Bill Blair
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William "Bill" Blair is an actor who played various background aliens on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: Voyager, and Star Trek: Enterprise. He appeared as several "Westmore aliens" on the last five seasons of Deep Space Nine and the last two seasons of Voyager. He acted as several Cardassians, Jem'Hadar, and Klingons, beside playing at least three different Vulcans on Enterprise. As an extra, Blair received no on-screen credits for all of his appearances. His costume was a Vulcan Syrrannite was sold off on the It's A Wrap! sale and auction on eBay. [1]
Blair was born in Kent, Ohio and has started his career in the entertainment industry as a singer on several bands. His resume includes various television commercials and modeling print-ads. In his early acting years he did a Spock impersonation on a convention. Blair was married to actress Toni Blair and is an often seen guest on several Star Trek-related conventions.
His acting resume includes films such as New Year's Evil (1989), R.O.T.O.R. (1989), Dinosaur Valley Girls (1996, with Jeff Rector), The Acid House (1998, with Maurice Roeves), and Evolution (2001, with Gregory Itzin, Sarah Silverman, and Morgan Nagler).
His best known on-screen work was as a regular "alien actor" on the television series Babylon 5 (1994-1998, starring Andreas Katsulas, Bill Mumy, Patricia Tallman, and Tracy Scoggins), where he appeared in almost every episode and two of the Babylon 5 television films. Like in Star Trek, it's hard to spot him because he is mostly under heavy make-up and this is the reason of his nickname "Alien Actor".
His resume also includes guest appearances and regular extra roles on television series such as Arliss, Ally McBeal, Sliders (starring John Rhys-Davies), The Invisible Man, The X-Files, The Drew Carey Show, The Waltons, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Charmed, and Alien Nation.
Among his latest projects was an extra part in an episode of Heroes and the role of Commander Blodgett in the Star Trek: New Voyages double episode Blood and Fire (2007), which was written and directed by David Gerrold, guest starred Denise Crosby, and stunt coordinated by Leslie Hoffman.
[edit] Uncredited Star Trek appearances
[edit] Other appearances
- DS9: (more than 35 episodes)
- "The House of Quark"
- "Return to Grace"
- "Looking for par'Mach in All the Wrong Places"
- "Nor the Battle to the Strong" as a wounded Starfleet officer
- "Business as Usual"
- "A Time to Stand"
- "Rocks and Shoals"
- "Sons and Daughters"
- "Behind the Lines"
- "Favor the Bold"
- "Sacrifice of Angels"
- "Wrongs Darker Than Death or Night"
- "What You Leave Behind" as four different aliens
- VOY:
- "Tsunkatse" as an alien in audience
- "Muse"
- "Q2"
- "Friendship One"
[edit] External links
- AlienActor.com - official site
- Bill Blair at the Internet Movie Database
- Bill Blair at LACasting.com
