David Opatoshu (January 30, 1918 – April 30, 1996) was an American television actor with occasional roles in films. He was born David Opatovsky in New York City, where he was raised and educated.
His career in television began in 1952 and lasted through the 1980s.
Prior to this he acted in theatre and films. His first film, The Light Ahead (1939), directed by Henry Felt and Edgar G. Ulmer, is notable for being entirely in Yiddish. Mr. Opatoshu gave memorable performances as the savvy homicide detective, Sgt. Ben Miller, in the definitive film noir, The Naked City (1948), produced by Mark Hellinger, and as the independence movement leader in Otto Preminger's 1960 film Exodus. He appeared on Broadway in The Wall in 1960, and Bravo Giovanni in 1962, and others.
Mr. Opatoshu also wrote the screenplay for the film Romance of a Horsethief (1971), based on a novel by his father Joseph Opatoshu.
He played Anan 7 in the Star Trek episode "A Taste of Armageddon", and also co-starred prior to that with James Doohan in an episode of The Twilight Zone, entitled "Valley of the Shadow".
He married Lillian Weinberg, a psychiatric social worker, on June 10, 1941, by whom he had one child, a son.
External links
David Opatoshu at Find A Grave
David Opatoshu at the Internet Movie Database
David Opatoshu article at Memory Alpha, a Star Trek wiki
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Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor - Drama Series
Patrick McGoohan (1975) · Gordon Jackson (1976) · Louis Gossett, Jr. (1977) · Barnard Hughes (1978) · John Lithgow (1986) · Joe Spano (1989) · Patrick McGoohan (1990) · David Opatoshu (1991) · Laurence Fishburne (1993) · Richard Kiley (1994) · Paul Winfield (1995) · Peter Boyle (1996) · Pruitt Taylor Vince (1997) · John Larroquette (1998) · Edward Herrmann (1999) · James Whitmore (2000)
Complete list: (1975-2000) · (2001-present)
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