Arlene Martel

Who is Arlene Martel?

Arlene Martel is an American actress and acting coach. Prior to 1964, she was frequently billed as Arline Sax, Arlene Sax or as Tasha Martel.

In 1962 Martel made her first of two appearances on Perry Mason as Fiona Cregan in "The Case of the Absent Artist." In 1966 she guest starred as Sandra Dunkel in "The Case of the Dead Ringer" when Raymond Burr doubled as Mason and the actual murderer Grimes, an old sea salt.

Martel appeared in the 1967 Star Trek: The Original Series episode "Amok Time" and the original The Outer Limits episode "Demon with a Glass Hand" written by Harlan Ellison.

Martel played the princess Sarafina on Have Gun Will Travel, the evil witch "Malvina" on Bewitched, the French Underground contact "Tiger" in 5 episodes of Hogan's Heroes, a female cosmonaut on I Dream of Jeannie, a Hungarian immigrant "Magda" on The Fugitive episode "The Blessings of Liberty", and the woman who repeatedly utters the sinister phrase "Room for one more, honey!" at the entrance to a hospital morgue and an airplane door in the Twilight Zone episode "Twenty-Two". She also appeared in the season-one episode of The Twilight Zone "What You Need". She was billed as a featured actress in the episode of Route 66 called "The Newborn," in which she gives birth. She also made guest appearances on The Man from U.N.C.L.E., The Untouchables, Mission Impossible, The Wild Wild West, Columbo, Battlestar Galactica, the 1968 movie Angels from Hell, and two appearances on The Monkees. She played Interpol agent Violette in The Six Million Dollar Man episode "The Last of the Fourth of Julys". She appeared as a featured actress in the Gunsmoke episode titled "The Squaw" in 1975.