Alan Oppenheimer

Infobox actor


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name = Alan Oppenheimer
birthdate = April 23 1930 (age 78)
birthplace = New York City, New York

Alan Oppenheimer (born April 23 1930) is an American voice actor who has had an active career in cartoons since the 1970s.

Biography

As a character actor

As a character actor, Oppenheimer has had diverse roles in popular American television programming, from playing a Nazi in "Hogan's Heroes" to being the second actor to play Dr. Rudy Wells in "The Six Million Dollar Man" (Martin Balsam played the role in the pilot movie; Oppenheimer took it over starting with the second film, "Wine, Women and War"). He also had a recurring role on the 1980s medical drama "St. Elsewhere", as Helen Rosenthal's husband Ira.

He has appeared in three of the more recent "Star Trek" series, always playing a different character. He appeared in the ' episode "Rightful Heir" as a Klingon cleric, Koroth, a primary instigator of the cloning of Kahless, on ' as a Starfleet Captain named Keogh in command of the "USS Odyssey", and as an alien ambassador in "".

Alan Oppenheimer appeared as film director Cecil B. DeMille in the 1994 Broadway production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's "Sunset Blvd." [ [http://broadwaymusicalhome.com/shows/sunset.htm The Broadway Musical Home - Sunset Boulevard ] ]

Voice roles

He is recognised as the voice of many characters, often for Filmation in the 1970s and 80s, such as Mighty Mouse, Ming the Merciless on "Flash Gordon", the Overlord on "BlackStar", and Skeletor, Man-At-Arms and Mer-Man from Filmation's 1980s cartoon "He-Man and the Masters of the Universe". Other notable roles include Vanity on "The Smurfs" and Falkor and Gmork from 1984's "The NeverEnding Story" He also performed various supporting roles in various incarnations of "Scooby-Doo". He took over the voice of Roger Smith's butler Norman Burg in the second season of "The Big O". Oppenheimer also worked on "Transformers", most notably as two contrasting characters, the pacifist Beachcomber and the bellicose Warpath. He was the voice of Alistair Crane on the soap opera "Passions" up until 2004 (when the character was made fully visible, played by David Bailey).

He has also done voice acting video games, voicing Prometheus in "God of War II" and Jandor the Airship Captain in "Nox".

Personal life

Oppenheimer was born in New York City, New York, the son of Irene (née Rothschild) and Louis E. Oppenheimer, who was a stockbroker. [ [http://www.filmreference.com/film/93/Alan-Oppenheimer.html Alan Oppenheimer Biography (1930-) ] ] He was married to costume designer Marianna Elliott and professional tennis player Marilyn Greenwood, and has three children.

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