Jack Donner (October 29, 1928 â€" September 21, 2019) was an American
actor whose career in theater, television and film extended over six
decades.A native of Los Angeles, Donner worked steadily in television
and film since the 1950s including early work on The Guiding Light and
As the World Turns. Honing his craft, he performed in seven successive
seasons of New York City regional and stock theater.Beginning in the
1960s he had many guest star and co-starring roles in shows including
The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Mission Impossible (eleven episodes â€" the
most by any guest star), Mannix, Kojak and The Streets of San
Francisco. However, Donner was probably best known for his role of
Romulan Subcommander Tal in the original Star Trek episode "The
Enterprise Incident". He would later return as a Vulcan priest in the
episodes "Kir'Shara" and "Home" of Star Trek: Enterprise. Along with
Joseph Ruskin and Clint Howard, he is one of only three actors to
appear in both the original Star Trek series and Star Trek:
Enterprise. In 1998 he appeared in the uncredited role of Commander
Kinwon in Power Rangers in Space. He had a recurring role on General
Hospital as Nikolas and Spencer Cassadine's butler Alfred.Donner
starred in Peaches Christ's black comedy film All About Evil and in
Bryan Moore's adaptation of H. P. Lovecraft's Cool Air. He also had a
brief but memorable scene as a fire-and-brimstone prosecutor who
demands death in 1971's The Night God Screamed.
actor whose career in theater, television and film extended over six
decades.A native of Los Angeles, Donner worked steadily in television
and film since the 1950s including early work on The Guiding Light and
As the World Turns. Honing his craft, he performed in seven successive
seasons of New York City regional and stock theater.Beginning in the
1960s he had many guest star and co-starring roles in shows including
The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Mission Impossible (eleven episodes â€" the
most by any guest star), Mannix, Kojak and The Streets of San
Francisco. However, Donner was probably best known for his role of
Romulan Subcommander Tal in the original Star Trek episode "The
Enterprise Incident". He would later return as a Vulcan priest in the
episodes "Kir'Shara" and "Home" of Star Trek: Enterprise. Along with
Joseph Ruskin and Clint Howard, he is one of only three actors to
appear in both the original Star Trek series and Star Trek:
Enterprise. In 1998 he appeared in the uncredited role of Commander
Kinwon in Power Rangers in Space. He had a recurring role on General
Hospital as Nikolas and Spencer Cassadine's butler Alfred.Donner
starred in Peaches Christ's black comedy film All About Evil and in
Bryan Moore's adaptation of H. P. Lovecraft's Cool Air. He also had a
brief but memorable scene as a fire-and-brimstone prosecutor who
demands death in 1971's The Night God Screamed.
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