Sam Bagley (26 November 1902 – 3 July 1968; age 65) was the stage name of the actor who appeared as a Columbia survivor in the first pilot for Star Trek: The Original Series, "The Cage", and subsequently in archive footage that appeared in "The Menagerie, Part I".
Born in Manhattan, New York City, as Soloman Borken to Jewish Russian immigrants, he changed his named sometime in the 1930s when he began a career in entertainment as a boxer, where he was a one-time heavyweight and one time feature attraction in the ring. ("Top Ring Stars Work in Play", The Salt Lake Tribune, 28 March 1949, p. 9)
Also during 1930s he began work as a Hollywood film extra through Central Casting. His earliest known uncredited roles included, Kid Galahad (1937), The Crowd Roars (1938; with Paul Fix), Blackwell's Island (1939), and Nancy Drew... Reporter (1939).
During the 1940s, he appeared in A Date with the Falcon (1942), The Remarkable Andrew (1942), Bedside Manner (1945), Our Hearts Were Growing Up (1946), and Fun on a Weekend (1947). The same year he appeared as a trial spectator in Miracle on 34th Street (1947, with Jeff Corey), and the following year, he appeared in The Miracle of the Bells (1948, with Monty O'Grady and Ian Wolfe), Hazard (1948; with Jane Crowley and Eleanore Vogel), and Bob Hope's The Paleface (1948, with Nick Borgani, Noble Chissell, William Meader, and Eleanore Vogel). In 1949, he appeared in Paramount Pictures' Chicago Deadline, with Celia Lovsky. ("Top Ring Stars Work in Play", The Salt Lake Tribune, 28 March 1949, p. 9) He rounded the decade out with My Dream Is Yours (1949; with Benjie Bancroft and Shep Houghton) and Rider from Tucson (1950 with Fred Carson). He also appeared in The Twilight Zone (1963, with Joe Evans and William H. O'Brien).