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Alan Oppenheimer
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Oppenheimer at the 2015 Phoenix Comicon
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| Born | April 23, 1930 New York City, U.S.
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| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1956–present |
| Spouse(s) | Marianna Elliott (m. 1958; div. 19??; m. 1992; died 2003) |
| Children | 3 |
Alan Oppenheimer is an American actor born on April 23, 1930. He has been acting in TV shows since the 1960s. He is also famous for his voice work in cartoons and movies, which he started in the 1970s.
Early Life of Alan Oppenheimer
Oppenheimer was born in New York City, United States, on April 23, 1930. His parents were Louis and Irene Oppenheimer. His father worked as a stockbroker.
Alan Oppenheimer's Acting Career
Alan Oppenheimer has had a long and interesting career. He has played many different characters in live-action TV shows. He is also well-known for his voice acting in cartoons and animated movies.
Live-Action TV Roles
Oppenheimer played many different characters on popular American TV shows. He was a soldier in Hogan's Heroes. He also played a secret agent on Get Smart.
He was the second actor to play Dr. Rudy Wells in The Six Million Dollar Man. He appeared in Happy Days as Mickey Malph's dad. He also had a role as Mayor Alvin B. Tutwiller on Mama's Family.
Oppenheimer appeared in the 1973 movie Westworld. He played the main computer technician. He also appeared in three different Star Trek TV series. In each show, he played a new character.
He was a Klingon cleric in Star Trek: The Next Generation. He played a Starfleet Captain in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. He was also an alien ambassador in Star Trek: Voyager.
Voice Acting Roles
Oppenheimer (left) with Jim Cummings (middle) and Loren Lester (right) in 2015
Alan Oppenheimer has voiced many famous characters. He often worked for the company Filmation in the 1970s and 1980s.
He was the voice of Ming the Merciless in Flash Gordon. He also voiced Skeletor, Man-At-Arms, and Mer-Man in He-Man and the Masters of the Universe. He was Prime Evil in Filmation's Ghostbusters.
Other voice roles include characters in Thundarr the Barbarian and Vanity in The Smurfs. He voiced Falkor, Gmork, Rockbiter, and the Narrator in The NeverEnding Story (1984). In the 1990s, he was Merlin in The Legend of Prince Valiant.
Oppenheimer also worked on The Transformers. He voiced Beachcomber and Warpath. He was the voice of Roger Smith's butler, Norman Burg, in The Big O.
More recently, he voiced the Scientist in the 2009 animated film 9. He also voiced Batman's butler, Alfred Pennyworth, in Superman/Batman: Public Enemies.
Oppenheimer has also voiced characters in video games. He was Dr. Piotr Ivanovich in Soldier of Fortune II: Double Helix. He voiced Prometheus in God of War II. He also played Harold in Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel.
In 2019, Oppenheimer was a guest voice on the animated series Tigtone. He also voiced Old Timer in Toy Story 4.
Alan Oppenheimer's Personal Life
Alan Oppenheimer married costume designer Marianna Elliott in 1958. They had three children together. They later divorced but got married again in 1992. They stayed married until Marianna passed away in 2003.
Film and TV Appearances
Alan Oppenheimer has been in many films and TV shows. Here are some of them:
Films
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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| 1966 | Gammera the Invincible | Dr. Contrare | |
| 1967 | Gunn | Whiteside | Credited as Allan Oppenheimer |
| 1968 | How to Save a Marriage and Ruin Your Life | Everett Bauer | |
| Star! | Andre Charlot, Producer | ||
| Up Tight! | Unctuous Man in Arcade | ||
| 1969 | The Maltese Bippy | Adolph Springer | |
| 1970 | Little Big Man | Major | |
| 1972 | The Groundstar Conspiracy | General Hackett | |
| 1973 | The Thief Who Came to Dinner | Insurance Man | |
| Westworld | Chief Supervisor | ||
| 1975 | Win, Place or Steal | Lt. Mannite | |
| The Lives of Jenny Dolan | Springfield | ||
| The Hindenburg | Albert Breslau | ||
| 1976 | Helter Skelter | Aaron Stovitz | |
| Freaky Friday | Mr. Joffert | ||
| 1978 | Record City | Blind Man | |
| 1979 | A Pleasure Doing Business | Marvin | |
| 1980 | Private Benjamin | Rabbi | |
| 1981 | Macbeth | Duncan | |
| 1982 | Mighty Mouse in the Great Space Chase | Mighty Mouse | Voice |
| 1984 | The NeverEnding Story | Falkor, Gmork, Rockbiter | Voices |
| 1985 | The Secret of the Sword | Skeletor, Man-At-Arms, Cringer / Battle Cat, Bald Rebel, Chef Alan | |
| He-Man & She-Ra: A Christmas Special | Skeletor, Man-At-Arms, Zipper | Voices | |
| 1988 | BraveStarr: The Movie | Handlebar, Outlaw Scuzz, Stampede | |
| Moving | Mr. Cadell | ||
| 1989 | Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland | Oomp | Voice |
| 1992 | Love Field | Announcer | |
| 1993 | Invisible: The Chronicles of Benjamin Knight | Dr. Knox | |
| 1994 | Trancers 5: Sudden Deth | Farr | |
| 1997 | Culture | ||
| 2008 | Juan Frances: Live | Mr. French | |
| 2009 | The Secret Life of Bees | Additional voices | |
| 9 | The Scientist | Voice | |
| Superman/Batman: Public Enemies | Alfred Pennyworth | ||
| 2014 | Foxcatcher | Du Point Dynasty Narrator | |
| 2017 | Best Fiends: Boot Camp | King Slug | |
| 2019 | Toy Story 4 | Old Timer | Voices |
| 2022 | Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers | He-Man, Skeletor |
Television
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1964 | The Defenders | Dr. Frick | |
| 1966 | The Felony Squad | Ed Clark | |
| The F.B.I. | Ludovic Krols | ||
| 1966–1967 | I Spy | Colonel Benkovsky | |
| 1967 | It's About Time | Pettijohn | |
| He & She | Murray Mouse | ||
| Judd for the Defense | District Attorney Tom Rogers | ||
| Get Smart | Agent 498 | ||
| 1967–1969 | Hogan's Heroes | Colonel Sitzer, Herman Freitag, Major Byron Buckles, Wilhelm | |
| 1968 | The Andy Griffith Show | Mr. Ruskin | |
| The Name of the Game | Harvey | ||
| Here Come the Brides | Benet | ||
| 1968–1971 | The Mod Squad | Bob Ross, Phil Norval | |
| 1969 | Lancer | Dan'l Drew | |
| The Queen and I | H.R. Martin | ||
| My Friend Tony | Dr. Mink | ||
| The Bill Cosby Show | Dwight McDevitt | ||
| Ironside | Arnold Cane | ||
| The Mod Squad | Phil Norval | ||
| 1969–1970 | That Girl | Dr. Globe, Morgan Jerome, Mr. Katz, Stewart Hurly | |
| Here Come the Brides | Benet, Victor | ||
| 1970 | I Dream of Jeannie | Congressman Farragut | |
| Hastings Corner | Dr. Byron Dorman | ||
| My World and Welcome to It | The Principal | ||
| Three for Tahiti | Cecil Barrett | ||
| The Governor & J.J. | Mr. Federenko | ||
| The High Chaparral | Sweets | ||
| The Bold Ones: The Lawyers | George Hartnell | ||
| 1971 | The Partridge Family | Wink Burgess | |
| Love, American Style | Captain Blodgett | ||
| Inside O.U.T. | Edgar Winston | ||
| The Good Life | Rolls Royce manager | ||
| McCloud | Mervin Simmons | ||
| The Jimmy Stewart Show | Prof. Lokacs | ||
| Nichols | Averrel | ||
| 1971–1972 | The Courtship of Eddie's Father | Sy Freeman | |
| Bonanza | Darius Dalrymple, Ernesto, Wentworth | ||
| Insight | Marty, Sergeant Varron | ||
| The Doris Day Show | Marvin Patterson, The Doctor | ||
| 1972 | The Paul Lynde Show | Fletcher Lyons | |
| Bewitched | Blades Buckholtzer | ||
| Here's Lucy | Dr. Parker, Herb Hinkley | ||
| 1973 | Butch Cassidy | Additional voices | |
| Goober and the Ghost Chasers | |||
| Speed Buggy | |||
| The New Scooby-Doo Movies | Windmaker #4 | Voice | |
| Inch High, Private Eye | Additional voices | ||
| Wait Till Your Father Gets Home | |||
| 1973–1974 | The Six Million Dollar Man | Dr. Rudy Wells | |
| 1974, 1979 | ABC Afterschool Special | First Cadet, de Brigny, John Hocker | Voice, 2 episodes |
| 1974 | Valley of the Dinosaurs | Gorok | Voice |
| Hong Kong Phooey | Additional voices | ||
| 1975 | Uncle Croc's Block | Fraidy Cat, Tinker, Dog | Voice |
| Fraidy Cat | |||
| The Tom and Jerry Show | Ringmaster, Sapstone | Voice, 2 episodes | |
| 1976–1978 | The Scooby-Doo Show | Scooby-Dum, Jim Rivets, Mr. Collins, Tarlof, Officer Oldfield, Squire Marley, Jean Pierre Baptiste, Chin Wong Sing | Voice |
| 1976–1979 | Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle | Tomos, Orbin, Phobeg | Voice |
| 1977 | Washington: Behind Closed Doors | Simon Cappell | |
| CB Bears | Sidney Merciless | Voice | |
| Scooby's All-Star Laff-A-Lympics | Additional voices | ||
| Space Sentinels | Man-Wolf, Morpheus | Voice, 2 episodes | |
| Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels | Additional voices | Episode: "The Mystery Mansion Mix-Up" | |
| The All New Superfriends Hour | Dr. Cranum (in "The Brain Machine"), (in "The Secret Four"), Hydronoid #2 (in "Invasion of the Hydronoids"), Doctor Fright (in "Doctor Fright"), Wolfman (in "The Man Beasts of Xra"), The Marsh Monster (in "The Marsh Monster"), Captain Shark (in "The Protector"), Gentleman Ghost (in "The Ghost"), Scientist (in "The Ghost") | Voice, 7 episodes | |
| Hawaii Five-O | Bernie Fryer | Episode: "The Friends of Joey Kalima" | |
| 1978 | The Ghost of Flight 401 | Barton | |
| Peeping Times | Miles Rathbourne | ||
| Battle of the Planets | Additional voices | ||
| 1978–1979 | Fabulous Funnies | Captain Katzenjammer, King Guzzle, Irwin, Grelber, Tumbleweeds | Voice |
| Fangface | Additional voices | ||
| 1979 | ABC Weekend Special | 2 episodes | |
| Blind Ambition | George Simonson | ||
| 1979–1980 | The New Adventures of Mighty Mouse and Heckle & Jeckle | Mighty Mouse, Oil Can Harry, Swifty, Narrator | |
| 1979–1981 | The Plastic Man Comedy/Adventure Show | Toyman, Half-Ape | Voice |
| 1979–1982 | The New Adventures of Flash Gordon | Ming the Merciless, Hans Zarkov, Gundar the Desert Hawk | |
| 1980 | Drak Pack | Count Dracula | |
| The Lone Ranger | Additional voices | ||
| 1980–1981 | Thundarr the Barbarian | Mindok the Mind Menace, Muragg, Old Wizard | Voice, 2 episodes |
| 1980–1982 | Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo | Additional voices | |
| 1981 | Blackstar | Carpo, Overlord | Voice |
| 1981–1982 | The Kid Super Power Hour with Shazam! | Uncle Marvel, Doctor Sivana, Tawky Tawny, Shazam | Voice |
| Trollkins | Sheriff Pudge Trollism | Voice | |
| Hero High | Narrator, Mr. Sampson | ||
| 1981–1989 | The Smurfs | Vanity Smurf, Father Time | |
| 1982 | My Smurfy Valentine | Vanity Smurf | Voice, television film |
| Mama's Family | Mayor Tutweller | ||
| The Scooby & Scrappy-Doo/Puppy Hour | Additional voices | ||
| Richie Rich | |||
| The Smurfs Christmas Special | Vanity Smurf | Voice, television film | |
| 1982–1985 | Knight Rider | General Duncton, Joe Lewis | |
| 1983 | The Smurfic Games | Vanity Smurf | Voice, television film |
| 1983–1985 | He-Man and the Masters of the Universe | Skeletor, Cringer / Battle Cat, Man-At-Arms, Mer-Man, Roboto | Voice |
| 1985 | Challenge of the GoBots | Mobius | Voice, episode: "Genius and Son" |
| 1985–1986 | The Transformers | Beachcomber, Breakdown, Seaspray, Warpath | Voice |
| 1985 | The Wuzzles | Rhinokey, Crocosaur, Mr. Packcat | |
| The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo | Mirror Demon, Professor Fantazmo | Voice, 2 episodes | |
| 1985–1987 | She-Ra: Princess of Power | Skeletor, Cringer / Battle Cat, Man-At-Arms | Voice |
| 1986 | The Centurions | Dr. Gates | Voice |
| Ghostbusters | Prime Evil, Fangster, Long John Scarechrome | ||
| Rambo: The Force of Freedom | Sam Trautman | ||
| Karate Kommandos | President | ||
| Strong Medicine | Dr. Townsend | ||
| 1987 | Bionic Six | Professor Amadeus Sharp, Metalhand | Voice |
| Tis The Season To Be Smurfy | Vanity Smurf | Voice, television film | |
| Blondie & Dagwood | Julius Dithers | Voice, TV special | |
| 1987–1988 | BraveStarr | Handlebar, Outlaw Scuzz, Stampede | Voice |
| Snorks | Additional voices | 4 episodes | |
| 1987–1990 | DuckTales | Colonel Beaureguard DuBark, All My Ducklings Actor, Von Doghausen | Voice, 3 episodes |
| 1988 | A Pup Named Scooby-Doo | Additional voices | Season 1 |
| Scooby-Doo! and the Reluctant Werewolf | Mummy, Swamp Thing | Voice, television film | |
| The New Yogi Bear Show | Additional voices | ||
| Superman | Jonathan Kent | Voice | |
| Matlock | Dr. Linder | Episode: "The Heiress" | |
| 1988–1989 | Slimer! and the Real Ghostbusters | Goolem, Morris P. Grout | Voice |
| Fantastic Max | Additional voices | ||
| 1989 | Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers | Plato, Aldrin Klordane, Captain Kernel | Voice |
| X-Men: Pryde of the X-Men | Blob, Colonel Chaffey | Voice, television film | |
| Blondie & Dagwood: Second Wedding Workout | Julius Dithers | Voice, TV special | |
| 1990 | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles | Dr. Polidorius | Voice, episode: "Rebel Without a Fin" |
| The Wizard of Oz | Wizard | Voice | |
| 1991 | TaleSpin | Principal Ed Pomeroy | Voice, episode: "Sheepskin Deep" |
| Captain Planet and the Planeteers | Dr. Borzon | Voice, episode: "Meltdown Syndrome" | |
| Where's Waldo? | Additional voices | ||
| James Bond Jr. | The Chameleon | Voice | |
| Lucy & Desi: Before the Laughter | Arthur Lyons | ||
| 1991–1993 | The Legend of Prince Valiant | Merlin | Voice |
| 1992 | Fish Police | Additional voices | Episode: "The Two Gils" |
| Tom & Jerry Kids | 3 episodes | ||
| The Little Mermaid | Episode: "The Evil Manta" | ||
| 1993 | Bonkers | 2 episodes | |
| I Yabba-Dabba Do! | Television film | ||
| Star Trek: The Next Generation | Koroth | ||
| 1994 | Star Trek: Deep Space Nine | Captain Keogh | |
| Batman: The Animated Series | Auctioneer | Voice, episode: "Time Out of Joint" | |
| Fantastic Four | Watcher, Firelord | Voice, episode: "The Silver Surfer and the Coming of Galactus" | |
| 1994–1995 | Phantom 2040 | Professor Jack Archer | Voice |
| 1997 | Star Trek: Voyager | Nezu Ambassador | |
| 1997–1998 | The New Adventures of Zorro | Additional voices | |
| 1998 | Diagnosis: Murder | Leonard Gould | |
| Invasion America | Additional voices | 3 episodes | |
| Jumanji | Ludwig Von Ritcher | Voice, 2 episodes | |
| 2000 | Rocket Power | Television Announcer | |
| 2001–2004 | Passions | Alistair Crane | |
| 2003 | The Big O | Norman Burg | Voice, English dub |
| 2003, 2006 | The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy | Father Time, Mighty Moe | Voice, 5 episodes |
| 2004 | Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex | Laoban | Voice, episode: "Red Data" |
| 2005 | Clifford's Puppy Days | Mr. Solomon | Voice, 2 episodes |
| 2007 | 'Til Death | Mr. Wallach | Episode: "Performance Anxiety" |
| 2014 | Adventure Time | Darren the Ancient Sleeper, Sun | Voice, episode: "Something Big" |
| 2019 | Tigtone | Beautiful Horse Head | Voice, episode: "Tigtone and the Beautiful War" |
| Forky Asks a Question | Old Timer | Voice, episode: "What is Time?" | |
| 2020 | JJ Villard's Fairy Tales | Mirror Max, Roach, Flea Circus | Voice, episode: "Snow White" |
| 2021 | Masters of the Universe: Revelation | Moss Man | Voice |
| 2022 | He-Man and the Masters of the Universe | King Grayskull | Voice |
Video Games
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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| 1990 | Ys I & II | Darm | English dub |
| 1999 | T'ai Fu: Wrath of the Tiger | Leopard Master | |
| 1999 | Revenant | Ogrok, Urgg | |
| 2000 | Nox | Captain, Necromancer, Lewis | |
| 2000 | Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn | Guardian Telwyn, Sir Sarles, Mornmaster Thaddin Dawnhunter | |
| 2000 | Star Trek: Starfleet Command II: Empires at War | Additional voices | |
| 2000 | Invictus | Additional voices | |
| 2001 | Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel | Harold, Cult Ghoul Thug, Cult Ghoul Soldier | |
| 2002 | Earth & Beyond | Memnon | |
| 2002 | Soldier of Fortune II: Double Helix | Piotr Ivanovich | |
| 2003 | Lionheart: Legacy of the Crusader | Additional voices | |
| 2004 | Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel | Harold, Cult Ghoul Thug, Soldier | |
| 2004 | Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance II | Additional voices | |
| 2004 | Law & Order: Justice Is Served | Charles Northcutt | |
| 2004 | The Bard's Tale | Additional voices | |
| 2007 | God of War II | Prometheus | |
| 2008 | Robert Ludlum's The Bourne Conspiracy | Additional voices | |
| 2008 | Tom Clancy's EndWar | Additional voices | |
| 2012 | Kid Icarus: Uprising | Dyntos, Chariot Master | English dub |
| 2015 | Fallout 4 | Paladin Brandis | |
| 2016 | He-Man: Tappers of Greyskull | Skeletor |
Awards and Nominations
- In 1991, Alan Oppenheimer was nominated for an Primetime Emmy Award. This was for his role as Eugene Kinsella in the TV show Murphy Brown.
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