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Paul Carr (1 February 193417 February 2006; age 72) was an actor who portrayed Lee Kelso in the Star Trek: The Original Series first season episode "Where No Man Has Gone Before". Carr filmed his scenes between Monday 19 July 1965 and Thursday 22 July 1965 and Monday 25 July 1965 at Desilu Culver Stage 15 and Stage 17.

He broke into acting in 1955 and made well over a hundred television guest appearances, eight regular series roles, about thirty film roles, and a number of plays. A few of his guest appearances were multiple episodes as the same character; a few others were multiple episodes as different characters – a true character actor.

His film credits include Alfred Hitchcock's The Wrong Man (1956, with Barry Atwater, Charles Cooper, Anna Karen, and Nehemiah Persoff), The Young Don't Cry (1957, with Gene Lyons and Stefan Gierasch), Posse from Hell (1961, with Frank Overton), Captain Newman, M.D. (1963, with Barry Atwater, James Gregory, Paul Sorensen, and Seamon Glass), The Dirt Gang (1972, with Michael Pataki, Charles Macaulay, and Michael Forest), Ben (1972, with Kenneth Tobey and Joseph Campanella), Brute Corps (1972, with Charles Macaulay, Roy Jenson, and Michael Pataki), Executive Action (1973, with Dick Miller, Lee Delano, Paul Sorensen, John Anderson, Gilbert Green, and Ed Lauter), The Bat People (1974, with Stewart Moss, John Beck, and Michael Pataki), Raise the Titanic (1980, with Michael Pataki, Mark L. Taylor, and Michael Ensign), and Solar Crisis (1990, with Paul Williams, Roy Jenson, Dan Shor, Brenda Bakke, Jimmie F. Skaggs, Lou Elias, Vince Deadrick, Jr., and Michael Berryman)

He appeared in Scruples (1980, with Gary Graham, Walt Davis, John de Lancie, Kim Cattrall, and Sarah Marshall), as well as The Wild Women of Chastity Gulch (1982, with Joan Collins and Rex Holman), Adventures of the Queen (1975, with Steve Marlo and Elizabeth Rogers), The Lives of Jenny Dolan (1975, with Percy Rodriguez, James Darren, Tony Young, Rod Arrants, and Charles Drake), and Trial Run (1969, with William Bramley and Forbidden Planet star Leslie Nielsen).

The first of Carr's three times acting opposite his "Where No Man" co-star Paul Fix occurred on a 1959 episode of The Rifleman. That episode also featured John Anderson. The third time Carr worked with Fix was on an episode of The Time Tunnel, which originally aired the day after the Star Trek pilot in which they both appeared first hit the airwaves. Carr's other co-stars on that show included Joseph Ruskin, Abraham Sofaer, Paul Stader, Whit Bissell, Lee Meriwether, and James Darren. Other series on which Carr appeared include Combat! (1966, with Anthony Call), The Invaders (1967, with William Smithers), and 12 O'Clock High (1964, starring Robert Lansing with Frank Overton, Jud Taylor, and Bert Remsen). He also played Crewman Clark during the first season of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, appearing in several episodes with other future Trek actors, including John Anderson, James Doohan, John Hoyt, and Nancy Kovack.

In the second season of the TV series Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Carr had a semi-regular role as Lt. Devlin, appearing in episodes featuring Anthony James, Mark Lenard, BarBara Luna, Vic Perrin, and Harry Townes.

His voice credits include the role of Matsuoka in the Japanese anime Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex / Kôkaku kidôtai: Stand Alone Complex (2002, with Mary Elizabeth McGlynn, Michael Forest, Richard Miro, Paul Mercier, Mike Reynolds, Doug Stone, Steven Kramer, Carolyn Hennesy, and Christopher Carroll), and Screaming Mad George, the special effects wizard for science fiction horror films such as Bride of Re-Animator (starring Jeffrey Combs) as well as the voice of the school headmaster in the Japanese anime Blood: The Last Vampire (2000, with Dave Mallow).

He and his wife also ran a health food business.

Carr died of complications from lung and brain cancer on 17 February 2006. He was 72 years old.

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