Actor In B-Motion pictures, ‘Star Trek’s Apollo Was 97

Michael Forest, a prolific and longtime character actor who appeared within the B motion pictures of Roger Corman, lent his voice to quite a few anime initiatives and visitor starred in scores of TV collection from The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin, The Twilight Zone and The Dick Van Dyke Present to Silk Stalkings, daytime soaps and a memorably outsized function on Star Trek, died October 14. He was 97.

Sparks most not too long ago resided at an assisted residing facility in Sparks, Nevada. His dying was introduced on Fb by his pal James A. Brown.

Among the many actor’s quite a few TV roles was a favourite amongst Star Trek followers: Forest performed the enormous Greek god Apollo within the memorable 1967 episode “Who Mourns for Adonais?”

Different notable TV roles embrace a former boyfriend of The Dick Van Dyke Present‘s Laura Petrie (Mary Tyler Moore) who will get arrange for a date with Rose Marie’s ever-single Sally Rogers (Laura doesn’t know he has grow to be a priest. That very same yr – 1964 – Forest performed a member of an alien biker gangs in The Twilight Zone episode “Black Leather-based Jackets.”

Only a sampling of his many different TV credit within the Nineteen Fifties, ’60s and ’70s consists of appearances on episodes of Zorro, Have Gun – Will Journey, Maverick, Ben Casey, The Outer Limits, Gunsmoke, Gomer Pyle: USMC, I Spy, Mission: Unimaginable, Gilligan’s Island, Get Good, The Rookies and Who’s The Boss.

Forest additionally was a busy voice and dubbing actor, showing in a whole bunch of animated movies lending his expertise to a whole bunch of The Nineties and 2000s noticed Forest largely pivoting to voice work and dubbing for animated collection and video video games together with entries within the Energy Rangers and Dynasty Warriors franchises, World of Warcraft and numerous anime initiatives.

On the massive display screen, Forest appeared in such drive-in notables as 1959’s Beast From Haunted Cave and Roger Corman’s The Saga of the Viking Girls and Their Voyage to the Waters of the Nice Sea Serpent (1958), Ski Troop Assault (1960) and sword-and-sandal journey Atlas (1961). A long time later he performed a pilot within the Tom Hanks 2000 movie Forged Away, amongst different late profession appearances.

Through the years he appeared within the soaps As The World Turns, Days of Our Lives and The Younger and the Stressed.

In 2013, Forest reprised his Apollo function for the fan-made net collection Star Trek Continues.

Born Gerald Michael Charlebois on April 17, 1929, in Harvey, North Dakota, Forest moved to Los Angeles in 1955 and met director Corman by way of an appearing class, resulting in their collaborations that started within the late Nineteen Fifties.

Forest was preceded in dying by his spouse, the actress Diana Hale, who handed away in 2022. Full data on survivors was not instantly obtainable.