Ian Wolfe

Ian Wolfe was an actor who played Septimus in the episode second season and Mr. Atoz (as well as Atoz's replicas) in the third season episode .
He filmed his scenes for "Bread and Circuses" on Tuesday and Wednesday on location at Bronson Canyon, and his scenes for "All Our Yesterdays" on Friday and Monday at Paramount Stage 5.
==Early life==
Wolfe was born in Canton, Illinois, USA in 1896. At the age of twenty two, Wolfe joined the United States Army and served as a medical orderly, making him one of only a few Star Trek actors verified as a veteran of the First World War, the others being Paul Fix and William McCarter. Art Director Franz Bachelin also served in World War I, albeit on the German side.
Immediately after the war ended in 1919, Wolfe became a theater actor and spent the next fifteen years working on Broadway. In 1934, he made the transition from stage to film.
==Television and film work==
Wolfe's credits include nearly 200 films and made-for-TV movies and over 80 television guest appearances in a career which spans 56 years. One of his first major films starred , as Fletcher Christian, in the 1935 film Mutiny on the Bounty, where Wolfe played the ship's clerk of the HMS Bounty.
Other notable appearances during his long career were in the films (1939), Foreign Correspondent (1940, with Leonard Mudie), Rebel Without a Cause (1955, with Corey Allen, Chuck Hicks, music score by Leonard Rosenman and cinematography by Ernest Haller) and Witness for the Prosecution (1957, with Torin Thatcher), just to name a few. He also had smaller roles in such classic films as (1942, with John Abbott), (1948, with Sam Bagley and Monty O'Grady), (1950, with Frank Overton), (1952, with William Campbell, Bill Erwin and Peter Brocco), (1953, starring Marlon Brando, with John Hoyt, Lawrence Dobkin, Richard Hale, Morgan Farley, Michael Ansara and Vic Perrin), and (1954, with Julie Newmar). He appeared in a 1957 episode of Studio One with William Shatner.
He appeared in five movies with fellow Original Series guest actor Jeff Corey: (1941), (1941), (1943), (1946), and (1985, featuring guest actor David Ogden Stiers. He had a minor role in (1979) alongside Next Generation guest actors Vincent Schiavelli and Clyde Kusatsu.
He made several guest appearances on , , and guest-starred in starring William Shatner and guest starring Sherry Jackson. Wolfe also appeared in (1970, starring William Shatner and featuring Whit Bissell, Dick Miller, Harry Townes and Kenneth Tobey). Wolfe appeared as Herbert Hooper in an episode of , a show that also featured Original Series guest stars William Windom and Jason Wingreen.
Wolfe was a principal supporting actor in (1970, with Sid Haig and the voice of David Ogden Stiers). Wolfe then went on to appear in (1981, co-starring Next Generation guest actor Paul Sorvino, with William Daniels and Simon Jones). Both Wolfe and Sorvino later appeared in (1990, featuring Colm Meaney, John Schuck, Seymour Cassel, Kathy Bates, Hamilton Camp, Chuck Hicks, Mike Hagerty, Robert Costanzo, Ed McCready, Bert Remsen, Walker Edmiston, and Michael J. Pollard). Dick Tracy also proved to be Wolfe's last feature film.
==Later television work==
Towards the end of his life, Wolfe appeared primarily in guest roles on television series. He appeared in WKRP in Cincinnati, in the recurring role as the sardonic butler Hirsch, and also in a 1982 episode of Cheers which later prominently featured actor Kelsey Grammer.
Wolfe was also one of several Star Trek actors to appear on . Other Star Trek alumni who appeared in the series included William Windom, Kenneth Tigar, Roger Perry, Paul Comi, Nehemiah Persoff, Clive Revill, Robert DoQui, Nicholas Coster, Clyde Kusatsu, Robert Hooks, and Eve Smith. Lead actor Armin Shimerman also made a brief appearance in the show's seventh season premiere episode. 
In 1989, Wolfe returned to the screen, appearing in , with Ann Magnuson. His last credited film role was Dick Tracy. Wolfe passed away in Los Angeles, California at the age of 95, just twenty days after Dame Judith Anderson, who starred in 1947's Pursued, in which Wolfe also appeared. He was the last surviving Star Trek actor to have been born in the 19th century.
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