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Felix Maurice Locher, known as Felix Locher (pronounced Lo-Shay) (July 16, 1882, Bern, Switzerland - March 13, 1969, California) was a Swiss actor and inventor and father of actor Jon Hall. Career
Felix Locher. Actor: Star Trek. Character actor Felix Locher (pronounced Lo-Shay) didn't begin acting until he was 73 years old.
- Actor
- July 16, 1882
- Felix Locher
- March 13, 1969
Felix Maurice Locher. Mini Bio. Character actor Felix Locher (pronounced Lo-Shay) didn't begin acting until he was 73 years old.
- July 16, 1882
- March 13, 1969
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Felix Maurice Locher (16 July 1882 – 13 March 1969; age 86) was an actor who portrayed Robert Johnson in the Star Trek: The Original Series second season episode "The Deadly Years". He filmed his scenes on Thursday 3 August 1967 at Desilu Stage 9 and Stage 10. Locher was the oldest hired actor to appear in the Star Trek franchise.
Swiss born Felix Locher started his acting career late in life, when he was already 73. He was visiting his son, film and television actor Jon Hall, on the set of Hell Ship Mutiny (1957), when the director spotted him and convinced him to play the part of a Tahitian chief in the feature. Prior to his acting career, Locher had worked as an insurance salesman as well as an inventor, with over a hundred copyrights and patents to his name.
Locher appeared in numerous television series and movies throughout the 1950s and 1960s. In 1963, he appeared alongside fellow Original Series guest star Georgia Schmidt in House of the Damned. He also appeared in a three-part episode of the western series Branded entitled "Call to Glory", co-starring fellow Original Series actors Robert Lansing and Richard Tatro. He remained active as an actor until his death in 1969, as he appeared in two other productions, the television series Gunsmoke (with Richard Hale and Bill Erwin) and Love, American Style (with Jane Wyatt), after his performance on Star Trek.
Locher died in Hollywood, California at the age of 86. His death occurred one day before the penultimate Original Series episode, "All Our Yesterdays", aired. His son Jon, very much responsible for his father's acting career, died in 1979 and is buried next to his father in Forest Lawn Cemetery in Hollywood Hills.
Born in Fresno, California, and raised in Tahiti by his father, the Swiss-born actor Felix Maurice Locher, Hall was a nephew of writer James Norman Hall, co-author (with Charles Nordhoff) of the novel Mutiny on the Bounty (1932).
Felix Locher Active - 1957 - 1966 | Birth - Jul 16, 1882 | Death - Mar 13, 1969 | Genres - Romance , Western , Action-Adventure , Horror , History | Subgenres - Western Film , Monster Film , Romantic Comedy
Felix Maurice Locher (July 16, 1882 - March 13, 1969) was a Swiss inventor and actor. Born in Bern, Switzerland, Locher held over 100 copyrights and patents, all relating to a unique mapping system.
