Trek guest actors in maybe surprising roles
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I saw Jason and the Argonauts the other night with Nancy Kovack. Hubba, hubba!
Watched Neptune's Daughter last night, a 1947 "aquamusical" starring Esther Williams and Ricardo Montalban. If you've ever wanted to see Khan sing, dance, and swim, this is the film for you. He also has enough shirtless scenes to confirm that, yes, that really was his chest in Wrath of Khan.
For the record, Montalban plays "Jose O'Rourke," a suave South American polo champion, and handles the breezy romantic comedy with a nice light touch and plenty of charm.
Amazing trivia: Montalban's song, "Baby, It's Cold Outside," won the Oscar for Best Song that year.
The song in question.
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Watching 60s TV shows on Me-TV often turns into a game of "Who's that TOS guest actor?" One that particularly tickled my geek fancy was an episode of The Rifleman--a series that put Paul Fix to better use as regular character Micah Torrance, marshal of North Fork. This episode also guest-starred John Hoyt as a VOTW--both TOS pilot doctors in one place! And that's not even the episode's guest star claim to fame--It also featured Dennis Hopper. Searching IMDB, it seems that John Hoyt appeared in another episode as a different character.
And if you're going to bring Jeffrey Hunter's resume up, it's always worth noting that you can usually catch him on the tube at least twice a year as Jesus in King of Kings.
EDIT: Other noteworthy ones that pop into my head:
--Caught Sherry Jackson in episodes of The Rifleman and Dobie Gillis within a week or so of each other, IIRC. She actually got credited in the onscreen "Info" data in the former, and was particularly striking as a dominatrix-y character in the latter.
--Also, caught an episode of Route 66 in which the "where have I seen her before?" thing was really bugging me until I realized from the female guest star's voice that she was Joanne Linville, the Romulan commander in "The Enterprise Incident". Her husband in the episode had been instantly recognizable--Leslie Nielsen; and to top it off, I was further into the episode when I realized that the tyke playing their son was none other than little Ronny Howard!
And if you're going to bring Jeffrey Hunter's resume up, it's always worth noting that you can usually catch him on the tube at least twice a year as Jesus in King of Kings.
EDIT: Other noteworthy ones that pop into my head:
--Caught Sherry Jackson in episodes of The Rifleman and Dobie Gillis within a week or so of each other, IIRC. She actually got credited in the onscreen "Info" data in the former, and was particularly striking as a dominatrix-y character in the latter.
--Also, caught an episode of Route 66 in which the "where have I seen her before?" thing was really bugging me until I realized from the female guest star's voice that she was Joanne Linville, the Romulan commander in "The Enterprise Incident". Her husband in the episode had been instantly recognizable--Leslie Nielsen; and to top it off, I was further into the episode when I realized that the tyke playing their son was none other than little Ronny Howard!
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Speaking of Montalban, I'm surprised this hasn't come up yet. One of the stranger make-up and accent combinations I've seen as he plays a Japanese crime boss in a first season Hawaii Five-O:
A couple of two-fors from "Five-O":
Commander Kor meets Sulu:
Miramanee sits down to breakfast with Harry Mudd:
A couple of two-fors from "Five-O":
Commander Kor meets Sulu:
Miramanee sits down to breakfast with Harry Mudd:
Commander Kor meets Sulu:
And it looks like they may have done so at Robin's Nest, in the main house courtyard to be precise.
^Well, my understanding is that the whole reason Magnum, P.I. was created, or at least part of the reason, was as a means of reusing the production facilities, talent, and resources that were left over in Hawaii after Hawaii Five-O ended. So they would've naturally used a lot of the same locations, personnel, etc.
Speaking of Montalban, I'm surprised this hasn't come up yet. One of the stranger make-up and accent combinations I've seen as he plays a Japanese crime boss in a first season Hawaii Five-O:
A couple of two-fors from "Five-O":
Commander Kor meets Sulu:
Miramanee sits down to breakfast with Harry Mudd:
Mark Leonard was also on 5-0, playing a Japanese sleeper agent. He looked completely ridiculous with the fake epicanthic folds.
Who didn't?
There were a couple of Mission: Impossible episodes where Leonard Nimoy's Paris disguised himself as an Asian with fake epicanthic folds and a fake accent, presumably because he looked "exotic" to casting directors at the time. I could marginally buy it in the one where he was playing a Chinese advisor to a communist movement in a Latin American country, presuming that they hadn't met any actual Chinese people before, but it was ridiculous in the episode where he played a Japanese person in Japan and the Japanese people around him didn't instantly see through his disguise. (Although, to the episode's credit, they were all played by genuine Asian actors.)
Not a literal, leather-wearing dominatrix, mind you....She was playing a rich girl who was using her horse-training experience as a metaphor for molding Dobie into the ideal boyfriend....It was still pretty sexy, with her brandishing a riding crop and all, but in a more subtle, late 50s/early 60s way.
EDIT: Season 1, episode 27, aired in Spring of 1960. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1016940/
LATER EDIT: I just now watched an episode of Adam-12 in which the suspect was defended in court by Phillip (Colonel Green) Pine, while Reed and Malloy were represented by Roger (Captain John Christopher) Perry.
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Hey if it can work for Sean Connery....
James Kirk seemed to think Spock looked Chinese.
Nah. Then we'd get into an argument over whether they were Trek guests on Batman, or Batman guests who did Star Trek.
You know, Cesar Romero would've made an interesting Klingon.
^At least he wouldn't have had to hide his moustache!
LOL I had the exact same thought.
Since it was his trademark (which why it was still there but covered in white face paint on Batman), I bet he'd insist that the makeup department just embellish his own with extra side hair (fu-man-chu style) instead of covering it up entirely.
Well, we may not have gotten the Joker but at least we got the Riddler. And two Catwomen.
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