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Melvin Caesar Belli, credited as Caesar Belli, (born 28 March 1957; age 67) is a professional attorney and one time child actor who played Steve O'Connel in Star Trek: The Original Series episode "And the Children Shall Lead". He is the son of Melvin Belli, who played Gorgan in that episode.
Acting Career[]
Belli was not a professional child actor and his appearance in Star Trek was his only known acting performance, apparently arranged by his father who had a much larger role in the episode. His only other television appearance was in a 1971 episode of the reality show "All About Faces"; coincidentally, William Shatner had at one point also appeared on the show.
Professional Career[]
Like his father, Belli became a personal injury attorney, practicing in California. He first enrolled in undergraduate studies at the University of California, Berkeley, where in 1980 he obtained a Bachelor's of Science degree in agricultural economics. He was then accepted to the University of San Francisco School of Law where he earned a JD in 1983 and was subsequently admitted to the California Bar.
Belli's first employment as an attorney was in his father's law office, in which he worked as an associate until the mid 1990s. Following his father's death, and the dissolution of the elder Belli's law practice, the younger Belli left law for several years before again affiliating with various firms beginning in the year 2000. In January 2007, he founded the Belli Law Firm in San Francsico and afterwards also became a legal aid attorney, specializing in tenant, employment, and personal injury law.