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Reggie Nalder (4 September 190719 November 1991; age 84) was an actor who played Shras in the Star Trek: The Original Series second season episode "Journey to Babel". He filmed his scenes on Friday 22 September 1967 and Monday 25 September 1967 at Desilu Stage 9.

He was born Alfred Reginald Natzler in Vienna, the son of actor and operetta singer Sigmund Natzler. As a young man, he performed in second-rate theatres in Vienna and cabarets in Paris. After World War II, he worked for the German language service of the BBC.

From the late 1940s, Nalder appeared in supporting roles (occasionally uncredited) in films in both Hollywood and Europe (France, West Germany, and Italy). He was often cast in villainous roles due to his unique facial features, the result of disfiguring burns to the lower part of his face acquired as a young man.

He guest-starred in several other television series, including the premiere of Battlestar Galactica, which also featured John Colicos, Ed Begley, Jr., Geoffrey Binney, Paula Crist, Dick Durock, Sandra Gimpel, and Felix Silla, and was directed by Richard Colla.

His film roles include that of the Soviet brainwasher Dimitri Gomel in the 1962 political psycho-drama The Manchurian Candidate, which also had work for Original Series guest actors Leslie Parrish, Whit Bissell, and James Gregory. His most famous film is probably Alfred Hitchcock's The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956). He also made a small appearance in Italian director Federico Fellini's Casanova in 1976.

In the 1979 television adaptation of the Stephen King novel Salem's Lot, Nalder played the role of Kurt Barlow, the lead vampire. It co-starred his fellow Original Series guest stars David Soul, Elisha Cook, Julie Cobb and Barbara Babcock. He was also well known for his role as a sadistic witch burner in the 1970 West German horror film Mark of the Devil.

Nalder died of bone cancer in late 1991, in Santa Monica, California.

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