Jimmy Fields is a former professional dancer and actor who worked as background actor on two episodes of Star Trek: The Original Series. He first appeared as an Enterprise security crewman in the third season episode "The Tholian Web". He then appeared as Cloud Guard #2 in the episode "The Cloud Minders" for which he received an on screen credit.
As a dance choreographer, he had several of his own self-titles dance revues that were popular in Las Vegas and Los Angeles from 1958-1968, with a focus on "jazz ballet". He was involved with the LA School of Dance and Theater Arts, he performed in several shows on the Broadway such as in 1960 in Show Boat. [1] In 1960, he became the first secretary of newly formed Negro Artists Guild.
His acting career began in the early 1960s, with appearances in such films as Five Weeks in a Balloon (1962, with Barbara Luna, Nick Borgani, Dave Cadiente, Jack Perkins, Frieda Rentie, George Sawaya, and Victor Tayback), and Drums of Africa (1963, with Mariette Hartley, Torin Thatcher, George Sawaya, and Eddie Smith)
From 1968 to 1971, Fields portrayed in a still-photo role, Army Capt. Baker, the deceased husband of Diahann Carroll's titular character in the series Julia.
Fields also appeared in Finian's Rainbow (1968; with Carey Foster, Vince Howard, Maurishka, and Robert Strong), as well as a dancer in the musical drama Sweet Charity (1969; along with Ricardo Montalban, Ben Vereen, John Wheeler, Noble Chissell, Buddy Joe Hooker, Lance LeGault, Joseph Mell, and Adele Yoshioka).
In the early 1970s, Fields appeared as a background actor in an episode of the television series Search., and the crime drama The Liberation of L.B. Jones (1970, with Anthony Zerbe and Yaphet Kotto). [2] Fields later appeared in two different background roles in the McMillan & Wife episode "Freefall to Terror" (1973, with John Schuck and John Fiedler). He first had the silent bit part of the airport workman Jim and later appeared as a pedestrian in the episode.
In the 1980s, Fields appeared as background actor in three episodes of Night Court in 1984. Trek performers in these episodes include Karen Austin, John Larroquette, Adele Yoshioka, Juan De Villa, Tony Rocco, John Staible, George D. Wallace, Jennifer Richards, William Utay, and Eric Mansker.