Ben Slack

Ben Slack was the actor who played K'Tal in the fourth season episode . Slack filmed his scenes on Friday and Monday on Paramount Stage 16. He reprised this role for the fifth season episode and filmed his scenes in the Great Hall on Tuesday on Paramount Stage 16. In the latter episode he had no dialogue, no screen credit, and was only barely seen in a wide shot.
Slack was born in Baltimore, Maryland, where he also died at the age of 67.
Slack had recurring roles on , , and . In the latter series, he worked with such Star Trek alumni as Megan Cole, Raymond Cruz, Cliff DeYoung, Albert Hall, James Ingersoll, Jack Kehler, Lawrence Monoson, Tim Ransom, John Rubinstein, and Barry Wiggins. On The Wonder Years, he worked with series regular Olivia d'Abo and, on one episode, with star Robert Picardo.
Slack was also seen in the pilot episode of , which aired in 1982, starring William Daniels, Ed Begley, Jr., Norman Lloyd, Christina Pickles, Kavi Raz, and Jennifer Savidge. He appeared on the series again the following year, during which time Chad Allen and Jane Wyatt had joined the cast.
His many other TV credits include Kojak, All in the Family (with Bill Quinn and Jason Wingreen), Barney Miller (with Ron Glass, James Gregory, and Kenneth Tigar), (with Barbara Bosson, George Murdock, Eric Pierpoint, James B. Sikking, Lawrence Tierney, Tracey Walter, and Morgan Woodward), (starring Kate Jackson, with Daniel Davis, Anne Haney, and Allan Miller), (with Vincent Schiavelli), (starring Brian Keith and Daniel Hugh Kelly), (starring Dwight Schultz and Lance LeGault), (with Bruce Davison and Persis Khambatta), (with Barbara Babcock, Miriam Flynn, Vince Howard, and William Windom), (with Susan Diol and John Larroquette), (with Daniel Benzali, Corbin Bernsen, Larry Drake, and Willie Garson), (starring Gordon Clapp and Sharon Lawrence), (starring K Callan and Teri Hatcher), and the Jonathan Frakes hosted Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction. He also made an appearance on the William Shatner's (co-starring James Darren and Richard Herd) in 1983. He also appeared in an episode of the Three's Company sequel Three's a Crowd with Voyagers Ethan Phillips and an episode of , starring Christopher Lloyd and Next Generation co-star Brent Spiner.
Slack also appeared in numerous TV movies, including 1982's The Wall (with James Cromwell), 1983's Sadat (with Nehemiah Persoff, Tony Plana, and John Rhys-Davies), 1988's Baby M (with Stephen Liska, Dakin Matthews, Bruce McGill, and Hélène Udy), (1986, with Merritt Butrick and David Huddleston), (1991, with Michael Nouri and James Sloyan), and Death Benefit (1996, with Penny Johnson, Jack Kehler, Glenn Morshower)
Slack co-starred with Next Generation and actor Colm Meaney in (1990) and (1998, starring Amanda Plummer, with Donna Murphy and Tate Donovan). His other film credits include (1978, starring Paul Sorvino), (1979), (1984, starring Tom Hanks, with Coleen Maloney, Arlee Reed, John Bloom, Gerard Prendergast, Brett Baxter Clark, and James Hudson), (1989, starring F. Murray Abraham), Almost an Angel (1990), (1994), (1995, starring Christian Slater and Brad Dourif, with Eve H. Brenner, Stefan Gierasch, Mia Kirshner, and Time Winters), and (1998, with Dean Stockwell and Andrew Prine). His most prominent film role, however, was that of Dr. Cleveland in (1989).
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