Joseph Pevney, a film and television director who directed some of the most popular episodes of the original "Star Trek" TV series, has died at age 96 in Palm Desert, Calif. Pevney played supporting roles in several notable films noir in the late 1940s before directing movies such as "Man of a Thousand Faces" and "Tammy and the Bachelor." Focusing on television from the early '60s to the mid-1980s, Pevney directed episodes of numerous television series such as "Wagon Train," "The Munsters," "The Fugitive," "Bonanza," "12 O'Clock High," "The Virginian," "Adam-12," "Marcus Welby, M.D.," "Emergency," "The Incredible Hulk," "Fantasy Island," "Medical Center" and "Trapper John, M.D." But "Star Trek," the series that ran on NBC from 1966 to 1969, proved to be Pevney's most enduring credit as a director and made him a familiar name to "Trekkers."
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