Foster Hood
Foster Hood (12 March 1923–24 March 2008; age 85) was a Native American actor who appeared as a Tribal Council warrior in the Star Trek: The Original Series third season episode "The Paradise Syndrome". As a background performer, he was not credited for his appearances.
Biography
Born Edgar Foster Wood, he was a full-blooded member of the Absentee Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma. From 1954 to 1976, Hood was married to (future) actress Edith Wesley, with whom he had five children, including a son, Randolph Hood, who performed as a child actor throughout the 1960s.
Hood, himself, was discovered by actress Ginger Rogers, who offered him his first role in her film, The First Traveling Sales Lady (1956; with Fred Carson and Al Cavens). Over the next fifteen years, he appeared over 130 times in more than 50 different film and television productions, primarily of the Western genre. During the late fifties, his film credits included Westward Ho, the Wagons! (1957; with Morgan Woodward), The Unknown Terror (1957; with George American Horse and Benjie Bancroft), Quantez (1957; with Michael Ansara), Ride Out for Revenge (1957; with Lloyd Bridges and Al Cavens), and Yellowstone Kelly (1959; with George American Horse, David Armstrong and Rhodes Reason).
Also around this time, he appeared in two television episodes of Broken Arrow (1956-1958; with George American Horse and Michael Ansara), three episodes of Zorro (1957-58; with George American Horse and Nick Borgani), nine episodes of The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp (1957–1961; with John Anderson, Benjie Bancroft, Eddie Hice, Pete Kellett, Felix Locher, Troy Melton, Morgan Woodward and Al Wyatt), two episodes of Wanted: Dead of Alive (1958-1959; with Anthony Caruso), four episodes of Bronco (1958-60; with John Anderson, Paul Fix and Victor Lundin), four episodes of Tales of Wells Fargo (1958-1960); with Warren Stevens), an episode of The Rifleman (1959; with Michael Ansara, Paul Fix and Bill Quinn), two episodes of Mackenzie's Raiders (1959; with Don Eitner) and two episodes of The Rebel (1959-1961; with Barry Atwater, Perry Lopez and Hal Needham)
During the 1960s he was in a whole slew more films and episodes with numerous other future and former Star Trek alumni before retiring from on-screen roles for almost two decades, before making his final appearance in the film Cry Wilderness (1987).