Reggie Nalder (born Alfred Reginald Natzler; 4 September 1907 â€" 19
November 1991) was a prolific Austrian film and television character
actor from the late 1940s to the early 1990s. His distinctive
featuresâ€"partially the result of disfiguring burnsâ€"together with a
haunting style and demeanor led to his being called "The Face That
Launched a Thousand Trips".Born in Vienna, Austria-Hungary, he was the
son of actor and operetta singer Sigmund Natzler (1862-1913). He was a
cousin of actresses and singers Grete Natzler and Hertha Natzler. As a
young man he performed at second-rate Vienna theatres and from the
1930s in several cabarets in Paris. After World War II he worked for
the German language service of the BBC.Nalder is perhaps best
remembered for his roles as an assassin in Alfred Hitchcock's 1956
remake of The Man Who Knew Too Much, the vampire Kurt Barlow in the
1979 TV adaptation of the Stephen King novel Salem's Lot, and the
Andorian ambassador Shras in the Star Trek episode "Journey to
Babel".Nalder appeared (at the request of star Frank Sinatra) in a
brief, uncredited role as a communist spymaster in John
Frankenheimer's 1962 film The Manchurian Candidate. He also had a
brief role in the 1981 Walt Disney film The Devil and Max Devlin. In
an interview, Nalder claimed that he could not stand working with Bill
Cosby, the star of the film. He described him as "a pig", as well as
"rude, arrogant, and very untalented."
November 1991) was a prolific Austrian film and television character
actor from the late 1940s to the early 1990s. His distinctive
featuresâ€"partially the result of disfiguring burnsâ€"together with a
haunting style and demeanor led to his being called "The Face That
Launched a Thousand Trips".Born in Vienna, Austria-Hungary, he was the
son of actor and operetta singer Sigmund Natzler (1862-1913). He was a
cousin of actresses and singers Grete Natzler and Hertha Natzler. As a
young man he performed at second-rate Vienna theatres and from the
1930s in several cabarets in Paris. After World War II he worked for
the German language service of the BBC.Nalder is perhaps best
remembered for his roles as an assassin in Alfred Hitchcock's 1956
remake of The Man Who Knew Too Much, the vampire Kurt Barlow in the
1979 TV adaptation of the Stephen King novel Salem's Lot, and the
Andorian ambassador Shras in the Star Trek episode "Journey to
Babel".Nalder appeared (at the request of star Frank Sinatra) in a
brief, uncredited role as a communist spymaster in John
Frankenheimer's 1962 film The Manchurian Candidate. He also had a
brief role in the 1981 Walt Disney film The Devil and Max Devlin. In
an interview, Nalder claimed that he could not stand working with Bill
Cosby, the star of the film. He described him as "a pig", as well as
"rude, arrogant, and very untalented."
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