Less well known is that he has a few acting creits to his name. He notably appeared as a police sketch artist in the 1970s The Incredible Hulk show with Bill Bixby and Lou Ferrigno, and later had an actual speaking role as himself in the 1990s sitcom Bob.
But the credit that has me curious is from a 1976 episode of Starsky & Hutch in which he apparently plays the part of an "Officer Day." So I sat down to watch the episode and while there is a credit at the end for an Officer Day played by Jack Kirby, there's no character named as such on screen and I don't see anyone who clearly seems to be Jack. The closest I can see is there's a uniformed officer seen helping another cop who was just shot; it looks like it could be Jack but we never get a good look at his face...
I don't see any other names in the credits that I know to be linked with Jack in any way, and the show itself doesn't really have any comic book themes to it. There is one character shown reading a copy of Werewolf by Night #34 but that's entirely incidental to the entire episode.
So I'm wondering first if that is indeed Jack Kirby in that uniform and, if so, how did he find himself in it? Or are we talking about an entirely different guy who happens have the name "Jack Kirby"? There is another unnamed, uniformed police officer in the episode who actually has speaking lines -- is that the "Jack Kirby" in question?
It's an obscure, barely-even-comics-related question, but does anyone have any knowledge or insights about what the deal is here?
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