Spotting Star Trek actors in other programs

I’ll never forget when she “serviced” Sgt Esterhaus on Hill Street Blues. :wink:

Yes, she had a great recurring role on that show.

Robert “Lazarus” Brown in the ***Columbo ***episode “Playback” (1975).

Barbara Alyn Woods, “Kareen Brianon” in TNG’s “The Schizoid Man,” as George’s old girlfriend “Debby” in the ***Seinfeld ***episode “The Scofflaw.”

Christopher “Commander Kruge” Lloyd as “Vincent Carew” in the Barney Miller episode “Open House.”

I finally–FINALLY–saw, “Cool Hand Luke,” the other day, and there’s old Morgan Woodward as The Man With No Eyes (Boss Godfrey); he has almost no dialogue, he constantly wears mirrored sunglasses, he shoots the rifle as needed and is about as menacing as it gets.

Also Lou “Let That Be Your Last Battlefield” Antonio.

I had forgotten that.

Interesting, I hadn’t recognized him. Looked him up on IMDb; just died a few weeks ago.

The guy I was surprised to recognize in Cool Hand Luke was Clifton James; the guard who lays down the rules for the prisoners in the bunkhouse was also the buffoonish sheriff in Live and Let Die and The Man With the Golden Gun. No Star Trek connection for him, though.

Of course, as a kid, I was familiar with Frank Gorshin from Batman; some years later, I sat down to watch, “Invasion of the Saucer Men,” one Saturday afternoon and in the opening credits was You-know-who. Had to watch it.

Also, the sheriff in, “Silver Streak,” and the sheriff in, “Superman II,” and a sheriff on, “The Dukes of Hazzard (TV),” and a state trooper on, “The Phil Silvers Show,” (from 1957 :eek: ).

Somewhere, in a galaxy far, far away, there is a Planet of Clifton James Sheriffs and they punched a wormhole into our world back in the '50s. I feel it. :smiley:

In addition to being a comedian and impressionist, Gorshin was a very talented character actor. He was in an episode of Combat! as a GI who was credited with a dead buddy’s heroism. You could see the guilt build up in him as the story progressed.

One of his best impressions was John Astin. :wink:

:smiley:

I seem to recall a series of humorous commercials from when I was in junior high (ca. 1969) that had a Southern sheriff stopping a motorist for some reason or other (I don’t remember what product they were flogging). If it wasn’t Clifton James, it was his separated-at-birth twin brother. (“Lemme see your license, boy!”)*

*FTR, the motorist was white, not black. Thankfully.

Yeah, but only for one episode. :stuck_out_tongue:

Was he dressed in pink tights and a turtleneck? :wink:

Gorshin appeared on the Ed Sullivan program during the same broadcast that the Beatles first appeared. Also on that broadcast was an up and coming comedian named Charlie Brill - who played Arne Darvin in “The Trouble with Tribbles” (and decades later in "Trials and Tribble-ations). See here for Brill’s version of the story of his Ed Sullivan appearance https://www.thisamericanlife.org/281/transcript

This has GOT to be one of your commercials. Not him but close enough for gummint work, y’hear?

Sorry, B&W TV. :o

Yep, that’s one! Talk about a trip down Memory Lane! :cool:

I wonder who the blonde at the end was. She could be Elizabeth Montgomery’s separated-at-birth twin sister.

I just realized the Charonians had no flies in their tights (for that matter, neither did The Riddler). They were just plain old Danskins. Must have made potty breaks while on the set … difficult. :frowning:

LOL! Like on Night Court?