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Richard Derr (15 June 19188 May 1992; age 73) was an actor who played Barstow in the Star Trek: The Original Series first season episode "The Alternative Factor" and Admiral Fitzgerald in the third season episode "The Mark of Gideon".

Derr was the star of When Worlds Collide (1951, co-starring John Hoyt). His other films include Man at Large (1941, with Elisha Cook), Castle in the Desert (1942), Joan of Arc (1948, with Jeff Corey), Three in the Attic (1968), The Drowning Pool (1975, with Andrew Robinson and Gail Strickland), American Gigolo (1980), and Firefox (1982, with Ward Costello, Ralph Maurer, and Tony Papenfuss).

Besides The Original Series, Derr also appeared on such television series as Perry Mason (one episode with Leslie Parrish, another with Garry Walberg), The Outer Limits, Mannix (including an episode with Jill Ireland and Sabrina Scharf), Starsky & Hutch (starring David Soul), Project U.F.O. (in an episode with Malachi Throne), Taxi (starring Christopher Lloyd), Dallas (with Joanna Cassidy, Susan Howard, Leigh J. McCloskey, William Smithers and Morgan Woodward), and several episodes of Barnaby Jones (starring Lee Meriwether and Vince Howard and also guest-starring the likes of Whit Bissell, Joanne Linville, and Phillip Pine). He also appeared in SST: Death Flight (1977, with John de Lancie, Robert Ito, and Brock Peters).

Derr retired from acting in 1983 and went on to become a real estate agent. His final on-screen appearance was an episode of Automan, starring fellow Original Series guest actor Robert Lansing. Derr died of pancreatic cancer in 1992 at the age of 73.

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