Elizabeth Rogers

Elizabeth Rogers (May 18, 1934 – November 6, 2004) was an American actress.

Born Betty Jayne Rogers in Austin, Texas, she was famous for her roles in the 1960s television series Star Trek. She portrayed Lt. Palmer, the relief communications officer for Lt. Uhura in the episodes "The Doomsday Machine" and "The Way To Eden". She also provided the voice of "The Companion" character in the episode "Metamorphosis." From 1960 to 1970, she played minor characters in thirty-seven episodes of a dozen different prime-time network series, including "Little House on the Prairie", "Bewitched", "Gunsmoke", "The Waltons" "Marcus Welby, M.D.", "Dragnet 1966", "Mannix", "Dragnet 1967", "Bonanza", "The Time Tunnel", "Land of the Giants", "Dr. Kildare", and "Slattery's People". During the 1970s she also appeared in a string of Irwin Allen produced films including The Poseidon Adventure and The Towering Inferno. She was a personal friend of Allen and his wife Sheila Mathews. Her last major motion picture was An Officer and a Gentleman in 1982.

She died from multiple strokes and lung cancer on November 6, 2004 in Tarzana, California at the age of 70.

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