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Walter Marvin Koenig (/ˈkeɪnɪɡ/; born September 14, 1936) is an American actor, writer, teacher and director, known for his roles as Pavel Chekov in Star Trek and Alfred Bester in the Babylon 5 series. He wrote the script for the 2008 science fiction legal thriller InAlienable.
Koenig was born in Chicago, Illinois, the son of businessman Isadore Koenig and his wife Sarah (née Strauss). They moved to Manhattan when Walter was a child, where he went to school. Koenig's parents were Russian Jewish immigrants from the Soviet Union; his family lived in Lithuania when they emigrated, and shortened their surname from "Königsberg" to "Koenig". Koenig's father was a communist who was investigated by the FBI during the McCarthy era. Koenig attended Grinnell College in Grinnell, Iowa with a pre-med major. He transferred to UCLA and received a Bachelor of Arts in psychology. After a professor encouraged Koenig to become an actor, he attended the Neighborhood Playhouse with fellow students Dabney Coleman, Christopher Lloyd, and James Caan.
Actors: Billy Wilder (writer), Gustav Fröhlich (actor), Géza von Bolváry (director), Otto Wallburg (actor), Carl Auen (actor), Franz Schulz (writer), Robert Stolz (composer), Kurt Lilien (actor), Peter Lorre (actor), Erik Ode (actor), Kurt Horwitz (actor), Hilde Maroff (actress), Nora Gregor (actress), Eric Helgar (actor), Julius Haimann (producer),
Genres: Comedy,