Fred Carson

Texas-born Fred Carson was a Hollywood actor and stunt performer. Among his acting credits were two appearances on , the first playing the "First Denevan" in the first season episode . He filmed his scene on Wednesday on location at the TRW Space and Defense Park in Redondo Beach, California. His second appearance was in the third season episode as a Morg "creature". He filmed his scenes on Wednesday at Paramount Stage 3.
Carson also made acting appearances on such television shows as , The Munsters, I Spy, , Mission: Impossible, , and the Susan Howard/David Huddleston series Petrocelli. He was also seen in such films as Hellfire (1949, with Paul Fix), Rider from Tucson (1950; with Sam Bagley), The Charge of Feather River (1953), Paradise, Hawaiian Style (1966, starring Elvis Presley, Marianna Hill, Irene Tsu, and Julie Parrish), and Skin Game (1971, with George D. Wallace and Jason Wingreen). With the exception of the latter, Carson also performed stunts in each of these films.
Carson was first and foremost a stunt performer. In this capacity, he worked on such series as , I Spy, and McCloud. From 1956 through 1960, Carson doubled for fellow Original Series guest star Michael Ansara on the series Broken Arrow, on which Ansara played the role of Chief Cochise. Carson also performed stunts for an extensive number of feature films, including (1948), (1952), (1953), (1953), (1954), The Egyptian (1954), (1955), (1958), (1959), (1964), (1966), (1970), and F.I.S.T. (1978). In his long career, he served as stunt double for such famous stars as Marlon Brando, Victor Mature, and Anthony Quinn.
Carson died in North Hollywood, California, in 2001. He was 77 years old. He had retired some twenty years prior; the last project he performed stunts for was the 1978 TV movie The Bastard, which starred Ian Abercrombie, Kim Cattrall, John Colicos, John de Lancie, Ike Eisenmann, James Gregory, Alex Henteloff, and Original Series star William Shatner.
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