...as Harry Mudd in 1966.
Roger C. Carmel (September 27, 1932 – November 11, 1986) was a rotund character actor and sometime comedian whose trademark was a handlebar mustache. He is most famous for playing the role of Harcourt Fenton "Harry" Mudd on Star Trek: The Original Series. He also voiced the character in an episode of Star Trek: The Animated Series. With the exception of those actors who played USS Enterprise crew members on the series, Carmel is the only actor to play the same character in more than one episode of TOS.
Born on September 27th, 1932 in Brooklyn, New York, Carmel broke into film and television in 1958. That year, he made an uncredited appearance in the film Template:IMDb-name. Starring in that film were fellow Star Trek alumnus Christopher Plummer and John Fiedler.
Carmel went on to have larger roles in the films Template:IMDb-name (1964, with Stanley Adams), Template:IMDb-name (1966, with James Gregory, Grant Woods, and Nancy Kovak), Template:IMDb-name (1966, with John Abbott and Vic Tayback), Template:IMDb-name (1970, with William Marshall and Booker Bradshaw), Template:IMDb-name (1977, with George Murdock and Charles Napier), and Template:IMDb-name (1980, with Susan Oliver).
Carmel is also well remembered by fans of the 1966 Batman television series as Colonel Gumm, a stamp obsessed, identity swapping villain who very nearly gummed, perforated, and coiled Batman and Robin. He was also a regular on the TV sitcom The Mothers-In-Law from 1967 through 1968, and saw difficult times after he was fired from this show.
In 1981, he co-starred with TNG actress (and fellow two-time TOS guest star) Diana Muldaur in a short-lived TV series called Template:IMDb-name; he and Muldaur would reprise their characters the following year in a Fitz and Bones TV special called Template:IMDb-name.
In his later career, Carmel performed primarily as a voice actor, most notably for the animated series The Transformers, on which Michael Bell also worked. He and Bell would go on to voice for the feature-length Template:IMDb-name, along with TOS star Leonard Nimoy.
Roger Carmel was also the voice of Smokey the Bear in countless Forest Service public service commercials throughout the 70s and 80s.
Carmel continued to work steadily until 1986, when, on November 11th, Carmel died of congestive heart failure due to an enlarged heart muscle. He was 54 years old.
Appearances
- TOS
- TAS: Mudd's Passion as Harcourt Mudd (voice)
External Links
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