1. John Colicos performed on stage and on television in the United States and Canada.
16 Facts About John Colicos
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John Colicos began his acting career with the Canadian Art Theatre, before the Montreal Repertory Theatre, later winning a Dominion Drama Festival award.
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John Colicos was named best actor at the 1951 Dominion Drama Festival.
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John Colicos worked briefly at the Old Vic company in England.
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John Colicos worked CBC Radio, with Andrew Allen, and later appeared in CBC dramas.
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John Colicos appeared as Monks in a television version of Oliver Twist for the DuPont Show of the Month series in 1959.
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John Colicos gave memorable performances in 1966 on the CBS soap opera The Secret Storm; as the unscrupulous Thomas Cromwell in the 1969 movie version of Anne of the Thousand Days; and as the governor of Umakran in the episode "The Goddess Calabra" from the 1973 TV show The Starlost.
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John Colicos worked with Gene Roddenberry designing the look the Klingons have on Star Trek.
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Budget constraints prevented the extensive makeup the Klingons were supposed to have so John Colicos suggested they have a leathery Genghis Khan look, dark skin and hair.
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John Colicos portrayed Lord Baltar in the original Battlestar Galactica movie and television series.
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Over a quarter-century after his initial appearance in the Star Trek franchise, John Colicos reprised his role as the 140-year-old Kor in three episodes of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, telecast between 1994 and 1998.
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John Colicos appeared in four episodes of the CBC docu-drama The National Dream as the "railway general" William Cornelius Van Horne and appeared in seven episodes of Mannix.
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Several years after his Battlestar Galactica tenure, John Colicos again ventured into science fiction.
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John Colicos' final acting appearance was his reprise of Count Baltar in the concept demonstration trailer Battlestar Galactica: The Second Coming, exhibited at many science fiction conventions in 1999.
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John Colicos wed Mona McHenry in 1956 and divorced in 1981.
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John Colicos died in Toronto on March 6,2000, at the age of 71, after a series of heart attacks.