Robert Ellenstein

Robert Ellenstein was born on Jun 18, 1923 in USA. Robert Ellenstein's big-screen debut came with Rogue Cop directed by Roy Rowland in 1954, strarring Det. Sidney Y. Myers. Robert Ellenstein is known for Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home directed by Leonard Nimoy, William Shatner stars as Kirk and Leonard Nimoy as Spock. The upcoming new movie Robert Ellenstein plays is Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home which will be released on Nov 26, 1986.

The son of a Newark dentist, Robert Ellenstein grew up in that New Jersey city and saw his father go on to become its two-term mayor. He got his feet wet acting-wise prior to serving with the Air Corps during World War II; earning a Purple Heart during his service, he began acting, directing and teaching in Cleveland, Ohio. A veteran of the "Golden Age" of live television (he played Quasimodo in a live Robert Montgomery Presents (1950) version of "The Hunchback of Notre Dame"), he made his first film in 1954 (MGM's Sur la trace du crime (1954)) and was still active in television and regional theater. He taught theatre professionally and academically for over 50 years, founding the Los Angeles Academy of Stage and Cinematic Arts. He was artistic director of The Company of Angels and founding artistic director of the Los Angeles Repertory Company. He was best known for having played the villain in the pilot episode of Clair de lune (1985), and then the Federation President in Star Trek IV : Retour sur Terre (1986). Robert Ellenstein died at age 87 of natural causes on October 28, 2010.