… And Malachi Throne, as noted above.
This is sort of the opposite, but I’ve been rewatching Voyager and both partners of HHM from Better Call Saul have shown up - Michael McKean (Charles McGill) as the Clown in S02E23 “The Thaw” and Patrick Fabian (Howard Hamlim) as a Taresian in S03E20 “Favorite Son”.
John DeLancie voices an evil Protoss (Alarak) in Starcraft II.
Couple of big names in Transformers… Leonard Nimoy voiced Galvatron in the '86 animated movie and Sentinel Prime in Dark of the Moon; George Takei voiced Yoketron in Transformers: Animated and Alpha Trion in Transformers: Prime
Seasons 1 and 2 were great. By the time they got into Season 3, I could tell in the first thirty seconds what the setup and “twist” were going to be. Season four was half-hour episodes padded to full hours. By the fifth season, I think they just didn’t care any more.
The cycle of reruns began again just the other night. The change in quality is pretty dramatic.
Serling himself confessed that it was getting harder and harder to write new stories, and that he found himself basically reworking his older stories–a problem that formed the basis of the “Night Gallery” vignette “Midnight Never Ends.”
Roger C. Carmel comes to mind.
John Daly (“Mr Flint” in “Requiem for Methuselah”) was a East European bad guy in a first-season episode of Mission: Impossible. This was one in which Dan Briggs “had to” impersonate him “because of his bone structure.” In truth, this was done to limit Steven Hill’s scenes since he, as an Orthodox Jew, refused to work on weekends (M:I, like Star Trek, was notorious for going over schedule and over budget). At one point, Briggs-in-disguise almost slipped up by not using a cigarette holder, as Daly’s character did.
Hill’s refusal to work after sundown on Fridays was also the reason he was replaced with Peter Graves after the first season of M:I.
I guess Takei needed the money, but Nimoy? :dubious:
Just remembered: Michael Forest (“Apollo” in “Who Mourns for Adonais?”) was an alien invader in “Black Leather Jackets” on Twilight Zone the other night. He was pretty damned scary in that, too!
Another Trek/L&O crossover; good catch.
Bakula, too, because of course he did.
Steve Ihnat (“Garth of Izar” in that episode) and Jason Evers (“Rael” in “Wink of an Eye”) were in an especially memorable episode of Mission: Impossible (along with Ed Asner). Evers was a US double agent; Ihnat was an enemy assassin with an eidetic memory. Phelps’s plan was to trick Ihnat into thinking Evers had been set up by the Americans, thereby confirming his creds as a Communist agent. It almost didn’t work, and Evers came to within a hair of being liquidated.
I can’t speak for his 1986 role (though that movie had a lot of famous folks - Orson Welles and Robert Stack among them) but Nimoy’s wife is Michael Bay’s cousin, so that might explain the 2013 movie. Though apparently Nimoy had wanted to do another Transformers role anyways (and had been considered for the second film).
John de Lancie (Q) was in the movie Reign Over Me, starring Adam Sandler and Don Cheadle, and also was in a short-lived series called Legend which starred Richard Dean Anderson.
Clint Howard (“Balok” in “The Corbomite Maneuver”) was the bald USAF radar operator in the Austin Powers movies.
“Sir, it looks like a giant—”
“Willie!”
Whit Bissel (“Mr Lurry” in “The Trouble with Tribbles”) was also in Time Tunnel, of course (as “General Kirk” :dubious: ).
Joseph Ruskin (“Galt” in “Gamesters of Triskelion”) was in this episode as well, playing an evil Arab slave master.
Alfred Ryder (“Dr Crater” in “The Man Trap”) was an evil Communist spymaster in “The Diplomat” on M:I.
I see at IMDb that Harry Basch (“Brown the Android” in “What Are Little Girls Made Of?”) was in “The Diplomat” as well!
One of the more interesting ones for me is Robert Picardo, “Doctor” on Voyager, who was very visible in lots of films, but who I never noticed until his Star Trek role (I never watched [China Beach, so I didn’t originally know about his other regular “Doctor” role as the redundant Dr. Dick Richard)
He’s the Hit Man “The Cowboy” in InnerSpace and the theater owner in Matinee and the voice of Johnnycab in the original Total Recall (and I think they based the appearance of the Cab Driver on him, too).
You wouldn’t recognize him, though, in his part in the film Legend. I knew about it from reading credits, but he was unrecognizable under a ton of makeup as “Meg Mucklebones”
He’s also unrecognizable as Wak and Neek’s father (and as Starkiller, although I still didn’t recognize him) in Explorers, but I admit I didn’t know that until I looked it up on iMDB
I never watched China Beach either, but I knew him from his other prominent TV role in that period–the dickish Coach Cutlip on The Wonder Years.
Dr. Phlox (John Billingsley) pops up all over the place. He’s one of those lucky character actors who is always working.
Not a prominent role, but he appeared in two episodes of Home Improvement as Tim “The Tool Man’s” neighbor. His other neighbor, not Wilson.