Suzanne Lodge

Suzanne Lodge Strunk is a former actress who appeared in the uncredited role of a Serving Girl in the second season episode . (Star Trek Concordance, p. 42, 240) Her scene was filmed on Monday, , on Desilu Stage 10. She also appeared as a Starfleet officer in .
Lodge was born Rebecca Vivian Bessler in Alexandria, Egypt to a German father and Greek mother. They immigrated to Canada in the early 1950s, before moving on to the United States at the end of the same decade. 
Some of Lodge's early work in entertainment included her participation in "The Dave O'Rourke Swim Show", a bathing suit clad floor show that, in 1965, performed at both the Mapes Hotel in Reno, NV, and later at Ross Browning's Dunes in Riverside, CA. (Advertisement, San Bernardino Sun, Volume 71, 21 April 1965, p. B-9)
Lodge's most well-known role was as a "Kidnapped Batgirl" in the 1966 B-movie The Wild World of Batwoman. The same year she married singer and actor (aka Roger Strunk), and made her appearance on Star Trek (1967), shortly after the birth of their son. Lodge and Lauren remained married until early 1969, and following their divorce, she legally kept her married name, while continuing to act under her pseudonym. 
She acted for a short time during the early 70s, when she appeared in the film The Wild Scene (1970, with Gary Pillar). In 1972, she appeared in a promotional photo for the [then] new ABC series, Probe (with Alfred Ryder), where she was identified in the caption as a "starlet", but it was unclear if she actually appeared in the series itself. (Progress Bulletin [Pomona, CA], 17 June 1972, p. 10)
She did not return to acting until the mid-1980s, when she appeared in the film Jagged Edge (1985, with Karen Austin, Jay Crimp, Michael Dorn, Richard Epper, Debbie Evans, Bruce French, Louis Giambalvo, Leigh Taylor-Young, and Biff Yeager), and appeared the following year on the pilot of The Redd Foxx Show (1986, with Rosana DeSoto, Rick Fitts, Bob Harks, and Pamela Segall).
As a background actress she appeared in episodes of (1982 with Joan Collins, Lee Bergere, Gene Poe, and Roger Trantham, 1983 with Joan Collins, Lee Bergere, and Rosie Malek-Yonan, 1983 with Joan Collins, 1984 with Joan Collins, Peter Paul Eastman, David Armstrong, John Burnside, Michael Zurich, and Conroy Gedeon, 1984 with Joan Collins, Conroy Gedeon, Peter Eastman, and John Burnside, 1985 with Joan Collins, Peter Eastman, and William O. Campbell, 1985 with Joan Collins, William O. Campbell, Peter Eastman, Tony Rocco, Juan De Villa, and George Sasaki, 1985 with Joan Collins, William O. Campbell, Peter Eastman, George Sasaki, and Adrian Tafoya, 1985 with Joan Collins, William O. Campbell, Peter Eastman, Jim Painter, Jimmy Ortega, Tony Rocco, and Renna Bogdanowicz, 1985 with Joan Collins, William O. Campbell, Peter Eastman, and Juan De Villa, 1986 with Joan Collins, Peter Eastman, John Hugh McKnight, Mike Paciorek, Tony Rocco, and Gene Poe, 1986 with Joan Collins, Devron Conrad, George Sasaki, and Peter Eastman, 1986 with Joan Collins, Clayton Landey, Robert Hitchcock, and Peter Eastman, 1986 with Joan Collins, Concetta Tomei, and John Blower, 1986 with Joan Collins, Richard Herd, William Frankfather, Clint Carmichael, and Peter Eastman, 1986 with Joan Collins, Gene Poe, and John Copage, 1987 with Joan Collins and Ian Abercrombie, and 1987 with Collins, Matthew Faison, and Richard Sarstedt), (1984, with Robert Foxworth, Kate Vernon, Peter Eastman, and John Blower), (1984, with Kelsey Grammer, Michael Prokopuk, Bruce Dobos, Roger Trantham, and Ilona Wilson), , , (1985, with Stephanie Beacham, Tracy Scoggins, Ricardo Montalban, Joseph Campanella, Buzz Barbee, Ilona Wilson, Peter White, and Tim McCormack, 1986 with Stephanie Beacham, Tracy Scoggins, Ricardo Montalban, Frieda Rentie, Joel Marston, Roger Trantham, and Tim McCormack, 1986 with Stephanie Beacham, Tracy Scoggins, Ricardo Montalban, Ray Wise, Ian Abercrombie, Buzz Barbee, Devron Conrad, Tony Rocco, John Blower, Gene Poe, Lynda Robertson, and John Copage, and 1986 with Stephanie Beacham, Tracy Scoggins, Ricardo Montalban, Judson Scott, Steve Hershon, Roger Trantham, and John Hugh McKnight), (1992), the television pilot Gloria Vane (1993, with Lisa Banes and Lou DeGrado), and the romance The American President (1995, with Anne Haney, Beau Billingslea, Gail Strickland, Clement von Franckenstein, John Mahon, Jordan Lund, Richard McGonagle, Beans Morocco, George Murdock, Googy Gress, Ron Canada, Greg Poland, David Drew Gallagher, Faith Burton, Star Halm, Adolphus Hankins, Betty Hankins, Sherry O'Keefe, Ray Uhler, and Michael Wajacs).
She was featured in the film Man Trouble (1992, with David Clennon, Raymond Cruz, Gary Graham, Thomas Griep, Loren Janes, Rob LaBelle, Michael McKean, R.A. Rondell, Saul Rubinek, Sally Stevens, Susie Stevens-Logan, Ken Thorley, and Lauren Tom) The following year, she worked as stand-in during the filming of A Dangerous Woman (1993, featuring Brad Blaisdell, Scott Alan Cook, Paul Dooley, Debbie Evans, Breon Gorman, Warren Munson, Richard Riehle, and Debby Lynn Ross).
Lodge appeared as a screaming supermarket cashier in the Melrose Place episode "Who's Afraid of Amanda Woodward?: Part 2" (1997, with Deborah Lacey, Mark L. Taylor, Barry Wiggins, Leslie Hoffman, and Janet Dey). The director was pleased with her scream and took her name for her role in the end credits of the episode. She was on set to appear as a woman in the Titans episode "Dysfunction Junction" (2000, with Betty and Adolphus Hankins and directed by Charles Correll) but her part was cut from the final episode and only her credit remained on screen. Along with fellow Trek extras Robert Buckingham, Bruce Dobos, and Jana Karson, Lodge appeared as a baseball game spectator in the comedy The Benchwarmers (2006, with Doug Jones, James Earl Jones, Rob Frank, Irene Roseen, and Joni Avery).
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