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Michael George Ansara (April 15, 1922 – July 31, 2013) was an American actor. He portrayed Cochise in the television series Broken Arrow, Kane in the 1979–1981 series Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Commander Kang in Star Trek: The Original Series, Deputy U.S. Marshal Sam Buckhart in the NBC series Law of the Plainsman, and provided the voice for Mr. Freeze in Batman: The Animated Series and several of its spin-offs.[1][2] Ansara received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his work in the television industry, located at 6666 Hollywood Boulevard.[3][4]

Michael Ansara
Michael Ansara in Law of the Plainsman (1959)
Born	(1922-04-15)April 15, 1922 Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon
Died	July 31, 2013(2013-07-31) (aged 91) Calabasas, California, U.S.
Resting place	Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Hollywood Hills, U.S.
Alma mater	Los Angeles City College
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1944–2001
Spouses	Jean Byron ​ ​ (m. 1955; div. 1956)​ Barbara Eden ​ ​ (m. 1958; div. 1974)​ Beverly Kushida ​ (m. 1977)​
Children	1
Awards	Hollywood Walk of Fame, Western Heritage Award, Saturn Award

Early life

Michael George Ansara was born in a small village in the Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon, and his family immigrated to the United States when he was two years old.[5][6] He was of Greco Lebanese descent.[7] They lived in Lowell, Massachusetts, for a decade before moving to California. He originally wanted to be a physician, but developed a passion for becoming a performer after he began taking acting classes at Pasadena Playhouse to overcome his shyness. He was educated at Los Angeles City College, from which Ansara earned an Associate of Arts degree.[5] Ansara served as a medic in the army during World War II.[7]

Career

Early work

During the 1950s, Ansara appeared in several episodes of Alfred Hitchcock Presents. He appeared in a 1951 episode of The Lone Ranger titled "Trouble at Black Rock." In 1953, he appeared as Pindarus in Joseph Mankiewicz' big screen adaptation of Julius Caesar, with Marlon Brando, James Mason and John Gielgud. However, the popular television series Broken Arrow (1956), wherein he played the lead role of Cochise, raised Ansara's profile and made him a household name. While making the series, the 20th Century-Fox publicity department arranged a date between Ansara and actress Barbara Eden.^{[citation needed]}

The two later married and Ansara guest-starred on Eden's sitcom I Dream of Jeannie as the Blue Djinn. He also played King Kamehameha in the Jeannie episode "The Battle of Waikīkī", and in the final season, he played Major Biff Jellico in the episode "My Sister, the Home Wrecker". Ansara and Eden divorced in 1974. The couple had one son together, actor Matthew Ansara, who died on June 25, 2001, of a heroin overdose.^{[citation needed]}

Ansara starred in his own ABC-TV series, Law of the Plainsman (1959–1960), with Gina Gillespie and Robert Harland. He performed as an Apache Indian named Sam Buckhart, who had been appointed as a U.S. Marshal. The series began as an episode of The Rifleman.^{[citation needed]}

Ansara also played in Biblical epics: The Robe (1953) as Judas Iscariot, The Ten Commandments (1956) as a taskmaster (uncredited), and The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965) as Herod's commander. He also appeared as Belshazzar in Columbia's 1953 movie Slaves of Babylon.^{[citation needed]}

Later career

In 1961, Ansara played the role of Miguel Alvarez in the film Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, co-starring with Barbara Eden and Walter Pidgeon, who played the role of Admiral Harriman Nelson. Ansara later appeared in an episode of the television series Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, playing the rebel sub commander Captain Ruiz in "Killers of the Deep" (1966). He also appeared in the episode "Hot Line" (broadcast on November 9, 1964) as a Soviet scientist who disarms a defective Soviet atomic satellite that has crashed off the coast of California and he appeared as Carl in the episode "Night Visitors" of the NBC anthology series The Barbara Stanwyck Show.

In 1962, he starred in a Broadway show with the silent film actor Ramon Novarro.^{[citation needed]}

In 1964, he made his only guest appearance on Perry Mason as Vince Kabat in "The Case of the Antic Angel." Also that year, he played the lead character of "Qarlo," the Soldier in an episode of The Outer Limits. It opened the second season of shows on 19 September 1964 and was written by acclaimed fantasy writer and novelist Harlan Ellison, adapting it from his short story "Soldier from Tomorrow."^{[citation needed]}

He starred in a supporting role in the 1965 Elvis Presley film, Harum Scarum. His wife, Barbara Eden, had starred in an earlier Elvis film, 1960's Flaming Star.^{[citation needed]}

Ansara played the Ruler on episode 22, "The Challenge," of the television series Lost in Space (March 2, 1966) with a young Kurt Russell as his son Quano. Later that same year, Ansara appeared in the feature film Texas Across the River with Dean Martin. He also appeared on Daniel Boone as Red Sky in a 1966 episode. In another 1966 episode of that series, Ansara portrayed Sebastian Drake. He played two different characters in two episodes of the 1966 science fiction television series The Time Tunnel, Colonel Hruda in episode #11 and the Curator in episode #28 .^{[citation needed]}

Ansara continued appearing in guest starring roles on television, including "The Savage Street", a 1967 episode of the ABC action drama series The Fugitive, "On a Clear Night You Can See Earth", a 1969 episode of the ABC-TV series Land of the Giants, and "The Western", the penultimate episode of the original CBS television series Mission: Impossible, which aired in 1973.^{[citation needed]}

In 1976, Ansara starred in the movie Mohammad, Messenger of God (also titled The Message), about the origin of Islam and the message of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.^{[citation needed]}

In 1978, he starred in the acclaimed miniseries Centennial, based on the novel by James A. Michener. Ansara played the Indian leader Lame Beaver, whose descendants are showcased throughout the centuries alongside the growth of the West and the town that the novel and miniseries are named after.^{[citation needed]}

Ansara played the recurring role of Killer Kane in the 1979–1980 season of Buck Rogers in the 25th Century.^{[citation needed]}

He narrated Paul Goble's "The Gift of the Sacred Dog" at Crow Agency, Montana, on June 17, 1983, and Sheila MacGill-Callahan's "And Still the Turtle Watched" on October 21, 1993, on the PBS series Reading Rainbow.

In 1988, Ansara appeared in an episode of the television series Murder, She Wrote titled "The Last Flight of the Dixie Damsel".

In 1992, he voiced Mr. Freeze in the Batman: The Animated Series episode "Heart of Ice", and won critical acclaim for his performance as the iconic villain. He went on to voice Mr. Freeze in the animated film Batman & Mr. Freeze: SubZero, an episode of both The New Batman Adventures and Batman Beyond, and the video game Batman: Vengeance.

In 1994, Ansara portrayed the Technomage Elric in the Babylon 5 episode "The Geometry of Shadows".

Star Trek

He is one of nine actors to play the same character (in his case the Klingon commander Kang) on three Star Trek television series – the original series ("Day of the Dove"), Deep Space Nine ("Blood Oath") and Voyager ("Flashback").[8]

Awards and honors

Ansara was nominated for a Saturn Award, and has won a Western Heritage Award for Rawhide.^{[citation needed]}

On February 8, 1960, Ansara received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his work in the television industry, located at 6666 Hollywood Boulevard.[3][4]

Personal life and death

Ansara was married three times, first to actress Jean Byron in 1955; the couple divorced in 1956. In 1958, Ansara married Barbara Eden, who co-starred with him in Irwin Allen's Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea. The couple had a son, Matthew Ansara. Ansara and Eden divorced in 1974, and he married actress Beverly Kushida in 1977.[9] On June 25, 2001, his son Matthew died from a drug overdose in Monrovia, California. Ansara was a Greek Orthodox Christian.[10][11][12]

Ansara died from complications of Alzheimer's disease[13] at his home in Calabasas on July 31, 2013, at the age of 91.[14] His interment is at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in the Hollywood Hills of Los Angeles, next to his son Matthew.[15]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1944	Action in Arabia	Hamid	Uncredited
	Can't Help Singing	California Caballero	Uncredited
1947	Intrigue	Ramon's Radio Man
1948	Queen Esther	Zubal
1949	Outpost in Morocco	Rifle Dispenser	Uncredited
1950	The Desert Film	Guard	Uncredited
	South Sea Sinner	Native Policeman	Uncredited
	Kim	Harem Guard	Uncredited
1951	Soldiers Three	Manik Rao
	Only the Valiant	Tucsos
	Smuggler's Island	Sikh Policeman	Uncredited
	Bannerline	Floyd
	My Favorite Spy	House Servant	Uncredited
1952	Brave Warrior	The Prophet
	Diplomatic Courier	Ivan	Uncredited
	Yankee Buccaneer	Lt. Romero
	The Golden Hawk	Bernardo Díaz
	Road to Bali	Guard	Uncredited
1953	The Lawless Breed	Gus Hanley	Uncredited
	The Bandits of Corsica	Blacksmith
	Julius Caesar	Pindarus
	Serpent of the Nile	Captain Florus
	White Witch Doctor	De Gama	Uncredited
	The Robe	Judas	Uncredited
	Slaves of Babylon	Prince Belshazzar
	The Diamond Queen	Mir Jumla, the Mogul's general
1954	Three Young Texans	Apache Joe
	Drums of Tahiti	Opening Narrator	Uncredited
	The Saracen Blade	Count Alesandro Siniscola
	Princess of the Nile	Captain Kral
	The Egyptian	Hittite Commander	Uncredited
	Bengal Brigade	Sgt. Major Puran Singh
	Sign of the Pagan	Edecon	Dragnet
1955	Jupiter's Darling	Maharbal
	New Orleans Uncensored	Floyd 'Zero' Saxon
	Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy	Charlie
1956	Diane	Count Ridolfi
	The Lone Ranger	Angry Horse
	Gun Brothers	Shawnee Jack
	The Ten Commandments	Taskmaster	Uncredited
	Pillars of the Sky	Kamiakin
1957	Last of the Badmen	Kramer
	Quantez	Delgadito
	The Tall Stranger	Zarata
	The Sad Sack	Moki	Uncredited
1961	Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea	Miguel Alvarez
	The Comancheros	Amelung
1964	Quick, Let's Get Married	Mayor Pablo
1965	The Greatest Story Ever Told	Herod's Commander
	Harum Scarum	Prince Dragna
1966	...And Now Miguel	Blas Chavez
	Texas Across the River	Iron Jacket
1968	The Destructors	Count Mario Romano
	Sol Madrid	Capt. Ortega
	Daring Game	President Eduardo Delgado
	The Pink Jungle	Raul Ortega
1969	Guns of the Magnificent Seven	Col. Diego
1970	The Phynx	Col. Rostinov
1972	Dear Dead Delilah	Morgan Charles
	Stand Up and Be Counted	Playboy Speaker
1973	The Doll Squad	Eamon O'Reilly
1974	It's Alive	The Captain
	The Bears and I	Oliver Red Fern
1976	The Message	Abu Sufyan
1977	Day of the Animals	Daniel Santee
	Mission to Glory: A True Story	Chief Coxi
	The Manitou	John Singing Rock
1981	The Guns and the Fury	Prince Sohrab
1984	Access Code	Senator Dales
1985	KGB: The Secret War	Lyman Taylor
1986	Knights of the City	Mr. Delamo
1987	Assassination	Sen. Bunsen
1990	Border Shootout	Chuluha
1998	Batman & Mr. Freeze: SubZero	Dr. Victor Fries / Mr. Freeze (voice)	Direct-to-video
1999	The Long Road Home	Murdock Haynes	(final film role)

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1951	Family Theater	Decius	Episode: "That I May See"
			Episode: "Hill Number One: A Story of Faith and Inspiration"
1954	Dragnet	Carl Chapman	Episode: "The Big Rod"
1956	Alfred Hitchcock Presents	Desar	Episode: "The Orderly World of Mr. Appleby"
		Mr. DeMario	Episode: "The Baby Sitter"
		Butcher	Episode: "Shopping for Death"
1956–1958	Broken Arrow	Cochise	Contract role
1957	Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans	Ogana	Episode: "Hawkeye's Homecoming"
1959	The Rifleman	Deputy Marshal Sam Buckhart	Episode: "The Indian"
			Episode: "The Raid"
1959–60	Law of the Plainsman		Contract role
1960	The Untouchables	Charlie Steuben	Episode: "Nicky"
	The Rebel	Docker Mason	Episode: "The Champ"
1961	The Untouchables	Rafael Torrez	Episode: "The Jamaica Ginger Story"
	Wagon Train	Northstar	Episode: "The Patience Miller Story"
1963	Rawhide	Joseph	Episode: "Incident of Iron Bull"
1964	Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea	Malinoff	Episode: "Hot Line"
	Perry Mason	Vince Kabat	Episode: "The Case of the Antic Angel"
	The Outer Limits	Quarlo Clobregnny	Episode: "Soldier"
1965	The Virginian	Marshall Merle Frome	Episode: "The Showdown"
	Branded	Thomas Frye	Episode: "The Bounty"
1966	Lost in Space	The Ruler	Episode: "The Challenge"
	I Dream of Jeannie	Blue Djinn	Episode: "Happy Anniversary"
	Bewitched	Rufus the Red	Episode: "A Most Unusual Wood Nymph"
	The Virginian	Paul Dallman	Episode: "High Stakes"
1967	Gunsmoke	Grey Horse	Episode: "Honor Before Justice"
		Luke Todd	Episode: "The Returning"
	The Fugitive	Officer Miguel 'Mike' Anza	Episode: "The Savage Street"
	The Time Tunnel	Curator	Episode: "The Kidnappers"
1968	I Dream of Jeannie	King Kamehameha	Episode: "The Battle of Waikīkī"
	Star Trek	Commander Kang	Episode: "Day of the Dove"
1969	Target: Harry	Maj. Milos Segora	TV movie intended as a television pilot
	I Dream of Jeannie	Major Biff Jellico	Episode: "My Sister, the Homewrecker"
1971	The Mod Squad	Ray Abruzzi	Episode: "A Double for Danger"
	Bearcats!	Paco Morales	Episode: "Powderkeg"
1972	The Streets of San Francisco	Albert 'Al' Ferguson	Episode: "The Year of the Locusts"
	Hawaii Five-O	Piro Manoa	Episode: "Death is a Company Policy"
1973	Call To Danger	Frank Mulvey	TV movie
	Mission: Impossible	Ed Stoner	Episode: "The Western"
	Ordeal	Sheriff Peter Geeson	TV movie
1974	Nakia	Howard Gray Hawk	Episode: "The Dream"
1975	The Barbary Coast	Diamond Jack Bassiter	Episode: "Pilot"
1976	The Rockford Files	Joseph DiMinna	Episode: "Joey Blue Eyes"
	Kojak	Keith McCallum	Episode: "Justice Deferred"
1978	Dr. Strange	Yao/Ancient One (voice)	TV Movie Uncredited
1978–79	Centennial	Lame Beaver	Miniseries
1979	The Story of Esther	Haman	TV movie
1979–80	Buck Rogers in the 25th Century	Kane	Recurring
1980	CHiPs	Nathan McCallister	Episode: The Poachers
1981	Thundarr the Barbarian	Vashtar (voice)	Episode: "Prophecy of Peril"
	Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends	Hiawatha Smith (voice)	Episode: "Quest of the Red Skull"
1982	Bayou Romance	Zanko	TV movie
1983	Reading Rainbow	Self - Narrator (voice)	Episode: "Gift of the Sacred Dog"
1984	The Fantastic World of D.C. Collins	Turk	TV movie
1986	Rambo: The Force of Freedom	General Warhawk (voice)	63 Episodes
1985	Hunter	General Mariano	Episode: "Rape and Revenge, Part 2"
1988	Murder, She Wrote	Nicholas Rossi	Episode: "The Last Flight of the Dixie Damsel"
1992–1994	Batman: The Animated Series	Mr. Freeze / Dr. Victor Fries (voice)	Episodes: "Heart of Ice" and "Deep Freeze"
1993	Reading Rainbow	Self - Narrator (voice)	Episode: "And Still the Turtle Watched"
1994	Babylon 5	Elric	Episode: "The Geometry of Shadows"
	Star Trek: Deep Space Nine	Kang	Episodes "Blood Oath"
1996		Jeyal	Episode: "The Muse"
	Star Trek: Voyager	Kang	Episode: "Flashback"
1997	The New Batman Adventures	Mr. Freeze / Dr. Victor Fries (voice)	Episode: "Cold Comfort"
1999	Batman Beyond		Episode: "Meltdown"

Video Games

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2001	Batman: Vengeance	Mr. Freeze / Dr. Victor Fries (voice)	Final acting role before retirement

Videos

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1997	Johnny Mysto: Boy Wizard	Malfeasor

Other credits

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1961	Here's Hollywood	Self	Episode: "1.102"
1967	The Mike Douglas Show		Episode: "6.170"
1970	Philbin's People		Episode: "1.31"
	I Dream of Jeannie	Director	Episode: "One Jeannie Beats Four of a Kind"
	The Fountain of Groovy	Self	Television documentary
1971	Jerry Visits		Episode: 2 October 1971
	Celebrity Bowling		Episode: "Dick Martin & Billy Barty vs. John Schuck & Michael Ansara"
1972	This Is Your Life		Episode: "Barbara Eden"
1976	The Wonderful World of Disney	Oliver Red Fern	Episodes: "The Bears and I, parts 1 and 2" Archival footage
1978	Celebrity Bowling	Self	Episode: "Michael Ansara & Dick Martin vs. Leslie Nielsen & Jimmie Walker"
	ABC's Silver Anniversary Celebration		TV Special
1979	When the West Was Fun: A Western Reunion		Television documentary
1980	Buck Rogers in the 25th Century	Kane	Episode: "A Blast for Buck" Archival footage
2000	The Exchange	Executive producer	Written and directed by Ed Nicoletti
	The E! True Hollywood Story	Self	TV Series documentary
2010	Cinemassacre's Monster Madness	John Singing Rock	Episode: "The Manitou" Archival footage
2013	65th Primetime Emmy Awards	Self	Segment: In Memoriam Archival footage
2014	20th Screen Actors Guild Awards		Segment: In Memoriam Archival footage

References

External links

• Michael Ansara at IMDb
• Michael Ansara at Find a Grave
• Michael Ansara at the Internet Broadway Database
• Michael Ansara at AllMovie
• Michael Ansara at Memory Alpha (a Star Trek wiki)

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[de] Michael Ansara

Michael Ansara (* 15. April 1922 in Syrien; † 31. Juli 2013 in Calabasas, Kalifornien[1]) war ein US-amerikanischer Schauspieler.

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- [en] Michael Ansara

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[es] Michael Ansara

Michael George Ansara (Siria, 15 de abril de 1922-Calabazas, 31 de julio de 2013) fue un actor sirio-estadounidense de cine, teatro, televisión, de doblaje y de radio conocido por su papel de Mr. Freeze (Señor Frío en Latinoamérica) en Batman: The Animated Series.

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[ru] Ансара, Майкл

Майкл Джордж Ансара (англ. Michael Ansara; 15 апреля 1922 — 31 июля 2013) — американский актёр театра и кино родом из Сирии. Снимался в эпизодических ролях во многих фильмах и сериалах, таких как «Она написала убийство», «Звёздный путь», «Моя жена меня приворожила», «Альфред Хичкок представляет», «Величайшая из когда-либо рассказанных историй». Озвучивал мистера Фриза в мультсериале «Бэтмен» и его спин-оффах.

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