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Walter Koenig: Star Trek
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From Girls of Summer to The Boys In Autumn Walter Koenig's stage career spans thirty years and includes stops in New York with A Midsummer Night's Dream (Quince) and Six Characters In Search Of An Author (Oldest Son). In Chicago he guested in Make A Million (Johnny) opposite Jackie Coogan and on the road - from Arizona to Philadelphia - Mark Lenard (Sarek: Spock's Father) and he performed in the short plays Box and Cox (Box) and Actors (Dave). By himself, Koenig ... starred as Larry the Liquidator in Other People's Money in Reno, Nevada.
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Like most cast members of the TV series Star Trek, Walter Koenig seems permanently linked with the show. He played Ensign Pavel Chekov, the Russian among the cast's multi-ethnic crew. Later he scored on another sci-fi TV show, playing Psi cop Alfred Bester on the 1990s series Babylon 5. In 1998 he published his autobiography, Warped Factors: A Neurotic's Guide to the Universe.
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Walter Marvin Koenig (born September 14, 1936 in Chicago, Illinois, USA) is an actor. He played the navigator Pavel Chekov on the USS Enterprise in the original Star Trek television series and in the several movies that featured the original cast. He is of Russian Jewish descent, but his family immigrated from Lithuania. He attended Grinnell College in Grinnell, Iowa.
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STAR TREK actor Walter Koenig will reprise his role as 'Pavel Chekov' in the upcoming fourth episode the online series, STAR TREK NEW VOYAGES, a fan-made continuation of Captain Kirk's initial five year mission. The episode, titled "New Voyages Episode 404", will be written by TOS writer D.C. Fontana.
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Koenig played the navigator Pavel Chekov on the USS Enterprise in the original Star Trek (TOS) television series and in the several movies that featured the original cast. He was cast as Chekov because of his resemblance to British actor/musician David Thomas "Davy" Jones of the Monkees to attract a younger audience, especially girls. (The studio's publicity department... ascribed the inclusion of Chekov to an article in Pravda complaining about the lack of Russians in Star Trek.) Koenig wore a hair piece while playing the character of Chekov on the original Star Trek series. Gene Roddenberry asked him to "ham up" his Russian accent to add a note of comedy relief to the series. He is also credited for writing the Star Trek: The Animated Series installment "The Infinite Vulcan," making him the first "original cast" member to write a Star Trek story for television. Interestingly, the character of Pavel Andreievich Chekov never appeared in the animated version of Star Trek.
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A natural writer, Koenig has written for the television shows Family, Matthew Starr, Land of the Lost, Class of '65 and others. His first book, "Chekov's Enterprise," which recounts the making of the first Star Trek movie, was published in 1979. He has ... written a satiric fantasy novel, "Buck Alice and the Actor-Robot," and a three-part comic book series entitled Raver. Koenig wrote and performed a one-character piece entitled "You're Never Alone When You're A Schizophrenic," which was a finalist in the 1996 New York Film Festival Awards. While not a member of the cast during the Star Trek animated series, he did pen one of the episodes, "The Infinite Vulcan." His autobiography "Warped Factors : A Neurotic's Guide to the Universe" was published in 1998.
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