# 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:  [@dorvann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dorvann)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2017, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/121 "2017-08-30T01:30:45Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#):
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> He made a nice villain in _Out to Sea_.
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> And an airline pilot in _Die Hard 2_. Worth seeing if you’re into that sort of thing.
Colm Meaney also had a hilarious over the top performance as DEA agent in _Con-Air_.
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### Author:  [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2017, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/122 "2017-08-30T01:48:05Z")
> [@terentii](#):
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> She was also in “Hot Snow,” the very first episode of _ **The Avengers** _ in 1961. She played the fiancee of Dr David Keel (Ian Hendry) and was murdered by drug smugglers, setting up the scenario for Keel’s collaboration with the mysterious John Steed (Patrick MacNee) and the series’ title.
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> [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcbgZlOlZML6fOXYH5dhCEMxbCdVqiNTs](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcbgZlOlZML6fOXYH5dhCEMxbCdVqiNTs)
Another **Fun Fact** : She was married to MacNee for four years (1965–69). I had forgotten that! :smack:
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### Author:  [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2017, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/123 "2017-08-30T02:06:46Z")
> [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#):
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> For my money, it’s even more hilarious in retrospect that he’s delivering unhelpful exposition while driving Ah-nuld around in that cab in TOTAL RECALL.
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> Incidentally, the first thing I remember seeing John de Lancie in was the '80s revival of TWILIGHT ZONE, where he’s in a memorable episode with Brent Spiner. (Well, it was memorable to _me,_ anyhow; one line stunned ten-year-old me for the win.)
Also in Total Recall is [Gul Dukat](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0015826/)!
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### Author:  [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2017, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/124 "2017-08-30T02:09:56Z")
> [@beowulff](#):
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> Also in Total Recall is [Gul Dukat](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0015826/)!
Not to mention Ronny Cox!
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### Author:  [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2017, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/125 "2017-08-30T02:25:50Z")
Andrew “Garak” Robinson was the killer in the first “Dirty Harry” movie. Even under all that Kardashian make-up (:)), he has the same insane eyes.
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### Author:  [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2017, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/126 "2017-08-30T04:19:42Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#):
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> Is there a way to search IMDb for actors who appeared in two different franchises, or at least two different series? Two of the biggest franchises in TV history (perhaps the two biggest) are _Star Trek_ and _Law & Order_, but off the top of my head I can only think of two actors that were in both.
I just turned on an old episode of _Law & Order_ and not a minute later there was Bibi Besch. But she was only in a _Trek_ movie, so still not quite what I’m looking for.
Checked her page on IMDb; didn’t realize she had died so young.
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### Author:  [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2017, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/127 "2017-08-30T04:22:22Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#):
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> Andrew “Garak” Robinson was the killer in the first “Dirty Harry” movie. Even under all that Kardashian make-up (:)), he has the same insane eyes.
Oh, there’s one; Garak on _Deep Space Nine_ and the third season _Law & Order_ episode “Consultation”.
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### Author:  [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2017, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/128 "2017-08-30T04:40:27Z")
Robinson also played JFK in an episode of the eighties Twilight Zone revival series. Pretty sure Mark Alaimo did an episode of Quantum Leap.
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### Author:  [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2017, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/129 "2017-08-30T13:41:18Z")
> [@beowulff](#):
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> Also in Total Recall is [Gul Dukat](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0015826/)!
I mentioned this in another thread awhile back, but there is an early Rockford Files episode where he is driving through the desert and a semi tried to run him off the road. He stops at a gas station to call the police on the pay phone, and the gas station attendant is Marc Alaimo. I’m not sure I would have even recognized him if I hadn’t seen his name in the credits.
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### Author:  [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2017, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/130 "2017-08-30T14:15:05Z")
I spotted Barry Russo (“Lt Cdr Giotto,” “Commodore Wesley”) as a two-bit gangster in an episode of _ **The Untouchables** _, another Desilu production. He was being grilled by Robert Stack as Eliot Ness, who wanted him to fink on his boss:
“You don’t care about my skin!”
“That’s right, punk. I care more about the skin on a sausage.”
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### Author:  [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2017, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/131 "2017-08-30T14:36:14Z")
I saw an ep of “Mannix” recently that had both \*Paul Carr (“Lt. Kelso” from “Where No Man Has Gone Before”) and Roger Perry (“Capt. Christopher” from “Tomorrow Is Yesterday.”)
\*Interesting looking at Paul Carr’s filmography that he did some voice credits under the name Lee Kelso.
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### Author:  [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2017, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/132 "2017-08-30T14:57:42Z")
> [@cochrane](#):
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> Michael Ansara, of course, was married to Barbara Eden and appeared on _I Dream of Jeannie_ as the blue djinn.
Michael Ansara was all over the place. He was TV’s answer to Yul Brynner and Anthony Quinn – the All-Purpose Ethnic. He played American Indians, Middle Eastern-types, Russians, Aliens, and what-have-you. He was Qarlo Kobrigny, the Soldier from the Future in the Harlan Ellison-scripted _Outer Limits_ episode _Soldier_.
In addition to appearing a couple of times on _I Dream of Jeanie_ (and being married to Barbara Eden), he also directed at least one episode.
He also played The Mummy (or, at least _a_ Mummy) in _Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy_, a movie that also featured a pre-Dick Van Dyke Show Richard Deacon.
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### Author:  [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2017, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/133 "2017-08-30T15:01:54Z")
> [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](#):
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> I saw an ep of “Mannix” recently that had both \*Paul Carr (“Lt. Kelso” from “Where No Man Has Gone Before”) and Roger Perry (“Capt. Christopher” from “Tomorrow Is Yesterday.”)
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> \*Interesting looking at Paul Carr’s filmography that he did some voice credits under the name Lee Kelso.
I never made the connection: Roger Perry played a different character in each of the two “Count Yorga (vampire)” films. OMG, he was married to Jo Anne “Laugh-in” Worley, and is now married to Joyce Bulifant.
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### Author:  [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2017, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/134 "2017-08-30T17:29:58Z")
Lee Meriwether (“Losira” in “That Which Survives”) turned up as a perky suburban housewife in an episode of _ **Leave It to Beaver** _. I used to love watching her in _ **Time Tunnel** _ when I was in sixth grade. She was so damned \*\*hot \*\*in those knee-length skirts and white lab coats! :o Of course, she was also The Catwoman in the 1966 movie _ **Batman** _.
Leslie Parrish (“Lt Palomas” in “Who Mourns for Adonais?”) was in an episode of _ **Batman** _ as a ditzy beauty queen who was kidnapped by The Penguin. She wore skin-tight gold lame slacks, grrrrrr! 🆒
It’d be interesting to do a _ **Star Trek** _–_ **Batman** _ crossover study. Right offhand, I can think of Frank Gorshin, Sherry Jackson, Nancy Kovacs (The Mad Hatter’s moll), and Julie Newmar (the original Catwoman).
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### Author:  [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2017, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/135 "2017-08-30T17:45:50Z")
> [@Loach](#):
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> He also played the lead in _Ensign Pulver_ the bad sequel to _Mister Roberts_.
Tige Andrews (“Kras the Klingon” in “Friday’s Child”) was one of the sailors in _ **Mr Roberts** _, both the movie and the original stage play.
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### Author:  [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2017, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/136 "2017-08-30T18:04:44Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#):
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> Antoinette Bower (Sylvia, “Catspaw”) was in a Charles Bronson movie, “The Evil That Men Do.”
Saw her the other night on _ **Twilight Zone** _ opposite Richard Basehart in “Probe 7, Over and Out,” another “Adam and Eve” story. It’s noted at IMDb that Basehart’s character obviously flew from Alpha Centauri to Earth, and not the other way around.
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### Author:  [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2017, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/137 "2017-08-30T18:21:58Z")
> [@terentii](#):
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> Saw her the other night on _ **Twilight Zone** _ opposite Richard Basehart in “Probe 7, Over and Out,” another “Adam and Eve” story.
I can’t (or don’t want to) believe that Serling wrote something so corny.
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### Author:  [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2017, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/138 "2017-08-30T18:25:23Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#):
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> I can’t (or don’t want to) believe that Serling wrote something so corny.
I’ve noticed this time around that _ **TZ** _ went rapidly downhill after Season 2. What got me in “Probe 7” (aside from the horrible production values) was Basehart’s use of “galaxy” instead of “solar system.” :smack: Seems to me that by this time, Rod & Co. were just phoning it in.
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### Author:  [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2017, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/139 "2017-08-30T18:41:38Z")
> [@terentii](#):
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> I’ve noticed this time around that _ **TZ** _ went rapidly downhill after Season 2. What got me in “Probe 7” (aside from the horrible production values) was Basehart’s use of “galaxy” instead of “solar system.” :smack: Seems to me that by this time, Rod & Co. were just phoning it in.
I’m not familiar with the seasons. I was watching it on METV, but it was filling up the drive. But I digress. Serling was so could, I can’t imagine him “phoning it in”, but he surely did on this episode.
Galaxy vs. Solar System; perhaps they were trying to be sure we understood that they weren’t from Earth. _And that’s how Adam and Eve populated the world._ Gag.
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### Author:  [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2017, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/140 "2017-08-30T18:49:44Z")
> [@terentii](#):
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> Lee Meriwether (“Losira” in “That Which Survives”) turned up as a perky suburban housewife in an episode of _ **Leave It to Beaver** _. I used to love watching her in _ **Time Tunnel** _ when I was in sixth grade. She was so damned \*\*hot \*\*in those knee-length skirts and white lab coats! :o Of course, she was also The Catwoman in the 1966 movie _ **Batman** _.
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> Leslie Parrish (“Lt Palomas” in “Who Mourns for Adonais?”) was in an episode of _ **Batman** _ as a ditzy beauty queen who was kidnapped by The Penguin. She wore skin-tight gold lame slacks, grrrrrr! 🆒
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> It’d be interesting to do a _ **Star Trek** _–_ **Batman** _ crossover study. Right offhand, I can think of Frank Gorshin, Sherry Jackson, Nancy Kovacs (The Mad Hatter’s moll), and Julie Newmar (the original Catwoman).
Yvonne Craig in **Whom Gods Destroy**.
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