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Walter Koenig
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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 and Six Characters In Search Of An Author. In Chicago he guested in Make A Million (as Johnny) opposite Jackie Coogan and on the road -- from Arizona to Philadelphia -- opposite Mark "Sarek" Lenard. He performed in the short plays Box and Cox and Actors. By himself, Koenig ... starred as Larry the Liquidator in Other People's Money in Reno, Nevada. His Los Angeles productions include Steambath, The White House Murder Case, Night Must Fall, La Ronde, The Typist and the Tiger and The Deputy among almost two dozen others (Blood Wedding, The Collection, et al.) Directorial credits include Hotel Paradiso for Company of Angels, Becket for Theatre 40, America Hurrah! at Oxford Theater, Twelve Angry Men at the Rita Hayworth Theatre, Matrix at the Gascon Theatre Institute and Three By Ten at Actor's Alley.
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Synopsis: Bester (Walter Koenig) doggedly pursues a murderous telepath who killed a friend of his. He takes this opportunity to provide valuable on-the-job training to a pair of rookie Psi Cops. Since the focus is on Bester, virtually none of the Babylon 5 regulars appear, with the exceptions of JeffRead More
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Far from being the Russian he played on the original series, Walter Koenig was actually born in Chicago, Illinois. At the age of 30, Koenig landed the role of Pavel Chekov and his good looks and faux-Russian accent endeared him to a generation of female sci-fi geeks. Although the role was cast during the Cold War with Russia, Chekov opened people's eyes to the fact that in the galactic quest to explore the heavens, mankind had been united together in a singular common goal. Chekov was an important member of the U.S.S. Enterprise, serving as chief navigator and, from time to time, as tactical officer. Chekov briefly left the Enterprise to serve as first officer on the U.S.S. Reliant, though their subsequent trip to Ceti Alpha V turned into a spectacular failure [see Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan]. Regardless of that one incident, Pavel Chekov has been a fan favorite, and Walter Koenig has made a career out of his own Star Trek canon.
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Actor Walter Koenig is best known as Ensign Chekhov on the evergreen TV series Star Trek. Before his tenure on Star Trek he'd done some acting, both in his native Chicago and in New York. Absent from Star Trek's first season, Koenig was signed on in 1967 as Russian-born Pavel Chekhov when the NBC...Read More
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Walter Koenig's parents were both Russian, but he grew up in Manhattan. His family's name was originally Koenigsberg. In his childhood, the family was very poor, constantly late with the rent and evicted more than once. Later, when Joseph McCarthy was loudly railing against all things Russian, Koenig's father burned all of the family's Russian music albums, and instructed the children to say they were Lithuanian, not Russian.
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Synopsis: Walter Koenig returns in his familiar Babylon 5 role as the reboubtable Psi Cop Bester. Somewhat surprisingly, Bester offers to work with Sheridan against the megalomanic Earth President Clark. But there's a price tag attarched: Sheridan must return to Z'ha'dum to resolve a personal crisis inRead More
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