Booker Bradshaw

Booker Bradshaw was the actor who played Doctor M'Benga in two episodes of Star Trek: The Original Series, first in season two's  and then in the third season's.

His other television guest appearances include the ' episode "Trek to Terror" (with Michael Ansara), the second episode of ' (with Clarence Williams III and Tige Andrews), the Insight episode "The Poker Game" (with Jeffrey Hunter), and a first-season episode of the short-lived  (with Warren Stevens and Madlyn Rhue).

Bradshaw also appeared in such 1970s films as, with fellow TOS guest actors Roger C. Carmel and William Marshall, and , starring Bruce Davison and Kim Darby. His most prominent film role was "Howard Brunswick" in the 1973 blaxploitation classic , also featuring Robert DoQui and Sid Haig.

He went on to become an accomplished television writer for such series as ' and '. He also wrote the TV movie, which featured TOS guest star Robert Brown in the cast.

Bradshaw died of a heart attack in Los Angeles, California, at the age of 62.

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