Poor Topper (played by Morgan Farley) from Oscar 'Budd' Boetticher’s 1948 Behind Locked Doors, scene 5: The Day Room... It’s another three-panel study — unusual, because it does not actually feature a chess board and pieces: It’s all dialogue. And although it wasn’t meant to be funny, the third-panel punch-line makes me smile.

Although Morgan Farley lived to be all of 90, his life’s roles appear to have been reduced largely to the status of trivia: He is one of only six credited Star Trek guest stars born in the 19th century.