Working for DesiLu Studios under contract gave Routy Chicken (my uncle’s half-brother) many chances to work with television series stars of the 60’s.
Once he was in a fist fight in Miss Kitty’s saloon, ‘the Long Branch” on ‘Gunsmoke’ and later that week he played a one-eyed giant alien in ‘Lost in Space’.
But this photo shows him in his favorite appearance. He was the body double for Billy Shatner (as he called him) in Star Trek. He was used to set up the camera blocking and lighting.
What a day it was for him. This photo is memorialized at the Santa Monica City Graveyard in a display case within the mausoleum. The same mausoleum where he lies in rest on the east wall, top row, near the ceiling, 15 crypts in from the front door.
Did Chainsaw stand in for Spock, as well?
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