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Originally Posted by Benzadmiral
The news reports say he was 85. So, born in 1920? He was already 45 when he was cast as Scotty. When he died, he'd put in more than 50 years' work in stage, movies, and TV.
It's kind of a shock to see him in something else, either before ST:TOS or after. I have an early B & W "Man from U.N.C.L.E." episode on tape in which he plays a freighter officer. He was in "The Satan Bug" with George Maharis, too.
Apparently one of his great strengths was dialects ("accents") and voices. On the Animated Star Trek of '73-'74, he's credited with more voices than anybody else.
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If you watch those old episodes, there are very very few people listed as cast members, like maybe 4? He did almost all of the "guest" voices on TAS.
He only messed up once on his accent in the TOS series.
In the episode "The Doomsday Machine", when he is showing Kirk how to set the self destruct system that he's rigged up, he says "thirty seconds later" in a non-scottish accent.
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