Reggie Nalder

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Reggie Nalder (September 4, 1907 – November 19, 1991) was a prolific film and television character actor from the late 1940s to the early 1990s. His distinctive features–partially the result of disfiguring burns–together with a haunting style and demeanor led to his being called "The Face That Launched a Thousand Trips."

Born Alfred Reginald Natzick in Vienna, Austria, 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 Barlow in the 1979 filmed version of Stephen King's Salem's Lot, and the Andorian ambassador Shras in the Star Trek episode "Journey to Babel." Nalder also 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.

Nalder's television work also included episodes of the series 77 Sunset Strip, Surfside Six, Boris Karloff's Thriller, McCloud and I Spy.

His other films include:

1962 - The Spiral Road directed by Robert Mulligan.
1962 - Convicts 4 with Ben Gazzara, directed by Millard Kaufman
1969 - The Bird with the Crystal Plumage directed by Dario Argento
1970 - Mark of the Devil directed by Adrian Hoven
1972 - Mark of the Devil Part II directed by Adrian Hoven
1976 - Casanova directed by Federico Fellini
1978 - Zoltan, Hound of Dracula

In 1979 Nalder appeared as the lead vampire Kurt Barlow in the tv adaptation of the Stephen King novel Salem's Lot. The version of Kurt Barlow in the tv adaptation of the story resembled the original Nosferatu, in being physically gruesome, bald, sporting talons and gnarled fangs.

Nalder was also credited as "Detlef von Berg" in the X rated films Dracula Sucks (1979) and Blue Ice (1985). He died of bone cancer in Santa Monica, California.