(written from a Production point of view)
Tom Troupe (born 15 July 1928; age 95) is the actor who portrayed Lt. Harold in the Star Trek: The Original Series first season episode "Arena". He filmed his scenes on Friday 11 November 1966 on location at the fortress set near Vasquez Rocks Natural Area Park and Tuesday 15 November 1966 at Desilu Stage 9.
He is the husband of singer/comedienne Carole Cook, a close friend and protege of Lucille Ball. He co-wrote (with Don Eitner) and starred in Sofi (1968), the stage and film adaptations of Nikolai Gogol's Diary of a Madman.
He also appeared in the 1973 made-for-television movie The Alpha Caper, co-starring fellow Trek alumni Leonard Nimoy, Kenneth Tobey, Paul Sorensen, Paul Kent, Victor Tayback, and James B. Sikking.
Other Trek connections[]
Additional projects in which Troupe appeared with other Star Trek performers include:
Films[]
- The Big Fisherman (1959, with Phillip Pine, Rhodes Reason, and Leonard Mudie)
- The Devil's Brigade (1968, with Andrew Prine and Jean-Paul Vignon)
- Che! (1969, with Sid Haig, Perry Lopez, and Abraham Sofaer)
- Kelly's Heroes (1970, with Perry Lopez, Phil Adams and David Hurst)
- Making it (1971, with John Fiedler and Lawrence Pressman)
- PSI Factor (1980, with Don Eitner and Peter Mark Richman)
- Summer School (1987, with Kirstie Alley, Jack Blessing, Conroy Gedeon, Carlos LaCamara and Ken Olandt)
- My Own Private Idaho (1991, based on William Shakespeare's Henry IV, with Mickey Cottrell)
Television guest appearances[]
- The Fugitive (1964, with Bernard Kates)
- The Young Rebels (1970, with John Colicos and Alex Henteloff)
- Griff (1973, with Vic Tayback)
- Lucas Tanner (1974, with Nancy Malone)
- Planet of the Apes (1974, with Mark Lenard, Joseph Ruskin, Gary Combs, Booth Colman, Ron Stein and Percy Rodriguez)
- CHiPs (1979, with Michael Dorn, Robert Pine and Mary Crosby)
- Cheers (1987, with Kirstie Alley, Bebe Neuwirth and Kelsey Grammer)
- Frasier (1995, with Kelsey Grammer)
External links[]
- Tom Troupe at the Internet Movie Database
- Tom Troupe at Wikipedia