Ralph Moratz

Ralph Moratz was an actor who appeared as a background actor in two Star Trek productions. He first appeared as a Mercy Hospital visitor near the elevator in . , Moratz appeared as a Bajoran Vedek in the second season episode , directed by Cliff Bole. 
Born in Berlin, Germany, Moratz became a target of harassment when Adolf Hitler's power increased, due to Moratz' Jewish heritage. In 1939, he was able to leave Berlin on a transport to France where he found shelter in a Jewish orphanage in Paris. In 1941, he was able to resettle to New York. He attended Flushing High School and enlisted in the United States Air Force.
In November 1953, Moratz joined Central Casting and SEG and in 1955 he became a member of the Screen Actors Guild and of AFTRA in the 1980s. During his acting time, Moratz took a thirty year hiatus where he worked as programmer, analyst, and application manager of payroll and consumer loans at a bank in Los Angeles, California. He returned full time to acting following his retirement.
Moratz died on 10 March 2016 at the age of 84 in Hermiston, Oregon. 
== Acting ==
Moratz started his acting career in the early 1950s and worked as background actor in film productions such as (1953, with Jean Simmons, Torin Thatcher, Jay Robinson, and Michael Ansara), (1954, with John Hoyt), (1954, with Kay E. Kuter), (1954), (1955), (1955, with William Schallert, Benjie Bancroft, and Don Keefer), (1955), (1955, with John Hoyt), (1955, with Whit Bissell and Gail Bonney), (1955), (1955, with Paul Baxley and Arthur Tovey), and (1955, with Ian Wolfe and Chuck Hicks).
In 1955, he worked as stunt double for actor for his jump into the orchestra in . He also worked as stand-in on (1959) and (1959).
Further acting work includes (1956, with Leslie Parrish), (1956, with Torin Thatcher), (1956, with Arthur Tovey), (1956, with Parley Baer), (1956, with Paul Fix), (1956), (1956, with William Schallert and Gail Bonney), (1956, with Peter Mark Richman), (1957, with Theo Marcuse), (1957, with DeForest Kelley), (1957, with Ricardo Montalban and William Meader), (1958, with Dick Crockett and Bob Hoy), (1959, with Barry Atwater, Bert Remsen, and Clarence Williams III), (1959), (1960, with Ray Walston), (1961, with William Shatner, Bernard Kates, and Rudy Solari), (1962, with Victor Lundin), (1963, with Grace Lee Whitney), (1963, with Madlyn Rhue), and (1971) as well as episodes of Wanted: Dead or Alive (1959-1960), The Rifleman (1960, with Paul Fix and Whit Bissell), Ben Casey, Bonanza, and Zane Grey Theater (1960).
Following his "break" from acting, Moratz started again to work in background with the beginning of his retirement in the 1990s. Among his appearances are (1989, with Teri Hatcher), the science fiction thriller Monolith (1993, with Musetta Vander, Mark Phelan, and Boris Krutonog), the comedy The Wacky Adventures of Dr. Boris and Nurse Shirley (1995, with Clive Revill), the drama Panther (1995, with Charles Cooper, Christopher Michael, Joseph Culp, L. Sidney, Manny Perry, and John Snyder), (1995), (1995, with Tom Wright, Tim Halligan, Judyann Elder, and Clint Howard), the romance The American President (1995), (1996, with Bill Smitrovich, Frank Novak, Leland Orser, Brent Spiner, Pam Blackwell, Mirron E. Willis, Raphael Sbarge, Carlos LaCamara, Tim Kelleher, Jana Marie Hupp, Robert Pine, Derek Webster, Randy Oglesby, Anthony Crivello, Mark Thompson, Frank Welker, Erick Avari, and Tracey Walter), (1996, with Bill Cobbs, Robert Wisdom and Clint Howard), (1996, with Spencer Garrett), (1997), (1998, with Ellen Albertini Dow), (2000, with Bruce Greenwood and Steven Culp), (2001), (2003, with Kristanna Loken and Earl Boen), and (2007, with Tracey Walter, Matt Winston, and Carla Stoelting).
Besides film work, Moratz appeared in various television series including , Muscle (1995, with Dan Gauthier, Amy Pietz, and Alan Ruck), Leave It to Beaver, , , The Bonnie Hunt Show, Dragnet, The Larry Sanders Show, News Radio, , Sister, Sister, , , , Hart to Hart, Good vs Evil, Days of Our Lives, Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction, and (2001-2007, with Paul Dooley, Christopher Darga, Joy Kilpatrick, Jimmie F. Skaggs, and Michael McKean).
== External links ==
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