# Spotting Star Trek actors in other programs
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Tags:** tv-shows-scripted, star-trek-paramount
**Created:** [August 29, 2017, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982 "2017-08-29T00:49:02Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2017, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/41 "2017-08-29T06:18:59Z")
Jeffery Hunter was a movie star before he was Captain Pike so he was obviously in a lot of things. Flipping through the channels one night I came across the movie \* Hell to Eternity\* in which Hunter is horribly miscast as a Mexican American. He plays Guy Gabaldon a Marine hero who is credited with getting 2,000 Japanese to surrender. He learned Japanese when he was taken in as a boy by a Japanese family. His “brother” was played by a 23 year old George Takei. Not a great movie but an interesting story.
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### Author:  [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2017, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/42 "2017-08-29T06:35:38Z")
Nimoy was in an episode of a series called _ **Frontier Circus** _ (1961–62), which I don’t ever remember seeing but was apparently created by Samuel A Peeples (who wrote the second \*\*\*TOS \*\*\*pilot, “Where No Man Has Gone Before”) and counted Dorothy “DC” Fontana among its writers. Looking at the cast list, I see a number of actors who would later appear on _ **Star Trek** _:
> **[Frontier Circus (TV Series 1961–1962) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054540/fullcredits?ref_=tt_cl_sm#cast)**
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> Frontier Circus (TV Series 1961–1962) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
Nichelle Nichols got her first featured role on Gene Roddenberry’s series _ **The Lieutenant** _. Gary Lockwood (“Lt Cdr Gary Mitchell” in the second pilot) was the star of the series. Check out its cast list too:
> **[The Lieutenant (TV Series 1963–1964) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056771/fullcredits?ref_=tt_ov_st_sm)**
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> The Lieutenant (TV Series 1963–1964) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
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### Author:  [@Helena330](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helena330)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2017, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/43 "2017-08-29T06:43:00Z")
Nana Visitor was also on an episode of _Night Court_. She played a mental hospital escapee who lived her life as though they were scenes in movies. Of course, Dan tried to seduce her, but unknown to him she was trying to kill him. Nana was very good in it! It’s called “Educating Rhoda” and is from season six, episode five.
Here’s a clip:
[https://www.google.com/search?q=nana+visitor+night+court&rlz=1C1CHBF\_enUS742US742&oq=nana+visitor+night+court&aqs=chrome..69i57.6106j0j1&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8](https://www.google.com/search?q=nana+visitor+night+court&rlz=1C1CHBF_enUS742US742&oq=nana+visitor+night+court&aqs=chrome..69i57.6106j0j1&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8)
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### Author:  [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2017, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/44 "2017-08-29T06:43:10Z")
When you start looking into TV guest stars back in the '60s and '70s, it turns out everybody was in everything.
Kathie Browne (_Wink of an Eye_), Sherry Jackson (_What Are Little Girls Made Of?_), Diana Muldaur (_Is There in Truth No Beauty?_ and _Return to Tomorrow_), and Arlene Martel (_Amok Time_) were all in episodes of “The Rockford Files”.
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### Author:  [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2017, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/45 "2017-08-29T06:45:55Z")
Rudy Solari (“Salish” in “The Paradise Syndrome”) was “Casino” in the post-_ **Combat!** _ _ **Dirty Dozen** _–ripoff _ **Garrison’s Gorillas** _.
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### Author:  [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2017, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/46 "2017-08-29T06:56:05Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#):
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> When you start looking into TV guest stars back in the '60s and '70s, it turns out everybody was in everything.
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> Kathie Browne (_Wink of an Eye_), Sherry Jackson (_What Are Little Girls Made Of?_), Diana Muldaur (_Is There in Truth No Beauty?_ and _Return to Tomorrow_), and Arlene Martel (_Amok Time_) were all in episodes of “The Rockford Files”.
Oh, and Barbara Babcock (multiple eps, notably _Plato’s Stepchildren_).
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### Author:  [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2017, 7:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/47 "2017-08-29T07:13:54Z")
> [@Helena330](#):
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> Nana Visitor was also on an episode of _Night Court_. She played a mental hospital escapee who lived her life as though they were scenes in movies. Of course, Dan tried to seduce her, but unknown to him she was trying to kill him. Nana was very good in it! It’s called “Educating Rhoda” and is from season six, episode five.
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> Here’s a clip:
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> [nana visitor night court - Google Search](https://www.google.com/search?q=nana+visitor+night+court&rlz=1C1CHBF_enUS742US742&oq=nana+visitor+night+court&aqs=chrome..69i57.6106j0j1&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8)
I also saw her once on McGyver:
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### Author:  [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2017, 10:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/48 "2017-08-29T10:39:29Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#):
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> Kathie Browne (_Wink of an Eye_), Sherry Jackson (_What Are Little Girls Made Of?_), Diana Muldaur (_Is There in Truth No Beauty?_ and _Return to Tomorrow_), and Arlene Martel (_Amok Time_) were all in episodes of “The Rockford Files”.
So was Mariette Hartley.
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### Author:  [@Miss\_Mapp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Mapp)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2017, 11:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/49 "2017-08-29T11:07:05Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#):
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> Colm Meaney was Miles O’Brien on _STNG_ and a major character on _Hell on Wheels_ (Thomas Durrant).
Colm Meaney starred in _The Commitments_, _The Snapper_, and _The Van_, plus appears in John Houston’s final film, _The Dead_. All worth seeing.
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### Author:  [@Miss\_Mapp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Mapp)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2017, 11:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/50 "2017-08-29T11:12:30Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#):
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> Kathie Browne (_Wink of an Eye_)
Kathie Browne can also be seen in the final episode of _Kolchak: The Night Stalker_, as one of those cops so aggravated by Kolchak’s investigations into supernatural goings-on.
Extra fun: Darren McGavin and Kathie Browne were husband and wife. And the plot of this episode more-than-slightly resembles Trek’s _Devil in the Dark_.
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### Author:  [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2017, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/51 "2017-08-29T11:45:55Z")
> [@Miss\_Mapp](#):
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> Colm Meaney starred in _The Commitments_…
And he was hilarious. Seeing the portraits of Elvis and the Pope side-by-side on the living room wall was priceless! “\*He \*said _ **that** _?!?” :dubious:
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### Author:  [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2017, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/52 "2017-08-29T11:59:32Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#):
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> Speaking of John De Lance, anyone remember him as Eugine Bradford?
He was in the first episode of the revived _ **Mission: Impossible** _ (filmed in Australia) back in the ‘80s. They were forced to recycle old scripts because of a writers’ strike, so he played the role of the hitman that Robert Conrad had in the original _ **M:I** _.
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### Author:  [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2017, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/53 "2017-08-29T12:30:40Z")
Robert Picardo (the EMH on Voyager) has bit part in “Back To School” (he plays one of the guys Rodney Dangerfield’s wife is cheating with) - that movie also features Terry Farrell (of DS9 of course) in a major role. Picardo is also the deadly hitman in “Innerspace” which is in retrospect, hilarious.
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### Author:  [@MrAtoz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrAtoz)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2017, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/54 "2017-08-29T12:56:37Z")
The film version of _To Kill a Mockingbird_ features four future Star Trek actors.
The two most obvious:
Brock Peters (Joseph Sisko, Ben’s father, from DS9) plays Tom Robinson, the defendant.
William Windom (Commodore Decker from the “Doomsday Machine” episode of TOS–the only man ever to give Shatner a run for his money in the scenery-chewing department) plays Mr. Gilmer, the prosecutor.
Less obvious:
Paul Fix (Dr. Piper from the second TOS pilot, “Where No Man Has Gone Before”) plays Judge Taylor.
And John Megna (the weirdest looking of all the kids in “Miri”) plays Dill.
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### Author:  [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2017, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/55 "2017-08-29T13:27:05Z")
Antoinette Bower (Sylvia, “Catspaw”) was in a Charles Bronson movie, “The Evil That Men Do.”
The first thing I saw Shatner in post-Trek was a TVM of “Hound of the Baskervilles,” where He dies in quicksand at the end.
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### Author:  [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2017, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/56 "2017-08-29T13:33:28Z")
William (Dr. Daystrom) Marshall was in the movie, “Amazon Women on the Moon,” playing a video pirate (Arrrrrrrrr!).
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### Author:  [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2017, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/57 "2017-08-29T13:35:37Z")
> [@Andy\_L](#):
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> Robert Picardo (the EMH on Voyager) has bit part in “Back To School” (he plays one of the guys Rodney Dangerfield’s wife is cheating with) - that movie also features Terry Farrell (of DS9 of course) in a major role. Picardo is also the deadly hitman in “Innerspace” which is in retrospect, hilarious.
I remember him as the sheriff in the “cursed/haunted house” (Halloween?) episode of _ **CSI: NY** _.
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### Author:  [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2017, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/58 "2017-08-29T13:38:16Z")
“Back to School,” had Sally Kellerman in it.
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### Author:  [@Miss\_Mapp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Mapp)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2017, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/59 "2017-08-29T13:39:00Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#):
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> Antoinette Bower (Sylvia, “Catspaw”) was in a Charles Bronson movie, “The Evil That Men Do.”
She’s also the nagging wife whom Dick Van Dyke shoots and fakes a kidnapping for in his Columbo episode.
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### Author:  [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2017, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/60 "2017-08-29T13:39:21Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#):
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> William (Dr. Daystrom) Marshall was in the movie, “Amazon Women on the Moon,” playing a video pirate (Arrrrrrrrr!).
As well as this 1972 classic:
> **[Blacula](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blacula)**
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> Blacula is a 1972 American blaxploitation vampire horror film directed by William Crain. It stars William Marshall in the title role about an 18th-century African prince named Mamuwalde, who is turned into a vampire (and later locked in a coffin) by Count Dracula in the Count's castle in Transylvania in the year 1780 after Dracula refuses to help Mamuwalde suppress the slave trade.
> Blacula was released to mixed reviews in the United States, but was one of the top-grossing films of the year. It w...
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