Bruce Mars

Bruce Mars played in the first season episode and Charley in the second season episode . His acting career was quite short, making a total of three movie appearances and about a dozen television guest spots.
Mars was originally considered for the role of Dave Bailey in , but Anthony Call got the part instead. (These Are the Voyages: TOS Season One) His name was seen on a list of extras for the same episode (as a Crewman), but his character was not seen on screen.
He filmed his scenes as Finnegan between Wednesday and Wednesday on location at Vasquez Rocks Natural Area Park and .
Mars was a male model in the mid-to-late 1950s before his acting career. Before that, he was an athlete and appeared in the 1954 Olympic trials for track. Besides Star Trek, he appeared in guest spots on a few television series, including two episodes of : "Killers of the Deep" with Michael Ansara and Dallas Mitchell and "The Abominable Snowman" with Bart La Rue, written by Robert Hamner, and directed by Robert Sparr. He also appeared in "Massacre", an episode of , starring James Darren, Lee Meriwether, and Whit Bissell. The episode was written by Carey Wilber, directed by Murray Golden and co-starred Paul Comi, Lawrence Montaigne, and Perry Lopez.
Mars left the acting business in 1969, to become a monk in the under the name "Brother Paramananda".
==Appearances==
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