Roger Trantham (7 August 1943 – 30 July 1994; age 50) was an actor who appeared as an Enterprise crewmember in the recreation deck scene in Star Trek: The Motion Picture. He received no credit for this appearance.
Trantham worked as background actor on several 1980 television series such as Hill Street Blues (1981, with James B. Sikking, Barbara Babcock, Louis Giambalvo, Jorge Cervera, Jr., Robert DoQui, Cassandra Foster, and Ilona Wilson), Falcon Crest (1982, with Robert Foxworth, Harry Basch, Benjie Bancroft, and Bob Davis), Cheers (1984, with Kelsey Grammer, Bruce Dobos, Michael Prokopuk, Suzanne Lodge, and Ilona Wilson), Murder, She Wrote (1985, with Kenneth Mars, Diana Muldaur, Biff Yeager, and Kimberly L. Ryusaki), The Colbys (1985, with Stephanie Beacham, Tracy Scoggins, Ricardo Montalban, Joseph Campanella, Buzz Barbee, and Peter Eastman, 1986, with Beacham, Scoggins, Montalban, Bruce Dobos, Suzanne Lodge, Joel Marston, Tim McCormack, and Frieda Rentie, 1986, with Beacham, Scoggins, Montalban, Jessie Biscardi, John Blower, Fletcher Bryant, and Tim McCormack, 1986, with Beacham, Scoggins, Montalban, Judson Scott, Suzanne Lodge, Steve Hershon, and John Hugh McKnight, and 1987, with Stephanie Beacham, Tracy Scoggins, Nana Visitor, Susan French, Faith Burton, Devron Conrad, and Walter Smith), and Matlock (1987).
Between 1982 and 1986, Trantham worked as background actor on fifteen episodes of Dynasty, mostly as a party guest or restaurant patron. On Dynasty, he worked with Joan Collins, Lee Bergere, Lance LeGault, David Armstrong, Tim Culbertson, Jimmy Nickerson, Mike Paciorek, John Carter, Tim O'Connor, Robert Symonds, Bob Harks, Leland Sun, Buzz Barbee, Robert Hitchcock, Suzanne Lodge, Gene Poe, Peter Mark Richman, Ray Petersen, Conroy Gedeon, John Burnside, Juan De Villa, Peter Eastman, William O. Campbell, Neal Kaz, George Sasaki, Adrian Tafoya, Stephanie Beacham, Tracy Scoggins, Ronnie Claire Edwards, Theodore Bikel, Jessica Biscardi, John Hugh McKnight, John Staible, Anne Haney, Bruce Dobos, Joey Banks, and Tim McCormack.
Trantham passed away on 30 July 1994 at the age of 50. [1]