Elizabeth Rogers

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Elizabeth Rogers
Birth name:	Betty Jayne Rogers
Date of birth:	18 May 1934
Place of birth:	Austin, Texas, USA
Date of death:	6 November 2004
Place of death:	Tarzana, California, USA
Roles:	Actress
Character(s):	Lt. Palmer

Elizabeth Rogers (18 May 1934 – 6 November 2004; age 70) was an actress who played Lt. Palmer in the Star Trek: The Original Series second and third season episodes "The Doomsday Machine" and "The Way to Eden". She was the original voice of the Companion in "Metamorphosis", but her lines were ultimately re-recorded by Lisabeth Hush. [1]

She filmed her scenes for "The Doomsday Machine" between Tuesday 20 June 1967 and Thursday 22 June 1967, and her scenes for "The Way to Eden" on Thursday 21 November 1968 and Friday 22 November 1968, all at Desilu Stage 9.

Born in Austin, Texas, Rogers was a personal friend of writer-producer-director Irwin Allen and appeared in many of Allen's projects. She guest-starred in an episode of Allen's series The Time Tunnel, which starred fellow Star Trek alumni Whit Bissell, James Darren, and Lee Meriwether. Another Irwin Allen series on which she appeared was Land of the Giants, starring Don Marshall.

In addition, Rogers appeared in Allen's hit disaster films, The Poseidon Adventure (1972) and The Towering Inferno (1974). Allen also directed Rogers in the 1978 horror film The Swarm, although her scenes were cut from the film's original release. Besides these, Rogers had roles in several Allen-produced TV movies, including Adventures of the Queen (1975, with Paul Carr), Flood! (1976, with Whit Bissell), and Hanging by a Thread (1979, with Paul Carr and Paul Fix).

Rogers was the second female lead in Grand Theft Auto (1977, featuring Clint Howard). Rogers' other acting credits include the films A Sensitive, Passionate Man (with Rhodes Reason), The Van (1977) and An Officer and a Gentleman (1982, co-starring Tony Plana) and appearances on such television series as Bonanza (two episodes, including one with Jason Evers and Richard Hale), Dr. Kildare (with David Opatoshu), Mannix (with Antoinette Bower and William Windom), Marcus Welby, M.D. (with William Smithers), Gunsmoke (with John Anderson, Guy Raymond, and Bill Zuckert), Bewitched, and The Waltons (with Jon Lormer).

Rogers retired from acting after appearing in the 1986 Irwin Allen-produced TV movie, Outrage! She died in the Tarzana neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, in 2004, as a result of lung cancer and a series of strokes. She was 70 years old.

External links

• Elizabeth Rogers at the Internet Movie Database
• Elizabeth Rogers at Wikipedia