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Would Never Have Been Made Into a Series


Sadly Gig Young who plays Ham was dead only a year after this was filmed. Apparently he committed suicide. What a terrible waste.

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Interestingly, he met his future wife (his fifth) on the set of this film, Kim Schmidt, who's uncredited as a police officer. Before he committed suicide, he shot her in their apartment in the Big Apple 17 months after this flick's release. He wasn't yet 65 and she was only 31.

Gig was struggling with alcoholism at the time and so this was written into Roddenberry's script of "Spectre." Maybe his wife was getting on his case about alcoholism and Gig felt the marriage was doomed. Who knows? In any case, it's a tragic end.

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