Michael Forest (born 17 April 1929; age 95) is an actor who played Apollo in the Star Trek: The Original Series second season episode "Who Mourns for Adonais?". He filmed his scenes between Friday 2 June 1967 and Thursday 8 June 1967 at Desilu Stage 10.
He was born Gerald Michael Charlebois in North Dakota and grew up in Seattle. His work outside of Star Trek includes over a hundred films and seventy-five television guest roles. He broke into film in the 1950s, alternating work for B-movie director and producer Roger Corman with work on the stage. He met Corman while studying acting from Jeff Corey.
One of Forest's oldest friends was Leonard Nimoy (another of Corey's acting students). He worked together with Nimoy in the theatrical production of Jean Genet's play Deathwatch, and later on the film version (which also featured Robert Ellenstein), filmed in 1964, but released in 1966. Ironically, Forest and Nimoy did not share any scenes in "Who Mourns for Adonais?".
Much of his recent work has been voice-over work in the English versions of Japanese anime films and television series, often credited as Alfred Thor.
In 2012, he reprised his role of Apollo in the first episode of the Star Trek Continues fan film series: "Pilgrim Of Eternity."
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Notable film and television work[]
- The Dick Van Dyke Show episode "The Life and Times of Joe Coogan" (1964)
- The Glory Guys (1965)
- Deathwatch (1966, with Leonard Nimoy and Robert Ellenstein)
- 100 Rifles (1969)
- The Assassination of Trotsky (1972)
- Days of Our Lives (1979-1980)
- As the World Turns (1980-1982)
- The Message (1976, with Michael Ansara)
- Mobile Suit Gundam I (1981, English version voice only)
- King Kong Lives (1986, with Leon Rippy and Mike Starr)
- Deep Space (1987, with Charles Napier and Julie Newmar)
- Akira (1988, English version voice only)
- Body of Evidence (1993, with Richard Riehle and Frank Langella)
- Big O (1999-2003, English version voice only, with Alan Oppenheimer in season 2)
- Cast Away (2000)
- Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue (2000, English version voice only)
- Cowboy Bebop: The Movie (2001, English version voice only)
- Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex (2002-2004, English version voice only)
- Wings of Oneamis: Royal Space Force (1987, English voice version)
- Crying Freeman: Portrait of a Killer (1988, English voice version)
- Cheyenne episode "Cross Purpose" (1961)