Trivia question

[A beaker full of death]

Easy one: What major motion picture star starred in movies co-starring
Robert Walker (Charlie X), Kim Darby (Miri), George Takei (Sulu) and Jeffrey Hunter (Chris Pike), respectively?

 

[AJBryant]

John Wayne.

 

[A beaker full of death]

ok, it was too easy. Kind of a cool 6-degrees fact, though.

 

[Outpost4]

Add William Campbell (Trelane, Koloth) to that list. He was in The High and the Mighty with The Duke.

 

[Sir Rhosis]

I assume beaker meant this as an open trivia contest. If not, I apologize, sir, for intruding on your thread. Assuming the former, I have a very trivial question.

Fairly obscure one unless you're a military history buff as I am:

What is George Ray Tweed's tenuous connection to Star Trek?

Hint: Tweed (1902-1989) was a Navy radioman during WWII.

Sir Rhosis

 

[A beaker full of death]

I assume beaker meant this as an open trivia contest. If not, I apologize, sir, for intruding on your thread.

Come on in, the water's fine.

 

[Outpost4]

I assume beaker meant this as an open trivia contest. If not, I apologize, sir, for intruding on your thread. Assuming the former, I have a very trivial question.

Fairly obscure one unless you're a military history buff as I am:

What is George Ray Tweed's tenuous connection to Star Trek?

Hint: Tweed (1902-1989) was a Navy radioman during WWII.

Sir Rhosis

He spent the entire war going, "Hailing frequencies open, Captain."

Am I right?

 

[M'Sharak]

Fairly obscure one unless you're a military history buff as I am:

What is George Ray Tweed's tenuous connection to Star Trek?

Obscure enough that I didn't have a clue, so I looked him up. I'll let someone else answer, if they happen to know it.

Made me think of this book, though, which tells about a different situation in a different set of Pacific islands.

 

[Sir Rhosis]

Really, my question is too obscure. Even people who've seen the movie loosely based on Tweed's experiences probably do not recall his name. When the Japanese overran Guam in 1941, Tweed spent the next thirty-one months hiding out on the island until rescued in July 1944.

Jeffrey Hunter played him in the film No Man is an Island.

Sir Rhosis

 

[M'Sharak]

Really, my question is too obscure.

It's the obscure ones which keep things interesting.


M', reference weenie

 

[EnsignHarper]

John Wayne.

The Green Berets is a weird movie in many ways - Georgia simply does NOT pass for Vietnam for one! But the weirdest thing is that it is chock full of both current (1967 current that is) and future TV stars: David (THE FUGITIVE) Jannsen, Takei, and most oddly, playing a VN General, Jack Soo, the future Nick Yemana from BARNEY MILLER - one keeps expecting him to make some bad coffee!

And speaking of George, I always found it interesting that he never appeared on MASH - one of the very few known Asian Hollywood players NOT to appear on the show....