Paul Power

Paul Power was an actor who played an Organian elder in the first season episode . He filmed his scenes on Monday and Tuesday at Desilu Stage 9. He received no credit for this appearance. 
Born Luther Raymond Vestergard, he grew up in Chicago and moved to Los Angeles to attend the University of Southern California. He studied law at Harvard University, but dropped out after two years because he ran out of money. Returning to Los Angeles, he found work as an actor under the stage name "Paul Power". Starting in 1926, he made over 300 appearances over four decades on film and television, usually in bit and background roles.
He was also a lay minister serving at different times as assistant pastor and interim pastor for Saint Matthews Lutheran Church. He occasionally conducted services at the local movie studios and funeral services for the Motion Pictures Home in Calabasas, California.
His film credits include movies such as (1936), (1936), The Philadelphia Story (1940), (1941), Mr. and Mrs. Smith (1941), Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942, with Dick Cherney), The Palm Beach Story (1942, with Monty O'Grady), (1948), (1950, starring David Brian), A Place in the Sun (1951, with Ian Wolfe), (1951, with Richard Derr and William Meader), The Bad and the Beautiful (1952), (1953, with Robert Gist, Lawrence Montaigne, and Monty O'Grady), (1954, with Charles Drake and William Schallert), (1956, with William Schallert, Benjie Bancroft, Gail Bonney, and Dick Cherney), Giant (1956, with Paul Fix and Monty O'Grady), (1958, with Corey Allen, David Opatoshu, and Walter Bacon), Inherit the Wind (1960, with Gail Bonney and Joseph Glick), Elvis Presley's (1960, with Bill Couch, Sr., Joseph Paz, and Bob Baker), (1962), Jerry Lewis' (1963, with Julie Parrish, Seymour Cassel, William Meader, and Celeste Yarnall), (1964, with Terri Garr, Pete Kellett, William Meader, and Edwin Rochelle), Marnie (1964, with Mariette Hartley and Meg Wyllie), (1965, with Al Cavens, Dick Cherney, Leonard Mudie, and Monty O'Grady), and Elvis Presley's (1965, with Michael Ansara, Theo Marcuse, Carey Foster, and directed by Gene Nelson).
On the small screen, he can be seen in episodes of The Adventures of Superman, The Untouchables, The Twilight Zone (with Walter Bacon and William Meader), Ben Casey (with Paul Comi), (with William Shatner, Jud Taylor, Dick Crockett and Roy Sickner, directed by John Newland), , The Lucy Show, (with Roy Sickner and Charles Picerni, directed by Robert Butler), , Get Smart (with Gil Perkins and Monty O'Grady), , and I Spy (with Nancy Kovack and David Armstrong).
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