Ansara's most recent feature film was the 1999 independent drama The Long Road Home.Īnsara was born in a small village in Syria in 1922 and emigrated with his family to the United States when he was two years old. He then appeared in the 1990 western Border Shootout. He later worked with Walter Gotell and Sally Kellerman in the 1986 drama KGB: The Secret War and with Jill Ireland in the 1987 action thriller Assassination.
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Michael's subsequent films include Bayou Romance (1982) and Access Code (1984), both with Michael Durrell. Ansara then starred in the 1978 horror film The Manitou, for which he received a Saturn Award nomination from the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films as Best Supporting Actor. This film chronicled the life of the Prophet Muhammad, the founder of Islam. In 1974, Ansara played The Captain in the cult horror film It's Alive! In 1976, Ansara starred in the highly-controversial film Mohammad, Messenger of God (known in the US as The Messenger).
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Ansara later played a prince in the Gene Nelson-directed 1965 Elvis Presley movie Harum Scarum and a Comanche chief in the 1966 western Texas Across the River. That same year, he had a supporting role in the western adventure The Comancheros, along with Nehemiah Persoff. In Irwin Allen's 1961 science fiction classic Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Ansara portrayed scientist Miguel Alvarez. As the Hittite commander in The Egyptian (1954), he had only two lines, but presented a Klingon-like appearance, declaring " No Hittite warrior cries out in pain!" Ansara appeared in Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy (1954), as Charlie. More recently, Ansara voiced Freeze in the video games Batman: Vengeance.Īnsara's many feature film credits include Julius Caesar (1953), The Comancheros (1961, starring John Wayne), and Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1961). The aforementioned Loren Lester and Robert Costanzo also lent their voices to this movie, again playing their respective characters of Robin and Detective Bullock.
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Freeze in the 1998 direct-to-video release SubZero, set between the events of Batman: The Animated Series and The New Batman Adventures. He later voiced the role in the animated series The New Batman Adventures and Batman Beyond. He has voiced the character several times between 19, beginning with Batman: The Animated Series. Freeze on various animated Batman series. In 1994, Ansara appeared as a technomage on the science fiction television series Babylon 5.Īnsara has become recognizable as the voice of the DC Comics character Mr.
In the 1980s, he guest-starred on such television series as Fantasy Island, CHiPs, Simon & Simon, Hardcastle and McCormick, and Murder, She Wrote.
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Ansara also worked with Leonard Nimoy twice before they appeared together on Star Trek, first in a 1957 episode of Broken Arrow and again in a 1965 episode of The Virginian.Īnsara played the villain Killer Kane in four episodes of the 1979-1981 sci-fi TV series Buck Rogers in the 25th Century. He previously co-starred with Shatner in his pre- Trek days in a 1964 episode of Burke's Law. He appeared in two other episodes of Rawhide, including "Incident at Rio Doloroso", in which he and fellow TOS guest star Madlyn Rhue portrayed husband-and-wife.Īnsara had a role in the pilot for the 1975 TV series Barbary Coast, starring William Shatner. He also played a Native American character in the 1978 mini-series Centennial.Īnsara won a Bronze Wrangler for his performance in the 1963 Rawhide episode "Incident of Iron Bull". He then starred as Native American US Marshal Sam Buckhart on NBC's short-lived Western television series Law of the Plainsman. This was the case for his starring role as Chief Cochise on the ABC TV western series Broken Arrow from 1956 through 1958, for which he is probably best remembered. He later appeared in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "The Muse" as a different character.ĭue to his complexion, Ansara was often cast in the role of a Native American.
Michael also has the distinction of not only having appeared in another popular 1960s NBC-TV series which gained a cult following, that would become an American icon in syndication, Star Trek, but he also has the distinction for appearing in the same character in three Star Trek series Michael played Klingon Commander Kang in three Star Trek episodes, each from a different series, namely the Star Trek episode "Day of the Dove", Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "Blood Oath", and the Star Trek: Voyager episode "Flashback".
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