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Walter Marvin Koenig (born September 14, 1936 in
Chicago, Illinois, United States|USA) is an actor.
He played the navigator Pavel Chekov on the USS
Enterprise NCC-1701|USS Enterprise in the original
Star Trek: The Original Series|Star Trek
television series and in the several movies that
featured the original cast. He is of Russian
Jew|Jewish descent, but his family immigrated from
Lithuania. He attended Grinnell College in
Grinnell, Iowa.

After Chekov, his best-known role is the Psi Cop
Alfred Bester (Babylon 5)|Alfred Bester on the
television series Babylon 5. Koenig has been the
"Special Guest Star" in twelve episodes and, at
the end of the third season, the production
company applied for an Emmy nomination on his
behalf. He once again plays Bester on the spin-off
series Crusade (TV series)|Crusade.

In addition to acting, he has written a handful of
episodes for TV shows: Star Trek: The Animated
Series, Land of the Lost, Family (TV
series)|Family and The Powers of Matthew Star.
Walter Koenig has taught classes in acting and
directing at UCLA, The Sherwood Oaks Experiment
Film College and the California School of
Professional Psychology. Most recently he has been
in instructor at the Actor's Alley Repetory
Company in Los Angeles.

He has been marriage|married since 1965 to Judy
Levitt and has one son, Josh Andrew Koenig.
Danielle Koenig, one of the writers for Invader
Zim, is his daughter.

He was cast as Chekov due to his resemblance to
Davy Jones, to attract the younger audience,
especially females.

He had heart bypass surgery in 1993. His role as
Bester came out of that incident since his
hospitalization forced to bow out of a guest spot
on Babylon 5. The series producer promised to make
it up to him for the lost opportunity and got the
Bester role later on.

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