Background
Michael Strong was born in New York City and had extensive stage experience.
Michael Strong was born in New York City and had extensive stage experience.
Among his film credits are Point Blank, Patton, and The Great Santini. He made numerous television appearances during his career on shows such as The Green Hornet (in "Hornet Save Thyself"), Naked City, The Fugitive, I Spy, Mission: Impossible, Columbo, The Streets of San Francisco, and Hawaii Five-O. He played Doctor Roger Korby in the Star Trek episode "What Are Little Girls Made Of?". On May 31, 1955, the final episode of the Columbia Broadcasting System-television series Danger was an adaptation of the Daphne Du Maurier story "The Birds" starring Strong and Betty Lou Holland.
He died of cancer in Los Angeles, California on September 17, 1980, aged 62.
He was a charter member of The Actors Studio and the Lincoln Center Repertory Company.