Has anyone else noticed how many Battlestar Galactica actors have Guest Starred on Smallville?
It's been going on for a long time now, and I know it's most likely because of the convenience of both series being based in Vancouver. Compared to the other series filmed there, Smallville siphons or gleans many more guest stars from BSG than any other series.
Some of the actors guest starred before BSG premiered, so they probably feel some familiarity with Smallville's crew already. The earliest one I can remember is Lex's psychiatrist from season 3 after his lonely deserted desert island trauma and the so-called psychotic break orchestrated by Lionel to make Lex forget his crime against his parents. The actor (I don't remember her name.) who played his doctor became a religious advisor to BSG's president for a time.
Tamoh Penikett has been credited 3 times. In a season 3 episode, he played the very ill older brother of a young man who tried to bomb the hospital where Jonathan Kent was having heart surgery. He had died and been miraculously revived with a serum made from Clark's blood. Then near the end of season 6, he played a physically altered super-soldier designed by Lex's hired scientists in the episode "Prototype".
Then also in S6, the actor who played the doctor Lex hired, after murdering Lana's regular doctor, to lie to Lana and tell her that she had miscarried her non-existent baby. She serves on the BSG governing counsel. Then there's 'Douglas', the Chief on BSG who played Clark's torturer in "Traveler". More recently, Donnelly Rhodes, who plays the doctor on BSG played a Russian expert on relics in the S7 episode "Quest". And now, there's the 'new guy', Witwer, who'll be playing the 'doomdoctor' in season 8, also from BSG.
I think that there are a couple more I can't remember. How about you guys ...Do you remember any more? Please, Point them out if you will, just for the fun of it. I found it interesting. Maybe you do, too.
It's been going on for a long time now, and I know it's most likely because of the convenience of both series being based in Vancouver. Compared to the other series filmed there, Smallville siphons or gleans many more guest stars from BSG than any other series.
Some of the actors guest starred before BSG premiered, so they probably feel some familiarity with Smallville's crew already. The earliest one I can remember is Lex's psychiatrist from season 3 after his lonely deserted desert island trauma and the so-called psychotic break orchestrated by Lionel to make Lex forget his crime against his parents. The actor (I don't remember her name.) who played his doctor became a religious advisor to BSG's president for a time.
Tamoh Penikett has been credited 3 times. In a season 3 episode, he played the very ill older brother of a young man who tried to bomb the hospital where Jonathan Kent was having heart surgery. He had died and been miraculously revived with a serum made from Clark's blood. Then near the end of season 6, he played a physically altered super-soldier designed by Lex's hired scientists in the episode "Prototype".
Then also in S6, the actor who played the doctor Lex hired, after murdering Lana's regular doctor, to lie to Lana and tell her that she had miscarried her non-existent baby. She serves on the BSG governing counsel. Then there's 'Douglas', the Chief on BSG who played Clark's torturer in "Traveler". More recently, Donnelly Rhodes, who plays the doctor on BSG played a Russian expert on relics in the S7 episode "Quest". And now, there's the 'new guy', Witwer, who'll be playing the 'doomdoctor' in season 8, also from BSG.
I think that there are a couple more I can't remember. How about you guys ...Do you remember any more? Please, Point them out if you will, just for the fun of it. I found it interesting. Maybe you do, too.
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