UNCLE Episodes 30 and 31 Guest Star: David Opotochu

- September 09, 2019

David Opatoshu (born David Opatovsky; January 30, 1918 – April 30, 1996) was an American actor. He is best known for his role in the film Exodus (1960). Opatoshu began his acting career in the Yiddish theater and made his Broadway debut in the 1937 play Golden Boy. He then appeared in numerous television series and films. In 1991, he won a Primetime Emmy Award for his role in the episode "A Prayer For The Goldsteins" of the television series Gabriel's Fire.

His career in television began in 1949 and lasted through the 1980s. In the fall of 1953, he played a theatrical agent representing Ezio Pinza's title character in the NBC situation comedy Bonino. Other costars were Mary Wickes, Chet Allen, and Van Dyke Parks. The series focused upon an Italian American opera singer trying to rear his six children after having been widowed.

In 1963 he co-starred with James Doohan in an episode of The Twilight Zone, titled "Valley of the Shadow". He guest-starred in the 1964 The Outer Limits episode "A Feasibility Study"; in the 1965 Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea episode "The Price of Doom'; and in the 1965 two-part episode of The Man from U.N.C.L.E. called "The Alexander the Greater Affair". In 1967 he played Anan 7 in the original Star Trek series episode "A Taste of Armageddon", and also in the 1969 season 3 Ironside episode "L'Chayim", and in Mannix, in the episode "A Pittance of Faith", as Mr. Lardelli, in the same year.

David Opatoshu died in April 30, 1996 (aged 78) in Los Angeles, California, U.S.