Don Marshall is last living actor from Galileo 7

[TREK_GOD_1]

I never hated Boma...perhaps because I knew he also played Don from LOTG. Boma in his way is understandable if not likable. I hated Kirk.

I think you mean Dan (Erikson), not Don.

I'm with you on not hating Boma; he was very protective of human life to a fault, and (somewhat understandably) viewed Spock's by-the-numbers command decisions as indicative of his Vulcan rejection of compassion. I appreciated realistic arguments and tension within Starfleet ranks, because it could not sell as real with everyone holding hands and grinning in unison.

LOTG was great when I was a kid, so-so after adulthood, and inexplicably better now for me as an older adult. What makes it so-so is the repetitive send-two-to-free-captured-three-but-one-of-the-two-is-captured-as-two-of-the-three-are-saved weekly plotline. Somehow I react differently to the show every 20 years.

A few episodes broke that mold, or had a story that meant more to their survival and/or attempt to leave the planet than the usual Irwin Allen escapist fare.

Marshall also has top-billing in the 1973 action B-movie TERMINAL ISLAND, though he has less to do than co-stars Tom Selleck and Roger Mosley. Marshall survives. LOST IN SPACE's Marta Kristen and Sean Kenney (THE MENAGERIE's Captain Pike, here an arch-villain) do not.

That film is interesting, if for no other reason than spotting the connected TV stars (i.e. then-future Magnum P.I. actors, or former Irwin Allen employees).

 

[Dude111]

Referring to the actors playing the shuttle crew, not the entire cast of the TOS episode. With Leonard Nimoy's passing, Don Marshall is the sole remaining shuttle performer.

I wonder what Don thinks of the world now!!! (Compared to when they made that episode)

 

[NavDude]

It's not that I think 98 year old Peter Marko is still alive..........

I think the entire entry (very recently added by the way) is way off.

I don't think he was the oldest member of the entire episode

His supposed 1917 birth date is older than Kelly,Doohan, Shatner, Woods, Marshall and even Crawford (Ferris)

I don't believe he went into acting at age 47 and quit when he was 53 (I know such things happen, but it is rare and don't believe it in this case.)

I am a fanatic about who is alive and who has passed concerning TOS actors.

195 are passed for sure (Multiple sources)
about 150 are definitely still alive and another 45-50 (consisting of mostly bit players whose careers were very brief--like Marko--are unknown)

Every few months for the last ten years I run down that unknown list and see if I can get info on whether they are still alive.
I've been checking Marko for years and nothing and now out of a sudden he was this really old guy born in 1917 who started acting at 47 and TOS hired him at 50 to play a LT who was older than everybody on the entire episode?

And he now just revealed died 24 years ago?

In my mind that is more likely one of IMDBs many, many mistakes than it is true.

Memory Alpha hasn't accepted it as fact either.
They're not perfect either but they are pretty conscientious about announcing deaths--IMDB is not.

Edit: just checked his first listed acting gig was an Outer Limits episode with a cast of 6 astronauts and their 3 superiors back on Earth (the speaking parts)

All the other 8 actor--even those who were much older and commanding the mission from Earth were born much later than 1917.
He played a subordinate character on the mission and is not the head guy.

The other 5 astronauts actors were born 11 to 17 years after the 1917 birth date given for Marko.

its an IMDB fail.

Long Live Peter Marko!!!!!! ---I hope.

I know this thread has been inactive for ages but I've recently stumbled across it whilst searching for Peter Marko (born Graham).

The reason for my interest is that back in May 2001 I was selling a copy of the Galileo Seven Fotonovel on eBay when I was contacted by a Peter Graham who asked if I'd ship to the US as I lived in the UK.

During the course of the email exchange he claimed that he was Peter Marko and wanted to give Phyllis Douglas a copy as a surprise.

However this is 10 years after IMDB says he died. I can't work out whether somebody was having fun with me or IMDB is just plan wrong.

He even sent me a photo of himself backstage.....

 

[johnnybear]

Intriguing to say the least, Nav!
JB