Roy Jenson

Roy Jenson was the Canadian-born actor who played Cloud William in the second season episode . He filmed his scenes between Monday and Friday at Desilu Stage 11 and Paramount's B Tank.
A tall, strong-built, imposing actor, he was a veteran of the Navy during World War II, after which he began acting. He appeared primarily in Westerns early in his career, but ultimately appeared in a wide variety of genres. Jenson made several appearances on the television westerns Gunsmoke and Bonanza. He also performed stunts for both of these series. Other programs in which he made guest appearances include Wagon Train, The Andy Griffith Show, , Mission: Impossible, , (starring Ricardo Montalban), and . He was also part of the cast of the mini-series Rich Man, Poor Man (1976, with Kim Darby, Fionnula Flanagan, Lawrence Pressman, and Leigh J. McCloskey), How the West Was Won (1977, with Paul Fix, David Huddleston, Richard Kiley, and Anthony Zerbe), and (1978, with Paul Winfield and Cliff DeYoung). 
He also had a role in (1976, co-starring Alan Oppenheimer, Marc Alaimo, David Clennon, Phillip Richard Allen, Bruce French, Skip Homeier, and Robert Ito. His other TV movies (and pilots) include Powderkeg (1971, with Michael Ansara), (1972, with Keye Luke and Robert Ito) and (1986, with Luke and William Lucking), (1973, starring Diana Muldaur, , Michael Ansara, and William Smithers), and (1980, with John de Lancie, Vincent Schiavelli, and Larry Cedar).
He also appeared a large number of feature films. Among his earliest was Somebody Up There Likes Me in 1956, directed by Robert Wise. The film also featured fellow Star Trek alumni Stanley Adams, Robert Easton, and Willard Sage, all of whom, like Jenson, had uncredited roles. Jenson also made an uncredited appearance in (1959, co-starring Original Series star DeForest Kelley and guest star Whit Bissell. The film also featured Original Series guest actors Paul Comi, Frank Gorshin, and Gary Lockwood in uncredited roles. Jenson also had uncredited roles in such films as (1957, with James Darren and Dick Crockett), (1958, starring Jeffrey Hunter), (1959, with James Gregory, Nehemiah Persoff, Ron Soble, Clegg Hoyt, and Original Series director Joseph Sargent), (1960, with Stanley Adams), (1965, with Celia Lovsky and James Doohan), (1965, with George Takei and Paul Baxley), and (1966, with Peter Brocco).
He had larger, credited roles in such films as Let No Man Write My Epitaph (1960, with James Darren and Ricardo Montalban), (1965, with DeForest Kelley), (1966, with Richard Carlyle), (1968, with Anthony Zerbe and William Schallert), (1968, with James Doohan and Michael J. Pollard), (1969, with Diana Muldaur), (1969, with Ray Walston, Harve Presnell, William O'Connell, and Robert Easton), (1971, with Glenn Corbett and John McLiam), (1972), (1972, with Anthony Zerbe and Michael Sarrazin), (1973, with David Huddleston and Walter Koenig), and (1973, with Patrick O'Neal and Don Keefer).
In 1973, Jenson co-starred with Leigh Taylor-Young, Brock Peters, Whit Bissell, and Celia Lovsky in . That same year, he co-starred with Joanna Cassidy and Elisha Cook in The Outfit, and in 1974, he and Victor Tayback had roles in Thunderbolt and Lightfoot. Also in 1974, Jenson played what is probably his most famous movie role, Claude Mulvihill, in . Noble Willingham and Perry Lopez also appeared in this film, which was photographed by John A. Alonzo and featured music by Jerry Goldsmith and stunts by Hal Needham. He later had supporting roles in such well-known films as (1975, with Jill Ireland), (1975, with Brian Keith), (1975, with Brock Peters and Lawrence Montaigne), (1977, with John Rubinstein, Don Keefer, and Ronny Cox), (1977, with Carl Byrd), (1977, with Michael Cavanaugh), (1978, with William O'Connell), (1980, with Michael Cavanaugh, Logan Ramsey, Dick Durock, Jack Murdock, and George Murdock), (1980, with Elisha Cook and Bobby Bass), (1981, with George Coe, Bill Quinn, Earl Billings, and Nick Dimitri), (1982, with Jerry Hardin), and (1990, with Jimmie F. Skaggs and Michael Berryman).
Jenson died of cancer in Los Angeles in April 2007. He was 80 years old. 
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