Remembering Johnny Haymer, born January 19, 1920.

Remembering Johnny Haymer, born January 19, 1920 and passed away on November 18, 1989.

Johnny Haymer was an actor and comedian who appeared once on Star Trek: The Original Series, playing the Sarpeidon constable in the episode “All Our Yesterdays”. Haymer had a long and steady career spanning nearly 25 years and in both film and television. He may be best known for his frequent role as Sergeant Zelmo Zale in the hit TV series M*A*S*H from 1974 through 1979. This series also starred Next Generation guest actor David Ogden Stiers.

Aside from Star Trek, Haymer made guest appearances on many other television series; in most of these, he co-starred with many fellow Star Trek performers. These include The Dick Van Dyke Show (in an episode also guest-starring Bert Remsen), The Wild Wild West (starring Michael Dunn), Gunsmoke (along with Joanne Linville), Mannix (with John McLiam), Hogan’s Heroes (with Lee Bergere and Leslie Parrish), Adam-12 (with William Campbell and Vic Perrin), S.W.A.T. (with Paul Carr, Don Keefer, and Diana Muldaur), Baa Baa Black Sheep (with James Darren and John Larroquette), The Streets of San Francisco (with Darleen Carr and Ellen Geer), The Incredible Hulk (with Jon Lormer), Fame (with Madlyn Rhue), and Cagney & Lacey (in one episode starring Meg Foster and another with Carolyn Seymour and George D. Wallace). Haymer has also established himself as a voice actor, voicing characters in such popular animated series as Transformers and G.I. Joe.

He made his film debut in the 1968 comedy The Secret War of Harry Frigg, co-starring fellow TOS guest actor James Gregory. This was followed with appearances in such films as The Organization (1971, with Graham Jarvis and Garry Walberg), Another Day at the Races (1975, starring Dean Stockwell and Alan Oppenheimer and also featuring Barry Atwater), The Four Deuces (1976, in which he played one of the title characters), the science fiction classic Logan’s Run (1976), the classic 1977 comedy Annie Hall (also featuring John Glover and Mark Lenard), Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo (1977, directed by Vincent McEveety), American Hot Wax (1978, with Hamilton Camp), …And Justice for All (1979, with Keith Andes and J.G. Hertzler), Samurai (1979; with Michael Pataki, Don Keefer, Walt Davis, Bob Minor, Tom Lupo and Gregory J. Barnett), and Open House (1987, with Adrienne Barbeau).

Haymer died of cancer in 1989 at the age of 69. His last on-screen acting appearance was a guest role an episode of Life Goes On, starring Bill Smitrovich and also guest-starring Ray Buktenica.

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Happy birthday Lee Delano, born January 19, 1931.

Lee Delano is an American actor born in New York City, New York, who portrayed Kalo in the Star Trek: The Original Series episode “A Piece of the Action”.

Delano graduated from the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theater in New York, where fellow classmates included Steve McQueen and Susan Oliver. After graduation, McQueen convinced Delano to move to Hollywood. In 1968, Delano began a career in improvisational comedy alongside Sid Caesar, and the two have performed together on stage and on television around the world. Delano’s talent for comedy was further revealed when Caesar’s association with comic Mel Brooks led to Delano receiving film roles in Brooks’ Silent Movie (1976), High Anxiety (1977), and History of the World, Part I (1981).

Delano also has a few dramatic pieces to his credit, including Report to the Commissioner (1975, with “A Piece of the Action” co-star Vic Tayback) and Executive Action (1973, with Gilbert Green, John Anderson, Paul Sorenson, Ed Lauter, Dick Miller and Paul Carr).

His other film credits include William Castle’s Project X (1968, with Monte Markham, Maryesther Denver, Keye Luke and Phillip Pine), They Call Me Bruce? (1982, with Vince Deadrick Jr., Harvey Vernon, Phil Rubenstein, Nick Dimitri, Freddie Hice, Dick Durock, and Ralph Garrett), Splash (1984, with Clint Howard, Patrick Cronin, Charles Macauley, Valerie Wildman, Christopher Thomas, Jill Jacobson, Bill Smitrovich, and Shecky Greene), and The birdcage (1996, with Al Rodrigo, Mike Starr, Jim Jansen, Brian Reddy, Herschel Sparber, David Sage, Ann Cusack, Tim Kelleher and Scott Burkholder). He also appeared in the made-for-TV movies Blood Sport (1973, with William Lucking and Craig Richard Nelson), Lucy Gets Lucky (1975, with Lucille Ball, Joan Swift, Dean Martin, and “A Piece of the Action” co-star Jay Jones), and In the Glitter Palace (1977, with Salome Jens, Robert Sampson, Stanley Kamel, Booth Colman and Anthony Zerbe), and has appeared in episodes of Mission: Impossible, Charlie’s Angels, and Taxi (with Christopher Lloyd).

Along with Jack Donner, Delano founded the Oxford Theater in Los Angeles, which also served as an acting school. Their students included Don Johnson, Craig T. Nelson and Barry Levinson.

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Happy birthday Katey Sagal, born January 19, 1954.

Catherine Louise “Katey” Sagal is an American actress and singer-songwriter. She is best known for her role as Peggy Bundy, Al’s sarcastic, lazy, bon bon-eating wife, on Married… with Children and for her role as Gemma Teller Morrow on the FX series Sons of Anarchy. Sagal is also known for voicing the character Leela on the animated science-fiction series Futurama from 1999 to 2003 and 2008 to 2013, as well as for starring on the show 8 Simple Rules in the role of Cate Hennessy.

Sagal began her acting career in Hollywood, appearing in several made-for-TV movies between 1971 and 1975, including a small role as a receptionist in the Columbo installment “Candidate for Crime” (directed by her father). Sagal’s first major role was as a newspaper columnist in the series Mary (1985–86) starring Mary Tyler Moore. This led to her being cast as Peggy Bundy on the sitcom Married… with Children (1987–1997); she portrayed the lower-class, sex-starved, free-spending wife of shoe salesman Al Bundy. The series ran for ten years.

After the end of Married… with Children, several more television films followed; she also guest starred on the children’s cartoon Recess as the voice of Spinelli’s mother. In 1998, Matt Groening cast her as the purple-haired mutant spaceship captain, Leela, in his science-fiction animated comedy Futurama. The show developed a cult following, but was cancelled after four seasons. However, airings in syndication on Adult Swim and Comedy Central increased the show’s popularity and led Comedy Central to commission a season of Futurama direct-to-DVD films, which the network later rebroadcast as as a 16-episode season five. She reprised her role as Leela in these films, and in the sixth season that began airing June 24, 2010. The series ended in 2013.

Sagal guest-starred as Edna Hyde, Steven Hyde’s mother, in three episodes of That ’70s Show. She starred in the short-lived NBC sitcom Tucker in 2000.
She was cast as the wife of John Ritter in the sitcom 8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter in 2002.
In 2005 and 2006, she made two appearances on Lost as Helen Norwood. In 2007, she had a role in the season finale of The Winner as Glen Abbot’s former, and Josh’s current, teacher. In 2008, she appeared in four episodes of the short-lived series Eli Stone.

In January 2009, Sagal reunited with her TV son David Faustino (Bud Bundy from Married… with Children) for an episode of Faustino’s show Star-ving. In 2010, she appeared twice more on Lost. In 2009, she starred in the film House Broken with Danny DeVito. In 2010, she returned to the stage in Randy Newman’s musical Harps & Angels.

From 2008 to 2014, Sagal starred as Gemma Teller Morrow on the TV show Sons of Anarchy, created by her husband, Kurt Sutter.

In 2013, Sagal had a cameo on Glee as Nancy Abrams She co-starred in Pitch Perfect 2 (2015) as Hailee Steinfeld’s character’s mother. She next appeared in the biography drama film Bleed for This, as the mother of Vinny Pazienza.

On September 9, 2014, Sagal received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on which most of the Married … with Children cast – including Ed O’Neill, Christina Applegate, and David Faustino – were present to celebrate the actor’s recognition.

Sagal has a guest-starring role in Brooklyn Nine-Nine as Karen Peralta.

On September 20, 2016, Sagal appeared as Susan, Penny’s mother on The Big Bang Theory (having previously played the mother to Kaley Cuoco’s character on 8 Simple Rules).

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Remembering Fritz Weaver, born January 19, 1926.

Remembering Fritz Weaver, born January 19, 1926 and passed away on November 26, 2016.

Weaver was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and appeared in motion pictures such as Marathon Man, Fail-Safe, The Day of the Dolphin, The Big Fix and The Thomas Crown Affair. Weaver starred in the 1982 George A. Romero/Stephen King movie Creepshow.
Fritz Weaver played Kovat in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode “Tribunal”.

Science fiction fans may also remember him as the Chancellor in “The Obsolete Man” and William Sturka in “Third From the Sun” of the original Twilight Zone series.

He also appeared in the mini-series The Martian Chronicles, based on the book by Ray Bradbury. He is also internationally known for his portrayal of Doctor Josef Weiss in the 1978 mini-series Holocaust.

Weaver also guest-starred in Frasier, The X-Files, Mission: Impossible, The Streets of San Francisco, and Murder, She Wrote, among many more.

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The Six Million Dollar Man premiered January 18, 1974.

Happy anniversary to The Six Million Dollar Man which began it’s TV series run on January 18, 1974 after 3 successful TV movies.

Steve Austin is an astronaut who is seriously injured when his spaceship crashes. Handsome and athletic, Austin undergoes a government-sanctioned surgery, which rebuilds several of Steve’s body parts with machine parts, making him cyborglike. When Steve recovers, his machine parts enable him to have superhuman strength and speed, as well as other powers. With these powers, Steve goes to work for the Office of Scientific Information, battling evil for the good of mankind.

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Remembering Dick Durock, born January 18, 1937.

Remembering Dick Durock, born January 18, 1937 and passed away on September 17, 2009.

Richard “Dick” Durock, also known as Swampy Durock, was a stuntman and stunt actor who played the part of an Elasian guard in the Star Trek: The Original Series episode “Elaan of Troyius”.

He went on to play the titular role in numerous Swamp Thing productions.

His career began as a television stunt double in 1965, for Lost in Space, and in 1968 he began playing extra characters on Star Trek and other series, eventually by the 1970s playing characters with more substantial parts in series like Battlestar Galactica. In 1982 he played the comic book “Swamp Thing” in a film based on the DC Comics series (written by Len Wein) of the same name.

Some of his other films include The Enforcer (1976, with Michael Cavanaugh and John Crawford), The Nude Bomb (1980, with Norman Lloyd), Coast to Coast (1980, with William Lucking and Karen Montgomery), Any Which Way You Can (1980, with Michael Cavanaugh, George Murdock, Logan Ramsey, and Roy Jenson), Silverado (1985), Raw Deal (1986), Stand By Me (1986, with Wil Wheaton), Blind Date (1987, with John Larroquette and Armin Shimerman), Delirious (1991, with Zach Grenier and Charles Rocket), Die Hard: With a Vengeance (1995), and The Hunted (1997).

Durock was remembered in the “In Memoriam” section at the 16th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards on 23 January 2010.

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Happy birthday to Larry Nemecek, born January 18, 1959.

Happy birthday Larry Nemecek​, born January 18, 1959.

Larry Nemecek is an American Star Trek author, actor, editor, archivist, consultant, interviewer and producer, first widely known thanks to his classic best-seller “Star Trek: The Next Generation Companion” from Pocket Books. He has portrayed Dr. McCoy in the Star Trek Continues web series episodes “Pilgrim of Eternity” and “Lolani” and remains as the series’ Creative Consultant.
Nemecek launched the pioneering Portal 47 monthly deep-dive features for Star Trek fans, and filmed a documentary, “The Con of Wrath”.

Under the Trekland banner, he hosts the online Trek interview series series “Switching to Visual”, and has produced five annual editions in the digitally remastered “On Speaker” archival series, themed from his original interviews with producers and crew during the years of the modern Trek TV era.

Nemecek’s other franchise work is the non-fiction “Star Trek: Stellar Cartography” guidebook and map set from 47North (Amazon). He also wrote the chapter openers and other research for Star Trek: Star Charts – a 2003 Pocket Books reunion of sorts with onetime colleague Geoffrey Mandel after they had earlier joined on the 1980 “Star Trek Maps” (Bantam), and self-published material just prior. Along with two updates of the TNG “Companion” in 1995 and in 2003, his text commentary also appeared in the CD version.

Since 1986, Nemecek has conducted over 500 archival interviews of Star Trek writers, designers, crew and actors, most of them multiple or annual updates over the years and unpublished. Remastered segments are now being digitally produced under his own brand as Trekland: On Speaker. He has appeared as a documentary guest on titles such as Trek Nation, The Green Girl, The Captains of The Final Frontier and numerous installments of the TNG and Enterprise Blu-ray collection documentaries.

In December 1994, after moving to Los Angeles from his native Oklahoma, Nemecek and his wife Janet pitched and sold a story, “Reflections,” for the yet-to-air series Star Trek: Voyager. It went unused for six years before being updated and written as “Prophecy,” an episode for Star Trek: Voyager in its final season in 2001.

Nemecek co-wrote The Making of Star Trek: First Contact, published by Titan Books in the UK from material he, Ian Spelling and Lou Anders wrote for Titan’s magazine specials on the film. He authored the original 1998 museum artifact placards and the 2002 timeline update in the museum area of Star Trek: The Experience, and was a consultant there as well as on such projects as the Star Trek: Federation Science European tour and the Star Trek World Tour guidebooks and image references. He has been a guest at dozens of Star Trek and sci-fi/comic conventions.

From 1998 until 2005, after publication of the TNG Companion, Nemecek served as managing editor of Star Trek Communicator, overseeing the planning, writers, content and look of the licensed magazine of the Official Star Trek Fan Club, sold on newsstands. He has been a regular columnist in Star Trek Magazine since 1997, and contributed dozens of articles to Star Trek Fact Files, for which he worked all six years as Los Angeles photo editor and consultant. The topics researched and obscure references and sources tracked fueled the work of the UK-based Fact Files, later seen in the US as Star Trek: The Magazine.
For many years, Nemecek was a contributor and producer on the official Star Trek website. In 1996, he was its first-ever chat guest, its managing editor one day a week, and from 1996-99 wrote much of its early database as a consultant.

In 2005, Nemecek appeared with other cameo guests and crew in “These Are the Voyages…”, the final episode of Star Trek: Enterprise.

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