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Character actor Ken Lynch (15 July 191013 February 1990; age 79) played Vanderberg in the Star Trek: The Original Series first season episode "The Devil in the Dark". This role was one of some two hundred other television appearances.

He is perhaps best known for his role as Police Sergeant Grover on the TV series McCloud from 1972 through 1977. Original Series/Star Trek: The Next Generation guest actress Diana Muldaur was also a regular cast member on this series. Lynch was also a part of the extensive cast of the 1983 mini-series The Winds of War, which also included Lawrence Pressman, George Murdock, Peter Brocco, Michael Ensign, and Davis Roberts.

He also made appearances in several feature films, including Robert Wise-directed Run Silent, Run Deep (1958), Pork Chop Hill (1959, with Paul Comi, Bert Remsen and Clarence Williams III), Anatomy of a Murder (1959), North by Northwest (1959), with Stanley Adams and Lawrence Dobkin), The Dark at the Top of the Stairs (1960, with Frank Overton and Paul Comi), Seven Ways from Sundown (1960, with Kenneth Tobey), Portrait of a Mobster (1961, with Leslie Parrish), Days of Wine and Roses (1962), Dead Ringer (1964, with Bert Remsen), Mister Buddwing (1966, with Jean Simmons and Nichelle Nichols), Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970, with William Schallert), and Willie Dynamite (1974, with George Murdock). One of his last roles was a guest star spot in an episode of Galactica 1980, with Peter Mark Richman.

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