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...as M'Benga (1967)
Booker Bradshaw (21 May 1940 – 1 April 2003; age 62) was the actor who played Doctor M'Benga in two episodes of Star Trek: The Original Series, first in season two's "A Private Little War" and then in the third season's "That Which Survives".
His other television guest appearances include the Tarzan episode "Trek to Terror" (with Michael Ansara), the second episode of The Mod Squad (with Clarence Williams III and Tige Andrews), the Insight episode "The Poker Game" (with Jeffrey Hunter), and a first season episode of the short-lived Bracken's World (with Warren Stevens and Madlyn Rhue).
Bradshaw also appeared in such 1970s films as Template:IMDb-name, with fellow TOS guest actors Roger C. Carmel (Harry Mudd) and William Marshall (Richard Daystrom), and The Strawberry Statement, starring Bruce Davison (Jareth, Menos) and Kim Darby (TOS: "Miri"). His most prominent film role was "Howard Brunswick" in the 1973 blaxploitation classic Coffy, also featuring Robert Doqui (Noggra) and Sid Haig (First Lawgiver).
He went on to become an accomplished television writer for such series as Planet of the Apes and Diff'rent Strokes. He also wrote the TV movie Template:IMDb-name, which featured TOS guest star Robert Brown (Lazarus) in the cast.
Bradshaw died of a heart attack in Los Angeles, California at the age of 62.
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