Jay Robinson

Jay Robinson was an actor who played Petri in the third season episode . He filmed his scenes between Tuesday and Thursday at Desilu Stage 9.
Robinson's most well-known role is that of in (1953), which also marked his film debut. Jean Simmons starred in this film, as well, while Michael Ansara and Anthony Jochim made uncredited appearances. Robinson would reprise the role of Caligula the following year in , co-starring William Marshall and featuring an uncredited Julie Newmar.
In 1955, Robinson co-starred with Original Series guest actresses Joan Collins and Leslie Parrish in (which, like The Robe, was directed by ). The following year, he co-starred with Nehemiah Persoff in .
After recovering from a drug addiction and a career-ruining jail sentence, Robinson returned to acting on television in the late 1960s, and in 1971, he co-starred in the film Bunny O'Hare, directed by Gerd Oswald. He went on to have roles in such movies as (1972, with Stanley Adams), (1973, with David Huddleston, Roy Jenson, and Original Series star Walter Koenig), (1975, with Joan Marshall), (1982, with Richard Lynch, Anthony De Longis, Jeff Corey, Joseph Ruskin, and George Murdock), and (1988, with Kenneth Tobey). Robinson's more recent films included (1992, starring Winona Ryder) and (1993, featuring fellow Original Series guest stars Charles Napier, Michael J. Pollard, and Barbara Baldavin, and Richard Herd).
Besides The Original Series, other television series on which Robinson appeared include Mannix, Bewitched, , Kolchak: The Night Stalker (with fellow Original Series guest actor John Fiedler), , Barney Miller (with another Original Series guest star, Lee Meriwether), and (with Michael Sarrazin, Ed McCready, and directed by Vincent McEveety). In 1974 he appeared in an episode of Planet of the Apes entitled "Tomorrow's Tide", which was directed by Don McDougall and photographed by Jerry Finnerman. It was later edited into the television movie Farewell to the Planet of the Apes, (which also featured Mark Lenard and John McLiam in footage from other episodes). From 1976 through 1977, Robinson was a regular on The Krofft Supershow, along with Malachi Throne, and during the 1988-89 television season, Robinson was a regular on ; guest star Bumper Robinson was also a part of cast during this time.
Robinson appeared in a number of made-for-TV movies, including (1973, with Anthony Zerbe), and Sinatra (1992, with Bob Gunton, Jeff Corey, Don Stark, Jack Shearer, Marc Adams, and Christopher Carroll). He starred in several direct-to-video productions of plays by William Shakespeare throughout the early 1980s, including Othello (1981, with William Marshall in the title role), Macbeth (1981, with Alan Oppenheimer), and The Taming of the Shrew (1983, with Bruce Davison, Larry Drake, and Bill Erwin). Additionally, from 1997 through 2000, Robinson hosted Beyond Bizarre. 
Robinson died at his home in Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles, on 27 September 2013. He was 83 years old. 
== Other Trek connections ==
Additional projects in which Robinson appeared with other Star Trek performers include:
* Three the Hard Way (1974 film, with Corbin Bernsen and Irene Tsu)
* I Wonder Who's Killing Her Now? (1975 film, with Richard Libertini and Ian Wolfe)
* Born Again (1978, with Bill Zuckert and Byron Morrow)
* The Man with Bogart's Face (1980, with Gregg Palmer, Ed McCready, and Bill Catching)
* Memories Never Die (1982 TV movie, with Barbara Babcock)
* (1982, with Wendy Hughes, Seamon Glass, and Ed McCready)
* The Malibu Bikini Shop (1986, with Charlie Brill, Bruce Greenwood, and Jon Rashad Kamal)
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