# Spotting Star Trek actors in other programs **URL:** \ **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\ **Page:** 42
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2019, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/821 "2019-12-31T01:02:19Z")
Ken Lynch, mining engineer Vanderburg in TOS _Devil in the Dark,_ played boxing manager Shoemaker in the Peter Gunn episode, _Hot Money_. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2019, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/822 "2019-12-31T02:40:31Z")
William Schallert, Nilz Barris in TOS _The Trouble With Tribbles_, played a Chinese guy (!) Chee Yan in the\* Have Gun Will Travel \*episode, _Lady of the Fifth Moon._ ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2020, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/823 "2020-01-01T17:09:00Z")
Joseph “Galt” Ruskin as “Dr Jonas Wisner” in the \*\*\*St Elsewhere \*\*\*episode “Remembrance of Things Past.” Alfre “Lily” Woodard again as Dr Roxanne Turner on _ **St Elsewhere** _. Jerry “Redshirt Rizzo” Ayres as “Captain Warren” in the \*\*\*Hogan’s Heroes \*\*\* episode “The Flame Grows Higher.” John “Commissioner Ferris” Crawford as a German officer in _ **Hogan’s Heroes** _’ “Request Permission to Escape.” ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2020, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/824 "2020-01-01T22:02:36Z")
_ **TNG** _’s Stanley “Kosinski” Kamel as “FBI Agent Ramsey” in the \*\*\*HSB \*\*\*episode “The Russians Are Coming.” ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2020, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/825 "2020-01-03T02:46:02Z")
Theodore “Sergey Rozhdenko” Bikel, Samantha “Marie Picard” Eggar, and Kenneth “Colyus” Mars in the \*\*\*Columbo \*\*\*episode “The Bye-Bye Sky High IQ Murder Case.” ---
**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2020, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/826 "2020-01-03T05:17:24Z")
Haven’t read the whole threat, so forgive me if this is old news, but I recently watched **Pretty Maids All in a Row** , which has James Doohan, William Grady (Trelane, Koloth), is written and produced by Gene Roddenberry and has his daughter in it. So, yeah. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2020, 8:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/827 "2020-01-03T08:24:29Z")
> [@outlierrn](#): > > Haven’t read the whole threat, so forgive me if this is old news, but I recently watched **Pretty Maids All in a Row** , which has James Doohan, William Grady (Trelane, Koloth), is written and produced by Gene Roddenberry and has his daughter in it. So, yeah. I think you mean William Campbell. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2020, 8:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/828 "2020-01-03T08:26:49Z")
For my part, I see I inadvertently inserted a “d” into Rozhenko. Mea culpa! ☹ ---
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Brenda “Rashella” Strong as “Nadine Aurora” in the _ **St Elsewhere** _ episode"The Naked and the Dead." ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2020, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/830 "2020-01-04T00:18:22Z")
Leonard Nimoy as a whiskey swilling Indian on _Wagon Train, The Maggie Hamilton Story._ ---
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Susan Oliver, the Orion slave girl in TOS _The Menagerie,_ was in the same _Wagon Train_ episode. ---
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> [@terentii](#): > > I think you mean William Campbell. _facepalm_ Yeah, sorry. ---
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Lawrence “Stonn” Montaigne as “Haynes (Diversions)” in 1963’s\*\*\* The Great Escape.\*\*\* ---
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Joanne Linville, the Romulan commander who has a thing for Spock in\* The Enterprise Incident\*, played Professor Pat Read in\* The Invaders, The Pit\* episode. Her IMDB photo is from her Star Trek role, with ears. ^:dubious:^ ---
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William Campbell, Koloth and Treylane in TOS, played Jeff Jimson in the Kirk Douglas 1955 film, _Man Without a Star_. I’ve not seen it all yet, but he appears to be the same dastardly bastard that Koloth and Treylane were. ---
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Michael “Kang” Ansara as a palace guard in Bing Crosby and Bob Hope’s \*\*\*The Road to Bali \*\*\*(1952). ---
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Linda “Gul Ocett” Thorson (aka “Tara King”) as “Mrs Cochrane” (an astronaut’s wife) in three episodes of\*\*\* St Elsewhere\*\*\* (1985). ---
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Mariette “Zarabeth” Hartley as “Veronica” (the murderer’s secretary) in the \*\*\*Columbo \*\*\*episode “Try and Catch Me.” ---
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William Schallert, Nilz Baris in _The Trouble With Tribbles_, played Miles van Vader in the _Wagon Train_ episode, _The Amos Gibbon Story_. ---
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Anthony Caruso, Boss Oxmyx in _A Piece of the Action_, played Inidan Gray Hawk in the _Rawhide_ episode, _Reunion_. Walter Pidgeon, who played Dr. Morbius in what some call the Star Trek pilot, _The Forbidden Planet,_ plays general Augustus Perry in this Rawhide episode. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982.md?page=41) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982.md?page=43)