Michael Fox was an American character actor

Character actor

A character actor is one who predominantly plays unusual or eccentric characters. The Oxford English Dictionary defines a character actor as "an actor who specializes in character parts", defining character part in turn as "an acting role displaying pronounced or unusual characteristics or...

 who was in numerous movies and television roles. Some of his most famous recurring roles were as various autopsy physicians in Perry Mason

Perry Mason (TV series)

Perry Mason is an American legal drama produced by Paisano Productions that ran from September 1957 to May 1966 on CBS. The title character, portrayed by Raymond Burr, is a fictional Los Angeles defense attorney who originally appeared in detective fiction by Erle Stanley Gardner...

, as Coroner George McLeod in Burke's Law

Burke's Law

Burke's Law is a detective series that ran on ABC from 1963 to 1965 and was revived on CBS in the 1990s. The show starred Gene Barry as Amos Burke, millionaire captain of Los Angeles police homicide division, who was chauffeured around to solve crimes in his Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud...

, as Amos Fedders in Falcon Crest

Falcon Crest

Falcon Crest is an American primetime television soap opera which aired on the CBS network for nine seasons, from December 4, 1981 to May 17, 1990. A total of 227 episodes were produced....

 and as Saul Feinberg in The Bold and the Beautiful

The Bold and the Beautiful

The Bold and the Beautiful is an American television soap opera created by William J. Bell and Lee Phillip Bell for CBS Daytime. It premiered on March 23, 1987....

. He is also notable for being the reason Michael J. Fox

Michael J. Fox

Michael J. Fox, OC is a Canadian American actor, author, producer, activist and voice-over artist. With a film and television career spanning from the late 1970s, Fox's roles have included Marty McFly from the Back to the Future trilogy ; Alex P...

 registered his name with a middle initial when he first joined the Screen Actors Guild

Screen Actors Guild

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 (to differentiate his name from "Michael Fox").

Career

Michael Fox began acting in stage plays in southern California circa 1945. Through his stage endeavors, Fox met Harry Sauber who introduced him to Sam Katzman

Sam Katzman

Sam Katzman was an American film producer and director. Born into a poor Jewish family, Katzman went to work as a stage laborer at the age of 13 in the fledgling East Coast film industry...

.

Two of his regular TV roles were as the coroner

Coroner

A coroner is a government official who* Investigates human deaths* Determines cause of death* Issues death certificates* Maintains death records* Responds to deaths in mass disasters* Identifies unknown dead* Other functions depending on local laws...

 in the courtroom drama Perry Mason

Perry Mason (TV series)

Perry Mason is an American legal drama produced by Paisano Productions that ran from September 1957 to May 1966 on CBS. The title character, portrayed by Raymond Burr, is a fictional Los Angeles defense attorney who originally appeared in detective fiction by Erle Stanley Gardner...

, and as Saul Feinberg on the CBS

CBS

CBS Broadcasting Inc. is a major US commercial broadcasting television network, which started as a radio network. The name is derived from the initials of the network's former name, Columbia Broadcasting System. The network is sometimes referred to as the "Eye Network" in reference to the shape of...

 soap opera

Soap opera

A soap opera, sometimes called "soap" for short, is an ongoing, episodic work of dramatic fiction presented in serial format on radio or as television programming. The name soap opera stems from the original dramatic serials broadcast on radio that had soap manufacturers, such as Procter & Gamble,...

 The Bold and the Beautiful

The Bold and the Beautiful

The Bold and the Beautiful is an American television soap opera created by William J. Bell and Lee Phillip Bell for CBS Daytime. It premiered on March 23, 1987....

 from 1989-1996.

Among his earlier television work was the next-to-last episode of Adventures of Superman

Adventures of Superman (TV series)

Adventures of Superman is an American television series based on comic book characters and concepts created in 1938 by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster. The show is the first television series to feature Superman and began filming in 1951 in California...

, as the ringleader of a criminal gang that tried to conduct a Perils of Pauline

The Perils of Pauline (1914 serial)

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-style series of murder attempts on the show's various protagonists. He also appeared in several episodes on the 1955-1957 television series Science Fiction Theatre

Science Fiction Theatre

Science Fiction Theatre is an American science fiction anthology series that aired in syndication from April 1955 to April 1957. It was produced by Ivan Tors and Maurice Ziv.-Overview:...

.

Personal life and death

He was married to Hannah, an actress he met while acting in the stage play The Dybbuk, in a Los Angeles area theatre run by Lou Smuckler, father-in-law of Lee J. Cobb

Lee J. Cobb

Lee J. Cobb was an American actor. He is best known for his performance in 12 Angry Men his Academy Award-nominated performance in On the Waterfront and one of his last films, The Exorcist...

. Borrowing a car from Dorothy Gish

Dorothy Gish

Dorothy Elizabeth Gish was an American actress, and the younger sister of actress Lillian Gish.-Early life:...

, Fox drove Hannah to a judge and married her in between the matinee and evening performances of The Story of Mary Surratt.

Fox died of pneumonia June 1, 1996, in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California

Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California

Woodland Hills is a district in the city of Los Angeles, California.Woodland Hills is located in the southwestern area of the San Fernando Valley, east of Calabasas and west of Tarzana, with Warner Center in its northern section...

.

Non-recurring multiple roles in television series

• Science Fiction Theatre
  Science Fiction Theatre
  Science Fiction Theatre is an American science fiction anthology series that aired in syndication from April 1955 to April 1957. It was produced by Ivan Tors and Maurice Ziv.-Overview:...
  
  

Beyond (1955) Radar Man

The Brain of John Emerson (1955) Dr. Franklin

The Frozen Sound (1955) Dr. Gordine

The Flicker (1956) Dr. James Kincaid

The Missing Waveband (1956) Dr. Maxwell

Jupitron (1956) Dr. Norstad

Signals from the Moon (1956) Dr. Edwards

• The Ford Television Theatre

The Payoff (1956) Lieutenant Bernard Shuman

Catch at Straws (1956) Jed Hartan

Front Page Father (1956) Malcolm Slade

Miller's Millions (1957) Judge Patterson

• Wanted: Dead or Alive

Reunion for a Revenge (1959) The Quaker

The Hostage (1959) Bartender Tom

• Alcoa Theatre
  Alcoa Theatre
  Alcoa Theatre is a half-hour anthology series telecast on NBC at 9:30 pm on alternate Monday nights from October 7, 1957 to September 16, 1960. The program also aired under the title Turn of Fate, with the stories depicting the difficulties faced by individuals who are suddenly thrust into...
  
  

30 Pieces of Silver (1959) Mr. Hammeker

The Observer (1960) Father Holze

• The Rifleman
  The Rifleman
  The Rifleman is an American Western television program that starred Chuck Connors as homesteader Lucas McCain and Johnny Crawford as his son, Mark McCain. It was set in the 1880s in the town of North Fork, New Mexico Territory. The show, filmed in black-and-white with a half hour running time, ran...
  
  

Letter of the Law (1959) Abel

The Trade (1959) Trager

Miss Millie (1960) Jim Oxford

The Hangman (1960) Joe Hannah

• Richard Diamond, Private Detective
  Richard Diamond, Private Detective
  Richard Diamond, Private Detective is an American detective drama which aired on radio from 1949 to 1953, and on television from 1957 to 1960.-Radio:...
  
  

Marineland Mystery (1959) Paul Schofield

Coat of Arms (1960)

The Popskull (1960)

• The Twilight Zone
  The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series)
  The Twilight Zone is an American anthology television series created by Rod Serling, which ran for five seasons on CBS from 1959 to 1964. The series consisted of unrelated episodes depicting paranormal, futuristic, dystopian, or simply disturbing events; each show typically featured a surprising...
  
  

Nightmare as a Child (1960) Doctor

Mr. Dingle, the Strong (1961) Martian

Sounds and Silences (1964) Psychiatrist

• The Detectives Starring Robert Taylor
  The Detectives Starring Robert Taylor
  The Detectives Starring Robert Taylor is an American crime drama series which ran on ABC during its first two seasons, and on NBC during its third and final season...
  
  

The Queen of Craven Point (1961) Lab Man

The Reason (1961) Andy

• The Untouchables
  The Untouchables (1959 TV series)
  The Untouchables is an American crime drama that ran from 1959 to 1963 on ABC. Based on the memoir of the same name by Eliot Ness and Oscar Fraley, it fictionalized the experiences of Eliot Ness, a real-life Prohibition agent, as he fought crime in Chicago during the 1930s with the help of a...
  
  

The Stryker Brothers (1962) Lieutenant Miller

Death for Sale (1961) Bradley

• The Dick Powell Show
  The Dick Powell Show
  The Dick Powell Show is an American anthology series that ran on NBC from 1961- 1963, primarily sponsored by the Reynolds Metals Company. It was hosted by longtime film star Dick Powell until his death from lymphatic cancer on January 2, 1963, then by a series of guest hosts until the series ended...
  
  

Somebody's Waiting (1961)

The Big Day (1962) Phil

The Hook (1962)

The Legend (1962) Attorney

The Old Man and the City (1963)

• The Virginian
  The Virginian (TV series)
  The Virginian is an American Western television series starring James Drury and Doug McClure, which aired on NBC from 1962 to 1971 for a total of 249 episodes. Filmed in color, The Virginian became television's first 90-minute western series...
  
  

The Brazen Bell (1962) Prisoner Guard

No Drums, No Trumpets (1966) General Howard

The Price of Love (1969) Coroner

• Gunsmoke
  Gunsmoke
  Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman MacDonnell and writer John Meston. The stories take place in and around Dodge City, Kansas, during the settlement of the American West....
  
  

Carter Caper (1963) Waiter

Wishbone (1966) Buffalo Hunter

The Raid: Part 1 (1966) Mr. Simms - Hotel Clerk

Hard Luck Henry (1967) Jed Walsh

• The Big Valley
  The Big Valley
  The Big Valley is an American television Western which ran on ABC from September 15, 1965, to May 19, 1969, which starred Barbara Stanwyck, as a California widowed mother. It was created by A.I. Bezzerides and Louis F. Edelman...
  
  

Forty Rifles (1965) De Koven

The Iron Box (1966) MacGowan

Point and Counterpoint (1969) Jonathan Williams

• Honey West
  Honey West (TV series)
  Honey West is an American crime drama television series that aired on ABC during the 1965-1966 television season. The series stars Anne Francis as female private detective Honey West and John Ericson as her partner Sam Bolt....
  
  

A Matter of Wife and Death (1965) Lieutenant Kovacs

Come to Me, My Litigation Baby (1966) Mr. Strate

• Batman
  Batman (TV series)
  Batman is an American television series, based on the DC comic book character of the same name. It stars Adam West as Batman and Burt Ward as Robin — two crime-fighting heroes who defend Gotham City. It aired on the American Broadcasting Company network for three seasons from January 12, 1966 to...
  
  

Holy Rat Race (1966) Leo Gore

Smack in the Middle (1966) Inspector Basch

Hi Diddle Riddle (1966) Inspector Basch

• Lost in Space
  Lost in Space
  Lost in Space is a science fiction TV series created and produced by Irwin Allen, filmed by 20th Century Fox Television, and broadcast on CBS. The show ran for three seasons, with 83 episodes airing between September 15, 1965, and March 6, 1968...
  
  

Cave of the Wizards (1967) Alien on Computer Screen

The Ghost Planet (1966) Cybernetic Leader/Supreme Brain

• Ironside
  Ironside (TV series)
  Ironside is a Universal television series which ran on NBC from September 14, 1967 to January 16, 1975. The show starred Raymond Burr as the wheelchair-using Chief of Detectives, Robert T. Ironside. The character's debut was in a TV-movie on March 28, 1967. The original title of the show in the...
  
  

A Very Cool Hot Car (1967) Technician

Beyond a Shadow (1969) Dr. Leonard Marcus

Death by the Numbers (1972) Dr. Albert Gold

• Hogan's Heroes
  Hogan's Heroes
  Hogan's Heroes is an American television sitcom that ran for 168 episodes from September 17, 1965, to March 28, 1971, on the CBS network. The show was set in a German prisoner of war camp during the Second World War. Bob Crane had the starring role as Colonel Robert E...
  
  

The Well (1969) Captain Ritter

It's Dynamite (1970) Berger

Get Fit or Go Fight (1970) Major Kimmel

• Quincy, M.E.
  Quincy, M.E.
  Quincy, M.E., also called Quincy, is a United States television series from Universal Studios that aired from October 3, 1976, to September 5, 1983, on NBC...
  
  

Jury Duty (1981) Dr. Feld

Cover-Up (1980) Fire Captain

Singular appearances in television series

• The Mickey Rooney Show - Pilot (1954) Julie's Father
• Hopalong Cassidy - Grubstake (1954) Brock Fain
• The Lone Wolf - The Runaway Story (1954) Lt. Joe Neeley
• Celebrity Playhouse
  Celebrity Playhouse
  Celebrity Playhouse is the title of a 30 minute American television drama series which aired from 1956-1957 .Recurring Roles and Notable Guest Stars:...
  
   - The Hoax (1955)
• Warner Brothers Presents - Hand of Fate (1955) Sasha
• The Man Behind the Badge
  The Man Behind the Badge
  The Man Behind the Badge is the title of a half-hour American television police drama series which aired on the CBS from 1953-1955 starring and hosted by character actor Charles Bickford. Years later, Bickford appeared as one of the owners of Shiloh Ranch in the NBC western series, The Vrginian.In...
  
   - The Case of the Red Letter Day (1955) Stranger
• My Little Margie
  My Little Margie
  My Little Margie is an American situation comedy that alternated between CBS and NBC from 1952 to 1955. The series was created by Frank Fox and produced in Los Angeles, California at Hal Roach Studios by Hal Roach, Jr. and Roland D...
  
    - Corpus Delecti (1955) Roland Roberts
• Cavalcade of America
  Cavalcade of America
  Cavalcade of America is an anthology drama series that was sponsored by the DuPont Company, although it occasionally presented a musical, such as an adaptation of Show Boat, and condensed biographies of popular composers. It was initially broadcast on radio from 1935 to 1953, and later on...
  
   - Monument to a Young Man (1956) George Wooley
• Tombstone Territory
  Tombstone Territory
  Tombstone Territory is an American Western series starring Pat Conway and Richard Eastham. The series' first two seasons aired on ABC from 1957 to 1959...
  
   - Desert Survival (1957) Warren
• Highway Patrol
  Highway Patrol (TV series)
  Highway Patrol is a syndicated action crime drama series produced 1955-1959.-Overview:Highway Patrol stars Broderick Crawford as Dan Mathews, the gruff and dedicated head of a police force in an unidentified Western state...
  
   - Efficiency Secretary (1957) Dusty Dunn
• The Thin Man
  The Thin Man (TV series)
  The Thin Man is a half-hour weekly television series based on the mystery novel The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett. The 72 episodes were produced by MGM Television and shown on NBC for two seasons from 1957–1959 on Friday evening.-Overview:...
  
   - Come Back Darling Asta (1957) Police Lt. Heldon
• Meet McGraw
  Meet McGraw
  Meet McGraw is an American dramatic television series starring Frank Lovejoy in the role of the hard-hitting detective McGraw, a man specifically given no first name in the program. Forty-one half-hour episodes aired on NBC during the 1957-1958 season, sponsored by Procter & Gamble. The series was...
  
   - The Fighter (1957) Sorrento
• Undercurrent - Front Page Father (1957) Malcolm Slade
• Alfred Hitchcock Presents
  Alfred Hitchcock Presents
  Alfred Hitchcock Presents is an American television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock. The series featured dramas, thrillers, and mysteries. By the premiere of the show on October 2, 1955, Hitchcock had been directing films for over three decades...
  
   - Crackpot (1957) Carpenter
• Dr. Christian - The Alien (1957) Rausch
• The Walter Winchell File
  The Walter Winchell File
  The Walter Winchell File is the title of a TV crime drama that initially aired from 1957 to 1958, dramatizing cases from the New York City Police Department that were covered in the New York Daily Mirror. The series featured Walter Winchell, John Larch, George Cisar, Robert Anderson, Robert...
  
   - Muggy Night on Times Square: File #39 (1958) Harris
• The Adventures of Jim Bowie
  The Adventures of Jim Bowie
  In September of 1956 a TV series named "The Adventures of Jim Bowie" was aired on ABC. The show was only on the air for two years from 1956 to 1958. The series' music was unique in that is was primarily vocal, provided by Ken Darby and The King's Men .-Synopsis:The series stars Scott Forbes as the...
  
   - The Puma (1958) Captain
• Adventures of Superman
  Adventures of Superman (TV series)
  Adventures of Superman is an American television series based on comic book characters and concepts created in 1938 by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster. The show is the first television series to feature Superman and began filming in 1951 in California...
  
   - The Perils of Superman (1958) The Lead Masked Criminal
• Harbor Command
  Harbor Command
  Harbor Command is a syndicated adventure/drama television series starring Wendell Corey as Captain Ralph Baxter, a fictitious officer of the United States Coast Guard. The 39-episode Ziv program aired in black and white from October 11, 1957, to July 4, 1958. Casey Walters appeared in all episodes...
  
    - Four to Die (1958)
• Man with a Camera - The Bride (1959) Father Ehrlich
• The David Niven Show - The Last Room (1959)
• The Grand Jury - Accident by Appointment (1959)
• Shotgun Slade
  Shotgun Slade
  Shotgun Slade is an American western television series starring Scott Brady that aired in syndication from October 24, 1959, until 1961. Created by Frank Gruber, the stories were written by John Berardino, Charissa Hughes, and Martin Berkeley...
  
   - Charcoal Bullet (1960) Doctor Miller
• Johnny Ringo
  Johnny Ringo (TV series)
  Johnny Ringo is a Western television series starring Don Durant that aired on CBS from October 1, 1959, until June 30, 1960. It was loosely based on the life of the notorious gunfighter Johnny Ringo, who tangled with Wyatt Earp, John "Doc" Holliday, and "Buckskin" Franklin Leslie.This fictional...
  
   - Soft Cargo (1960) Clint Logan
• The DuPont Show with June Allyson
  The DuPont Show with June Allyson
  The DuPont Show with June Allyson is an American anthology drama series which aired on CBS from September 21, 1959 to April 3, 1961 with rebroadcasts continuing until June 12, 1961...
  
   - Slip of the Tongue (1960) Harvey
• Dennis the Menace  - Dennis and the Rare Coin (1960) Hathaway
• 87th Precinct
  87th Precinct (TV series)
  87th Precinct is an American crime drama starring Robert Lansing, Gena Rowlands, and Ron Harper, which aired on NBC on Monday evenings during the 1961–1962 television season.-Synopsis:...
  
   - Lady Killer (1961) Dr. Ben Danlela
• Miami Undercover - The Big Frame (1961) Chandler
• Dante
  Dante (TV series)
  Dante is a short-lived NBC adventure/drama television series starring Howard Duff as Willie Dante, a former gambler who operates Dante's Inferno, a San Francisco, California, nightclub. Alan Mowbray co-starred as Stewart Styles, the Maitre d'; Tom D'Andrea as Biff, Dante's "man Friday", and Mort...
  
   - Dial D for Dante (1961) Joe Conway
• Empire
  Empire (TV series)
  Empire is an American historical television series for ABC. It is an historical drama set in 44 BC Rome, and covers the struggle of a young Octavius , the nephew and heir of Julius Caesar, to become the first emperor of Rome...
  
   - Long Past, Long Remembered (1962) Chester Arkins
• Target: The Corruptors!
  Target: The Corruptors!
  Target: The Corruptors! is a 35-episode crime drama starring Stephen McNally as newspaper reporter Paul Marino, which aired on ABC from September 29, 1961 to June 8, 1962. The character Jack Flood, Marino's undercover agent, was portrayed by Robert Harland...
  
   - License to Steal (1962)
• Follow the Sun
  Follow the Sun (TV series)
  Follow the Sun is an American drama series which ran for thirty episodes on the ABC television network from September 17, 1961, through April 8, 1962.-Synopsis:...
  
    - A Choice of Weapons (1962) Ernie Glazer
• Breaking Point - And James Was a Very Small Snail (1963)
• Wagon Train
  Wagon Train
  Wagon Train is an American Western series that ran on NBC from 1957–62 and then on ABC from 1962–65...
  
   - The Molly Kincaid Story (1963) Al the Bartender
• I'm Dickens, He's Fenster
  I'm Dickens, He's Fenster
  I'm Dickens, He's Fenster is an American sitcom that ran on ABC during the 1962-1963 season , and was created and produced by Leonard Stern, filmed at Desilu.-Synopsis:...
  
   - Is There a Doctor in the House? (1963) Dr. Levy
• The Rogues
  The Rogues (TV series)
  The Rogues is an American television series that appeared on NBC from September 13, 1964 to April 18, 1965, starring David Niven, Charles Boyer, and Gig Young as a related trio of former conmen who could, for the right price, be persuaded to trick a very wealthy and very unscrupulous mark...
  
   - Hugger-Mugger, by the Sea (1964) Hogan
• My Favorite Martian
  My Favorite Martian
  My Favorite Martian is an American television sitcom that aired on CBS from September 29, 1963 to May 1, 1966 for 107 episodes...
  
   - Who Am I? (1964) Dr. Gilbert
• The New Twilight Zone -Examination Day/A Message from Charity (1985) Tom Carter
• Kraft Suspense Theatre
  Kraft Suspense Theatre
  Kraft Suspense Theatre, an anthology series, was telecast from 1963 to 1965 on NBC. Sponsored by Kraft Foods, it was seen three weeks out of every four and was pre-empted for Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall specials once monthly...
  
   - Kill No More (1965) Howard Link
• Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
  Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (TV series)
  Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea is a 1960s American science fiction television series based on the 1961 film of the same name. Both were created by Irwin Allen, which enabled the movie's sets, costumes, props, special effects models, and sometimes footage, to be used in the production of the...
  
   - Deadly Invasion (1966) General Haines

• Felony Squad
  Felony Squad
  Felony Squad is a half-hour television crime drama originally broadcast on the ABC network from September 12, 1966 to January 31, 1969, a span encompassing seventy-three episodes.-Overview:...
  
   - Prologue to Murder (1966) Dr. Kilmer
• Mission: Impossible
  Mission: Impossible
  Mission: Impossible is an American television series which was created and initially produced by Bruce Geller. It chronicled the missions of a team of secret American government agents known as the Impossible Missions Force . The leader of the team was Jim Phelps, played by Peter Graves, except in...
  
   - Operation Heart (1967) Dr. Levya
• Laredo
  Laredo (TV series)
  Laredo is an NBC Western television series starring Neville Brand, William Smith, Peter Brown, and Philip Carey as Texas Rangers. The program premiered on September 16, 1965, and the final new episode was broadcast on April 7, 1967. The series was produced by Universal Television.-Synopsis:Laredo...
  
   - The Seventh Day (1967) Bartender
• The Ghost & Mrs. Muir
  The Ghost & Mrs. Muir (TV series)
  The Ghost & Mrs. Muir is a situation comedy based on the 1947 film The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, which was based on the 1945 novel by R.A. Dick. It starred Hope Lange as Carolyn Muir, a young widow who rents Gull Cottage, near the fictional fishing village of Schooner Bay, Maine along with her two...
  
    - The Ghost Hunter (1968) Prof. Maxwell
• The Wild Wild West
  The Wild Wild West
  The Wild Wild West is an American television series that ran on CBS for four seasons from September 17, 1965 to April 4, 1969....
  
   - The Night of the Death-Maker (1968) Gillespie
• The Flying Nun
  The Flying Nun
  The Flying Nun is an American sitcom produced by Screen Gems for ABC based on the 1965 book The Fifteenth Pelican, by Tere Rios, which starred Sally Field as Sister Bertrille...
  
    - A Fish Story (1968) Ogden
• The Bold Ones: The Senator
  The Bold Ones: The Senator
  The Bold Ones: The Senator is an American political television drama series that aired on NBC from 1970 through 1971, lasting for nine episodes . The series stars Hal Holbrook as Senator Hays Stowe.The Senator was part of The Bold Ones, a rotating series of dramas that also included The New...
  
   - The Day the Lion Died (1970) Kellerman
• The Governor & J.J.
  The Governor & J.J.
  The Governor & J.J. is a television series that ran from 1969 to 1970 on CBS in the United States and in Canada, where it ran on CBC. Selected episodes were rerun by CBS during the summer of 1972. It was produced by Talent Associates and CBS Productions...
  
   - Charley's Back in Town (1970) Abel Mellon
• The Partners
  The Partners
  The Partners is an American sitcom that aired on September 18, 1971 through September 8, 1972 on NBC.-Synopsis:The program featured Don Adams and Rupert Crosse as bumbling detectives...
  
   - New Faces (1971) Dr. Mitchell
• The Mod Squad
  The Mod Squad
  The Mod Squad is a television series that ran on ABC from September 24, 1968, until August 23, 1973. This series starred Michael Cole, Peggy Lipton, Clarence Williams III, and Tige Andrews...
  
   - And a Little Child Shall Bleed Them (1971) Doctor
• The Doris Day Show
  The Doris Day Show
  The Doris Day Show is an American sitcom that was originally broadcast on the CBS network from September 1968 until September 1973. In addition to showcasing Doris Day, the show is remembered for its many abrupt format changes over the course of its five-year run...
  
   - A Fine Romance (1971) Capt. Mallory
• The Bold Ones: The New Doctors
  The Bold Ones: The New Doctors
  The Bold Ones: The New Doctors is an American medical drama that lasted for four seasons on NBC, from 1969 to 1973.-Overview:The series focuses on the life of Dr. David Craig The Bold Ones: The New Doctors (also known as The New Doctors) is an American medical drama that lasted for four seasons on...
  
   - An Inalienable Right to Die (1972) Carl Hedge
• The Rookies
  The Rookies
  The Rookies is an American crime drama series that aired on ABC from 1972 until 1976. It followed the exploits of three rookie police officers in an unidentified city for the fictitious Southern California Police Department .-History:...
  
   - The Good Die Young (1972) Dr. Parkman
• Temperatures Rising
  Temperatures Rising
  Temperatures Rising is an American television situation comedy that ran from September 12, 1972 to August 29, 1974 on the ABC network.The network had a good deal of faith in the low-rated series, which went through three cast changes, two different formats, and two time slots during its...
  
   - Good Luck, Leftkowitz (1972) General
• O'Hara, U.S. Treasury
  O'Hara, U.S. Treasury
  O'Hara, U.S. Treasury is an American television crime drama broadcast by CBS during the 1971-72 television season. Jack Webb's Mark VII Limited packaged the program for Universal Television. Webb and longtime colleague James E. Moser created the show; Leonard B. Kaufman was the...
  
   - Operation: Dorias (1972) Dr. Julian
• Chase
  Chase (1973 TV series)
  Chase is an American television series that aired on the NBC network from September 11, 1973 to August 28, 1974. The show was a production of Jack Webb's Mark VII Limited for Universal Television and marked the first show produced by Stephen J...
  
   - The Garbage Man (1973) Franco
• Emergency!
  Emergency!
  Emergency! is an American television series that combines the medical drama and action-adventure genres. It was produced by Mark VII Limited and distributed by Universal Studios...
  
   - Inheritance Tax (1973) Marshall
• Shaft - The Killing (1973) Judge Graves
• Kolchak: The Night Stalker
  Kolchak: The Night Stalker
  Kolchak: The Night Stalker is an American television series that aired on ABC during the 1974-1975 season. It featured a fictional Chicago newspaper reporter — Carl Kolchak, played by Darren McGavin — who investigates mysterious crimes with unlikely causes, particularly ones law...
  
   - The Energy Eater (1974) Frank Wesley
• Lucas Tanner
  Lucas Tanner
  Lucas Tanner is an NBC television drama that aired during the 1974-75 season. The title character, played by David Hartman, was a former baseball player and sportswriter who became an english teacher at the fictional Harry S. Truman High School in Webster Groves, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis...
  
    - Cheers (1974) Dr. Wells
• The Rockford Files
  The Rockford Files
  The Rockford Files is an American television drama series which aired on the NBC network between September 13, 1974 and January 10, 1980. It has remained in regular syndication to the present day. The show stars James Garner as Los Angeles-based private investigator Jim Rockford and features Noah...
  
   - Just by Accident (1975) The Announcer
• Gemini Man
  Gemini Man
  Gemini Man is an American action/adventure drama series that aired on NBC in 1976. This is the third of four weekly television series based on the H. G. Wells science fiction novel, The Invisible Man.-Synopsis:...
  
    - Night Train to Dallas (1976) Conductor
• Charlie's Angels
  Charlie's Angels
  Charlie's Angels is a television series about three women who work for a private investigation agency, and is one of the first shows to showcase women in roles traditionally reserved for men...
  
   - Angels in the Wings (1977) Austin Wells
• Fantasy Island
  Fantasy Island
  Fantasy Island is the title of two separate but related American fantasy television series, both originally airing on the ABC television network.-Original series:...
  
   - Seance/Treasure (1979) Mr. McCloud
• Concrete Cowboys - Episode #1.1 (1981) The Deacon
• Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
  Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (TV series)
  Buck Rogers in the 25th Century is an American science fiction adventure television series produced by Universal Studios. The series ran for two seasons between 1979–1981, and the feature-length pilot episode for the series was released as a theatrical film several months before the series aired....
  
   - Time of the Hawk (1981) High Judge
• Voyagers!
  Voyagers!
  Voyagers! is an American science fiction time travel-based television series that aired on NBC during the 1982–1983 season. The series stars Jon-Erik Hexum and Meeno Peluce.-Plot:...
  
    - The Travels of Marco... and Friends (1982) Isaac Wolfstein
• Hunter - Pen Pals (1984) Judge
• Dallas
  Dallas (TV series)
  Dallas is an American serial drama/prime time soap opera that revolves around the Ewings, a wealthy Texas family in the oil and cattle-ranching industries. Throughout the series, Larry Hagman stars as greedy, scheming oil baron J. R. Ewing...
  
   - Fools Rush In (1984)
• Simon & Simon
  Simon & Simon
  Simon & Simon is an American detective television series starring Gerald McRaney and Jameson Parker.-History:The original 1978 pilot called Pirate's Key was set in Florida...
  
    - The Skull of Nostradamus (1985) Convention Official
• St. Elsewhere
  St. Elsewhere
  St. Elsewhere is an American medical drama television series that originally ran on NBC from October 26, 1982 to May 25, 1988. The series is set at fictional St. Eligius, a decaying urban teaching hospital in Boston's South End neighborhood...
  
    - Tears of a Clown (1985)
• Knight Rider - Custom Made Killer (1985) Phil
• Comedy Factory - Man About Town (1986) Man in Museum
• MacGyver
  MacGyver
  MacGyver is an American action-adventure television series created by Lee David Zlotoff. Henry Winkler and John Rich were the executive producers. The show ran for seven seasons on ABC in the United States and various other networks abroad from 1985 to 1992. The series was filmed in Los Angeles...
  
   - Every Time She Smiles (1986) Bulgarian Officer
• Cagney & Lacey
  Cagney & Lacey
  Cagney & Lacey is an American television series that originally aired on the CBS television network for seven seasons from October 8, 1981 to May 16, 1988...
  
   - Right to Remain Silent (1987) Nat Weinreich
• TV 101
  TV 101
  TV 101 is an American drama series that aired on CBS from 1988 until 1989. The series starred Sam Robards, Brynn Thayer, Leon Russom and Andrew Cassese. Other notable cast members include Stacey Dash, Teri Polo, Alex Désert and Matt LeBlanc...
  
   - The Last Temptation of Checker: Part 1 (1989) Jack Gregory
• The Hogan Family
  The Hogan Family
  The Hogan Family is an American television situation comedy that aired from March 1, 1986 to July 20, 1991...
  
   - The Franklin Family (1990) Jerry Grundig
• Bodies of Evidence - Eleven Grains of Sand (1993) Earl Stern
• ER
  ER (TV series)
  ER is an American medical drama television series created by novelist Michael Crichton that aired on NBC from September 19, 1994 to April 2, 2009. It was produced by Constant c Productions and Amblin Entertainment, in association with Warner Bros. Television...
  
    - Blizzard (1994) Mr. Bozinsky
• NYPD Blue
  NYPD Blue
  NYPD Blue is an American television police drama set in New York City, exploring the internal and external struggles of the fictional 15th precinct of Manhattan...
  
    - Torah! Torah! Torah! (1995) Rabbi Rosenthal

Feature-length films

• The Pathfinder (1952) Narrator
• Voodoo Tiger (1952) Karl Werner, aka Heinrich Schultz
• Last Train from Bombay (1952) Capt. Tamil
• Blackhawk
  Blackhawk (serial)
  Blackhawk is a Columbia movie serial based on the comic book Blackhawk published by Quality Comics at the time. The serial's subtitle was "Fearless Champion of Freedom". It was the studio's 49th serial....
  
   (1952) Mr. Case/The Leader
• Without Warning! (1952) Cab co Dispatcher
• Killer Ape (1953) The Medical Officer
• Slaves of Babylon (1953) Narrator
• Sky Commando (1953) Major Scott
• Run for the Hills (1953) Phineas Cragg
• The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms
  The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms
  The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms is a 1953 science fiction film directed by Eugène Lourié and stars Paul Christian, Paula Raymond and Cecil Kellaway with visual effects by Ray Harryhausen. The film is about an atomic bomb test in the Arctic Circle that unfreezes a hibernating fictional dinosaur, a...
  
   (1953) ER Doctor (also dialogue director)
• The Lost Planet
  The Lost Planet
  The Lost Planet is a 1953 Columbia Pictures 15-chapter serial which has the distinction of being the last interplanetary-themed sound serial ever made. It was directed by Spencer Gordon Bennet with a screenplay by George H. Plympton and Arthur Hoerl...
  
   (1953) Dr. Ernst Grood
• Siren of Bagdad
  Siren of Bagdad
  Siren of Bagdad is a 1953 fantasy Technicolor adventure film produced by Sam Katzman and directed by Richard Quine set in the middle age Persian Empire. It stars Paul Henreid as a travelling Master magician who seeks to recover his troop of beautiful dancing girls who are to be sold into slavery...
  
   (1953) Telar
• Serpent of the Nile (1953) Octavius
• The Glass Wall
  The Glass Wall
  The Glass Wall is a black-and-white 1953 film directed by Maxwell Shane. The film was produced and distributed by Columbia Pictures.-Plot:...
  
   (1953) Inspector Toomey
• The Magnetic Monster
  The Magnetic Monster
  The Magnetic Monster is a 1953 independent science fiction film, directed by Curt Siodmak, and starring Richard Carlson and King Donovan.-Plot:...
  
   (1953) Dr. Serny (also dialogue director)
• The Great Adventures of Captain Kidd
  The Great Adventures of Captain Kidd
  The Great Adventures of Captain Kidd was the 52nd serial released by Columbia Pictures. It is based in the historical figure of Captain William Kidd.-Plot:...
  
   (1953) Elias Smith
• The Silver Chalice
  The Silver Chalice (film)
  The Silver Chalice is a 1954 historical epic film from Warner Bros., based on Thomas B. Costain's 1952 novel of the same name.-Plot:A Greek artisan is commissioned to cast the cup of Christ in silver and sculpt around its rim the faces of the disciples and Jesus himself. He travels to Jerusalem and...
  
   (1954) Slave
• Riding with Buffalo Bill
  Riding with Buffalo Bill
  Riding with Buffalo Bill was the 54th serial released by Columbia Pictures.-Plot:In this serial, the intrepid Buffalo Bill Cody comes to aid miner Rocky Ford and a group of ranchers in their defeat of a local crime lord, King Carney, who is trying to keep the new railroad out of the territory in...
  
   (1954) King Carney
• Naked Alibi
  Naked Alibi
  Naked Alibi is a 1954 black-and-white film starring Sterling Hayden. Portions of the film, considered film noir, were shot in Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico.-Plot:...
  
   (1954) Round Man
• Rogue Cop
  Rogue Cop
  Rogue Cop is a film noir directed by Roy Rowland, based on the novel by William P. McGivern , and starring Robert Taylor, Janet Leigh, and George Raft.-Plot:...
  
   (1954) Rudy
• Down Three Dark Streets
  Down Three Dark Streets
  Down Three Dark Streets is a 1954 documentary-style film noir, starring Broderick Crawford and directed by Arnold Laven. The screenplay was written by Gordon and Mildred Gordon, based on their novel Case File FBI.-Plot:...
  
   (1954) Paper Plant Superintendent
• Gog
  Gog (film)
  Gog is a 1954 science fiction film directed by Herbert L. Strock and released in 1954 by United Artists. It is notable for having been shot in color, widescreen and 3-D...
  
   (1954) Dr. Hubertus (also dialogue director)
• The Iron Glove (1954) Opening Narrator
• Charge of the Lancers (1954) Opening Narrator
• Riders to the Stars
  Riders to the Stars
  Riders to the Stars is an American science fiction film that was released in 1954 by Ivan Tors Productions and directed by Richard Carlson. It stars William Lundigan, Martha Hyer, Herbert Marshall, and Richard Carlson.- Plot :...
  
   (1954) Dr. Klinger the Shrink
• Running Wild (1955) Delmar Graves
• My Sister Eileen (1955) Shakespearean Actor
• The Big Knife
  The Big Knife
  The Big Knife is a film noir directed and produced by Robert Aldrich from a screenplay by James Poe based on the play by Clifford Odets. The film stars Jack Palance, Ida Lupino, Wendell Corey, Jean Hagen, Rod Steiger, Shelley Winters, Ilka Chase, and Everett Sloane.-Plot:Charlie Castle, a very...
  
   (1955) Prize Fight Announcer
• The Scarlet Coat
  The Scarlet Coat
  The Scarlet Coat is an Eastmancolor 1955 American historical drama and swashbuckler directed by John Sturges, based upon the events in the American Revolution in which Benedict Arnold offered to surrender the fort at West Point to the British in exchange for money.The film purports to tell the...
  
   (1955) Major Russell
• The Adventures of Captain Africa
  The Adventures of Captain Africa
  The Adventures of Captain Africa is a Columbia serial starring John Hart. It was the third to last serial to be produced by Columbia.-Plot:Trapper Nat Coleman and government agent Ted Arnold come upon a plot to take over an African nation...
  
   (1955) Prime Minister
• Conquest of Space
  Conquest of Space
  Conquest of Space is a 1955 science fiction movie produced by George Pal which depicts a voyage to Mars. The science and technology were intended to be as realistic as possible...
  
   (1955) Elsbach
• Crashout
  Crashout
  -Plot:Convict Van Duff is the leader of a large-scale prison break. The breakout works as the six survivors hide out in a forgotten mine working near the prison....
  
   (1955) (dialogue director)
• Cha-Cha-Cha Boom! (1956) Frank
• Kiss Them for Me
  Kiss Them for Me (film)
  Kiss Them for Me is a 1957 comedy film starring Cary Grant and Jayne Mansfield, directed by Stanley Donen. Co-stars included Suzy Parker, Leif Erickson, Ray Walston, and Werner Klemperer....
  
   (1957) War Correspondent
• Plunder Road (1957) Smog Officer/Narrator (also Asst to Producer)

• The Tijuana Story (1957) .Reuben Galindo
• The Girl in the Kremlin
  The Girl in the Kremlin
  The Girl in the Kremlin is a 1957 American thriller which puts forth the premise that Joseph Stalin faked his own death in 1953 and then moved to Greece with a fortune in Soviet currency. Zsa Zsa Gabor plays a dual role, Stalin’s nurse and lover as well as her twin sister who, unaware of...
  
   (1957) Igor Smetka
• Top Secret Affair
  Top Secret Affair
  Top Secret Affair is a 1957 romantic comedy film made by Carrollton Inc. and distributed by Warner Bros. that starred Susan Hayward and Kirk Douglas. It was directed by H.C. Potter and produced by Martin Rackin and Milton Sperling from a screenplay by Roland Kibbee and Allan Scott.The plot is very...
  
   (1957) Reporter Lotzie
• Machine-Gun Kelly
  Machine-Gun Kelly (film)
  Machine-Gun Kelly is a film directed by Roger Corman, chronicling the criminal activities of the real-life George "Machine Gun" Kelly. The film was considered low budget, but received good critical reviews...
  
   (1958) Detective Clinton
• A Nice Little Bank That Should Be Robbed (1958) Detective
• War of the Satellites
  War of the Satellites
  War of the Satellites is a 1958 black and white sci-fi film directed by Roger Corman rapidly conceived, filmed and released to exploit the Sputnik satellite.-Cast:*Dick Miller as Dave Boyer*Susan Cabot as Sybil Carrington...
  
   (1958) Jason ibn Akad
• Let's Make Love
  Let's Make Love
  Let's Make Love is a 1960 musical comedy film made by 20th Century Fox. It was directed by George Cukor and produced by Jerry Wald from a screenplay by Norman Krasna, Hal Kanter and Arthur Miller...
  
   (1960) Actor auditioning for Clement role
• Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962) Motorcycle cop at beach
• The Interns
  The Interns (film)
  The Interns is a 1962 drama film that starred Michael Callan and Cliff Robertson. This film is a medical melodrama that presages many similar TV programs to follow. It centers around the personal and professional conflicts of young medical interns under the tutorage of senior surgeons, Telly...
  
   (1962) Dr. Greenberg
• The New Interns (1964) Dr. Arthur Hellman, Psychiatrist
• The Misadventures of Merlin Jones
  The Misadventures of Merlin Jones
  The Misadventures of Merlin Jones is a 1964 Walt Disney production starring Tommy Kirk and Annette Funicello. Kirk plays a college student who experiments with mind-reading and hypnotism, leading to run-ins with a local judge...
  
   (1964) Kohner, Lie Detector Operator
• A Tiger Walks
  A Tiger Walks
  A Tiger Walks is a 1964 family drama film, directed by Norman Tokar and produced by Walt Disney Productions. It is based on a novel of the same name by Ian Niall...
  
   (1964) Television Interviewer
• Billie
  Billie (film)
  Billie is a 1965 musical film directed by Don Weis. Based on the 1952 play Time Out For Ginger by Ronald Alexander, the film stars Patty Duke in the title role.-Plot:...
  
   (1965) Ray Case, Reporter
• Angel's Flight (1965) Jake the Bartender
• Now You See It, Now You Don't (1968) Inspector Delon
• The Legend of Lylah Clare
  The Legend of Lylah Clare
  The Legend of Lylah Clare is a 1968 Metrocolor film directed by Robert Aldrich. The film stars Peter Finch, Kim Novak, Ernest Borgnine, Michael Murphy and Valentina Cortese. The film was based on a 1962 Dupont Show of the Week TV drama co-written by Wild in the Streets creator Robert Thom.-Plot...
  
   (1968) Announcer
• Seven in Darkness (1969) The Pilot
• Bloody Mama
  Bloody Mama
  Bloody Mama is a 1970 low budget film very loosely based on the story of Ma Barker. It was directed by Roger Corman and starred Shelley Winters in the title role, depicted as a corrupt mother who encourages and organizes her children's criminality. The film featured an early appearance by a young...
  
   (1970) Dr. Roth
• The Dunwich Horror
  The Dunwich Horror (film)
  The Dunwich Horror is a 1970 B-movie from American International Pictures directed by Daniel Haller and produced by Roger Corman. The film was based on the short story of the same name by H.P. Lovecraft with a script co-written by future Academy Award winning director Curtis Hanson. This was the...
  
   (1970) Dr. Raskin
• If Tomorrow Comes (1971) Judge
• The Judge and Jake Wyler
  The Judge and Jake Wyler
  The Judge and Jake Wyler is an American television movie directed by David Lowell Rich. The teleplay was written by Richard Levinson, William Link, and David Shaw. It was produced by Universal Television and broadcast by NBC on December 2, 1972....
  
  (1972) Doctor Simon
• Two for the Money (1972) Hospital Administrator
• The Missiles of October
  The Missiles of October
  The Missiles of October is a 1974 docudrama made-for-television play about the Cuban missile crisis. The title evokes the book The Guns of August by Barbara Tuchman about the missteps among the great powers and the failed chances to give an opponent a graceful way out, which led to the First...
  
   (1974) Soviet Marshal
• Young Frankenstein
  Young Frankenstein
  Young Frankenstein is a 1974 American comedy film directed by Mel Brooks and starring Gene Wilder as the title character, a descendant of the infamous Dr. Victor Frankenstein. The supporting cast includes Teri Garr, Cloris Leachman, Marty Feldman, Peter Boyle, Madeline Kahn, Kenneth Mars, Richard...
  
   (1974) Helga's Father
• The Longest Yard (1974) Announcer
• Collision Course: Truman vs. MacArthur (1976) Adm. Sherman
• Dempsey (1983) Judge Dooling
• The Malibu Bikini Shop (1986) Uncle Dave
• Quicksilver (1986) Broker at Lunch
• Over the Top (1987) Jim Olson
• She Was Marked for Murder (1988)
• Skinheads (1989) Saul

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