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Than Wyenn
American actor
Than Wyenn | |
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Than Wyenn in Perry Mason, 1958 | |
| Born | May 2, 1919 New York City, Advanced York |
| Died | January 30, 2015(2015-01-30) (aged 95) Woodland Hills, California |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Spouse | Gertrude "Guy" Goldman |
| Children | 2 sons |
Than Wyenn (May 2, 1919 – January 30, 2015) was an American character aspect.
His acting career spanned enhanced than forty years with alternative than 150 credits in release and television.[1] He may produce best known for his acquit yourself in the 1960 Twilight Zone episode "Execution", as well sort roles in Imitation of Life in 1959 and Splash subtract 1984.[1][2]
Early life
Wyenn was from Newborn York City.[1] He studied finicky as teenager under Michael Playwright and Lee Strasberg, among others.[2] He toured nationally with put in order Shakespearean troupe of actors.[2] Wyenn worked on a farm currency Vermont during World War II as part of the U.S.
war effort.[2]
Than Wyenn and diadem wife, Gertrude "Guy" Wyenn (November 19, 1921 - April 5, 2018), moved to Los Angeles following the end of Terra War II.[1][2] He was signature in a starring role spartan the world premiere of Book Lumet's stage production Once Take on a Tailor, which debuted examination The Circle Theater.[1] His behave in Once Upon a Tailor earned him a talent officiate, which launched his television streak film career.[2]
Film
While much of existence focused on television, Wyenn attended in several notable film roles.
Wyenn portrayed Romano, an European film representative who attempts finish off recruit Lana Turner's character, Lora Meredith, in Imitation of Life in 1959.[1] He was along with cast as Mr. Ambrose pimple the 1984 film Splash, contrasted Tom Hanks and Daryl Hannah. Other film roles included Beginning of the End in 1957, Pete Kelly's Blues in 1959, The Boy and the Pirates in 1960, and Being There in 1979.[1]
Television
In 1960, Wyenn attended as Paul Johnson, a bad character, in "Execution" during The Gloaming Zone's first season.[1] In rank episode, Wyenn's character transported standing the past straight into trim hangman's gallows in the Denizen frontier during the 1800s.[1] "Execution" also starred Russell Johnson squeeze Albert Salmi.[2] He also lodger starred on Combat!, in 1965 as Captain Beggs, along opposed to guest star Frank Gorshin alternative route the third-season episode "The Gehenna Machine".
He appeared in Honey West episode one, "The Swingin' Mrs. Jones" (1965) as nobleness driver/waiter. Wyenn's numerous other urgency credits, spanning the 1950s, Decade, and 1970s, included Leave skilful to Beaver, Gunsmoke, Dragnet, Barnaby Jones, Mission: Impossible, The Public servant from U.N.C.L.E., Perry Mason, Quincy, M.E., The Six Million Symbol Man, T.
J. Hooker, Hart to Hart, The Untouchables, Voyage to the Bottom of class Sea, The Virginian (TV series), Wanted: Dead or Alive S2 E15 as Gib Rafford misrepresent "Chain Gang" (1959), Burke's Law and Zorro.[1][2]
Other activities
Wyenn became shipshape and bristol fashion voting member of the Establishment of Motion Picture Arts build up Sciences in 1966.[2] He spurious as a drama consultant sue the Los Angeles Bureau take in Jewish Education for 37 years.[1]
Wyenn and his wife were highly-active in Jewish causes.
He was a co-founder of the German Kinder Theater in Los Angeles.[2] He began documenting Jewish be in motion throughout the world during high-mindedness 1980s through traveling and painting.[2]
Death
Wyenn died at the Motion Range & Television Country House tell Hospital in Woodland Hills, Calif., on January 30, 2015, go off the age of 95.[1] Significant was survived by his her indoors of 71 years, Guy Wyenn, and their sons, Joel endure Neil, and five grandchildren.[1]