Beloved TV character actor Michael Forest passed away on Wednesday, his friend James A. Brown announced Friday on Facebook. The 97-year-old actor was best known for his role as the god Apollo in a famous 1967 episode of Star Trek, but three years before that he played an even more eccentric role.
In the season 5 Twilight Zone episode “Black Leather Jackets,” Forest played an alien on a mission to destroy planet Earth. This alien goes by the name Steve, and he disguises himself as a fellow human.
Not just any human, however. Steve’s chosen method of blending in is to dress up as a stereotypical 1950s biker, fit with the leather jacket and the greaser slang. His dialogue was already long outdated by the time the episode aired in 1964, making “Black Leather Jackets” one of the more bizarre outings of an already strange series.
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The episode also starred Shelley Fabares as sweet girl-next-door Ellen, who falls in love with another alien biker who goes by the name of Scott (Lee Kinsolving). While Scott changes his mind about conquering the earth, Forest’s character remains a hardcore supporter of taking down the human race.
The result is a fun, intimidating performance from young Forest, one that really elevates an admittedly flimsy script.
“Black Leather Jackets” was one of the many Twilight Zone episodes not penned by series creator Rod Serling. Its writer Earl Hamner Jr. actually claimed in a later interview that the episode was a “bad one,” with “a lot of illogical things that took place in it.”
But just because the writing was iffy doesn’t mean the actors weren’t given their chance to shine. Forest and the other actors in the episode, Hamner asserted, “did what they could with a bad script.”
Forest later reflected on his long and varied career, remarking, “It hasn’t been bad. Some of the things that I’ve done, I take a great deal of pride in. But, like all actors, you do work in material and situations that are not what you want, and you try to make it the best you can.”
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