What do you think the guest role that Bill Mumy turned down was?

[t_smitts]

I knew that Bill Mumy had turned down DS9 before playing Kellin in "AR-558" because he didn't want to play an alien.

He goes into a little bit more detail in the interview below. He doesn't remember the specific role, but apparently Ira Behr (his friend and neighbor) offered him the alien role sometime sometime after B5's final season had wrapped. He describe it as being bigger than the role he actually took and conceding that it was a good role, but he didn't want to be typecast (or subject himself to more prosthetics).

Based on those clues, does anyone have any guesses which role it might've been? Honestly, I can't picture him playing a Klingon, a Jem'Hadar, or a Ferengi (even though he actually says "I'm not gonna be a Klingon or whatever"), so I think we can rule those out. None of the season 7 episodes that aired before "AR-558" had any major male alien guest spot, other than ones from previous episodes, so probably a season 6 episode.

I could see him playing Keevan, but that probably would've been too early on. I could also picture him playing Tolar in "In the Pale Moonlight"

What do you think? Any other possibilities?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nB22jSda0WA

 

[kirkfan]

Maybe one of the thieves of Honor Among Thieves, the one in heavy make up.

 

[Bad Thoughts]

The first that came to my mind would be Grathon Tollar, followed by Keevan. Maybe one of the brothers in Who Mourns for Morn?

 

[kirkfan]

The first that came to my mind would be Grathon Tollar, followed by Keevan. Maybe one of the brothers in Who Mourns for Morn?

The talkative one, not the dumb one.

 

[Orphalesion]

To me the "type casting" bit does sound very much like a Vorta (the Minbari are quite Vorta-esque) any Vorta really Keevan, Weyoun, or the Vorta who appeared in 'The search" (memory Alpha says his name is Borath)

 

[kirkfan]

It takes hours to put that heavy make up on them.

 

[Bad Thoughts]

To me the "type casting" bit does sound very much like a Vorta (the Minbari are quite Vorta-esque) any Vorta really Keevan, Weyoun, or the Vorta who appeared in 'The search" (memory Alpha says his name is Borath)

Physically and conceptually,yes, though the Vorta are way over the top/campy compared to the Mimbari. And the comment about makeup does bear consideration: getting actors who could perform with heavy prosthetics--even those that did not cover the face--was difficult.

 

[kirkfan]

To me the "type casting" bit does sound very much like a Vorta (the Minbari are quite Vorta-esque) any Vorta really Keevan, Weyoun, or the Vorta who appeared in 'The search" (memory Alpha says his name is Borath)

Physically and conceptually,yes, though the Vorta are way over the top/campy compared to the Mimbari. And the comment about makeup does bear consideration: getting actors who could perform with heavy prosthetics--even those that did not cover the face--was difficult.

Plus for Keevan the make up would have to be perfect, they take a few close-ups of his face.

 

[JirinPanthosa]

What about the Vorta from Rocks and Shoals?

 

[kirkfan]

What about the Vorta from Rocks and Shoals?

That's Keevan.

 

[f14peter]

Somewhat the opposite of Frank Sinatra Jr being offered Vic Fontaine but turned it down because he didn't want to by typecast as a imitation of his father, or even play a human character as he really wanted to appear as an alien

 

[kirkfan]

Somewhat the opposite of Frank Sinatra Jr being offered Vic Fontaine but turned it down because he didn't want to by typecast as a imitation of his father, or even play a human character as he really wanted to appear as an alien

Frank Sinatra Jr wanted to play an alien?

 

[Melakon]

Q. What do you think the guest role that Bill Mumy turned down was?

A. Gul Willro Binson.

 

[kirkfan]

Q. What do you think the guest role that Bill Mumy turned down was?

A. Gul Willro Binson.

 

[f14peter]

Somewhat the opposite of Frank Sinatra Jr being offered Vic Fontaine but turned it down because he didn't want to by typecast as a imitation of his father, or even play a human character as he really wanted to appear as an alien

Frank Sinatra Jr wanted to play an alien?

per Ira Behr in the DS9 Companion ...

https://books.google.com/books?id=k...epage&q="Frank sinatra, jr" star trek&f=false

 

[urbandefault]

Somewhat the opposite of Frank Sinatra Jr being offered Vic Fontaine but turned it down because he didn't want to by typecast as a imitation of his father, or even play a human character as he really wanted to appear as an alien

Frank Jr. didn't want to be thought of as an imitation of his father?

Did I miss something?

 

[JirinPanthosa]

Yeah, that's why he appeared in the Sopranos as himself.

 

[kirkfan]

Yeah, that's why he appeared in the Sopranos as himself.

It seems the singer in The Godfather was portrayed after Frank Sinatra himself.

 

[Reaper63]

Could it have been Iggy Pop's role in Magnificent Ferengi?

 

[kirkfan]

Could it have been Iggy Pop's role in Magnificent Ferengi?

That's him.