Star Trek Actor Skip Homeier Dies At 86

Skip Homeier, a two-time guest star on Star Trek: The Original Series, has passed away at the age of 86. According to social media posts by his son and wife, Homeier died on June 25.

Homeier played a young Nazi in the 1944 drama Tomorrow, the World! and appeared in numerous Westerns, war movies, and television shows. To Star Trek fans, he will be remembered for playing Melakon, a Nazi-like character in the episode "Patterns of Force," and the bacteria-carrying Dr. Sevrin in the episode "The Way to Eden."

Homeier's other notable roles include playing Judge Charles Older in the critically acclaimed television movie about the Charles Manson killings, Helter Skelter, and as the title character in theNBC crime drama Dan Raven.

Homeier was a Chicago native. Born George Vincent Homeier, he made his on-screen debut as a child actor billed as Skippy Homeier playing Fredric March in Tomorrow, the World! He original played the character on Broadway in 1943.

Later film roles included appearances in The Gunfighter, Halls of Montezuma, and Cry Vengeance, as well as Arthur Takes Over, Sealed Cargo, Fixed Bayonets!, Has Anybody Seen My Gal, Black Widow, Between Heaven and Hell, Stark Fear, The Ghost and Mr. Chicken, and The Greatest.

Homeier's many Western roles include Ten Wanted Men, The Road to Denver, Stranger at My Door, Dakota Incident, The Tall T, Day of the Badman, Comanche Station, and Showdown, plus television roles on Wanted: Dead or Alive, The Rifleman, Wagon Train, Branded, Bonanza, and The Virginian.

Homeier's other television roles included a recurring role on The Interns and guest starring roles on Alfred Hitchcock Presents, The Millionaire, The Addams Family, The Outer Limits, Mission: Impossible, Mannix, Fantasy Island, Vega$ and Quincy M.E.

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