Michael Barrier obit

Star Trek Actor Michael Barrier Has Died 

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Michael Barrier was born on July 8, 1933 in New York City. He was an actor, known for Star Trek (1966), Mission: Impossible (1966) and Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1964). He died on February 26, 2024 in Pembroke Pines, Florida, USA.

He played DeSalle in the Star Trek: The Original Series first and second season episodes "The Squire of Gothos", "This Side of Paradise", and "Catspaw".

Barrier filmed his scenes for "The Squire of Gothos" between Friday 28 October 1966 and Friday 4 November 1966 at Desilu Stage 9 and Stage 10. He filmed his scenes for "This Side of Paradise" between Thursday 5 January 1967 and Monday 9 January 1967 on location at the Golden Oak Ranch, and his scenes for "Catspaw" on Tuesday 2 May 1967 at Stage 9.

Barrier, the son of noted radio and film actor Edgar Barrier, served four years in the military and attended UCLA before he embarked on a television and movie acting career that spanned the 1960s, and mostly consisted in appearances as military or police-type character.

His acting roles included an appearance in the television series The Law and Mr. Jones (1960, with Christopher Held and William Sargent), The Rebel (1960; with Hal Needham), Michael Shayne (1961, with Dick Crockett and Meade Martin), the TV movie Las Vegas Beat (1961, with Bill Couch, Sr. and Lawrence Dobkin), followed by appearances in episodes from the series Hennesey (1961), The Untouchables (1962, starring Robert Stack, and with Paul Baxley), two episodes of Gunsmoke (1962;, the first directed by Joseph Sargent, the second appearing with James Doohan, Ed Peck, and Bill Zuckert), Ripcord (1963, with Paul Fix), three appearances on My Favorite Martian (1964-65, starring Ray Walston and directed by David Alexander), followed by an appearance on Rawhide (1965, with Bill Catching and George Murdock), Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1965, with Barbara Bouchet), Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. (1965; with Tige Andrews), and Bonanza (1965, with Louise Sorel and directed by Gerd Oswald). During the same time frame, he appeared in an unspecified episode of Ben Casey. 

Following an uncredited appearance in the 1965 film The Satan Bug, featuring John Anderson, along with uncredited appearances by James Doohan, Lawrence Montaigne and Paul Sorensen, he made several more television appearances, including Combat! (1966, with David Ross), 12 O'Clock High (1966, with Peter Duryea and Robert Walker), and Mission: Impossible (1966, with William Smithers, Don Marshall, Eddie Paskey, Victor Tayback, and Jack Donner). After his three appearances on Star Trek, which followed, his final acting credit was Angel in My Pocket (1969, with Lee Meriwether and Jack Perkins).

After leaving the acting profession to enter law school, he joined the US Coast Guard, and by 1985, with the rank of lieutenant commander, served as the assistant legal officer of the 11th Coast Guard District by 1985, before being promoted by 1987 to legal officer of the same district.

According to an interview, published in #17-87 (September 30, 1987) issue of the Commandant's Bulletin (p. 42), when asked in he was "a Trekkie?" He admitted, "No. He doesn't watch reruns on TV, and he's only seen two of the Star Trek movies – and he can't recall which two."

In 2024, it was reported by his daughter on Facebook that he had died.  It was later confirmed that he had died on February 26.

 

Actor

Angel in My Pocket (1969)

Angel in My Pocket

7.0

Mr. Grant

1969

 

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

DeSalle

1967

3 episodes

 

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

Mission: Impossible

7.9

TV Series

The Intern

1966

1 episode

 

12 O'Clock High (1964)

12 O'Clock High

8.1

TV Series

Lieutenant Lawson

1966

1 episode

 

Combat! (1962)

Combat!

8.4

TV Series

Dean

1966

1 episode

 

Bonanza (1959)

Bonanza

7.3

TV Series

Luke

1965

1 episode

 

Jim Nabors and Frank Sutton in Gomer Pyle: USMC (1964)

Gomer Pyle: USMC

7.0

TV Series

Navy Officer

1965

1 episode

 

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1964)

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea

7.2

TV Series

Cabrillo

1965

1 episode

 

My Favorite Martian (1963)

My Favorite Martian

7.2

TV Series

2nd Agent

Charles Bradley

Walt

1964–1965

3 episodes

 

The Satan Bug (1965)

The Satan Bug

6.1

Helicopter Pilot (uncredited)

1965

 

Clint Eastwood, Paul Brinegar, and Sheb Wooley in Rawhide (1959)

Rawhide

7.9

TV Series

Trooper

1965

1 episode

 

Ripcord (1961)

Ripcord

7.4

TV Series

Garson

1963

1 episode

 

James Arness, Amanda Blake, Milburn Stone, and Dennis Weaver in Gunsmoke (1955)

Gunsmoke

8.1

TV Series

Brave

Cowboy

1962

2 episodes

 

Abel Fernandez, Nicholas Georgiade, Paul Picerni, and Robert Stack in The Untouchables (1959)

The Untouchables

8.0

TV Series

Desk Sergeant

1962

1 episode

 

Hennesey

8.0

TV Series

Lieutenant

1962

1 episode

 

Las Vegas Beat

8.6

TV Movie

Harry - Helicopter Pilot

1961

 

Richard Denning in Michael Shayne (1960)

Michael Shayne

7.4

TV Series

Jimmy Draco

1961

1 episode

 

Nick Adams in The Rebel (1959)

The Rebel

7.8

TV Series

Howard Gaynes

1960

1 episode

 

The Law and Mr. Jones (1960)

The Law and Mr. Jones

7.8

TV Series

Joe McGowan Jr.

1960

1 episode