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Oppenheimer in 2015
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Born |
Alan Louis Oppenheimer April 23, 1930 New York, New York, U.S. |
Occupation | Actor, voice actor |
Years active | 1956–present |
Spouse(s) | Marianna Elliot (1958-19??; divorced) Marilyn Greenwood (m. 1984; div. 1990) Marianna Elliot (m. 1992; d. 2003) |
Children | 3 |
Alan Louis Oppenheimer (born April 23, 1930) is an American actor and voice actor. He has performed numerous roles on live-action television since the 1960s, and has had an active career doing voice work in cartoons since the 1970s.
Alan Louis Oppenheimer was born April 23, 1930 in New York City, New York on April 23, 1930, the son of Irene (née Rothschild) (1904-1991) and Louis E. Oppenheimer (1901-1984), who was a stockbroker. He is the third cousin of J. Robert Oppenheimer.
As a character actor, Oppenheimer has had diverse roles in popular American television programming, from playing a Nazi in Hogan's Heroes, to playing an Israeli secret agent as well as a double-agent KAOS scientist on Get Smart, to being the second actor to play Dr. Rudy Wells in The Six Million Dollar Man (Martin Balsam played the role in the pilot telemovie). Oppenheimer took over as Rudy starting with the second film, "Wine, Women and War" and kept playing up until the introduction of the bionic woman in 1975, whereupon Martin E. Brooks took over as Wells until cancellation). He was the original Mickey Malph (Ralph Malph's dad) on Happy Days. He played a recurring role during the first two seasons of St. Elsewhere as Helen Rosenthal's husband, Ira. He had a recurring role as Mayor Alvin B. Tutwiller on Mama's Family.
Alan showed himself well suited to the science fiction genre in the 1973 cult classic Westworld, where he played the head IT technician. He has also appeared in three Star Trek series, always playing a different character. He appeared in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Rightful Heir" as a Klingon cleric, Koroth, a primary instigator of the cloning of Kahless, on Deep Space Nine as a Starfleet Captain Declan Keogh in command of the USS Odyssey, and as an alien ambassador in Voyager.