‘Star Trek,’ ‘The A-Team’ actor Nathan Jung dead at 74

Nathan Jung, an actor who appeared in “Star Trek: The Original Series,” “The A-Team” and “Kung Fu,” has died, filmmaker and writer Timothy Tau confirmed to Variety. He was 74.

Born in California on Nov. 19, 1946, Jung began his acting career in 1969 as Ghengis Khan in an episode of “Star Trek: The Original Series.”

‘Star Trek,’ ‘The A-Team’ actor Nathan Jung dead at 74.

During the following decades, he appeared in a number of hit television series, such as “M*A*S*H*,” “Starsky & Hutch,” “CHiPs,” “General Hospital,” “Manimal,” and “Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman.”

Jung also appeared opposite Bruce Lee in an episode of “Here Comes the Bride,” in what’s believed to be the only dramatic English language non-martial arts role in Lee’s acting career.

He also had movie roles in major motion pictures such as 1986′s ”Big Trouble in Little China,” 1990′s “Darkman,” and 1997′s “Beverly Hills Ninja.”

In 2016 Jung served as the narrator for Tau’s “Nathan Jung v. Bruce Lee,” an award-winning documentary short that recounts his meeting with Bruce Lee on the set of “Here Comes the Brides” in 1969.

“Nathan was like the crazy uncle/big brother I never had (and served that role to a small group of us in the LA Asian American entertainment industry),” Tau wrote Wednesday in a lengthy Facebook post.

“He was also truly larger than life, in every sense of that phrase (both figuratively and literally — towering at maybe 6′4” above just about everybody),” he added. “He was the quintessential Asian ‘heavy’ character villain, and the ultimate grizzled Hollywood veteran.”

Jung died on April 24 in Los Angeles. The cause of death has not been disclosed.