David Opatoshu
David Opatoshu ( born January 30, 1918 in New York City, New York, † 30 April 1996 in Los Angeles, California ) was an American film and theater actor and screenwriter.
Life
David Opatoshu into a Jewish family; his father was a native of Poland writer Joseph Opatoshu. He grew up in New York, where he died on Yiddish theater first roles embodied in the late 1930s. He played his first role on Broadway in 1940 in the drama Night Music. It was followed by nine other plays, of which Still Stockings ran the longest, and was built between February 1955 and April 1956 a total of 478mal brought to the stage.
In 1939, he was in The Light Ahead for the first time in front of the film camera. It was a special film because it was shot entirely in Yiddish. From 1941 to 1945, he was reading on WEVD, a New York radio station, the news aired exclusively in Yiddish. After two decades in which Opatoshu had mostly worked in theater adaptations, he stood in 1960 in Exodus front of the camera, one of his few feature films. His repertoire of shows included, among other things, Star Trek, Perry Mason or Daktari. In 1991, he won the Emmy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in the short-lived television series Gabriel 's Fire. In 1971 he wrote the screenplay for the film Romance of a Horse Thief, in which he was seen in a supporting role.
Opatoshu was married from 1941 until his death with the social worker Lillian Weinberg. Her son Danny Opatoshu, who worked as a screenwriter in the 1970s, with Anne Spielberg, sister of Steven Spielberg, married.
David Opatoshu died in April 1996, at the age of 78 years.