Jon Lormer (7 May 1906 – 19 March 1986; age 79) was a character actor who made three appearances on Star Trek: The Original Series.
Lormer filmed his scenes for "The Cage" on Monday 7 December 1964 and Tuesday 8 December 1964 at Desilu Culver Stage 16. He filmed his scenes for "The Return of the Archons" on Monday 12 December 1966 at Desilu Stage 10, and his scene for "For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky" on Tuesday 20 August 1968 at Desilu Culver Stage 8.
He began his acting career on the New York stage (as did many of his generation), but was soon attracted to film and television roles, of which he had over 150, including many John Wayne films. Two of his Star Trek characters shared the same fate, in that they were murdered by the despotic computers which oversaw their societies, and the third was only an illusion crafted by the Talosians.
Outside of Star Trek, his television credits include the role of Judge Chester on Peyton Place (1964-69, with Susan Oliver, Michael Strong, and Leigh Taylor-Young), and guest appearances on Boris Karloff's Thriller (1960), The Untouchables (1962, with Booth Colman), Family Affair (1970, with Brian Keith), Barney Miller (1976, with Ron Glass, Gregory Sierra, Kenneth Tigar, and Janet MacLachlan), Mission: Impossible (with Logan Ramsey, David Armstrong, Robert Bralver, and Joan Collins), and The Twilight Zone (1960-1963, with Sherry Jackson, and Star Trek Generations cinematographer John A. Alonzo). He also made repeated appearances on Perry Mason from 1959 through 1963, during which he co-starred with the likes of Ken Lynch, John Anderson, Kenneth Tobey, Willard Sage, William Boyett, Paul Lambert, Frank Overton, William Schallert, John Harmon, Hal Baylor, Christopher Held, and Kathie Browne.
He also had roles in the 1978 TV miniseries Arthur Hailey's the Moneychangers (with Joan Collins, Percy Rodriguez, and Christopher Plummer) and Loose Change (with Stephen Macht, Theodore Bikel, and Gregg Henry). In 1972, Lormer played a supporting role in The Man (1966, starring fellow Star Trek actor William Windom).
His many feature film credits include The Comancheros (1961, starring John Wayne, with Michael Ansara, Booth Colman, Gregg Palmer, and Nehemiah Persoff), The Singing Nun (1966, with Ricardo Montalban), Dimension 5 (1966, starring Jeffrey Hunter and France Nuyen, with Robert Ito, Maggie Thrett and Robert Phillips), Doctors' Wives (1971, with John Colicos), Rooster Cogburn (1975, with Anthony Zerbe), and Creepshow (1982, with Fritz Weaver, Adrienne Barbeau, Robert Harper, and Don Keefer).
Other Trek connections[]
Additional projects in which Lormer appeared with other Star Trek performers include Gunsmoke (episodes between 1959 and 1972, with Charles Seel, Charles Cooper, David Brian, Guy Raymond, Pete Kellett, Sharon Acker, Lou Elias, Gregg Palmer, Ed McCready, Booth Colman, and Bill Erwin)
- Destination Space (1959 TV movie, with Harry Townes)
- The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm (1962 film, with Ian Wolfe)
- One Man's Way (1964 film, with William Windom, John Harmon, and Ian Wolfe)
- The Fugitive (1964 episode with Harry Townes)
- Two on a Guillotine (1965 film, with John Hoyt and Parley Baer)
- A Fine Madness (1966, starring Sean Connery, with Patrick O'Neal, Clive Revill and John Fiedler)
- The Wild Wild West (episodes between 1966 and 1969, with John Harmon, Bill Zuckert, and Michael Dunn)
- The Invaders (1967, starring Roy Thinnes, with Harry Townes).
- Batman (1967 episode, with Yvonne Craig)
- If He Hollers, Let Him Go! (1968, with James Drake, Steve Sandor, and Gregg Palmer)
- Getting Straight (1970 film, with John Rubinstein, Gregory Sierra, Jeff Corey, and William Bramley)
- Frankenstein: The True Story (1973 TV movie, with Robert Foxworth)
- The Gun and the Pulpit (1974 TV movie, with David Huddleston and Jeff Corey)
- The Legend of Lizzie Borden (1975 TV movie, with Fionnula Flanagan, Robert Symonds, and Fritz Weaver)
- Conspiracy of Terror (1975 TV movie, with David Opatoshu, Charles Cooper, Stewart Moss, Dallas Mitchell, Roger Perry, Logan Ramsey, and Arlene Martel)
- The Golden Gate Murders (1979 TV movie, with Kenneth Tigar, Byron Morrow, William Boyett, Vince Howard, Eric Server, Jason Wingreen, and Tim O'Connor)
- The Boogens (1982, directed by James L. Conway, with John Crawford)
Star Trek appearances[]
External links[]
- Jon Lormer at the Internet Movie Database
- Jon Lormer at Wikipedia