Born: September 14, 1936

Actor Walter Koenig is best known as Ensign Chekhov on the evergreen TV series Star_Trek. Before his tenure on Star_Trek he'd done some acting, both in his native Chicago and in New York. Absent from Star_Trek's first season, Koenig was signed on in 1967 as Russian-born Pavel Chekhov when the NBC "suits" decided that a new, young regular was needed to woo the female teenaged viewers. The role turned out to be Koenig's life's work: he has portrayed Chekhov in every Star_Trek feature film since. Oddly, he did not appear in the 1975 Saturday morning Star_Trek cartoon spin-off, though he did contribute one of that series' scripts. Firmly entrenched in the science-fiction mode into the 1990s, Walter Koenig has appeared as Mr. Bester in the syndicated series Babylon_5. Hal Erickson, Rovi

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