Olaf Pooley

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Olaf Pooley is a British actor and writer born on February 2, 1916, in Parkstone, Dorset, England, of an English father and Danish mother.

He wrote and appeared in the film The Corpse (released in the United States as Crucible of Horror), starring Michael Gough, and wrote The Johnstown Monster. He also wote the screenplay for a film version of Bernard Taylor's The Godsend. His wife Gabrielle Beaumont directed the film.

Pooley's TV guest appearances since the 1950s include Dixon of Dock Green, Paul Temple, Jason King, MacGyver and Star Trek: Voyager. He played Professor Stahlman in the Doctor Who serial Inferno (1970). He also played Lars Torvik in the very first episode of The Sandbaggers, entitled First Principles (1978).

His other appearances include the 1958 BBC radio play Ambrose in Paris and Sebastian in a 1956 film production of The Tempest.

He is notable as being one of only nine actors to appear in both the Star Trek and Doctor Who franchises. The others are Simon Pegg, Daphne Ashbrook, Maurice Roëves, Christopher Neame, Barrie Ingham, Guy Siner, John Franklyn-Robbins and Alan Dale. (Gregg Palmer also appeared in both franchises but his role in Star Trek went uncredited.)