and they shot a scene at Vasquez Rocks!

 

[DarrenTR1970]

Ha! Watching the first ep of season 2 of Fallout last night and they shot a scene at Vasquez Rocks!

It's not a Western/Sci-fi/Horror movie without the Vasquez Rocks.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

They're iconic.