Reggie Nalder
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Born | Alfred Reginald Natzler September 4, 1907 Vienna, Austria |
Died | Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist. Santa Monica, California |
Occupation | Actor |
Years active | 1940s-1990s |
Reggie Nalder (born Alfred Reginald Natzler, September 4, 1907 - November 19, 1991) was a prolific Austrian film and television character actor from the late 1940s to the early 1990s. His distinctive features—partially the result of disfiguring burns—together with a haunting style and demeanor led to his being called "The Face That Launched a Thousand Trips".
Life and career
Born in Vienna, Austria-Hungary, he was the son of actor and operetta singer Sigmund Natzler (1862-1913). As a young man he performed at second-rate Vienna theatres and from the 1930s in several cabarets in Paris. After World War II he worked for the German language service of the BBC.
Nalder is perhaps best remembered for his roles as an assassin in Alfred Hitchcock's 1956 remake of The Man Who Knew Too Much, the vampire Barlow in the 1979 filmed version of Stephen King's 'Salem's Lot, and the Andorian ambassador Shras in the Star Trek episode "Journey to Babel." Nalder also appeared (at the request of star Frank Sinatra) in a brief, uncredited role as a communist spymaster in John Frankenheimer's 1962 film The Manchurian Candidate. He also had a brief role in the 1981 Walt Disney film The Devil and Max Devlin. In an interview, Nalder claimed that he could not stand working with Bill Cosby, the star of the film. He described him as "a pig", as well as "rude, arrogant, and very untalented."[1]
Nalder's television work also included episodes of the series 77 Sunset Strip, It Takes A Thief, Surfside Six, Boris Karloff's Thriller ("The Terror In Teakwood" and "The Return Of Andrew Bentley"), McCloud and I Spy. In 1979, Nalder appeared as the lead vampire Kurt Barlow in the TV adaptation of the Stephen King novel Salem's Lot. This depiction of Barlow resembled the original Nosferatu, in being physically gruesome, bald, and sporting talons and gnarled fangs.
Nalder was also credited as "Detlef Van Berg" in the X rated films Dracula Sucks (1978) and Blue Ice (1985).
He died of bone cancer in Santa Monica, California in 1991. He was 84.
Selected filmography
- Dilemma of Two Angels (1948)
- The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956), directed by Alfred Hitchcock
- Liane, Jungle Goddess (1956), directed by Eduard von Borsody
- fr (1958) directed by Gilles Grangier
- de (1958) directed by Harald Reinl
- The Manchurian Candidate (1962), directed by John Frankenheimer
- The Spiral Road (1962) directed by Robert Mulligan
- Convicts 4 (1962) directed by Millard Kaufman
- The Day and the Hour (1963) directed by René Clément
- The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (1969) directed by Dario Argento
- Mark of the Devil (1970) directed by Michael Armstrong and Adrian Hoven
- Mark of the Devil Part II (1972) directed by Adrian Hoven
- The Dead Don't Die (1975) directed by Curtis Harrington
- Fellini's Casanova (1976) directed by Federico Fellini
- Crash! (1977) directed by Charles Band
- Zoltan, Hound of Dracula (1978) directed by Albert Band
- Dracula Sucks (aka Lust At First Bite) (1978) directed by Phillip Marshak
- Salem's Lot (1979), directed by Tobe Hooper
- Seven (1979), directed by Andy Sidaris
- The Devil and Max Devlin (1981) directed by Steven Hilliard Stern
- Blue Ice (1985) directed by Phillip Marshak
References
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External links
- Reggie Nalder at Memory Alpha (a Star Trek wiki)
- Reggie Nalder at the Internet Movie Database
- Reggie Nalder at Find a Grave
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