Clint Howard

Clint Howard is an actor who played Balok in the first season episode , Grady in the third season episode , Muk in the first season episode , a Creepy Orion in the first season episode and Buck Martinez in second season episode .
He filmed his scenes as Balok for "The Corbomite Maneuver" on Wednesday at Desilu Stage 9. He also filmed a makeup test the previous day. 
Along with Majel Barrett, Joseph Ruskin, Jack Donner and Vince Deadrick, he is one of only five actors to appear in both The Original Series and Enterprise. He, Barrett, and Ruskin also appeared in Deep Space Nine. He is the only performer to date who appeared in both The Original Series and Discovery or Strange New Worlds (excluding performers who appeared in archive footage).
On Comedy Central's 2006 roast of William Shatner, Howard reprised his role as Balok in an older, grown-up form addicted to tranya.
Howard holds the record for longest period between first and most recent appearances on Star Trek, of 20713 days, or just under 57 years, reclaiming the record from Walter Koenig who played the voice only role of Anton Chekov in .
== Career ==
Howard is the younger brother of actor and director , and the son of actor . Clint's career began at the age of one, with a role in , a television show that starred his brother. He has worked steadily since.
His roles as a child actor include appearances on series like The Fugitive (with Andrew Prine, James B. Sikking, Joseph Campanella, and Barbara Baldavin), Bonanza (with Bob Miles), Judd for the Defense (with Dick Cherney), Love, American Style, The Odd Couple, Gunsmoke (with Anthony Caruso, Bobby Clark, and Gary Combs), The Mod Squad (starring Tige Andrews and Clarence Williams III, with Barry Atwater), and The Streets of San Francisco (directed by Corey Allen).
One of his most memorable TV guest appearances was in the titular role of the 1971 Night Gallery episode "The Boy Who Predicted Earthquakes".
In 1974, Howard co-starred in the short-lived western series The Cowboys which was cancelled after only 12 episodes, and featured DeForest Kelley, Ian Wolfe, and Jack Perkins in guest roles.
In 1978, he appeared in directed by an uncredited Ralph Senensky and starring Ronny Cox and John Fiedler. He made two guest appearances on the show Happy Days starring his brother and Anson Williams, in 1976 and 1980.
From the 1980s onwards, Howard mostly appeared in supporting roles in feature films, often directed by his brother. He has been directed by his brother in seventeen films, including (1984, with Charles Macaulay), (1986, with Herta Ware), (1991), (1992, with Barbara Babcock, Colm Meaney, and Anthony De Longis), (1995, with Googy Gress, Max Grodénchik, Ned Vaughn, and Steve Rankin), (2000, with Bill Irwin, Landry Allbright, and Frank Welker), (2005, with Bruce McGill, Ron Canada, Daniel Kash, and Marcelo Tubert, written by Akiva Goldsman), (2008, starring Frank Langella, with Antony Acker, Andy Milder, Geoffrey Blake, Ned Vaughn, and Googy Gress), and (2018), the latter making him one of the performers who both appeared in Star Trek and .
In 1986, Howard appeared in his brother's alongside Patti Yasutake and in the same year co-starred in television series adaptation , which starred Scott Bakula and Patti Yasutake, and featured Wendy Schaal and Earl Boen in guest roles.
His other film credits include (1989, with Marc Alaimo, Roy Brocksmith, Teri Hatcher, Glenn Morshower, Michael J. Pollard, and Phil Rubenstein), (1991, with Paul Sorvino, Terry O'Quinn, Ed Lauter, Max Grodénchik, William Boyett, and Merritt Yohnka), (1993, starring Raphael Sbarge, with Frank Novak and Martha Hackett), (1996, with Robin Curtis, Ed Begley, Jr., Brenda Strong, and Brian J. Williams), (1996, with Shelly Desai, Tommy 'Tiny' Lister, Jr., Henry Kingi, Sr., Patti Tippo, and Tracee Lee Cocco), (1998), (2000), (2000, with Michael McKean, Tommy 'Tiny' Lister, Jr., Jeff Imada, and Jess Harnell), (2003, with Amy Hill and Frank Welker), (2005), (2007, starring Malcolm McDowell, Brad Dourif, with Richard Lynch, Tom Towles, and Sid Haig), and (2011).
He made a small but notable appearance as radar technician Peters in (1997, with Charles Napier, Brian George, Douglas Aarniokoski, and Patricia Tallman), which he reprised in (1999, with Jane Carr, Michael G. Hagerty, Jack Kehler, and Tony Jay, and Rebecca Romijn) and (2002, with Tommy 'Tiny' Lister, Jr. and Greg Grunberg).
His further television credits include a co-starring role in in 1996, alongside Marjorie Monaghan and Cary-Hiroyuki, and guest appearances on (starring Jason Alexander, with Vaughn Armstrong), , (1996, written by Richard Matheson from his own short story, co-starring Matt Frewer, and narrated by Kevin Conway), Total Recall 2070, (with Harve Presnell and James Whitmore, Jr.), (starring Jerry O'Connell and Miguel Ferrer, with Cliff DeYoung and Scott MacDonald), Arrested Development, , (starring Greg Grunberg and Zachary Quinto, with Douglas Tait), and (starring Daniel Dae Kim, with Corbin Bernsen, developed by Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman).
In 2009, Howard appeared on an episode of , starring John Noble, created by J.J. Abrams, Roberto Orci, and Alex Kurtzman, and co-written by Akiva Goldsman, playing paranoid conspiracy theorist Emmanuel Grayson, who believed he was the son of Sarek and feared an invasion by Romulans from the future (foreshadowing the plot of Abrams' ). Grayson's apartment was #1701 and he shared his surname with Spock's mother.
== Star Trek appearances ==
File:Balok.jpg|Balok
File:Grady.jpg|Grady
File:Muk.jpg|Muk
File:Creepy Orion.jpg|Creepy Orion
File:Buck Martinez.png|Buck Martinez
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