John Copage
John Eddy Copage  is an actor who portrayed Elliott in the  second season episode . He filmed his scenes on Monday  at Desilu Stage 9.  after his work on TOS he returned to the Trek franchise and appeared as a background actor in several episodes of  as an Enterprise-D officer. In  he joined  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 .

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

Copage's own acting career, which spanned nearly thirty years, began with an appearance in the 1964  film , which was written by Gene Coon, and starred such noted actors as , , and . 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  (1964),  (1965; with Warren Stevens, series theme composed by Jerry Goldsmith),  (1967; with Martin Landau, Brock Peters, Davis Roberts, Bob Johnson, and stuntman Dick Dial), two appearances on  (1968 and 1969; featuring Kellie Flanagan), and  (1969; starring Warren Stevens and Madlyn Rhue, with Alan Bergmann and Booker Bradshaw). Copage also appeared in the 1968 film  with former Star Trek alumni Vic Tayback and stunts by Carol Daniels and Charlie Picerni, along with Brian Keith. 

In 1969, Copage also co-wrote to 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 the 1971 horror film , with such future Trek actors as 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  (1987, with Mario Roccuzzo), and during the 1990s, he appeared in the 1990 comedy horror spoof , which featured a plethora of Trek actors and stuntmen, including, Willie Garson, Barbara Alyn Woods, Norman Large, Ian Abercrombie, Tom Morga, Jim Palmer, Paul Stader, George P. Wilbur, and Brian J. Williams.

He is currently the oldest living Star Trek actor.

Star Trek appearances

Recurring appearances

External links 
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