Bert Remsen as Kubus Oak.
Actor Bert Remsen was born in New York on February 25th, 1925. He portrayed the Bajoran Kubus Oak in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "The Collaborator".
Remsen made his film debut in the 1959 war film Pork Chop Hill, in which Paul Comi and Clarence Williams III also appreared. Afterwards, he became a cast member on the television series Twelve O'Clock High, starring one-time TOS guest stars Robert Lansing and Frank Overton. In 1964, he would suffer a broken back during an on-set accident and, unable to act, became a casting director. Nonetheless, he would return to acting full time in the 1970s.
Like his Deep Space Nine co-star Rene Auberjonois and Trek alumni John Schuck and Sally Kellerman, Remsen appeared in several films by director Robert Altman. He even co-starred with Auberjonois, Shuck, and Kellerman in the films Brewster McCloud (1970, also with William Windom) and McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971). He also appeared in Altman's 1974 films California Split, featuring John Winston, and Thieves Like Us, with John Schuck and Remsen's "Collaborator" co-star Louise Fletcher. In 1975, he had a role in Altman's Nashville, co-starring Robert Doqui and Henry Gibson, and in 1976, he was in another Altman film, Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson, also featuring Robert Doqui. The last film he made with Altman was 1978's A Wedding, co-starring Paul Dooley.
Some of Remsen's many other films throughout the 1970s and 80s include Fuzz (1972, co-starring Steve Ihnat and Stewart Moss), Harry and Walter Go to New York (1976, with Ted Cassidy), Inside Moves (1980, starring John Savage), Places in the Heart (1984, featuring Terry O'Quinn), and Miss Firecracker (1989, with Brent Spiner and Alfre Woodard).
In 1990, he made an appearance in the popular film Dick Tracy. Also appearing in this film were the likes of John Schuck, Seymour Cassel, Paul Sorvino, Robert Costanzo, Hamilton Camp, Michael J. Pollard, Ian Wolfe, and Colm Meaney. In 1994, he and fellow Trek alumni William Marshall and Henry Darrow appeared as poker players in the film Maverick. In 1995, Remsen was a part of the cast of Dillinger and Capone, as were F. Murray Abraham, Stephen Davies, Catherine Hicks, Jeffrey Combs, Clint Howard, Joe Maruzzo, and Jessica Hendra. And then in 1997, he appeared as a judge in the thriller Conspiracy Theory, which starred Star Trek: The Next Generation actor Patrick Stewart.
Other films in which he appeared include The Bodyguard (1992, with Bill Cobbs and Mike Starr), A Walk in the Park (1999, with Ericka Klein), and Forces of Nature (1999, with Ronny Cox, Anne Haney, George D. Wallace, Bill Erwin, and Shelly Desai).
Bert Remsen died in California on April 22nd, 1999 at the age of 74.
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