Editing Reggie Nalder (section)

==Life and career==

Born in [[Vienna]], [[Austria-Hungary]], he was the son of actor and [[operetta]] singer Sigmund Natzler.<ref>{{Cite book |title=The Alfred Hitchcock Encyclopedia |first=Stephen |last=Whitty |publisher=[[Rowman & Littlefield]] |location=London |year=2016 |isbn=9781442251601 |page=292 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sUkxDAAAQBAJ&dq=reggie+nalder+vienna&pg=PA292 |access-date=2024-10-08 |url-access=limited |via=[[Google Books]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.theater-wien.at/media/file/38_Stagione_22.pdf |title=Theater an der Wien}}</ref> He was a cousin of actresses and singers [[Grete Natzler]] and [[Hertha Natzler]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Weniger |first=Kay |title='Es wird im Leben dir mehr genommen als gegeben ...' Lexikon der aus Deutschland und ™sterreich emigrierten Filmschaffenden 1933 bis 1945: Eine Gesamtübersicht |lang=de |trans-title="In Life, More is Taken From You Than Given...": Lexicon of Filmmakers Who Emigrated From Germany and Austria Between 1933 and 1945: a General Overview |publisher=Acabus Verlag |location=Hamburg |year=2011 |isbn=9783862820498 |page=358 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=T0wz3etGJoUC&q=grete+natzler+nalder&pg=PA358 |access-date=2024-10-08 |url-access=limited |via=[[Google Books]]}}</ref> As a young man he performed at second-rate Vienna theatres and from the 1930s in several [[cabaret]]s in [[Paris]]. After [[World War II]] he worked for the [[German language]] service of the [[BBC]].

Nalder is perhaps best remembered for his roles as an assassin in [[Alfred Hitchcock]]'s 1956 remake of ''[[The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956 film)|The Man Who Knew Too Much]]'', the vampire [[Kurt Barlow]] in the 1979 [[Salem's Lot (1979 miniseries)|TV adaptation]] of the [[Stephen King]] novel ''[[Salem's Lot]]'', and the [[Andorian]] ambassador Shras in the ''[[Star Trek]]'' episode "[[Journey to Babel]]".

Nalder appeared, at the request of star [[Frank Sinatra]], in a brief, uncredited role as a communist spymaster named Dmitri in [[John Frankenheimer]]'s 1962 film ''[[The Manchurian Candidate (1962 film)|The Manchurian Candidate]]''. He also had a brief role in the 1981 Walt Disney film ''[[The Devil and Max Devlin]]'' but stated in an interview that he could not stand working with [[Bill Cosby]], the star of the film. He described him as "a pig", as well as "rude, arrogant, and very untalented."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.kinoeye.org/03/02/delvalle02.php |title=Interview with David Del Valle |website=kinoeye.org |access-date=17 January 2018}}</ref>

Nalder's television work also included episodes of the series ''[[77 Sunset Strip]]'', ''[[It Takes a Thief (1968 TV series)|It Takes A Thief]]'', ''[[Surfside Six]]'', [[Boris Karloff]]'s ''[[Thriller (U.S. TV series)|Thriller]]'' ("The Terror In Teakwood" and "The Return Of Andrew Bentley"), ''[[McCloud (TV series)|McCloud]]'' and ''[[I Spy (1965 TV series)|I Spy]]''. Nalder was also credited as "Detlef Van Berg" in the [[X rated]] films ''Dracula Sucks'' (1978) and ''Blue Ice'' (1985), but performed in no scenes of a pornographic nature.