Steve Sandor (born February 18, 1937 in Brooklyn, New York) is an actor who made his first television appearance on Star Trek: The Original Series, playing Lars in the second season episode "The Gamesters of Triskelion (TOS episode)".
Before becoming an actor, Sandor grew up in the Greenfield neighborhood of Pittsburgh. Employed as a steel worker before his acting career, he also used to train sentry dogs while serving as an Air Police Officer in the U.S. Air Force.
Having appeared in many television shows such as Gunsmoke, Ironside, The Streets of San Francisco, Starsky and Hutch, CHiPs, Charlie's Angels, Fantasy Island, The A-Team, Knight Rider, and Hardcastle and McCormick, he is perhaps best known for his role as the ill-fated biker gang leader Stanley in the 1980 cult film The Ninth Configuration, and as the voice of the heroic Darkwolf in the 1983 animated fantasy film Fire and Ice.
Sandor also had supporting roles in the 1967 western Rough Night in Jericho, the 1969 World War II classic The Bridge at Remagen, the 1975 Vietnam film The No Mercy Man, a semi-regular role on the short-lived TV series The Yellow Rose, and the title role in the 1983 science fiction film Stryker. Sandor was also part of the extensive cast of the epic 1978 TV mini-series Centennial. He was also cast in the IMAX film The Alamo: The Price of Freedom as the legendary Jim Bowie.
Spent time as a steelworker in his native Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Trained sentry dogs as an Air Policeman in the U.S. Air Force.
It was revealed in the original screenplay for Fire and Ice (1983) that Sandor's character, Dark Wolf, and the evil sorceress Juliana had once been lovers and that Lord Nekron, the film's villain, was their son, and this was meant to provide Dark Wolf with his motivation for fighting them as well as explaining why, in the end, he alone was able to defeat Nekron. However, this was not featured in the finished film, a change director Ralph Bakshi claims he was not aware of.
