TV & Movie Stars that Got a Start in Sci Fi

[Boris_Badenov]

One of Teri Garr's first roles was on Star Trek TOS. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <font color="#993300"><span class="body"><font size="2" color="#3366ff"><div align="center">. </div><div align="center">Never roll in the mud with a pig. You'll both get dirty & the pig likes it.</div></font></span></font> </div>

 

[Boris_Badenov]

William Shatner & Bruce Willis were in Twilight Zone episodes early in their respective careers. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <font color="#993300"><span class="body"><font size="2" color="#3366ff"><div align="center">. </div><div align="center">Never roll in the mud with a pig. You'll both get dirty & the pig likes it.</div></font></span></font> </div>

 

[Boris_Badenov]

The first role ever played by Kirstie Alley was in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <font color="#993300"><span class="body"><font size="2" color="#3366ff"><div align="center">. </div><div align="center">Never roll in the mud with a pig. You'll both get dirty & the pig likes it.</div></font></span></font> </div>

 

[lampblack]

She had the Vulcan thang down pat. Too bad her character turned out to be a bad seed. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <font color="#0000ff"><strong>Just tell the truth and let the chips fall...</strong></font> </div>

 

[yevaud]

Leslie Nielsen. <i>Forbidden Planet</i> and the <i>Poseidon Adventure</i>. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><em>Differential Diagnosis:  </em>"<strong><em>I am both amused and annoyed that you think I should be less stubborn than you are</em></strong>."<br /> </p> </div>

 

[vogon13]

Robert Duvall played the lead in the Twilight Zone episode Miniature.<br /><br />{That episode is rarely seen, it is one of the 1 hour ones, and was the subject of a lawsuit and was not in syndication for many years. For a Twilight Zone special back in the eighties, some scenes were colorized, to great effect. Truly one of the very, very best episodes of Twilight Zone. Too bad more people haven't seen it}<br /><br /><br /> <br /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><font color="#ff0000"><strong>TPTB went to Dallas and all I got was Plucked !!</strong></font></p><p><font color="#339966"><strong>So many people, so few recipes !!</strong></font></p><p><font color="#0000ff"><strong>Let's clean up this stinkhole !!</strong></font> </p> </div>

 

[Boris_Badenov]

Miniature is considered by many to be the best Twilight Zone episode that ever aired. I have seen the colorized version, everything in the "normal world" is in B&W & the color is all in the Doll House. All in all, an excellent piece of science fiction. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <font color="#993300"><span class="body"><font size="2" color="#3366ff"><div align="center">. </div><div align="center">Never roll in the mud with a pig. You'll both get dirty & the pig likes it.</div></font></span></font> </div>

 

[MeteorWayne]

Art Carney played Santa Claus once.<br />One of my top ten, errr 20, errr, 30 TZ episodes <img src="/images/icons/smile.gif" /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><font color="#000080"><em><font color="#000000">But the Krell forgot one thing John. Monsters. Monsters from the Id.</font></em> </font></p><p><font color="#000080">I really, really, really, really miss the "first unread post" function</font><font color="#000080"> </font></p> </div>

 

[vogon13]

I rarely agree with updating classics, but the colorization of Miniature really pushed that episode over the top.<br /><br />I wonder if in the time frame the colorization was done if it was applied to a 1 inch videotape copy of the episode? If so, any DVD release (or Blu-ray, for that matter) will be (sadly) limited in detail. Episodes shot in 35mm can be released in HD if the source material can be found, although I am unaware of any B/W footage similarly available in HD.<br /><br /><br /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><font color="#ff0000"><strong>TPTB went to Dallas and all I got was Plucked !!</strong></font></p><p><font color="#339966"><strong>So many people, so few recipes !!</strong></font></p><p><font color="#0000ff"><strong>Let's clean up this stinkhole !!</strong></font> </p> </div>

 

[yevaud]

Outer Limits<br /><br /><i>Starring Robert Duvall, Martin Sheen, Sally Kellerman,<br />Cliff Robertson, Martin Landau, Robert Culp, Bruce Dern,<br />Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Vera Miles, Henry Silva, Edward Asner....</i> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><em>Differential Diagnosis:  </em>"<strong><em>I am both amused and annoyed that you think I should be less stubborn than you are</em></strong>."<br /> </p> </div>

 

[vagueship]

Same with The Twilight Zone:<br /><br />Burgess Meredith<br />Jack Klugman<br />Lee Marvin<br />and more. Some of the actors already had careers and still acted in The Twilight Zone.<br />

 

[lampblack]

Obviously, the two shows attracted quality actors like flies. They <i>had</i> to be a lot of fun to work on. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <font color="#0000ff"><strong>Just tell the truth and let the chips fall...</strong></font> </div>

 

[hracctsold]

I've seen that one, (re: Miniature w/R. Duvall), actually, I think I've seen just about all of them several times over. At my factory job during break, the TZ show would come on in the break room, and a friend would frequently challenge me about what happened on the show as the break was only 10 minutes long. On the rare occassion I could not help him, he said he would have to find it elsewhere.<br /><br />But back to Miniature, I thot it was an interesting show about seeing the people move in that doll house and start to interact with them. As a child, there was a natural history musuem that had little doll like figures in historical settings, and I would look at all of them and just imagine what it was like to be there. In fact, one time my father had them open it up because he thot I was still in there, but I wasn't. And I really found out the importance, the painful and hard way, about letting them know where I would be.<br /><br />About the stars, how about Earl Holliman(?), he was in Forbidden Planet as Cookie with the booze, and in the first, or was it the pilot, TZ show about the effects of being alone in space, or just a simulator they had. Now that was an interesting show.<br /><br />I think just about everyone who was anyone found their way into that show. I really enjoyed the one about Joe Flynn(?), (I am really terrible with names), where he was a Funeral Home Director and had to perform services for Dracula and some of his friends. That one was a hoot, having the Wolfman bolt out of there because he couldn't sit still and quiet, among other things.<br />

 

[hracctsold]

Side note,<br /><br />I thought of another show that was interesting, and that was I think, "Next Stop, Willabee", where the exec. cracks up from the stress, and gets off the train in a perfect village of last century where things were much slower and better.<br /><br />Then there was the one with Kennan Wynn where he is a writer with a special tape player where he can create and delete anyone just by his dictating into it. And where Rod Sterling said in the end just before he vanished, "Well, maybe he IS in control of the TZ."

 

[yevaud]

<img src="/images/icons/smile.gif" /><br /><br />Though he didn't get his start in SF by any means, Raymond Burr as the token White person in the Japanese Monster flicks was great!<br /><br /><b>AAAh!!! GODZIRRA!!!!!</b> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><em>Differential Diagnosis:  </em>"<strong><em>I am both amused and annoyed that you think I should be less stubborn than you are</em></strong>."<br /> </p> </div>

 

[Aetius]

Courtney Cox Arquette starred in the 1987 movie <i>Masters Of The Universe</i>, with Dolph Lundgren.<br /><br />Dolph has made a few very good action movies. I think that <i>Bridge Of Dragons</i> is actually a better film than some Hollywood blockbusters with much bigger stars and budgets.

 

[yevaud]

Orson Welles and the 1938 broadcast of <i>War Of The Worlds</i>. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><em>Differential Diagnosis:  </em>"<strong><em>I am both amused and annoyed that you think I should be less stubborn than you are</em></strong>."<br /> </p> </div>

 

[MeteorWayne]

the town is Wiloughby, BTW <img src="/images/icons/smile.gif" /><br /><br />On another TZ, Robert Redford was "Death" <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><font color="#000080"><em><font color="#000000">But the Krell forgot one thing John. Monsters. Monsters from the Id.</font></em> </font></p><p><font color="#000080">I really, really, really, really miss the "first unread post" function</font><font color="#000080"> </font></p> </div>

 

[hracctsold]

Thanks for that correction. I think sometimes it would be good to make a visit to that place, but I do not know if I would want to stay there all the time.<br /> <br /> I do remember R.R. and that TZ. He played a wounded cop trying to get into a lonely old woman's shack I think. She kept out everyone because she thot. that death was going to visit her next.<br /><br />How about Agnes Morehead in a NON-verbal role as the old woman who has visitors from little Space men, and beats them to death in her shack. And the only words said were at the end when one of the space men told Earth Mission Control not to send any other people to that planet.

 

[MeteorWayne]

The Agnes Morehead episode is one of my top.......OK, top 5.<br /><br />Rod at his finest! <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><font color="#000080"><em><font color="#000000">But the Krell forgot one thing John. Monsters. Monsters from the Id.</font></em> </font></p><p><font color="#000080">I really, really, really, really miss the "first unread post" function</font><font color="#000080"> </font></p> </div>

 

[yevaud]

I remember that episode very well. The tiny space-suited figures firing the tiny little energy weapons at her was incredible. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><em>Differential Diagnosis:  </em>"<strong><em>I am both amused and annoyed that you think I should be less stubborn than you are</em></strong>."<br /> </p> </div>

 

[5stone10]

-- Mad Max<br />Mel Gibson<br /><br />-- THX 1138<br />David Ogden Stiers [M.A.S.H.]

 

[lampblack]

They shot Endora?! <img src="/images/icons/shocked.gif" /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <font color="#0000ff"><strong>Just tell the truth and let the chips fall...</strong></font> </div>

 

[portercc]

Inger Stevens in "The Hitch-Hiker"...."Going my way?"<br /><br />Ted Knight in "The Lonely"...in his silver football helmet, assists in dropping off supplies and harassing prisoner on asteroid.<br /><br />Dick York (also from Bewitched) in the "Purple Testament...the guy who sees death in the faces of people.<br /><br />Martin Milner - ends up chasing himself out of a bus stop... went on to "act" in "It's About Time" and "Adam 12"<br /><br />I love tz marathons!<br /><br /><br />

 

[strandedonearth]

Not really SF, but Jennifer Aniston in Leprechaun (before the nose job)<br /><br />Hmm, looked her up on IMDB.com and she was in a Quantum Leap episode before that. Leprechaun would have been her sixth acting job.