Posted on 02/04/2024 4:14:10 PM PST by Macho MAGA Man
Actor William O’Connell, who played a “Star Trek” villain and a Clint Eastwood nemesis, is dead at the age of 94.
According to Deadline, which said a family friend informed the outlet of his passing, he died Jan. 15 at his home in Sherman Oaks, California.
No cause of death was revealed.
O’Connell was a 1st lieutenant in the 45th Infantry during the Korean War. For his service, he was honored with the Bronze Star and other commendations.
O'Connell appeared in multiple TV shows in the 1960s, including “Highway Patrol,” “Peter Gunn,” “The Twilight Zone,” “Dennis the Menace,” “Bonanza,” “Batman” and “The Lucy Show.”
In 1967, he was cast in an episode of “Star Trek” called “Journey to Babel.”
In the episode, he played the character Thelev, who sought but failed to destroy the Enterprise.
During the episode, he wounded Captain James T. Kirk with a poisoned knife.
O'Connell was a friend of Eastwood and appeared in a number of Eastwood’s films, including “Paint Your Wagon,” “High Plains Drifter,” “The Outlaw Josey Wales,” “Every Which Way but Loose” and “Any Which Way You Can.”
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“Slow poison…”
If he made it to 94, I’d say so.
He was the professor in the Pepsi archaeology commercial..........
Great photo and GREAT autograph. Well done!
Thanks for that comment extract - note my screen name. My time in the 45th was years after Korea but my stepfather served in the 45th during Korea as one of the called-up WW2 vets. Fortunately for him, he was detailed to training duty at Ft. Polk LA for the duration.
RIP to all vets…
A life well lived.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cd_EEFI0PqQ
Pepsi would have done better with Mary Ann.
I preferred Susan Oliver on that one Thanksgiving night.
:^) I’m sure Shatner did too.
I wrote this for my father almost 40 years ago. There were two versions. One was submitted as part of the UN’s Poems for Peace.
“Old Badly”
My father rarely speaks of it
The hill they called Old Baldy
Nestled in the land of Korea
It comes to me in flat black and white
But for him the ringing of bullets continues
Incoming! he cried for many months after his return
With a ringing in his ears that never goes away
Or the wringing of blood from his clothes
Shed so badly he was forced to burn them
From carrying his best friend’s corpse off the line
He weeps when he speaks of it
His tower of strength crumbles
I do not know these horrors
I have been sheltered all my life
But woe to me to forget his tears
That would have been Jeffrey Hunter. Susan Oliver was in the first 1965 pilot, “The Cage” with Hunter as Captain Pike.
Excellent! Just Excellent 👍👌
OTOH given the current crop of mistrels I feel safer they’re not in the military.
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