Dawn Roddenberry was born August 31, 1953.

Dawn Alison Roddenberry Compton is the daughter of Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry. She played a dirty-faced girl in a flowered dress in the Star Trek: The Original Series episode “Miri”, but received no credit for her appearance.

Young Dawn, with her older sister Darleen, shot her scenes from 25 August through 26 August, with an additional day on 29 August 1966, under the supervision of a social worker. (These Are the Voyages: TOS Season One, 2013, p. 258)

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Leslie Shatner was born August 31, 1958.

Leslie Carol Shatner played an Only girl in the Star Trek: The Original Series episode “Miri”. She is the eldest daughter of actor William Shatner, and sister of Melanie and middle daughter Lisabeth Shatner.
Young Shatner, together with her younger sister Lisabeth, shot their scenes from 25 August through 26 August, with an additional day on 29 August 1966, under the supervision of a social worker.

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Eve Smith was born August 31, 1905.

Eve Smith was born August 31, 1905 and passed away on August 28, 1997.

Evelyn F. “Eve” Smith was an actress who played the elderly patient in the Mercy Hospital in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home.
Smith started her acting career at the age of forty, and appeared in films such as Caesar and Cleopatra (1945), Romancing the Stone, The Bad Seed (1985), Elvira, Mistress of the Dark (1988), Who’s Harry Crumb? (1989), and Love Hurts (1991).

She guest starred also in television series such as Cheers (1982), Highway to Heaven (1984), The A-Team (1984), St. Elsewhere (1985), Moonlighting (1986), Growing Pains (1988 & 1989), Night Court (1985 & 1989), and Married… with Children (1989).

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Anthony Call was born August 31, 1940.

Anthony D. Call was born August 31, 1940.

Anthony Dalby Biberman, known by his professional name Anthony Call is an American actor born in Los Angeles, California, who played Lieutenant Dave Bailey in the original series episode “The Corbomite Maneuver”. He is the son of director Abner Bieberman.
Call went on to become a regular on two soap operas, first as “Joe Warner” on Guiding Light from 1972 through 1976, then as “D.A. Herb Callison” on One Life To Live from 1978 all the way through 1993.
His other television credits include Temple Houston (1963, with Jeffrey Hunter and Richard Evans), Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1963, with Richard Kiley and Peter Brocco), The Fugitive (1965, with Lost in Space star Mark Goddard), Bonanza (1965, with Lincoln Demyan and Bob Miles), Combat! (1966, with Shecky Greene, Steven Marlo, Paul Carr, Walt Davis, and Michael Forest), and The Virginian (1968 and 1969, with Gail Bonney, John Anderson, and Paul Comi).
Other film credits include The People Next Door (1970, with Nehemiah Persoff, Stephen McHattie, and Rue McClanahan, the scarred and blinded biology teacher in Robert A. Heinlein’s Starship Troopers), and Going in Style (1979, with George Burns, Karen Montgomery, Mark Margolis, Angelique Pettyjohn, and Alan Brooks).

He has served as narrator on a number of documentaries and series, including The F.B.I. Files (1998-2006), Amish Haunting (2014), Alaska Haunting (2015), and A Haunting in Connecticut (2002). He has been the narrator of Destination America’s series A Haunting since 2005.

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Larry Hankin was born August 31, 1940.

Larry Hankin is an American actor, performer, director and producer.

Hankin is known for his roles in TV shows Breaking Bad, Friends (as “Mr. Heckles”) and Seinfeld (as “Tom Pepper”), as well as for his major role in Escape from Alcatraz (1979) with Clint Eastwood. He also acted in the Adam Sandler movie Billy Madison (1995). He had cameo appearances in three John Hughes films, Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987); She’s Having a Baby (1988); and Home Alone (1990). He had brief appearances in Pretty Woman as the landlord (1990), as well as minor roles in Loose Shoes (1980), The Sure Thing (1985) and Running Scared (1986). Hankin also appeared in Married… with Children, as well as one of the Halloween specials of Home Improvement. Hankin also appeared in three episodes of Star Trek: Voyager as Gaunt Gary and one episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. Hankin and Curtis Armstrong played the hippie entrepreneurs who purchased Buy the Book on Ellen.

On Seinfeld, Hankin portrayed Tom Pepper, the actor cast as Kramer on the pilot-within-a-TV-show Jerry. He appears in seasons three and five of Breaking Bad as junkyard owner Old Joe.

In 1977, Hankin appeared in the episode “The Bums vs. the Reds” of the situation comedy The San Pedro Beach Bums. He also played Mickey the Bartender in a WKRP in Cincinnati episode called “Hotel Oceanview” that also has a cameo appearance by Dr. Joyce Brothers as Vicky Von Vicky.

In 1989, he played the dog catcher in Annie.

In 1980, Hankin’s short film Solly’s Diner earned him and the film’s producers a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film.

Hankin was a founding member of the commedia dell’arte improv group “The Committee” in 1963 located at an indoor bocce ball court in San Francisco’s North Beach district.

He worked with the online comedy group “Magic Hugs”, and has appeared in a number of their sketches, as well as the series “Baby Mentalist” for Channel 101.

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Richard Basehart was born August 31, 1914.

Richard Basehart was born August 31, 1914 and passed away on September 17, 1984.

John Richard Basehart was an American actor. He starred as Admiral Harriman Nelson in the television science fiction-drama Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1964-1968). He also prominently portrayed Wilton Knight in the cult series Knight Rider (1982-1986).

Basehart was equally active in cinema, receiving National Board of Review Awards for his performances in Fourteen Hours (1951) and Moby Dick (1956). He was further nominated for a BAFTA Award for his role in Time Limit (1957), the directorial debut of Karl Malden.

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Arnold Lessing was born August 30, 1936.

He is the actor who played Lieutenant Carlisle in the Star Trek: The Original Series episode “The Changeling”. He is also a singer and songwriter.
Lessing was also seen in three episodes of the Western series The Virginian. Additionally, he appeared in two episodes of I Spy.
He and Dick Miller made uncredited appearances in the 1965 film The Girls on the Beach. That same year, Lessing had the romantic lead in the B-horror movie The Beach Girls and the Monster, co-starring Walker Edmiston. Lessing also wrote and performed a song for that film entitled “More Than Wanting You”. (Edmiston co-wrote another song for the film.)

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