Malachi Throne
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Malachi Throne is an American character actor. He was born in New York City on December 1, 1928.
He was a popular guest star on many television shows of the 1960s and 1970s, co-starring, with Robert Wagner, on the TV show It Takes a Thief.
Throne appeared in two two-part episodes of two incarnations of Star Trek. For Star Trek: The Original Series he played Commodore José Mendez in The Menagerie and for ST:TNG he played Pardek, a Romulan senator, in Unification. He also supplied the voice of "The Keeper" in the earlier series' first pilot episode, The Cage, which didn't air in its original form until 1988, though most of the episode was included within the The Menagerie, when it aired in 1966.
One of his strangest roles was as the villain "Falseface" on the Batman series. The character, who used a variety of disguises to effect his nefarious schemes, wore a semi-transparent mask when not in the midst of his crimes. The mask rendered Throne's real face unrecognizable on screen. Playing off of this effect, but against Throne's wishes, the show's producers wrote the on-screen credit as "? as Falseface", which made sense for such a campy show, but which denied Throne his credit. Later, he appeared in animation as the vigilante Judge on The New Batman Adventures.
Malachi Throne currently lives in southern California and does local theatre work there.
[edit] External links
- Malachi Throne at the Internet Movie Database
- Malachi Throne article at Memory Alpha, a Star Trek wiki.
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