Bill Zuckert
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Bill Zuckert was an American
United States
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 actor. He began his career in 1941 in radio and lent his voice to hundreds of dramas over the next two decades. He served in World War II
World War II
World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...

 as a member of the naval construction unit Seabees. He went on to star in television, having many guest and character roles over the next half century, such as playing the sheriff in the Star Trek
Star Trek
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 episode, "Spectre of the Gun." He died on January 23, 1997 of pneumonia at the age of 81.

Selected filmography

  • Ada
    Ada (film)
    Ada is a 1961 political drama film made by Avon Productions and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It was directed by Daniel Mann and produced by...

    (1961)
  • Shock Corridor
    Shock Corridor
    Shock Corridor is a 1963 film, directed and written by Samuel Fuller. The film tells the story of a journalist who gets himself committed to a mental hospital in order to track an unsolved murder.-Plot:...

    (1963)
  • The Cincinnati Kid
    The Cincinnati Kid
    The Cincinnati Kid is a 1965 American drama film. It tells the story of Eric "The Kid" Stoner, a young Depression-era poker player, as he seeks to establish his reputation as the best...

    (1965)
  • Hang 'em High
    Hang 'Em High
    Hang 'Em High is a 1968 American Western film directed by Ted Post and produced and co-written by Leonard Freeman. It stars Clint Eastwood as Jed Cooper, an innocent man who survives a lynching, Inger Stevens as a widow who helps him, Ed Begley as the leader of the gang that lynched him, and Pat...

    (1968)
  • Tora! Tora! Tora!
    Tora! Tora! Tora!
    is a 1970 American-Japanese war film that dramatizes the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, to the extent these facts were known at the time of production. The film was directed by Richard Fleischer and stars an all-star cast, including So Yamamura, E.G...

    (1970) (uncredited)
  • How to Frame a Figg
    How to Frame a Figg
    How to Frame a Figg is a 1971 Universal comedy about a bungling bookkeeper's assistant, Hollis Alexander Figg in the Dalton city hall, who finds himself framed for embezzlement...

    (1971)
  • The Girl Most Likely to...
    The Girl Most Likely to...
    The Girl Most Likely to... is a black comedy with slight psychological thriller elements written by Joan Rivers and starring Stockard Channing and Edward Asner. The film was released on November 6, 1973 as a made-for-television movie broadcast on the ABC Movie of the Week...

    (1973)
  • The Strongest Man in the World
    The Strongest Man in the World
    The Strongest Man in the World is a 1975 film starring Kurt Russell, still a student in the fictional Medfield College. It is the sequel to the 1972 film Now You See Him, Now You Don't, itself a sequel to the 1969 film, The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes.-Plot:Medfield College's Dean Higgins is being...

    (1975)
  • Little Treasure
    Little Treasure
    Little Treasure is a 1985 American action drama starring Ted Danson, Margot Kidder and Burt Lancaster. The film, written and directed by Alan Sharp, deals with the strained relationship between a bank robber father and his daughter, a stripper.-Plot:...

    (1985)
  • Critters 3
    Critters 3
    Critters 3 is a 1991 sci-fi comedy horror film directed by Kristine Peterson. It is the third installment of the Critters series. It was shot back-to-back with its sequel, Critters 4. Unlike the first two movies, it does not take place in the town of Grover's Bend...

    (1991)
  • Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult (1994)
  • Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
    Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
    Ace Ventura: Pet Detective is a 1994 American comedy film directed by Tom Shadyac and starring Jim Carrey. It co-stars Courteney Cox, Tone Loc, Sean Young and former Miami Dolphins quarterback Dan Marino....

    (1994)

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