Malachi Throne

Resumen

Nacimiento
1 de diciembre de 1928 · Nueva York, Nueva York, Estados Unidos
Defunción
13 de marzo de 2013 · Brentwood, California, Estados Unidos (un cáncer de pulmón)
Altura
1.73 m

Biografía

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Deep baritone voice

Trivia

Provided the voice of The Keeper (played on-screen by Meg Wyllie) in "The Cage", the first pilot episode for Viaje a las estrellas (1966). "The Cage" was unusable as a main series episode, so elements were incorporated as flashbacks in the two-part episode "The Menagerie". Malachi Throne was cast in this episode, this time to appear on-screen as Commodore Mendez, so consequently The Keeper had to be re-voiced by someone else.
Narrated the teaser trailer for La guerra de las galaxias (1977).
Served with the United States Army during the Korean War, then attended Brooklyn College and Long Island University.
Had two sons by his first marriage: Zachary Throne and Joshua Throne.
Both he and Edward Binns played Alexander Mundy's government boss on Ladrón sin destino (1968) and both actors debuted on the same episode of Brenner (1959).

Citas

My first agent told me to change my name or I'd only play Jewish parts or Indians. Of course I refused to change it. Shortly thereafter she came up to me and told me I had to keep it, because her numerologist said it was very, very good.
Gene Roddenberry called me in for Viaje a las estrellas (1966) and asked me what part I wanted. I told him Spock, but he said he already had Leonard Nimoy for that. I thought, "Well, back to the unemployment line," but then he offered me the part of Dr. McCoy. I was tempted, but I turned it down. There's an old saying among actors: "Never be the third man through the door," and I felt I would always be the third man in that role.
[on his acting in the original Viaje a las estrellas (1966) pilot] What most people don't know is that I not only played Commodore Mendez in "The Menagerie", but I also did the voices of the Talosian women. And I did them without special effects.
I was playing the villain False-Face on Batman (1966), and I got wind that they were going to pay a young starlet $25,000 to be in the same episode. Well, I wasn't getting anywhere near that amount of money, so I refused to let them put my name in the credits. With all the make-up I had on nobody could tell who I was, and since the show had a reputation of attracting big-name actors, everyone wanted to know who played False-Face. It was a two-part episode, so after the first week the papers were a buzz. Eventually, I cooled down and let them put my name at the end of the second episode. It was the best press I ever got in my life.
[on being fired from Ladrón sin destino (1968)] They had this idea of shooting the whole season in Italy, but they wanted me to stay behind and give [Robert] Wagner's character, Alexander Mundy, orders over the phone. I told them if I didn't go I'd quit, and I did. The show didn't last another half a season.