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Anthony Call (born 31 August 1940; age 83) is the stage name of the American actor who played Dave Bailey in the Star Trek: The Original Series first season episode "The Corbomite Maneuver". He is the son of director Abner Biberman.

He filmed his scenes for "The Corbomite Maneuver" between Tuesday 24 May 1966 and Thursday 2 June 1966 at Desilu Stage 9.

Call went on to become a regular on two soap operas, first as Joe Warner on Guiding Light from 1972 through 1976, then as D.A. Herb Callison on One Life To Live from 1978 all the way through 1993.

His other television credits include Temple Houston (1963, with Jeffrey Hunter and Richard Evans), Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1963, with Richard Kiley and Peter Brocco), The Fugitive (1965), Bonanza (1965, with Lincoln Demyan and Bob Miles), Combat! (1966, with Shecky Greene, Steve Marlo, Paul Carr, Walt Davis, and Michael Forest), and The Virginian (1968 and 1969, with Gail Bonney, John Anderson, and Paul Comi).

Other film credits include The People Next Door (1970, with Nehemiah Persoff and Stephen McHattie), and Going in Style (1979, with George Burns, Karen Montgomery, Mark Margolis, Angelique Pettyjohn, and Alan Brooks)

He has served as narrator on a number of documentaries and series, including The F.B.I. Files (1998-2006), Amish Haunting (2014), Alaska Haunting (2015), and A Haunting in Connecticut (2002). He has been the narrator of Destination America's series A Haunting since 2005.

In the Star Trek Encyclopedia (4th ed., vol. 2, p. 546), his name was erroneously given as "Anthony Hall". This error was also found in earlier editions.

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