Reggie Nalder

Reggie Nalder was a prolific 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."

Born Alfred Reginald Natzick in Vienna, Austria, on September 4, 1911, 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 1976 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 Russian spymaster in John Frankenheimer's 1962 film The Manchurian Candidate.

Nalder's television work also included episodes of the series 77 Sunset Strip, Surfside Six, Boris Karloff's Thriller, McCloud and I Spy.

Among Nalder's films were the Rock Hudson picture The Spiral Road (1962), Convicts Four with Ben Gazzara (1962), Dario Argento's The Bird With the Crystal Plumage (1969), Federico Fellini's Casanova (1976), Mark of the Devil (1970) and Mark of the Devil Part II (1972).

Nalder was also sometimes credited as "Detlef Von Berg" (as in two pornographic pictures made shortly before his death). He died of bone cancer on November 19, 1991, in Santa Monica, California.