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Remembering Lawrence Montaigne, 1931-2017
StarTrek.com ^ | March 18, 2017 | Staff

Posted on 03/19/2017 4:51:25 PM PDT by EveningStar

StarTrek.com is saddened to report the passing of Lawrence Montaigne, the veteran actor who played the Romulan, Decius, in the Star Trek: The Original Series episode "Balance of Terror" in 1966 and returned a year later to portray Stonn, a Vulcan, in "Amok Time." The actor died on Friday, March 17, at the age of 86...

He was featured in such films as The Great Escape (with Steve McQueen and James Garner), Tubruk (with Rock Hudson and George Peppard) and The Power (with George Hamilton and Suzanne Pleshette), and later in Captain Sinbad and Damon & Pythias (both starring Guy Williams), The Mongols (starring Jack Palance and Anita Ekberg) and Escape To Witch Mountain (with Ray Milland and Donald Pleasance.) He starred in Pillar Of Fire (made in Israel), and in Moby Jackson and Rapina Al Quartiere Ovest (both made in Italy.) He worked, over the course of his career, in Italy, Germany, Yugoslavia, Israel, Spain and the U.S...

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TOPICS: TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: amoktime; arlenemartel; balanceofterror; decius; lawrencemontaigne; leonardnimoy; obituary; spock; startrek; startrektos; stonn; thegreatescape
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To: EveningStar

I got the gist of it ...


21 posted on 03/19/2017 8:10:30 PM PDT by IronJack
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To: yarddog

A search for T’Pring lead me to discover that the actress who played her, Arlene Martel, died back in 2014. It also lead me to something far funnier:

https://www.trekbbs.com/threads/tos-caption-contest-286-amok-caption.245080/page-2


22 posted on 03/19/2017 8:22:17 PM PDT by Paul R.
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To: yarddog

Arlene Martel who played T’Pring was also the mortuary nurse and then the stewardess on the Twilight Zone episode “Twenty Two” who said to the frightened mental patient,

“Room for one more, honey!”


23 posted on 03/19/2017 8:39:25 PM PDT by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam. Buy ammo.")
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To: IronJack

LOVE that line...


24 posted on 03/19/2017 9:38:23 PM PDT by Captainpaintball (It appears that we no longer wish to keep our Republic, Mr. Franklin...)
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To: Paul R.
Lawrence Montaigne as Stonne, Arlene Martel as T'Pring: The possible humorous captions are endless...
25 posted on 03/19/2017 10:52:06 PM PDT by Paul R.
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To: rudy45

I think a meme could be created with Decius being censured for an unauthorized wiretap that leaves the progressives exposed....just saying!


26 posted on 03/19/2017 11:26:05 PM PDT by mdmathis6
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To: Database

He also played a Klingon commander in the first ST movie. The only actor to play all three races.


27 posted on 03/20/2017 12:53:57 AM PDT by Coronal
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To: yarddog; IronJack

T’Pring actress Arlene Martel was indeed hot. She too recently passed in 2014


28 posted on 03/20/2017 4:12:15 AM PDT by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: EveningStar

Yes, and for some weird reason Captain Sinbad should be Captain Sindbad.

cheers
Jim


29 posted on 03/20/2017 6:20:07 AM PDT by gymbeau (America...already becoming great again, and thank goodness!)
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To: EveningStar

He also wrote Logan’s Run.


30 posted on 03/24/2017 4:49:12 PM PDT by mainestategop (DonÂ’t Let Freedom Slip Away! After America , There is No Place to Go)
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To: mainestategop

That was William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson.


31 posted on 03/24/2017 4:50:21 PM PDT by EveningStar
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