John Copage obit

Actor John Copage Has Died 

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John Copage (25 March 1925 – 26 June 2023; age 98) was an actor who portrayed Elliott in the Star Trek: The Original Series second season episode "The Doomsday Machine". He filmed his scenes on Monday 26 June 1967 at Desilu Stage 9. Twenty-five years after his work on The Original Series he returned to the Trek franchise and appeared as a background actor in several episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation as an Enterprise-D officer. In 1994 he joined Star Trek: Voyager as a Voyager officer, appearing as a regular background actor throughout the first four seasons of the show. He also worked in the background of Star Trek: First Contact.

Copage, whose day job was as a real estate broker, was first married to the actress Alibe Peak, and together they had two sons, including Marc Copage, who was a child actor and series regular on Julia.  Their eldest son, actor and reporter Eric Copage, was married to television writer Robin Amos.

Copage's own acting career, which spanned nearly thirty years, began with an appearance in the 1964 Ernest Hemingway film The Killers, which was written by Gene Coon, and starred such noted actors as Lee Marvin, Angie Dickinson, and Ronald Reagan. Also appearing in the film were Star Trek alumni Robert Phillips, Davis Roberts, Carey Loftin, and Seymour Cassel.

Following his appearance in The Killers, Copage made several television appearances during the 1960s, including Bewitched (1964), The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1965; with Warren Stevens, series theme composed by Jerry Goldsmith), Mission: Impossible (1967; with Martin Landau, Brock Peters, Davis Roberts, Bob Johnson, and stuntman Dick Dial), two appearances on The Ghost & Mrs. Muir (1968 and 1969; featuring Kellie Flanagan), and Bracken's World (1969; starring Warren Stevens and Madlyn Rhue, with Alan Bergmann and Booker Bradshaw). Copage also appeared in the 1968 film With Six You Get Eggroll with former Star Trek alumni Victor Tayback and stunts by Carol Daniels and Charles Picerni, along with Brian Keith.

In 1969, Copage also co-wrote two original screenplays, titled Adventures of Little Diego and Max A. Million; while both scripts were copyrighted, neither were realized.

Over the next three decades, Copage had three additional acting credits to his name, one in each decade. During the 1970s, it was Simon, King of the Witches (1971, with Andrew Prine and Frank Corsentino). During the 1980s, he appeared in episodes of Cheers (1982, with Barbara Babcock, Joel Schultz, and Gayle Frank and 1983 with Tim Culbertson, Jessie Biscardi, Walter Smith, and Martin Valinsky), Dynasty (1986, with Joan Collins, Gene Poe, and Suzanne Lodge), The Colbys (1986 and 1987, with Stephanie Beacham, Tracy Scoggins, Ricardo Montalban, Ray Wise, Ian Abercrombie, James Ingersoll, Georgann Johnson, Buzz Barbee, Suzanne Lodge, Gene Poe, Lynda Robertson, John Blower, Tony Rocco, and Devron Conrad), and Mr. Belvedere (1987, with Mario Roccuzzo), and during the 1990s, he appeared in Repossessed (1990, featuring Willie Garson, Barbara Alyn Woods, Norman Large, Ian Abercrombie, Tom Morga, Jim Palmer, Paul Stader, George P. Wilbur, and Brian J. Williams), and as a banquet guest in The Distinguished Gentleman (1992, with Victor Rivers, Noble Willingham, Gary Frank, Daniel Benzali, Julianna McCarthy, Dion Anderson, Gary Price, Lena Banks, Sam Alejan, Jim Portnoy, Gene Poe, Lou DeGrado, Sherry O'Keefe, S. Reed, John Rice, Scott Barry, Robert Buckingham, and Irving Ross).

Copage died at his home of natural causes on 26 June 2023.

Actor

Robert Beltran, Jennifer Lien, Robert Duncan McNeill, Kate Mulgrew, Robert Picardo, Jeri Ryan, Roxann Dawson, Ethan Phillips, Tim Russ, and Garrett Wang in Star Trek: Voyager (1995)

Star Trek: Voyager

7.9

TV Series

Science Division Officer (uncredited)

1995–1997

17 episodes

 

Alice Krige, Brent Spiner, and Patrick Stewart in Star Trek: First Contact (1996)

Star Trek: First Contact

7.6

Holographic Nightclub Patron (uncredited)

1996

 

Michael Dorn, Jonathan Frakes, Gates McFadden, Marina Sirtis, Brent Spiner, LeVar Burton, and Patrick Stewart in Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987)

Star Trek: The Next Generation

8.7

TV Series

Science Division Officer

Gardener

Command Division Officer (uncredited) ...

1991–1994

22 episodes

 

Eddie Murphy in The Distinguished Gentleman (1992)

The Distinguished Gentleman

5.9

Banquet Guest (uncredited)

1992

 

Repossessed (1990)

Repossessed

4.8

Gootee Doctor #2

1990

 

Falcon Crest (1981)

Falcon Crest

6.2

TV Series

Board Member

Wedding Guest (uncredited)

1988–1989

2 episodes

 

Leslie Nielsen, George Kennedy, Ricardo Montalban, Priscilla Presley, O.J. Simpson, Jeannette Charles, Reggie Jackson, and Nancy Marchand in The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988)

The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!

7.6

City Hall Official (uncredited)

1988

 

Charlton Heston, Stephanie Beacham, Maxwell Caulfield, Katharine Ross, Tracy Scoggins, Barbara Stanwyck, John James, Emma Samms, and Claire Yarlett in The Colbys (1985)

The Colbys

6.1

TV Series

Penthouse Club Patron

Wedding Guest (uncredited)

1986–1987

3 episodes

 

Mr. Belvedere (1985)

Mr. Belvedere

6.5

TV Series

Man #3

1987

1 episode

 

Dynasty (1981)

Dynasty

6.4

TV Series

Party Guest (uncredited)

1986

1 episode

 

Ted Danson, Shelley Long, John Ratzenberger, George Wendt, Nicholas Colasanto, and Rhea Perlman in Cheers (1982)

Cheers

8.0

TV Series

Bar Patron (uncredited)

1983–1985

2 episodes

 

Clint Eastwood and Burt Reynolds in City Heat (1984)

City Heat

5.5

Priest

Roxy Theatre Patron (uncredited)

1984

 

Harry Anderson, Selma Diamond, Ellen Foley, John Larroquette, Charles Robinson, and Richard Moll in Night Court (1984)

Night Court

7.7

TV Series

Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)

1984

1 episode

 

Bruce Boxleitner and Kate Jackson in Scarecrow and Mrs. King (1983)

Scarecrow and Mrs. King

7.0

TV Series

Luncheon Attendee (uncredited)

1983

1 episode

 

Andrew Prine in Simon, King of the Witches (1971)

Simon, King of the Witches

5.8

Reporter

1971

 

Diahann Carroll and Marc Copage in Julia (1968)

Julia

7.7

TV Series

Second Policeman

Henry Yardley

Bill Anderson

1968–1970

3 episodes

 

Harlen Carraher, Kellie Flanagan, Hope Lange, Edward Mulhare, and Charles Nelson Reilly in The Ghost & Mrs. Muir (1968)

The Ghost & Mrs. Muir

7.7

TV Series

Seth

1968–1969

2 episodes

 

Doris Day, Barbara Hershey, Brian Keith, Jimmy Bracken, John Findlater, and Richard Steele in With Six You Get Eggroll (1968)

With Six You Get Eggroll

6.4

Lumberyard Employee (uncredited)

1968

 

Carl Betz and Stephen Young in Judd for the Defense (1967)

Judd for the Defense

7.7

TV Series

Officer

1967

1 episode

 

Barbara Bain, Martin Landau, Peter Graves, Peter Lupus, and Greg Morris in Mission: Impossible (1966)

Mission: Impossible

7.9

TV Series

Valet (uncredited)

1967

1 episode

 

Walter Koenig, Leonard Nimoy, William Shatner, James Doohan, DeForest Kelley, George Takei, and Nichelle Nichols in Star Trek (1966)

Star Trek

8.4

TV Series

Elliott

1967

1 episode

 

Robert Vaughn, Leo G. Carroll, and David McCallum in The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1964)

The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

7.7

TV Series

1st Agent

1965

1 episode

 

Elizabeth Montgomery, Agnes Moorehead, and Dick York in Bewitched (1964)

Bewitched

7.6

TV Series

Phone Repairman

1964

1 episode

 

Angie Dickinson and Lee Marvin in The Killers (1964)

The Killers

7.0

Porter

1964

 

PT 109 (1963)

PT 109

6.6

Native (uncredited)

1963

 

Bob Denver and Dwayne Hickman in The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis (1959)

The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis

7.7

TV Series

Student

Audience Member

Anthropology Student (uncredited)

1962–1963

10 episodes