Lawrence Montaigne

"Every actor should have a Great Escape", wrote actor Lawrence Montaigne in his autobiography, "A Vulcan Odyssey". He was referring to The Great Escape (1963), in which he played a small role, as a Canadian prisoner (Haynes) who gets killed at the end of the film. Nonetheless, this was his self-declared favorite and career defining part. For most of us, Montaigne will be regarded as one of the most prolific science fiction actors of the era. We remember him as the robotic Mr. Glee in two seminal episodes of Batman (1966) versus "The Joker"; as Yellow Elk, a native American who finds himself in the base of The Time Tunnel (1966); as a Thrush agent on The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1964), who manages to infiltrate U.N.C.L.E. headquarters; as a sinister alien assassin in The Invaders (1967); and on Star Trek (1966) as Spock's Vulcan "pon farr" rival, Stonn, and also as Decius, the first Romulan ever glimpsed on two episodes of the same series. A native New Yorker raised in Italy, Montaigne beg