A list of events which occurred on the 8th of July.
1933: Michael Barrier is born.
Michael G. "Mike" Barrier (born 8 July 1933; age 81) had a very short television and movie acting career that spanned the 1960s. He is noteworthy for having played the same character, DeSalle, several times in Star Trek: The Original Series in the episodes "The Squire of Gothos", "This Side of Paradise", and "Catspaw".
He made an uncredited appearance in the 1965 movie The Satan Bug, alongside Lawrence Montaigne and James Doohan, who were also uncredited. That film also featured John Anderson. Barrier and Doohan had earlier appeared in a 1962 episode of Gunsmoke together. Ed Peck also appeared in that episode. Barrier and Paul Fix guest starred in an episode of Ripcord, a series which starred Paul Comi. Barrier's other credits include The Untouchables (1962, with Paul Baxley), My Favorite Martian (1965, starring Ray Walston and directed by David Alexander), Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1965, with Barbara Bouchet), Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. (1965, with Tige Andrews), Bonanza (1965, with Louise Sorel and directed by Gerd Oswald), Combat! (1966, with David L. Ross), and Mission: Impossible (1966, with William Smithers, Don Marshall, Eddie Paskey, Vic Tayback and Jack Donner). Barrier's final credit was the 1969 film Angel in my Pocket with Andy Griffith and Lee Meriwether.
After leaving the acting profession to enter law school, he became a legal officer for the US Coast Guard in Long Beach, California. As of 2007, he is a substitute teacher in southern Washington.
1943: Connie Faddis is born.
Connie Faddis (born 8 July 1943; age 71) is a Star Trek fanzine author, illustrator and fan costumer, who wrote the short story "Marginal Existence" for the 1978 anthology, The New Voyages 2. She was responsible for providing covers and other artwork for numerous Star Trek and other fanzines in the 1970s and 1980s.
1946: Jay Chattaway is born.
Emmy-winning composer Jay Chattaway (born 8 July 1946; age 68) has written musical scores for numerous episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: Voyager, and Star Trek: Enterprise. The tune which Jean-Luc Picard plays on the Ressikan flute in "The Inner Light" was also composed by him.
He has been nominated for an Emmy Award five times for his work on Star Trek, winning in 2001 for his score for the Star Trek: Voyager series finale, "Endgame". In addition, he won (or shared) eight ASCAP Awards for his music, all in the Top TV Series category. His name appeared on a crew manifest in the Voyager episode "Projections". Some of Chattaway's TNG and DS9 scores were released as part of the Star Trek: The Next Generation Collection, Volume One and the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Collection.
Chattaway was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and was a member of the band "The Astronotes" while attending high school. He received a scholarship to study composition at West Virginia University of Creative Arts and later attended the Eastman School of Music, the Catholic University and the Institute of Audio Research. Chattaway recalls "It taught me how to write fast" about his time in the Navy band in Washington, D.C. during the Vietnam War. (The Official Star Trek: The Next Generation Magazine Vol. 13, p. 32)
In 1976 he moved to Manhattan and became staff producer for CBS Records where he worked with artists such as Carly Simon, David Byrne and Maynard Ferguson. For Ferguson's album "Conquistador", he arranged a jazz version of Alexander Courage's Star Trek theme. Through his collaboration with Gato Barbieri on his album "Caliente", Chattaway was introduced into film scoring. He worked as orchestrator with 85 musicians, the London Philharmonic. In 1979 he and artist Bob James founded Tappan Zee Records but both branched out three years later.
Chattaway composed the music for many well-known action and horror B-movies of the 1980s, including two of the three Missing in Action films, and William Lustig's horrors, including Maniac (1980), Vigilante (1983, co-starring Fred Williamson) and Maniac Cop (1988, with Judy Levitt, Erik Holland and Lee Arnone-Briggs). He also scored the action movies Invasion U.S.A. (1985, with Jon De Vries, Richard Lynch, Stephen Markle, Nick Ramus, and Maria Doest) and Red Scorpion (1989). His work on Red Scorpion gained the attention of the producers of The Next Generation when they've searched for a composer to fill in for a TNG Season 3 episode. With the help of Paramount's head of music, David Grossman, Chattaway was called in.
1947: Kim Darby is born.
Kim Darby (born 8 July 1947; age 66) played the character Miri in the Star Trek: The Original Series episode "Miri" when she was in her late teens in 1966. Her shapeless costume was intended to hide her age (specifically, her bust and adult curves), since she was playing a younger girl.
She began working at age fifteen, and has worked steadily since. Probably her most famous role is Mattie Ross, from the John Wayne film True Grit.
1947: Bill Hickey is born.
William "Bill" J. Hickey (8 July 1947 – 15 June 2011; age 63) was the founder and chief executive of Starfleet Uniforms of Willow Grove, Pennsylvania, a company that manufactured and sold classic series uniform tops. For most of the 1970s, Hickey's pullover Orlon creations were the only quality, mass-produced facsimile reproductions available to fans. Clad in a yellow captain's shirt, flared trousers, and boots, he was a familiar sight at conventions; he can be seen in a photograph taken at a convention in Inside Star Trek: The Real Story. It was through Hickey's company that Bradley Nelson sold many of his strobing phaser pistols.
He appeared as an Enterprise science division crewman in the recreation deck scene of Star Trek: The Motion Picture. As a background actor he received no on-screen credit for his appearance.
After the release of Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Hickey added movie uniform tops to his line of garments; among the first gatherings he sold them at was the Starbase Convention in Baltimore, Maryland.
Hickey died on 15 June 2011.
1958: Katherine Moffat is born.
Katherine Moffat (born 8 July 1958; age 56) is the actress who portrayed the Ktarian Etana Jol in the Star Trek: The Next Generation fifth season episode "The Game" in 1991. She filmed her scenes for this episode on Wednesday 4 September 1991 on Paramount Stage 16 and had her make-up test on Tuesday 3 September 1991. Two years later she appeared as the Bajoran Vaatrik Pallra in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine second season episode "Necessary Evil".
In 1995, she appeared in the pilot episode of Legend co-starring John de Lancie. That episode also featured Stephanie Beacham, Douglas Rowe, and Terry Jackson in front of the camera. Herman F. Zimmerman did production design for the series.
1959: Lori Hallier is born.
Lori Hallier (born 8 July 1959; age 54) is an actress who portrayed Riley Frazier in the Star Trek: Voyager episode "Unity".
1959: Robert Knepper is born.
Robert Lyle "Rob" Knepper (born 8 July 1959; age 54) is the actor who portrayed Wyatt Miller in the Star Trek: The Next Generation first season episode "Haven". Twelve years later he portrayed Gaul in the Star Trek: Voyager episode "Dragon's Teeth".
Knepper, the son of a veterinarian, was born in Fremont, Ohio and raised in Maumee (near Toledo). When he was growing up, his mother worked in the props department for the community theater, and because of her involvement, he became interested in acting. Knepper spent many years working in community theater and high school productions. Later, he studied drama at Northwestern University. He is a resident of Southern California.
Knepper was a regular on the HBO series Carnivàle, which also featured Clancy Brown, John Fleck, and Michael John Anderson.
He appeared as the male protagonist of a segment of the miniseries Red Shoe Diaries, who is pulled over and then seduced by a female police officer played by Denise Crosby. He also appeared in villainous roles in the feature films Hitman (with Timothy Olyphant) and The Transporter 3.
His best-known role is that of the sadistic convict "T-Bag" on the popular drama Prison Break, which featured Wade Williams, Michelle Forbes, and John Billingsley. He was also featured in the George Clooney-directed film Good Night and Good Luck which featured Frank Langella, Ray Wise, Glenn Morshower, and J.D. Cullum.
He was a regular cast member on the NBC drama series Heroes (during the fourth season) as Samuel Sullivan, the leader of a carnival of people with superpowers. Fellow season four stars include Zachary Quinto, Cristine Rose, and Kate Vernon.
More recently he made several guest appearances in the second season of Syfy's science fiction series Stargate Universe alongside series star Justin Louis. He also reprised his role as "T-Bag" Bagwell on the 2011 A&E drama Breakout Kings.
1965: The final draft script of TOS: "Where No Man Has Gone Before" is revised.
1966: Sixth day of filming on TOS: "The Naked Time".
1967: Michael Buchman Silver is born.
Michael Buchman Silver (born 8 July 1967; age 46) is an actor from New York City, who played Vinod in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "Paradise".
He is perhaps best known for his frequent appearances as Assistant District Attorney Leo Cohen on the hit television series NYPD Blue (his co-stars included Gordon Clapp and Sharon Lawrence). He has recurring roles on ER and Beautiful People, and has made guest appearances on Law & Order, Monk (with Jane Carr, Timothy Davis-Reed, D.J. Lockhart-Johnson, Stanley Kamel, and Tom Virtue), and Cold Case (with Colby French and directed by James Whitmore, Jr.).
On CSI he worked with Michael Ensign, and he has a recurring role on CSI: Miami. Many of his episodes contained Trek alumni: Adam Grimes and John Pyper-Ferguson in the third season, Anthony Holiday, Justin Louis, and Mark Rolston in the fourth season, and Cyia Batten and Mark Rolston again during the fifth season.
Silver appeared in The X-Files with Michael McKean, and has also appeared in several motion pictures, most of which also feature other Star Trek alumni. These include 1993's Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday with Steven Culp, 1995's Virtuosity with Louise Fletcher and Danny Goldring, 1996's Eye for an Eye with Armin Shimerman and Natalia Nogulich, 1999's Playing by Heart with the late Kellie Waymire, 2001's I Am Sam with Rosalind Chao and Brent Spiner, and 2003's Seabiscuit with Michael Ensign and Ed Lauter. He also had a role in the hit 2001 comedy Legally Blonde.
He also appeared in the made-for-TV movies The Enemy Within (1994, with Lawrence Pressman), Bloodhounds (1996, starring Corbin Bernsen), and The Big Time (2002, with John de Lancie and Christopher Lloyd.
More recently, he has appeared in a recurring role on the series Day Break along with Jonathan Banks and Jim Beaver.
Silver is the brother of screenwriter and producer Amanda Silver and the grandson of Oscar-winning screenwriter Sidney Buchman. He is a graduate of Brown University and is married to actress Katie Mitchell.
1968: First day of filming on TOS: "Spock's Brain".
1968: Gregory A. Weimerskirch is born.
Gregory A. Weimerskirch (born 8 July 1968; age 45) is an art director who worked as assistant art director on Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek Generations.
Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, he received an Excellence in Production Design Award nomination from the Art Directors Guild in 1999 in the category Television Series for his work on Seven Days.
Early credits include as assistant art director for ILM on the drama Backdraft (1991), as designer on the television special A Walton Thanksgiving Reunion (1993), as art director on the television series Life Goes On, the drama Prefontaine (1997) and on the comedy Dead Man on Campus (1998), as production designer on the short film Toxic Remedy (1997), and as assistant art director on the fantasy comedy Dogma (1999).
Weimerskirch worked in the art department of the science fiction films Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002) and Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005). Further credits as art director include the comedy sequel American Wedding (2003) and the talk show Ellen: The Ellen DeGeneres Show (2003). He also worked as assistant art director on the war drama Flags of Our Fathers (2006) and as set designer on the action thriller Unstoppable (2010, starring Chris Pine).
More recently, Weimerskirch worked as assistant art director on the science fiction film I Am Number Four (2011, with art directors Gary Kosko and John B. Josselyn) and on the crime drama Contraband (2012, with art director Dennis Bradford) and as art director on the romance The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012), the crime drama Jack Reacher (2012), and the drama Promised Land (2012).
1971: Amy O'Neill is born.
Amy O'Neill (born 8 July 1971; age 42) is the actress who appeared as Annette in the Star Trek: The Next Generation third season opener "Evolution". Most of her scenes were cut because of time's sake, but she appeared in a crowd scene at the end of the episode. She did not receive credit for this appearance, nor did her character speak.
O'Neill was an actress in the '80s and early '90s. Her most notable role was Amy Szalinski in the movies Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (1989, with Matt Frewer, Mark L. Taylor, and Cherie Tash) and Honey, I Blew up the Kid (1992, with Ron Canada, Gregory Sierra, Kenneth Tobey, Alex Daniels, and Lynn Salvatori).
She also did some television guest appearances in series such as Night Court (1985, with John Larroquette and William Frankfather), The Twilight Zone (1985, with Joel Polis), Family Ties (1986, with Brian Bonsall), and Murder she wrote (1991, with Bruce Gray, Andreas Katsulas, Stephen Macht, and David Soul).
In 1990 she was nominated for an Young Artist Award for her appearance in Honey, I Shrunk the Kids. O'Neill has three brothers and one sister and is living in Los Angeles where she is part of a circus trio Girls on Stilts.
More recently she appeared as mother/ officer's wife in the 2008 short film The Japanese Sandman. John Fleck also had a part in this film.
1972: The Thirtieth UK Story Arc continues in Valiant & TV21 #41 with the eighth of nine installments.
1973: Gene L. Coon dies.
Eugene Lee Coon (7 January 1924 – 8 July 1973; age 49), commonly known as Gene L. Coon, sometimes credited as Lee Cronin, was a writer and producer for Star Trek: The Original Series. He produced the first season of TOS from "Miri" to "Operation -- Annihilate!" and the second season from "Catspaw" to "Bread and Circuses". During his tenure, the Klingons were introduced, (TOS: "Errand of Mercy") the galactic governing body United Federation of Planets was named, (TOS: "Arena", "A Taste of Armageddon") Starfleet Command was firmly established as the USS Enterprise's operating authority, (TOS: "Court Martial") and the Prime Directive was first articulated. (TOS: "The Return of the Archons")
Coon was invited, by D.C. Fontana, to write for Star Trek: The Animated Series but declined her offer, being uninterested in it. As such, he was one of only a few people who turned down the invite. (Star Trek: The Magazine Volume 1, Issue 16, p. 67)
Besides writing and producing the series, Coon often did uncredited rewrites on the scripts, just like he did in The Wild Wild West. (The Star Trek Compendium) He was also known for his ability to write scripts in a very short time. For example, Coon wrote "The Devil in the Dark" over the course of four days. (The World of Star Trek)
Coon was a United States Marine Corps veteran who served during World War II (from 21 August 1942 to 23 August 1946), then joined the Marine Corps Reserves in 1948 before being called back into active duty in 1950 for service in Korea, serving from 21 June 1950 to 25 August 1952.
Coon wrote two novels, Meanwhile, Back At The Front and The Short End, both of which dealt with the Korean War conflict. Soon after, Coon began writing for the movie and television screen. In 1957 he wrote two films for Universal Pictures, The Girl in the Kremlin and Man in the Shadow. Both films featured William Schallert in the cast, while the latter co-starred Orson Welles and also featured Paul Fix. He also wrote the script for the 1964 film The Killers (featuring Seymour Cassel) - best known for being Ronald Reagan's final acting role before entering politics.
Coon began to write for television in the late 1950s. Among his many contributions, he wrote two episodes of Zorro, both of them featuring Ken Lynch, an episode of My Favorite Martian (starring Ray Walston), and an episode of Have Gun - Will Travel, on which Gene Roddenberry served as one of the leading writers. He also wrote an episode of Bonanza which featured Leonard Nimoy and another episode which featured Michael Forest and Anthony Caruso.
Following his tenure on Star Trek, Coon produced the series It Takes a Thief, which co-starred Malachi Throne. He also wrote an episode of The Sixth Sense featuring William Shatner, and two episodes of the Harve Bennett-produced The Mod Squad, starring Tige Andrews and Clarence Williams III, and directed by Lawrence Dobkin. With Gene Roddenberry, Coon wrote The Questor Tapes, an unsold 1974 pilot which was directed by Richard Colla and featured Majel Barrett and Walter Koenig; Robert Foxworth played the title character. Data, the android from Star Trek: The Next Generation was based on Questor. Coon died before the project was completed, and D.C. Fontana's novelization of the pilot is dedicated to his memory.
Coon divorced his first wife, Joy, in 1968, and married his teenage love, model-actress Jacqueline Mitchell. Joy died one year later of cancer, and refused to allow her ex-husband to visit her in the hospital. Coon was shattered by the event. (Inside Star Trek: The Real Story, pp. 347-349, 428)
Coon died of lung cancer in 1973, only a week after being diagnosed. He visited Robert Justman's office one day, wearing a portable oxygen tank and mask, gasping and coughing. Justman urged him to go in for medical tests, despite the fact that Coon said his breathing difficulties stemmed from the "Goddamned LA smog." (Inside Star Trek: The Real Story, pp. 428-429)
1974: Gene Lyons dies.
Gene Lyons (9 February 1921 – 8 July 1974; age 53) appeared in almost seventy television guest spots beginning in 1950, and continuing almost to his death. He also appeared in small parts in a number of movies. Fans of the police drama Ironside will remember him as the police commissioner.
He appeared in TOS: "A Taste of Armageddon" as Robert Fox.
1987: Third of filming on TNG: "The Naked Now".
1991: Final draft script for TNG: "Darmok" is submitted.
First day of filming on TNG: "Redemption II".
1993: Second day of filming on DS9: "The Homecoming".
1994: Final draft script for DS9: "The Search, Part I" is submitted.
1996: CIC Video releases The Original Series volumes 1.2 & 1.3,
Deep Space Nine volume 4.7 and Voyager volume 2.6 on VHS in the UK.
1997: First day of filming of DS9: "A Time to Stand".
Seventh and last day of filming on VOY: "Day of Honor".
1998: Second day of filming on DS9: "Image in the Sand".
Fourth day of filming on VOY: "In the Flesh".
1999: Sixth day of filming on VOY: "Barge of the Dead".
2002: Seventh day of filming on ENT: "Carbon Creek".
2003: Eighth day of filming on ENT: "The Xindi".
2007: Jack B. Sowards dies.
Jack B. Sowards (18 March 1929 – 8 July 2007; age 78) was an American screenwriter who co-wrote the story and screenplay for Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. He later wrote the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Where Silence Has Lease".
Hailing from Texarkana, Arkansas, Sowards enlisted in the US Army following high school and participated in the Berlin Airlift during Soviet Russia's blockade of Berlin, Germany, in 1949. He later enlisted in the Navy and, three years after that, he began serving in the Air Force as a chief mechanic on F-86 fighter jets.
Following his years of military service, his exploits as field worker took him to Hollywood, where he worked as a furniture mover and photographer. Through his friendship with actor Dennis Hopper, Sowards won the role of Iago in a stage production of William Shakespeare's Othello opposite Hopper and Michael Forest, for which he won rave reviews. Shortly thereafter, Hollywood producer/writer/director Burt Topper cast Sowards in the films Hell Squad (1958) and Tank Commandos (1959). It was during this time that Sowards decided to become a Hollywood writer.
Sowards wrote primarily for television. In 1972, Sowards received a Writers Guild of America (WGA) Award nomination (shared with story writer Brett Huggins) for a 1971 episode of the television series The Bold Ones: The Lawyers entitled "The Invasion of Kevin Ireland". Among his other credits are eleven episodes of the classic NBC western series Bonanza (including "A Matter of Faith", which he wrote from a story by D.C. Fontana, and "Easy Come, Easy Go", directed by Joseph Pevney, and many directed by Herschel Daugherty), several episodes of NBC's The High Chaparral (starring Henry Darrow), and two episodes of Barnaby Jones (a CBS series starring Lee Meriwether).
Sowards was also a writer and story editor on the series The Streets of San Francisco, Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer, and B.L. Stryker. Among his other writing credits is an episode William Shatner's series T.J. Hooker entitled "A Child Is Missing" which featured series regular James Darren, recurring player Richard Herd, and High Chaparral star (and Star Trek: Voyager guest star) Henry Darrow.
In addition to his work on episodic television, Sowards also wrote a number of made-for-TV movies. Among these is the 1974 ABC Movies of the Week Cry Panic, directed by James Goldstone and featuring Jason Wingreen, and Death Cruise, directed by Ralph Senensky and starring Edward Laurence Albert.
In late 1980, the executive producer of the second Star Trek film, Harve Bennett, hired Sowards – a self-confessed Star Trek fan – to turn Bennett's story outline into a script. Sowards had only a few months to complete his script before a writers' strike was called in April of 1981; he had a first draft completed by late February (followed by an updated draft delivered in early April).
It was Sowards' draft which convinced actor Leonard Nimoy to resume his role of Spock. Although Bennett's outline made no mention of Spock since Nimoy had already expressed disinterest in the project, Sowards persuaded Nimoy to sign on by having Spock die in the script. Although the final screenplay was a compilation of elements from various drafts as written by director Nicholas Meyer, much of Sowards contributions were retained in the final project, and indeed, he received sole screenwriting credit in the film.
Having been retired from screenwriting since the early 1990s, Sowards died in Valley Village, California from complications of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as Lou Gehrig's Disease. He was 78 years old.
Sowards has earned two award nominations for his writing for The Wrath of Khan, his first and only feature film credit. In 1983 a Hugo Award nomination in the category Best Dramatic Presentation, shared with Nicholas Meyer, Harve Bennett, and Samuel A. Peeples and in the same year a Saturn Award nomination in the category Best Writing (sole nominee).
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A Day in the History of Star Trek
by Storm Windfall » Wed Jul 09, 2014 12:38 pm
A list of events which occurred on the 9th of July.
1935: Robert Sabaroff is born.
Robert Sabaroff (9 July 1935 – 19 September 2007; age 72) was a television writer who wrote the original Star Trek series episode "The Immunity Syndrome". He later co-wrote the story (with Karl Guers and Ralph Sanchez) and wrote the teleplay for the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Home Soil" and wrote the story for TNG's "Conspiracy".
Sabaroff co-created the MGM series Then Came Bronson, which ran on NBC for one season from 1969 through 1970. The series was produced by former Star Trek producers Robert Justman and Herb Solow. In addition, he wrote for such television shows as Death Valley Days, The Virginian, Bonanza, The High Chaparral, The Invaders, and The Equalizer. He also wrote the screenplay for the 1968 MGM film The Split (which featured an appearance by Barry Russo).
Sabaroff died of leukemia on 19 September 2007 at the age of 72.
1952: John Tesh is born.
John Frank Tesh (born 9 July 1952; age 61) is a musician and former entertainment-news anchor who portrayed a holographic Klingon in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "The Icarus Factor". He received no on-screen credit for his cameo appearance.
As a child, the original Star Trek was the only television show Tesh was allowed to watch, and he became a huge fan of the series.
In the summer of 1987, a segment of Entertainment Tonight featured a behind-the-scenes look at the upcoming Star Trek: The Next Generation series, in which Tesh visited the sets, in the midst of filming "Code of Honor". A special segment on his show Entertainment Tonight featured a behind the scenes look at his experiences in make-up and the filming of "The Icarus Factor". In addition, Tesh was interviewed on 21 August 1991 which was published in the TNG Season 2 DVD special feature "Departmental Briefing Year Two: Memorable Missions" ("The Icarus Factor"). This special also included behind the scenes footage from his days on set and Tesh told he was 2½ hours in makeup for his role. The Star Trek: Deep Space Nine comic "Stowaway" featured a Starfleet character called Captain Johnson, for which Tesh's likeness was used.
Other acting roles include an unnamed news anchor in Shocker also 1989 with Tesh again working with Brent Spiner as well as Dendrie Taylor. In 1991, Tesh lent his voice to the cartoon series Bobby's World starring Frank Welker in "Clubhouse Bobby" with Miriam Flynn and Kenneth Mars.
Tesh appeared in a cameo role as himself in his Entertainment Tonight capacity in the 1992 box office hit The Bodyguard with Bill Cobbs, Bert Remsen and Mike Starr.
In 1993, Tesh satirized himself as John Teshadactyl in The Flintstones film Holly-Rock-a-Bye-Baby rejoining Frank Welker in addition to Michael Bell and Charlie Brill.
1955: Lisa Banes is born.
Lisa Banes (born 9 July 1955; age 58) is an actress who played Dr. Renhol in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine "Equilibrium".
She has made guest appearances in many other popular television shows, including "Spenser: For Hire" (starring Avery Brooks), "Murder, She Wrote", "Frasier" (starring Kelsey Grammer) and "Six Feet Under."
Her motion picture credits include Young Guns (1988), Without Limits (1998), Pumpkin (2002) and Dragonfly (2002). Other Star Trek stars to appear in that movie include Susanna Thompson, Casey Biggs and Leslie Hope.
1957: Brian Fitzpatrick is born.
Brian Fitzpatrick (born 9 July 1957; age 57) is the actor who played the Kyrian leader Tedran in the Star Trek: Voyager episode "Living Witness".
He was born as Brian Thomas Fitzpatrick in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania and is divorced from actress Sandra Guibord. Fitzpatrick played the recurring roles of Mitchell "Mitch" Beck in All My Children (1987-1988), Rick Stewart Alden in Loving (1990), Dr. Kenneth Collins in The Young and the Restless (1994-1996), Roscoe in General Hospital (2002), and a Casino Manager in The Bold and the Beautiful (2001-2004).
Fitzpatrick has also played in television series such as One West Waikiki (1995, with Cindy Katz), The Sentinel (1997), Night Man (1997, with Derek Webster, Felecia M. Bell, and David Bowe), V.I.P. (2000, with Eileen Weisinger), American Dreams (2003, with Ethan Dampf and Alicia Coppola), Navy NCIS (2005, with Michael Reilly Burke), and Standoff (2006).
He performed in the films Basket Case 2 (1990, with Ted Sorel and Matt Malloy), The Darwin Conspiracy (1999, with Kevin Tighe, Tom Virtue, and Art Chudabala), and My Femme Lady (2002).
1965: The final draft script of TOS: "Where No Man Has Gone Before" is revised.
1966: Pamela Segall is born.
Pamela Segall (born 9 July 1966; age 47) is an American actress and Emmy Award-winning voice actress who played Oji in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Who Watches The Watchers". Born in New York City, Segall married Felix Adlon in the 1990s. She took on her husband's last name and has since been known as Pamela Adlon, Pamela Segall Adlon, or Pamela S. Adlon.
As a voice actress, she is perhaps best known for voicing Bobby Hill on the FOX animated series King of the Hill. She is also known for her supporting roles in such films as Say Anything... (1989) and Sgt. Bilko (1996) and for her roles on such television shows as The Facts of Life and Lucky Louie. She is currently a regular cast member on the Showtime series Californication.
Segall's first acting role was in the 1982 musical Grease 2, in which she played Dolores Rebchuck, one of The Pink Ladies. Her fellow Next Generation guest star, Christopher McDonald, also played a supporting role in this film. The following year, Segall and another TNG guest star, Stefan Gierasch, were standbys on the original Broadway production of Brighton Beach Memoirs.
During the 1983-1984 television season, Segall played the recurring role of Kelly Afinado on the NBC comedy series, The Facts of Life. During her time on this show, she worked with fellow Star Trek alumni Loren Lester, William Windom, and Ian Wolfe. Segall then became a regular on the short-lived CBS comedy E/R, which also starred Jason Alexander.
In 1986, Segall and Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country's Rosanna DeSoto were regulars on The Redd Fox Show, which aired for one season on ABC. Both Segall and DeSoto were dropped from the show within the first eight episodes, but the show was canceled after just five more episodes.
Segall starred in the 1986 fantasy comedy film Willy/Milly, playing a girl whose wish to become a boy comes true. John Glover and JD Cullum co-starred in this movie. Segall later co-starred in the popular 1989 comedy film Say Anything..., which also featured Bebe Neuwirth. That same year, Segall made several appearances on the crime drama series Wiseguy, working with Jonathan Banks, Ken Jenkins, Ron Taylor, and Paul Winfield.
In 1992, Segall was a regular on the FOX television series Down the Shore. She later starred with Christian Slater in the 1996 film Bed of Roses, which also featured Nick Tate. That same year, Segall was seen in the comedy film Sgt. Bilko as Sgt. Raquel Barbella. Clifton Collins, Jr. and Richard Herd appeared in this film, as well. Segall's subsequent film credits include Breast Men (with Louise Fletcher, Terry O'Quinn, and Heidi Swedberg), Eat Your Heart Out (with John Billingsley, Richard Fancy, and Stanley Kamel), and Lucky 13.
Although Segall has been primarily doing voice-overs since the 1990s, she has recently started to again appear on live-action television shows. In 2006, she starred with comedian Louis C.K. on the HBO series Lucky Louie. She later had a recurring role as an attorney on the ABC drama series Boston Legal, which starred William Shatner and, at the time, John Larroquette. She is currently starring as Marcy Runkle on the successful Showtime series Californication.
Segall's first voice-over role was a fairy in the 1992 film FernGully: The Last Rainforest. Her Bed of Roses co-star (and fellow Star Trek performer) Christian Slater also voiced a character in this film, as did Geoffrey Blake and actor and comedian Robin Williams. Segall's first regular TV voice-over work was on the animated series Phantom 2040, in which she played Daniel "Sparks" Aguilar. Many other Trek alumni provided voices on this series, including Paddi Edwards, Alan Oppenheimer, Ron Perlman, and Paul Williams.
Segall was the voice of Baloo the Bear on the Disney animated series Jungle Cubs, while Jason Marsden voiced Prince Louie the Ape and Shere Khan and David L. Lander and Michael McKean voiced Arthur and Cecil, a pair of vultures. Segall also voiced Dewey (of Huey, Dewey, and Louie) on Disney's Quack Pack and Lucky on Disney's 101 Dalmatians: The Series. David Lander and Michael McKean voiced characters on the latter series, as well.
In 1997, Segall began voicing the role of Bobby Hill, the son of Hank and Peggy Hill, on the FOX primetime animated series King of the Hill. She continued voicing the role until the series ended in 2009 after thirteen seasons. Segall also voiced several other characters on the show, including Clark Peters, Bobby's high school bully. In 2002, Segall won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Voice-Over Performance for her portrayal of Bobby, Clark, and Chane Wasonasong in the King of the Hill episode "Bobby Goes Nuts". Segall's fellow TNG guest star, Stephen Root, also provided voice-overs for the show, primarily as neighbor Bill Dauterive.
Segall's collaboration with Disney has continued over the years. For four years (1997-2001), she played Ashley Spinelli on Disney's TV series Recess. She even voiced the role in the 2001 film Recess: School's Out, which also featured the voices of Diedrich Bader, Clancy Brown, Ron Glass, Tony Jay, Clyde Kusatsu, Andrea Martin, and Paul Willson. Segall then voiced the characters of Tyler, Taylor, and Trevor on Disney's 2000-2002 Teacher's Pet and in the 2004 film of the same name. Both the series and the movie featured the voices of Wallace Shawn and David Ogden Stiers, while Kelsey Grammer had a role in the film.
From 2001 through 2002, Segall was the voice of Milo Oblong on the adult-oriented animated series The Oblongs. Other characters Segall voiced on this show include Jared Kliner, a bully who likes to taunt Milo, and The Debbies, a popular clique of identical-looking teenage girls. Segall also voiced Hector MacBadger on the PBS series Jakers! The Adventures of Piggley Winks, Andy Johnson on Cartoon Network's short-lived Squirrel Boy (with Kurtwood Smith), and various characters in Adult Swim's The Drinky Crow Show. She can also be heard as Vidia in the recent Tinker Bell movies, further expanding her work with Disney.
1968: Second day of filming on TOS: "Spock's Brain".
1971: Scott Grimes is born.
Scott Christopher Grimes (born 9 July 1971; age 43) is an actor and musician who appeared as Eric in "Evolution", the third season opener of Star Trek: The Next Generation. His role originally had dialogue, but the two scenes in which he spoke were removed from the final aired version. He neither spoke in the aired version, nor did he receive credit for his role. Grimes is best-known for being a series regular on the television dramas Party of Five and ER and for voicing Steve Smith on Seth MacFarlane's American Dad!
Grimes was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, and was raised in adjacent Dracut. He is the uncle of Daytime Emmy Award-winning soap opera actress Camryn Grimes. Scott's sister, Heather, is also an actress. He married Dawn Bailey in 1997 and they had two children together, but they divorced in 2007.
Besides acting, Grimes is a professional singer and songwriter. He released a self-titled pop album in 1989 and released a second album, Livin' on the Run, in 2005. A song from this latter album, entitled "Sunset Blvd.", became a Top 20 hit in Billboard magazine's adult contemporary charts. He also performed songs for the series ER, on which he was a regular.
Grimes began acting in 1984, appearing in three made-for-television movies in that year. Among these was The Night They Saved Christmas, which also featured Albert Hall, Anne Haney, Paul Williams, and R.J. Williams. The following year, he appeared in a segment of The Twilight Zone with Nicolas Surovy.
Grimes starred in the hit 1986 horror film Critters and its 1988 sequel, Critters 2: The Main Course; future Star Trek: Voyager performer Ethan Phillips co-starred with Grimes in the first film, while fellow TNG guest performers Sam Anderson and Herta Ware appeared in the second. In addition, Grimes voiced Pinocchio in the Hal Sutherland-directed 1987 Filmation production Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night, which also featured the voices of Frank Welker and William Windom.
In 1986, Grimes made the first of two appearances as Chad McCann on the hit comedy series Who's the Boss?; he returned to the show the following year. Also during the 1986-1987 television season, Grimes was a regular on the short-lived CBS comedy series Together We Stand. In 1987, Grimes again worked with Paul Williams in the TV movie Frog. Grimes reprised his role from this movie for 1991's Frogs!, which featured Paul Dooley.
In 1988, Grimes appeared in the TV special Bring Me the Head of Dobie Gillis with William Schallert. He guest-starred on the sitcom Charles in Charge that same year, and was subsequently seen on the television shows 21 Jump Street and Wings. Steven Weber was a regular on the latter series. Grimes then worked with John Savage in the pilot episode of the short-lived series Birdland.
In 1994, Grimes began starring as Will McCorkle on the hit FOX television series Party of Five. He left this series in 1996 to become a regular on the UPN series Goode Behavior, although he continued making recurring appearances on Party of Five. Good Behavior ended in 1997, lasting only one season, and in 1999, Grimes returned to Party of Five as a regular for the show's sixth and final season.
After Party of Five ended, Grimes starred as TSgt. Donald Malarkey in the acclaimed HBO mini-series Band of Brothers, which also featured David Andrews, Neal McDonough, and Simon Pegg. Grimes also appeared on the short-lived NBC drama First Years... with Dakin Matthews. In 2002, he worked with Cress Williams in a sitcom pilot for ABC entitled Couples, but it was not picked up by the network. The project was directed by Marc Buckland, who, like Grimes, made a brief acting appearance on Star Trek: The Next Generation.
In addition to his television work, Grimes has acted in such major feature films as Crimson Tide (1995), Mystery, Alaska (1999, co-starring Colm Meaney and Michael McKean), and 2010's Robin Hood, in which he played Will Scarlet (a role previously played by Christian Slater in the 1991 film Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves). Grimes also acted with George Murdock in the 2006 direct-to-video release To Kill a Mockumentary and starred in the 2007 independent film Throwing Stars.
From 2003 through 2009, Grimes portrayed Dr. Archie Morris on the long-running NBC series ER. He joined the series as a recurring player and became a series regular in 2005, remaining with the show until it ended. Currently, Grimes voices teenager Steve Smith (who happens to be a Trekkie) on Seth MacFarlane's animated FOX series, American Dad! McFarlane voices Steve's father, Stan, while Star Trek: Voyager guest actress Wendy Schaal voices his mother, Francine. TNG star Patrick Stewart has a recurring role on the show as Stan Smith's boss, CIA Director Bullock.
1973: Enrique Murciano is born.
Enrique Murciano (born 9 July 1973; age 40) is an actor of Cuban descent who played Tolaris, a Vulcan crewmember aboard a civilian transport ship Vahklas who becomes involved with T'Pol, in the Star Trek: Enterprise episode "Fusion". However, he is probably best known for his role as Special Agent Danny Taylor on the CBS television series Without a Trace from 2002 through 2009.
Born in Miami, Florida, Murciano attended the prestigious Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana. He originally studied to become a lawyer, going so far as to attend law school in Boston, Massachusetts, but ultimately decided to pursue an acting career. To this end, he moved to Los Angeles, California, acquiring a role in the 1997 action film Speed 2: Cruise Control.
After making guest appearances on Suddenly Susan and The Pretender in 1999 and appearing in the Oscar-winning film Traffic in 2000, Murciano had a supporting role as Sgt. Lorenzo Ruiz in Ridley Scott's acclaimed war drama Black Hawk Down, opposite Eric Bana (Nero in Star Trek), Tom Hardy (Shinzon in Star Trek Nemesis) and frequent Star Trek guest actor Glenn Morshower. It was while working on this film that Murciano met producer Jerry Bruckheimer, who went on to produce Without a Trace, bringing Murciano on board as a regular cast member.
Murciano was next seen on the big screen as the male lead in the 2005 comedy Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Dangerous, which co-starred William Shatner and Diedrich Bader. He also had a supporting role in the 2005 drama The Lost City and co-starred with Jason Alexander and Ron Perlman in 2006's How to Go Out on a Date in Queens.
Besides acting, Murciano also executive produced the made-for-TV youth drama A Separate Place, sharing a Daytime Emmy Nomination in 2005 for Outstanding Children/Youth/Family Special. Murciano has also been nominated for a Screen Actors Guild award and an ALMA Award for his role on Without a Trace.
Murciano worked with many veteran Star Trek performers during his time on Without a Trace, including Kirstie Alley, Casey Biggs, Rosalind Chao, Bruce Davison, Roxann Dawson, Rosemary Forsyth, John de Lancie, Michael Dorn, Gregory Itzin, Natalia Nogulich, Lawrence Pressman, Andrew Robinson, Tim Russ, Marina Sirtis, Susanna Thompson, Tony Todd, Connor Trinneer, and Anton Yelchin.
1978: Linda Park is born.
Actress Linda Park (born 9 July 1978; age 35) portrayed communications officer Ensign Hoshi Sato on Star Trek: Enterprise. Born in Seoul, South Korea, she moved with her parents to San Jose, California when she was one year old.
Park had her first stage appearance when she was a child as Princess Rhyme in the show The Phantom Tollbooth in the community theater. By her high school years, she was already a professional actress, with her first paid performance being in Tom Stoppard's play Arcadia. She studied for four years at Boston University, where she earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts and continued her involvement in the theater.
After graduation, she spent some time in New York, and later went to Hollywood. There she applied for roles in Rush Hour 2 and Jurassic Park III (both released in 2001), ultimately winning a supporting role in the latter film – the first time she set foot on a big Hollywood set. Frequent Star Trek guest actor Bruce French also made an appearance in the film.
Park subsequently made a guest appearance on the television series Popular at the same time her future Enterprise castmate Anthony Montgomery was working on the show, and the two appeared in the same episode. Shortly thereafter, Park received a phone call inviting her to read for the part of Hoshi Sato on Enterprise.
At the first reading for the role of Hoshi Sato, Park faced many Asian actresses who also wanted the role, but she was called back to read again. The producers then decided to hold a screen test and eventually gave her the part. She went on to play the role throughout all four seasons, from 2001 until its cancellation in 2005.
In 2004, while Enterprise was still in production, Park took time off from playing Sato to co-star with Next Generation actress Marina Sirtis and Enterprise guest actor Tucker Smallwood in the science fiction thriller Spectres. She went on to co-star with Sirtis in the Enterprise series finale "These Are the Voyages...", in which Sirtis played her familiar role of Deanna Troi.
Park's other credits include the little-known films Geldersma (2004) and Honor (2005). She also made a brief appearance in the 2002 made-for-TV movie Taken (not to be confused with the mini-series of the same name) and, in 2003, she produced and starred in the short film My Prince, My Angel.
Park has remained active in theater since the cancellation of Enterprise. She recently earned high praise for her performance as Clytemnestra in a production of the play Agamemnon, which ran in New York City in October and November of 2005. She also remains an active student of dance, studying ballet and other dance forms.
She recently starred as police officer Sally Lance on the short-lived NBC series Raines. The series premiered mid-season, March 2007, and concluded the following month. She most recently starred in the ABC police drama Women's Murder Club. Although this series premiered 12 October 2007, Park did not make her first appearance on the show until the next episode, airing 19 October. The series concluded its first and only season on 13 May 2008, with an episode guest-starring Park's former Enterprise co-star John Billingsley.
Park has a role in the 2009 horror/comedy film Infestation, along with Ray Wise. She also guest-starred in the 25 March 2009 episode of NBC's Life, which was followed by a brief appearance in the 19 May 2009 episode of NBC's Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (along with Alan Dale). Park recently starred as Maggie Cheon in the second season of the Starz! Network series Crash, based on the acclaimed 2004 film which featured the aforementioned Marina Sirtis.
At one time, Park was dating actor Tom Hardy, who played Shinzon in Star Trek Nemesis. They lived together in South London, England, and were even going to form their own theater company. She also starred with Hardy in a two-day London production of Brett C. Leonard's play, Roger & Vanessa, which Park co-produced. However, Park and Hardy broke off their relationship soon after, and she is now residing in Los Angeles, California.
Over the Christmas holidays in 2013 Park got engaged to Daniel Bess.
1980: Christopher Jewett is born.
Christopher Jewett (born 9 July 1980; age 33) is an actor who portrayed an ensign in the Star Trek: Enterprise episode "Bound". He was listed as Crewman #1 in the end credits of the episode.
Jewett was born in Providence, Rhode Island and made his on-screen debut as Brackett in the 1999 comedy Outside Providence. The following year he portrayed Drake Harmon in the drama The Gypsy Years and continued with a supporting role as a director in the Hope & Faith episode Car Commercial (2003) and as Bing's assistant in the 2004 drama High Art, Low Life.
1980: Megan Parlen is born.
Megan Parlen (born 9 July 1980; age 34) is the actress who portrayed the young Ro Laren in the Star Trek: The Next Generation sixth season episode "Rascals" in 1992.
Born as Megan Sloan Parlen in Los Angeles, California, she started her acting career at the age of three when she appeared in a television commercial for milk. She is probably best known for her role as Mary-Beth Pepperton in the comedy series Hang Time on which she worked between 1995 and 2001. For this role she won a Young Star Award in the category Best Performance by a Young Actress in a Saturday Morning TV Program in 1997 and two nominations in the same category in 1998 and 1999. Following the ending of Hang Time, Parlen attended the college and earned her Masters Degree in Broadcast Journalism from the USC Anneberg.
Beside her work on Hang Time and Star Trek, Parlen was featured in the comedy Walk Like a Man (1987, with Christopher Lloyd, Earl Boen, and Ellen Albertini Dow), the television drama Sisters (1990, with Daphne Ashbrook, David Bowe, Robert Beltran, and Gary Werntz), the western drama My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys (1991, with Clarence Williams III), the animated short film Snoopy's Reunion (1991), and the television drama Dad, the Angel & Me (1995, with Jane Carr, Paul Collins and Edward Penn).
Parlen also appeared on several television series including episodes of Hardball (1989, with Harvey Jason, Marcelo Tubert and Valerie Wildman and directed by Larry Shaw), L.A. Law (1990, with Corbin Bernsen, Larry Drake, Nicolas Surovy, Craig Wasson, Jennifer Hetrick, Maryann Plunkett, Diana Muldaur, and Warren Munson), Boy Meets World (1993, with Katie Jane Johnston), Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman (1994, with Teri Hatcher, Tracy Scoggins, K Callan, Brian George, Claudette Nevins, and Bradley Pierce), Saved by the Bell: The New Class (1996, with Richard Lee Jackson and Gregg Daniel), and Something So Right (1997).
While studying on the college, Parlen worked as voice actress and lent her voice to the video games Elysium (2003, with Cam Clarke, Michael Gough, and Kevin Michael Richardson), Gladius (2003, with Jason Marsden, Charles Dennis, Grey DeLisle, Robin Atkin Downes, Keith Szarabajka, and Keone Young), Underground (2003, with Larry Cedar, Matt Levin, and Larc Spies), and Nicktoons Movin' Eye Toy (2004).
Following her graduation, she has been working as documentary producer. Her credits include This Film Is Not Yet Rated (2006), Young Scientist Challenge (2009), episodes of Popular Science's Future of (2009), National Geographic Explorer (2010), and Morgan Freeman's Through the Wormhole (2010-2011), and the television documentary Vanished from Alcatraz (2011).
1983: Robert Dawn dies.
Robert Dawn (22 October 1921 – 9 July 1983; age 61) was a makeup artist who worked on "Where No Man Has Gone Before", the second pilot of Star Trek: The Original Series. He was the son of Jack Dawn, most notable for creating the make-ups for many classic studio era films, such as The Wizard of Oz (1939, featuring Billy Curtis), Ninotchka (1939) and Meet Me in St. Louis (1944). Also, Dawn was the brother of Wes Dawn and the father of Jeff Dawn, whom both worked as makeup artists on Star Trek feature films.
During his thirty-year career as a make-up artist, Dawn worked mostly on television projects, including series such as Thriller, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Wagon Train and Mission: Impossible. However, he also worked on a few feature films, including Hitchcock's Marnie (1964, featuring Meg Wyllie).
1987: Fourth day of filming on TNG: "The Naked Now".
1990: Final draft script for TNG: "Suddenly Human" is submitted.
1991: Second day of filming on TNG: "Redemption II".
1993: Third day of filming on DS9: "The Homecoming".
1996: Melvin Belli dies.
Melvin Mouron Belli (29 July 1907 – 9 July 1996; age 88) is most famous as a criminal defense and personal injury lawyer, not an actor, but additionally played the role of "Gorgan" in TOS: "And the Children Shall Lead". Among his many legal accomplishments are the defense of Jack Ruby, the man who murdered Lee Harvey Oswald, and numerous refinements to personal injury litigation, including "day in the life" films designed to graphically demonstrate the impact of injuries on their victims. He was also the defense attorney of Mick Jagger and The Rolling Stones.
In 1954, his accomplishments led Life magazine to dub him the "King of Torts." Walter Koenig objected to his playing the role of "Gorgan", believing the role should have gone to someone in the acting business. (Captains' Logs: The Unauthorized Complete Trek Voyages) Fred Freiberger said of Belli, "He wasn't the greatest actor in the world, but was very cooperative [....] He was fun to work with." (The Star Trek Interview Book, p. 164) He was the father of Caesar Belli, who played Steve O'Connel in the same episode.
He had a peripheral role in the investigation of the "Zodiac" killings, which took place in the San Francisco area between 1969 and 1973, and was portrayed by Brian Cox in David Fincher's 2007 film Zodiac, which dramatized those events. The film includes a reference to Belli's guest role in Star Trek.
He died in 1996 of complications due to pancreatic cancer.
1997: Second day of filming on DS9: "A Time to Stand".
First day of filming on VOY: "Revulsion".
1998: Third day of filming on DS9: "Image in the Sand".
Fifth day of filming on VOY: "In the Flesh".
1999: Seventh day of filming on VOY: "Barge of the Dead".
2001: Second day of filming on ENT: "Fight or Flight".
2002: Eighth and final day of filming on ENT: "Carbon Creek".
2003: Ninth (and last) day of filming on ENT: "The Xindi".
1935: Robert Sabaroff is born.
Robert Sabaroff (9 July 1935 – 19 September 2007; age 72) was a television writer who wrote the original Star Trek series episode "The Immunity Syndrome". He later co-wrote the story (with Karl Guers and Ralph Sanchez) and wrote the teleplay for the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Home Soil" and wrote the story for TNG's "Conspiracy".
Sabaroff co-created the MGM series Then Came Bronson, which ran on NBC for one season from 1969 through 1970. The series was produced by former Star Trek producers Robert Justman and Herb Solow. In addition, he wrote for such television shows as Death Valley Days, The Virginian, Bonanza, The High Chaparral, The Invaders, and The Equalizer. He also wrote the screenplay for the 1968 MGM film The Split (which featured an appearance by Barry Russo).
Sabaroff died of leukemia on 19 September 2007 at the age of 72.
1952: John Tesh is born.
John Frank Tesh (born 9 July 1952; age 61) is a musician and former entertainment-news anchor who portrayed a holographic Klingon in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "The Icarus Factor". He received no on-screen credit for his cameo appearance.
As a child, the original Star Trek was the only television show Tesh was allowed to watch, and he became a huge fan of the series.
In the summer of 1987, a segment of Entertainment Tonight featured a behind-the-scenes look at the upcoming Star Trek: The Next Generation series, in which Tesh visited the sets, in the midst of filming "Code of Honor". A special segment on his show Entertainment Tonight featured a behind the scenes look at his experiences in make-up and the filming of "The Icarus Factor". In addition, Tesh was interviewed on 21 August 1991 which was published in the TNG Season 2 DVD special feature "Departmental Briefing Year Two: Memorable Missions" ("The Icarus Factor"). This special also included behind the scenes footage from his days on set and Tesh told he was 2½ hours in makeup for his role. The Star Trek: Deep Space Nine comic "Stowaway" featured a Starfleet character called Captain Johnson, for which Tesh's likeness was used.
Other acting roles include an unnamed news anchor in Shocker also 1989 with Tesh again working with Brent Spiner as well as Dendrie Taylor. In 1991, Tesh lent his voice to the cartoon series Bobby's World starring Frank Welker in "Clubhouse Bobby" with Miriam Flynn and Kenneth Mars.
Tesh appeared in a cameo role as himself in his Entertainment Tonight capacity in the 1992 box office hit The Bodyguard with Bill Cobbs, Bert Remsen and Mike Starr.
In 1993, Tesh satirized himself as John Teshadactyl in The Flintstones film Holly-Rock-a-Bye-Baby rejoining Frank Welker in addition to Michael Bell and Charlie Brill.
1955: Lisa Banes is born.
Lisa Banes (born 9 July 1955; age 58) is an actress who played Dr. Renhol in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine "Equilibrium".
She has made guest appearances in many other popular television shows, including "Spenser: For Hire" (starring Avery Brooks), "Murder, She Wrote", "Frasier" (starring Kelsey Grammer) and "Six Feet Under."
Her motion picture credits include Young Guns (1988), Without Limits (1998), Pumpkin (2002) and Dragonfly (2002). Other Star Trek stars to appear in that movie include Susanna Thompson, Casey Biggs and Leslie Hope.
1957: Brian Fitzpatrick is born.
Brian Fitzpatrick (born 9 July 1957; age 57) is the actor who played the Kyrian leader Tedran in the Star Trek: Voyager episode "Living Witness".
He was born as Brian Thomas Fitzpatrick in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania and is divorced from actress Sandra Guibord. Fitzpatrick played the recurring roles of Mitchell "Mitch" Beck in All My Children (1987-1988), Rick Stewart Alden in Loving (1990), Dr. Kenneth Collins in The Young and the Restless (1994-1996), Roscoe in General Hospital (2002), and a Casino Manager in The Bold and the Beautiful (2001-2004).
Fitzpatrick has also played in television series such as One West Waikiki (1995, with Cindy Katz), The Sentinel (1997), Night Man (1997, with Derek Webster, Felecia M. Bell, and David Bowe), V.I.P. (2000, with Eileen Weisinger), American Dreams (2003, with Ethan Dampf and Alicia Coppola), Navy NCIS (2005, with Michael Reilly Burke), and Standoff (2006).
He performed in the films Basket Case 2 (1990, with Ted Sorel and Matt Malloy), The Darwin Conspiracy (1999, with Kevin Tighe, Tom Virtue, and Art Chudabala), and My Femme Lady (2002).
1965: The final draft script of TOS: "Where No Man Has Gone Before" is revised.
1966: Pamela Segall is born.
Pamela Segall (born 9 July 1966; age 47) is an American actress and Emmy Award-winning voice actress who played Oji in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Who Watches The Watchers". Born in New York City, Segall married Felix Adlon in the 1990s. She took on her husband's last name and has since been known as Pamela Adlon, Pamela Segall Adlon, or Pamela S. Adlon.
As a voice actress, she is perhaps best known for voicing Bobby Hill on the FOX animated series King of the Hill. She is also known for her supporting roles in such films as Say Anything... (1989) and Sgt. Bilko (1996) and for her roles on such television shows as The Facts of Life and Lucky Louie. She is currently a regular cast member on the Showtime series Californication.
Segall's first acting role was in the 1982 musical Grease 2, in which she played Dolores Rebchuck, one of The Pink Ladies. Her fellow Next Generation guest star, Christopher McDonald, also played a supporting role in this film. The following year, Segall and another TNG guest star, Stefan Gierasch, were standbys on the original Broadway production of Brighton Beach Memoirs.
During the 1983-1984 television season, Segall played the recurring role of Kelly Afinado on the NBC comedy series, The Facts of Life. During her time on this show, she worked with fellow Star Trek alumni Loren Lester, William Windom, and Ian Wolfe. Segall then became a regular on the short-lived CBS comedy E/R, which also starred Jason Alexander.
In 1986, Segall and Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country's Rosanna DeSoto were regulars on The Redd Fox Show, which aired for one season on ABC. Both Segall and DeSoto were dropped from the show within the first eight episodes, but the show was canceled after just five more episodes.
Segall starred in the 1986 fantasy comedy film Willy/Milly, playing a girl whose wish to become a boy comes true. John Glover and JD Cullum co-starred in this movie. Segall later co-starred in the popular 1989 comedy film Say Anything..., which also featured Bebe Neuwirth. That same year, Segall made several appearances on the crime drama series Wiseguy, working with Jonathan Banks, Ken Jenkins, Ron Taylor, and Paul Winfield.
In 1992, Segall was a regular on the FOX television series Down the Shore. She later starred with Christian Slater in the 1996 film Bed of Roses, which also featured Nick Tate. That same year, Segall was seen in the comedy film Sgt. Bilko as Sgt. Raquel Barbella. Clifton Collins, Jr. and Richard Herd appeared in this film, as well. Segall's subsequent film credits include Breast Men (with Louise Fletcher, Terry O'Quinn, and Heidi Swedberg), Eat Your Heart Out (with John Billingsley, Richard Fancy, and Stanley Kamel), and Lucky 13.
Although Segall has been primarily doing voice-overs since the 1990s, she has recently started to again appear on live-action television shows. In 2006, she starred with comedian Louis C.K. on the HBO series Lucky Louie. She later had a recurring role as an attorney on the ABC drama series Boston Legal, which starred William Shatner and, at the time, John Larroquette. She is currently starring as Marcy Runkle on the successful Showtime series Californication.
Segall's first voice-over role was a fairy in the 1992 film FernGully: The Last Rainforest. Her Bed of Roses co-star (and fellow Star Trek performer) Christian Slater also voiced a character in this film, as did Geoffrey Blake and actor and comedian Robin Williams. Segall's first regular TV voice-over work was on the animated series Phantom 2040, in which she played Daniel "Sparks" Aguilar. Many other Trek alumni provided voices on this series, including Paddi Edwards, Alan Oppenheimer, Ron Perlman, and Paul Williams.
Segall was the voice of Baloo the Bear on the Disney animated series Jungle Cubs, while Jason Marsden voiced Prince Louie the Ape and Shere Khan and David L. Lander and Michael McKean voiced Arthur and Cecil, a pair of vultures. Segall also voiced Dewey (of Huey, Dewey, and Louie) on Disney's Quack Pack and Lucky on Disney's 101 Dalmatians: The Series. David Lander and Michael McKean voiced characters on the latter series, as well.
In 1997, Segall began voicing the role of Bobby Hill, the son of Hank and Peggy Hill, on the FOX primetime animated series King of the Hill. She continued voicing the role until the series ended in 2009 after thirteen seasons. Segall also voiced several other characters on the show, including Clark Peters, Bobby's high school bully. In 2002, Segall won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Voice-Over Performance for her portrayal of Bobby, Clark, and Chane Wasonasong in the King of the Hill episode "Bobby Goes Nuts". Segall's fellow TNG guest star, Stephen Root, also provided voice-overs for the show, primarily as neighbor Bill Dauterive.
Segall's collaboration with Disney has continued over the years. For four years (1997-2001), she played Ashley Spinelli on Disney's TV series Recess. She even voiced the role in the 2001 film Recess: School's Out, which also featured the voices of Diedrich Bader, Clancy Brown, Ron Glass, Tony Jay, Clyde Kusatsu, Andrea Martin, and Paul Willson. Segall then voiced the characters of Tyler, Taylor, and Trevor on Disney's 2000-2002 Teacher's Pet and in the 2004 film of the same name. Both the series and the movie featured the voices of Wallace Shawn and David Ogden Stiers, while Kelsey Grammer had a role in the film.
From 2001 through 2002, Segall was the voice of Milo Oblong on the adult-oriented animated series The Oblongs. Other characters Segall voiced on this show include Jared Kliner, a bully who likes to taunt Milo, and The Debbies, a popular clique of identical-looking teenage girls. Segall also voiced Hector MacBadger on the PBS series Jakers! The Adventures of Piggley Winks, Andy Johnson on Cartoon Network's short-lived Squirrel Boy (with Kurtwood Smith), and various characters in Adult Swim's The Drinky Crow Show. She can also be heard as Vidia in the recent Tinker Bell movies, further expanding her work with Disney.
1968: Second day of filming on TOS: "Spock's Brain".
1971: Scott Grimes is born.
Scott Christopher Grimes (born 9 July 1971; age 43) is an actor and musician who appeared as Eric in "Evolution", the third season opener of Star Trek: The Next Generation. His role originally had dialogue, but the two scenes in which he spoke were removed from the final aired version. He neither spoke in the aired version, nor did he receive credit for his role. Grimes is best-known for being a series regular on the television dramas Party of Five and ER and for voicing Steve Smith on Seth MacFarlane's American Dad!
Grimes was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, and was raised in adjacent Dracut. He is the uncle of Daytime Emmy Award-winning soap opera actress Camryn Grimes. Scott's sister, Heather, is also an actress. He married Dawn Bailey in 1997 and they had two children together, but they divorced in 2007.
Besides acting, Grimes is a professional singer and songwriter. He released a self-titled pop album in 1989 and released a second album, Livin' on the Run, in 2005. A song from this latter album, entitled "Sunset Blvd.", became a Top 20 hit in Billboard magazine's adult contemporary charts. He also performed songs for the series ER, on which he was a regular.
Grimes began acting in 1984, appearing in three made-for-television movies in that year. Among these was The Night They Saved Christmas, which also featured Albert Hall, Anne Haney, Paul Williams, and R.J. Williams. The following year, he appeared in a segment of The Twilight Zone with Nicolas Surovy.
Grimes starred in the hit 1986 horror film Critters and its 1988 sequel, Critters 2: The Main Course; future Star Trek: Voyager performer Ethan Phillips co-starred with Grimes in the first film, while fellow TNG guest performers Sam Anderson and Herta Ware appeared in the second. In addition, Grimes voiced Pinocchio in the Hal Sutherland-directed 1987 Filmation production Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night, which also featured the voices of Frank Welker and William Windom.
In 1986, Grimes made the first of two appearances as Chad McCann on the hit comedy series Who's the Boss?; he returned to the show the following year. Also during the 1986-1987 television season, Grimes was a regular on the short-lived CBS comedy series Together We Stand. In 1987, Grimes again worked with Paul Williams in the TV movie Frog. Grimes reprised his role from this movie for 1991's Frogs!, which featured Paul Dooley.
In 1988, Grimes appeared in the TV special Bring Me the Head of Dobie Gillis with William Schallert. He guest-starred on the sitcom Charles in Charge that same year, and was subsequently seen on the television shows 21 Jump Street and Wings. Steven Weber was a regular on the latter series. Grimes then worked with John Savage in the pilot episode of the short-lived series Birdland.
In 1994, Grimes began starring as Will McCorkle on the hit FOX television series Party of Five. He left this series in 1996 to become a regular on the UPN series Goode Behavior, although he continued making recurring appearances on Party of Five. Good Behavior ended in 1997, lasting only one season, and in 1999, Grimes returned to Party of Five as a regular for the show's sixth and final season.
After Party of Five ended, Grimes starred as TSgt. Donald Malarkey in the acclaimed HBO mini-series Band of Brothers, which also featured David Andrews, Neal McDonough, and Simon Pegg. Grimes also appeared on the short-lived NBC drama First Years... with Dakin Matthews. In 2002, he worked with Cress Williams in a sitcom pilot for ABC entitled Couples, but it was not picked up by the network. The project was directed by Marc Buckland, who, like Grimes, made a brief acting appearance on Star Trek: The Next Generation.
In addition to his television work, Grimes has acted in such major feature films as Crimson Tide (1995), Mystery, Alaska (1999, co-starring Colm Meaney and Michael McKean), and 2010's Robin Hood, in which he played Will Scarlet (a role previously played by Christian Slater in the 1991 film Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves). Grimes also acted with George Murdock in the 2006 direct-to-video release To Kill a Mockumentary and starred in the 2007 independent film Throwing Stars.
From 2003 through 2009, Grimes portrayed Dr. Archie Morris on the long-running NBC series ER. He joined the series as a recurring player and became a series regular in 2005, remaining with the show until it ended. Currently, Grimes voices teenager Steve Smith (who happens to be a Trekkie) on Seth MacFarlane's animated FOX series, American Dad! McFarlane voices Steve's father, Stan, while Star Trek: Voyager guest actress Wendy Schaal voices his mother, Francine. TNG star Patrick Stewart has a recurring role on the show as Stan Smith's boss, CIA Director Bullock.
1973: Enrique Murciano is born.
Enrique Murciano (born 9 July 1973; age 40) is an actor of Cuban descent who played Tolaris, a Vulcan crewmember aboard a civilian transport ship Vahklas who becomes involved with T'Pol, in the Star Trek: Enterprise episode "Fusion". However, he is probably best known for his role as Special Agent Danny Taylor on the CBS television series Without a Trace from 2002 through 2009.
Born in Miami, Florida, Murciano attended the prestigious Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana. He originally studied to become a lawyer, going so far as to attend law school in Boston, Massachusetts, but ultimately decided to pursue an acting career. To this end, he moved to Los Angeles, California, acquiring a role in the 1997 action film Speed 2: Cruise Control.
After making guest appearances on Suddenly Susan and The Pretender in 1999 and appearing in the Oscar-winning film Traffic in 2000, Murciano had a supporting role as Sgt. Lorenzo Ruiz in Ridley Scott's acclaimed war drama Black Hawk Down, opposite Eric Bana (Nero in Star Trek), Tom Hardy (Shinzon in Star Trek Nemesis) and frequent Star Trek guest actor Glenn Morshower. It was while working on this film that Murciano met producer Jerry Bruckheimer, who went on to produce Without a Trace, bringing Murciano on board as a regular cast member.
Murciano was next seen on the big screen as the male lead in the 2005 comedy Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Dangerous, which co-starred William Shatner and Diedrich Bader. He also had a supporting role in the 2005 drama The Lost City and co-starred with Jason Alexander and Ron Perlman in 2006's How to Go Out on a Date in Queens.
Besides acting, Murciano also executive produced the made-for-TV youth drama A Separate Place, sharing a Daytime Emmy Nomination in 2005 for Outstanding Children/Youth/Family Special. Murciano has also been nominated for a Screen Actors Guild award and an ALMA Award for his role on Without a Trace.
Murciano worked with many veteran Star Trek performers during his time on Without a Trace, including Kirstie Alley, Casey Biggs, Rosalind Chao, Bruce Davison, Roxann Dawson, Rosemary Forsyth, John de Lancie, Michael Dorn, Gregory Itzin, Natalia Nogulich, Lawrence Pressman, Andrew Robinson, Tim Russ, Marina Sirtis, Susanna Thompson, Tony Todd, Connor Trinneer, and Anton Yelchin.
1978: Linda Park is born.
Actress Linda Park (born 9 July 1978; age 35) portrayed communications officer Ensign Hoshi Sato on Star Trek: Enterprise. Born in Seoul, South Korea, she moved with her parents to San Jose, California when she was one year old.
Park had her first stage appearance when she was a child as Princess Rhyme in the show The Phantom Tollbooth in the community theater. By her high school years, she was already a professional actress, with her first paid performance being in Tom Stoppard's play Arcadia. She studied for four years at Boston University, where she earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts and continued her involvement in the theater.
After graduation, she spent some time in New York, and later went to Hollywood. There she applied for roles in Rush Hour 2 and Jurassic Park III (both released in 2001), ultimately winning a supporting role in the latter film – the first time she set foot on a big Hollywood set. Frequent Star Trek guest actor Bruce French also made an appearance in the film.
Park subsequently made a guest appearance on the television series Popular at the same time her future Enterprise castmate Anthony Montgomery was working on the show, and the two appeared in the same episode. Shortly thereafter, Park received a phone call inviting her to read for the part of Hoshi Sato on Enterprise.
At the first reading for the role of Hoshi Sato, Park faced many Asian actresses who also wanted the role, but she was called back to read again. The producers then decided to hold a screen test and eventually gave her the part. She went on to play the role throughout all four seasons, from 2001 until its cancellation in 2005.
In 2004, while Enterprise was still in production, Park took time off from playing Sato to co-star with Next Generation actress Marina Sirtis and Enterprise guest actor Tucker Smallwood in the science fiction thriller Spectres. She went on to co-star with Sirtis in the Enterprise series finale "These Are the Voyages...", in which Sirtis played her familiar role of Deanna Troi.
Park's other credits include the little-known films Geldersma (2004) and Honor (2005). She also made a brief appearance in the 2002 made-for-TV movie Taken (not to be confused with the mini-series of the same name) and, in 2003, she produced and starred in the short film My Prince, My Angel.
Park has remained active in theater since the cancellation of Enterprise. She recently earned high praise for her performance as Clytemnestra in a production of the play Agamemnon, which ran in New York City in October and November of 2005. She also remains an active student of dance, studying ballet and other dance forms.
She recently starred as police officer Sally Lance on the short-lived NBC series Raines. The series premiered mid-season, March 2007, and concluded the following month. She most recently starred in the ABC police drama Women's Murder Club. Although this series premiered 12 October 2007, Park did not make her first appearance on the show until the next episode, airing 19 October. The series concluded its first and only season on 13 May 2008, with an episode guest-starring Park's former Enterprise co-star John Billingsley.
Park has a role in the 2009 horror/comedy film Infestation, along with Ray Wise. She also guest-starred in the 25 March 2009 episode of NBC's Life, which was followed by a brief appearance in the 19 May 2009 episode of NBC's Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (along with Alan Dale). Park recently starred as Maggie Cheon in the second season of the Starz! Network series Crash, based on the acclaimed 2004 film which featured the aforementioned Marina Sirtis.
At one time, Park was dating actor Tom Hardy, who played Shinzon in Star Trek Nemesis. They lived together in South London, England, and were even going to form their own theater company. She also starred with Hardy in a two-day London production of Brett C. Leonard's play, Roger & Vanessa, which Park co-produced. However, Park and Hardy broke off their relationship soon after, and she is now residing in Los Angeles, California.
Over the Christmas holidays in 2013 Park got engaged to Daniel Bess.
1980: Christopher Jewett is born.
Christopher Jewett (born 9 July 1980; age 33) is an actor who portrayed an ensign in the Star Trek: Enterprise episode "Bound". He was listed as Crewman #1 in the end credits of the episode.
Jewett was born in Providence, Rhode Island and made his on-screen debut as Brackett in the 1999 comedy Outside Providence. The following year he portrayed Drake Harmon in the drama The Gypsy Years and continued with a supporting role as a director in the Hope & Faith episode Car Commercial (2003) and as Bing's assistant in the 2004 drama High Art, Low Life.
1980: Megan Parlen is born.
Megan Parlen (born 9 July 1980; age 34) is the actress who portrayed the young Ro Laren in the Star Trek: The Next Generation sixth season episode "Rascals" in 1992.
Born as Megan Sloan Parlen in Los Angeles, California, she started her acting career at the age of three when she appeared in a television commercial for milk. She is probably best known for her role as Mary-Beth Pepperton in the comedy series Hang Time on which she worked between 1995 and 2001. For this role she won a Young Star Award in the category Best Performance by a Young Actress in a Saturday Morning TV Program in 1997 and two nominations in the same category in 1998 and 1999. Following the ending of Hang Time, Parlen attended the college and earned her Masters Degree in Broadcast Journalism from the USC Anneberg.
Beside her work on Hang Time and Star Trek, Parlen was featured in the comedy Walk Like a Man (1987, with Christopher Lloyd, Earl Boen, and Ellen Albertini Dow), the television drama Sisters (1990, with Daphne Ashbrook, David Bowe, Robert Beltran, and Gary Werntz), the western drama My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys (1991, with Clarence Williams III), the animated short film Snoopy's Reunion (1991), and the television drama Dad, the Angel & Me (1995, with Jane Carr, Paul Collins and Edward Penn).
Parlen also appeared on several television series including episodes of Hardball (1989, with Harvey Jason, Marcelo Tubert and Valerie Wildman and directed by Larry Shaw), L.A. Law (1990, with Corbin Bernsen, Larry Drake, Nicolas Surovy, Craig Wasson, Jennifer Hetrick, Maryann Plunkett, Diana Muldaur, and Warren Munson), Boy Meets World (1993, with Katie Jane Johnston), Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman (1994, with Teri Hatcher, Tracy Scoggins, K Callan, Brian George, Claudette Nevins, and Bradley Pierce), Saved by the Bell: The New Class (1996, with Richard Lee Jackson and Gregg Daniel), and Something So Right (1997).
While studying on the college, Parlen worked as voice actress and lent her voice to the video games Elysium (2003, with Cam Clarke, Michael Gough, and Kevin Michael Richardson), Gladius (2003, with Jason Marsden, Charles Dennis, Grey DeLisle, Robin Atkin Downes, Keith Szarabajka, and Keone Young), Underground (2003, with Larry Cedar, Matt Levin, and Larc Spies), and Nicktoons Movin' Eye Toy (2004).
Following her graduation, she has been working as documentary producer. Her credits include This Film Is Not Yet Rated (2006), Young Scientist Challenge (2009), episodes of Popular Science's Future of (2009), National Geographic Explorer (2010), and Morgan Freeman's Through the Wormhole (2010-2011), and the television documentary Vanished from Alcatraz (2011).
1983: Robert Dawn dies.
Robert Dawn (22 October 1921 – 9 July 1983; age 61) was a makeup artist who worked on "Where No Man Has Gone Before", the second pilot of Star Trek: The Original Series. He was the son of Jack Dawn, most notable for creating the make-ups for many classic studio era films, such as The Wizard of Oz (1939, featuring Billy Curtis), Ninotchka (1939) and Meet Me in St. Louis (1944). Also, Dawn was the brother of Wes Dawn and the father of Jeff Dawn, whom both worked as makeup artists on Star Trek feature films.
During his thirty-year career as a make-up artist, Dawn worked mostly on television projects, including series such as Thriller, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Wagon Train and Mission: Impossible. However, he also worked on a few feature films, including Hitchcock's Marnie (1964, featuring Meg Wyllie).
1987: Fourth day of filming on TNG: "The Naked Now".
1990: Final draft script for TNG: "Suddenly Human" is submitted.
1991: Second day of filming on TNG: "Redemption II".
1993: Third day of filming on DS9: "The Homecoming".
1996: Melvin Belli dies.
Melvin Mouron Belli (29 July 1907 – 9 July 1996; age 88) is most famous as a criminal defense and personal injury lawyer, not an actor, but additionally played the role of "Gorgan" in TOS: "And the Children Shall Lead". Among his many legal accomplishments are the defense of Jack Ruby, the man who murdered Lee Harvey Oswald, and numerous refinements to personal injury litigation, including "day in the life" films designed to graphically demonstrate the impact of injuries on their victims. He was also the defense attorney of Mick Jagger and The Rolling Stones.
In 1954, his accomplishments led Life magazine to dub him the "King of Torts." Walter Koenig objected to his playing the role of "Gorgan", believing the role should have gone to someone in the acting business. (Captains' Logs: The Unauthorized Complete Trek Voyages) Fred Freiberger said of Belli, "He wasn't the greatest actor in the world, but was very cooperative [....] He was fun to work with." (The Star Trek Interview Book, p. 164) He was the father of Caesar Belli, who played Steve O'Connel in the same episode.
He had a peripheral role in the investigation of the "Zodiac" killings, which took place in the San Francisco area between 1969 and 1973, and was portrayed by Brian Cox in David Fincher's 2007 film Zodiac, which dramatized those events. The film includes a reference to Belli's guest role in Star Trek.
He died in 1996 of complications due to pancreatic cancer.
1997: Second day of filming on DS9: "A Time to Stand".
First day of filming on VOY: "Revulsion".
1998: Third day of filming on DS9: "Image in the Sand".
Fifth day of filming on VOY: "In the Flesh".
1999: Seventh day of filming on VOY: "Barge of the Dead".
2001: Second day of filming on ENT: "Fight or Flight".
2002: Eighth and final day of filming on ENT: "Carbon Creek".
2003: Ninth (and last) day of filming on ENT: "The Xindi".
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A Day in the History of Star Trek
by Storm Windfall » Thu Jul 10, 2014 12:05 pm
A list of events which occurred on the 10th of July.
1927: William Smithers is born.
William Smithers (born 10 July 1927; age 86) is the character actor from Richmond, Virginia, who played Captain R.M. Merik in "Bread and Circuses", a second season episode of Star Trek: The Original Series.
He was well-versed for playing villainous roles, and is perhaps best known for his recurring role as J.R. Ewing's arch nemesis Jeremy Wendell on the classic television series Dallas, primarily from 1984 through 1989. Prior to this, Smithers had brief stints on such popular TV shows as Young Dr. Malone (from 1962 through 1963) and Peyton Place (1965 through 1966). He was also a regular on the short-lived 1976 series Executive Suite, co-starring fellow Trek actors Sharon Acker, Richard Cox, Leigh J. McCloskey, Paul Lambert, Madlyn Rhue, Percy Rodriguez, and Mitch Ryan. Corey Allen was among the directors of this series. Allen later directed Smithers in the 1980 made-for-TV movie The Return of Frank Cannon, which co-starred Diana Muldaur.
Besides Star Trek, Smithers has made frequent television guest appearances. Among the shows on which he has guest-starred are Mission: Impossible (which, like TOS, was originally produced by Desilu), The F.B.I., Mannix, The Invaders (with Paul Carr), The Mod Squad (starring Clarence Williams III and Tige Andrews), Ironside, Barnaby Jones (with Lee Meriwether), Quincy (featuring Robert Ito and Garry Walberg), and Walker, Texas Ranger (with Noble Willingham and Marshall R. Teague). Smithers only has a few feature film to his credited, however. Among these are 1972's Trouble Man (starring Robert Hooks and Paul Winfield), the 1973 films Scorpio (which co-starred fellow TOS guest actors John Colicos, Joanne Linville, James B. Sikking, and Celeste Yarnall) and Papillon (co-starring Bill Mumy, Ron Soble, Vic Tayback, and Anthony Zerbe), and 1978's Deathsport, with TNG guest star Richard Lynch.
1929: George Clayton Johnson is born.
George Clayton Johnson (born 10 July 1929; age 85) is a science fiction and fantasy writer, most famous for his work (with William F. Nolan) on the 1967 novel Logan's Run (later filmed in 1976, featuring Bill Couch, Sr. and music by Jerry Goldsmith).
For Star Trek, he wrote the episode which would be the series' aired premiere, "The Man Trap".
Gene Roddenberry purchased another story from him entitled "Rock-A-Bye Baby – Or Die," which concerned an alien entity entering the Enterprise's computer system then growing to adulthood, with Kirk as a father-figure. Gene L. Coon never took a liking to the story, and it was never produced. He also wrote a story outline entitled "The Syndicate", based on Roddenberry's concept "President Capone", which later became the basis for "A Piece of the Action".
Johnson appeared, as an actor in Roger Corman's 1962 film, The Intruder, starring William Shatner. As a screenwriter, he penned many episodes of the classic Twilight Zone, including "The Four of Us Are Dying" (with Harry Townes, Phillip Pine and Peter Brocco), "Execution" (with Jon Lormer) and "Ninety Years Without Slumbering" (with William Sargent and Chuck Hicks). He also wrote a 1974 episode of Kung Fu entitled "The Demon God" featuring Brian Tochi.
Johnson has been interviewed in the documentary, Inside Star Trek - The Real Story.
1939: Lawrence Pressman is born.
Lawrence Pressman (born 10 July 1939; age 75) is an actor who has appeared three times on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, playing three different characters. His largest role on the series was as Legate Tekeny Ghemor in "Second Skin" and "Ties of Blood and Water". In between those episodes, he appeared as a Changeling posing as Federation Ambassador Krajensky in "The Adversary". Pressman is very fond of his role as Tekeny Ghemor and is a great admirer of Avery Brooks, who directed Pressman in his second appearance.
Hailing from Cynthiana, Kentucky, Pressman is Jewish and was one of millions of people to have had members of his family killed by the Nazis. Every member of his family in Russia (except for Pressman's aunt who had escaped to the United States) was murdered. His father spent many years searching for relatives, but found they had all been killed.
Outside of his DS9 roles, Pressman has worked on well over 100 different film and television projects. He may best be known for his role as Doctor Canfield in Doogie Howser, M.D., in which James Sikking also starred, playing Doogie's father. Prior to this, he was the star of the short-lived NBC series Mulligan's Stew in 1977. During the 1980-1981 TV season, Pressman co-starred with Julie Cobb and Louise Sorel on the CBS series Ladies' Man. More recently, Pressman had a recurring role on shows such as Profiler (working with the likes of Lawrence Monoson, Stephen Root and Mark Rolston) and Judging Amy (include an episode with William Windom and another with Michael Buchman Silver).
Pressman got his start in Hollywood with a role on the soap opera The Edge of Night in 1969. He was soon acting in film, appearing in Making It with John Fiedler and co-starring in the cult blaxploitation film Shaft, both released in 1971. He went on to make guest appearances on many popular series, such as Mary Tyler Moore, Hawaii Five-O, M*A*S*H, Murder, She Wrote, Law & Order, NYPD Blue, The West Wing and The X-Files. Subsequent motion picture credits include The Man in the Glass Booth (1975), Nine to Five (1980), The Hanoi Hilton (1987, co-starring David Soul), Very Bad Things (1998, with Leland Orser and Christian Slater), Mighty Joe Young (1998, also featuring Scarlett Pomers) and an uncredited role in 2001's Dr. Dolittle 2 (featuring James Avery, Googy Gress and the voices of Andy Dick, Michael McKean and Keone Young). In addition, he played Coach Marshall in the first American Pie film in 1999 and reprised the role in the third film in the series, American Wedding, in 2003. Both films had Pressman working with John Cho, also in the former, Cho and Pressman joined Clyde Kusatsu, as for the latter, Cho and Pressman were joined by Loren Lester and Angela Paton.
In addition to the above, Pressman also had a role in the acclaimed 1976 mini-series Rich Man, Poor Man, which also featured fellow Star Trek performers Kim Darby, Fionnula Flanagan and Leigh J. McCloskey. He also appeared in the 1983 mini-series The Winds of War, along with Peter Brocco, Michael Ensign, Ken Lynch, Byron Morrow, George Murdock and Logan Ramsey. Pressman's TV movie credits include 1986's The Deliberate Stranger (co-starring DS9 actress Terry Farrell, as well as Jeanetta Arnette and William Boyett) and 1996's The Late Shift (with Ed Begley, Jr. and Daniel Roebuck). In 2003, Pressman was just one of a few Trek stars to appear in the TV movie DC 9/11: Time of Crisis, playing Vice President Dick Cheney. Other Star Trek actors to appear with him include frequent DS9 guest stars Gregory Itzin, Penny Johnson and Stephen Macht.
More recently, Pressman has appeared as Judge Floyd Hurwitz in two episodes of Boston Legal, the hit ABC drama series starring William Shatner. The first episode in which he appeared, 2007's "Son of the Defender," also featured Rene Auberjonois (who was a series regular at the time) and Mark L. Taylor. His latest episode, 2008's "The Mighty Rogues," co-starred John Larroquette (who replaced Auberjonois on the show), Bruce French, Daniel Hugh Kelly, and Derek Webster. In addition, Pressman has been making recurring appearances as judges on the series Crossing Jordan and General Hospital. Also, in 2007, Roxann Dawson directed Pressman (and DS9 guest star Julianna McCarthy) in an episode of Cold Case.
Pressman married actress Lanna Saunders in 1973. Their son, David Pressman, was born seven years earlier and has also become an actor. Lanna Saunders passed away on 10 March 2007 due to complications from multiple sclerosis.
1941: Robert Pine is born.
Actor Robert Pine (born 10 July 1941; age 72) played Ambassador Liria in the Star Trek: Voyager episode "The Chute". He would later play the role of Captain Tavin in the Star Trek: Enterprise episode "Fusion". His son, Chris Pine, plays James T. Kirk in J.J. Abrams' Star Trek.
Beyond the realm of Star Trek, Robert Pine is most famous for his role as Sergeant Joseph Getraer on the television series CHiPs, which Michael Dorn also guest-starred on. He has also made guest appearances on a number of other shows, including Gunsmoke, Barnaby Jones, Charlie's Angels, Murder, She Wrote, The West Wing, and Six Feet Under. He also guest-starred on an episode of Quantum Leap, starring his future Star Trek: Enterprise co-star Scott Bakula and one-time Enterprise guest actor Dean Stockwell.
Pine appeared in the TV movie Incident on a Dark Street (1973, with William Shatner). He and Shatner would reunite in a Priceline commercial, in which Pine played a chauffeur. Pine has also worked on numerous feature films. These include: 1968's Journey to Shiloh with Star Trek: Deep Space Nine guest actor Michael Sarrazin; 1977's Empire of the Ants with original series guest stars Joan Collins and Robert Lansing; 1979's The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again with Kenneth Mars, Rex Holman, Nick Ramus, Ed McCready and John Arndt; 1996's smash science fiction hit Independence Day, featuring Star Trek: The Next Generation star Brent Spiner as well as Bill Smitrovich, Leland Orser, Randy Oglesby, and Erick Avari; and 2003's Confidence, with Leland Orser, Tommy "Tiny" Lister, Jr., and John Carroll Lynch.
Pine was most recently seen in the independent action film Mach 2 (with Michael Dorn), the 2005 thriller Red Eye (with Suzie Plakson and Dey Young) and the 2010 dramedy Small Town Saturday Night (once again co-starring alongside his real-life son Chris Pine).
1945: Ron Glass is born.
Ron Glass (born 10 July 1945; age 69) is the actor who played Loken in the Star Trek: Voyager episode "Nightingale". He was born in Evansville, Indiana, USA.
He is best known for his Emmy-nominated role as Detective Ron Harris in the television series Barney Miller, from 1975 through 1982. TOS guest actor James Gregory (Tristan Adams) and DS9 guest star Gregory Sierra (Entek) were also regulars on this series, and George Murdock was a recurring player.
He has more recently acquired some fame playing Shepherd Book in the cult science fiction series, Firefly. Glass reprised his role in the 2005 feature film adaptation of the show, Serenity. The film also featured fellow Star Trek actors Marley S. McClean, Amy Wieczorek, and Terrell Tilford.
In 1982, he starred in the short-lived African-American version of The Odd Couple, called The New Odd Couple. John Schuck co-starred in this series.
Other credits of his include the made-for-TV movies Shirts/Skins (1973, starring Rene Auberjonois), The Crazy World of Julius Vrooder (1974, with Lawrence Pressman and William Lucking), Crash (1978, starring William Shatner and Adrienne Barbeau), Perry Mason: The Case of the Shooting Star (1986, with David Ogden Stiers, and Incognito (1999, with Phil Morris, Vanessa Williams, and Patti Yasutake. He also co-starred with Charles Napier and Julie Newmar in the 1987 science fiction film Deep Space, and with Bruce Davison, Dennis Christopher, and Sally Kellerman in the 1996 drama It's My Party.
Glass voiced the character of Randy Carmichael on the hit animated series Rugrats, from 1994 through 2004. He currently voices the character on the spin-off series, All Grown Up. TNG and DS9 guest star Michael Bell also lends his voice to the series.
More recently, Glass was featured in the pilot episode of Marvel's superhero television series Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (2013, along with Dan Sachoff).
1947: Michael Hungerford is born.
Michael Hungerford (10 July 1947 – 13 September 2007; age 60) was the actor who played the roughneck in the Star Trek: The Next Generation fifth season episode "Time's Arrow" in 1992. He died in 2007 in Santa Monica, California, USA.
Hungerford also appeared on such television shows as Night Court (starring John Larroquette, in an episode with Roy Brocksmith and Bruce French), Falcon Crest (with Jimmie F. Skaggs), Perfect Strangers (in a two-part episode with Scott Marlowe), ER (with Scott Jaeck), The X-Files (in an episode directed by Kim Manners and featuring Richard Cox), and Angel (with Michael Krawic). He also had roles in the NBC television movies The Revenge of Al Capone (1989, co-starring Keith Carradine and Christopher Carroll) and Father & Son: Dangerous Relations (1993, co-starring Paul Carr, Rickey D'Shon Collins, Tony Plana, and Clarence Williams III).
In addition, Hungerford had roles in several films throughout the 1980s, including Murphy's Romance (1985, with Bruce French and Ted Gehring), River's Edge (1986, co-starring Jim Metzler and Daniel Roebuck), and The Wraith (1986, with Clint Howard). In the 1987 thriller No Way Out, Hungerford, Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country actor Darryl Henriques, and Star Trek: Insurrection actor John Hostetter played Criminal Investigation Division (CID) agents. Iman, Leon Russom, and Nicholas Worth also had roles in this film.
Hungerford's more recent film credits include 3 Ninjas Knuckle Up (1995, co-starring Gary Epper, Patrick Kilpatrick, Charles Napier, Nick Ramus, Vincent Schiavelli, and Don Stark) and Take Out (2005, starring Chase Masterson and Daniel Roebuck). He also appeared in short subject films such as The Goldfish, which co-starred Henry Gibson and Matt Malloy.
1967: Steve Rizzo is born.
Steve Rizzo (born 10 July 1967; age 46) is a stuntman, stunt actor and special effects make-up artist who appeared as one of Falcon's henchmen in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "Our Man Bashir". He received no on-screen credit for his appearance.
He was born in Baltimore, Maryland and married his wife Diana on 19 May 1995. They have one child. Rizzo has doubled for actors such as Jason O'Mara, Billy Connolly, Jerry O'Connell, Henri Lubatti, and Fredric Lehne.
Among his stunt performing and stunt acting resume are films such as Babylon 5: Thirdspace (1998, with Patricia Tallman and Clyde Kusatsu), One Night at McCool's (2001, with Ric Sarabia, Tim de Zarn, and Rad Milo), Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties (2006, with Ian Abercrombie and Diz White), Plane Dead (2007, with Erick Avari, Derek Webster, Todd Babcock, Tucker Smallwood, Dorenda Moore, and Spice Williams-Crosby), and the coming television pilot Marlowe (2007, stunt coordinated by Dennis Madalone).
His television resume includes guest spots and stunts in Sliders (1998), Dark Skies (1997, with Jeri Ryan), The Practice (1998), V.I.P. (2000), and several episodes of Without a Trace (2003-2006, stunt coordinated by Dennis Madalone and Don Ruffin).
Among his more recent stunt appearances are episodes of Pushing Daisies (coordinated by Keith Campbell), Friday Night Lights, and General Hospital. He performed utility stunts in the horror film Trailer Park of Terror (2008, with Tracey Walter and under stunt coordinator Michael J. Sarna), doubled actor Seth Rogen in the comedy Pineapple Express (2008), and is currently filming the thriller Rest Stop 2 (2008, with Diane Salinger, Michael Childers, and assistant stunt coordinator Edward Conna), in which he doubled actor Brionne Davis.
Rizzo is also an accomplished special effects and make-up lab technician whose resume includes television series like Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel, and films such as Brain Blockers (2004) beside having a career as football player for more than twenty years.
1967: Third day of filming on TOS: "The Changeling".
1968: Third day of filming on TOS: "Spock's Brain".
1968: Cristina Patterson Ceret is born.
Cristina Patterson Ceret (born 10 July 1968; age 46) is a makeup artist, hair stylist and contact lens designer and painter who worked on several Star Trek series and films between 1998 and 2012.
Born in Madrid, Spain, Patterson Ceret moved with her family to California in 1969 and attended the Topanga Elementary school in Topanga, California. Her mother, Raffaelle Butler, worked as a makeup artist for Paramount Pictures on film projects such as To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) and Doctor Zhivago (1965) as well as several sitcoms and took Patterson Ceret with her to the film sets. At early age, she started to work in front of the camera as background actress. Some of her later acting work includes featured parts in the television series Casualty (1986), the television comedy Under Wraps (1997, with Clara Bryant, Ed Lauter, and Tom Virtue), and the horror comedy Decampitated (1998).
Patterson Ceret followed into her mother’s footsteps and started to work in the makeup department including the horror comedy Transylvania Twist (1989, with Jay Robinson and Clement von Franckenstein and makeup by Dean Gates and Dean Jones), the action film Hart to Die (1990), the action film Brain Smasher... A Love Story (1993, with Teri Hatcher, Deborah Van Valkenburgh, Charles Rocket, and Nicholas Guest), the action film Kickboxer 4: The Aggressor (1994, working with Brian Sipe and Scott Wheeler), the action thriller Hong Kong 97 (1994), the action film Spitfire (1995), and the science fiction film Heatseeker (1995).
In 1995, Patterson Ceret joined the company Professional VisionCare Associates, a company specialized in designing and applying contact lenses for film and television productions. She started as a contact lens technician until she was promoted to special effects coordinator in 2002. Beside her work on several Star Trek projects, she designed and supervised contact lenses for television productions such as Dark Skies (1996), Charmed (1999-2005), Special Unit 2 (2000 and 2002), The District (2002), JAG (2002), The Jamie Kennedy Experiment (2002), Carnivàle (2002 and 2004), The Division (2003), Deadwood (2003-2004), Days of Our Lives (2003), CSI: Miami (2003 and 2005), Cold Case (2003-2005, 2007-2009), J.J. Abrams' Alias (2003-2005), Without a Trace (2004), Six Feet Under (2004-2005), Nip/Tuck (2004-2005), House, M.D. (2004, 2006-2007), General Hospital (2004), Grey's Anatomy (2004), Boston Legal (2004), Supernatural (2005), CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2005, 2007-2008), Passions (2006), Medium (2006), Moonlight (2007), Dexter (2007-2008), Legend of the Seeker (2008-2009), My Name is Earl (2008), Lost (2008-2009), Fringe (2008), CSI: NY (2008), 24 (2008), FlashForward (2009-2010), Castle (2009), Bones (2009), The Walking Dead (2010-2013), Spartacus: Blood & Sand (2010), Glee (2010), Teen Wolf (2011), Grimm (2011), American Horror Story (2011-2013), Beauty and the Beast (2012-2013), Game of Thrones (2012), Sleepy Hollow (2013), Longmire (2013), Hannibal (2013), True Detective (2014), and Da Vinci's Demons (2013-2014).
Among her over hundred feature film credits are the horror thriller Little Witches (1996), the comic adaptations Spawn (1997) and Blade (1997), the horror film Wishmaster (1997), the science fiction remake Planet of the Apes (2001), the drama A Beautiful Mind (2001), the comic adaptation Blade II (2002), the fantasy film Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003), the fantasy film Underworld (2003), the remake King Kong (2005), Bryan Singer's Superman Returns (2006), the sequels Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006) and Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007), the fantasy film Twilight (2008), the horror thriller Drag Me to Hell (2009), the science fiction thriller District 9 (2009), the science fiction thriller Surrogates (2009), the fanmtasy adventure Alice in Wonderland (2010), the remake A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010), the science fiction sequel TRON: Legacy (2011), the science fiction film I Am Number Four (2011), the comic adaptations Thor (2011), X-Men: First Class (2011), and Green Lantern (2011), the drama J. Edgar (2011), the reboot The Amazing Spider-Man (2012), the fantasy adventure The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012) and its sequel The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013), the remake The Lone Ranger (2013), and the science fiction film Pacific Rim (2013).
More recent film credits include the war drama 300: Rise of an Empire (2014), the sequel The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014), the drama Child 44 (2014), the fantasy sequel The Hobbit: There and Back Again (2014), and the science fiction remake Mad Max: Fury Road (2015, starring Tom Hardy).
1969: Joey Genitempo is born.
Joey Genitempo (born 10 July 1969; age 44) is a set painter who worked as electrician on the Star Trek: The Next Generation fourth season episode "Devil's Due" in 1990.
Born as Joseph Jon Genitempo in Hollywood, California, he also worked as electrician on two episodes of Cheers (1991) and had an acting part in the television comedy The Julie Show (1991).
Since 1997 he is working as set painter within the art department and worked on projects such as the fantasy film Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie (1997), the horror thriller Anaconda (1997, with Andrew Neskoromny), the horror sequel Sometimes They Come Back... for More (1998), the television series Power Rangers in Space (1998-1999), Power Rangers Lost Galaxy (1999-2000), and Yes, Dear (2001-2002), the drama Solaris (2002), the crime comedy Catch Me If You Can (2002), the sport drama Seabiscuit (2003), the television series That's So Raven (2003-2004) and Point Pleasant (2005), the comic adaptation Constantine (2005), the science fiction film Serenity (2005), the television series Just Legal (2005-2006), Samantha Who? (2007), Heroes (2007), and Pushing Daisies (2008-2009), the comedy You Don't Mess with the Zohan (2008), the science fiction film G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009), the comedy The Last Godfather (2010), the drama Prom (2011), and the drama The Master (2013).
1971: The Twenty-Second UK Story Arc concludes in TV21 & Joe 90 #94 with the fourth of four installments.
1975: Brian Reber is born.
Brian Reber (born 10 July 1975; age 39) is a comic book color artist from Alabama. He has worked primarily for Marvel Comics on titles such as Maddrox (with Peter David and Pablo Raimondi), Captain America, and the X-Men. He has also done a number of covers with Raimondi including on Batman and the Outsiders, The Brave and the Bold, and the first issue of IDW Publishing's Star Trek: The Last Generation, "Do Not Close Your Eyes".
1987: Vic Toyota dies.
Victor Tsugio Toyota (5 August 1922 – 10 July 1987; age 64) was an actor and stuntman who appeared as the stunt double for George Takei (Sulu) in The Original Series episode "Catspaw".
Following Star Trek, Toyota had one additional television role during the 1960s, appearing as a "Bartender" in Ironside (1969), with Barbara Anderson, Robert DoQui, and fellow TOS stuntman Bob Herron. The teleplay for that episode, entitled "Five Miles High", was written by Animated Series writer Paul Schneider.
After a nearly decade long acting hiatus, Toyota made two additional film appearances: his first was a minor role as a "[Japanese] Interpreter" in the Tony Curtis film The Bad News Bears Go to Japan (1978); his last was another minor role, this time as a "Japanese Businessman", in the Albert Brooks film Modern Romance (1981) with Albert Henderson.
1987: Fifth day of filming on TNG: "The Naked Now".
1989: TNG: "Peak Performance" airs.
1991: Third day of filming on TNG: "Redemption II".
1993: Sam Rolfe dies.
Samuel Harris "Sam" Rolfe (18 February 1924 – 10 July 1993; age 69) was a writer who worked on two television episodes in the Star Trek franchise.
Rolfe, perhaps best known as the creator of The Man From U.N.C.L.E., was also the co-creator of Have Gun - Will Travel. Gene Roddenberry wrote several scripts for the latter series. Roddenberry also produced a failed pilot for Rolfe's proposed series The Long Hunt of April Savage, which starred Robert Lansing and featured Charles Dierkop.
Rolfe was nominated for an Oscar in 1953 for his first screenplay, Anthony Mann's classic western, The Naked Spur.
1995: CIC Video releases Deep Space Nine volume 3.9 and Voyager volume 1.2 on VHS in the UK.
1997: Third day of filming on DS9: "A Time to Stand".
Second day of filming on VOY: "Revulsion".
1998: Fourth day of filming on DS9: "Image in the Sand".
Sixth day of filming on VOY: "In the Flesh".
2000: Fifth day of filming on VOY: "Imperfection".
2001: Third day of filming on ENT: "Fight or Flight".
2002: First day of filming on ENT: "Shockwave, Part II".
2003: First day of filming on ENT: "Anomaly".
2007: Fan-submitted Strange New Worlds 10 anthology is released.
1927: William Smithers is born.
William Smithers (born 10 July 1927; age 86) is the character actor from Richmond, Virginia, who played Captain R.M. Merik in "Bread and Circuses", a second season episode of Star Trek: The Original Series.
He was well-versed for playing villainous roles, and is perhaps best known for his recurring role as J.R. Ewing's arch nemesis Jeremy Wendell on the classic television series Dallas, primarily from 1984 through 1989. Prior to this, Smithers had brief stints on such popular TV shows as Young Dr. Malone (from 1962 through 1963) and Peyton Place (1965 through 1966). He was also a regular on the short-lived 1976 series Executive Suite, co-starring fellow Trek actors Sharon Acker, Richard Cox, Leigh J. McCloskey, Paul Lambert, Madlyn Rhue, Percy Rodriguez, and Mitch Ryan. Corey Allen was among the directors of this series. Allen later directed Smithers in the 1980 made-for-TV movie The Return of Frank Cannon, which co-starred Diana Muldaur.
Besides Star Trek, Smithers has made frequent television guest appearances. Among the shows on which he has guest-starred are Mission: Impossible (which, like TOS, was originally produced by Desilu), The F.B.I., Mannix, The Invaders (with Paul Carr), The Mod Squad (starring Clarence Williams III and Tige Andrews), Ironside, Barnaby Jones (with Lee Meriwether), Quincy (featuring Robert Ito and Garry Walberg), and Walker, Texas Ranger (with Noble Willingham and Marshall R. Teague). Smithers only has a few feature film to his credited, however. Among these are 1972's Trouble Man (starring Robert Hooks and Paul Winfield), the 1973 films Scorpio (which co-starred fellow TOS guest actors John Colicos, Joanne Linville, James B. Sikking, and Celeste Yarnall) and Papillon (co-starring Bill Mumy, Ron Soble, Vic Tayback, and Anthony Zerbe), and 1978's Deathsport, with TNG guest star Richard Lynch.
1929: George Clayton Johnson is born.
George Clayton Johnson (born 10 July 1929; age 85) is a science fiction and fantasy writer, most famous for his work (with William F. Nolan) on the 1967 novel Logan's Run (later filmed in 1976, featuring Bill Couch, Sr. and music by Jerry Goldsmith).
For Star Trek, he wrote the episode which would be the series' aired premiere, "The Man Trap".
Gene Roddenberry purchased another story from him entitled "Rock-A-Bye Baby – Or Die," which concerned an alien entity entering the Enterprise's computer system then growing to adulthood, with Kirk as a father-figure. Gene L. Coon never took a liking to the story, and it was never produced. He also wrote a story outline entitled "The Syndicate", based on Roddenberry's concept "President Capone", which later became the basis for "A Piece of the Action".
Johnson appeared, as an actor in Roger Corman's 1962 film, The Intruder, starring William Shatner. As a screenwriter, he penned many episodes of the classic Twilight Zone, including "The Four of Us Are Dying" (with Harry Townes, Phillip Pine and Peter Brocco), "Execution" (with Jon Lormer) and "Ninety Years Without Slumbering" (with William Sargent and Chuck Hicks). He also wrote a 1974 episode of Kung Fu entitled "The Demon God" featuring Brian Tochi.
Johnson has been interviewed in the documentary, Inside Star Trek - The Real Story.
1939: Lawrence Pressman is born.
Lawrence Pressman (born 10 July 1939; age 75) is an actor who has appeared three times on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, playing three different characters. His largest role on the series was as Legate Tekeny Ghemor in "Second Skin" and "Ties of Blood and Water". In between those episodes, he appeared as a Changeling posing as Federation Ambassador Krajensky in "The Adversary". Pressman is very fond of his role as Tekeny Ghemor and is a great admirer of Avery Brooks, who directed Pressman in his second appearance.
Hailing from Cynthiana, Kentucky, Pressman is Jewish and was one of millions of people to have had members of his family killed by the Nazis. Every member of his family in Russia (except for Pressman's aunt who had escaped to the United States) was murdered. His father spent many years searching for relatives, but found they had all been killed.
Outside of his DS9 roles, Pressman has worked on well over 100 different film and television projects. He may best be known for his role as Doctor Canfield in Doogie Howser, M.D., in which James Sikking also starred, playing Doogie's father. Prior to this, he was the star of the short-lived NBC series Mulligan's Stew in 1977. During the 1980-1981 TV season, Pressman co-starred with Julie Cobb and Louise Sorel on the CBS series Ladies' Man. More recently, Pressman had a recurring role on shows such as Profiler (working with the likes of Lawrence Monoson, Stephen Root and Mark Rolston) and Judging Amy (include an episode with William Windom and another with Michael Buchman Silver).
Pressman got his start in Hollywood with a role on the soap opera The Edge of Night in 1969. He was soon acting in film, appearing in Making It with John Fiedler and co-starring in the cult blaxploitation film Shaft, both released in 1971. He went on to make guest appearances on many popular series, such as Mary Tyler Moore, Hawaii Five-O, M*A*S*H, Murder, She Wrote, Law & Order, NYPD Blue, The West Wing and The X-Files. Subsequent motion picture credits include The Man in the Glass Booth (1975), Nine to Five (1980), The Hanoi Hilton (1987, co-starring David Soul), Very Bad Things (1998, with Leland Orser and Christian Slater), Mighty Joe Young (1998, also featuring Scarlett Pomers) and an uncredited role in 2001's Dr. Dolittle 2 (featuring James Avery, Googy Gress and the voices of Andy Dick, Michael McKean and Keone Young). In addition, he played Coach Marshall in the first American Pie film in 1999 and reprised the role in the third film in the series, American Wedding, in 2003. Both films had Pressman working with John Cho, also in the former, Cho and Pressman joined Clyde Kusatsu, as for the latter, Cho and Pressman were joined by Loren Lester and Angela Paton.
In addition to the above, Pressman also had a role in the acclaimed 1976 mini-series Rich Man, Poor Man, which also featured fellow Star Trek performers Kim Darby, Fionnula Flanagan and Leigh J. McCloskey. He also appeared in the 1983 mini-series The Winds of War, along with Peter Brocco, Michael Ensign, Ken Lynch, Byron Morrow, George Murdock and Logan Ramsey. Pressman's TV movie credits include 1986's The Deliberate Stranger (co-starring DS9 actress Terry Farrell, as well as Jeanetta Arnette and William Boyett) and 1996's The Late Shift (with Ed Begley, Jr. and Daniel Roebuck). In 2003, Pressman was just one of a few Trek stars to appear in the TV movie DC 9/11: Time of Crisis, playing Vice President Dick Cheney. Other Star Trek actors to appear with him include frequent DS9 guest stars Gregory Itzin, Penny Johnson and Stephen Macht.
More recently, Pressman has appeared as Judge Floyd Hurwitz in two episodes of Boston Legal, the hit ABC drama series starring William Shatner. The first episode in which he appeared, 2007's "Son of the Defender," also featured Rene Auberjonois (who was a series regular at the time) and Mark L. Taylor. His latest episode, 2008's "The Mighty Rogues," co-starred John Larroquette (who replaced Auberjonois on the show), Bruce French, Daniel Hugh Kelly, and Derek Webster. In addition, Pressman has been making recurring appearances as judges on the series Crossing Jordan and General Hospital. Also, in 2007, Roxann Dawson directed Pressman (and DS9 guest star Julianna McCarthy) in an episode of Cold Case.
Pressman married actress Lanna Saunders in 1973. Their son, David Pressman, was born seven years earlier and has also become an actor. Lanna Saunders passed away on 10 March 2007 due to complications from multiple sclerosis.
1941: Robert Pine is born.
Actor Robert Pine (born 10 July 1941; age 72) played Ambassador Liria in the Star Trek: Voyager episode "The Chute". He would later play the role of Captain Tavin in the Star Trek: Enterprise episode "Fusion". His son, Chris Pine, plays James T. Kirk in J.J. Abrams' Star Trek.
Beyond the realm of Star Trek, Robert Pine is most famous for his role as Sergeant Joseph Getraer on the television series CHiPs, which Michael Dorn also guest-starred on. He has also made guest appearances on a number of other shows, including Gunsmoke, Barnaby Jones, Charlie's Angels, Murder, She Wrote, The West Wing, and Six Feet Under. He also guest-starred on an episode of Quantum Leap, starring his future Star Trek: Enterprise co-star Scott Bakula and one-time Enterprise guest actor Dean Stockwell.
Pine appeared in the TV movie Incident on a Dark Street (1973, with William Shatner). He and Shatner would reunite in a Priceline commercial, in which Pine played a chauffeur. Pine has also worked on numerous feature films. These include: 1968's Journey to Shiloh with Star Trek: Deep Space Nine guest actor Michael Sarrazin; 1977's Empire of the Ants with original series guest stars Joan Collins and Robert Lansing; 1979's The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again with Kenneth Mars, Rex Holman, Nick Ramus, Ed McCready and John Arndt; 1996's smash science fiction hit Independence Day, featuring Star Trek: The Next Generation star Brent Spiner as well as Bill Smitrovich, Leland Orser, Randy Oglesby, and Erick Avari; and 2003's Confidence, with Leland Orser, Tommy "Tiny" Lister, Jr., and John Carroll Lynch.
Pine was most recently seen in the independent action film Mach 2 (with Michael Dorn), the 2005 thriller Red Eye (with Suzie Plakson and Dey Young) and the 2010 dramedy Small Town Saturday Night (once again co-starring alongside his real-life son Chris Pine).
1945: Ron Glass is born.
Ron Glass (born 10 July 1945; age 69) is the actor who played Loken in the Star Trek: Voyager episode "Nightingale". He was born in Evansville, Indiana, USA.
He is best known for his Emmy-nominated role as Detective Ron Harris in the television series Barney Miller, from 1975 through 1982. TOS guest actor James Gregory (Tristan Adams) and DS9 guest star Gregory Sierra (Entek) were also regulars on this series, and George Murdock was a recurring player.
He has more recently acquired some fame playing Shepherd Book in the cult science fiction series, Firefly. Glass reprised his role in the 2005 feature film adaptation of the show, Serenity. The film also featured fellow Star Trek actors Marley S. McClean, Amy Wieczorek, and Terrell Tilford.
In 1982, he starred in the short-lived African-American version of The Odd Couple, called The New Odd Couple. John Schuck co-starred in this series.
Other credits of his include the made-for-TV movies Shirts/Skins (1973, starring Rene Auberjonois), The Crazy World of Julius Vrooder (1974, with Lawrence Pressman and William Lucking), Crash (1978, starring William Shatner and Adrienne Barbeau), Perry Mason: The Case of the Shooting Star (1986, with David Ogden Stiers, and Incognito (1999, with Phil Morris, Vanessa Williams, and Patti Yasutake. He also co-starred with Charles Napier and Julie Newmar in the 1987 science fiction film Deep Space, and with Bruce Davison, Dennis Christopher, and Sally Kellerman in the 1996 drama It's My Party.
Glass voiced the character of Randy Carmichael on the hit animated series Rugrats, from 1994 through 2004. He currently voices the character on the spin-off series, All Grown Up. TNG and DS9 guest star Michael Bell also lends his voice to the series.
More recently, Glass was featured in the pilot episode of Marvel's superhero television series Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (2013, along with Dan Sachoff).
1947: Michael Hungerford is born.
Michael Hungerford (10 July 1947 – 13 September 2007; age 60) was the actor who played the roughneck in the Star Trek: The Next Generation fifth season episode "Time's Arrow" in 1992. He died in 2007 in Santa Monica, California, USA.
Hungerford also appeared on such television shows as Night Court (starring John Larroquette, in an episode with Roy Brocksmith and Bruce French), Falcon Crest (with Jimmie F. Skaggs), Perfect Strangers (in a two-part episode with Scott Marlowe), ER (with Scott Jaeck), The X-Files (in an episode directed by Kim Manners and featuring Richard Cox), and Angel (with Michael Krawic). He also had roles in the NBC television movies The Revenge of Al Capone (1989, co-starring Keith Carradine and Christopher Carroll) and Father & Son: Dangerous Relations (1993, co-starring Paul Carr, Rickey D'Shon Collins, Tony Plana, and Clarence Williams III).
In addition, Hungerford had roles in several films throughout the 1980s, including Murphy's Romance (1985, with Bruce French and Ted Gehring), River's Edge (1986, co-starring Jim Metzler and Daniel Roebuck), and The Wraith (1986, with Clint Howard). In the 1987 thriller No Way Out, Hungerford, Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country actor Darryl Henriques, and Star Trek: Insurrection actor John Hostetter played Criminal Investigation Division (CID) agents. Iman, Leon Russom, and Nicholas Worth also had roles in this film.
Hungerford's more recent film credits include 3 Ninjas Knuckle Up (1995, co-starring Gary Epper, Patrick Kilpatrick, Charles Napier, Nick Ramus, Vincent Schiavelli, and Don Stark) and Take Out (2005, starring Chase Masterson and Daniel Roebuck). He also appeared in short subject films such as The Goldfish, which co-starred Henry Gibson and Matt Malloy.
1967: Steve Rizzo is born.
Steve Rizzo (born 10 July 1967; age 46) is a stuntman, stunt actor and special effects make-up artist who appeared as one of Falcon's henchmen in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "Our Man Bashir". He received no on-screen credit for his appearance.
He was born in Baltimore, Maryland and married his wife Diana on 19 May 1995. They have one child. Rizzo has doubled for actors such as Jason O'Mara, Billy Connolly, Jerry O'Connell, Henri Lubatti, and Fredric Lehne.
Among his stunt performing and stunt acting resume are films such as Babylon 5: Thirdspace (1998, with Patricia Tallman and Clyde Kusatsu), One Night at McCool's (2001, with Ric Sarabia, Tim de Zarn, and Rad Milo), Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties (2006, with Ian Abercrombie and Diz White), Plane Dead (2007, with Erick Avari, Derek Webster, Todd Babcock, Tucker Smallwood, Dorenda Moore, and Spice Williams-Crosby), and the coming television pilot Marlowe (2007, stunt coordinated by Dennis Madalone).
His television resume includes guest spots and stunts in Sliders (1998), Dark Skies (1997, with Jeri Ryan), The Practice (1998), V.I.P. (2000), and several episodes of Without a Trace (2003-2006, stunt coordinated by Dennis Madalone and Don Ruffin).
Among his more recent stunt appearances are episodes of Pushing Daisies (coordinated by Keith Campbell), Friday Night Lights, and General Hospital. He performed utility stunts in the horror film Trailer Park of Terror (2008, with Tracey Walter and under stunt coordinator Michael J. Sarna), doubled actor Seth Rogen in the comedy Pineapple Express (2008), and is currently filming the thriller Rest Stop 2 (2008, with Diane Salinger, Michael Childers, and assistant stunt coordinator Edward Conna), in which he doubled actor Brionne Davis.
Rizzo is also an accomplished special effects and make-up lab technician whose resume includes television series like Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel, and films such as Brain Blockers (2004) beside having a career as football player for more than twenty years.
1967: Third day of filming on TOS: "The Changeling".
1968: Third day of filming on TOS: "Spock's Brain".
1968: Cristina Patterson Ceret is born.
Cristina Patterson Ceret (born 10 July 1968; age 46) is a makeup artist, hair stylist and contact lens designer and painter who worked on several Star Trek series and films between 1998 and 2012.
Born in Madrid, Spain, Patterson Ceret moved with her family to California in 1969 and attended the Topanga Elementary school in Topanga, California. Her mother, Raffaelle Butler, worked as a makeup artist for Paramount Pictures on film projects such as To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) and Doctor Zhivago (1965) as well as several sitcoms and took Patterson Ceret with her to the film sets. At early age, she started to work in front of the camera as background actress. Some of her later acting work includes featured parts in the television series Casualty (1986), the television comedy Under Wraps (1997, with Clara Bryant, Ed Lauter, and Tom Virtue), and the horror comedy Decampitated (1998).
Patterson Ceret followed into her mother’s footsteps and started to work in the makeup department including the horror comedy Transylvania Twist (1989, with Jay Robinson and Clement von Franckenstein and makeup by Dean Gates and Dean Jones), the action film Hart to Die (1990), the action film Brain Smasher... A Love Story (1993, with Teri Hatcher, Deborah Van Valkenburgh, Charles Rocket, and Nicholas Guest), the action film Kickboxer 4: The Aggressor (1994, working with Brian Sipe and Scott Wheeler), the action thriller Hong Kong 97 (1994), the action film Spitfire (1995), and the science fiction film Heatseeker (1995).
In 1995, Patterson Ceret joined the company Professional VisionCare Associates, a company specialized in designing and applying contact lenses for film and television productions. She started as a contact lens technician until she was promoted to special effects coordinator in 2002. Beside her work on several Star Trek projects, she designed and supervised contact lenses for television productions such as Dark Skies (1996), Charmed (1999-2005), Special Unit 2 (2000 and 2002), The District (2002), JAG (2002), The Jamie Kennedy Experiment (2002), Carnivàle (2002 and 2004), The Division (2003), Deadwood (2003-2004), Days of Our Lives (2003), CSI: Miami (2003 and 2005), Cold Case (2003-2005, 2007-2009), J.J. Abrams' Alias (2003-2005), Without a Trace (2004), Six Feet Under (2004-2005), Nip/Tuck (2004-2005), House, M.D. (2004, 2006-2007), General Hospital (2004), Grey's Anatomy (2004), Boston Legal (2004), Supernatural (2005), CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2005, 2007-2008), Passions (2006), Medium (2006), Moonlight (2007), Dexter (2007-2008), Legend of the Seeker (2008-2009), My Name is Earl (2008), Lost (2008-2009), Fringe (2008), CSI: NY (2008), 24 (2008), FlashForward (2009-2010), Castle (2009), Bones (2009), The Walking Dead (2010-2013), Spartacus: Blood & Sand (2010), Glee (2010), Teen Wolf (2011), Grimm (2011), American Horror Story (2011-2013), Beauty and the Beast (2012-2013), Game of Thrones (2012), Sleepy Hollow (2013), Longmire (2013), Hannibal (2013), True Detective (2014), and Da Vinci's Demons (2013-2014).
Among her over hundred feature film credits are the horror thriller Little Witches (1996), the comic adaptations Spawn (1997) and Blade (1997), the horror film Wishmaster (1997), the science fiction remake Planet of the Apes (2001), the drama A Beautiful Mind (2001), the comic adaptation Blade II (2002), the fantasy film Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003), the fantasy film Underworld (2003), the remake King Kong (2005), Bryan Singer's Superman Returns (2006), the sequels Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006) and Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007), the fantasy film Twilight (2008), the horror thriller Drag Me to Hell (2009), the science fiction thriller District 9 (2009), the science fiction thriller Surrogates (2009), the fanmtasy adventure Alice in Wonderland (2010), the remake A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010), the science fiction sequel TRON: Legacy (2011), the science fiction film I Am Number Four (2011), the comic adaptations Thor (2011), X-Men: First Class (2011), and Green Lantern (2011), the drama J. Edgar (2011), the reboot The Amazing Spider-Man (2012), the fantasy adventure The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012) and its sequel The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013), the remake The Lone Ranger (2013), and the science fiction film Pacific Rim (2013).
More recent film credits include the war drama 300: Rise of an Empire (2014), the sequel The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014), the drama Child 44 (2014), the fantasy sequel The Hobbit: There and Back Again (2014), and the science fiction remake Mad Max: Fury Road (2015, starring Tom Hardy).
1969: Joey Genitempo is born.
Joey Genitempo (born 10 July 1969; age 44) is a set painter who worked as electrician on the Star Trek: The Next Generation fourth season episode "Devil's Due" in 1990.
Born as Joseph Jon Genitempo in Hollywood, California, he also worked as electrician on two episodes of Cheers (1991) and had an acting part in the television comedy The Julie Show (1991).
Since 1997 he is working as set painter within the art department and worked on projects such as the fantasy film Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie (1997), the horror thriller Anaconda (1997, with Andrew Neskoromny), the horror sequel Sometimes They Come Back... for More (1998), the television series Power Rangers in Space (1998-1999), Power Rangers Lost Galaxy (1999-2000), and Yes, Dear (2001-2002), the drama Solaris (2002), the crime comedy Catch Me If You Can (2002), the sport drama Seabiscuit (2003), the television series That's So Raven (2003-2004) and Point Pleasant (2005), the comic adaptation Constantine (2005), the science fiction film Serenity (2005), the television series Just Legal (2005-2006), Samantha Who? (2007), Heroes (2007), and Pushing Daisies (2008-2009), the comedy You Don't Mess with the Zohan (2008), the science fiction film G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009), the comedy The Last Godfather (2010), the drama Prom (2011), and the drama The Master (2013).
1971: The Twenty-Second UK Story Arc concludes in TV21 & Joe 90 #94 with the fourth of four installments.
1975: Brian Reber is born.
Brian Reber (born 10 July 1975; age 39) is a comic book color artist from Alabama. He has worked primarily for Marvel Comics on titles such as Maddrox (with Peter David and Pablo Raimondi), Captain America, and the X-Men. He has also done a number of covers with Raimondi including on Batman and the Outsiders, The Brave and the Bold, and the first issue of IDW Publishing's Star Trek: The Last Generation, "Do Not Close Your Eyes".
1987: Vic Toyota dies.
Victor Tsugio Toyota (5 August 1922 – 10 July 1987; age 64) was an actor and stuntman who appeared as the stunt double for George Takei (Sulu) in The Original Series episode "Catspaw".
Following Star Trek, Toyota had one additional television role during the 1960s, appearing as a "Bartender" in Ironside (1969), with Barbara Anderson, Robert DoQui, and fellow TOS stuntman Bob Herron. The teleplay for that episode, entitled "Five Miles High", was written by Animated Series writer Paul Schneider.
After a nearly decade long acting hiatus, Toyota made two additional film appearances: his first was a minor role as a "[Japanese] Interpreter" in the Tony Curtis film The Bad News Bears Go to Japan (1978); his last was another minor role, this time as a "Japanese Businessman", in the Albert Brooks film Modern Romance (1981) with Albert Henderson.
1987: Fifth day of filming on TNG: "The Naked Now".
1989: TNG: "Peak Performance" airs.
1991: Third day of filming on TNG: "Redemption II".
1993: Sam Rolfe dies.
Samuel Harris "Sam" Rolfe (18 February 1924 – 10 July 1993; age 69) was a writer who worked on two television episodes in the Star Trek franchise.
Rolfe, perhaps best known as the creator of The Man From U.N.C.L.E., was also the co-creator of Have Gun - Will Travel. Gene Roddenberry wrote several scripts for the latter series. Roddenberry also produced a failed pilot for Rolfe's proposed series The Long Hunt of April Savage, which starred Robert Lansing and featured Charles Dierkop.
Rolfe was nominated for an Oscar in 1953 for his first screenplay, Anthony Mann's classic western, The Naked Spur.
1995: CIC Video releases Deep Space Nine volume 3.9 and Voyager volume 1.2 on VHS in the UK.
1997: Third day of filming on DS9: "A Time to Stand".
Second day of filming on VOY: "Revulsion".
1998: Fourth day of filming on DS9: "Image in the Sand".
Sixth day of filming on VOY: "In the Flesh".
2000: Fifth day of filming on VOY: "Imperfection".
2001: Third day of filming on ENT: "Fight or Flight".
2002: First day of filming on ENT: "Shockwave, Part II".
2003: First day of filming on ENT: "Anomaly".
2007: Fan-submitted Strange New Worlds 10 anthology is released.
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A Day in the History of Star Trek
by Storm Windfall » Fri Jul 11, 2014 1:52 pm
A list of events which occurred on the 11th of July.
1930: Winnie McCarthy is born.
Winnie McCarthy (11 July 1930 – 20 April 1986; age 55) was an actress who appeared as an Unnamed Epsilon IX technician in Star Trek: The Motion Picture. She received no credit for her appearance. Her uniform shirt was sold off on the It's A Wrap! sale and auction on eBay.
During her brief career in films and television, McCarthy appeared in background roles in The Fall Guy, Trapper John M.D., and the 1983 comedy To Be or Not to Be (co-starring Christopher Lloyd).
1945: Michael Ray Rhodes is born.
Michael Ray Rhodes (born 11 July 1945; age 69) is a Hollywood television director. He directed the Star Trek: The Next Generation first season episode "Angel One". Rhodes was interviewed by Pat Jankiewicz for the article "Michael Rhodes - Herald of "Angel One", published in The Official Star Trek: The Next Generation Magazine Vol. 19, pp. 36-40.
Rhodes agent brought him into a contract with Paramount Pictures who want him to direct an episode of The Bronx Zoo. Part of this contract was, that he also directed an episode of Star Trek. Rhodes recalls about his ffirst meeting with Gene Roddenberry that there was no actual script, four days before the episode went into production. Rhodes previously worked with Wil Wheaton in an 1981 afterschool special. (The Official Star Trek: The Next Generation Magazine Vol. 19, pp. 36-38) According to Wil Wheaton, Rhodes had severe arguments with the rest of the cast while filming "Angel One". Probably this is the reason why he was never asked to direct any more episodes of Star Trek.
Rhodes has directed for several other television series, including Fame (a series which featured Graham Jarvis, Dick Miller, Eric Pierpoint, and Madlyn Rhue as regulars at one time or another), China Beach (starring Robert Picardo, Megan Gallagher, Jeff Kober, and Concetta Tomei), and Beverly Hills, 90210. He also directed episodes of the short-lived series This Is the Life, starring Next Generation actor Jonathan Frakes as well as Henry Darrow, Nehemiah Persoff, Brock Peters, Joan Pringle, and Andrew Robinson, and A Year in the Life, a series starring Richard Kiley and Diana Muldaur. His work on China Beach earned him four Emmy Awards and a Humanitas Prize Award.
However, the majority of his credits have been made-for-TV movies. These include The Fourth Wise Man (1985), In the Best Interest of the Children (1992, starring Gary Graham), Heidi (1993, starring Noley Thornton in the title role), Christy (1994), Entertaining Angels: The Dorothy Day Story (1996, featuring Brian Keith), and Co-ed Call Girl (1996, starring Star Trek: Voyager's Jeri Ryan and featuring Herta Ware and Dell Yount).
1950: Bruce McGill is born.
Bruce McGill (born 11 July 1950; age 64) is the American actor who played Braxton in the Star Trek: Voyager episode "Relativity". He took over the role from Canadian actor Allan G. Royal.
McGill was born in San Antonio, Texas, and graduated from The University of Texas at Austin with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in acting. He is well-known for his role as Daniel Simpson Day (aka "D-Day") in the 1978 comedy film National Lampoon's Animal House, which co-starred fellow Voyager guest star Mark Metcalf. McGill reprised his role as D-Day in the short-lived Animal House television series which aired in 1979.
Since his appearance in Animal House, McGill has become highly recognized for his supporting roles in many other popular films, including My Cousin Vinny, The Insider, The Legend of Bagger Vance, Collateral, The Lookout, and Cinderella Man. He is also known for his numerous television appearances, including a recurring role on MacGyver and guest spots on the science fiction series Quantum Leap and Babylon 5.
1950: Alan Brooks is born.
Alan Brooks (born 11 July 1950; age 64), an actor from Bakersfield, California, played the role of an Annari commander in VOY: "Nightingale".
Brooks acted with Andrea Martin in All I Want for Christmas in 1991. In 1995 he starred with Michael Dorn and Duncan Regehr in Timemaster.
1952: Tim de Zarn is born.
Tim de Zarn (born 11 July 1952; age 62) is an actor who has appeared in episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, and Star Trek: Voyager.
He has made several appearances as Army Sergeant Dixon on the television series Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman. That show's regular cast members includes Barbara Babcock, Joe Lando, Chad Allen, and Frank Collison. De Zarn has also appeared in an episode of Quantum Leap, starring Scott Bakula and Dean Stockwell, and an episode of 7th Heaven, starring Catherine Hicks and Stephen Collins.
His motion picture credits include Tales from the Crypt Presents: Demon Knight (1995, with William Sadler, Dick Miller, John Schuck, and John Larroquette, Fight Club (1999, with David Andrews), and Spider-Man (2002, playing Kirsten Dunst's father).
1966: Seventh (and last) day of filming on TOS: "The Naked Time".
First day of filming on TOS: "Charlie X".
1967: Fourth day of filming on TOS: "The Changeling". The main engineering scenes are filmed today.
1968: Fourth day of filming on TOS: "Spock's Brain". Sigma Draconis VI underground scenes are filmed today.
1970: The Fourteenth UK Story Arc continues in TV21 & Joe 90 #42 with the fourth of six installments.
1987: Sixth of seven filming days on TNG: "The Naked Now", a rare Saturday shoot.
1991: Fourth day of filming on TNG: "Redemption II".
1994: CIC Video releases Next Generation volume 83 and Deep Space Nine volume 17 on VHS in the UK.
1995: First day of filming on VOY: "Initiations".
1997: Fourth day of filming on DS9: "A Time to Stand".
Third day of filming on VOY: "Revulsion".
Final draft script for DS9: "Sons and Daughters" is submitted.
2000: Sixth day of filming on VOY: "Imperfection".
2001: Fourth day of filming on ENT: "Fight or Flight".
2002: Second day of filming on ENT: "Shockwave, Part II".
2003: Second day of filming on ENT: "Anomaly".
2005: Star Trek: Enterprise season 2 DVD released in Region 2.
1930: Winnie McCarthy is born.
Winnie McCarthy (11 July 1930 – 20 April 1986; age 55) was an actress who appeared as an Unnamed Epsilon IX technician in Star Trek: The Motion Picture. She received no credit for her appearance. Her uniform shirt was sold off on the It's A Wrap! sale and auction on eBay.
During her brief career in films and television, McCarthy appeared in background roles in The Fall Guy, Trapper John M.D., and the 1983 comedy To Be or Not to Be (co-starring Christopher Lloyd).
1945: Michael Ray Rhodes is born.
Michael Ray Rhodes (born 11 July 1945; age 69) is a Hollywood television director. He directed the Star Trek: The Next Generation first season episode "Angel One". Rhodes was interviewed by Pat Jankiewicz for the article "Michael Rhodes - Herald of "Angel One", published in The Official Star Trek: The Next Generation Magazine Vol. 19, pp. 36-40.
Rhodes agent brought him into a contract with Paramount Pictures who want him to direct an episode of The Bronx Zoo. Part of this contract was, that he also directed an episode of Star Trek. Rhodes recalls about his ffirst meeting with Gene Roddenberry that there was no actual script, four days before the episode went into production. Rhodes previously worked with Wil Wheaton in an 1981 afterschool special. (The Official Star Trek: The Next Generation Magazine Vol. 19, pp. 36-38) According to Wil Wheaton, Rhodes had severe arguments with the rest of the cast while filming "Angel One". Probably this is the reason why he was never asked to direct any more episodes of Star Trek.
Rhodes has directed for several other television series, including Fame (a series which featured Graham Jarvis, Dick Miller, Eric Pierpoint, and Madlyn Rhue as regulars at one time or another), China Beach (starring Robert Picardo, Megan Gallagher, Jeff Kober, and Concetta Tomei), and Beverly Hills, 90210. He also directed episodes of the short-lived series This Is the Life, starring Next Generation actor Jonathan Frakes as well as Henry Darrow, Nehemiah Persoff, Brock Peters, Joan Pringle, and Andrew Robinson, and A Year in the Life, a series starring Richard Kiley and Diana Muldaur. His work on China Beach earned him four Emmy Awards and a Humanitas Prize Award.
However, the majority of his credits have been made-for-TV movies. These include The Fourth Wise Man (1985), In the Best Interest of the Children (1992, starring Gary Graham), Heidi (1993, starring Noley Thornton in the title role), Christy (1994), Entertaining Angels: The Dorothy Day Story (1996, featuring Brian Keith), and Co-ed Call Girl (1996, starring Star Trek: Voyager's Jeri Ryan and featuring Herta Ware and Dell Yount).
1950: Bruce McGill is born.
Bruce McGill (born 11 July 1950; age 64) is the American actor who played Braxton in the Star Trek: Voyager episode "Relativity". He took over the role from Canadian actor Allan G. Royal.
McGill was born in San Antonio, Texas, and graduated from The University of Texas at Austin with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in acting. He is well-known for his role as Daniel Simpson Day (aka "D-Day") in the 1978 comedy film National Lampoon's Animal House, which co-starred fellow Voyager guest star Mark Metcalf. McGill reprised his role as D-Day in the short-lived Animal House television series which aired in 1979.
Since his appearance in Animal House, McGill has become highly recognized for his supporting roles in many other popular films, including My Cousin Vinny, The Insider, The Legend of Bagger Vance, Collateral, The Lookout, and Cinderella Man. He is also known for his numerous television appearances, including a recurring role on MacGyver and guest spots on the science fiction series Quantum Leap and Babylon 5.
1950: Alan Brooks is born.
Alan Brooks (born 11 July 1950; age 64), an actor from Bakersfield, California, played the role of an Annari commander in VOY: "Nightingale".
Brooks acted with Andrea Martin in All I Want for Christmas in 1991. In 1995 he starred with Michael Dorn and Duncan Regehr in Timemaster.
1952: Tim de Zarn is born.
Tim de Zarn (born 11 July 1952; age 62) is an actor who has appeared in episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, and Star Trek: Voyager.
He has made several appearances as Army Sergeant Dixon on the television series Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman. That show's regular cast members includes Barbara Babcock, Joe Lando, Chad Allen, and Frank Collison. De Zarn has also appeared in an episode of Quantum Leap, starring Scott Bakula and Dean Stockwell, and an episode of 7th Heaven, starring Catherine Hicks and Stephen Collins.
His motion picture credits include Tales from the Crypt Presents: Demon Knight (1995, with William Sadler, Dick Miller, John Schuck, and John Larroquette, Fight Club (1999, with David Andrews), and Spider-Man (2002, playing Kirsten Dunst's father).
1966: Seventh (and last) day of filming on TOS: "The Naked Time".
First day of filming on TOS: "Charlie X".
1967: Fourth day of filming on TOS: "The Changeling". The main engineering scenes are filmed today.
1968: Fourth day of filming on TOS: "Spock's Brain". Sigma Draconis VI underground scenes are filmed today.
1970: The Fourteenth UK Story Arc continues in TV21 & Joe 90 #42 with the fourth of six installments.
1987: Sixth of seven filming days on TNG: "The Naked Now", a rare Saturday shoot.
1991: Fourth day of filming on TNG: "Redemption II".
1994: CIC Video releases Next Generation volume 83 and Deep Space Nine volume 17 on VHS in the UK.
1995: First day of filming on VOY: "Initiations".
1997: Fourth day of filming on DS9: "A Time to Stand".
Third day of filming on VOY: "Revulsion".
Final draft script for DS9: "Sons and Daughters" is submitted.
2000: Sixth day of filming on VOY: "Imperfection".
2001: Fourth day of filming on ENT: "Fight or Flight".
2002: Second day of filming on ENT: "Shockwave, Part II".
2003: Second day of filming on ENT: "Anomaly".
2005: Star Trek: Enterprise season 2 DVD released in Region 2.
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A Day in the History of Star Trek
by Storm Windfall » Sat Jul 12, 2014 12:23 pm
A list of events which occurred on the 12th of July.
1920: Keith Andes is born.
Keith Andes (12 July 1920 – 11 November 2005; age 85) was an American actor who appeared in the second season of Star Trek: The Original Series, playing Akuta in the episode "The Apple".
Born as John Charles Andes, after serving with the US Army Air Corps during World War II, he performed in the 1943 Broadway musical Winged Victory and had a minor part in the film version the following year. He later appeared opposite Lucille Ball in her only Broadway musical, Wildcat, in 1960, and later appeared with her again on The Lucy Show.
Other television series on which he has made guest appearances include The Outer Limits (1964, with Jason Wingreen, Skip Homeier, Peter Duryea and James Doohan) and Death Valley Days (1965, hosted by Ronald Reagan, with "Spectre of the Gun" guest actor Gregg Palmer). He also appeared in the TV movies The Ultimate Imposter (1979, with TNG/DS9's Rosalind Chao, Gregory Barnett, and Robert Phillips) and Blinded by the Light (1980, with Phillip Richard Allen). In addition, he provided the voice for the title character in the cartoon Birdman and the Galaxy Trio (1967), alongside Ted Cassidy's Meteor Man.
Andes portrayed Johann Strauss, Jr. in the 1955 musical The Great Waltz, based on the life and music of the composer. He has also appeared in several classic films, including The Farmer's Daughter (1947), Blackbeard, the Pirate (1952, with Anthony Caruso), Clash by Night (1952), Away All Boats (1956, with Don Keefer, Parley Baer, Hal Baylor, Chuck Courtney), Pillars of the Sky (1956, with Michael Ansara and Richard Hale), The Girl Most Likely (1957), Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970, with William Schallert), and ...And Justice for All (1979, with J.G. Hertzler).
By 2005, Andes had been suffering from several ailments, including bladder cancer. On 11 November 2005, Andes was found dead at his home in Newhall, California, at the age of 85. His cause of death was determined to be suicide by asphyxiation.
1923: James Gunn is born.
James Edwin Gunn (born 12 July 1923; age 90) is a Star Trek author. He wrote one Star Trek novel, based on the screenplay "The Joy Machine" by Meyer Dolinsky, which is itself based on a story outline by Theodore Sturgeon. Besides this work, Gunn is a Nebula-award winning, prolific author of science fiction novels and short stories. Sometimes he writes under the name Edwin James.
1937: Denver Mattson is born.
Denver Mattson (12 July 1937 – 24 September 2005; age 68) was a stuntman, stunt actor, and stunt coordinator who served as stunt double for Budd Albright in the Star Trek: The Original Series episode "What Are Little Girls Made Of?". He received no on-screen credit for his work.
Born in 1937, Mattson was a veteran US Army paratrooper before becoming a top motion picture stuntman for more than 40 years. He began doing stunt work on the Irwin Allen-produced television series Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, from 1964 through 1968, and Land of the Giants, from 1968 through 1970. He would go on to perform stunts in two of Allen's films, The Poseidon Adventure in 1972 and The Towering Inferno in 1974.
Other films he performed throughout his long career include The Hindenburg (1975, directed by Robert Wise and starring Rene Auberjonois), John Carpenter's The Thing (1982, with David Clennon), Police Academy (1984, starring Kim Cattrall and David Graf), Critters (1986, starring Ethan Phillips), Slam Dance (1987, starring Virginia Madsen, Rosalind Chao, Herta Ware, Robert Beltran, and John Fleck), Universal Soldier (1992, starring Leon Rippy and Tommy "Tiny" Lister, Jr.), Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit (1993, starring Whoopi Goldberg), and Lethal Weapon 4 (1998, featuring Richard Riehle).
Mattson also tried his hand at acting, appearing in such films as 1977's The Domino Principle, co-starring Robert Herron and Majel Barrett, and 1994's Wagons East, starring Robert Picardo, Ethan Phillips, Ed Lauter, and Charles Rocket.
Denver Mattson passed away peacefully as a result of kidney disease in September 2005, surrounded by his family. He was 68 years old.
1948: Ben Burtt is born.
Benjamin Burtt, Jr. (born 12 July 1948; age 66), known simply as Ben Burtt, is an American four-time Academy Award-winning sound designer and sound editor who designed the special sound effects and montage for 2009's Star Trek. As sound designer and supervising sound editor of George Lucas' Lucasfilm Limited, Burtt has worked on many hit films since the mid-1970s, but he is perhaps best known for his sound work on the six Star Wars films.
Burtt was born in Jamesville, New York, and earned a college degree in Physics from Allegheny College in Pennsylvania. In 1970, he won the National Student Film Festival for a short war film called Yankee Squadron.
Burtt ultimately won a scholarship from the University of Southern California, from which he graduated with a Master's Degree in Film Production in 1975. In July of that year, he joined Lucasfilm and began working on Star Wars.
Burtt created many of the memorable sound effects heard in the Star Wars films, notably the vocalizations of R2-D2 and other droids, the light saber sounds effects, the speederbike sound effects, Darth Vader's breathing, and Chewbacca's roar. For his work on the first Star Wars in 1977, Burtt received a Special Achievement Award from the Academy Awards. He also won a BAFTA Award for the film, which he shared with his sound team, including Ray West.
After Star Wars, Burtt's next film was the 1978 remake of Invasion of the Body Snatchers, in which Star Trek: The Original Series star Leonard Nimoy had a supporting role. He then returned to the Star Wars franchise as sound designer and supervising sound effects editor on Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back. Afterward, he designed the sound for the first Indiana Jones film, Raiders of the Lost Ark, for which he won a second Special Achievement Award, shared with Star Trek: The Motion Picture supervising sound editor, Richard L. Anderson. Raiders also marked Burtt's first of many collaborations with filmmaker Steven Spielberg, who produced many of his movies through Lucasfilm.
For Spielberg's hit 1982 film E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Burtt designed the distinctive voice for E.T., which earned him that year's Academy Award for Best Effects, Sound Effects Editing. Burtt subsequently received two Academy Award nominations for Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (one of which he shared with Randy Thom), a nomination for George Lucas' Willow, and one win and one nomination for Steven Spielberg's Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Other films he worked on during the 1980s include Jim Henson's The Dark Crystal and Spielberg's Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and Always.
Burtt is known for rediscovering the sound effect called "the Wilhelm scream" and for including it in many of the films he works on. The distinctive scream was originally recorded under the title "Man Being Eaten by Alligator" for the 1951 film Distant Drums, which featured Richard Webb. Burtt named the effect after Private Wilhelm, a minor character in the 1953 film The Charge at Feather River who emitted the scream after being shot with an arrow. In Return of the Jedi, the scream is emitted by Burtt himself when the Imperial officer he plays in a cameo is attacked by Han Solo and falls to his death.
In 1990, Burtt decided to leave Lucasfilm and go freelance, in search of opportunities as a director. He directed a number of documentaries, including the IMAX film Blue Planet.
In 1992, Burtt returned to Lucasfilm and worked on the television series The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles. He was the second unit director for twenty episodes of the series, in addition to occasionally editing the show and providing sound design. He returned to directing in 1995 with the feature-length TV movie The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Attack of the Hawkmen.
In 1996, Burtt again left Lucasfilm for a year to co-write and direct the IMAX documentary Special Effects: Anything Can Happen. For this project, Burtt and producer/co-writer Susanne Simpson both received an Academy Award nomination for Best Documentary, Short Subjects.
After returning to Lucasfilm, Burtt was the sound designer, supervising sound editor, and film editor on Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace, Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones, and Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith. He shared an Academy Award nomination for Sound Effects Editing on The Phantom Menace. In late May 2005, after completing his work on the Star Wars prequels, Burtt again left Lucasfilm, this time to join Pixar Animation.
Although he no longer worked at Lucasfilm, Burtt continued his collaboration with Steven Spielberg, designing and editing the sound effects for Spielberg's films Munich (which, like 2009's Star Trek, starred Eric Bana), and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (which featured Pasha Lychnikoff and Alan Dale).
At Pixar, Burtt was the sound designer of the studio's hit computer-animated feature WALL·E, which included designing and supplying the voice for the title character.
1966: Second day of filming on TOS: "Charlie X".
1967: Fifth day of filming on TOS: "The Changeling".
Revised final script draft for TOS: "The Apple" is submitted.
The score for TOS: "Who Mourns for Adonais?", composed by Fred Steiner, is recorded.
1968: Fifth day of filming on TOS: "Spock's Brain".
Story outline for TOS: "The Mark of Gideon" is submitted.
Final draft script for TOS: "Is There in Truth No Beauty?" is submitted.
The score for TOS: "Elaan of Troyius", composed by Fred Steiner, is recorded.
1969: Star Trek premieres in the UK on BBC1.
The Sixth UK Story Arc continues in Joe 90: Top Secret #26 with the fourth of eight installments.
1970: Phil Jimenez is born.
Phil Jimenez (born 12 July 1970; age 44) is a comic book write and artist from California, USA.
He is known for his work writing and drawing Wonder Woman in the early 2000s and his collaborations with Grant Morrison on New X-Men and The Invisibles.
He has done a wide variety of work outside of comics, including his hands making a brief appearance in the film Spider-Man, doubling for Tobey Maguire drawing costume sketches. He has also done art for album covers, TV Guide, and other outlets.
He recently provided the "A" covers for every issue of IDW Publishing's Star Trek - Legion of Super-Heroes mini-series, all colored by Romulo Fajardo, Jr..
1981: Dan Crawley is born.
Daniel J Crawley (born 12 July 1981; age 33), often credited simply as Dan Crawley, is a special effects and make-up effects technician and artist from Winfield, Illinois. As a lab technician with Makeup & Effects Laboratories (M.E.L.), Crawley painted and fabricated costumes for the Hirogen characters on Star Trek: Voyager. More recently, as part of Film Illusions, he was a Key Technician on 2009's Star Trek.
As an employee of M.E.L., Crawley also worked on television series such as The Drew Carey Show (on which Diedrich Bader was a regular) and The Norm Show. He worked on several films for the studio, as well, including prop work on Ghosts of Mars (starring Joanna Cassidy and Rosemary Forsyth), The Time Machine (written by John Logan), and Adaptation (featuring Jim Beaver and Gregory Itzin).
Later, Crawley was hired by Optic Nerve Studios to work as a mold technician on the cult television shows Angel and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. He then became a fabricator on Buffy as part of Crisis FX, a studio he also worked with on the cult science fiction series Firefly (starring Ron Glass), on films such as The Ring (featuring Shannon Cochran and Richard Lineback) and The Last Samurai (co-written by John Logan), and on several commercials (including spots for Terminex and Capital One).
Prior to 2009's Star Trek, Crawley worked with Film Illusions on several other films. The first of these was The Chronicles of Riddick, which, like Star Trek, featured Karl Urban in the cast (as well as Roger R. Cross). His other film credits with the studio include the production of specialty costumes for Superman Returns (directed by Bryan Singer and featuring Frank Langella) and Fantastic Four and its sequel, 4: Rise of the Silver Surfer. Crawley also worked with Film Illusions on three commercials and as a painter and lab technician for Disneyland Tokyo. He was a key technician for the studio on the upcoming G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (starring Rachel Nichols), as well.
Crawley has worked with The Burman Studio as a silicone seamer on several projects, including Threshold, the short-lived science fiction series which starred TNG's Brent Spiner and which was produced by André Bormanis and David Livingston and executive produced by Brannon Braga and Mike Sussman. He also worked with The Burman Studio on the Emmy Award-winning TV movie Something the Lord Made, the television series Nip/Tuck, Invasion, Grey's Anatomy, and Huff (the latter of which featured Anton Yelchin), a commercial for Verizon Wireless, and the film Awake (which starred Christopher McDonald).
For the studio Captive Audience, Crawley was a lab technician on the acclaimed film Syriana, which starred David Clennon, Robert Foxworth, and DS9 regular Alexander Siddig. He later worked with Captive Audience on such films as The Exorcism of Emily Rose, Mel Gibson's Apocalypto, and Paramount Pictures' upcoming The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (featuring Spencer Daniels).
Crawley's other film credits include The Core (starring Bruce Greenwood and Alfre Woodard), Hairspray (featuring Paul Dooley), Species: The Awakening (starring Ben Cross and Dominic Keating), and Watchmen (starring Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Matt Frewer, and Stephen McHattie). His additional TV credits include The Shield for and Medium, and he also did make-up for such events as Wizard World Chicago 2007, Wizard World Los Angeles 2008, the Lionsgate panel at San Diego Comic Con 2007, and several of the annual Playboy Mansion Halloween parties.
Crawley is currently owner and chief technician of After Midnight Studios, which specializes in the design and fabrication of realistic special make-up effects, creature effects, costumes, props, and animatronics for film, television, commercials, and print. After Midnight Studios has worked on several projects thus far, including the horror film Dead and Gone and the short films September 12th and In Twilight's Shadow.
1991: Fifth day of filming on TNG: "Redemption II".
1993: Fourth day of filming on DS9: "The Homecoming".
Final draft script for DS9: "The Circle" is submitted.
1994: DS9: "The Jem'Hadar" airs.
1995: Second day of filming on VOY: "Initiations". Location scenes are filmed at Vasquez Rocks today.
1999: Eighth and final day of filming on VOY: "Barge of the Dead".
2000: Seventh day of filming on VOY: "Imperfection".
2001: Fifth day of filming on ENT: "Fight or Flight".
2002: Third day of filming on ENT: "Shockwave, Part II".
1920: Keith Andes is born.
Keith Andes (12 July 1920 – 11 November 2005; age 85) was an American actor who appeared in the second season of Star Trek: The Original Series, playing Akuta in the episode "The Apple".
Born as John Charles Andes, after serving with the US Army Air Corps during World War II, he performed in the 1943 Broadway musical Winged Victory and had a minor part in the film version the following year. He later appeared opposite Lucille Ball in her only Broadway musical, Wildcat, in 1960, and later appeared with her again on The Lucy Show.
Other television series on which he has made guest appearances include The Outer Limits (1964, with Jason Wingreen, Skip Homeier, Peter Duryea and James Doohan) and Death Valley Days (1965, hosted by Ronald Reagan, with "Spectre of the Gun" guest actor Gregg Palmer). He also appeared in the TV movies The Ultimate Imposter (1979, with TNG/DS9's Rosalind Chao, Gregory Barnett, and Robert Phillips) and Blinded by the Light (1980, with Phillip Richard Allen). In addition, he provided the voice for the title character in the cartoon Birdman and the Galaxy Trio (1967), alongside Ted Cassidy's Meteor Man.
Andes portrayed Johann Strauss, Jr. in the 1955 musical The Great Waltz, based on the life and music of the composer. He has also appeared in several classic films, including The Farmer's Daughter (1947), Blackbeard, the Pirate (1952, with Anthony Caruso), Clash by Night (1952), Away All Boats (1956, with Don Keefer, Parley Baer, Hal Baylor, Chuck Courtney), Pillars of the Sky (1956, with Michael Ansara and Richard Hale), The Girl Most Likely (1957), Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970, with William Schallert), and ...And Justice for All (1979, with J.G. Hertzler).
By 2005, Andes had been suffering from several ailments, including bladder cancer. On 11 November 2005, Andes was found dead at his home in Newhall, California, at the age of 85. His cause of death was determined to be suicide by asphyxiation.
1923: James Gunn is born.
James Edwin Gunn (born 12 July 1923; age 90) is a Star Trek author. He wrote one Star Trek novel, based on the screenplay "The Joy Machine" by Meyer Dolinsky, which is itself based on a story outline by Theodore Sturgeon. Besides this work, Gunn is a Nebula-award winning, prolific author of science fiction novels and short stories. Sometimes he writes under the name Edwin James.
1937: Denver Mattson is born.
Denver Mattson (12 July 1937 – 24 September 2005; age 68) was a stuntman, stunt actor, and stunt coordinator who served as stunt double for Budd Albright in the Star Trek: The Original Series episode "What Are Little Girls Made Of?". He received no on-screen credit for his work.
Born in 1937, Mattson was a veteran US Army paratrooper before becoming a top motion picture stuntman for more than 40 years. He began doing stunt work on the Irwin Allen-produced television series Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, from 1964 through 1968, and Land of the Giants, from 1968 through 1970. He would go on to perform stunts in two of Allen's films, The Poseidon Adventure in 1972 and The Towering Inferno in 1974.
Other films he performed throughout his long career include The Hindenburg (1975, directed by Robert Wise and starring Rene Auberjonois), John Carpenter's The Thing (1982, with David Clennon), Police Academy (1984, starring Kim Cattrall and David Graf), Critters (1986, starring Ethan Phillips), Slam Dance (1987, starring Virginia Madsen, Rosalind Chao, Herta Ware, Robert Beltran, and John Fleck), Universal Soldier (1992, starring Leon Rippy and Tommy "Tiny" Lister, Jr.), Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit (1993, starring Whoopi Goldberg), and Lethal Weapon 4 (1998, featuring Richard Riehle).
Mattson also tried his hand at acting, appearing in such films as 1977's The Domino Principle, co-starring Robert Herron and Majel Barrett, and 1994's Wagons East, starring Robert Picardo, Ethan Phillips, Ed Lauter, and Charles Rocket.
Denver Mattson passed away peacefully as a result of kidney disease in September 2005, surrounded by his family. He was 68 years old.
1948: Ben Burtt is born.
Benjamin Burtt, Jr. (born 12 July 1948; age 66), known simply as Ben Burtt, is an American four-time Academy Award-winning sound designer and sound editor who designed the special sound effects and montage for 2009's Star Trek. As sound designer and supervising sound editor of George Lucas' Lucasfilm Limited, Burtt has worked on many hit films since the mid-1970s, but he is perhaps best known for his sound work on the six Star Wars films.
Burtt was born in Jamesville, New York, and earned a college degree in Physics from Allegheny College in Pennsylvania. In 1970, he won the National Student Film Festival for a short war film called Yankee Squadron.
Burtt ultimately won a scholarship from the University of Southern California, from which he graduated with a Master's Degree in Film Production in 1975. In July of that year, he joined Lucasfilm and began working on Star Wars.
Burtt created many of the memorable sound effects heard in the Star Wars films, notably the vocalizations of R2-D2 and other droids, the light saber sounds effects, the speederbike sound effects, Darth Vader's breathing, and Chewbacca's roar. For his work on the first Star Wars in 1977, Burtt received a Special Achievement Award from the Academy Awards. He also won a BAFTA Award for the film, which he shared with his sound team, including Ray West.
After Star Wars, Burtt's next film was the 1978 remake of Invasion of the Body Snatchers, in which Star Trek: The Original Series star Leonard Nimoy had a supporting role. He then returned to the Star Wars franchise as sound designer and supervising sound effects editor on Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back. Afterward, he designed the sound for the first Indiana Jones film, Raiders of the Lost Ark, for which he won a second Special Achievement Award, shared with Star Trek: The Motion Picture supervising sound editor, Richard L. Anderson. Raiders also marked Burtt's first of many collaborations with filmmaker Steven Spielberg, who produced many of his movies through Lucasfilm.
For Spielberg's hit 1982 film E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Burtt designed the distinctive voice for E.T., which earned him that year's Academy Award for Best Effects, Sound Effects Editing. Burtt subsequently received two Academy Award nominations for Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (one of which he shared with Randy Thom), a nomination for George Lucas' Willow, and one win and one nomination for Steven Spielberg's Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Other films he worked on during the 1980s include Jim Henson's The Dark Crystal and Spielberg's Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and Always.
Burtt is known for rediscovering the sound effect called "the Wilhelm scream" and for including it in many of the films he works on. The distinctive scream was originally recorded under the title "Man Being Eaten by Alligator" for the 1951 film Distant Drums, which featured Richard Webb. Burtt named the effect after Private Wilhelm, a minor character in the 1953 film The Charge at Feather River who emitted the scream after being shot with an arrow. In Return of the Jedi, the scream is emitted by Burtt himself when the Imperial officer he plays in a cameo is attacked by Han Solo and falls to his death.
In 1990, Burtt decided to leave Lucasfilm and go freelance, in search of opportunities as a director. He directed a number of documentaries, including the IMAX film Blue Planet.
In 1992, Burtt returned to Lucasfilm and worked on the television series The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles. He was the second unit director for twenty episodes of the series, in addition to occasionally editing the show and providing sound design. He returned to directing in 1995 with the feature-length TV movie The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Attack of the Hawkmen.
In 1996, Burtt again left Lucasfilm for a year to co-write and direct the IMAX documentary Special Effects: Anything Can Happen. For this project, Burtt and producer/co-writer Susanne Simpson both received an Academy Award nomination for Best Documentary, Short Subjects.
After returning to Lucasfilm, Burtt was the sound designer, supervising sound editor, and film editor on Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace, Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones, and Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith. He shared an Academy Award nomination for Sound Effects Editing on The Phantom Menace. In late May 2005, after completing his work on the Star Wars prequels, Burtt again left Lucasfilm, this time to join Pixar Animation.
Although he no longer worked at Lucasfilm, Burtt continued his collaboration with Steven Spielberg, designing and editing the sound effects for Spielberg's films Munich (which, like 2009's Star Trek, starred Eric Bana), and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (which featured Pasha Lychnikoff and Alan Dale).
At Pixar, Burtt was the sound designer of the studio's hit computer-animated feature WALL·E, which included designing and supplying the voice for the title character.
1966: Second day of filming on TOS: "Charlie X".
1967: Fifth day of filming on TOS: "The Changeling".
Revised final script draft for TOS: "The Apple" is submitted.
The score for TOS: "Who Mourns for Adonais?", composed by Fred Steiner, is recorded.
1968: Fifth day of filming on TOS: "Spock's Brain".
Story outline for TOS: "The Mark of Gideon" is submitted.
Final draft script for TOS: "Is There in Truth No Beauty?" is submitted.
The score for TOS: "Elaan of Troyius", composed by Fred Steiner, is recorded.
1969: Star Trek premieres in the UK on BBC1.
The Sixth UK Story Arc continues in Joe 90: Top Secret #26 with the fourth of eight installments.
1970: Phil Jimenez is born.
Phil Jimenez (born 12 July 1970; age 44) is a comic book write and artist from California, USA.
He is known for his work writing and drawing Wonder Woman in the early 2000s and his collaborations with Grant Morrison on New X-Men and The Invisibles.
He has done a wide variety of work outside of comics, including his hands making a brief appearance in the film Spider-Man, doubling for Tobey Maguire drawing costume sketches. He has also done art for album covers, TV Guide, and other outlets.
He recently provided the "A" covers for every issue of IDW Publishing's Star Trek - Legion of Super-Heroes mini-series, all colored by Romulo Fajardo, Jr..
1981: Dan Crawley is born.
Daniel J Crawley (born 12 July 1981; age 33), often credited simply as Dan Crawley, is a special effects and make-up effects technician and artist from Winfield, Illinois. As a lab technician with Makeup & Effects Laboratories (M.E.L.), Crawley painted and fabricated costumes for the Hirogen characters on Star Trek: Voyager. More recently, as part of Film Illusions, he was a Key Technician on 2009's Star Trek.
As an employee of M.E.L., Crawley also worked on television series such as The Drew Carey Show (on which Diedrich Bader was a regular) and The Norm Show. He worked on several films for the studio, as well, including prop work on Ghosts of Mars (starring Joanna Cassidy and Rosemary Forsyth), The Time Machine (written by John Logan), and Adaptation (featuring Jim Beaver and Gregory Itzin).
Later, Crawley was hired by Optic Nerve Studios to work as a mold technician on the cult television shows Angel and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. He then became a fabricator on Buffy as part of Crisis FX, a studio he also worked with on the cult science fiction series Firefly (starring Ron Glass), on films such as The Ring (featuring Shannon Cochran and Richard Lineback) and The Last Samurai (co-written by John Logan), and on several commercials (including spots for Terminex and Capital One).
Prior to 2009's Star Trek, Crawley worked with Film Illusions on several other films. The first of these was The Chronicles of Riddick, which, like Star Trek, featured Karl Urban in the cast (as well as Roger R. Cross). His other film credits with the studio include the production of specialty costumes for Superman Returns (directed by Bryan Singer and featuring Frank Langella) and Fantastic Four and its sequel, 4: Rise of the Silver Surfer. Crawley also worked with Film Illusions on three commercials and as a painter and lab technician for Disneyland Tokyo. He was a key technician for the studio on the upcoming G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (starring Rachel Nichols), as well.
Crawley has worked with The Burman Studio as a silicone seamer on several projects, including Threshold, the short-lived science fiction series which starred TNG's Brent Spiner and which was produced by André Bormanis and David Livingston and executive produced by Brannon Braga and Mike Sussman. He also worked with The Burman Studio on the Emmy Award-winning TV movie Something the Lord Made, the television series Nip/Tuck, Invasion, Grey's Anatomy, and Huff (the latter of which featured Anton Yelchin), a commercial for Verizon Wireless, and the film Awake (which starred Christopher McDonald).
For the studio Captive Audience, Crawley was a lab technician on the acclaimed film Syriana, which starred David Clennon, Robert Foxworth, and DS9 regular Alexander Siddig. He later worked with Captive Audience on such films as The Exorcism of Emily Rose, Mel Gibson's Apocalypto, and Paramount Pictures' upcoming The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (featuring Spencer Daniels).
Crawley's other film credits include The Core (starring Bruce Greenwood and Alfre Woodard), Hairspray (featuring Paul Dooley), Species: The Awakening (starring Ben Cross and Dominic Keating), and Watchmen (starring Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Matt Frewer, and Stephen McHattie). His additional TV credits include The Shield for and Medium, and he also did make-up for such events as Wizard World Chicago 2007, Wizard World Los Angeles 2008, the Lionsgate panel at San Diego Comic Con 2007, and several of the annual Playboy Mansion Halloween parties.
Crawley is currently owner and chief technician of After Midnight Studios, which specializes in the design and fabrication of realistic special make-up effects, creature effects, costumes, props, and animatronics for film, television, commercials, and print. After Midnight Studios has worked on several projects thus far, including the horror film Dead and Gone and the short films September 12th and In Twilight's Shadow.
1991: Fifth day of filming on TNG: "Redemption II".
1993: Fourth day of filming on DS9: "The Homecoming".
Final draft script for DS9: "The Circle" is submitted.
1994: DS9: "The Jem'Hadar" airs.
1995: Second day of filming on VOY: "Initiations". Location scenes are filmed at Vasquez Rocks today.
1999: Eighth and final day of filming on VOY: "Barge of the Dead".
2000: Seventh day of filming on VOY: "Imperfection".
2001: Fifth day of filming on ENT: "Fight or Flight".
2002: Third day of filming on ENT: "Shockwave, Part II".
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A Day in the History of Star Trek
by Storm Windfall » Sun Jul 13, 2014 1:23 pm
A list of events which occurred on the 13th of July.
1927: Steven Marlo is born.
Steven Marlo (born 13 July 1927; age 86) is the actor who played Iotian gangster Zabo in the original series episode "A Piece of the Action".
He has also appeared on such television series as Ben Casey, Combat!, Bonanza, Mission: Impossible, and Land of the Giants. His film credits include The Buccaneer (1958), The Slender Thread (1965, with Jason Wingreen), the 1973 TV movie The Stranger (starring Glenn Corbett) and Sharon Acker), and the 1978 horror movie The Swarm. He also appeared in the 1980 film When Time Ran Out..., directed by James Goldstone.
1930: Claude Binyon, Jr. is born.
Claude Howard Binyon, Jr. (13 July 1930 – 27 January 2007; age 76) was an assistant director for Star Trek: The Original Series during its third season. He was a member of both the Director's Guild of America (DGA) and the Producer's Guild of America. the son of Writers Guild of America (WGA) Award-nominated screenwriter Claude Binyon (1905–1978), who wrote the famous "Wall Street Lays an Egg" headline when the stock market crashed in 1929.
Outside of Star Trek, the junior Binyon served as assistant director and/or production manager on various other TV shows as well as a number of films. He won two DGA Awards for his assistant directing work on 77 Sunset Strip and the Oscar-winning film The Deer Hunter (1978, starring John Savage). He also worked on shows such as The Outer Limits, Happy Days, Maverick and Get Smart, as well as films like To Catch a Thief (1955), The Enemy Below (1957, with Theodore Bikel, Biff Elliot, Vince Deadrick, Sr. and Lou Elias), Westworld (1973, with Majel Barrett, Alan Oppenheimer and Charles Seel) and That's Entertainment! (1974).
Binyon died in 2007, aged 76. He is survived by his wife of nineteen years, Pilar, and their three children, seven grand-children, and five great-grandchildren.
1930: Buck Maffei is born.
Robert "Big Buck" Maffei (13 July 1930 – 16 November 1982; age 52) played the Taurus II anthropoid in the original series episode "The Galileo Seven". He was most probably cast in the role because of his 7' 1" (2.16 m) height.
He was known for The Lord of the Rings (1978), Nice Dreams (1981) and Magic Christmas Tree (1964).
He died on November 16, 1982 in San Diego, California, USA.
1931: Ernie Colón is born.
Ernie Colón (born 13 July 1931; age 83) is a comic book artist from Puerto Rico.
He broke into the industry with Harvey Comics as a letterer, but quickly transferred to the art production department as he was a better artist then letterer. While there, he worked on a variety of books including Richie Rich and Caspar the Friendly Ghost. While there, his main editor was Sid Jacobson.
Once Harvey Comics folded in the early 1980s, he moved on and worked for DC and Marvel Comics on titles such as Green Lantern, Wonder Woman, Flash, Arak, Son of Thunder, Amethyst, Princess of Gemworld, and Doom 2099, and Spider-Man. During this time period, he also worked on the US Star Trek comic strip, where he was the original primary artist on the 17th story arc, "Goodbye to Spock".
Since meeting Jacobson, the two men became began collaborating together including a graphic novel version of the 9/11 Commission Report titled "The 9/11 Report: A Graphic Adaptation". They followed this up with "After 9/11: America's War on Terror". Further collaborations included graphic novel biographies of Ché Guevara and Anne Frank.
1940: Patrick Stewart is born.
Sir Patrick Stewart, OBE (born 13 July 1940; age 73) is an Emmy Award and Golden Globe-nominated, classically-trained English actor who has been playing a wide range of parts for much of his life. He has achieved great public success for his role as Captain Jean-Luc Picard, whom he portrayed for seven seasons on Star Trek: The Next Generation and in its feature film spin-offs. He is also known for his portrayal of Professor Charles Xavier in the hit X-Men films, and as the voice of Emperor Uriel Septim VII in the video game The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. Despite his success in film, television and video games, he still considers his roots in Shakespearean theater the most important aspect of his career.
Stewart was born in Mirfield, Yorkshire, UK, on 13 July 1940. His stage career started at an early age. His involvement was encouraged when, at age 12, he enrolled in an eighty-day drama course. Thereafter, his participation in local amateur dramatics increased steadily, even after he quit school at 15 to work as a reporter. However, his employer resented his dedication to the local theater and finally, after a little more than a year of Stewart's less-than-dedicated reporting, he issued him an ultimatum forcing him to choose between acting and journalism. Although it was a very good job, Stewart quit and became determined to prove himself as a professional actor.
In 1957, at age 17, he enrolled in the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, where he spent two years, learning his craft and losing his Yorkshire accent. After leaving school, Stewart was never out of work, despite a warning from an instructor, who told him that his baldness would make him a young character actor rather than a juvenile lead. Stewart, however, was able to land jobs by convincing directors that with a toupee, he could play both, doubling his range (advertising himself as "two actors for the price of one!"). His professional stage debut was at the Theatre Royal, Lincoln, in August 1959, playing Morgan in a stage adaption of Treasure Island.
From birth he was brought up as a supporter of Huddersfield Town Football Club, and, even after traveling the world as an actor, likes to return to watch his team play in the town adjacent to his birthplace. He is fond of his country, stating that during his time as a Hollywood player, he feared that not only would he not be able to return to Britain and the London stage, but that he could die on an American street rather than a street in England.
In 1997, Stewart became engaged to Star Trek: Voyager producer Wendy Neuss; they were married on 25 August 2000, and divorced 14 October 2003. He is the father of Daniel Stewart from an earlier marriage.
Now an internationally respected actor known for successfully bridging the gap between the theatrical world of the Shakespearean stage and contemporary film and television, Patrick Stewart continues to demonstrate his versatility with a wide range of upcoming projects.
In a 2007 video for Amnesty International and a 2009 article in The Guardian, Stewart talked about the physical abuse his mother endured because of his father while he was a child. Stewart is patron of the UK charity Refuge, which aids women and children suffering domestic violence.
It was reported in the New York Post of Wednesday September 19, 2012 that Stewart who had recently purchased a US$2 million mansion in Park Slope, Brooklyn, New York, had run into trouble early on into his move. Stewart had requested Time Warner Cable to install service in his new home but that after 36 hours, he was still waiting for the work to be done. Stewart took to Twitter and posted his displeasure with Time Warner. Costar and friend LeVar Burton responded to Stewart's posts by commenting he had been in the same predicament with Time Warner Cable. Stewart's original post was reposted a total of 1115 times. Stewart commented he had lost the will to fight but Stewart was indeed serviced. An update to Stewart's cable woes was printed in the New York Post of Friday September 21, 2012. Stewart, having been broken down by Time Warner Cable's lack of response after 36 hours of Stewart waiting for his service connection, dropped Time Warner and had decided to go with satellite TV service instead.
Stewart married for the third time on 8 September 2013 to jazz singer Sunny Ozell. The wedding was presided over by Ian McKellen.
Stewart originated the role of Captain Picard in the pilot episode for Star Trek: The Next Generation, entitled "Encounter at Farpoint". In the early pre-production stage of the series, TNG producer Robert H. Justman wanted Stewart for the role of Data. (Patrick Stewart: The Unauthorized Biography) Despite the character being French in origin, Stewart plays the character with a British accent albeit one distinct from that of his own birthplace in Yorkshire. Regardless, the role garnered him millions of fans, and earned him Best Actor nominations from the American Television Awards and the Screen Actors Guild. Stewart was invited to read for the part of Jean-Luc Picard after Robert Justman saw him during Shakespeare readings at a lecture at UCLA. Gene Roddenberry's first thought was that he "can't put a bald head man in the captain's chair". (TNG Season 1 DVD special feature "The Beginning")
He also played Picard in the pilot episode of spin-off series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, "Emissary" (in which he was also seen as Picard's Borg-assimilated alter ego Locutus). He went on to play Picard in the four Next Generation motion pictures, with his performance in the eighth Star trek film, Star Trek: First Contact, earning him a Best Actor Saturn Award nomination from the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films as well as a Favorite Actor nomination from the Blockbuster Movie Awards. In addition, he has voiced the role of Picard in several video games, the most recent of which was Star Trek: Legacy, which also featured the voice of fellow Trek captains William Shatner (James T. Kirk), Avery Brooks (Benjamin Sisko), Kate Mulgrew (Kathryn Janeway), and Scott Bakula (Jonathan Archer).
In addition to his starring role on TNG, he directed several episodes. He also served as associate producer for the film Star Trek: Insurrection.
Stewart has always been very aware of how closely identified William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy have become with their Star Trek characters. To combat the threat of typecasting, Stewart refuses to use any Star Trek terminology in the commercial voice-over work he does. "Make it so" and "Engage" are the two most common terms he has vetoed from commercial scripts he has performed. (Trek: The Next Generation Crew Book)
Stewart also ensured a ban on audience members from wearing Starfleet uniforms at his performances, as he was perturbed by their presence. Regardless, he said he does not mind people coming to watch him if they are Star Trek fans, as long as they enjoy his performance.
Stewart was also a member of The Sunspots, a band which also consists of TNG co-stars Jonathan Frakes, Michael Dorn, and LeVar Burton. They appeared as the background vocals for "It's a Sin to Tell a Lie" on Brent Spiner's 1991 album "Ol' Yellow Eyes is Back".
Stewart made his latest appearance as Picard in the tenth feature film, Star Trek Nemesis. Prior to the announcement that a prequel Trek film overseen by J.J. Abrams was underway, there were rumors that one more TNG film was in the works, despite the financial and critical failure of Nemesis. Since then, however, Stewart has stated his belief that playing Picard in another film likely wouldn't happen, comparing it to "a romantic relationship that's over". Nonetheless, he doesn't completely rule out the possibility.
Several costumes and components worn by Stewart were sold off on the It's A Wrap! sale and auction on eBay, including a pair of Starfleet dress uniform boots and a civilian costume lot.
In the special features section of the 7th Season DVD release of Star Trek: The Next Generation, Stewart expounds on his relationship with other Trek cast members, providing a unique insight into the behind-the-scenes relationships that occurred between the various actors.
Far from the character of Picard, who commanded the bridge of the Enterprise without question, Stewart was seen as an equal (and occasionally subordinate) to the actors he worked with and, in some cases, came into conflict with them. Stewart mentions in particular Michael Dorn, with whom he had many loud and vocal arguments on the set, and on one occasion seriously offended both Dorn and LeVar Burton by making a comment on the set seen as racist towards the two African American actors. Stewart stated that at the time he thought it was an innocent remark, but for years was haunted by the incident since he felt he had permanently damaged his relationship with these two actors.
Stewart also reminisced regarding Wil Wheaton, and how Stewart never saw him as a child actor but rather an adult actor on equal standing who just needed to gain a bit more experience. Stewart also held close relationships with Brent Spiner and Jonathan Frakes, relationships Stewart admits were fostered mostly due to the large number of "ready room scenes" with Data, Picard, and Riker, all of which were shot late into the night mostly on Fridays after the rest of the Trek cast had gone home.
Regarding his female co-workers, Stewart wonders what would have become of the show had Denise Crosby remained on-board but also states that the departure of Crosby was what made Michael Dorn so successful since the character of Worf was thus able to grow and eventually move into another series as a major character. Of Gates McFadden, Stewart says he had a close working relationship and also with Marina Sirtis who as "another Brit" was just as out of place on an American show as Stewart sometimes felt himself.
In 1966 Stewart joined the Royal Shakespeare Company, with whom he remained for nearly twenty years. Stewart is an Honorary Associate Artist of the Royal Shakespeare Company, having been made an Associate Artist in 1967. With the RSC, he has played such roles as King John, Shylock, Henry IV, Cassius, Titus Andronicus, Oberon, Leontes, Enobarbus, Touchstone, and Launce. He has also starred in many contemporary works with the RSC, including premiere productions by Tom Stoppard, Edward Bond, Howard Barker, and David Rudkin.
Stewart's association with the RSC ultimately brought him to the Broadway stage, performing in the Company's production of A Midsummer Night's Dream, which ran for 62 performances in 1971. Stewart went on to join the Royal National Theatre in the 1980s (for which he played the title role in Peter Shaffer's play Yonadab at the National Theater in 1986, among other productions), although he rejoined the RSC for productions of Othello in 1997 (with Stewart playing the title role) and Anthony and Cleopatra, Julius Caesar, and The Tempest in 2006.
Among Stewart's most well-known and acclaimed stage work is his one-man adaptation of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, portraying all of the story's characters himself. He performed the play on Broadway first in December 1991, winning a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Solo Performance/One Person Show in the following year. He staged encore performances in December and January of 1993, 1994, and 1995 and staged yet another performance in December 2001 as a benefit for the survivors and the families of victims of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
Stewart earned another Drama Desk Award nomination in 1996, this time as Outstanding Actor in a Play for his starring role in a Broadway production of Shakespeare's The Tempest. He received a second Outstanding Actor Drama Desk nomination in 1999 for his starring role in the Broadway play The Ride Down Mt. Morgan. He performed in revival of Harold Pinter's The Caretaker in 2003-04, and returned to Broadway with Ian McKellen during 2013-14 to perform Pinter's No Man's Land, in repertory with Waiting for Godot.
Although Stewart has had great success in both film and television, especially with his role on TNG, he has repeatedly gone on record as saying that stage theater is his first love. In fact, he has gone on record as stating that his being offered the role of Picard on Star Trek: The Next Generation was a "calamity" as it kept him away from the London stage. Although he was "immensely grateful" for the changes which Star Trek brought to his life, he now feels as though he has "a lot of catching up to do". He feels that "not that there have been lost opportunities, but that there are things I might have done and I've got to do a lot of them quickly now". He also felt that, because acting on the British stage is all he's wanted to do, his work in Hollywood lacked substance.
Stewart starred in a production of William Shakespeare's Macbeth in 2007, playing the title role. The play began at the Chichester Festival Theatre and then moved to West End's Gielgud Theatre. In February 2008, the play transferred to the Brooklyn Academy of Music and was later performed at the Lyceum Theatre on Broadway. Stewart was hailed as the "Macbeth of a lifetime" and won several awards for his performance.
Stewart currently co-stars with ex-Doctor Who actor David Tennant in a production of Hamlet for the Royal Shakespeare Company, which has since been transferred to the screen as a BBC Christmas Drama. Stewart will be playing Claudius to Tennant's Hamlet. Coincidentally, Stewart has stated in an interview he is keen for a role in Doctor Who, as he is a fan of the program, but has not yet been asked to appear. After a run in Stratford, the play transferred to London's West End. Stewart was awarded the Laurence Olivier Award for best supporting actor in March 2009 for the role.
Patrick Stewart worked alongside his co-star from the X-Men series, and his friend, Ian McKellen in a Scottish production of Waiting for Godot.
Stewart made the transition from stage to British television in the early 1970s, although his earliest appearances in the media were televised plays. In his first experience in a television drama, he played a fireman in Episode 638 of the long running British ITV soap opera Coronation Street.
In 1974, however, he began making a full transition (although remaining in familiar territory) in the Royal Shakespeare Company's made-for-TV adaptation of Antony and Cleopatra, in which Stewart played the supporting role of Enobarbus, co-starring with fellow future Star Trek alum W. Morgan Sheppard. That same year, Stewart had a role in the BBC mini-series Fall of Eagles, his first TV project that was not associated with a stage production, co-starring Tony Jay and John Rhys-Davies.
By the following year, Stewart had broken into feature films. He made his film debut playing Ejlert Løvborg in the drama Hedda, Henrik Ibsen's play Hedda Gabler. This was followed with the thriller Hennessy that same year.
In 1976, Stewart acquired some early recognition for his role as the ruthless Sejanus in the acclaimed BBC mini-series I, Claudius. This epic production, which received an Emmy Award nomination as Outstanding Limited Series, also co-starred John Rhys-Davies.
Stewart went on to play King Leondegrance in John Boorman's 1981 fantasy epic Excalibur, Stewart's first film produced by an American film company, although it was filmed in Ireland. By 1984, Stewart was more actively taking parts in Hollywood film productions. Among these was the supporting role of Gurney Halleck in the cult adaptation of Frank Herbert's Dune. His co-stars in this film included Brad Dourif, Virginia Madsen, and Dean Stockwell, all of whom went on to guest star on a Star Trek series.
In 1985 alone, Stewart could be seen in no less than five feature films. Included among those are Lifeforce (a sci-fi thriller in which Stewart has his first on-screen kiss – with a man) and The Doctor and the Devils (a horror movie also featuring W. Morgan Sheppard). In 1986, he had a supporting role as a duke in the biographical period drama Lady Jane – also featuring W. Morgan Sheppard. After this, however, Stewart was signed on to The Next Generation and, for seven years, his film career took a backseat to commanding the starship USS Enterprise-D.
Nonetheless, he did continue appearing in films while TNG was in production. In 1991's L.A. Story (which also featured Iman in a small role), he was briefly seen as a stuck-up maitre'd at a restaurant called L'Idiot; Time Winters played one of the waiters in this restaurant. There is also Mel Brooks' 1993 spoof Robin Hood: Men in Tights in which Stewart made a cameo appearance as King Richard at the end of the film. In addition, he starred in the 1993 TV movie Death Train and he also had a supporting role as a villain in the 1994 action film Gunmen.
Stewart appeared twice on the long-running children's program Sesame Street. In one segment, he praised the letter "B" in the form of a Shakespearean monologue ("A 'B' or not a 'B'?"). He and his TNG co-star Whoopi Goldberg are some of the few who had a segment on the show that did not feature any puppets, nor actors playing regular characters. In his second appearance on the program, he ordered "Make it so, number 1", to the number 1 when he kept running around the set.
After production on Next Generation completed, Stewart appeared in the 1994 TV movie In Search of Dr. Seuss, along with Matt Frewer, Whoopi Goldberg, Graham Jarvis, Christopher Lloyd, and Andrea Martin. Stewart then played a gay man in the drama Jeffrey, with DS9 guest star Steven Weber playing the title role and Star Trek: Voyager actors Ethan Phillips and Patrick Kerr co-starring. In 1997, Stewart played the villain in two films: Richard Donner's action thriller Conspiracy Theory (for which he won as Favorite Supporting Actor in a Suspense film from the Blockbuster Movie Awards) and the lighter-hearted Masterminds. The following year, he returned to the role of the hero as the star of the film Safe House, with Joy Kilpatrick playing his daughter.
Stewart received an Emmy Award nomination and a Golden Globe nomination for his portrayal of Captain Ahab in the 1998 TV movie adaptation of Herman Melville's Moby Dick. (It is amusing to note that Stewart acted his rather lengthy role as Captain Ahab after his discussion with Lily concerning Ahab in Star Trek: First Contact.) Stewart earned yet another nomination from both the Emmys and the Golden Globes for playing King Henry II in the 2003 adaptation of James Goldman's play The Lion in Winter. In between, Stewart starred as Ebenezer Scrooge in a 1999 TV adaptation of A Christmas Carol, for which he received a second Saturn Award nomination and a second Screen Actors Guild nomination, and reunited with TNG co-star Colm Meaney for the 2002 TV movie King of Texas, an updated adaptation of Shakespeare's King Lear. Stewart also served as an executive producer for the latter three movies.
Stewart's most successful, most well-known non-Trek film role is that of Professor Charles Francis Xavier (aka "Professor X") in the X-Men films based on the hugely popular Marvel Comics characters. Even before he was cast as Xavier, Stewart was long a fan-favorite choice to play the part. Stewart's performance in the first film earned him his third Saturn Award nomination and third Blockbuster Entertainment Award nomination. All three X-Men films – X-Men in 2000, X2 in 2003, and X-Men: The Last Stand in 2006 – co-starred his one-time TNG castmate Famke Janssen ("The Perfect Mate"). The first two also featured Bruce Davison, while the last film also co-starred Kelsey Grammer. Stewart and Grammer – the latter of whom guest-starred in the TNG episode "Cause and Effect" – co-starred with each other on an episode in the final season of Grammer's hit sitcom, Frasier in which Stewart played the very gay theater producer, Alistair Burke. Stewart reprised his role as Professor X in a cameo in the 2009 prequel film X-Men Origins: Wolverine, and reunited with Singer in 2014's X-Men: Days of Future Past.
Patrick Stewart was considered for the role of the Eighth Doctor and the (canonically Third) Master in Doctor Who. Stewart has revealed in an interview that he might have been considered by producers for the role, but he was never formally approached.
Stewart appeared in a comedy skit on The Daily Show hosted by the similarly named Jon Stewart when he wore a wig pretending to be Daily Show correspondent John Oliver making satire of the recent American Football Replacement Referee Controversy. Stewart took off the wig when the real Oliver emerged and for the duration of the sketch, Stewart quoted lines from the vast Shakespearean productions in which he has starred. On Tuesday November 6, 2012, Stewart returned to The Daily Show as announcer for their 2012 Presidential election coverage.
A lifelong fan of motor racing, Stewart holds a racing competition license and hosted an episode of Racing Legends for the BBC in which he met his childhood hero Sir Stirling Moss.
Stewart has lent his voice to a variety of animated films and TV shows.
In 1994, Stewart, his TNG co-star Whoopi Goldberg, and Frank Welker voiced a trio of talking books in The Pagemaster, a fantasy film starring Christopher Lloyd and Ed Begley, Jr. and also featuring the voices of Leonard Nimoy and Robert Picardo. He also voiced Dr. Lloyd Steam in the Japanese Anime Steam Boy. In 1998, Stewart voiced Pharaoh Seti I in the Biblical animated film The Prince of Egypt. The following year, Stewart and the aforementioned Kelsey Grammer voiced the pigs Napoleon and Snowball, respectively, in a TV adaptation of George Orwell's Animal Farm. And in 2001, Stewart played the evil King Goobot in Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius, which also featured the voice of Andrea Martin.
In 2005, Stewart and DS9 recurring actor Wallace Shawn lent their voices to the Disney movie Chicken Little. Regarding his work in this film, Stewart said in an interview for Disney's Movie Surfer that "umpteenth time's the charm". This is in reference to the fact that the heavy schedules for The Next Generation and its movies forced Stewart to turn down roles in previous Disney animated films, including Francis the bulldog in Oliver & Company(eventually voiced by Roscoe Lee Browne), King Triton in The Little Mermaid (ultimately voiced by DS9 guest star Kenneth Mars), Cogsworth in Beauty and The Beast (ultimately voiced by Stewart's one-time TNG co-star, David Ogden Stiers), Jafar in Aladdin (which he calls his deepest regret), Zazu in The Lion King, Ratcliffe in Pocahontas (also voiced by Stiers), Frollo in The Hunchback of Notre Dame (which went to Tony Jay), Zeus in Hercules, and Dr. Jumba Jookiba in Lilo & Stitch (again, this role went to David Ogden Stiers). He also had to turn down the title role in Disney's The Great Mouse Detective due to his commitment to a play. In addition, he was turned down for the role of Clayton in Disney's Tarzan as the director felt Brian Blessed's voice was perfect for the character. He was also considered for the role of Rasputin in Don Bluth's animated film for Twentieth Century Fox, Anastasia, before Christopher Lloyd took the role. After voicing in Chicken Little, Stewart voiced "The Great Prince" in Disney's 2006 direct-to-DVD release Bambi II.
In 2007, Stewart can be heard supplying the voice of the main villain in the CG-animated film TMNT (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles).
Stewart also lent his voice to the sixth season The Simpsons episode "Homer the Great", playing a character named "Number One."
Stewart provides the voice of Emperor Uriel Septim VII in The Elder Scrolls video game series, in the fourth game, Oblivion, for which he won the 2006 Spike TV Video Game Award.
His voice was used in a trailer at E3 for the game Castlevania: Lord of Shadows, for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. Whether his voice will be used in the game itself remains to be seen.
Stewart supplied his voice for 2012's Dorothy of Oz working again with Kelsey Grammer and also behind the microphone with Michael Krawic.
At present, Stewart plays the recurring role of CIA Director Avery Bullock in Seth MacFarlane's animated series, American Dad! His role often has references to Star Trek; for example, Bullock refers to his close aide as "Number One." In addition, Stewart is among the many Star Trek actors who have lent their voice to MacFarlane's Family Guy. In the episode "Peter's Got Woods", Stewart, Jonathan Frakes and Michael Dorn voiced their characters in a TNG spoof in which Picard makes fun of Worf's forehead. This scene actually replaced one which would have featured Stewart and Marina Sirtis in their roles as Picard and Troi, with Troi picking up some disturbing thoughts from a panicky Picard. Stewart and all his fellow castmates had lent their voices for the episode "Not All Dogs Go to Heaven" in which Stewie Griffin kidnaps them and forces them to spend the day together. He also appeared as Jean-Luc Picard in the third Family Guy Star Wars spoof "It's a Trap!!," for only one line "We're having tea, thank you very much". In addition, Michael Dorn appeared as Worf.
Stewart is currently set to produce and star in a film version of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice set in 20th century Las Vegas, which is being written by Star Trek Nemesis scribe John Logan. According to Stewart, the idea for this film came from an argument between himself and Logan after the latter called Merchant a "loathsome play."
He is also reprising his role as Professor Charles Xavier in the film Days of Future Past, the newest entry in the X-Men franchise, which was released in theaters on May 23, 2014. Other upcoming projects include his narration work for Sinbad: the Fifth Voyage, and Match, a film about an eccentric choreographer.
More recently, Stewart announced that he will work on Seth MacFarlane's half-hour scripted comedy show Blunt Talk. Stewart will not only play the main character Walter Blunt but also co-produce the series, set for a 2015 release.
In 1996, in honor of his work on the stage, Stewart received the prestigious Will Award from The Shakespeare Theatre in Washington, DC. The honor is given annually to an individual who makes "a significant contribution to classical theater in America." That same year, Stewart also won a Grammy Award for "Best Spoken Word Album for Children" for his narrative work on Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf.
In the 2001 New Years' Honours List, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland conferred on Stewart the honor of Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE).
In 2004, Patrick Stewart was named Chancellor of Huddersfield University.
In 2005, Stewart received an Emmy Award nomination for appearing – as himself – on the sitcom Extras.
In 2006 Stewart was voted as the second-sexiest retired man in the UK, just after Sean Connery. Stewart had previously been voted the "Sexiest Man on Television" by TV Guide in 1992.
In 2007 he was named as the next Cameron Mackintosh Visiting Professor of Contemporary Theatre at St. Catherine's College, University of Oxford. In that same year, he won the prize for Best Performance In A Play at the Theatrical Management Association (TMA) Awards for his portrayal of the title role in the Chichester Festival Theatre's production of Macbeth.
Stewart was named Best Actor of 2007 at the London Evening Standard Theatre Awards for his performance in the West End production of Macbeth.
In 2008 Stewart was awarded the Best Shakespearean Performance prize from the Critics' Circle Theatre Awards for his performance in Macbeth. He shared the award with actor Chiwetel Ejiofor, who won for his performance in a production of Othello.
Stewart was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Performance By a Leading Actor in a Play for his performance in Macbeth. He is the first actor to be nominated for a Tony Award for playing Macbeth. The play received a total of six Tony nominations, including Stewart's.
On 14 July, 2008, Stewart was named Professor of Performing Arts at Huddersfield University, where he has been chancellor since 2004.
Stewart was awarded a knighthood by Queen Elizabeth II for his services to drama. Announced in the New Years' Honours List published in December 2009, he was formally knighted on 2 June 2010.
Stewart shared in the honor of carrying the Olympic Flame in London to celebrate the 2012 Summer games.
1941: Frank Corsentino is born.
Frank G. Corsentino (13 July 1941 – 7 January 2007; age 65) was an actor who had three Star Trek appearances to his credit, playing three different Ferengi characters. Among those characters was DaiMon Bok, whom he played in Star Trek: The Next Generation's first season episode "The Battle". Bok returned in the seventh season episode "Bloodlines", but Corsentino could not be located to reprise the role and the part went to Lee Arenberg. (Star Trek: The Next Generation Companion) His costume from the latter appearance was sold off on the It's A Wrap! sale and auction on eBay and was previously worn by Rob Steiner and Lou Wagner. His face as Bok was later used in the 1995 video game Star Trek: The Next Generation - A Final Unity as the Ferengi character Aramut. He went uncredited in the game, however.
Corsentino was born in Los Angeles County, California.
In the 1970s, Corsentino guest-starred in two episodes of Gunsmoke with TOS guest actor Glenn Corbett, with both Corsentino and Corbett playing a different character each time. The first episode, 1971's "Phoenix", also guest-starred Mariette Hartley, while the second episode, 1974's "A Family of Killers", featured Anthony Caruso.
Corsentino also appeared on such shows as Then Came Bronson (in an episode with Skip Homeier), Ironside (with Joel Grey and Gene Lyons), The Courtship of Eddie's Father (with Alan Oppenheimer), The Odd Couple (starring Garry Walberg), Starsky & Hutch (starring David Soul), The Fantastic Journey (in an episode written by Harold Livingston), Vega$ (including an episode with Ian Abercrombie and Gary Lockwood), and Hunter (in an episode with Michael Dorn). His feature film credits include Russ Meyer's Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (with Charles Napier), the 1971 horror film Simon, King of the Witches (with Andrew Prine), and 1974's Moonchild.
Acting on television since the 1960s, Corsentino's role as Gegis in the Star Trek: Voyager episode "Inside Man" was his last known TV appearance.
Corsentino passed away in 2007 in Los Angeles County, California.
1954: Randall Larson is born.
Randall D. Larson (born 13 July 1954; age 59) is a journalist and Star Trek fan, who appeared as an unnamed Enterprise crewmember in the rec deck scenes of Star Trek: The Motion Picture.
Larson was the senior editor for Soundtrack Magazine, publisher of CinemaScore: The Film Music Journal, and also a columnist (specializing in film scores) for Cinefantastique.
1959: Chester E. Tripp III is born.
Chester E. Tripp III (born 13 July 1959; age 55) is a stuntman, stunt actor, and stunt coordinator who performed stunts in several episodes of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: Voyager, and Star Trek: Enterprise. He also worked as an additional fight choreographer on several locations and received no on-screen credit for all of his appearances. His costume from the episode "Warlord" was sold off on the It's A Wrap! sale and auction on eBay. His name was misspelled as Chester Trapp on the name tag.
Tripp was born in Wauseon, Ohio and is nicknamed Butch. Hailing from a big family he spent his youth in several foster homes. He played football and was also an awarded boxer. Tripp has entered the stunt industry in 1987 and has been married to D. LeAnn Tripp. They have three children. He has doubled for stars such as Bill Paxton, Greg Kinnear, William Sadler, Kiefer Sutherland, Peter Weller, Steven Weber, and Josh Lucas and was also a member of a stunt group which performed show fights on several Star Trek conventions.
Among his resume are films such as Batman Returns (1992), Private Wars (1993, with Michael Champion and stunts by Scott Leva, Joe Murphy, Chino Binamo, Chuck Borden, Ken Lesco, Dennis Madalone, and Rick New), Monolith (1993, with Musetta Vander, Boris Lee Krutonog, Todd Jeffries, and stunts by Chuck Borden, Maria R. Kelly, Dennis Madalone, and Joe Murphy), Ice (1994, with Zach Galligan, Michael Bailey Smith, and stunts by Chuck Borden, Chino Binamo, Nick Dimitri, Joe Murphy, Mark Riccardi, and Patricia Tallman), Direct Hit (1994, with Peter Slutsker and stunts by Chino Binamo, Chuck Borden, George Colucci, Nick Dimitri, Sonia Jo McDancer, Lane Leavitt, Chuck Madalone, Dennis Madalone, Joe Murphy, Mark Riccardi, and Patricia Tallman), Project Shadowchaser III (1995, with Musetta Vander, Christopher Neame, and stunts by Ken Clark, Brennan Dyson, and Tim Sitarz), the Academy Award winning As Good as It Gets (1997, with Kaitlin Hopkins, Matt Malloy, and stunts by B.J. Davis, Gene LeBell, Phil O'Dell, Denise Lynne Roberts, and Pete Turner), The X-Files (1998), The General's Daughter (1999, with James Cromwell), Route 666 (2001, with Lori Petty, Peewee Piemonte, Dick Miller, John Cade, and Chuck Hicks), Betrayal (2003, with Tom Wright and stunts by Danny Downey, Austin Priester, Lisa Hoyle, and Michael J. Sarna), Wonderland (2003), Glory Road (2006), and American Fork (2007, with Bruce McGill).
Tripp has also performed stunts in television series such as Roswell (2002, starring William Sadler), V.I.P. (1999), Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1999), Charmed (2003), Alias (2003, created by J.J. Abrams), Without a Trace (2004-2006, starring Enrique Murciano and coordinated by Dennis Madalone), Monk (2005), 24 (2005-2006), and Martial Law (1999).
1966: Third day of filming on TOS: "Charlie X".
1967: Jaq Greenspon is born.
Jaq Greenspon (born 13 July 1967; age 46) co-wrote the story of the Star Trek: The Next Generation seventh season episode "Liaisons" with Roger Eschbacher.
Born in Southern California and raised primarily in Las Vegas, Greenspon is a writer whose work has been read around the world. From Las Vegas, he moved to Venice, California, where he worked with an improvisational acting troupe and began studying film-making. He has since become a professional reviewer of book and film and an instructor of the film industry, as well as an author and screenwriter.
In addition to Star Trek, Greenspon wrote the teleplay for an episode of The New Adventures of Robin Hood. He has also written a few unproduced television pilots and several unproduced motion picture screenplays.
1967: Sixth day of filming on TOS: "The Changeling". The briefing room scenes are filmed today.
1987: Elyssa D. Vito is born.
Elyssa D. Vito (born 13 July 1987; age 27) is an actress who portrayed Nadine in Star Trek: Enterprise's 2001 episode "Fortunate Son". Vito has also appeared in an episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer (along with stuntman Bret Davidson) and The King of Queens (alongside Dakin Matthews).
1987: Sixth day of filming on TNG: "The Naked Now".
Revised final draft script for TNG: "Haven" is submitted.
1989: 3rd revised final draft script for TNG: "The Ensigns of Command" is submitted.
1990: Final draft script for TNG: "Brothers" is submitted.
1993: Fifth day of filming on DS9: "The Homecoming".
1995: Third day of filming on VOY: "Initiations".
Star Trek Generations premieres in Hungary.
1998: Fifth day of filming on DS9: "Image in the Sand".
Seventh day of filming on VOY: "In the Flesh".
1999: First day of filming on VOY: "Tinker Tenor Doctor Spy".
2000: Eighth and final day of filming on VOY: "Imperfection".
2001: Sixth day of filming on ENT: "Fight or Flight".
1927: Steven Marlo is born.
Steven Marlo (born 13 July 1927; age 86) is the actor who played Iotian gangster Zabo in the original series episode "A Piece of the Action".
He has also appeared on such television series as Ben Casey, Combat!, Bonanza, Mission: Impossible, and Land of the Giants. His film credits include The Buccaneer (1958), The Slender Thread (1965, with Jason Wingreen), the 1973 TV movie The Stranger (starring Glenn Corbett) and Sharon Acker), and the 1978 horror movie The Swarm. He also appeared in the 1980 film When Time Ran Out..., directed by James Goldstone.
1930: Claude Binyon, Jr. is born.
Claude Howard Binyon, Jr. (13 July 1930 – 27 January 2007; age 76) was an assistant director for Star Trek: The Original Series during its third season. He was a member of both the Director's Guild of America (DGA) and the Producer's Guild of America. the son of Writers Guild of America (WGA) Award-nominated screenwriter Claude Binyon (1905–1978), who wrote the famous "Wall Street Lays an Egg" headline when the stock market crashed in 1929.
Outside of Star Trek, the junior Binyon served as assistant director and/or production manager on various other TV shows as well as a number of films. He won two DGA Awards for his assistant directing work on 77 Sunset Strip and the Oscar-winning film The Deer Hunter (1978, starring John Savage). He also worked on shows such as The Outer Limits, Happy Days, Maverick and Get Smart, as well as films like To Catch a Thief (1955), The Enemy Below (1957, with Theodore Bikel, Biff Elliot, Vince Deadrick, Sr. and Lou Elias), Westworld (1973, with Majel Barrett, Alan Oppenheimer and Charles Seel) and That's Entertainment! (1974).
Binyon died in 2007, aged 76. He is survived by his wife of nineteen years, Pilar, and their three children, seven grand-children, and five great-grandchildren.
1930: Buck Maffei is born.
Robert "Big Buck" Maffei (13 July 1930 – 16 November 1982; age 52) played the Taurus II anthropoid in the original series episode "The Galileo Seven". He was most probably cast in the role because of his 7' 1" (2.16 m) height.
He was known for The Lord of the Rings (1978), Nice Dreams (1981) and Magic Christmas Tree (1964).
He died on November 16, 1982 in San Diego, California, USA.
1931: Ernie Colón is born.
Ernie Colón (born 13 July 1931; age 83) is a comic book artist from Puerto Rico.
He broke into the industry with Harvey Comics as a letterer, but quickly transferred to the art production department as he was a better artist then letterer. While there, he worked on a variety of books including Richie Rich and Caspar the Friendly Ghost. While there, his main editor was Sid Jacobson.
Once Harvey Comics folded in the early 1980s, he moved on and worked for DC and Marvel Comics on titles such as Green Lantern, Wonder Woman, Flash, Arak, Son of Thunder, Amethyst, Princess of Gemworld, and Doom 2099, and Spider-Man. During this time period, he also worked on the US Star Trek comic strip, where he was the original primary artist on the 17th story arc, "Goodbye to Spock".
Since meeting Jacobson, the two men became began collaborating together including a graphic novel version of the 9/11 Commission Report titled "The 9/11 Report: A Graphic Adaptation". They followed this up with "After 9/11: America's War on Terror". Further collaborations included graphic novel biographies of Ché Guevara and Anne Frank.
1940: Patrick Stewart is born.
Sir Patrick Stewart, OBE (born 13 July 1940; age 73) is an Emmy Award and Golden Globe-nominated, classically-trained English actor who has been playing a wide range of parts for much of his life. He has achieved great public success for his role as Captain Jean-Luc Picard, whom he portrayed for seven seasons on Star Trek: The Next Generation and in its feature film spin-offs. He is also known for his portrayal of Professor Charles Xavier in the hit X-Men films, and as the voice of Emperor Uriel Septim VII in the video game The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. Despite his success in film, television and video games, he still considers his roots in Shakespearean theater the most important aspect of his career.
Stewart was born in Mirfield, Yorkshire, UK, on 13 July 1940. His stage career started at an early age. His involvement was encouraged when, at age 12, he enrolled in an eighty-day drama course. Thereafter, his participation in local amateur dramatics increased steadily, even after he quit school at 15 to work as a reporter. However, his employer resented his dedication to the local theater and finally, after a little more than a year of Stewart's less-than-dedicated reporting, he issued him an ultimatum forcing him to choose between acting and journalism. Although it was a very good job, Stewart quit and became determined to prove himself as a professional actor.
In 1957, at age 17, he enrolled in the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, where he spent two years, learning his craft and losing his Yorkshire accent. After leaving school, Stewart was never out of work, despite a warning from an instructor, who told him that his baldness would make him a young character actor rather than a juvenile lead. Stewart, however, was able to land jobs by convincing directors that with a toupee, he could play both, doubling his range (advertising himself as "two actors for the price of one!"). His professional stage debut was at the Theatre Royal, Lincoln, in August 1959, playing Morgan in a stage adaption of Treasure Island.
From birth he was brought up as a supporter of Huddersfield Town Football Club, and, even after traveling the world as an actor, likes to return to watch his team play in the town adjacent to his birthplace. He is fond of his country, stating that during his time as a Hollywood player, he feared that not only would he not be able to return to Britain and the London stage, but that he could die on an American street rather than a street in England.
In 1997, Stewart became engaged to Star Trek: Voyager producer Wendy Neuss; they were married on 25 August 2000, and divorced 14 October 2003. He is the father of Daniel Stewart from an earlier marriage.
Now an internationally respected actor known for successfully bridging the gap between the theatrical world of the Shakespearean stage and contemporary film and television, Patrick Stewart continues to demonstrate his versatility with a wide range of upcoming projects.
In a 2007 video for Amnesty International and a 2009 article in The Guardian, Stewart talked about the physical abuse his mother endured because of his father while he was a child. Stewart is patron of the UK charity Refuge, which aids women and children suffering domestic violence.
It was reported in the New York Post of Wednesday September 19, 2012 that Stewart who had recently purchased a US$2 million mansion in Park Slope, Brooklyn, New York, had run into trouble early on into his move. Stewart had requested Time Warner Cable to install service in his new home but that after 36 hours, he was still waiting for the work to be done. Stewart took to Twitter and posted his displeasure with Time Warner. Costar and friend LeVar Burton responded to Stewart's posts by commenting he had been in the same predicament with Time Warner Cable. Stewart's original post was reposted a total of 1115 times. Stewart commented he had lost the will to fight but Stewart was indeed serviced. An update to Stewart's cable woes was printed in the New York Post of Friday September 21, 2012. Stewart, having been broken down by Time Warner Cable's lack of response after 36 hours of Stewart waiting for his service connection, dropped Time Warner and had decided to go with satellite TV service instead.
Stewart married for the third time on 8 September 2013 to jazz singer Sunny Ozell. The wedding was presided over by Ian McKellen.
Stewart originated the role of Captain Picard in the pilot episode for Star Trek: The Next Generation, entitled "Encounter at Farpoint". In the early pre-production stage of the series, TNG producer Robert H. Justman wanted Stewart for the role of Data. (Patrick Stewart: The Unauthorized Biography) Despite the character being French in origin, Stewart plays the character with a British accent albeit one distinct from that of his own birthplace in Yorkshire. Regardless, the role garnered him millions of fans, and earned him Best Actor nominations from the American Television Awards and the Screen Actors Guild. Stewart was invited to read for the part of Jean-Luc Picard after Robert Justman saw him during Shakespeare readings at a lecture at UCLA. Gene Roddenberry's first thought was that he "can't put a bald head man in the captain's chair". (TNG Season 1 DVD special feature "The Beginning")
He also played Picard in the pilot episode of spin-off series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, "Emissary" (in which he was also seen as Picard's Borg-assimilated alter ego Locutus). He went on to play Picard in the four Next Generation motion pictures, with his performance in the eighth Star trek film, Star Trek: First Contact, earning him a Best Actor Saturn Award nomination from the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films as well as a Favorite Actor nomination from the Blockbuster Movie Awards. In addition, he has voiced the role of Picard in several video games, the most recent of which was Star Trek: Legacy, which also featured the voice of fellow Trek captains William Shatner (James T. Kirk), Avery Brooks (Benjamin Sisko), Kate Mulgrew (Kathryn Janeway), and Scott Bakula (Jonathan Archer).
In addition to his starring role on TNG, he directed several episodes. He also served as associate producer for the film Star Trek: Insurrection.
Stewart has always been very aware of how closely identified William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy have become with their Star Trek characters. To combat the threat of typecasting, Stewart refuses to use any Star Trek terminology in the commercial voice-over work he does. "Make it so" and "Engage" are the two most common terms he has vetoed from commercial scripts he has performed. (Trek: The Next Generation Crew Book)
Stewart also ensured a ban on audience members from wearing Starfleet uniforms at his performances, as he was perturbed by their presence. Regardless, he said he does not mind people coming to watch him if they are Star Trek fans, as long as they enjoy his performance.
Stewart was also a member of The Sunspots, a band which also consists of TNG co-stars Jonathan Frakes, Michael Dorn, and LeVar Burton. They appeared as the background vocals for "It's a Sin to Tell a Lie" on Brent Spiner's 1991 album "Ol' Yellow Eyes is Back".
Stewart made his latest appearance as Picard in the tenth feature film, Star Trek Nemesis. Prior to the announcement that a prequel Trek film overseen by J.J. Abrams was underway, there were rumors that one more TNG film was in the works, despite the financial and critical failure of Nemesis. Since then, however, Stewart has stated his belief that playing Picard in another film likely wouldn't happen, comparing it to "a romantic relationship that's over". Nonetheless, he doesn't completely rule out the possibility.
Several costumes and components worn by Stewart were sold off on the It's A Wrap! sale and auction on eBay, including a pair of Starfleet dress uniform boots and a civilian costume lot.
In the special features section of the 7th Season DVD release of Star Trek: The Next Generation, Stewart expounds on his relationship with other Trek cast members, providing a unique insight into the behind-the-scenes relationships that occurred between the various actors.
Far from the character of Picard, who commanded the bridge of the Enterprise without question, Stewart was seen as an equal (and occasionally subordinate) to the actors he worked with and, in some cases, came into conflict with them. Stewart mentions in particular Michael Dorn, with whom he had many loud and vocal arguments on the set, and on one occasion seriously offended both Dorn and LeVar Burton by making a comment on the set seen as racist towards the two African American actors. Stewart stated that at the time he thought it was an innocent remark, but for years was haunted by the incident since he felt he had permanently damaged his relationship with these two actors.
Stewart also reminisced regarding Wil Wheaton, and how Stewart never saw him as a child actor but rather an adult actor on equal standing who just needed to gain a bit more experience. Stewart also held close relationships with Brent Spiner and Jonathan Frakes, relationships Stewart admits were fostered mostly due to the large number of "ready room scenes" with Data, Picard, and Riker, all of which were shot late into the night mostly on Fridays after the rest of the Trek cast had gone home.
Regarding his female co-workers, Stewart wonders what would have become of the show had Denise Crosby remained on-board but also states that the departure of Crosby was what made Michael Dorn so successful since the character of Worf was thus able to grow and eventually move into another series as a major character. Of Gates McFadden, Stewart says he had a close working relationship and also with Marina Sirtis who as "another Brit" was just as out of place on an American show as Stewart sometimes felt himself.
In 1966 Stewart joined the Royal Shakespeare Company, with whom he remained for nearly twenty years. Stewart is an Honorary Associate Artist of the Royal Shakespeare Company, having been made an Associate Artist in 1967. With the RSC, he has played such roles as King John, Shylock, Henry IV, Cassius, Titus Andronicus, Oberon, Leontes, Enobarbus, Touchstone, and Launce. He has also starred in many contemporary works with the RSC, including premiere productions by Tom Stoppard, Edward Bond, Howard Barker, and David Rudkin.
Stewart's association with the RSC ultimately brought him to the Broadway stage, performing in the Company's production of A Midsummer Night's Dream, which ran for 62 performances in 1971. Stewart went on to join the Royal National Theatre in the 1980s (for which he played the title role in Peter Shaffer's play Yonadab at the National Theater in 1986, among other productions), although he rejoined the RSC for productions of Othello in 1997 (with Stewart playing the title role) and Anthony and Cleopatra, Julius Caesar, and The Tempest in 2006.
Among Stewart's most well-known and acclaimed stage work is his one-man adaptation of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, portraying all of the story's characters himself. He performed the play on Broadway first in December 1991, winning a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Solo Performance/One Person Show in the following year. He staged encore performances in December and January of 1993, 1994, and 1995 and staged yet another performance in December 2001 as a benefit for the survivors and the families of victims of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
Stewart earned another Drama Desk Award nomination in 1996, this time as Outstanding Actor in a Play for his starring role in a Broadway production of Shakespeare's The Tempest. He received a second Outstanding Actor Drama Desk nomination in 1999 for his starring role in the Broadway play The Ride Down Mt. Morgan. He performed in revival of Harold Pinter's The Caretaker in 2003-04, and returned to Broadway with Ian McKellen during 2013-14 to perform Pinter's No Man's Land, in repertory with Waiting for Godot.
Although Stewart has had great success in both film and television, especially with his role on TNG, he has repeatedly gone on record as saying that stage theater is his first love. In fact, he has gone on record as stating that his being offered the role of Picard on Star Trek: The Next Generation was a "calamity" as it kept him away from the London stage. Although he was "immensely grateful" for the changes which Star Trek brought to his life, he now feels as though he has "a lot of catching up to do". He feels that "not that there have been lost opportunities, but that there are things I might have done and I've got to do a lot of them quickly now". He also felt that, because acting on the British stage is all he's wanted to do, his work in Hollywood lacked substance.
Stewart starred in a production of William Shakespeare's Macbeth in 2007, playing the title role. The play began at the Chichester Festival Theatre and then moved to West End's Gielgud Theatre. In February 2008, the play transferred to the Brooklyn Academy of Music and was later performed at the Lyceum Theatre on Broadway. Stewart was hailed as the "Macbeth of a lifetime" and won several awards for his performance.
Stewart currently co-stars with ex-Doctor Who actor David Tennant in a production of Hamlet for the Royal Shakespeare Company, which has since been transferred to the screen as a BBC Christmas Drama. Stewart will be playing Claudius to Tennant's Hamlet. Coincidentally, Stewart has stated in an interview he is keen for a role in Doctor Who, as he is a fan of the program, but has not yet been asked to appear. After a run in Stratford, the play transferred to London's West End. Stewart was awarded the Laurence Olivier Award for best supporting actor in March 2009 for the role.
Patrick Stewart worked alongside his co-star from the X-Men series, and his friend, Ian McKellen in a Scottish production of Waiting for Godot.
Stewart made the transition from stage to British television in the early 1970s, although his earliest appearances in the media were televised plays. In his first experience in a television drama, he played a fireman in Episode 638 of the long running British ITV soap opera Coronation Street.
In 1974, however, he began making a full transition (although remaining in familiar territory) in the Royal Shakespeare Company's made-for-TV adaptation of Antony and Cleopatra, in which Stewart played the supporting role of Enobarbus, co-starring with fellow future Star Trek alum W. Morgan Sheppard. That same year, Stewart had a role in the BBC mini-series Fall of Eagles, his first TV project that was not associated with a stage production, co-starring Tony Jay and John Rhys-Davies.
By the following year, Stewart had broken into feature films. He made his film debut playing Ejlert Løvborg in the drama Hedda, Henrik Ibsen's play Hedda Gabler. This was followed with the thriller Hennessy that same year.
In 1976, Stewart acquired some early recognition for his role as the ruthless Sejanus in the acclaimed BBC mini-series I, Claudius. This epic production, which received an Emmy Award nomination as Outstanding Limited Series, also co-starred John Rhys-Davies.
Stewart went on to play King Leondegrance in John Boorman's 1981 fantasy epic Excalibur, Stewart's first film produced by an American film company, although it was filmed in Ireland. By 1984, Stewart was more actively taking parts in Hollywood film productions. Among these was the supporting role of Gurney Halleck in the cult adaptation of Frank Herbert's Dune. His co-stars in this film included Brad Dourif, Virginia Madsen, and Dean Stockwell, all of whom went on to guest star on a Star Trek series.
In 1985 alone, Stewart could be seen in no less than five feature films. Included among those are Lifeforce (a sci-fi thriller in which Stewart has his first on-screen kiss – with a man) and The Doctor and the Devils (a horror movie also featuring W. Morgan Sheppard). In 1986, he had a supporting role as a duke in the biographical period drama Lady Jane – also featuring W. Morgan Sheppard. After this, however, Stewart was signed on to The Next Generation and, for seven years, his film career took a backseat to commanding the starship USS Enterprise-D.
Nonetheless, he did continue appearing in films while TNG was in production. In 1991's L.A. Story (which also featured Iman in a small role), he was briefly seen as a stuck-up maitre'd at a restaurant called L'Idiot; Time Winters played one of the waiters in this restaurant. There is also Mel Brooks' 1993 spoof Robin Hood: Men in Tights in which Stewart made a cameo appearance as King Richard at the end of the film. In addition, he starred in the 1993 TV movie Death Train and he also had a supporting role as a villain in the 1994 action film Gunmen.
Stewart appeared twice on the long-running children's program Sesame Street. In one segment, he praised the letter "B" in the form of a Shakespearean monologue ("A 'B' or not a 'B'?"). He and his TNG co-star Whoopi Goldberg are some of the few who had a segment on the show that did not feature any puppets, nor actors playing regular characters. In his second appearance on the program, he ordered "Make it so, number 1", to the number 1 when he kept running around the set.
After production on Next Generation completed, Stewart appeared in the 1994 TV movie In Search of Dr. Seuss, along with Matt Frewer, Whoopi Goldberg, Graham Jarvis, Christopher Lloyd, and Andrea Martin. Stewart then played a gay man in the drama Jeffrey, with DS9 guest star Steven Weber playing the title role and Star Trek: Voyager actors Ethan Phillips and Patrick Kerr co-starring. In 1997, Stewart played the villain in two films: Richard Donner's action thriller Conspiracy Theory (for which he won as Favorite Supporting Actor in a Suspense film from the Blockbuster Movie Awards) and the lighter-hearted Masterminds. The following year, he returned to the role of the hero as the star of the film Safe House, with Joy Kilpatrick playing his daughter.
Stewart received an Emmy Award nomination and a Golden Globe nomination for his portrayal of Captain Ahab in the 1998 TV movie adaptation of Herman Melville's Moby Dick. (It is amusing to note that Stewart acted his rather lengthy role as Captain Ahab after his discussion with Lily concerning Ahab in Star Trek: First Contact.) Stewart earned yet another nomination from both the Emmys and the Golden Globes for playing King Henry II in the 2003 adaptation of James Goldman's play The Lion in Winter. In between, Stewart starred as Ebenezer Scrooge in a 1999 TV adaptation of A Christmas Carol, for which he received a second Saturn Award nomination and a second Screen Actors Guild nomination, and reunited with TNG co-star Colm Meaney for the 2002 TV movie King of Texas, an updated adaptation of Shakespeare's King Lear. Stewart also served as an executive producer for the latter three movies.
Stewart's most successful, most well-known non-Trek film role is that of Professor Charles Francis Xavier (aka "Professor X") in the X-Men films based on the hugely popular Marvel Comics characters. Even before he was cast as Xavier, Stewart was long a fan-favorite choice to play the part. Stewart's performance in the first film earned him his third Saturn Award nomination and third Blockbuster Entertainment Award nomination. All three X-Men films – X-Men in 2000, X2 in 2003, and X-Men: The Last Stand in 2006 – co-starred his one-time TNG castmate Famke Janssen ("The Perfect Mate"). The first two also featured Bruce Davison, while the last film also co-starred Kelsey Grammer. Stewart and Grammer – the latter of whom guest-starred in the TNG episode "Cause and Effect" – co-starred with each other on an episode in the final season of Grammer's hit sitcom, Frasier in which Stewart played the very gay theater producer, Alistair Burke. Stewart reprised his role as Professor X in a cameo in the 2009 prequel film X-Men Origins: Wolverine, and reunited with Singer in 2014's X-Men: Days of Future Past.
Patrick Stewart was considered for the role of the Eighth Doctor and the (canonically Third) Master in Doctor Who. Stewart has revealed in an interview that he might have been considered by producers for the role, but he was never formally approached.
Stewart appeared in a comedy skit on The Daily Show hosted by the similarly named Jon Stewart when he wore a wig pretending to be Daily Show correspondent John Oliver making satire of the recent American Football Replacement Referee Controversy. Stewart took off the wig when the real Oliver emerged and for the duration of the sketch, Stewart quoted lines from the vast Shakespearean productions in which he has starred. On Tuesday November 6, 2012, Stewart returned to The Daily Show as announcer for their 2012 Presidential election coverage.
A lifelong fan of motor racing, Stewart holds a racing competition license and hosted an episode of Racing Legends for the BBC in which he met his childhood hero Sir Stirling Moss.
Stewart has lent his voice to a variety of animated films and TV shows.
In 1994, Stewart, his TNG co-star Whoopi Goldberg, and Frank Welker voiced a trio of talking books in The Pagemaster, a fantasy film starring Christopher Lloyd and Ed Begley, Jr. and also featuring the voices of Leonard Nimoy and Robert Picardo. He also voiced Dr. Lloyd Steam in the Japanese Anime Steam Boy. In 1998, Stewart voiced Pharaoh Seti I in the Biblical animated film The Prince of Egypt. The following year, Stewart and the aforementioned Kelsey Grammer voiced the pigs Napoleon and Snowball, respectively, in a TV adaptation of George Orwell's Animal Farm. And in 2001, Stewart played the evil King Goobot in Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius, which also featured the voice of Andrea Martin.
In 2005, Stewart and DS9 recurring actor Wallace Shawn lent their voices to the Disney movie Chicken Little. Regarding his work in this film, Stewart said in an interview for Disney's Movie Surfer that "umpteenth time's the charm". This is in reference to the fact that the heavy schedules for The Next Generation and its movies forced Stewart to turn down roles in previous Disney animated films, including Francis the bulldog in Oliver & Company(eventually voiced by Roscoe Lee Browne), King Triton in The Little Mermaid (ultimately voiced by DS9 guest star Kenneth Mars), Cogsworth in Beauty and The Beast (ultimately voiced by Stewart's one-time TNG co-star, David Ogden Stiers), Jafar in Aladdin (which he calls his deepest regret), Zazu in The Lion King, Ratcliffe in Pocahontas (also voiced by Stiers), Frollo in The Hunchback of Notre Dame (which went to Tony Jay), Zeus in Hercules, and Dr. Jumba Jookiba in Lilo & Stitch (again, this role went to David Ogden Stiers). He also had to turn down the title role in Disney's The Great Mouse Detective due to his commitment to a play. In addition, he was turned down for the role of Clayton in Disney's Tarzan as the director felt Brian Blessed's voice was perfect for the character. He was also considered for the role of Rasputin in Don Bluth's animated film for Twentieth Century Fox, Anastasia, before Christopher Lloyd took the role. After voicing in Chicken Little, Stewart voiced "The Great Prince" in Disney's 2006 direct-to-DVD release Bambi II.
In 2007, Stewart can be heard supplying the voice of the main villain in the CG-animated film TMNT (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles).
Stewart also lent his voice to the sixth season The Simpsons episode "Homer the Great", playing a character named "Number One."
Stewart provides the voice of Emperor Uriel Septim VII in The Elder Scrolls video game series, in the fourth game, Oblivion, for which he won the 2006 Spike TV Video Game Award.
His voice was used in a trailer at E3 for the game Castlevania: Lord of Shadows, for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. Whether his voice will be used in the game itself remains to be seen.
Stewart supplied his voice for 2012's Dorothy of Oz working again with Kelsey Grammer and also behind the microphone with Michael Krawic.
At present, Stewart plays the recurring role of CIA Director Avery Bullock in Seth MacFarlane's animated series, American Dad! His role often has references to Star Trek; for example, Bullock refers to his close aide as "Number One." In addition, Stewart is among the many Star Trek actors who have lent their voice to MacFarlane's Family Guy. In the episode "Peter's Got Woods", Stewart, Jonathan Frakes and Michael Dorn voiced their characters in a TNG spoof in which Picard makes fun of Worf's forehead. This scene actually replaced one which would have featured Stewart and Marina Sirtis in their roles as Picard and Troi, with Troi picking up some disturbing thoughts from a panicky Picard. Stewart and all his fellow castmates had lent their voices for the episode "Not All Dogs Go to Heaven" in which Stewie Griffin kidnaps them and forces them to spend the day together. He also appeared as Jean-Luc Picard in the third Family Guy Star Wars spoof "It's a Trap!!," for only one line "We're having tea, thank you very much". In addition, Michael Dorn appeared as Worf.
Stewart is currently set to produce and star in a film version of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice set in 20th century Las Vegas, which is being written by Star Trek Nemesis scribe John Logan. According to Stewart, the idea for this film came from an argument between himself and Logan after the latter called Merchant a "loathsome play."
He is also reprising his role as Professor Charles Xavier in the film Days of Future Past, the newest entry in the X-Men franchise, which was released in theaters on May 23, 2014. Other upcoming projects include his narration work for Sinbad: the Fifth Voyage, and Match, a film about an eccentric choreographer.
More recently, Stewart announced that he will work on Seth MacFarlane's half-hour scripted comedy show Blunt Talk. Stewart will not only play the main character Walter Blunt but also co-produce the series, set for a 2015 release.
In 1996, in honor of his work on the stage, Stewart received the prestigious Will Award from The Shakespeare Theatre in Washington, DC. The honor is given annually to an individual who makes "a significant contribution to classical theater in America." That same year, Stewart also won a Grammy Award for "Best Spoken Word Album for Children" for his narrative work on Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf.
In the 2001 New Years' Honours List, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland conferred on Stewart the honor of Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE).
In 2004, Patrick Stewart was named Chancellor of Huddersfield University.
In 2005, Stewart received an Emmy Award nomination for appearing – as himself – on the sitcom Extras.
In 2006 Stewart was voted as the second-sexiest retired man in the UK, just after Sean Connery. Stewart had previously been voted the "Sexiest Man on Television" by TV Guide in 1992.
In 2007 he was named as the next Cameron Mackintosh Visiting Professor of Contemporary Theatre at St. Catherine's College, University of Oxford. In that same year, he won the prize for Best Performance In A Play at the Theatrical Management Association (TMA) Awards for his portrayal of the title role in the Chichester Festival Theatre's production of Macbeth.
Stewart was named Best Actor of 2007 at the London Evening Standard Theatre Awards for his performance in the West End production of Macbeth.
In 2008 Stewart was awarded the Best Shakespearean Performance prize from the Critics' Circle Theatre Awards for his performance in Macbeth. He shared the award with actor Chiwetel Ejiofor, who won for his performance in a production of Othello.
Stewart was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Performance By a Leading Actor in a Play for his performance in Macbeth. He is the first actor to be nominated for a Tony Award for playing Macbeth. The play received a total of six Tony nominations, including Stewart's.
On 14 July, 2008, Stewart was named Professor of Performing Arts at Huddersfield University, where he has been chancellor since 2004.
Stewart was awarded a knighthood by Queen Elizabeth II for his services to drama. Announced in the New Years' Honours List published in December 2009, he was formally knighted on 2 June 2010.
Stewart shared in the honor of carrying the Olympic Flame in London to celebrate the 2012 Summer games.
1941: Frank Corsentino is born.
Frank G. Corsentino (13 July 1941 – 7 January 2007; age 65) was an actor who had three Star Trek appearances to his credit, playing three different Ferengi characters. Among those characters was DaiMon Bok, whom he played in Star Trek: The Next Generation's first season episode "The Battle". Bok returned in the seventh season episode "Bloodlines", but Corsentino could not be located to reprise the role and the part went to Lee Arenberg. (Star Trek: The Next Generation Companion) His costume from the latter appearance was sold off on the It's A Wrap! sale and auction on eBay and was previously worn by Rob Steiner and Lou Wagner. His face as Bok was later used in the 1995 video game Star Trek: The Next Generation - A Final Unity as the Ferengi character Aramut. He went uncredited in the game, however.
Corsentino was born in Los Angeles County, California.
In the 1970s, Corsentino guest-starred in two episodes of Gunsmoke with TOS guest actor Glenn Corbett, with both Corsentino and Corbett playing a different character each time. The first episode, 1971's "Phoenix", also guest-starred Mariette Hartley, while the second episode, 1974's "A Family of Killers", featured Anthony Caruso.
Corsentino also appeared on such shows as Then Came Bronson (in an episode with Skip Homeier), Ironside (with Joel Grey and Gene Lyons), The Courtship of Eddie's Father (with Alan Oppenheimer), The Odd Couple (starring Garry Walberg), Starsky & Hutch (starring David Soul), The Fantastic Journey (in an episode written by Harold Livingston), Vega$ (including an episode with Ian Abercrombie and Gary Lockwood), and Hunter (in an episode with Michael Dorn). His feature film credits include Russ Meyer's Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (with Charles Napier), the 1971 horror film Simon, King of the Witches (with Andrew Prine), and 1974's Moonchild.
Acting on television since the 1960s, Corsentino's role as Gegis in the Star Trek: Voyager episode "Inside Man" was his last known TV appearance.
Corsentino passed away in 2007 in Los Angeles County, California.
1954: Randall Larson is born.
Randall D. Larson (born 13 July 1954; age 59) is a journalist and Star Trek fan, who appeared as an unnamed Enterprise crewmember in the rec deck scenes of Star Trek: The Motion Picture.
Larson was the senior editor for Soundtrack Magazine, publisher of CinemaScore: The Film Music Journal, and also a columnist (specializing in film scores) for Cinefantastique.
1959: Chester E. Tripp III is born.
Chester E. Tripp III (born 13 July 1959; age 55) is a stuntman, stunt actor, and stunt coordinator who performed stunts in several episodes of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: Voyager, and Star Trek: Enterprise. He also worked as an additional fight choreographer on several locations and received no on-screen credit for all of his appearances. His costume from the episode "Warlord" was sold off on the It's A Wrap! sale and auction on eBay. His name was misspelled as Chester Trapp on the name tag.
Tripp was born in Wauseon, Ohio and is nicknamed Butch. Hailing from a big family he spent his youth in several foster homes. He played football and was also an awarded boxer. Tripp has entered the stunt industry in 1987 and has been married to D. LeAnn Tripp. They have three children. He has doubled for stars such as Bill Paxton, Greg Kinnear, William Sadler, Kiefer Sutherland, Peter Weller, Steven Weber, and Josh Lucas and was also a member of a stunt group which performed show fights on several Star Trek conventions.
Among his resume are films such as Batman Returns (1992), Private Wars (1993, with Michael Champion and stunts by Scott Leva, Joe Murphy, Chino Binamo, Chuck Borden, Ken Lesco, Dennis Madalone, and Rick New), Monolith (1993, with Musetta Vander, Boris Lee Krutonog, Todd Jeffries, and stunts by Chuck Borden, Maria R. Kelly, Dennis Madalone, and Joe Murphy), Ice (1994, with Zach Galligan, Michael Bailey Smith, and stunts by Chuck Borden, Chino Binamo, Nick Dimitri, Joe Murphy, Mark Riccardi, and Patricia Tallman), Direct Hit (1994, with Peter Slutsker and stunts by Chino Binamo, Chuck Borden, George Colucci, Nick Dimitri, Sonia Jo McDancer, Lane Leavitt, Chuck Madalone, Dennis Madalone, Joe Murphy, Mark Riccardi, and Patricia Tallman), Project Shadowchaser III (1995, with Musetta Vander, Christopher Neame, and stunts by Ken Clark, Brennan Dyson, and Tim Sitarz), the Academy Award winning As Good as It Gets (1997, with Kaitlin Hopkins, Matt Malloy, and stunts by B.J. Davis, Gene LeBell, Phil O'Dell, Denise Lynne Roberts, and Pete Turner), The X-Files (1998), The General's Daughter (1999, with James Cromwell), Route 666 (2001, with Lori Petty, Peewee Piemonte, Dick Miller, John Cade, and Chuck Hicks), Betrayal (2003, with Tom Wright and stunts by Danny Downey, Austin Priester, Lisa Hoyle, and Michael J. Sarna), Wonderland (2003), Glory Road (2006), and American Fork (2007, with Bruce McGill).
Tripp has also performed stunts in television series such as Roswell (2002, starring William Sadler), V.I.P. (1999), Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1999), Charmed (2003), Alias (2003, created by J.J. Abrams), Without a Trace (2004-2006, starring Enrique Murciano and coordinated by Dennis Madalone), Monk (2005), 24 (2005-2006), and Martial Law (1999).
1966: Third day of filming on TOS: "Charlie X".
1967: Jaq Greenspon is born.
Jaq Greenspon (born 13 July 1967; age 46) co-wrote the story of the Star Trek: The Next Generation seventh season episode "Liaisons" with Roger Eschbacher.
Born in Southern California and raised primarily in Las Vegas, Greenspon is a writer whose work has been read around the world. From Las Vegas, he moved to Venice, California, where he worked with an improvisational acting troupe and began studying film-making. He has since become a professional reviewer of book and film and an instructor of the film industry, as well as an author and screenwriter.
In addition to Star Trek, Greenspon wrote the teleplay for an episode of The New Adventures of Robin Hood. He has also written a few unproduced television pilots and several unproduced motion picture screenplays.
1967: Sixth day of filming on TOS: "The Changeling". The briefing room scenes are filmed today.
1987: Elyssa D. Vito is born.
Elyssa D. Vito (born 13 July 1987; age 27) is an actress who portrayed Nadine in Star Trek: Enterprise's 2001 episode "Fortunate Son". Vito has also appeared in an episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer (along with stuntman Bret Davidson) and The King of Queens (alongside Dakin Matthews).
1987: Sixth day of filming on TNG: "The Naked Now".
Revised final draft script for TNG: "Haven" is submitted.
1989: 3rd revised final draft script for TNG: "The Ensigns of Command" is submitted.
1990: Final draft script for TNG: "Brothers" is submitted.
1993: Fifth day of filming on DS9: "The Homecoming".
1995: Third day of filming on VOY: "Initiations".
Star Trek Generations premieres in Hungary.
1998: Fifth day of filming on DS9: "Image in the Sand".
Seventh day of filming on VOY: "In the Flesh".
1999: First day of filming on VOY: "Tinker Tenor Doctor Spy".
2000: Eighth and final day of filming on VOY: "Imperfection".
2001: Sixth day of filming on ENT: "Fight or Flight".
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A Day in the History of Star Trek
by Storm Windfall » Mon Jul 14, 2014 12:19 pm
A list of events which occurred on the 14th of July.
1917: Herb Kenwith is born.
Herbert "Herb" Kenwith (14 July 1917 – 30 January 2008; age 90) was a Hollywood television director and producer. In 1968, he directed "The Lights of Zetar", a third season episode of Star Trek: The Original Series, which aired in January the following year.
Hailing from New Jersey, Kenwith had a long career on Broadway as well as in regional theater before turning to television. On Broadway, he was an assistant stage manager and performer in the original production of I Remember Mama, which ran for 713 performances between 1944 and 1946 and marked Marlon Brando's Broadway debut. Kenwith later produced the original Broadway production of Me and Molly, which ran for 156 performances in 1948 and featured David Opatoshu in the cast. After Broadway, Kenwith produced and directed 65 plays for Princeton University's McCarter Theater. Among the performers he worked with during this time was Lucille Ball, who later tapped Kenwith as a director on her show, Here's Lucy.
The majority of Kenwith's television directing credits are sitcoms, including Mary Tyler Moore, Sanford and Son, Good Times, Gimme a Break! and Bosom Buddies. He also directed and produced the entire first season of Diff'rent Strokes, which began airing in 1976. Other shows he directed and produced include One Day at a Time, The Facts of Life, and the short-lived NBC series Joe's World, which starred K Callan.
The many other Star Trek actors whom Kenwith has directed throughout his career include Alan Oppenheimer (in an episode of The Partridge Family and an episode of Temperatures Rising), Julie Cobb (in an episode of Love, American Style), Richard Libertini (in an episode of Mary Tyler Moore), John Fiedler (in an episode of Temperatures Rising), Graham Jarvis (also in an episode of Temperatures Rising), Ron Glass (in an episode of Good Times and an episode of Sanford and Son), Thalmus Rasulala (in two episodes of Good Times), Don Marshall (also on Good Times), Fran Bennett (in an episode of Diff'rent Strokes), Elinor Donahue (also on Diff'rent Strokes), Joseph Campanella (in an episode of The Brady Brides), Charlie Brill (in an episode of One Day at a Time), John Putch (also on One Day at a Time), and Madge Sinclair (on Grandpa Goes to Washington). Kenwith also directed TOS guest actor Stanley Adams in an unsold pilot movie called Tiger, Tiger. He later directed another TOS alum, Jason Evers, in the 1973 made-for-TV movie Shadow of Fear, and directed Walker Edmiston in an unsold 1975 pilot called Home Cookin'.
Kenwith died of complications from prostate cancer in Los Angeles, California at the age of 90.
1939: Peter Duryea is born.
Peter Duryea (14 July 1939 – 24 March 2013; age 73) portrayed Lieutenant José Tyler in the original series first pilot episode, "The Cage", which was later re-edited and reused in "The Menagerie, Part I" and "The Menagerie, Part II". The son of veteran actor Dan Duryea, he acted in around thirty films and television guest-star roles, throughout the 1960s.
Peter Duryea was at first intended to be a regular performer on the then-new Star Trek which he was therefore thrilled to be cast in, saying, "A TV series will be good for me, so early in my career." When Star Trek was recast for its second pilot ("Where No Man Has Gone Before"), however, Duryea was devastated to be dropped from the show. "It knocked me out," he later admitted to The North Adams Transcript. "When I lost that role, I cried for two weeks." (Star Trek Magazine issue 171, p. 37)
Peter Duryea's other television credits include: appearances on Kraft Suspense Theatre (1964, with Robert Pine), The Outer Limits (1964, with James Doohan, Keith Andes, Skip Homeier, and Jason Wingreen), the "Man in a Chariot" episode of The Fugitive (1964, with Stewart Moss, Edward Madden, and Gene Lyons), Dragnet (1968, with Jack Sheldon), The Name of the Game (1969, with Ed Peck, Nancy Kovack and Robert Lansing), and Family Affair (1971, with Brian Keith).
His film credits include: assistant director for The Carpetbaggers (1964, with William Meader, James B. Sikking, Ed McCready, and Paul Baxley), and appearances in Taggart (1964, with George Murdock and Tony Young), Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (1965, 1966, with Robert Pine, Michael Sarrazin, Lawrence Montaigne and Tom Troupe), The Virginian (1966, with Robert Pine and Alfred Ryder), and Twelve O'Clock High (1966, with Michael Barrier and Robert Walker, Jr.).
Following his father's death in 1968, Duryea began to look for another route in life. In 1973, he moved to Kootenay Lake, British Columbia, Canada. With his partner, Jan Bryan, Duryea developed a documentary production company specializing in ecological and social awareness, as well as the Guiding Hands Recreation Society, a non-profit society with the aim of promoting the value of nature. Duryea also worked as the guide for the Kootenay Lake Heritage Boat Tours.
Duryea passed away on Sunday, 24 March 2013.
1939: Sid Haig is born.
Sid Haig (born 14 July 1939; age 74), born Sidney Eddy Moosesian, is a California-born Armenian-American actor who played the First Lawgiver in the Star Trek: The Original Series episode "The Return of the Archons". Including his Trek role, Haig has appeared in over 350 episodes of various television shows and over fifty films, beginning with the short film The Host in 1960.
Fans of the James Bond films may remember him as the man who, in Diamonds are Forever, upon learning Bond was escorting his brother to be buried, remarked "I got a brother!" The film also featured Marc Lawrence, Christopher Held, and Dick Crockett. Haig also appeared twice (as separate characters) in the science fiction series Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, where he played alongside Michael Ansara, Julie Newmar, Barbara Luna, David Opatoshu and Felix Silla. Haig is probably best known for his roles in numerous B-movies and exploitation films, mostly horrors, since the 1960s.
Haig has also appeared in various Rob Zombie productions, low budget films like High on the Hog and House of the Dead 2, Quentin Tarantino's Jackie Brown and an episode of T.J. Hooker (with William Shatner).
1945: Philip Barberio is born.
Philip "Phil" Charles Barberio (14 July 1945 – 8 May 2006; age 60) was a visual effects artist who served, employed at Future General Corporation, as a camera operator on the special photographic effects for Star Trek: The Motion Picture. He later served as a visual effects coordinator for the television Star Trek franchise on Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Star Trek: Voyager. Visual Effects Producer Dan Curry elaborated at the time, "Other long time veterans joining STAR TREK this year include Phil Barberio, who will be working as coordinator with Ron Moore." (Cinefantastique, Vol 23,#5, p. 62) As stated by Curry, Barberio started to work for the franchise in 1993, beginning with The Next Generation's sixth season.
His work on The Motion Picture was Barberio's first recorded Hollywood project. He went on to serve in the effects department for various science fiction movies, including Blade Runner (1982), Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983), Ghost Busters (1984), The Blob (1988), and The Abyss (1989). He also worked on opticals for 1992's Waxwork II: Lost in Time (starring Zach Galligan and Marina Sirtis) and served as visual effects coordinator on the pilot television movie for The Flash (1992). More recently, he was visual effects supervisor on the television series The Sentinel from 1996 through 1999.
Barberio died of multiple myeloma in May of 2006 in Duarte, California at the age of 60.
1953: Charlie Haugk is born.
Charles "Charlie" Haugk (born 14 July 1953; age 61) is an actor who appeared as an Enterprise crewmember in 2009's Star Trek. In the 2013 sequel Star Trek Into Darkness, Haugk appeared as a San Francisco resident.
Haugk had supporting roles in the science fiction sequel Predator 2 (1990, starring Kevin Peter Hall), the comedy 29th Street (1991), the Silk Stalkings episode Domestic Agenda (1992, with Franc Luz), the comedy Hot Shots! Part Deux (1993, with Brenda Bakke and Miguel Ferrer), the science fiction thriller Ghost in the Machine (1993), the drama Out-of-Sync (1995), Oliver Stone's drama Nixon (1995), the comedy Celtic Pride (1996, with Christopher McDonald), the comedy Mr 3000 (2004, with Paul Sorvino), and the comedy The Pacifier (2005).
Haugk also worked in the product placemant on the comedy Snow Dogs (2002, starring Nichelle Nichols) and the thriller The Invisible (2007).
More recently, he performed stunts in the action film Battle Los Angeles (2011, with Joey Box, Trace Cheramie, Lisa Hoyle, Jim Palmer, Kofi Yiadom, and Jade Quon) and was featured in the crime thriller Savages (2012, with Sala Baker, Ben Bray, Schae Harrison, and Bill Blair).
1960: Keely Sims is born.
Keely Sims (14 July 1960 – 8 January 2013; age 52) was the actress who played an illusory farmer's daughter in the Star Trek: Voyager pilot episode, "Caretaker", in 1994.
Sims had previously starred in the 1990 independent film Click: The Calendar Girl Killer. Following her Voyager appearance, she had a supporting role in the 1997 comedy film The Disappearance of Kevin Johnson, co-starring Richard Beymer, Rachael Harris, and Guy Siner.
Sims passed away on 8 January 2013 at the age of 52.
1965: Pages of the revised final draft script for TOS: "Where No Man Has Gone Before" are submitted.
1966: Fourth day of filming on TOS: "Charlie X".
1967: Juliet Cesario is born.
Juliet Cesario (born 14 July 1967; age 46) is an actress and voice artist who was a regular background actress on two seasons of Star Trek: The Next Generation in which she portrayed a science division officer. As a background actress she received no on-screen credit for her appearances.
Cesario is married to actor and fellow voice artist Scott Simpson.
As an actress Cesario appeared on-screen in the television series American Gothic (1995, episode Damned If You Don't, with Brenda Bakke, Brigid Brannagh, Steve Rankin, and directed by Lou Antonio), Dawson's Creek (1998, episode The Kiss), One Tree Hill (2005, episode First Day on a Brand New Planet, with Barbara Alyn Woods), and Surface (2005, episode 10, with Elaine Nalee), as well as in the 2000 comedy film Bruno.
Cesario is mainly a voice artist and has dubbed many Japanese anime television series and films since 1983 and received several nominations and awards for her work. She has also experiences in stage work and has performed in several plays.
1967: Seventh and final day of filming on TOS: "The Changeling".
First day of filming on TOS: "The Apple".
1973: The Thirty-Sixth UK Story Arc continues in Valiant & TV21 #94 with the fourth of sixteen installments.
1975: Rachel Robinson is born.
Rachel Robinson (born 14 July 1975; age 38) played Melanie in DS9: "The Visitor". She is also the daughter of Andrew Robinson (Garak) and was a leading candidate for the role of Ezri Dax on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. [1] She currently lives in Portland, Oregon and works primarily as a singer / songwriter. She released a self-titled EP in 2003, Platonica Files in 2007, and My Pleasure in 2009.
David Livingston, the director of "The Visitor" commented "We saw a lot of young women but she blew everybody away. She had an innocence and an intelligence and an enthusiasm, all qualities that I thought made the character very rich". Ira Steven Behr added "She gave a very lovely performance. I know Andy was very proud, and he had every reason to be". (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Companion)
Robinson has also guest starred in ER and Judging Amy (with Kevin Rahm). She has appeared in the films Loser Love, Can't Be Heaven (with Matt McCoy), and He's Such a Girl (with Jennifer Hetrick and Ed Begley, Jr.).
1983: Christopher James Miller is born.
Christopher James Miller (born 14 July 1983; age 31) is the actor who played René Picard in the 1994 film Star Trek Generations. The role was originated by David Tristan Birkin in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Family".
Miller had previously appeared in an episode of the science fiction television series seaQuest DSV along with T.J. Hooker stars and fellow Star Trek alumni William Shatner and Richard Herd. (Miller played Shatner's son in the episode.) Miller also guest-starred on Evening Shade and Maybe This Time.
According to the IMDb Miller recently served as an assistant make-up artist on the horror movies Roman and Night of the Living Dead 3D.
Miller is now married and directing various horror films and animation shorts for which he has won multiple Pixie and Empixx awards for his work in stop-motion animation.
Miller recently co-wrote the screenplay to the upcoming Christian film drama, Lukewarm starring John Schneider of Dukes of Hazzard fame.
1987: Seventh and final day of filming on TNG: "The Naked Now".
1993: Sixth day of filming on DS9: "The Homecoming".
Final draft script for TNG: "Interface" is submitted.
1995: Fourth day of filming on VOY: "Initiations".
1997: Fifth day of filming on DS9: "A Time to Stand".
Fourth day of filming on VOY: "Revulsion".
1998: Sixth day of filming on DS9: "Image in the Sand".
Eighth day of filming on VOY: "In the Flesh".
1999: Sal Trapani dies.
Salvatore A. "Sal" Trapani (30 April 1927 – 14 July 1999; age 72), brother in law to Dick Giordano, began his comics career in 1949. He moved around through various companies, including DC Comics, the American Comic Group, and Gold Key. In 1981, he worked for Marvel Comics' Star Trek line inking #16 "There's No Space Like Gnomes'!" and #18 "A Thousand Deaths".
2000: First day of filming on VOY: "Drive".
2003: Third day of filming on ENT: "Anomaly".
1917: Herb Kenwith is born.
Herbert "Herb" Kenwith (14 July 1917 – 30 January 2008; age 90) was a Hollywood television director and producer. In 1968, he directed "The Lights of Zetar", a third season episode of Star Trek: The Original Series, which aired in January the following year.
Hailing from New Jersey, Kenwith had a long career on Broadway as well as in regional theater before turning to television. On Broadway, he was an assistant stage manager and performer in the original production of I Remember Mama, which ran for 713 performances between 1944 and 1946 and marked Marlon Brando's Broadway debut. Kenwith later produced the original Broadway production of Me and Molly, which ran for 156 performances in 1948 and featured David Opatoshu in the cast. After Broadway, Kenwith produced and directed 65 plays for Princeton University's McCarter Theater. Among the performers he worked with during this time was Lucille Ball, who later tapped Kenwith as a director on her show, Here's Lucy.
The majority of Kenwith's television directing credits are sitcoms, including Mary Tyler Moore, Sanford and Son, Good Times, Gimme a Break! and Bosom Buddies. He also directed and produced the entire first season of Diff'rent Strokes, which began airing in 1976. Other shows he directed and produced include One Day at a Time, The Facts of Life, and the short-lived NBC series Joe's World, which starred K Callan.
The many other Star Trek actors whom Kenwith has directed throughout his career include Alan Oppenheimer (in an episode of The Partridge Family and an episode of Temperatures Rising), Julie Cobb (in an episode of Love, American Style), Richard Libertini (in an episode of Mary Tyler Moore), John Fiedler (in an episode of Temperatures Rising), Graham Jarvis (also in an episode of Temperatures Rising), Ron Glass (in an episode of Good Times and an episode of Sanford and Son), Thalmus Rasulala (in two episodes of Good Times), Don Marshall (also on Good Times), Fran Bennett (in an episode of Diff'rent Strokes), Elinor Donahue (also on Diff'rent Strokes), Joseph Campanella (in an episode of The Brady Brides), Charlie Brill (in an episode of One Day at a Time), John Putch (also on One Day at a Time), and Madge Sinclair (on Grandpa Goes to Washington). Kenwith also directed TOS guest actor Stanley Adams in an unsold pilot movie called Tiger, Tiger. He later directed another TOS alum, Jason Evers, in the 1973 made-for-TV movie Shadow of Fear, and directed Walker Edmiston in an unsold 1975 pilot called Home Cookin'.
Kenwith died of complications from prostate cancer in Los Angeles, California at the age of 90.
1939: Peter Duryea is born.
Peter Duryea (14 July 1939 – 24 March 2013; age 73) portrayed Lieutenant José Tyler in the original series first pilot episode, "The Cage", which was later re-edited and reused in "The Menagerie, Part I" and "The Menagerie, Part II". The son of veteran actor Dan Duryea, he acted in around thirty films and television guest-star roles, throughout the 1960s.
Peter Duryea was at first intended to be a regular performer on the then-new Star Trek which he was therefore thrilled to be cast in, saying, "A TV series will be good for me, so early in my career." When Star Trek was recast for its second pilot ("Where No Man Has Gone Before"), however, Duryea was devastated to be dropped from the show. "It knocked me out," he later admitted to The North Adams Transcript. "When I lost that role, I cried for two weeks." (Star Trek Magazine issue 171, p. 37)
Peter Duryea's other television credits include: appearances on Kraft Suspense Theatre (1964, with Robert Pine), The Outer Limits (1964, with James Doohan, Keith Andes, Skip Homeier, and Jason Wingreen), the "Man in a Chariot" episode of The Fugitive (1964, with Stewart Moss, Edward Madden, and Gene Lyons), Dragnet (1968, with Jack Sheldon), The Name of the Game (1969, with Ed Peck, Nancy Kovack and Robert Lansing), and Family Affair (1971, with Brian Keith).
His film credits include: assistant director for The Carpetbaggers (1964, with William Meader, James B. Sikking, Ed McCready, and Paul Baxley), and appearances in Taggart (1964, with George Murdock and Tony Young), Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (1965, 1966, with Robert Pine, Michael Sarrazin, Lawrence Montaigne and Tom Troupe), The Virginian (1966, with Robert Pine and Alfred Ryder), and Twelve O'Clock High (1966, with Michael Barrier and Robert Walker, Jr.).
Following his father's death in 1968, Duryea began to look for another route in life. In 1973, he moved to Kootenay Lake, British Columbia, Canada. With his partner, Jan Bryan, Duryea developed a documentary production company specializing in ecological and social awareness, as well as the Guiding Hands Recreation Society, a non-profit society with the aim of promoting the value of nature. Duryea also worked as the guide for the Kootenay Lake Heritage Boat Tours.
Duryea passed away on Sunday, 24 March 2013.
1939: Sid Haig is born.
Sid Haig (born 14 July 1939; age 74), born Sidney Eddy Moosesian, is a California-born Armenian-American actor who played the First Lawgiver in the Star Trek: The Original Series episode "The Return of the Archons". Including his Trek role, Haig has appeared in over 350 episodes of various television shows and over fifty films, beginning with the short film The Host in 1960.
Fans of the James Bond films may remember him as the man who, in Diamonds are Forever, upon learning Bond was escorting his brother to be buried, remarked "I got a brother!" The film also featured Marc Lawrence, Christopher Held, and Dick Crockett. Haig also appeared twice (as separate characters) in the science fiction series Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, where he played alongside Michael Ansara, Julie Newmar, Barbara Luna, David Opatoshu and Felix Silla. Haig is probably best known for his roles in numerous B-movies and exploitation films, mostly horrors, since the 1960s.
Haig has also appeared in various Rob Zombie productions, low budget films like High on the Hog and House of the Dead 2, Quentin Tarantino's Jackie Brown and an episode of T.J. Hooker (with William Shatner).
1945: Philip Barberio is born.
Philip "Phil" Charles Barberio (14 July 1945 – 8 May 2006; age 60) was a visual effects artist who served, employed at Future General Corporation, as a camera operator on the special photographic effects for Star Trek: The Motion Picture. He later served as a visual effects coordinator for the television Star Trek franchise on Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Star Trek: Voyager. Visual Effects Producer Dan Curry elaborated at the time, "Other long time veterans joining STAR TREK this year include Phil Barberio, who will be working as coordinator with Ron Moore." (Cinefantastique, Vol 23,#5, p. 62) As stated by Curry, Barberio started to work for the franchise in 1993, beginning with The Next Generation's sixth season.
His work on The Motion Picture was Barberio's first recorded Hollywood project. He went on to serve in the effects department for various science fiction movies, including Blade Runner (1982), Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983), Ghost Busters (1984), The Blob (1988), and The Abyss (1989). He also worked on opticals for 1992's Waxwork II: Lost in Time (starring Zach Galligan and Marina Sirtis) and served as visual effects coordinator on the pilot television movie for The Flash (1992). More recently, he was visual effects supervisor on the television series The Sentinel from 1996 through 1999.
Barberio died of multiple myeloma in May of 2006 in Duarte, California at the age of 60.
1953: Charlie Haugk is born.
Charles "Charlie" Haugk (born 14 July 1953; age 61) is an actor who appeared as an Enterprise crewmember in 2009's Star Trek. In the 2013 sequel Star Trek Into Darkness, Haugk appeared as a San Francisco resident.
Haugk had supporting roles in the science fiction sequel Predator 2 (1990, starring Kevin Peter Hall), the comedy 29th Street (1991), the Silk Stalkings episode Domestic Agenda (1992, with Franc Luz), the comedy Hot Shots! Part Deux (1993, with Brenda Bakke and Miguel Ferrer), the science fiction thriller Ghost in the Machine (1993), the drama Out-of-Sync (1995), Oliver Stone's drama Nixon (1995), the comedy Celtic Pride (1996, with Christopher McDonald), the comedy Mr 3000 (2004, with Paul Sorvino), and the comedy The Pacifier (2005).
Haugk also worked in the product placemant on the comedy Snow Dogs (2002, starring Nichelle Nichols) and the thriller The Invisible (2007).
More recently, he performed stunts in the action film Battle Los Angeles (2011, with Joey Box, Trace Cheramie, Lisa Hoyle, Jim Palmer, Kofi Yiadom, and Jade Quon) and was featured in the crime thriller Savages (2012, with Sala Baker, Ben Bray, Schae Harrison, and Bill Blair).
1960: Keely Sims is born.
Keely Sims (14 July 1960 – 8 January 2013; age 52) was the actress who played an illusory farmer's daughter in the Star Trek: Voyager pilot episode, "Caretaker", in 1994.
Sims had previously starred in the 1990 independent film Click: The Calendar Girl Killer. Following her Voyager appearance, she had a supporting role in the 1997 comedy film The Disappearance of Kevin Johnson, co-starring Richard Beymer, Rachael Harris, and Guy Siner.
Sims passed away on 8 January 2013 at the age of 52.
1965: Pages of the revised final draft script for TOS: "Where No Man Has Gone Before" are submitted.
1966: Fourth day of filming on TOS: "Charlie X".
1967: Juliet Cesario is born.
Juliet Cesario (born 14 July 1967; age 46) is an actress and voice artist who was a regular background actress on two seasons of Star Trek: The Next Generation in which she portrayed a science division officer. As a background actress she received no on-screen credit for her appearances.
Cesario is married to actor and fellow voice artist Scott Simpson.
As an actress Cesario appeared on-screen in the television series American Gothic (1995, episode Damned If You Don't, with Brenda Bakke, Brigid Brannagh, Steve Rankin, and directed by Lou Antonio), Dawson's Creek (1998, episode The Kiss), One Tree Hill (2005, episode First Day on a Brand New Planet, with Barbara Alyn Woods), and Surface (2005, episode 10, with Elaine Nalee), as well as in the 2000 comedy film Bruno.
Cesario is mainly a voice artist and has dubbed many Japanese anime television series and films since 1983 and received several nominations and awards for her work. She has also experiences in stage work and has performed in several plays.
1967: Seventh and final day of filming on TOS: "The Changeling".
First day of filming on TOS: "The Apple".
1973: The Thirty-Sixth UK Story Arc continues in Valiant & TV21 #94 with the fourth of sixteen installments.
1975: Rachel Robinson is born.
Rachel Robinson (born 14 July 1975; age 38) played Melanie in DS9: "The Visitor". She is also the daughter of Andrew Robinson (Garak) and was a leading candidate for the role of Ezri Dax on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. [1] She currently lives in Portland, Oregon and works primarily as a singer / songwriter. She released a self-titled EP in 2003, Platonica Files in 2007, and My Pleasure in 2009.
David Livingston, the director of "The Visitor" commented "We saw a lot of young women but she blew everybody away. She had an innocence and an intelligence and an enthusiasm, all qualities that I thought made the character very rich". Ira Steven Behr added "She gave a very lovely performance. I know Andy was very proud, and he had every reason to be". (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Companion)
Robinson has also guest starred in ER and Judging Amy (with Kevin Rahm). She has appeared in the films Loser Love, Can't Be Heaven (with Matt McCoy), and He's Such a Girl (with Jennifer Hetrick and Ed Begley, Jr.).
1983: Christopher James Miller is born.
Christopher James Miller (born 14 July 1983; age 31) is the actor who played René Picard in the 1994 film Star Trek Generations. The role was originated by David Tristan Birkin in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Family".
Miller had previously appeared in an episode of the science fiction television series seaQuest DSV along with T.J. Hooker stars and fellow Star Trek alumni William Shatner and Richard Herd. (Miller played Shatner's son in the episode.) Miller also guest-starred on Evening Shade and Maybe This Time.
According to the IMDb Miller recently served as an assistant make-up artist on the horror movies Roman and Night of the Living Dead 3D.
Miller is now married and directing various horror films and animation shorts for which he has won multiple Pixie and Empixx awards for his work in stop-motion animation.
Miller recently co-wrote the screenplay to the upcoming Christian film drama, Lukewarm starring John Schneider of Dukes of Hazzard fame.
1987: Seventh and final day of filming on TNG: "The Naked Now".
1993: Sixth day of filming on DS9: "The Homecoming".
Final draft script for TNG: "Interface" is submitted.
1995: Fourth day of filming on VOY: "Initiations".
1997: Fifth day of filming on DS9: "A Time to Stand".
Fourth day of filming on VOY: "Revulsion".
1998: Sixth day of filming on DS9: "Image in the Sand".
Eighth day of filming on VOY: "In the Flesh".
1999: Sal Trapani dies.
Salvatore A. "Sal" Trapani (30 April 1927 – 14 July 1999; age 72), brother in law to Dick Giordano, began his comics career in 1949. He moved around through various companies, including DC Comics, the American Comic Group, and Gold Key. In 1981, he worked for Marvel Comics' Star Trek line inking #16 "There's No Space Like Gnomes'!" and #18 "A Thousand Deaths".
2000: First day of filming on VOY: "Drive".
2003: Third day of filming on ENT: "Anomaly".
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A Day in the History of Star Trek
by Storm Windfall » Tue Jul 15, 2014 12:37 pm
A list of events which occurred on the 15th of July.
1910: Ken Lynch is born.
Character actor Ken Lynch (15 July 1910 – 13 February 1990; age 79) played engineer Vanderberg in the original series episode "The Devil in the Dark". However, this Star Trek role was only one of some two hundred other television appearances.
He is perhaps best known for his role as Police Sergeant Grover on the TV series McCloud from 1972 through 1977. TOS/TNG guest actress Diana Muldaur was also a regular cast member on this series. Lynch was also a part of the extensive cast of the 1983 mini-series The Winds of War, which also included Lawrence Pressman, George Murdock, Peter Brocco, Michael Ensign, and Davis Roberts.
He has also made appearances in several feature films. These include such classics as the Robert Wise-directed Run Silent, Run Deep (1958), Pork Chop Hill (1959, with Paul Comi, Bert Remsen and Clarence Williams III), the 1959 adaptation of Anatomy of a Murder, Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest (1959, with Stanley Adams and Lawrence Dobkin), The Dark at the Top of the Stairs (1960, with Frank Overton and Paul Comi), Seven Ways from Sundown (1960, with Kenneth Tobey), Portrait of a Mobster (1961, with Leslie Parrish), Days of Wine and Roses (1962), Dead Ringer (1964, with Bert Remsen), Mister Buddwing (1966, with Jean Simmons and Nichelle Nichols), Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970, with William Schallert), and Willie Dynamite (1974, with George Murdock). One of his last roles was a guest star spot in an episode of Galactica 1980, entitled "The Night the Cylons Landed", along with Peter Mark Richman.
1925: Richard Geary is born.
Richard "Dick" Geary (15 July 1925 – 15 May 2000; age 74) was a stuntman and stunt actor who appeared in several episodes of Star Trek: The Original Series. He co-founded the very first stunt union, the Stuntmen's Association of Motion Pictures, with fellow stuntman Loren Janes in 1961.
Geary performed stunts on such television shows as Perry Mason, Peter Gunn, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Mannix and Kolchak: The Night Stalker. He also performed in such films as It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World, The Great Race, Bullit, The Love Bug, and The Sword and the Sorcerer.
1927: Nan Martin is born.
Nan Martin (15 July 1927 – 4 March 2010; age 82) was an American actress who portrayed Victoria Miller in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Haven". She also voiced the character of Admiral Tsubar in the Captain Sulu Adventures story Envoy.
Martin was born in Decatur, Illinois on 15 July 1927. She began acting professionally in the 1940s and was a first-year member of the Actor's Studio. In the 1960s, she was appointed as a member of the Arts Advisory Committee by President John F. Kennedy.
Martin married Academy Award-nominated composer Robert Emmett Dolan in 1948 and had one child with him named Casey. Martin and Dolan later divorced, and in 1970, Martin married architect Harry Gesner. Their son, Zen Gesner, is also an actor.
In 1981, Martin suffered a stroke. Nonetheless, she continued working until 2006. She died of complications from emphysema at her home in Malibu, California, on 4 March 2010.
Martin received a Tony Award nomination for her performance in the 1958-59 Broadway play J.B., in which she worked alongside Christopher Plummer. On television, Martin was perhaps best known for her recurring role as Mrs. Louder on the television comedy series, The Drew Carey Show, on which Diedrich Bader was a regular performer.
Perhaps her most notable film role was that of Mrs. Ben Patimkin in the 1969 Paramount Pictures romantic comedy Goodbye, Columbus. She is also known for playing Amanda Krueger, the mother of infamous serial killer Freddy Krueger in the 1987 horror film A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine guest star Craig Wasson had a lead role in this film, also co-starring were Brooke Bundy and Clayton Landey.
Martin made her Broadway stage debut in A Story for a Sunday Evening in 1950. Her next Broadway production was The Constant Wife, in which she worked with Liam Sullivan. Following her Tony-nominated role in J.B., she appeared opposite Robert Lansing in 1959's The Great God Brown. This production also featured Fritz Weaver, whom Martin again worked with in the 1960 Broadway production of Henry IV (which itself co-starred Jerry Hardin).
Martin co-starred in the original production of Under the Yum-Yum Tree, which was subsequently made into a film featuring the aforementioned Robert Lansing. In 1967, she acted in the comedy play Come Live with Me, and in the 1970s, she starred in Summer Brave (with Peter Weller) and The Eccentricities of a Nightingale. The latter was her final Broadway appearance.
Martin's first film was the 1956 drama The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit, in which she and DeForest Kelley had uncredited roles. Her first credited film role was in the 1957 biographical drama The Buster Keaton Story. In the 1960s, she appeared in such films as Toys in the Attic (which features music by George Duning), Bus Riley's Back in Town (co-starring with Kim Darby and James Doohan), Norman Jewison's The Art of Love (with Roger C. Carmel), and Three in the Attic (with Richard Derr).
Martin had a major supporting role in the 1975 drama The Other Side of the Mountain, which also featured an appearance by Peter Canon, stunt work by Max Kleven and Loren Janes, and sound mixing by Dan Wallin. She also co-starred in the 1978 sequel, The Other Side of the Mountain Part 2, on which John M. Dwyer was set decorator and Michael S. Glick, the production manager. In addition, Martin had a role in the independent film Jackson County Jail and appeared in the short film Number One, opposite Gary Lockwood.
In the 1980s, Martin appeared in such films as Loving Couples (with Stephen Collins and John de Lancie), Doctor Detroit (with Parley Baer), All of Me (with Richard Libertini, Michael Ensign, and cinematography by Richard H. Kline), and Animal Behavior (also with Richard Libertini). Her later film credits include 1995's Last Gasp (directed by Scott McGinnis and co-starring Alexander Enberg), 2000's Big Eden (with George Coe and Louise Fletcher), and 2000's Forever Lulu (with Frank Kopyc and Michael J. Pollard).
Martin also played the mother of Helen Hunt's character in the acclaimed 2000 drama Cast Away. She then appeared in the popular Farrelly brother 2001 comedy Shallow Hal, along with Jason Alexander and Bruce McGill. Martin's final films were the 2005 dramas Greener Mountains (which co-starred Hal Landon, Jr.) and Mrs. Harris (with Larry Drake, Caroline Lagerfelt, John Rubinstein, and Bill Smitrovich).
Martin made her television debut on the live anthology series Studio 57, in an episode directed by Herschel Daugherty. In the 1960s, Martin appeared on such programs as The Untouchables (with Elisha Cook, Jr., Theo Marcuse, and John McLiam), The Twilight Zone (with Mary Carver and Phillip Pine), The Defenders (with Dean Stockwell), The Fugitive (with Arthur Batanides, Paul Lambert, John McLiam, and Jason Wingreen), The Invaders (with Ted Knight, Jon Lormer, James B. Sikking, and Harry Townes), The Mod Squad (with Tige Andrews, Clarence Williams III, and William Windom), Mannix (with Susan Oliver and Paul Winfield), Medical Center (with James Daly and Richard Webb), and The F.B.I. (including an episode with William Smithers).
In the 1970s, Martin guest-starred on series like Bewitched (with Felix Silla), Mission: Impossible (with Sid Haig), The Sixth Sense (with Willard Sage and Michael Strong), Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law (two episodes, one in which she and Fritz Weaver portrayed a married couple), Wide World Mystery (again working with Fritz Weaver), Room 222 (starring Lloyd Haynes), Ellery Queen (with Don Keefer), and Visions (including an episode with Kevin Conway, Brad Dourif, and Jerry Hardin). She also made a return appearance on The F.B.I. in 1972, in an episode with Richard Kiley. In addition, she worked with William Schallert in an unsold TV pilot called Remember When and co-starred in such TV movies as A Circle of Children (with Ray Buktenica and David Ogden Stiers) and Mrs. R's Daughter (with Barbara Tarbuck and Craig Wasson).
Martin's TV movie credits during the 1980s included Prime Suspect (starring Teri Garr and James Sloyan) and I Take These Men (co-starring Earl Boen, Hamilton Camp, and John Rubinstein). She also worked with Teri Garr in the Hallmark Hall of Fame movie The Winter of Our Discontent. In 1983, Martin appeared in the Part One of the mini-series The Thorn Birds, which starred Richard Kiley, Christopher Plummer, and Jean Simmons. Part One also featured Antoinette Bower, John de Lancie, and Meg Wyllie. In 1986, Martin and TOS guest star Barbara Babcock were both regulars on the short-lived sitcom, Mr. Sunshine.
Martin additionally made guest appearances on Insight (directed by Robert Butler), Hart to Hart (in an episode with David Spielberg), St. Elsewhere (with Ed Begley, Jr., Ellen Bry, and Norman Lloyd), two episodes of The Twilight Zone (including an episode with Richard Libertini), Buck James (with Paddi Edwards), two episodes of My Sister Sam (starring Joel Brooks), L.A. Law (with Corbin Bernsen, Larry Drake, Earl Boen, and Ray Wise), and Columbo (with Molly Hagan and Time Winters).
In 1991, Martin played columnist Diana Vreeland in the mini-series A Woman Named Jackie. This series also featured performances by Stephen Collins, Bob Gunton, and Tim Ransom. Martin also acted in the 1990s TV movies Matters of the Heart (directed by Michael Ray Rhodes), Child of Rage (with Rosanna DeSoto, Mariette Hartley, Dwight Schultz, and George D. Wallace), Mother of the Bride (directed by Charles Correll and co-starring Brett Cullen, Paul Dooley, Conor O'Farrell, Jennifer Parsons, and Jeff Yagher), and Terror in the Family (with Andrew Kavovit). Her more recent TV movies included 2001's The Song of the Lark (co-starring Christopher Curry, Richard Herd, and Norman Lloyd) and 2002's Dancing at the Harvest Moon (with Eugene Roche).
Throughout the 1990s, Martin guest-starred on such shows as The Adventures of Brisco County Jr. (with Jeremy Roberts, John Vargas, and Tracey Walter), The 5 Mrs. Buchanans (with Mark Moses and Richard Poe), Sisters (directed by James Contner), ER (in an episode with Gabriel Damon,Kirsten Dunst, and Lily Mariye), The Practice (with Jack Kehler and Lawrence Monoson), Maximum Bob (with David Clennon), and Profiler (in an episode with Star Trek: Enterprise episode John Billingsley). Following her last appearance on The Drew Carey Show in 1999, Martin was seen on such shows as Gideon's Crossing (with Bruce McGill)), The Michael Richards Show (with Bill Cobbs and Bill Erwin), Crossing Jordan (starring Miguel Ferrer), and the pilot for The Agency (with David Clennon and Ronny Cox).
In 2002, Martin appeared in an episode of the HBO series Six feet Under, along with David Andrews, Michael Bofshever, Joel Brooks, Graham Jarvis, and Alice Krige. That same year, she appeared on the Whoopi Goldberg-developed series Strong Medicine with Robert Pine. She then guest-starred on Nip/Tuck (with Jerry Hardin, Clyde Kusatsu, Julie Warner, and Ruth Williamson), NYPDB Blue (directed by Ed Begley, Jr., in an episode with Tim Halligan and Ed Lauter), and CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (with Wallace Langham). Her final TV guest appearance was a 2005 episode of the NBC series Las Vegas, which starred fellow TNG guest actress Nikki Cox.
1928: Tom Troupe is born.
Tom Troupe (born 15 July 1928; age 86) is the actor who portrayed Lieutenant Harold from the original series episode "Arena".
He is the husband of singer/comedienne Carole Cook, a close friend and protege of Lucille Ball. He co-wrote (with Don Eitner) and starred in Sofi (1968), the stage and film adaptations of Nikolai Gogols Diary of a Madman.
He also appeared in the 1973 made-for-television movie The Alpha Caper, co-starring fellow Trek alumnus Leonard Nimoy, Kenneth Tobey, Paul Sorenson, Paul Kent, Vic Tayback, and James B. Sikking.
Additional projects in which Troupe appeared with other Star Trek performers include: The Big Fisherman (1959, with Phillip Pine, Rhodes Reason, and Leonard Mudie), The Devil's Brigade (1968, with Andrew Prine and Jean-Paul Vignon), Che! (1969, with Sid Haig, Perry Lopez, and Abraham Sofaer), Kelly's Heroes (1970, with Perry Lopez, Phil Adams and David Hurst), Making it (1971, with John Fiedler and Lawrence Pressman), PSI Factor (1980, with Don Eitner and Peter Mark Richman), Summer School (1987, with Kirstie Alley, Jack Blessing, Conroy Gedeon, Carlos LaCamara and Ken Olandt) and My Own Private Idaho (1991, based on William Shakespeares Henry IV, with Mickey Cottrell)
Television guest appearances include: The Fugitive (1964, with Bernard Kates), The Young Rebels (1970, with John Colicos and Alex Henteloff), Griff (1973, with Vic Tayback), Lucas Tanner (1974, with Nancy Malone), Planet of the Apes (1974, with Mark Lenard, Joseph Ruskin, Gary Combs, Booth Colman, Ron Stein and Percy Rodriguez), CHiPs (1979, with Michael Dorn, Robert Pine and Mary Crosby), Cheers (1987, with Kirstie Alley, Bebe Neuwirth and Kelsey Grammer) and Frasier (1995, with Kelsey Grammer)
1952: Judson Scott is born.
Judson Earney Scott (born 15 July 1952; age 61) is the actor who first appeared on a Star Trek production in 1982 portraying Joachim in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. Despite his having a prominent role in the film, Scott's name was not listed in the film's credits, thanks to an overzealous agent trying to get Scott star billing without his knowledge. Scott moved on and appeared in one episode each of Star Trek: The Next Generation in 1988 and Star Trek: Voyager in 1998. In 1982 he appeared in the film I, the Jury (with Paul Sorvino and Don Pike).
Judson Scott is well-known for starring in the short-lived 1980s science fiction television series The Phoenix, on V in 1985 as Lt. James (with Jeff Yagher and Duncan Regehr), and on the 1980s late-night soap opera The Colbys (with Tracy Scoggins). He also appeared in an episode of the science fiction series Voyagers! as Lawrence of Arabia, and had guest appearances in other television shows as well. In 1994, Scott appeared in the Babylon 5 episode "And the Sky Full of Stars", as Knight One (alongside Christopher Neame).
In 1991, he had a role in the action comedy K-9000 (with Anne Haney, David Renan, Ted Barba, James H. Burk, Kenny Endoso, Jeff Imada, Dave Perna, Nicholas Shaffer, Gregory J. Barnett, and Lane Leavitt)
In 1998, he appeared in the action/sci-fi film Blade as the vampire elder Pallantine, alongside Sidney Liufau, Andray Johnson, and Jeff Imada.
1952: Franklyn Seales is born.
Franklyn Vincent Ellison Seales (15 July 1952 – 21 May 1990; age 37) was an actor who appeared as a USS Enterprise crew member in Star Trek: The Motion Picture. One of his costumes for the film was sold off on the It's A Wrap! sale and auction on eBay.
Born on the Caribbean island of Saint Vincent in the West Indies, Seales first gained recognition for his role as cop killer Jimmy Lee, aka "Youngblood", in the 1979 film The Onion Field. In this acclaimed crime drama, Seales starred opposite future Star Trek alumni John Savage and Ronny Cox; the film also featured the likes of Phillip Richard Allen, K Callan, John de Lancie, Richard Herd, Christopher Lloyd, and Michael Pataki. However, his most famous role is that of business manager and Stratton family friend Dexter Stuffins on the hit 1980s sitcom Silver Spoons.
Seales first appeared to TV audiences in a recorded 1974 Broadway production of William Shakespeare's King Lear, co-starring Star Trek: Deep Space Nine actor Rene Auberjonois. Seales went on to perform in direct-to-video productions of Shakespeare's plays Macbeth and The Taming of the Shrew in the 1980s. The former (released in 1981) also featured Alan Oppenheimer, while the latter (1983 co-starred Bruce Davison and Bill Erwin; both featured Jay Robinson.
In 1980, Seales was seen in the mini-series Beulah Land, along with Jonathan Frakes, Michael Sarrazin, and Robert Walker, Jr.. The following year, Seales had a supporting role in the Walter Hill war drama Southern Comfort, starring Keith Carradine. And in 1982, he appeared in three episodes of Hill Street Blues, starring James B. Sikking, Barbara Bosson, and Barbara Babcock. He then had a regular role as Lorenzo Hollingsworth on the sitcom Amen during the show's first season (1986-87) and made guest appearances on Growing Pains and Wiseguy before dying of AIDS at the age of 37.
1952: Terry O'Quinn is born.
Actor Terry O'Quinn (born 15 July 1952; age 62) appeared as Admiral Erik Pressman in the Star Trek: The Next Generation seventh season episode "The Pegasus" in 1993. Despite playing Riker's much older superior officer, in reality O'Quinn is only one month older than actor Jonathan Frakes.
One of O'Quinn's most memorable roles was Jerry Blake (aka "The Stepfather") in the 1987 horror film The Stepfather. Other notable roles include aviator Howard Hughes in the 1991 film The Rocketeer (co-starring fellow Trek actors William O. Campbell, Paul Sorvino, Ed Lauter, Tiny Ron, Max Grodénchik, Clint Howard, and William Boyett), as well as regular roles on the Chris Carter-produced series Millennium and Harsh Realm. He also played the role of Captain (and later Admiral) Thomas Boone in ten episodes of CBS's court-room drama JAG (upon the promotion, Mark Metcalf would play Boone's replacement). O'Quinn played three separate characters in The X-Files, the first as Lt. Brian Tillman in the second season episode "Aubrey," the second as SAC Darius Michaud in the X-Files movie Fight the Future, directed by Rob Bowman, and the third as "Shadow Man" in the ninth season episode "Trust No 1," credited as "Terrance Quinn." The X-Files was executive-produced by John Shiban.
O'Quinn made his feature film debut in the 1980 drama Heaven's Gate, starring Brad Dourif. In 1988, he played Alex McSween in the action western Young Guns, a film which also featured Brian Keith. In 1990, he co-starred with George Takei in the war drama Prisoners of the Sun. The following year, he co-starred with DS9 guest star Tim Ransom and ENT guest star Dean Stockwell in the telefilm Son of the Morning Star.
He played the role of Mayor John P. Clum in 1993's Tombstone, which tells of the battle at the OK Corral. In 1996, he co-starred with Whoopi Goldberg, Susanna Thompson, Virginia Madsen, Richard Riehle, Bill Cobbs, Thomas Kopache, Bill Smitrovich, and the late Brock Peters in Ghosts of Mississippi. In 2000, he had a role in HBO's Rated X, alongside DS9's Nicole de Boer.
O'Quinn had a recurring role as FBI Asstant Director Kendall on the J.J. Abrams-produced ABC drama Alias. He then began playing the mysterious John Locke on another of Abrams' television series, Lost, alongside fellow Trek alumni Daniel Dae Kim, Titus Welliver, Fionnula Flanagan, Alan Dale and Sam Anderson. In the Lost episode "All the Best Cowboys Have Daddy Issues", one of the other characters asks O'Quinn's character if he has seen Star Trek, while talking about the redshirt curse of the Original Series. O'Quinn's character replies, "No, not really." When the phenomenon is explained to him, he remarks that Kirk sounds like a "piss poor captain."
O'Quinn earned his first Emmy Award nomination for his role on Lost in 2005. In 2007 he received another nomination, which he won, beating out, among others, William Shatner, who was up for Boston Legal. Lost ended its run in May 2010. Since then, O'Quinn worked on the television movies Hallelujah (2011, with Brett Cullen and Josh Clark) and Taken from Me: The Tiffany Rubin Story (2011) and on the television mini series Ring of Fire (2012).
Beside a recurring role as Joe White on CBS television remake of Hawaii Five-0 (2011-2012, along Daniel Dae Kim), O'Quinn more recently had guest parts in episodes of Falling Skies (2012, with Matt Frewer) and 666 Park Avenue (2012, with Vanessa Williams).
1964: Galyn Görg is born.
Galyn Görg (born 15 July 1964; age 49) played Korena, Jake Sisko's wife, in the popular Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "The Visitor". She also portrayed Nori in the Star Trek: Voyager episode "Warlord".
She also appeared in Lost: Nurse (1 episode, 2008), CSI: Miami: Ms. Art House Manager (1 episode, 2004), Stargate: SG-1: Kendra (1 episode, 1997; with Tony Amendola, Ronny Cox, Robert Picardo, Obi Ndefo, John de Lancie, Eric Steinberg, Willie Garson, Erick Avari, Tony Todd, Ed Anders, Elizabeth Hoffman, Saul Rubinek, and Musetta Vander) and Dance Academy (1988; with Michelle Rudy and Julie Newmar)
1965: Pages of the revised final draft script for TOS: "Where No Man Has Gone Before" are submitted.
1966: Amanda Foreman is born.
Amanda Foreman (born 15 July 1966; age 47) is an American actress who played Hannity in 2009's Star Trek and the same character but credited as "Ensign Brackett" in 2013's Star Trek Into Darkness. She is best known for playing Meghan Rotundi, Felicity's Wiccan college roommate, on the television series Felicity. She also had a recurring role as Carrie Bowman on the spy series Alias and starred as Ivy on the short-lived drama What About Brian. All three of these shows were created and produced by Star Trek's director and producer, J.J. Abrams.
Foreman's first film was the 1992 thriller Live Wire, which, like Star Trek, featured Ben Cross in a major role. The film also featured Star Trek: Deep Space Nine guest star Tony Plana. That same year, Foreman appeared in the comedy The Opposite Sex and How to Live with Them, along with Aaron Lustig and Mitch Ryan.
She first worked with J.J. Abrams on the 1992 film Forever Young, which Abrams wrote and executive produced. J.D. Cullum, Eric Pierpoint, and Nicolas Surovy had roles in this film, as well. Foreman's next film was the 1993 thriller Sliver, which also featured Keene Curtis. She then appeared in the 1997 dramatic comedy Breast Men, along with Michael Cavanaugh, Patrick Cronin, Louise Fletcher, Terry O'Quinn, Raphael Sbarge, Pamela Segall, and Heidi Swedberg.
Foreman worked with Jeffrey Dean Morgan in the 1997 action comedy Road Kill. She again acted with Morgan in the 2006 film Jam. Foreman's other film credits have included Purgatory Flats (2003, with Jason Brooks and Gregg Henry), Extreme Dating (2005, with Jerry Hardin and Clyde Kusatsu), and Inland Empire (2006, with Ian Abercrombie and Stanley Kamel).
More recently, she had a featured appearance as the channel 14 news anchor Lydia Connors in J.J. Abrams' science fiction thriller Super 8 (2011) which also featured Michael Giacchino, Bruce Greenwood, Jack Axelrod, Jay Scully, Tony Guma, Jason Brooks, Tim Griffin, Marco Sanchez, Jonathan H. Dixon, Greg Grunberg, and Alex Nevil, and filmed the short comedies Meet My Rapist (2013) and The Boy Scout (2013).
Foreman made her television debut in the 1989 television movie The Preppie Murder, which also featured Diedrich Bader, Thalmus Rasulala, and David Spielberg. She then appeared in the 1992 television movie Murder Without Motive: The Edmund Perry Story, as did Star Trek: Voyager guest actors Dakin Matthews and Peter Vogt.
Foreman starred in Felicity throughout all four seasons of the show, from 1998 through 2002. One of her co-stars on this series was Greg Grunberg, who had a voice-over role in Star Trek. After Felicity ended, J.J. Abrams cast Foreman in the recurring role of Carrie Bowman on Alias. She appeared in eight episodes of the show between 2003 and 2006, working with actors such as Jonathan Banks, Michael Berry, Jr., Larry Cedar, Clifton Collins, Jr., Greg Grunberg, Rachel Nichols, Terry O'Quinn, Ray Proscia, and Jimmie F. Skaggs. She then starred in Abrams' What About Brian during the show's second and final season, which aired from October 2006 through March 2007.
In addition to her work with Abrams, Foreman has guest-starred on such shows as To Have & to Hold (1998, which starred Fionnula Flanagan), Nash Bridges (1999, with Cliff DeYoung, Stephanie Niznik, and Scott Trimble), Six Feet Under (2003, with Leon Rippy and Matt Winston), and Unscripted (2005, with Frank Langella, Akiva Goldsman, and Pamela Segall). She also appeared in the pilot for the short-lived series Inconceivable (2005), as did Casey Biggs and Alfre Woodard.
Foreman had a supporting role in the 2006 television movie McBride: Requiem, which starred John Larroquette in the title role. She also appeared in the 2007 movie All I Want for Christmas with Robert Pine. Foreman had also appeared in the medical dramas ER (2008, with Scott Grimes and Leland Orser) and Private Practice (2009-2010). She had a recurring role in the latter as Katie Kent. Other guest roles include episodes of In Plain Sight (2009), Grey's Anatomy (2010), Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior (2011, with Mirron E. Willis and Nathan Anderson), and House M.D. (2011, directed by David Straiton).
Beside a recurring role as Suze Lessing in the comedy series Parenthood between 2010 and 2012, Foreman also appeared in the television drama Love's Christmas Journey (2011, with Tom Virtue and Brian Thompson). More recently, Foreman appeared in an episode of the comedy series Awkward (2013).
1966: Fifth day of filming on TOS: "Charlie X".
Teleplay for TOS: "Court Martial" is submitted.
Step outline submitted for the undeveloped Original Series episode "The Squaw" by Shimon Wincelberg.
1967: Revised story outline submitted for the undeveloped Original Series episode "Shol" by Darlene Hartman.
1967: Christopher Golden is born.
Christopher Golden (born 15 July 1967; age 46) is a comic book and novel writer from Massachusetts.
He was a heavy contributor to the Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel franchises, often working with Tom Sniegoski as co-writers. The two also collaborated on a number of novels and a comic series titled Talent.
He has collaborated with Mike Mignola on a number of Hellboy products, and most recently on the illustrated novel Baltimore and its related comic series.
His only Star Trek contribution is as co-writer with Sniegoski on the WildStorm "Embrace the Wolf" one-shot in 2000.
1968: Sixth (and last) day of filming on TOS: "Spock's Brain". Bridge scenes are filmed today.
1971: S. John Ross is born.
S. John Ross (born 15 July 1971; age 42) is an RPG writer who began work in the early 1990s for Steve Jackson Games and the Avalon Hill Game Company. Since then he's written, designed, edited and graphically produced RPG works for publishers including Last Unicorn, Hero Games, TSR, Wizards of the Coast, Flying Buffalo, Guardians of Order and others. Sometime around 1999, he began edging away from freelance work and focusing more on his own company, Cumberland Games & Diversions. He still works occasionally for other publishers, including work in 2005 with Steven S. Long, continuing a friendship that began when the two writers worked together on the Last Unicorn Games Star Trek roleplaying game series.
His sole contribution to canon was indirect, the result of his work as the primary author of Among the Clans, in which he introduced the term Ushaan as part of an Andorian language he created for the book. The book was further referenced by Michael A. Martin in his Pocket ENT novel, Beneath the Raptor's Wing, which furthered the book's suggestion that the despot Krotus was Andorian.
His credits with Last Unicorn Games include: Star Trek: The Original Series - Core Game Book, Star Trek: The Original Series - Narrator's Toolkit, Among the Clans - The Andorians, All Our Yesterdays - The Time Travel Sourcebook, and in 1972, The Thirtieth UK Story Arc concludes in Valiant & TV21 #42 with the ninth of nine installments.
1974: Clinton Wayne is born.
Clinton Wayne (born 15 July 1974; age 39) is an Emmy Award-winning make-up and make-up effects artist whose work includes prosthetic make-up effects on 2009's Star Trek. He is currently business partners with Matthew Mungle and John Jackson at W.M. Creations, Inc.
His credits include many other films and television shows as either an on-set make-up artist, a make-up lab worker, or both. His make-up lab specialties include mold making, sculpting, casting, gelatin and silicone running, and foam construction. He won Emmy Awards for Outstanding Makeup for a Series on The X-Files and for his prosthetic work on the HBO series Six Feet Under. He has also been nominated four times for his work on CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. Other television shows on which he has worked include CSI: Miami, Malcolm in the Middle, Desperate Housewives, Ghost Whisperer, Bryan Fuller's Pushing Daisies, Raising Hope and two series starring Linda Park: Raines and Women's Murder Club.
Wayne has also worked on dozens of feature films. He was a key make-up or prosthetic make-up artist for such films as I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (1998, featuring Bill Cobbs and Jeffrey Combs), Soul Survivors (2001, with art direction by Keith Cunningham), Freaky Friday (2003, featuring Rosalind Chao and Willie Garson), Knocked Up (2007, featuring Adam Scott, hair styling by Charlotte Parker, and prosthetic application by Ruth Haney), and the upcoming films Midnight Meat train and The House Bunny. His work can also be seen in such blockbuster films as The Mummy (1999, featuring music by Jerry Goldsmith), The Perfect Storm (2000, featuring Bob Gunton and Christopher McDonald), The Fast and the Furious (2001, with hair styling by Joy Zapata), Spider-Man (2002, starring Kirsten Dunst), and X-Men: The Last Stand (2006, starring Kelsey Grammer, Famke Janssen and Patrick Stewart).
In addition, Wayne has worked under Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home and Star Trek V: The Final Frontier make-up artist Jeff Dawn on three films: 1999's Deep Blue Sea, 2002's Collateral Damage (featuring Raymond Cruz, Rick Worthy and make-up by Crist Ballas), and 2003's Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (featuring David Andrews, Kristanna Loken, make-up by Steve LaPorte and art direction by Beat Frutiger).
1984: Matthew McGregor is born.
Matthew McGregor (born 15 July 1984; age 29) appeared as a background Starfleet cadet in J.J. Abrams' Star Trek. He was part of the group of actors who worked in a big crowd scene at the Cal State Northridge campus which stood in for the Starfleet Academy. McGregor filmed his scenes in December 2007 and was called back for reshoots in March 2008.
McGregor was born in Levittown, New York, and is the nephew of hair stylist Paul McGregor. He moved to California in 2007 and worked as salesperson for several companies including S&S Tuxedo's and K-Mart. He then worked behind the scenes as a stage crewmember on the show Saturday Night Live and as a page for NBC. Prior to his move to California he worked as assistant set dresser for the horror thriller Dark Water (2005) and the television series Rescue Me and as a craft service member for the fantasy comedy film Enchanted (2007).
More recently, McGregor was an extra on the reality show How to Look Good Naked (2008). He also served for one week as a production assistant on the science fiction remake The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008, with Roger R. Cross and Geoff Meed) and as an office production assistant on the television series 90210 (2008).
1987: First day of filming on TNG: "Code of Honor".
1988: Hana Hatae is born.
Hana Rebecca Hatae (born 15 July 1988; age 25), from Tarzana, California, is the actress who played Molly O'Brien in the Star Trek: The Next Generation sixth season episode "Rascals" and in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
Beside her work on Star Trek, Hatae was also featured in an episode of the comedy series Family Matters in 1998.
In 2010, Hatae appeared on the Fox television show Kitchen Nightmares in an episode involving her family's sushi restaurant Sushi-ko. As of that airing, she was working as a hostess and waitress. Her brother, mother, and father also appeared in that episode. Their family restaurant closed in August 2009.
1991: Sixth day of filming on TNG: "Redemption II".
1992: Final draft script for TNG: "Realm of Fear" is submitted.
1993: David Brian dies.
David Brian (5 August 1914 – 15 July 1993; age 78) was the actor who appeared as historian John Gill in the original Star Trek episode "Patterns of Force".
Besides his stint on Star Trek, Brian has also made guest appearances in many other television series, including The Untouchables, I Dream of Jeannie, Rawhide, Gunsmoke, and Mission: Impossible. He also starred in his own series, Mr. District Attorney, from 1954 through 1955.
He also has a number of films to his credit. Among his earliest was the 1949 drama Intruder in the Dust, for which he received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actor.
Throughout the early 1950s, Brian was often seen playing the lead role in films such as Breakthrough (1950, co-starring William Campbell and Ricardo Montalban) and Inside Straight (1951, with John Hoyt). His other film credits include supporting roles in 1952's Springfield Rifle (with Richard Hale) and This Woman Is Dangerous (with Richard Webb), 1954's The High and the Mighty (with William Campbell, Paul Fix, and William Schallert), 1961's Pocketful of Miracles (featuring Grace Lee Whitney), the classic 1962 western How the West Was Won, 1966's The Rare Breed (with Brian Keith), 1968's The Destructors (with Michael Ansara), and 1969's The Girl Who Knew Too Much (with Nehemiah Persoff). His last feature film appearance was in 1971's The Seven Minutes, which also featured fellow TOS co-stars Stanley Adams and Charles Napier. He would, however, co-star with Madlyn Rhue the following year in The Manhunter, a made-for-TV movie.
David Brian died of cancer and heart failure in California in 1993. He was 78 years old.
1993: Seventh day of filming on DS9: "The Homecoming".
Final draft script for DS9: "The Siege" is submitted.
1996: First day of filming on VOY: "The Chute".
1997: Sixth day of filming on DS9: "A Time to Stand".
Fifth day of filming on VOY: "Revulsion".
1998: Seventh and final day of filming on DS9: "Image in the Sand".
Ninth and final day of filming on VOY: "In the Flesh".
Final draft script for DS9: "Shadows and Symbols" is submitted.
2002: Fourth of filming on ENT: "Shockwave, Part II".
2003: Fifth day of filming on ENT: "Anomaly".
2004: First day of filming on ENT: "Storm Front".
1910: Ken Lynch is born.
Character actor Ken Lynch (15 July 1910 – 13 February 1990; age 79) played engineer Vanderberg in the original series episode "The Devil in the Dark". However, this Star Trek role was only one of some two hundred other television appearances.
He is perhaps best known for his role as Police Sergeant Grover on the TV series McCloud from 1972 through 1977. TOS/TNG guest actress Diana Muldaur was also a regular cast member on this series. Lynch was also a part of the extensive cast of the 1983 mini-series The Winds of War, which also included Lawrence Pressman, George Murdock, Peter Brocco, Michael Ensign, and Davis Roberts.
He has also made appearances in several feature films. These include such classics as the Robert Wise-directed Run Silent, Run Deep (1958), Pork Chop Hill (1959, with Paul Comi, Bert Remsen and Clarence Williams III), the 1959 adaptation of Anatomy of a Murder, Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest (1959, with Stanley Adams and Lawrence Dobkin), The Dark at the Top of the Stairs (1960, with Frank Overton and Paul Comi), Seven Ways from Sundown (1960, with Kenneth Tobey), Portrait of a Mobster (1961, with Leslie Parrish), Days of Wine and Roses (1962), Dead Ringer (1964, with Bert Remsen), Mister Buddwing (1966, with Jean Simmons and Nichelle Nichols), Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970, with William Schallert), and Willie Dynamite (1974, with George Murdock). One of his last roles was a guest star spot in an episode of Galactica 1980, entitled "The Night the Cylons Landed", along with Peter Mark Richman.
1925: Richard Geary is born.
Richard "Dick" Geary (15 July 1925 – 15 May 2000; age 74) was a stuntman and stunt actor who appeared in several episodes of Star Trek: The Original Series. He co-founded the very first stunt union, the Stuntmen's Association of Motion Pictures, with fellow stuntman Loren Janes in 1961.
Geary performed stunts on such television shows as Perry Mason, Peter Gunn, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Mannix and Kolchak: The Night Stalker. He also performed in such films as It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World, The Great Race, Bullit, The Love Bug, and The Sword and the Sorcerer.
1927: Nan Martin is born.
Nan Martin (15 July 1927 – 4 March 2010; age 82) was an American actress who portrayed Victoria Miller in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Haven". She also voiced the character of Admiral Tsubar in the Captain Sulu Adventures story Envoy.
Martin was born in Decatur, Illinois on 15 July 1927. She began acting professionally in the 1940s and was a first-year member of the Actor's Studio. In the 1960s, she was appointed as a member of the Arts Advisory Committee by President John F. Kennedy.
Martin married Academy Award-nominated composer Robert Emmett Dolan in 1948 and had one child with him named Casey. Martin and Dolan later divorced, and in 1970, Martin married architect Harry Gesner. Their son, Zen Gesner, is also an actor.
In 1981, Martin suffered a stroke. Nonetheless, she continued working until 2006. She died of complications from emphysema at her home in Malibu, California, on 4 March 2010.
Martin received a Tony Award nomination for her performance in the 1958-59 Broadway play J.B., in which she worked alongside Christopher Plummer. On television, Martin was perhaps best known for her recurring role as Mrs. Louder on the television comedy series, The Drew Carey Show, on which Diedrich Bader was a regular performer.
Perhaps her most notable film role was that of Mrs. Ben Patimkin in the 1969 Paramount Pictures romantic comedy Goodbye, Columbus. She is also known for playing Amanda Krueger, the mother of infamous serial killer Freddy Krueger in the 1987 horror film A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine guest star Craig Wasson had a lead role in this film, also co-starring were Brooke Bundy and Clayton Landey.
Martin made her Broadway stage debut in A Story for a Sunday Evening in 1950. Her next Broadway production was The Constant Wife, in which she worked with Liam Sullivan. Following her Tony-nominated role in J.B., she appeared opposite Robert Lansing in 1959's The Great God Brown. This production also featured Fritz Weaver, whom Martin again worked with in the 1960 Broadway production of Henry IV (which itself co-starred Jerry Hardin).
Martin co-starred in the original production of Under the Yum-Yum Tree, which was subsequently made into a film featuring the aforementioned Robert Lansing. In 1967, she acted in the comedy play Come Live with Me, and in the 1970s, she starred in Summer Brave (with Peter Weller) and The Eccentricities of a Nightingale. The latter was her final Broadway appearance.
Martin's first film was the 1956 drama The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit, in which she and DeForest Kelley had uncredited roles. Her first credited film role was in the 1957 biographical drama The Buster Keaton Story. In the 1960s, she appeared in such films as Toys in the Attic (which features music by George Duning), Bus Riley's Back in Town (co-starring with Kim Darby and James Doohan), Norman Jewison's The Art of Love (with Roger C. Carmel), and Three in the Attic (with Richard Derr).
Martin had a major supporting role in the 1975 drama The Other Side of the Mountain, which also featured an appearance by Peter Canon, stunt work by Max Kleven and Loren Janes, and sound mixing by Dan Wallin. She also co-starred in the 1978 sequel, The Other Side of the Mountain Part 2, on which John M. Dwyer was set decorator and Michael S. Glick, the production manager. In addition, Martin had a role in the independent film Jackson County Jail and appeared in the short film Number One, opposite Gary Lockwood.
In the 1980s, Martin appeared in such films as Loving Couples (with Stephen Collins and John de Lancie), Doctor Detroit (with Parley Baer), All of Me (with Richard Libertini, Michael Ensign, and cinematography by Richard H. Kline), and Animal Behavior (also with Richard Libertini). Her later film credits include 1995's Last Gasp (directed by Scott McGinnis and co-starring Alexander Enberg), 2000's Big Eden (with George Coe and Louise Fletcher), and 2000's Forever Lulu (with Frank Kopyc and Michael J. Pollard).
Martin also played the mother of Helen Hunt's character in the acclaimed 2000 drama Cast Away. She then appeared in the popular Farrelly brother 2001 comedy Shallow Hal, along with Jason Alexander and Bruce McGill. Martin's final films were the 2005 dramas Greener Mountains (which co-starred Hal Landon, Jr.) and Mrs. Harris (with Larry Drake, Caroline Lagerfelt, John Rubinstein, and Bill Smitrovich).
Martin made her television debut on the live anthology series Studio 57, in an episode directed by Herschel Daugherty. In the 1960s, Martin appeared on such programs as The Untouchables (with Elisha Cook, Jr., Theo Marcuse, and John McLiam), The Twilight Zone (with Mary Carver and Phillip Pine), The Defenders (with Dean Stockwell), The Fugitive (with Arthur Batanides, Paul Lambert, John McLiam, and Jason Wingreen), The Invaders (with Ted Knight, Jon Lormer, James B. Sikking, and Harry Townes), The Mod Squad (with Tige Andrews, Clarence Williams III, and William Windom), Mannix (with Susan Oliver and Paul Winfield), Medical Center (with James Daly and Richard Webb), and The F.B.I. (including an episode with William Smithers).
In the 1970s, Martin guest-starred on series like Bewitched (with Felix Silla), Mission: Impossible (with Sid Haig), The Sixth Sense (with Willard Sage and Michael Strong), Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law (two episodes, one in which she and Fritz Weaver portrayed a married couple), Wide World Mystery (again working with Fritz Weaver), Room 222 (starring Lloyd Haynes), Ellery Queen (with Don Keefer), and Visions (including an episode with Kevin Conway, Brad Dourif, and Jerry Hardin). She also made a return appearance on The F.B.I. in 1972, in an episode with Richard Kiley. In addition, she worked with William Schallert in an unsold TV pilot called Remember When and co-starred in such TV movies as A Circle of Children (with Ray Buktenica and David Ogden Stiers) and Mrs. R's Daughter (with Barbara Tarbuck and Craig Wasson).
Martin's TV movie credits during the 1980s included Prime Suspect (starring Teri Garr and James Sloyan) and I Take These Men (co-starring Earl Boen, Hamilton Camp, and John Rubinstein). She also worked with Teri Garr in the Hallmark Hall of Fame movie The Winter of Our Discontent. In 1983, Martin appeared in the Part One of the mini-series The Thorn Birds, which starred Richard Kiley, Christopher Plummer, and Jean Simmons. Part One also featured Antoinette Bower, John de Lancie, and Meg Wyllie. In 1986, Martin and TOS guest star Barbara Babcock were both regulars on the short-lived sitcom, Mr. Sunshine.
Martin additionally made guest appearances on Insight (directed by Robert Butler), Hart to Hart (in an episode with David Spielberg), St. Elsewhere (with Ed Begley, Jr., Ellen Bry, and Norman Lloyd), two episodes of The Twilight Zone (including an episode with Richard Libertini), Buck James (with Paddi Edwards), two episodes of My Sister Sam (starring Joel Brooks), L.A. Law (with Corbin Bernsen, Larry Drake, Earl Boen, and Ray Wise), and Columbo (with Molly Hagan and Time Winters).
In 1991, Martin played columnist Diana Vreeland in the mini-series A Woman Named Jackie. This series also featured performances by Stephen Collins, Bob Gunton, and Tim Ransom. Martin also acted in the 1990s TV movies Matters of the Heart (directed by Michael Ray Rhodes), Child of Rage (with Rosanna DeSoto, Mariette Hartley, Dwight Schultz, and George D. Wallace), Mother of the Bride (directed by Charles Correll and co-starring Brett Cullen, Paul Dooley, Conor O'Farrell, Jennifer Parsons, and Jeff Yagher), and Terror in the Family (with Andrew Kavovit). Her more recent TV movies included 2001's The Song of the Lark (co-starring Christopher Curry, Richard Herd, and Norman Lloyd) and 2002's Dancing at the Harvest Moon (with Eugene Roche).
Throughout the 1990s, Martin guest-starred on such shows as The Adventures of Brisco County Jr. (with Jeremy Roberts, John Vargas, and Tracey Walter), The 5 Mrs. Buchanans (with Mark Moses and Richard Poe), Sisters (directed by James Contner), ER (in an episode with Gabriel Damon,Kirsten Dunst, and Lily Mariye), The Practice (with Jack Kehler and Lawrence Monoson), Maximum Bob (with David Clennon), and Profiler (in an episode with Star Trek: Enterprise episode John Billingsley). Following her last appearance on The Drew Carey Show in 1999, Martin was seen on such shows as Gideon's Crossing (with Bruce McGill)), The Michael Richards Show (with Bill Cobbs and Bill Erwin), Crossing Jordan (starring Miguel Ferrer), and the pilot for The Agency (with David Clennon and Ronny Cox).
In 2002, Martin appeared in an episode of the HBO series Six feet Under, along with David Andrews, Michael Bofshever, Joel Brooks, Graham Jarvis, and Alice Krige. That same year, she appeared on the Whoopi Goldberg-developed series Strong Medicine with Robert Pine. She then guest-starred on Nip/Tuck (with Jerry Hardin, Clyde Kusatsu, Julie Warner, and Ruth Williamson), NYPDB Blue (directed by Ed Begley, Jr., in an episode with Tim Halligan and Ed Lauter), and CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (with Wallace Langham). Her final TV guest appearance was a 2005 episode of the NBC series Las Vegas, which starred fellow TNG guest actress Nikki Cox.
1928: Tom Troupe is born.
Tom Troupe (born 15 July 1928; age 86) is the actor who portrayed Lieutenant Harold from the original series episode "Arena".
He is the husband of singer/comedienne Carole Cook, a close friend and protege of Lucille Ball. He co-wrote (with Don Eitner) and starred in Sofi (1968), the stage and film adaptations of Nikolai Gogols Diary of a Madman.
He also appeared in the 1973 made-for-television movie The Alpha Caper, co-starring fellow Trek alumnus Leonard Nimoy, Kenneth Tobey, Paul Sorenson, Paul Kent, Vic Tayback, and James B. Sikking.
Additional projects in which Troupe appeared with other Star Trek performers include: The Big Fisherman (1959, with Phillip Pine, Rhodes Reason, and Leonard Mudie), The Devil's Brigade (1968, with Andrew Prine and Jean-Paul Vignon), Che! (1969, with Sid Haig, Perry Lopez, and Abraham Sofaer), Kelly's Heroes (1970, with Perry Lopez, Phil Adams and David Hurst), Making it (1971, with John Fiedler and Lawrence Pressman), PSI Factor (1980, with Don Eitner and Peter Mark Richman), Summer School (1987, with Kirstie Alley, Jack Blessing, Conroy Gedeon, Carlos LaCamara and Ken Olandt) and My Own Private Idaho (1991, based on William Shakespeares Henry IV, with Mickey Cottrell)
Television guest appearances include: The Fugitive (1964, with Bernard Kates), The Young Rebels (1970, with John Colicos and Alex Henteloff), Griff (1973, with Vic Tayback), Lucas Tanner (1974, with Nancy Malone), Planet of the Apes (1974, with Mark Lenard, Joseph Ruskin, Gary Combs, Booth Colman, Ron Stein and Percy Rodriguez), CHiPs (1979, with Michael Dorn, Robert Pine and Mary Crosby), Cheers (1987, with Kirstie Alley, Bebe Neuwirth and Kelsey Grammer) and Frasier (1995, with Kelsey Grammer)
1952: Judson Scott is born.
Judson Earney Scott (born 15 July 1952; age 61) is the actor who first appeared on a Star Trek production in 1982 portraying Joachim in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. Despite his having a prominent role in the film, Scott's name was not listed in the film's credits, thanks to an overzealous agent trying to get Scott star billing without his knowledge. Scott moved on and appeared in one episode each of Star Trek: The Next Generation in 1988 and Star Trek: Voyager in 1998. In 1982 he appeared in the film I, the Jury (with Paul Sorvino and Don Pike).
Judson Scott is well-known for starring in the short-lived 1980s science fiction television series The Phoenix, on V in 1985 as Lt. James (with Jeff Yagher and Duncan Regehr), and on the 1980s late-night soap opera The Colbys (with Tracy Scoggins). He also appeared in an episode of the science fiction series Voyagers! as Lawrence of Arabia, and had guest appearances in other television shows as well. In 1994, Scott appeared in the Babylon 5 episode "And the Sky Full of Stars", as Knight One (alongside Christopher Neame).
In 1991, he had a role in the action comedy K-9000 (with Anne Haney, David Renan, Ted Barba, James H. Burk, Kenny Endoso, Jeff Imada, Dave Perna, Nicholas Shaffer, Gregory J. Barnett, and Lane Leavitt)
In 1998, he appeared in the action/sci-fi film Blade as the vampire elder Pallantine, alongside Sidney Liufau, Andray Johnson, and Jeff Imada.
1952: Franklyn Seales is born.
Franklyn Vincent Ellison Seales (15 July 1952 – 21 May 1990; age 37) was an actor who appeared as a USS Enterprise crew member in Star Trek: The Motion Picture. One of his costumes for the film was sold off on the It's A Wrap! sale and auction on eBay.
Born on the Caribbean island of Saint Vincent in the West Indies, Seales first gained recognition for his role as cop killer Jimmy Lee, aka "Youngblood", in the 1979 film The Onion Field. In this acclaimed crime drama, Seales starred opposite future Star Trek alumni John Savage and Ronny Cox; the film also featured the likes of Phillip Richard Allen, K Callan, John de Lancie, Richard Herd, Christopher Lloyd, and Michael Pataki. However, his most famous role is that of business manager and Stratton family friend Dexter Stuffins on the hit 1980s sitcom Silver Spoons.
Seales first appeared to TV audiences in a recorded 1974 Broadway production of William Shakespeare's King Lear, co-starring Star Trek: Deep Space Nine actor Rene Auberjonois. Seales went on to perform in direct-to-video productions of Shakespeare's plays Macbeth and The Taming of the Shrew in the 1980s. The former (released in 1981) also featured Alan Oppenheimer, while the latter (1983 co-starred Bruce Davison and Bill Erwin; both featured Jay Robinson.
In 1980, Seales was seen in the mini-series Beulah Land, along with Jonathan Frakes, Michael Sarrazin, and Robert Walker, Jr.. The following year, Seales had a supporting role in the Walter Hill war drama Southern Comfort, starring Keith Carradine. And in 1982, he appeared in three episodes of Hill Street Blues, starring James B. Sikking, Barbara Bosson, and Barbara Babcock. He then had a regular role as Lorenzo Hollingsworth on the sitcom Amen during the show's first season (1986-87) and made guest appearances on Growing Pains and Wiseguy before dying of AIDS at the age of 37.
1952: Terry O'Quinn is born.
Actor Terry O'Quinn (born 15 July 1952; age 62) appeared as Admiral Erik Pressman in the Star Trek: The Next Generation seventh season episode "The Pegasus" in 1993. Despite playing Riker's much older superior officer, in reality O'Quinn is only one month older than actor Jonathan Frakes.
One of O'Quinn's most memorable roles was Jerry Blake (aka "The Stepfather") in the 1987 horror film The Stepfather. Other notable roles include aviator Howard Hughes in the 1991 film The Rocketeer (co-starring fellow Trek actors William O. Campbell, Paul Sorvino, Ed Lauter, Tiny Ron, Max Grodénchik, Clint Howard, and William Boyett), as well as regular roles on the Chris Carter-produced series Millennium and Harsh Realm. He also played the role of Captain (and later Admiral) Thomas Boone in ten episodes of CBS's court-room drama JAG (upon the promotion, Mark Metcalf would play Boone's replacement). O'Quinn played three separate characters in The X-Files, the first as Lt. Brian Tillman in the second season episode "Aubrey," the second as SAC Darius Michaud in the X-Files movie Fight the Future, directed by Rob Bowman, and the third as "Shadow Man" in the ninth season episode "Trust No 1," credited as "Terrance Quinn." The X-Files was executive-produced by John Shiban.
O'Quinn made his feature film debut in the 1980 drama Heaven's Gate, starring Brad Dourif. In 1988, he played Alex McSween in the action western Young Guns, a film which also featured Brian Keith. In 1990, he co-starred with George Takei in the war drama Prisoners of the Sun. The following year, he co-starred with DS9 guest star Tim Ransom and ENT guest star Dean Stockwell in the telefilm Son of the Morning Star.
He played the role of Mayor John P. Clum in 1993's Tombstone, which tells of the battle at the OK Corral. In 1996, he co-starred with Whoopi Goldberg, Susanna Thompson, Virginia Madsen, Richard Riehle, Bill Cobbs, Thomas Kopache, Bill Smitrovich, and the late Brock Peters in Ghosts of Mississippi. In 2000, he had a role in HBO's Rated X, alongside DS9's Nicole de Boer.
O'Quinn had a recurring role as FBI Asstant Director Kendall on the J.J. Abrams-produced ABC drama Alias. He then began playing the mysterious John Locke on another of Abrams' television series, Lost, alongside fellow Trek alumni Daniel Dae Kim, Titus Welliver, Fionnula Flanagan, Alan Dale and Sam Anderson. In the Lost episode "All the Best Cowboys Have Daddy Issues", one of the other characters asks O'Quinn's character if he has seen Star Trek, while talking about the redshirt curse of the Original Series. O'Quinn's character replies, "No, not really." When the phenomenon is explained to him, he remarks that Kirk sounds like a "piss poor captain."
O'Quinn earned his first Emmy Award nomination for his role on Lost in 2005. In 2007 he received another nomination, which he won, beating out, among others, William Shatner, who was up for Boston Legal. Lost ended its run in May 2010. Since then, O'Quinn worked on the television movies Hallelujah (2011, with Brett Cullen and Josh Clark) and Taken from Me: The Tiffany Rubin Story (2011) and on the television mini series Ring of Fire (2012).
Beside a recurring role as Joe White on CBS television remake of Hawaii Five-0 (2011-2012, along Daniel Dae Kim), O'Quinn more recently had guest parts in episodes of Falling Skies (2012, with Matt Frewer) and 666 Park Avenue (2012, with Vanessa Williams).
1964: Galyn Görg is born.
Galyn Görg (born 15 July 1964; age 49) played Korena, Jake Sisko's wife, in the popular Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "The Visitor". She also portrayed Nori in the Star Trek: Voyager episode "Warlord".
She also appeared in Lost: Nurse (1 episode, 2008), CSI: Miami: Ms. Art House Manager (1 episode, 2004), Stargate: SG-1: Kendra (1 episode, 1997; with Tony Amendola, Ronny Cox, Robert Picardo, Obi Ndefo, John de Lancie, Eric Steinberg, Willie Garson, Erick Avari, Tony Todd, Ed Anders, Elizabeth Hoffman, Saul Rubinek, and Musetta Vander) and Dance Academy (1988; with Michelle Rudy and Julie Newmar)
1965: Pages of the revised final draft script for TOS: "Where No Man Has Gone Before" are submitted.
1966: Amanda Foreman is born.
Amanda Foreman (born 15 July 1966; age 47) is an American actress who played Hannity in 2009's Star Trek and the same character but credited as "Ensign Brackett" in 2013's Star Trek Into Darkness. She is best known for playing Meghan Rotundi, Felicity's Wiccan college roommate, on the television series Felicity. She also had a recurring role as Carrie Bowman on the spy series Alias and starred as Ivy on the short-lived drama What About Brian. All three of these shows were created and produced by Star Trek's director and producer, J.J. Abrams.
Foreman's first film was the 1992 thriller Live Wire, which, like Star Trek, featured Ben Cross in a major role. The film also featured Star Trek: Deep Space Nine guest star Tony Plana. That same year, Foreman appeared in the comedy The Opposite Sex and How to Live with Them, along with Aaron Lustig and Mitch Ryan.
She first worked with J.J. Abrams on the 1992 film Forever Young, which Abrams wrote and executive produced. J.D. Cullum, Eric Pierpoint, and Nicolas Surovy had roles in this film, as well. Foreman's next film was the 1993 thriller Sliver, which also featured Keene Curtis. She then appeared in the 1997 dramatic comedy Breast Men, along with Michael Cavanaugh, Patrick Cronin, Louise Fletcher, Terry O'Quinn, Raphael Sbarge, Pamela Segall, and Heidi Swedberg.
Foreman worked with Jeffrey Dean Morgan in the 1997 action comedy Road Kill. She again acted with Morgan in the 2006 film Jam. Foreman's other film credits have included Purgatory Flats (2003, with Jason Brooks and Gregg Henry), Extreme Dating (2005, with Jerry Hardin and Clyde Kusatsu), and Inland Empire (2006, with Ian Abercrombie and Stanley Kamel).
More recently, she had a featured appearance as the channel 14 news anchor Lydia Connors in J.J. Abrams' science fiction thriller Super 8 (2011) which also featured Michael Giacchino, Bruce Greenwood, Jack Axelrod, Jay Scully, Tony Guma, Jason Brooks, Tim Griffin, Marco Sanchez, Jonathan H. Dixon, Greg Grunberg, and Alex Nevil, and filmed the short comedies Meet My Rapist (2013) and The Boy Scout (2013).
Foreman made her television debut in the 1989 television movie The Preppie Murder, which also featured Diedrich Bader, Thalmus Rasulala, and David Spielberg. She then appeared in the 1992 television movie Murder Without Motive: The Edmund Perry Story, as did Star Trek: Voyager guest actors Dakin Matthews and Peter Vogt.
Foreman starred in Felicity throughout all four seasons of the show, from 1998 through 2002. One of her co-stars on this series was Greg Grunberg, who had a voice-over role in Star Trek. After Felicity ended, J.J. Abrams cast Foreman in the recurring role of Carrie Bowman on Alias. She appeared in eight episodes of the show between 2003 and 2006, working with actors such as Jonathan Banks, Michael Berry, Jr., Larry Cedar, Clifton Collins, Jr., Greg Grunberg, Rachel Nichols, Terry O'Quinn, Ray Proscia, and Jimmie F. Skaggs. She then starred in Abrams' What About Brian during the show's second and final season, which aired from October 2006 through March 2007.
In addition to her work with Abrams, Foreman has guest-starred on such shows as To Have & to Hold (1998, which starred Fionnula Flanagan), Nash Bridges (1999, with Cliff DeYoung, Stephanie Niznik, and Scott Trimble), Six Feet Under (2003, with Leon Rippy and Matt Winston), and Unscripted (2005, with Frank Langella, Akiva Goldsman, and Pamela Segall). She also appeared in the pilot for the short-lived series Inconceivable (2005), as did Casey Biggs and Alfre Woodard.
Foreman had a supporting role in the 2006 television movie McBride: Requiem, which starred John Larroquette in the title role. She also appeared in the 2007 movie All I Want for Christmas with Robert Pine. Foreman had also appeared in the medical dramas ER (2008, with Scott Grimes and Leland Orser) and Private Practice (2009-2010). She had a recurring role in the latter as Katie Kent. Other guest roles include episodes of In Plain Sight (2009), Grey's Anatomy (2010), Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior (2011, with Mirron E. Willis and Nathan Anderson), and House M.D. (2011, directed by David Straiton).
Beside a recurring role as Suze Lessing in the comedy series Parenthood between 2010 and 2012, Foreman also appeared in the television drama Love's Christmas Journey (2011, with Tom Virtue and Brian Thompson). More recently, Foreman appeared in an episode of the comedy series Awkward (2013).
1966: Fifth day of filming on TOS: "Charlie X".
Teleplay for TOS: "Court Martial" is submitted.
Step outline submitted for the undeveloped Original Series episode "The Squaw" by Shimon Wincelberg.
1967: Revised story outline submitted for the undeveloped Original Series episode "Shol" by Darlene Hartman.
1967: Christopher Golden is born.
Christopher Golden (born 15 July 1967; age 46) is a comic book and novel writer from Massachusetts.
He was a heavy contributor to the Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel franchises, often working with Tom Sniegoski as co-writers. The two also collaborated on a number of novels and a comic series titled Talent.
He has collaborated with Mike Mignola on a number of Hellboy products, and most recently on the illustrated novel Baltimore and its related comic series.
His only Star Trek contribution is as co-writer with Sniegoski on the WildStorm "Embrace the Wolf" one-shot in 2000.
1968: Sixth (and last) day of filming on TOS: "Spock's Brain". Bridge scenes are filmed today.
1971: S. John Ross is born.
S. John Ross (born 15 July 1971; age 42) is an RPG writer who began work in the early 1990s for Steve Jackson Games and the Avalon Hill Game Company. Since then he's written, designed, edited and graphically produced RPG works for publishers including Last Unicorn, Hero Games, TSR, Wizards of the Coast, Flying Buffalo, Guardians of Order and others. Sometime around 1999, he began edging away from freelance work and focusing more on his own company, Cumberland Games & Diversions. He still works occasionally for other publishers, including work in 2005 with Steven S. Long, continuing a friendship that began when the two writers worked together on the Last Unicorn Games Star Trek roleplaying game series.
His sole contribution to canon was indirect, the result of his work as the primary author of Among the Clans, in which he introduced the term Ushaan as part of an Andorian language he created for the book. The book was further referenced by Michael A. Martin in his Pocket ENT novel, Beneath the Raptor's Wing, which furthered the book's suggestion that the despot Krotus was Andorian.
His credits with Last Unicorn Games include: Star Trek: The Original Series - Core Game Book, Star Trek: The Original Series - Narrator's Toolkit, Among the Clans - The Andorians, All Our Yesterdays - The Time Travel Sourcebook, and in 1972, The Thirtieth UK Story Arc concludes in Valiant & TV21 #42 with the ninth of nine installments.
1974: Clinton Wayne is born.
Clinton Wayne (born 15 July 1974; age 39) is an Emmy Award-winning make-up and make-up effects artist whose work includes prosthetic make-up effects on 2009's Star Trek. He is currently business partners with Matthew Mungle and John Jackson at W.M. Creations, Inc.
His credits include many other films and television shows as either an on-set make-up artist, a make-up lab worker, or both. His make-up lab specialties include mold making, sculpting, casting, gelatin and silicone running, and foam construction. He won Emmy Awards for Outstanding Makeup for a Series on The X-Files and for his prosthetic work on the HBO series Six Feet Under. He has also been nominated four times for his work on CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. Other television shows on which he has worked include CSI: Miami, Malcolm in the Middle, Desperate Housewives, Ghost Whisperer, Bryan Fuller's Pushing Daisies, Raising Hope and two series starring Linda Park: Raines and Women's Murder Club.
Wayne has also worked on dozens of feature films. He was a key make-up or prosthetic make-up artist for such films as I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (1998, featuring Bill Cobbs and Jeffrey Combs), Soul Survivors (2001, with art direction by Keith Cunningham), Freaky Friday (2003, featuring Rosalind Chao and Willie Garson), Knocked Up (2007, featuring Adam Scott, hair styling by Charlotte Parker, and prosthetic application by Ruth Haney), and the upcoming films Midnight Meat train and The House Bunny. His work can also be seen in such blockbuster films as The Mummy (1999, featuring music by Jerry Goldsmith), The Perfect Storm (2000, featuring Bob Gunton and Christopher McDonald), The Fast and the Furious (2001, with hair styling by Joy Zapata), Spider-Man (2002, starring Kirsten Dunst), and X-Men: The Last Stand (2006, starring Kelsey Grammer, Famke Janssen and Patrick Stewart).
In addition, Wayne has worked under Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home and Star Trek V: The Final Frontier make-up artist Jeff Dawn on three films: 1999's Deep Blue Sea, 2002's Collateral Damage (featuring Raymond Cruz, Rick Worthy and make-up by Crist Ballas), and 2003's Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (featuring David Andrews, Kristanna Loken, make-up by Steve LaPorte and art direction by Beat Frutiger).
1984: Matthew McGregor is born.
Matthew McGregor (born 15 July 1984; age 29) appeared as a background Starfleet cadet in J.J. Abrams' Star Trek. He was part of the group of actors who worked in a big crowd scene at the Cal State Northridge campus which stood in for the Starfleet Academy. McGregor filmed his scenes in December 2007 and was called back for reshoots in March 2008.
McGregor was born in Levittown, New York, and is the nephew of hair stylist Paul McGregor. He moved to California in 2007 and worked as salesperson for several companies including S&S Tuxedo's and K-Mart. He then worked behind the scenes as a stage crewmember on the show Saturday Night Live and as a page for NBC. Prior to his move to California he worked as assistant set dresser for the horror thriller Dark Water (2005) and the television series Rescue Me and as a craft service member for the fantasy comedy film Enchanted (2007).
More recently, McGregor was an extra on the reality show How to Look Good Naked (2008). He also served for one week as a production assistant on the science fiction remake The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008, with Roger R. Cross and Geoff Meed) and as an office production assistant on the television series 90210 (2008).
1987: First day of filming on TNG: "Code of Honor".
1988: Hana Hatae is born.
Hana Rebecca Hatae (born 15 July 1988; age 25), from Tarzana, California, is the actress who played Molly O'Brien in the Star Trek: The Next Generation sixth season episode "Rascals" and in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
Beside her work on Star Trek, Hatae was also featured in an episode of the comedy series Family Matters in 1998.
In 2010, Hatae appeared on the Fox television show Kitchen Nightmares in an episode involving her family's sushi restaurant Sushi-ko. As of that airing, she was working as a hostess and waitress. Her brother, mother, and father also appeared in that episode. Their family restaurant closed in August 2009.
1991: Sixth day of filming on TNG: "Redemption II".
1992: Final draft script for TNG: "Realm of Fear" is submitted.
1993: David Brian dies.
David Brian (5 August 1914 – 15 July 1993; age 78) was the actor who appeared as historian John Gill in the original Star Trek episode "Patterns of Force".
Besides his stint on Star Trek, Brian has also made guest appearances in many other television series, including The Untouchables, I Dream of Jeannie, Rawhide, Gunsmoke, and Mission: Impossible. He also starred in his own series, Mr. District Attorney, from 1954 through 1955.
He also has a number of films to his credit. Among his earliest was the 1949 drama Intruder in the Dust, for which he received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actor.
Throughout the early 1950s, Brian was often seen playing the lead role in films such as Breakthrough (1950, co-starring William Campbell and Ricardo Montalban) and Inside Straight (1951, with John Hoyt). His other film credits include supporting roles in 1952's Springfield Rifle (with Richard Hale) and This Woman Is Dangerous (with Richard Webb), 1954's The High and the Mighty (with William Campbell, Paul Fix, and William Schallert), 1961's Pocketful of Miracles (featuring Grace Lee Whitney), the classic 1962 western How the West Was Won, 1966's The Rare Breed (with Brian Keith), 1968's The Destructors (with Michael Ansara), and 1969's The Girl Who Knew Too Much (with Nehemiah Persoff). His last feature film appearance was in 1971's The Seven Minutes, which also featured fellow TOS co-stars Stanley Adams and Charles Napier. He would, however, co-star with Madlyn Rhue the following year in The Manhunter, a made-for-TV movie.
David Brian died of cancer and heart failure in California in 1993. He was 78 years old.
1993: Seventh day of filming on DS9: "The Homecoming".
Final draft script for DS9: "The Siege" is submitted.
1996: First day of filming on VOY: "The Chute".
1997: Sixth day of filming on DS9: "A Time to Stand".
Fifth day of filming on VOY: "Revulsion".
1998: Seventh and final day of filming on DS9: "Image in the Sand".
Ninth and final day of filming on VOY: "In the Flesh".
Final draft script for DS9: "Shadows and Symbols" is submitted.
2002: Fourth of filming on ENT: "Shockwave, Part II".
2003: Fifth day of filming on ENT: "Anomaly".
2004: First day of filming on ENT: "Storm Front".
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A Day in the History of Star Trek
by Storm Windfall » Wed Jul 16, 2014 12:58 pm
A list of events which occurred on the 16th of July.
1882: Felix Locher is born.
Felix Maurice Locher (16 July 1882 – 13 March 1969; age 86) was an actor who portrayed Robert Johnson in the 1967 Star Trek: The Original Series episode "The Deadly Years".
Locher died in Hollywood, California at the age of 86. His death occurred one day before the penultimate TOS episode, "All Our Yesterdays", aired. Along with Judith Anderson, Morgan Farley, Richard Hale, Anthony Jochim, Celia Lovsky, Leonard Mudie, Charles Seel, Abraham Sofaer, John Warburton, and Ian Wolfe, he is one of only eleven credited Star Trek guest stars born in the 19th century to appear in any episode or film. Locher also is the earliest born Star Trek performer.
Swiss born Felix Locher started his acting career late in life, when he was already 73. He was visiting his son, film and television actor Jon Hall, on the set of Hell Ship Mutiny (1957), when the director spotted him and convinced him to play the part of a Tahitian chief in the feature. Prior to his acting career, Locher had worked as an insurance salesman as well as an inventor, with over 100 copyrights and patents to his name.
Locher appeared in numerous television series and movies throughout the 1950s and 1960s. In 1963, he appeared alongside fellow TOS guest star Georgia Schmidt in House of the Damned. He also appeared in a three-part episode of the western series Branded entitled "Call to Glory", co-starring fellow TOS actors Robert Lansing and Richard Tatro. He remained active as an actor until his death in 1969, as he appeared in two other productions, the television series Gunsmoke and Love, American Style, after his performance on Star Trek.
His son Jon, very much responsible for his father's acting career, followed his father in death ten years later, and is buried next to him in Forest Lawn Cemetery in Hollywood Hills.
1920: Phillip Pine is born.
Phillip Pine (16 July 1920 – 22 December 2006; age 86) was the actor who originated the role of Colonel Green in the third season episode of Star Trek: The Original Series entitled "The Savage Curtain".
Aside from his appearance on Star Trek, he has guest-starred on many other television series, including Adventures of Superman, Gunsmoke, The Untouchables, The Twilight Zone (including The Four of Us Are Dying, written by George Clayton Johnson, co-starring Harry Townes and Peter Brocco with music by Jerry Goldsmith), Bonanza, Mission: Impossible (The Bargain, with Warren Stevens and James Wellman), Barnaby Jones (starring Lee Meriwether), and Quincy. He also made frequent appearances on Jane Wyman Presents The Fireside Theatre, as did fellow TOS guest-star Reginald Lal Singh (TOS: "Court Martial"). In addition, Pine played the brother of TOS co-star Leonard Nimoy in a 1959 episode of Wagon Train entitled "The Estaban Zamora Story", which also featured Roy Jenson. Pine also co-starred with James Doohan in a 1951 episode of Tales of Tomorrow and a 1963 episode of Bonanza and worked alongside William Shatner and fellow TOS guest star Yvonne Craig in a 1973 episode of Mannix. In 1972, he starred with fellow TOS actor Percy Rodriguez in an episode of the Sixth Sense titled "Whisper of Evil."
One of Pine's earliest films was 1949's The Set-Up. This highly-acclaimed boxing film was directed by Robert Wise, who would go on to direct Star Trek: The Motion Picture in 1979. It also featured Hal Baylor in a supporting role. Pine's most significant film roles were in Anthony Mann's Men in War (1957, co-starring Nehemiah Persoff) and 1958's Murder by Contract. Other film credits of Pine's include D.O.A. (1950, with Lawrence Dobkin), Black Tuesday (1954, with Vic Perrin, William Schallert, Arthur Batanides, and Hal Baylor), Brainstorm (1965, with Jeffrey Hunter, Steve Ihnat, Bill Quinn, Kathie Browne and Pamelyn Ferdin), Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round (1966, with Vic Tayback and George D. Wallace), and Project X (1968, with Keye Luke and Monte Markham).
In 1973, Pine co-starred with fellow Star Trek alumni Mark Lenard, James B. Sikking, Don Stark, and Jason Wingreen in the made-for-TV movie Outrage. Some of his other TV movies include 1973's Cry Rape (co-starring Whit Bissell, Paul Comi, George Murdock, and Willard Sage and directed by Corey Allen), 1978's The Clone Master (with Ed Lauter), and 1979's Stone (featuring Mariette Hartley and also directed by Corey Allen).
Pine also tried his hand at writing and directing, making independent films like Don't Just Lay There in 1970 and Posse from Heaven in 1975. In 1972, he directed fellow TOS guest actor Arthur Batanides in The Cat Ate the Parakeet. Pine also wrote and starred in the film. Pine later co-wrote the 1982 horror movie Dark Sanity.
Pine died in 2006 at the age of 86. His death was not reported until May 2007.
1928: Robert Sheckley is born.
Robert Sheckley (16 July 1928 – 9 December 2005; age 77) was a prolific science fiction writer, author of twenty-six novels and hundreds of short stories.
In 1966, Sheckley pitched two stories for Star Trek: The Original Series, "Rites of Fertility" and "Sister in Space", however both went unproduced. Almost thirty years later, he was the author of the DS9 novel The Laertian Gamble.
1931: Edward K. Milkis is born.
Edward K. Milkis (16 July 1931 – 14 December 1996; age 65) was a Hollywood film and television producer hailing from Los Angeles, California. He began his career as post-production supervisor on Star Trek: The Original Series, before ultimately being promoted to associate producer in early 1968 for the show's third season. He went on to become a producer for Star Trek: The Next Generation during that show's first season.
Milkis was brought in to the original Star Trek in August 1966 by Gene Roddenberry - who had known him from The Lieutenant series on which he served as assistant editor -, after John D.F. Black left the series, and Robert Justman needed another hand to help him with the tasks of running the production. He was responsible for the special effects, and other post-production work. (Inside Star Trek: The Real Story, These Are the Voyages: TOS Season One)
Two decades later, Milkis was brought back to work on The Next Generation by Justman. However, by the time, Milkis was a producer on his own projects, and did not wish to work in a lower capacity for others, so his work on the series ended after a brief tenure in the first season. (Inside Star Trek: The Real Story, Star Trek: The Next Generation Companion)
Milkis has also served as an executive producer on such TV shows as Petrocelli (whose regulars included TOS guest actress Susan Howard and TNG guest actor David Huddleston) as well as the hit sitcoms Happy Days starring Don Most, Gavan O'Herlihy and Anson Williams, Laverne & Shirley starring David L. Lander and Michael McKean, and Bosom Buddies. Additionally, he was the producer for the films Silver Streak (1976), Foul Play (1978), and The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (1982), and an executive producer on the 1994 comedy Exit to Eden (his final project). He passed away in Los Angeles at the age of 65.
In the original series second-season blooper real, William Shatner declares over the opening titles that the series is produced by Desilu, Inc. and was starring "Eddie Milkis."
1950: Camille Saviola is born.
Camille Saviola (born 16 July 1950; age 64) is the actress who portrayed Kai Opaka in four episodes of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Saviola was born in New York.
Saviola most recently had a recurring role on the television series Entourage as Turtle's mother. Her feature film credits include Betsy's Wedding (with Bibi Besch), Broadway Danny Rose, The Purple Rose of Cairo, Shadows and Fog (with Wallace Shawn), Addams Family Values with (Christopher Lloyd and Carel Struycken) and Penn & Teller Get Killed.
1951: Esther Friesner is born.
Esther Mona Friesner (born 16 July 1951; age 62) is a fantasy and science fiction author who has written a couple of Star Trek novels.
Ms. Friesner earned BAs in Spanish and Drama at Vassar College and an MA and PhD in Spanish at Yale University. She taught Spanish at Yale before becoming a full-time writer for novels, short stories and poems. She even wrote an etiquette and advice column in Pulphouse magazine called "Ask Auntie Esther". She lives in Connecticut with her husband, children, cats, and a bunch of hamsters.
1959: Frank Capra III is born.
Frank Capra III (born 16 July 1959; age 54) was the Second Assistant Director (2nd AD) on Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home. Hailing from San Diego, California, Capra is the grandson of legendary film director Frank Capra and the son of producer Frank Capra, Jr.
Capra began his Hollywood career as a production assistant on the 1980 romantic comedy The Black Marble, produced by his father and starring Robert Foxworth and Barbara Babcock. He then worked as an assistant on The Howling (starring Robert Picardo, Dick Miller, Kenneth Tobey, and Noble Willingham) and was an assistant location manager for John Carpenter's Escape from New York (starring Adrienne Barbeau). The 1982 comedy Zapped! was his first film as a 2nd AD.
Capra was a 2nd AD on such films as The Hitcher (featuring Armin Shimerman), Gleaming the Cube (starring Christian Slater and Richard Herd), Pink Cadillac (featuring Jimmie F. Skaggs), Warlock (featuring Allan Miller and Ian Abercrombie), and National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (featuring Miriam Flynn and Natalia Nogulich) before becoming a First Assistant Director. As a 1st AD, his film credits include My Cousin Vinny, Honey I Blew Up the Kid, Bram Stoker's Dracula, A Few Good Men, The American President, Mighty Joe Young, The Rundown, Hitch, and The Dukes of Hazzard.
In the mid-1990s, Capra began producing as well as assistant directing, beginning with the 1996 action hit Eraser, starring Vanessa Williams and James Cromwell. He was also credited as either Co-Producer or Executive Producer as well as 1st AD on films such as Ghosts of Mississippi (starring Bill Cobbs, Whoopi Goldberg, Jerry Hardin, Thomas Kopache, Jordan Lund, Virginia Madsen, Terry O'Quinn, Brock Peters, Richard Riehle, Bill Smitrovich, Susanna Thompson, Bulworth (featuring Deborah Lacey, Sarah Silverman, and Paul Sorvino), The Deep End of the Ocean (starring Whoopi Goldberg), Murder by Numbers, Rumor Has It... (starring Christopher McDonald), and The Bucket List.
1963: Kristopher Logan is born.
Kristopher Logan (born 16 July 1963; age 51) is an actor from Baltimore, Maryland who appeared as an El-Aurian survivor in the 1994 film Star Trek Generations. He was one of the SAG day players who were hired to appear in this scene but received no screen time in the final cut.
His prior film credits include Howard the Duck (1986, with Paul Comi and John Fleck), The Dead Pool (1988, with Marc Alaimo, Ronnie Claire Edwards, and Louis Giambalvo), The Rocketeer (with William O. Campbell, Max Grodénchik, Darryl Henriques, Clint Howard, Ed Lauter, Terry O'Quinn, Tiny Ron, and Paul Sorvino), Puppet Master III: Toulon's Revenge (1991, co-starring Ian Abercrombie, Aron Eisenberg, Walter Gotell, and Richard Lynch), Demolition Man (1993, with Bill Cobbs, Mark Colson, and Bob Gunton), and Pentathlon (1994, with Bobby Bass, Charles Chun, Erik Holland, Barry Lynch, Daniel Riordan, Matt Roe, and David Soul). In 1995, he co-starred in the action thriller No Way Back and, in 2001, appeared in the comedy Monkeybone, featuring his Generations co-star Whoopi Goldberg. He more recently lent his voice to 2004's The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie, as did Clancy Brown and Bart McCarthy.
On television, Logan has appeared on Quantum Leap (with Scott Bakula and Dean Stockwell), Dream On (with Michael McKean), NYPD Blue (with Gordon Clapp, Richard Lineback, and Sharon Lawrence), ER (with Herta Ware), Babylon 5 (with Robert Foxworth, Andreas Katsulas, Bill Mumy, and Robin Sachs), Profiler (with Clarence Williams III), Sisters (with Stephen Collins), Sliders (with John Rhys-Davies and Dan Gauthier), Six Feet Under (with David Andrews, Michael Bofshever, Graham Jarvis, Alice Krige, and Amy Wheaton), and J.J. Abrams' Alias (with Robert Joy and Terry O'Quinn). He also appeared in the TV movies National Lampoon's Favorite Deadly Sins, co-starring Christopher Carroll, Gerrit Graham, and Brian Keith and You Lucky Dog, starring John de Lancie.
1964: Amy Benedict is born.
Amy Benedict (born 16 July 1964; age 50) is an actress who played a Bajoran mother in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "The Storyteller".
Benedict has appeared in several motion pictures. They include Sneakers (with Time Winters), Early Bird Special (with Ray Walston), and The Ten Rules (with Jennifer Gatti).
Her other guest-starring credits include Hunter (with fellow DS9 guest star Lou Wagner), Walker, Texas Ranger, Without a Trace, and 24.
1965: Dan Warner is born.
Daniel "Dan" Paul Warner (born 16 July 1965; age 49) is an actor who played a Detroit police officer in the Star Trek: Enterprise episode "Carpenter Street".
Warner, born in Los Angeles, California, appeared in several stage plays and television commercials such as "Propane" (2001-2003), "Direct TV", and "Honda", and received a Bobby Award as best commercial actor in 2001. In addition, he worked as a stunt performer specialized in water work for Nickelodeon and the television series Baywatch. On-screen he played mostly cops and security guards.
Among his resume are films such as Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002, with Clint Howard, Kelly Cooper, Angela Meryl, and Roger Morrissey), Hatchetman (2003), Community Service (2006, with Todd Stashwick), and Hallowed Ground (2007, with Brian McNamara, Ethan Phillips, Ned Vaughn, and Time Winters).
Warner's guest roles include the television series CSI: Miami (2003, with Mark Harelik and John Eric Bentley), J.J. Abrams' Alias (2003, with Mark Bramhall), CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2004, with David Lee Smith, Wallace Langham, Victor Bevine, and Mark Lentry), Cold Case (2005, with Dave Power), 24 (2006, with Gregory Itzin, Jude Ciccolella, Ray Wise, and Peter Weller), CSI: New York (2007), and Heroes (2007, with Christine Rose, George Takei, Malcolm McDowell, and Bart McCarthy).
1968: First day of filming on TOS: "Is There in Truth No Beauty?".
1969: Ben Betts is born.
Ben Betts (born 16 July 1969; age 45) is a computer graphics and video playback engineer.
He worked in these capacities on a number of episodes and movies for the Star Trek franchise, including Star Trek: Voyager, Star Trek: First Contact (1996), Star Trek: Insurrection (1998), Star Trek: Enterprise, and Star Trek Nemesis (2002).
In 2005, he worked on the Threshold television series, which Brent Spiner starred on, Brannon Braga executive produced, and Mike Sussman wrote several episodes for.
He also worked on seaQuest DSV (also featuring Raphael Sbarge, Frank Welker, Jesús Salvador Treviño, Parker Whitman, Cameron Thor, W. Morgan Sheppard, Robert Bonchune, Carleton Eastlake, Christopher James Miller, James Contner, Les Landau, Rachael Harris, Richard Herd, and William Shatner), The Nutty Professor (1996, also featuring Athena Massey), and The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997, also featuring Katy Boyer, Geno Silva, Robin Sachs, Marjean Holden, J. Patrick McCormack, Chuck Picerni, Jr., Harry Hutchinson, Ian Abercrombie, and Jacqueline Schultz).
1971: Jill Lover is born.
Jill Lover (born 16 July 1971; age 42) is an actress who filmed a role for J.J. Abrams' Star Trek. She played a Vulcan midwife in the deleted scene of Spock's birth along with Fran Bennett.
Lover was born in Green Bay, Wisconsin and graduated from Green Bay East High School in 1989. She earned a BA in Theater from Lawrence University and studied professional acting partly in London. As a trained stage actress, Lover has performed in several stage plays, including several Shakespeare plays.
Lover made her first on-screen acting performances in the comedy Dear God (1996, with Jack Sheldon, Stephanie Niznik, Sunny Hawks, and Valerie Wildman) and the drama The Twilight of the Golds (1997, again with Stephanie Niznik). She had guest appearances in the television series Nash Bridges (1998), The Pretender (1999, with Harve Presnell), John Doe (2002), American Dreams (2003, with Ethan Dampf, Alicia Coppola, and Mark Kiely), All About the Andersons (2003 and 2004), My Wife and Kids (2004), Half & Half (2005), Sex, Love and Secrets (2005), and Close to Home (2007, alongside Cress Williams, Richard McGonagle, Carlos Lacamara, John Cothran, Jr., and Bruce Davison). Lover was also among the cast of the drama Duck (2005, like Bill Cobbs, Larry Cedar, Gary Kasper, and Kelvin Yu) and the television movie Re-Animated (2006).
More recently she appeared in J.J. Abrams' television pilot Anatomy of Hope alongside Mark Rolston, Bruce Gray, and Tony Guma.
1987: ILM filmed scenes with the Old Bandi City model for TNG: "Encounter at Farpoint".
Second day of filming on TNG: "Code of Honor".
1991: Seventh day of filming on TNG: "Redemption II".
1996: Second day of filming on VOY: "The Chute".
Final draft script for DS9: "The Ship" is submitted.
1997: Seventh day of filming on DS9: "A Time to Stand".
Sixth day of filming on VOY: "Revulsion".
1998: First day of filming on DS9: "Shadows and Symbols".
First day of filming on VOY: "Once Upon a Time".
2001: Seventh day of filming on ENT: "Fight or Flight".
Paramount Home Entertainment releases Next Generation volume 4.5 and Voyager volume 7.5 on VHS in the UK.
2002: Fifth day of filming on ENT: "Shockwave, Part II".
2003: Sixth day of filming on ENT: "Anomaly".
2004: Second day of filming on ENT: "Storm Front".
1882: Felix Locher is born.
Felix Maurice Locher (16 July 1882 – 13 March 1969; age 86) was an actor who portrayed Robert Johnson in the 1967 Star Trek: The Original Series episode "The Deadly Years".
Locher died in Hollywood, California at the age of 86. His death occurred one day before the penultimate TOS episode, "All Our Yesterdays", aired. Along with Judith Anderson, Morgan Farley, Richard Hale, Anthony Jochim, Celia Lovsky, Leonard Mudie, Charles Seel, Abraham Sofaer, John Warburton, and Ian Wolfe, he is one of only eleven credited Star Trek guest stars born in the 19th century to appear in any episode or film. Locher also is the earliest born Star Trek performer.
Swiss born Felix Locher started his acting career late in life, when he was already 73. He was visiting his son, film and television actor Jon Hall, on the set of Hell Ship Mutiny (1957), when the director spotted him and convinced him to play the part of a Tahitian chief in the feature. Prior to his acting career, Locher had worked as an insurance salesman as well as an inventor, with over 100 copyrights and patents to his name.
Locher appeared in numerous television series and movies throughout the 1950s and 1960s. In 1963, he appeared alongside fellow TOS guest star Georgia Schmidt in House of the Damned. He also appeared in a three-part episode of the western series Branded entitled "Call to Glory", co-starring fellow TOS actors Robert Lansing and Richard Tatro. He remained active as an actor until his death in 1969, as he appeared in two other productions, the television series Gunsmoke and Love, American Style, after his performance on Star Trek.
His son Jon, very much responsible for his father's acting career, followed his father in death ten years later, and is buried next to him in Forest Lawn Cemetery in Hollywood Hills.
1920: Phillip Pine is born.
Phillip Pine (16 July 1920 – 22 December 2006; age 86) was the actor who originated the role of Colonel Green in the third season episode of Star Trek: The Original Series entitled "The Savage Curtain".
Aside from his appearance on Star Trek, he has guest-starred on many other television series, including Adventures of Superman, Gunsmoke, The Untouchables, The Twilight Zone (including The Four of Us Are Dying, written by George Clayton Johnson, co-starring Harry Townes and Peter Brocco with music by Jerry Goldsmith), Bonanza, Mission: Impossible (The Bargain, with Warren Stevens and James Wellman), Barnaby Jones (starring Lee Meriwether), and Quincy. He also made frequent appearances on Jane Wyman Presents The Fireside Theatre, as did fellow TOS guest-star Reginald Lal Singh (TOS: "Court Martial"). In addition, Pine played the brother of TOS co-star Leonard Nimoy in a 1959 episode of Wagon Train entitled "The Estaban Zamora Story", which also featured Roy Jenson. Pine also co-starred with James Doohan in a 1951 episode of Tales of Tomorrow and a 1963 episode of Bonanza and worked alongside William Shatner and fellow TOS guest star Yvonne Craig in a 1973 episode of Mannix. In 1972, he starred with fellow TOS actor Percy Rodriguez in an episode of the Sixth Sense titled "Whisper of Evil."
One of Pine's earliest films was 1949's The Set-Up. This highly-acclaimed boxing film was directed by Robert Wise, who would go on to direct Star Trek: The Motion Picture in 1979. It also featured Hal Baylor in a supporting role. Pine's most significant film roles were in Anthony Mann's Men in War (1957, co-starring Nehemiah Persoff) and 1958's Murder by Contract. Other film credits of Pine's include D.O.A. (1950, with Lawrence Dobkin), Black Tuesday (1954, with Vic Perrin, William Schallert, Arthur Batanides, and Hal Baylor), Brainstorm (1965, with Jeffrey Hunter, Steve Ihnat, Bill Quinn, Kathie Browne and Pamelyn Ferdin), Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round (1966, with Vic Tayback and George D. Wallace), and Project X (1968, with Keye Luke and Monte Markham).
In 1973, Pine co-starred with fellow Star Trek alumni Mark Lenard, James B. Sikking, Don Stark, and Jason Wingreen in the made-for-TV movie Outrage. Some of his other TV movies include 1973's Cry Rape (co-starring Whit Bissell, Paul Comi, George Murdock, and Willard Sage and directed by Corey Allen), 1978's The Clone Master (with Ed Lauter), and 1979's Stone (featuring Mariette Hartley and also directed by Corey Allen).
Pine also tried his hand at writing and directing, making independent films like Don't Just Lay There in 1970 and Posse from Heaven in 1975. In 1972, he directed fellow TOS guest actor Arthur Batanides in The Cat Ate the Parakeet. Pine also wrote and starred in the film. Pine later co-wrote the 1982 horror movie Dark Sanity.
Pine died in 2006 at the age of 86. His death was not reported until May 2007.
1928: Robert Sheckley is born.
Robert Sheckley (16 July 1928 – 9 December 2005; age 77) was a prolific science fiction writer, author of twenty-six novels and hundreds of short stories.
In 1966, Sheckley pitched two stories for Star Trek: The Original Series, "Rites of Fertility" and "Sister in Space", however both went unproduced. Almost thirty years later, he was the author of the DS9 novel The Laertian Gamble.
1931: Edward K. Milkis is born.
Edward K. Milkis (16 July 1931 – 14 December 1996; age 65) was a Hollywood film and television producer hailing from Los Angeles, California. He began his career as post-production supervisor on Star Trek: The Original Series, before ultimately being promoted to associate producer in early 1968 for the show's third season. He went on to become a producer for Star Trek: The Next Generation during that show's first season.
Milkis was brought in to the original Star Trek in August 1966 by Gene Roddenberry - who had known him from The Lieutenant series on which he served as assistant editor -, after John D.F. Black left the series, and Robert Justman needed another hand to help him with the tasks of running the production. He was responsible for the special effects, and other post-production work. (Inside Star Trek: The Real Story, These Are the Voyages: TOS Season One)
Two decades later, Milkis was brought back to work on The Next Generation by Justman. However, by the time, Milkis was a producer on his own projects, and did not wish to work in a lower capacity for others, so his work on the series ended after a brief tenure in the first season. (Inside Star Trek: The Real Story, Star Trek: The Next Generation Companion)
Milkis has also served as an executive producer on such TV shows as Petrocelli (whose regulars included TOS guest actress Susan Howard and TNG guest actor David Huddleston) as well as the hit sitcoms Happy Days starring Don Most, Gavan O'Herlihy and Anson Williams, Laverne & Shirley starring David L. Lander and Michael McKean, and Bosom Buddies. Additionally, he was the producer for the films Silver Streak (1976), Foul Play (1978), and The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (1982), and an executive producer on the 1994 comedy Exit to Eden (his final project). He passed away in Los Angeles at the age of 65.
In the original series second-season blooper real, William Shatner declares over the opening titles that the series is produced by Desilu, Inc. and was starring "Eddie Milkis."
1950: Camille Saviola is born.
Camille Saviola (born 16 July 1950; age 64) is the actress who portrayed Kai Opaka in four episodes of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Saviola was born in New York.
Saviola most recently had a recurring role on the television series Entourage as Turtle's mother. Her feature film credits include Betsy's Wedding (with Bibi Besch), Broadway Danny Rose, The Purple Rose of Cairo, Shadows and Fog (with Wallace Shawn), Addams Family Values with (Christopher Lloyd and Carel Struycken) and Penn & Teller Get Killed.
1951: Esther Friesner is born.
Esther Mona Friesner (born 16 July 1951; age 62) is a fantasy and science fiction author who has written a couple of Star Trek novels.
Ms. Friesner earned BAs in Spanish and Drama at Vassar College and an MA and PhD in Spanish at Yale University. She taught Spanish at Yale before becoming a full-time writer for novels, short stories and poems. She even wrote an etiquette and advice column in Pulphouse magazine called "Ask Auntie Esther". She lives in Connecticut with her husband, children, cats, and a bunch of hamsters.
1959: Frank Capra III is born.
Frank Capra III (born 16 July 1959; age 54) was the Second Assistant Director (2nd AD) on Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home. Hailing from San Diego, California, Capra is the grandson of legendary film director Frank Capra and the son of producer Frank Capra, Jr.
Capra began his Hollywood career as a production assistant on the 1980 romantic comedy The Black Marble, produced by his father and starring Robert Foxworth and Barbara Babcock. He then worked as an assistant on The Howling (starring Robert Picardo, Dick Miller, Kenneth Tobey, and Noble Willingham) and was an assistant location manager for John Carpenter's Escape from New York (starring Adrienne Barbeau). The 1982 comedy Zapped! was his first film as a 2nd AD.
Capra was a 2nd AD on such films as The Hitcher (featuring Armin Shimerman), Gleaming the Cube (starring Christian Slater and Richard Herd), Pink Cadillac (featuring Jimmie F. Skaggs), Warlock (featuring Allan Miller and Ian Abercrombie), and National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (featuring Miriam Flynn and Natalia Nogulich) before becoming a First Assistant Director. As a 1st AD, his film credits include My Cousin Vinny, Honey I Blew Up the Kid, Bram Stoker's Dracula, A Few Good Men, The American President, Mighty Joe Young, The Rundown, Hitch, and The Dukes of Hazzard.
In the mid-1990s, Capra began producing as well as assistant directing, beginning with the 1996 action hit Eraser, starring Vanessa Williams and James Cromwell. He was also credited as either Co-Producer or Executive Producer as well as 1st AD on films such as Ghosts of Mississippi (starring Bill Cobbs, Whoopi Goldberg, Jerry Hardin, Thomas Kopache, Jordan Lund, Virginia Madsen, Terry O'Quinn, Brock Peters, Richard Riehle, Bill Smitrovich, Susanna Thompson, Bulworth (featuring Deborah Lacey, Sarah Silverman, and Paul Sorvino), The Deep End of the Ocean (starring Whoopi Goldberg), Murder by Numbers, Rumor Has It... (starring Christopher McDonald), and The Bucket List.
1963: Kristopher Logan is born.
Kristopher Logan (born 16 July 1963; age 51) is an actor from Baltimore, Maryland who appeared as an El-Aurian survivor in the 1994 film Star Trek Generations. He was one of the SAG day players who were hired to appear in this scene but received no screen time in the final cut.
His prior film credits include Howard the Duck (1986, with Paul Comi and John Fleck), The Dead Pool (1988, with Marc Alaimo, Ronnie Claire Edwards, and Louis Giambalvo), The Rocketeer (with William O. Campbell, Max Grodénchik, Darryl Henriques, Clint Howard, Ed Lauter, Terry O'Quinn, Tiny Ron, and Paul Sorvino), Puppet Master III: Toulon's Revenge (1991, co-starring Ian Abercrombie, Aron Eisenberg, Walter Gotell, and Richard Lynch), Demolition Man (1993, with Bill Cobbs, Mark Colson, and Bob Gunton), and Pentathlon (1994, with Bobby Bass, Charles Chun, Erik Holland, Barry Lynch, Daniel Riordan, Matt Roe, and David Soul). In 1995, he co-starred in the action thriller No Way Back and, in 2001, appeared in the comedy Monkeybone, featuring his Generations co-star Whoopi Goldberg. He more recently lent his voice to 2004's The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie, as did Clancy Brown and Bart McCarthy.
On television, Logan has appeared on Quantum Leap (with Scott Bakula and Dean Stockwell), Dream On (with Michael McKean), NYPD Blue (with Gordon Clapp, Richard Lineback, and Sharon Lawrence), ER (with Herta Ware), Babylon 5 (with Robert Foxworth, Andreas Katsulas, Bill Mumy, and Robin Sachs), Profiler (with Clarence Williams III), Sisters (with Stephen Collins), Sliders (with John Rhys-Davies and Dan Gauthier), Six Feet Under (with David Andrews, Michael Bofshever, Graham Jarvis, Alice Krige, and Amy Wheaton), and J.J. Abrams' Alias (with Robert Joy and Terry O'Quinn). He also appeared in the TV movies National Lampoon's Favorite Deadly Sins, co-starring Christopher Carroll, Gerrit Graham, and Brian Keith and You Lucky Dog, starring John de Lancie.
1964: Amy Benedict is born.
Amy Benedict (born 16 July 1964; age 50) is an actress who played a Bajoran mother in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "The Storyteller".
Benedict has appeared in several motion pictures. They include Sneakers (with Time Winters), Early Bird Special (with Ray Walston), and The Ten Rules (with Jennifer Gatti).
Her other guest-starring credits include Hunter (with fellow DS9 guest star Lou Wagner), Walker, Texas Ranger, Without a Trace, and 24.
1965: Dan Warner is born.
Daniel "Dan" Paul Warner (born 16 July 1965; age 49) is an actor who played a Detroit police officer in the Star Trek: Enterprise episode "Carpenter Street".
Warner, born in Los Angeles, California, appeared in several stage plays and television commercials such as "Propane" (2001-2003), "Direct TV", and "Honda", and received a Bobby Award as best commercial actor in 2001. In addition, he worked as a stunt performer specialized in water work for Nickelodeon and the television series Baywatch. On-screen he played mostly cops and security guards.
Among his resume are films such as Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002, with Clint Howard, Kelly Cooper, Angela Meryl, and Roger Morrissey), Hatchetman (2003), Community Service (2006, with Todd Stashwick), and Hallowed Ground (2007, with Brian McNamara, Ethan Phillips, Ned Vaughn, and Time Winters).
Warner's guest roles include the television series CSI: Miami (2003, with Mark Harelik and John Eric Bentley), J.J. Abrams' Alias (2003, with Mark Bramhall), CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2004, with David Lee Smith, Wallace Langham, Victor Bevine, and Mark Lentry), Cold Case (2005, with Dave Power), 24 (2006, with Gregory Itzin, Jude Ciccolella, Ray Wise, and Peter Weller), CSI: New York (2007), and Heroes (2007, with Christine Rose, George Takei, Malcolm McDowell, and Bart McCarthy).
1968: First day of filming on TOS: "Is There in Truth No Beauty?".
1969: Ben Betts is born.
Ben Betts (born 16 July 1969; age 45) is a computer graphics and video playback engineer.
He worked in these capacities on a number of episodes and movies for the Star Trek franchise, including Star Trek: Voyager, Star Trek: First Contact (1996), Star Trek: Insurrection (1998), Star Trek: Enterprise, and Star Trek Nemesis (2002).
In 2005, he worked on the Threshold television series, which Brent Spiner starred on, Brannon Braga executive produced, and Mike Sussman wrote several episodes for.
He also worked on seaQuest DSV (also featuring Raphael Sbarge, Frank Welker, Jesús Salvador Treviño, Parker Whitman, Cameron Thor, W. Morgan Sheppard, Robert Bonchune, Carleton Eastlake, Christopher James Miller, James Contner, Les Landau, Rachael Harris, Richard Herd, and William Shatner), The Nutty Professor (1996, also featuring Athena Massey), and The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997, also featuring Katy Boyer, Geno Silva, Robin Sachs, Marjean Holden, J. Patrick McCormack, Chuck Picerni, Jr., Harry Hutchinson, Ian Abercrombie, and Jacqueline Schultz).
1971: Jill Lover is born.
Jill Lover (born 16 July 1971; age 42) is an actress who filmed a role for J.J. Abrams' Star Trek. She played a Vulcan midwife in the deleted scene of Spock's birth along with Fran Bennett.
Lover was born in Green Bay, Wisconsin and graduated from Green Bay East High School in 1989. She earned a BA in Theater from Lawrence University and studied professional acting partly in London. As a trained stage actress, Lover has performed in several stage plays, including several Shakespeare plays.
Lover made her first on-screen acting performances in the comedy Dear God (1996, with Jack Sheldon, Stephanie Niznik, Sunny Hawks, and Valerie Wildman) and the drama The Twilight of the Golds (1997, again with Stephanie Niznik). She had guest appearances in the television series Nash Bridges (1998), The Pretender (1999, with Harve Presnell), John Doe (2002), American Dreams (2003, with Ethan Dampf, Alicia Coppola, and Mark Kiely), All About the Andersons (2003 and 2004), My Wife and Kids (2004), Half & Half (2005), Sex, Love and Secrets (2005), and Close to Home (2007, alongside Cress Williams, Richard McGonagle, Carlos Lacamara, John Cothran, Jr., and Bruce Davison). Lover was also among the cast of the drama Duck (2005, like Bill Cobbs, Larry Cedar, Gary Kasper, and Kelvin Yu) and the television movie Re-Animated (2006).
More recently she appeared in J.J. Abrams' television pilot Anatomy of Hope alongside Mark Rolston, Bruce Gray, and Tony Guma.
1987: ILM filmed scenes with the Old Bandi City model for TNG: "Encounter at Farpoint".
Second day of filming on TNG: "Code of Honor".
1991: Seventh day of filming on TNG: "Redemption II".
1996: Second day of filming on VOY: "The Chute".
Final draft script for DS9: "The Ship" is submitted.
1997: Seventh day of filming on DS9: "A Time to Stand".
Sixth day of filming on VOY: "Revulsion".
1998: First day of filming on DS9: "Shadows and Symbols".
First day of filming on VOY: "Once Upon a Time".
2001: Seventh day of filming on ENT: "Fight or Flight".
Paramount Home Entertainment releases Next Generation volume 4.5 and Voyager volume 7.5 on VHS in the UK.
2002: Fifth day of filming on ENT: "Shockwave, Part II".
2003: Sixth day of filming on ENT: "Anomaly".
2004: Second day of filming on ENT: "Storm Front".
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