Science fiction writers clamored to promote the show and the art.
Many legendary actors appeared onStar Trek: The Original Series.
Some of them, admittedly, became legendsbecauseof their appearance.
Others, were already legends before beaming aboard.
Some of the actors came with wonderful science fiction bona fides.
Others, became bona fide science fiction players after their careers went into warp drive.
Krako ruled the empire he carved out from the Federation like a king in concrete golashes.
Tayback was the only actor to carry over from Martin Scorseses 1974 filmAlice Doesnt Live Here Anymore.
The seriesAlice, which starred Linda Lavin, ran from 1976 to 1985.
Tayback directed the episode Alice Faces the Music and reprised his role as Mel in the spinoff seriesFlo.
He guest-starred as Bill Colton on theF Troopepisode Corporal Agarns Farewell To The Troops.
He played in both comedies and dramas.
Taybak was a standout in the cult filmThe Big Bus(1976) and had broader shoulders than Shoulders.
He also cooked up a comic criminal for Neil Simons loving noir sendupThe Cheap Detective(1978).
He played in the gangster filmsThe Don Is Dead(1973) andLepke(1975).
Tayback back-talked Clint Eastwood inThunderbolt and Lightfoot(1974).
That voice also got him cast as Carface Caruthers in the animated featureAll Dogs Go to Heaven.
Tayback died in 1990.
Science fiction street cred:
Taybeck appeared on theAlfred Hitchcock Presentsepisode: A Man with a Problem.
He was featured on two Tales from the Darkside episodes.
He played Alan Coombs in The New Man and Tippy Ryan in Basher Malone.
He was also in the little knownBeverly Hills Bodysnatchersfrom 1989.
It also starredNightmare on Elm Streets Freddy, Robert Englund, as Boone.
And if all that means nothing, Tayback reunited with Koik as Lt. Pete Benedict on theT.
J. Hookerepisode Hookers War.
Roger C. Carmel
Roger C. Carmel played Harcourt Fenton Mudd in the Mudds Women and I, Mudd episodes.
He was the only non-Enterprise crew actor to appear as the same character in more than one episode.
Or is that a lie?
Everything the guy said was a lie, even when he was telling the truth.
Carmel reprised the character for theStar Trek: The Animated Seriesepisode Mudds Passion.
He also played Colonel Gumm onBatman.
Brooklyn-born Carmel brought his six-foot-four frame and mustache to almost every show on TV.
He always had that mischievous glint in his eyes.
Carmel died in 1986.
Carmel played Judge Jones onThe Invisible Manscience fiction series that ran from 1975 through 1976.
It was created by future TV institution Steven Bochco, along with Harve Bennett.
Say what you want about Campbell, he knew how to rock a pair of sideburns.
He is kind of Charlie Xs spoiled cousin.
Koloth, of course, is the Klingon you most love to hate.
Dripping with insinuation, he is the perfect diplomat spoiling for a fight.
Campbells first film,The Breaking Pointfrom 1950, starred the legendary tough guy actor John Garfield.
His first starring role came in Frank Korvac William WellmansThe High and the Mighty(1954).
On TV, Campbell was the co-star on the 1958 truck driver seriesCannonball.
He appeared on the series Perry Mason twice, once as a killer and once as a victim.
But Campbell is best known for his 1963 work with Roger Corman.
The futureGodfatherdirector knew how to build suspense without cash.
Campbell had an axe to grind in the movie that also starred Patrick Magee and Luana Anders.
William Campbell played Chad on the 1978The Next Step Beyondepisode Portrait of the Mind.
Elisha Cook Jr.
Elisha Cook Jr. played Samuel T. Cogley in the Court Martial episode from season 1.
Kirks defense attorney in the case of the missing crewman, Lt.
Commander Ben Finney preferred books over computers.
Cook was also only one who seemed to know what was going on inHouse on Haunted Hill.
He also played Professor Isaacson on theBatmanTV series.
Elisha Cook Jr. played Uncle Albert on the TV seriesALF.
Science fiction was not his forte.
His horror credentials, however, arent bad.
He played Gordon Weasel Phillips in the miniseriesSalems Lot.
He also appeared in Roman Polanskis satanic classicRosemarys Baby(1968).
Melvin Belli
Melvin Belli was the friendly angel in the 1968 episode And the Children Shall Lead.
(That went pretty well, considering.)
Belli worked on early consumer rights law cases in the 1940s and 1950s.
Ruby died of cancer before the retrial.
Brian Cox played Belli in the 2007 filmZodiac.
Belli represented Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker.
Michael J. Pollard
Michael J. Pollard guest starred in the season one episode Miri.
He was 27 when he played the teenager doomed to a future immune system breakdown.
Pollard brought a sullen insolence to Jahn, the leader of the orphaned tribe of onlies.
You just wanted to give him a bonk bonk on the head.
Pollard played the young gas-station-attendant-turned-getaway-car-driver C.W.
Moss in the 1967 gangster classicBonnie and Clyde.
Actors Studio-trained Pollard made his TV debut as a shoeshine boy in a 1959 episode ofAlfred Hitchcock Presents.
Antiseptic pop singer Bobby Rydell played Peabody in the 1963 movie.
On film, Pollard was featured in the movieSummer Magic, starring Hayley Mills.
He played an escaped American POW in the 1969 World War II movieHannibal Brooks.
Pollard played one of the title roles in the 1970 filmLittle Fauss and Big Halsywith Robert Redford.
He also played the homeless guy that Bill Murray thought was Richard Burton in the Christmas comedyScrooged.
Michael J. Pollard put the J in Michael J. Pollard had a recurring role as Mister Mxyzptlk, a trans-dimensional imp, in theSuperboytelevision series in 1959.
Pollard played an alien boy in the 1966 The Magic Mirror episode ofLost in Space.
He played a mortician on theRay Bradbury Theaterseason six episode The Handler.
Kellerman started out on the road to show business as a budding rock and roller.
She continued to move around stage, screen and TV for her entire career.
She played in Leslie StevenssThe Marriage-Go-Roundand Michael ShurtleffsCall Me by My Rightful Name.
Kellerman played Mag Wildwood in the original Broadway production ofBreakfast at Tiffanys, which closed during preview.
She also appeared in productions ofWhos Afraid of Virginia Woolf?and Eve EnslersThe Vagina Monologues.
She hostedSaturday Night Liveon February 7, 1981.
She starred with Ernest Borgnine and Mickey Rooney inNight Club(2011).
Kellerman played Ingrid Larkin in The Human Factor episode ofThe Outer Limitsfrom 1963.
She also played Laura Crowell in the Labrynth episode of the TV seriesThe Invadersin 1967.
In 1990s, Kellerman appeared onThe Ray Bradbury TheatreTV Series as Clara Goodwater in the Exorcism episode.
She voiced The Watchbird on the seriesMasters of Science Fictionin 2007.
Moreau would be well suited for ancient Rome, a Cleopatra to Kirks Caesar.
Luna also appeared in the fan-createdStar Trek: New Voyages internet show twice.
BarBara Luna was still in high school when she debuted on Broadway.
Luna spentFive Weeks in a Balloon.
Through all the screen work, Luna never stopped appearing on stage.
She played the role of Anita in five different companies ofWest Side Story.
Lunas last Broadway show was as Diana Morales in the 1976 cast ofA Chorus Line.
She played Koori onBuck Rogers in the 25th Century.
They should have paid more attention to Hippocrates because their mind games left them with Achilles anti-immune system.
Dunn was an inspiration to shorter-statured performers.
He also suffered from related health issues.
Reminiscent of the Platonians, Dunns gifts were intellectual.
He didnt have a bad singing voice either.
They even got to sing together.
He also played in the 1968 filmNo Way to Treat a Ladywith Rod Steiger and George Segal.
Michael Dunn died in his sleep on August 30, 1973 while shooting the filmThe Abdicationon location in London.
Michael Dunns death was a real-life mystery.The New York Timesreported that cause of death was undisclosed.
Elinor Donahue
Elinor Donahue played the entitled-but-doomed commissioner Nancy Hedford in the second-season episode Metamorphosis (1967).
Donahue is especially effective as she allows her character to go through the ugliest emotional and needy demands.
But Donahue really gives in to her most selfish core as an actress to pull this off.
This one character really gives an early clue to the diverse talent of the 1960s TV acting pool.
This led to better and bigger roles likeGirls Townin 1959.
She started showing off her comic chops as one of The Newlyweds onThe George Burns and Gracie Allen Show.
Donahue played pharmacist Ellie Walker, who was sweet on the sheriff for twelve episodes ofThe Andy Griffith Show.
An addict onHappy Days?
Im as surprised as you are.
Donahue played Felicia, Alexs mother onOne Day at a Timein 1974.
She starred in the NBC sitcomPlease Stand Byin the eighties.
Donahue had a recurring role as Rebecca Quinn onDr.
Quinn, Medicine Woman.
Donahue started the 1990s as Beverly Hills boutique manager Bridget, who dresses down Julia Roberts inPretty Woman.
Her on-screen younger siblings included Billy, James Bud Anderson, Jr., and Lauren Chapin.
Her mother was, of course, Jane Wyatt aka Spocks mom.
Jane Wyatt
Jane Wyatt played Spocks mom, Amanda Grayson.
Wyatt first badgered her son and husband to the brink of death in the 1967 episode Journey to Babel.
Eternally emotionally distant, neither parent showed up at their sons wedding in the episode Amok Time.
(Wyatt did show up for one episode of Mark Lenards seriesHere Come the Brides.
She snubbed him on that episode too.)
Wyatt became an icon of fifties TV by playing housewife and mother Margaret Anderson onFather Knows Best.
Wyatt let her own society light dim when she took an understudy gig on Broadway.
Universal Pictures signed her and put in her first movie in 1934,One More River.
She co-starred in Frank CaprasLost Horizonin 1937 for Columbia Pictures.
Not content with containing her social concerns to film, Wyatt was an early critic of Senator Joseph McCarthy.
She also starred on the 1962 The Heather Mahoney Story episode on NBCsWagon Train, a Roddenberry favorite.
Wyatt also played the recurring role of Katherine Auschlander onSt.
Elsewhere, the eighties medical soap.
Jane Wyatt died on October 20, 2006, aged 96.
Jane Wyatt played Anne White on the 1965The Alfred Hitchcock Hourepisode The Monkeys Paw A Retelling on CBS.
She also guest starred on the TV seriesStarman.
That movie was an adaptation of the book by British Naval Officer Denys Rayne.
He never played a human onStar Trek, thought he married one.
Lenard first played Sarek in Journey to Babel (1967) from season 3.
Lenard was born in Chicago.
He began performing start on stage while he was in the Army.
He hit New York in parts in classic plays Off Broadway.
He acted inMeasure for Measurefor the New York Shakespeare Festival.
He was the Fort Grant prosecutor inHang Em High(1968), starring the Clint Eastwood.
Lenard was a regular as Aaron Stempel inHere Come the Brides.
He also starred inThe Power and the Glorywith Laurence Olivier.
Lenard died in 1996 at the age of 72.
Decker blamed himself for his crews destruction and becomes almost catatonic with grief and the shock of self-recrimination.
He did what he was trained to do.
He went down with his ship.
Or so he thought…
It is a triumphant moment when Decker is brought back to life in a vengeance-fueled showdown with Spock.
Windom gives him a twinkle of madness and a sprinkle of charm.
When Decker assumes command from Spock he also assumes the crablike defensive stance of a young Jake LaMotta.
He made his motion picture debut in the 1962 Academy Award-winning motion picture classicTo Kill a Mockingbird.
Windom was in two movies that starred James Garner.
The movie was directed by John Sturges as a sequel to hisGunfight at the O.K.
Corral, which starred Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas in 1957.
In 1968, Windom starred with Frank Sinatra inThe Detective, playing a homophobic killer.
He also did the voice of Puppetino inPinocchio.
Windom died on August 16, 2012, at the age of 88.
Windom appeared on two episodes ofThe Twilight Zone.
He played the President of the United States inEscape from the Planet of the Apes.
He played the character Randy Lane in theNight Galleryepisode Theyre Tearing Down Tim Rileys Bar.
I kid him, but because I am a huge fan.
The guy is a beast who could scream love at the heart of the world.
Collins was nine when she made her stage debut in Henrik IbsensA Dolls House.
(1958) and Bing Crosby and Bob Hopes last road movieThe Road to Hong Kong(1962).
The sister of Jackie Collins, Joan published her first novel,Prime Time,in 1988.
Collins also took Elizabeth Taylors role of Wilma Flintstones mother Pearl Slaghoople in the Flintstones movieViva Rock Vegas.
She was also featured inMolly Moon and the Incredible Book of Hypnotismin 2015.
The dame recently played herself inAbsolutely Fabulous: The Movie.
In 1975, she played Kara on theSpace: 1999episode Mission of the Darians.
Why Sanchez couldnt see that in his own charts makes you wonder about the old country doctors Starfleet hires.
Meriwether was one of the two Catwoman actresses from the originalBatmanTV series cast to play onStar Trek.
She played the feline femme fatale in the movie version from 1966.
Meriwether also played Bruce Waynes girlfriend Lisa Carson on theBatmanTV series episodes King Tuts Coup and Batmans Waterloo.
Meriwether went to high school with breathy crooner Johnny Mathis and to college with future Hulk Bill Bixby.
Famed columnist Walter Winchell started a rumor that Meriwether was engaged to baseball legend Joe DiMaggio.
Meriwether replaced Barbara Bain onMission: Impossiblein 1969.
She played Lily Munster in the 1980s sitcomThe Munsters Today.
Meriwethers first movie was 1959s 4D Man.
She played President Winters in the video gameVanquishby Platinum Games.
She appeared in the interactive comedy, Grandma Sylvias Funeralduring its original off-Broadway run.
The film also featured Patty Duke.
Davis co-starred as Dr. Ann MacGregor inThe Time Tunnelfrom 1966 to 1967.
Julie Newmar
Julie Newmar played the Capellan princess Eleen, escort to the High Tier Akaar.
She levels a paternity charge at Dr. Bones in the 1967 episode Fridays Child.
Eleen was a much less touchy part than the part of the other Catwoman on this list.
Its a real face-slapper.
Newmar is an icon.
Newmars moves slayed audiences inSlaves of Babylon(1953) and hypnotizedLil Abner(1959) as Stupefyin Jones.
She got whatever she wanted as Lola inDamn Yankees!(1961).
She played herself in the loving movie tributeTo Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything!
Julie Newmar(1995).
Is that too funky or what?
She was also a ballerina with the Los Angeles Opera.
Newmar was probably on every TV show in the sixties.
She took wet work contracts on Robert Wagner in bothIt Takes a ThiefandHart to Hartand almost glamboozledColumbo.
In the seventies she boardedThe Love Boat, and gave rise to daydreams onFantasy Island.
Julie Newmar was the devil incarnate inThe Twilight Zoneepisode Of Late I Think of Cliffordville.
She played the title role as Rhoda the Robot in the TV seriesMy Living Dollfrom 1964 to 1965.
She appeared onThe Bionic WomanandBuck Rogers in the 25th Centuryin the 1970s.
But Newmars real bona fides come as an inventor.
She has two patents for cheeky derriere pantyhose and one for a brassiere with a cloaking equipment.
Diana Muldaur
Diana Muldaur played three different characters on two different episodes of the original series.
In the season three episode, Is There in Truth No Beauty?
Muldaur started on soap operas, playing Ann Wicker on CBSThe Secret Storm.
She played the character Jeannie Orloff in NBC medical dramaDr.
Kildare, which starred Richard Chamberlain.
Muldaur and Reynolds continued their onscreen collaboration for the showsHawk(1966) andDan August(1971).
The show was cancelled after 15 episodes.
She also played the title role in the Mrs. Bannister episode ofThe Rockford Fileswith James Garner.
She starred with Gary Collins in the NBC seriesBorn Freeabout Elsa the Lioness.
She also played in the 1977 independent filmBeyond Reasonwith Telly Savalas.
Muldaur guest starred as Claire, one of the invaders onThe Invaders.
She was in the apocalypse thrillerChosen Survivors(1974) with Jackie Cooper.
We have no devil, Kirk, but we know the ways of yours, he cautioned.
Before Eden, Ansara was married to the mom onThe Patty Duke Show, Jean Byron.
Marshal Sam Buckhart onLaw of the Plainsman.
Ansara played Pindarus in the 1953 version ofJulius Caesar, which starred Marlon Brando.
He played Judas inThe Robeand he was in the movie and TV seriesVoyage to the Bottom of the Sea.
Ansara appeared onAlfred Hitchcock Presents, Perry Mason,andThe Outer Limits.
Ansara was also the voice of Mr.
Freeze on the cartoon seriesBatman.
Its not science fiction, but you have to love his appearance in the 1974 low-budget horror classicIts Alive.
Dr. Daystrom is, ultimately, a tech bubble victim.
He programs it to put 430 people out of work but he blows it all during the beta phase.
Today, Dr. Daystrom would be played by a teenager, most computer savants peak in their early 20s.
Daystrom went into the project with the loftiest of goals.
In Marshalls hands, universal problems become tragic Shakespearean soliloquys.
Marshall also played on the The Vulcan Affair episode of The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
He studied theatre at the Actors Studio and with Sanford Meisner.
He made his Broadway debut in 1944 in Carmen Jones the World War II-era reimaging of Bizets operaCarmen.
He also understudied for the legendary Boris Karloff as Captain Hook in the 1950 Broadway run of Peter Pan.
Marshalls first film role was as a Haitian leader inLydia Bailey(1952).
He played Attorney General Edward Brooke inThe Boston Strangler(1968).
For television, Marshall starred on the short-lived seriesHarlem Detectivein the early fifties.
He would play the King of Cartoons onPee-wees Playhousein the 1980s.
Susan Oliver
Susan Oliver may be the most recognizable face from the originalStar Trekseries after the regular cast.
Thats when the interstellar savior Captain Christopher Pike commanded the Enterprise and was played by the actor Jeffrey Hunter.
No amount of color correction could stop Oliver from becoming so much of aStar Trekicon.
A 2014 documentary about her life was calledThe Green Girl.
She made her Broadway debut in Robert E. Sherwoods 1957 comedySmall War on Murray Hill.
The Green Lady had her first and only starring role inThe Green-Eyed Blondein 1957.
Oliver turned to directing by the late 1970s.
She was one of the original 19 women admitted to the American Film Institutes Directing Workshop for Women.
She wrote and directed the short filmCowboysanin 1977.
Oliver put in her requisite appearance inThe Twilight Zone.
She couldt fly for a year after the experience until she was hypnotized to deal with it.
She was on her way to Moscow but had to land in Denmark.
She did it in her own Aero Commander 200.
In 1970, Oliver was named Pilot of the Year.
Captain Pike was never named Pilot of the Year.
Marta was only green on the outside.
Inside, she was an experienced lover who had an interesting way of keeping men faithful.
After she slept with them, she stabbed them, to death, happily, manically.
On TV, Craig was five ofThe Many Loves of Dobie Gillisfrom 1959 and 1962.
Craig called her autobiographyFrom Ballet to the Batcave and Beyondin 2000.
She died on August 17, 2015, at age 78.
How weird is that?
She guest starred on the 1970Land of the Giantsepisode Wild Journey.
Boma was one of the first characters to get hostile towards Mr. Spock.
He gets sick and tired of the machinelike first officer and his logic.
Marshall turns what could have been an example of interspecies prejudice into a debate over the essence of humanity.
It is fascinating, or at least interesting, how the sands of righteousness shift during the episode.
Spock adheres to his belief that indigenous life should remain unmolested and certainly not killed.
The others would attack to save themselves.
His eyes are constantly focused and measuring, searching for more than what he sees on the surface.
His first onscreen role was in the movieThe Interns(1961).
They were cast as competent, confident experts whose reliability is beyond doubt.
Marshall was in the 1965 pilot for the seriesBraddock.
He played Luke in three 1966 episodes ofDaktariand appeared in episodes ofTarzan,DragnetandIronside.
Marshall had a recurring role as Ted Neumann, Julia Bakers sometime boyfriend, on the 1968 seriesJulia.
Marshall played Captain Colter in a 1976 episode ofThe Bionic Woman.
He performed a C-section onLittle House on the Prairiein 1976.
Warren Oates bigoted Cpl.
Leroy Sprague sprayed racial abuse on Marshalls Pvt.
Carver LeMoyne in Robert Days suspenseful Korean War filmThe Reluctant Heroes(1971).
He played Dr. Fred WilliamsThe Thing with Two Heads(1972).
Marshalls doctor sews Millands head onto Griers body with the help of future special effects legend Rick Baker.
But this is that youve been waiting for: Marshall played Dan Erickson onLand of the Giants.
Seven people thought they were on a routine trip that should have taken about three hours.
They get blown off course by a storm and cast away in a remote environment.
They even had an eccentric millionaire, Alexander Fitzhugh, played by Kurt Kasznar.
Land of the Giantswas made with a kind of breathless excitement.
This was evident from the very first seconds of the theme song, which was written by John Williams.
That was pure Montalban.
Khan recognized the ensigns face, even though Walter Koenig wasnt on the original episode.
In a career that spanned seven decades, the Mexican actors talents were richer than Corinthian leather.
He and Herve Villechaize, who spotted planes as his sidekick Tattoo became cultural icons.
Montalbans first role was in the playHer Cardboard Lover, staged in New York City in 1940.
Montalbans first Hollywood lead came inBorder Incident, a film noir movie made in 1949.
The busy actor appeared on most of the shows that have been listed here.
He played a Japanese character named Tokura in theHawaii Five-Oepisode Samurai from (1968).
Montalban guest-starred as a genetically engineered cow in theFamily Guyepisode McStroke.
Montalbans last role was in an episode ofAmerican Dad!from 2009.
It was aired posthumously.
It starred Roddy McDowall, Kim Hunter and Sal Mineo as the primate space travelers.
Darby and Michael John Pollack, brought the fresh energy of the new generation to the original series.
They were the same age as a lot of the viewers and brought an instant empathy.
Miri is one of the best acted episodes on the series.
Even the kid who cries over his bike brings a new acting method.
Most of the onlies were played by children of the series crew.
Darby was the daughter of the Dancing Zerbies, Inga and Jon, who nicknamed their daughter Derby.
She made her screen debut as a dancer inBye Bye Birdie(1963).
Darby also saddled up for the TV seriesGunsmoke,BonanzaandThe Road West, all in 1967.
Her first TV role was on an episode of the NBC seriesMr.
She played the blind crime witness Stacia Clairborne in a 2014 episode of the seriesPerception.
Darby co-starred in the first television miniseries,Rich Man, Poor Man.
She played Virginia Calderwood who wrote the dirtiest love letters in high society.
Darby starred as Sally Farnham in the made-for-TV movieDont Be Afraid of the Dark(1973).
Kim Darby and William Shatner starred in the January 22, 1972 ABC Movie of the WeekThe People.
Darby played Melodye Amerson, who teaches a bunch of telepathic aliens at a school in an isolated community.
Darby also appeared on the Sein und Zeit episodeof The X-Filesin 1999.
Of all the seductions of the star fleet skipper, hers is my favorite.
A combination or mysticism and herbal psychedelics, she really gets under the skin.
Who cares if shes Tyrees woman, Nona bleeds for her conquests.
Too bad she cant use that magic to ward off the overly interested.
She started out as one of the Glea Girls onThe Jackie Gleason Showin the 1950s.
Kovak was featured in two episodes ofThe Man from U.N.C.L.E.
one that featured Yvonne Craig and another that starred Ricardo Montalban.
She was in the 1966 Elvis Presley movieFrankie and Johnny.
She lightened it up with the 1965 Three Stooges comedyThe Outlaws Is Coming.
Kovack married conductor Zubin Mehta.
The film updated it to the Apollo program and came out four months after the moon landing.
It remains one of the most realistic science fiction films ever made.
If you havent seen it, find it and remedy that.
Frank Gorshin
Frank Gorshin was the face of prejudice in the 1969 episode Let That Be Your Last Battlefield.
Well, half of it anyway.
Gorshin brings a kind of imperial madness to Bele.
Fighting a battle that ended in the mutual destruction of each of their races, he learns nothing.
Bele is ever the aggressor as he brushes aside petty distractions like extinction.
Gorshins Bele grieves for a heartbeat and then hes back at his prisoners throat.
He holds nothing back.
Gorshin is a fearless actor.
He got that way doing standup and facing every kind of crowd.
He was the comedian who went onThe Ed Sullivan Showthe night The Beatles premiered.
Gorshin never stopped performing live.
He played the bass player Basil in the Connie Francis movieWhere the Boys Are(1960).
He snatched Hayley Mills kitty inThat Darn Cat!
Gorshin played a mob boss behind bars in Otto PremingersSkidoo(1968).
(1975),Charlies Angels(1977) andWonder Woman(1977).
The episode, which was directed by Quentin Tarantino, was dedicated to his memory.
While he was known for his impressions, his role onCSIwas as himself.
Gorshin appeared on Broadway inJimmy(1969) andGuys and Dolls(1971).
Gorshin died on May 17, 2005, at age 72.
The episode was made as a way to sneak aGary Sevenseries onto TV without a pilot.
Seven and Ms. Lincoln had some interesting experiences in store for them.
What can we say about Miss Lincoln that wasnt put so eloquently on her computer files?
Employed by Garys 347 and 201.
She was 20 years old and wondered if shed make thirty.
She was five feet, seven inches and 120 pounds.
Her hair was tinted honey-blonde for the Gary gig.
Although her behavior appears erratic, she really has a high I.Q.
She had interesting birthmarks.
We liked her inTootsieno matter how big her teeth were.
She knew when to say when to mashed potatoes inClose Encounters of the Third Kind.
She really brought home the pressures of computing sales tax in a beehive bun in Martin ScorsesesAfter Hours.
Garr started out as a dancer like her mom, who was a Rockette.
Her father performed on the vaudeville circuit.
Terris hips swiveled near Elvis in nine movies including Viva Las Vegas.
She danced on rock and roll shows like theT.A.M.I.
Show,Shindig!andHullabaloo.
(1977),The Black Stallion(1979),Mr.
Mom(1983),The Sting II(1983), andLet It Ride(1989).
She disclosed that she suffered from the disease in October 2002.
Terri Garr was Richard Dreyfuss short-suffering wife inClose Encounters of the Third Kind(1977).
Mel Brooks lab raised the standard of cinematic biomedical accoutrements.
Ted Cassidy
Ted Cassidy is full of surprises.
He lent his deep voice to several great characters onStar Trek.
He played the android Ruk in the episode What Are Little Girls Made Of?
He was also the voice of the Gorn in the episode Arena.
Three classic characters, as deep and rich as the actors dulcet tones.
Cassidys presence is undeniable.
But theStar Trekreferences continue.
He was a goon on the very first episode ofThe Man from U.N.C.L.E.It was called The Vulcan Affair.
He is only slightly less known for also lending his hand to the role of Thing.
Cassidy started as a disc jockey on WFAA in Dallas and was broadcasting when President Kennedy was assassinated.
Cassidy got some of the earliest eye witness reports when he interviewed W.E.
Newman, Jr. and Gayle Newman.
Cassidys first TV role was the lowest of budget science fiction.
Cassidy also played Jeannies cousin and her sisters master on two different episodes ofI Dream of Jeannie.
He also narrated the opening and assorted grunts and growls onThe Incredible Hulk.
Cassisdy co-wrote the script to the 1973 college orgy movieThe Harrad Experimentwith Michael Werner.
Cassidy died on January 16, 1979 at age 46.
It probably isnt surprising that Cassidy did more than his share of science fiction.
Cassidy appeared in the pilots for Gene RoddenberrysGenesis IIandPlanet Earthas Isiah.
He did temporary voice tracks for the TV movie pilot forBattlestar Galactica.
He got his first real credit in the Elvis Presley movieWild in the Countryfrom 1961.
He would also turn up in Elvis 1963 musical-comedyIt Happened at the Worlds Fair.
He first got noticed for his supporting role inSplendor in the Grass(1961).
It ran from 1963-1964 and was cancelled after 29 episodes.
2001 might be the only film more influential on the development of science fiction thanStar Trekitself.
There might not even be a Steven Spielberg or a George Lucas.
Well, they would have been born, but may never have taken to space.
Kubricks2001: A Space Odysseywas truly groundbreaking.
It rendered everything that came before it in science fiction obsolete.
The man who some believe faked the moon landing didnt just change movies, he changed technology.
The HAL 9000, one letter removed from IBM, invented Siri.
They even had the first iPads.
2001: A Space Odysseycould be a silent film.
The power-mad psychiatrist ultimately loses his mind to the neutralizer.
The episode also showed Spock doing the Vulcan mind meld for the first time.
Gregory is a no-nonsense professional artist who never lost his Bronx accent.
He spent 83 days in Okinawa during his three-year stint in the Navy and Marine Corps during WWII.
Gregory made his Broadway debut with acting legends Paul Muni and Jose Ferrar in a 1939 production ofKey Largo.
That play would be brought to the screen with Humphrey Bogart and Edward G. Robison in the roles.
Starting in 1939, Gregory worked in over 25 Broadway productions over sixteen years.
He made his motion picture debut inNaked Cityin 1948.
Gregory acted with everyone.
Gregory shocked audiences when his Morgan Hastings character cold-bloodedly killed his own son inThe Sons of Katie Elder.
He also played Sgt.
Schaeffer in the sixties gangster classicAl Capone, starring Rod Steiger.
Gregory starred as Cmdr.
Ritchie, John F. Kennedys commanding officer in the filmPT 109(1963) with Cliff Robertson.
He was Dean Martins spy boss MacDonald, in the Matt Helm detective film series.
Starting in the mid-fifties, Gregory put in appearances on almost every major live TV production on both coasts.
He set a record for acting in five live productions in 10 days.
He also did radio work, including a starring role as Captain Vincent J. Cronin on 21st Precinct.
Gregory was the lead Det.
Barney Ruditsky in the 1959-61 television series TheLawless Years.
Gregory played the brusque but wildly sentimental Inspector Luger for eight seasons onBarney Miller.
He loved those guys.
Gregory tosses off a grandiose tour de force from the top of a horse.
He is an ape among apes.
Remembered as a taut political thriller it has the heart of a science fiction classic.
The film explores the science of brainwashing.
The 1959 book by Richard Condon is even more shocking than the movie.
Gregorys Sen. John Iselin is despicable.
He is as real as the headlines of the day.
