# 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:** 89
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2026, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1761 "2026-08-25T05:57:37Z")
Speaking of, we watched the Season 1 ender of Mannix, and not only was Leslie Parrish in it, but she was wearing the same barely-there dress from Who Mourns For Adonis. Since they were both Desliu shows, that makes sense. The same episode also had William Windom and Michael Pataki. ---
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John Fiedler as a nerdy undertaker in _ **Alfred Hitchcock Presents** _’ “The Last Remains.” ---
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Liam Sullivan as a prep school director in _ **The Twilight Zones** _’ “Changing of the Guard.” ---
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Leonard Nimoy as German-speaking GI “PFC Baum” in _ **Combat** _"s “The Raider” (1965). His German is actually quite good. ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2026, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1765 "2026-08-30T11:57:18Z")
^^Not too surprising, as his parents spoke Yiddish at home. I just saw a mustachioed Sulu in the H50 ep “Death’s Name Is Sam.” He jokes that 5-0 must need him to play Sky Masterson in “Guys and Dolls.” ---
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He plays a different German-speaking GI in another episode of _ **Combat!** _, but the names of both escape me at the moment. ---
**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:** [August 31, 2026, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1767 "2026-08-31T02:12:35Z")
Nehemiah Persoff as the brother-in-law in Alfred Hitckcock’s _ **The Wrong Man** _, a true story. ---
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Luscious Sherry Jackson as the defendant in _ **Perry Mason** _’s “The Case of the Festive Felon.” Kathie Browne is in this one too. ---
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John “Ayleborne” Abbott as an art dealer in _ **Alfred Hitchcock Presents** _’ “First Class Honeymoon.” ---
**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:** [September 2, 2026, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1770 "2026-09-02T16:39:41Z")
Stanley Adams as smuggler “Pancho Morado” in _ **Perry** _ _ **Mason** _’s “The Case of the Missing Button.” ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2026, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1771 "2026-09-05T23:30:22Z")
Just heard Jonathan Banks providing the voice of National Supers Agency operative Rick Decker in _Incredibles 2._ [https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Jonathan\_Banks](https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Jonathan_Banks) ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2026, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982/1772 "2026-09-07T02:18:39Z")
Just saw Charles Napier as a belligerent country-western bandleader in _The Blues Brothers_: [https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Charles\_Napier](https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Charles_Napier) ---
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I also just saw Malcolm McDowell and David Warner as H.G. Wells and Jack the Ripper in _Time after Time_, written and directed by Nicholas Meyer. [https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Malcolm\_McDowell](https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Malcolm_McDowell) [https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/David\_Warner](https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/David_Warner) [https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Nicholas\_Meyer](https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Nicholas_Meyer) ---
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Philip “Col Green” Pine and John “Dr Boyce” Hoyt in _ **Perry Mason** _’s “The Case of the Candy Queen.” Antoinette Bower as a comely alien lass in _ **The Twilight Zone** _’s “Probe 7, Over and Out.” ---
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Elisha “Mr Cogley” Cook as “Shorty” in _ **Alfred Hitchcock Present** _’s “Salvage.” ---
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Barry “Surak” Atwater in _ **Perry** _ _ **Mason** _’s “The Case of the Nervous Neighbor.” Booth Colman, “Penno” in _ **ST: Voyager** _’s “Nemesis,” is in this episode too. ---
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Robert Lansing and Mariette Hartley in _ **The Twilight Zone** _’s “The Long Morrow.” ---
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Michael “Kang” Ansara as a butcher in _ **Alfred Hitchcock Presents** _’ “Shopping for Death.” ---
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James “Zefram Cochrane” Cromwell as Henry Morgentau, Sr, the US Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire before 1917, in the historical drama _ **The Promise** _. ---
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Stanley Adams (Cyrano Jones) as a Soviet diplomat in an episode of _ **The Addams Family** _. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982.md?page=88) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotting-star-trek-actors-in-other-programs/794982.md?page=90)