Steve Sandor (born October 27, 1937 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an actor who made his first television appearance on Star Trek, playing Lars in the second season episode "The Gamesters of Triskelion".Before becoming an actor, Sandor grew up in the Greenfield neighborhood of Pittsburgh. Employed as a steel worker before his acting career, he also used to train sentry dogs while serving as an Air Police Officer in the U.S. Air Force.Having appeared in many television shows such as Gunsmoke, Ironside, The Streets of San Francisco, Starsky and Hutch, CHiPs, Charlie's Angels, Fantasy Island, Three's Company, The A-Team, Knight Rider, and Hardcastle and McCormick, he is perhaps best known for his role as the ill-fated biker gang leader Stanley in the 1980 cult film The Ninth Configuration, and as the voice of the heroic Darkwolf in the 1983 animated fantasy film Fire and Ice.Sandor also had supporting roles in the 1967 western Rough Night in Jericho, the 1969 World War II classic The Bridge at Remagen, the 1973 Vietnam film The No Mercy Man, a semi-regular role on the short-lived TV series The Yellow Rose, and the title role in the 1983 science fiction film Stryker. Sandor was also part of the extensive cast of the epic 1978 TV mini-series Centennial. He was also cast in the IMAX film The Alamo: The Price of Freedom as the legendary Jim Bowie.
It was revealed in the original screenplay for Fire and Ice (1983) that Sandor's character, Dark Wolf, and the evil sorceress Juliana had once been lovers and that Lord Nekron, the film's villain, was their son. This was meant to provide Dark Wolf with his motivation for fighting them as well as explaining why, in the end, he alone was able to defeat Nekron. However, this was not featured in the finished film, a change director Ralph Bakshi claims he was not aware of.
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Trained sentry dogs as an Air Policeman in the U.S. Air Force.
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Spent time as a steelworker in his native Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Actor
Title
Year
Status
Character
Superman
1998
TV Series
Orion
Civil Wars
1993
TV Series
Calendar Girl, Cop, Killer? The Bambi Bembenek Story
1992
TV Movie
Sam Corbett
The Platinum Triangle
1990
Joshua Pierce
Alamo: The Price of Freedom
1988
Short
James Bowie
Lady Blue
1986
TV Series
Caleb Holbrook
Knight Rider
1985
TV Series
Mac Gifford
Hardcastle and McCormick
1985
TV Series
Jerry Lee Barth
The Fall Guy
1982-1985
TV Series
Thug / Crase's Thug / Floyd Snow
Hunter
1985
TV Series
Stoner Jackson
The A-Team
1984
TV Series
Deke Logan / Burt
Jessie
1984
TV Series
The Yellow Rose
1983-1984
TV Series
Lenny Hollister
Stryker
1983
Stryker
Fire and Ice
1983
Darkwolf
T.J. Hooker
1982
TV Series
Perez
Strike Force
1981
TV Series
Shuster
Fantasy Island
1981
TV Series
Palmer
The Dukes of Hazzard
1981
TV Series
Russ Mitchell
CHiPs
1981
TV Series
Jerry
Vega$
1980
TV Series
Tony
The Ninth Configuration
1980
1st Cyclist (Stanley)
Three's Company
1980
TV Series
Harvey
Centennial
1978
TV Mini-Series
Charley Kin (chapter 9)
Charlie's Angels
1976-1978
TV Series
Ovie Gerson / Red Loomis
Mad Bull
1977
TV Movie
Jack 'The White Knight' Braden
Baretta
1977
TV Series
Alex Benton
The Six Million Dollar Man
1977
TV Series
Covell
Tales of the Unexpected
1977
TV Mini-Series
Peter Brolander
The Streets of San Francisco
1973-1976
TV Series
Ken Manning / Charley Albanese
Starsky and Hutch
1975
TV Series
Jimmy Lee Carson
Matt Helm
1975
TV Series
Gilroy
Petrocelli
1975
TV Series
Robert Jarvis
Bronk
1975
TV Series
Jay
The Manhunter
1975
TV Series
Amy Prentiss
1974-1975
TV Series
Detective Tony Russell
Ironside
1972-1974
TV Series
Detective Tony Russell / Randy Pearce / Dale Madigan