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William Campbell, actor who had numerous film, TV roles, dies at 87

By KEITH THURSBY - Los Angeles Times
Saturday, Apr. 30, 2011

LOS ANGELES — William Campbell, a veteran actor who had memorable roles in the television series "Star Trek," was in Elvis Presley's first film and in the 1950s was married to President John F. Kennedy paramour Judith Campbell Exner, has died. He was 87.

Campbell died Friday of natural causes at the Motion Picture & Television Fund's hospital in the San Fernando Valley, said fund spokeswoman Jennifer Fagen.

He was a busy film and television actor in the 1950s and '60s, making his film debut in 1950's "The Breaking Point" and singing with Presley in 1956's "Love Me Tender."

Campbell's other film roles included "The High and the Mighty" in 1954, "Cell 2455 Death Row" in 1955, "The Naked and the Dead" in 1958, "Dementia 13" with director Francis Ford Coppola in 1963 and "Hush ... Hush, Sweet Charlotte" in 1964.

Campbell had roles in "Star Trek" episodes during each of the original show's first two seasons, including playing a Klingon warrior in the second-season episode "The Trouble With Tribbles." He returned to the role in a 1994 episode of "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine." Among his many other television appearances was a starring part in "Cannonball," a syndicated half-hour series that debuted in 1958.

Campbell was born in Newark, N.J., on Oct. 30, 1923, according to public records and the Motion Picture & Television Fund. His birth year is listed as 1926 by several sources.

He served in the Pacific with the Navy during World War II.

Campbell met Exner, then Judith Immoor, in 1952 at a party when she belonged to "the young Hollywood set," he told the Los Angeles Times in 1975. They married that year and divorced in 1958. She died in 1999.

A Senate committee in 1975 investigating alleged CIA assassination plots detailed telephone calls between Kennedy and "a close friend." Exner called a news conference after her identity had been leaked.

She said her relationship with Kennedy was of a "close, personal nature" and said she also had a personal relationship with Mafia figure Sam Giancana.

"What mutual friends we had you could count on one hand," Campbell said of his former wife in a 1975 Times story. "How she ever met the president, I don't know."

Campbell spent many years during and after his acting career working with the Motion Picture & Television Fund, including as its chief fundraiser.

Campbell is survived by his wife, Tereza, whom he married in 1963.
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I guess Michael Ansara will be getting a little nervous now.
 
At least they took out the Albino first.
 
That's too bad.

RIP.
 
Loved him as Trelane. R.I.P
 
I like how his integrity is higher than his cunning. Barely.
 
I liked the story of how they all asked why they had to have so much more make-up for their DS9 appearances than in the TOS days.

"Oh, you're just remembering wrong, grandad!"
 
Why did all the Klingons have low cunning in the Trek card game? Isn't it rather racist?
 
People should not be SPACE RACIST!

I'm sure there were like two cunning Klingons!
 
I can think of two sisters....
 
They were not cunning enough to avoid being killed though.
 
Does Uhuras card have her as a cunning linguist?
 
Logged in. Saw a Trek CCG card. Geeked out.
 
I hope mine haven't gone all moldy. I haven't looked at them in years!
 
Depends where you kept them.

Attics are good, sheds and garages less so.
 
OMG, Dr Dave, you poor weak human! They died in battle! A Kilngon dream come true!

AND they got the last laugh as the damage they had inflicted to the Enterprise was enough to rupture the magnetic interlocks to the warp core, leading to a warp core breach which completely destroyed the stardrive section of the vessel and crippled the saucer module.
....just sayin'.
 
Just be thankful, in the original script, Lursa and B'tor escaped from the bird of prey, and Data had to have sex with both of them, for some reason.
 
curiousa2z said:
OMG, Dr Dave, you poor weak human! They died in battle! A Kilngon dream come true!

AND they got the last laugh as the damage they had inflicted to the Enterprise was enough to rupture the magnetic interlocks to the warp core, leading to a warp core breach which completely destroyed the stardrive section of the vessel and crippled the saucer module.
....just sayin'.
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They were basically the Ferengi of the Klingon world. Yes they died in battle, but it was hardly an honourable one. They basically died scheming.

Yeah they did destroy the Enterprise, but they didn't live to see the look on the face of the crew.
 
What happened to the baby one of them had.
 
Worf probably killed it, its his way.
 
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