Posted on 08/02/2013 12:09:20 PM PDT by EveningStar
Thank you very much for posting that! I just finished the episode. It’s proof low-budget TV still can be fun!
He was on “I Dream of Jeannie” a lot too — as a genie from Baghdad, as a NASA specialist and also as a Hawaiian king on the show’s trip to Hawaii in the late 1960s...
I just read the article. He was actually married to Barbara Eden for a while.
Michael Ansara was always my favorite Klingon (though I never told my wife that).
That said, he used to scare the hell out of me as the Blue Djinn (but, hey, I was about 5 the first time I saw him).
My first D&D character was a warrior named Ansara. Oddly, only one person ever caught on.
I can picture it even though I haven't seen it over 40, er, 35, um.... 30 years. Yeah, that's the ticket.
And his voicework as Mr. Freeze in Batman: the Animated Series was the best. I loved Subzero. He made Mr. Freeze a tragic, sympathetic character, which I had no problem with. (Do that with Joker, Riddler or Penguin and I’ve have a problem.)
Yeah, I found that out on imdb/wiki after I posted. They had one child together - Matthew - who became an actor like both his parents. He was the only child either of them had in any of their marriages. Sadly, he died in his early 30s of an accidental heroin overdose.
I saw a commercial for Chuck Connor as Geronimo earlier this evening. Michael Ansara did a much better job!
Oh yeah! I remember the '63-'64 TV season like it was yesterday. That's the year we were in the States, living with my Grandma in NW Ohio, and getting the Toledo & Detroit stations.
Wagon Train, My Favorite Martian, WWODisney competing w/ Ed Sullivan on Sunday evenings, The Flintstones, The Rifleman, Combat, Johnny Yuma ("was a Rebel, he roaaaaaaaamed thru the West"), Outer Limits, Ripcord, Bugs Bunny Road Runner Hour, Red Skelton, Jackie Gleason, Patty Duke, Burke's Law, Sea Hunt, Ozzie & Harriet, Andy Griffith, Candid Camera, .... and a number of game shows like Password, The Price is Right, Let's Make a Deal, The Match Game....
Of course, some of these shows were in syndication by that time, but I think most of them were freshly made.
Then there was watching Lee Harvey Oswald get shot in real time in a courthouse garage - soon followed by the solemn JFK funeral in DC with the caissons and the Marines and JohnJohn. Didn't see the famous Beatles-on-Ed-Sullivan episode, because we were watching WWODisney that night - I seem to remember it was an installment of The Scarecrow / Dr. Syn. (so either choice was British - either four MopTops, or British actors in scarecrow outfits on horseback being chased by Redcoats).
Enjoyed his work. Always had a commanding presence in his roles. RIP.
I thought that dude was dead already. RIP
Khp’Lah!
Kang has gone to StoVoKor.
I'd bet he'd have made an interesting read of the Bible.
I have James Earl Jones reading the entire KJV. Freaking awesome.
He was a heck of an actor.
Prayers for his family.
Godspeed Mr. Ansara.
Lt. Commander Data: I believe, sir, that was the first time outsiders have witnessed the Klingon death ritual.
Captain Jean-Luc Picard: I can understand them looking into the dying man’s eyes. But the howling?
Lt. Commander Data: It was a warning.
Captain Jean-Luc Picard: To whom?
Lt. Commander Data: They are warning the dead, sir: “Beware, a Klingon warrior is about to arrive.”
Batman TAS is probably my favorite filmic version of Batman. The live action films are too heavy handed. TAS gets it right.
RIP
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