William O’Connell, whose intensive TV and movie performing credit within the Sixties and ’70s included a memorably villainous function on Star Trek and a string of adversaries within the movies of his frequent collaborator Clint Eastwood, died January 15 at his house in Sherman Oaks, California. He was 94.
His dying was introduced to Deadline by a household pal. A trigger was not disclosed.
Born August 20, 1933, O’Connell scored a prolonged roster of TV episodic credit within the Sixties, changing into a busy character actor of the day. He had small roles, usually anonymous characters distinguished solely by their job titles – Flagman, Cabbie, Subject Rep. #1 – in Freeway Patrol, Peter Gunn and The Twilight Zone, additionally popping up on Dennis the Menace, My Three Sons, The Outer Limits, Bonanza, The Munsters, Batman and The Lucy Present.
His most memorable TV function from the period got here in 1967, when he was forged in a Season 2 episode of Star Trek as Thelev, a duplicitous Orion agent disguised as an Andorian ambassador. His mission to destroy the Enterprise was unsuccessful, however he did handle to wound William Shatner’s Captain James T. Kirk with a poison knife.
On the massive display screen, O’Connell was most acquainted for frequent, if often small and infrequently adversarial, roles within the Sixties-’70s movies of his pal Clint Eastwood, together with Paint Your Wagon, Excessive Plains Drifter, The Outlaw Josey Wales, Each Which Method However Free and Any Which Method You Can.
Born Might 12, 1929 in Los Angeles, O’Connell served within the Korean Warfare as a 1st LT within the forty fifth Infantry. He obtained many decorations together with the Bronze Star.
Full survivor info was not instantly out there.
