Walter Koenig

Also known as Walter Marvin Koenig

American actor and screenwriter

Person · Open Library

Works: 7

Top works

Star Trek Explorer
These are the Voyages - TOS
Beaming Up and Getting Off
Walter Koenig's Buck Alice and the Actor-Robot
Buck Alice and the Actor-Robot

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Film & TV

Acting · Chicago, Illinois, USA

Walter Marvin Koenig is an American actor, writer, teacher and director, known for his roles as Pavel Chekov in Star Trek and Alfred Bester in Babylon 5. He wrote the script for the 2008 science fiction legal thriller InAlienable.

Known for

Raging Midlife — Otis2025
Lost Voyages: Phase II and the Rebirth of Star Trek — Self2025
The D-Con Chamber — Self2024
Star Trek: Picard - The IMAX Live Series Finale Event — Anton Chekov (voice)2023
In Search of Tomorrow — Self - Interviewee2022
Way of Tomorrow: The Evolution of Science Fiction Movies — Self - (archive footage)2022
The Shuttlepod Show — Self2022
Woman in Motion — Self

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Article

Walter Marvin Koenig (/ˈkeɪnɪɡ/; born September 14, 1936) is an American actor and screenwriter. He began acting professionally in the mid-1960s and quickly rose to prominence for his supporting role as Ensign Pavel Chekov in Star Trek (1967–1969). He went on to reprise this role in all six original-cast Star Trek films, and later voiced President Anton Chekov in Star Trek: Picard (2023). He has also acted in several other series and films including Goodbye, Raggedy Ann (1971), The Questor Tapes (1974), and Babylon 5 (1993). In addition to his acting career, Koenig has made a career in writing as well and is known for working on Land of the Lost (1974), Family (1976), What Really Happened to the Class of '65? (1977) and The Powers of Matthew Star (1982).

Early life