Lloyd Bochner

{{Infobox person

| name = Lloyd Bochner

| image = Rod Taylor Lloyd Bochner Hong Kong 1961 (cropped).JPG

| alt = Rod Taylor Lloyd Bochner 1961

| caption = Bochner as Chief Inspector Neil Campbell in Hong Kong (1961)

| birth_name = Lloyd Wolfe Bochner

| birth_date = July 29, 1924

| birth_place = Toronto, Ontario, Canada

| death_date = {{death date and age|2005|10|29|1924|7|29}}

| death_place = Santa Monica, California, U.S.

| resting_place = Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles, California

| known_for = Chief Inspector Neil Campbell,
Cecil Colby,
C.C. Capwell,
Mayor Hamilton Hill

| notable_works = Hong Kong,
Dynasty,
Santa Barbara,
Batman: The Animated Series,
The New Batman Adventures

| occupation = Actor

| years_active = 1946–2003

| spouse = Ruth Roher Bochner (m. 1948)

| children = 3, including Hart Bochner

| awards = ACTRA Awards (2004)

}}

Lloyd Wolfe Bochner (July 29, 1924 – October 29, 2005) was a Canadian film, TV and voice actor. He appeared in many Canadian and Hollywood productions between the 1950s and 1990s, including the films Point Blank (1967), The Detective (1968), The Young Runaways (1968), Ulzana's Raid (1972) and Satan's School for Girls (1973), and the television prime time soap opera Dynasty (1981–82). Bochner also voiced Mayor Hamilton Hill in Batman: The Animated Series (1992–95) and its follow-up The New Batman Adventures (1997–99).

Career

At the age of 11, Bochner began his acting career on Ontario radio programs.{{cite book|publisher=McFarland & Company|author=Harris M. Lentz III|title=Obituaries in the Performing Arts, 2005: Film, Television, Radio, Theatre, Dance, Music, Cartoons and Pop Culture|date=May 4, 2006 |pages=97–98|isbn=0-7864-2489-3|issn=1087-9617|oclc=1071147483}} He went on to garner two Liberty Awards, the highest acting honour in Canada, for his work in Canadian film and theatre. Bochner served in the Royal Canadian Navy during World War II.[https://web.archive.org/web/20210918180357/https://www.theguardian.com/news/2005/nov/05/guardianobituaries.usa Lloyd Bochner; Veteran Hollywood actor best known for being eaten by aliens] The Guardian via Internet Archive. Retrieved March 27, 2022.[http://www.gulfpropertyshow.net/phpMyAdmin/tmp/forum/5540c3-lloyd-bochner-santa-barbara Lloyd Bochner; Santa Barbara] www.gulfpropertyshow.net. Retrieved March 27, 2022. In 1946, he made his debut with The Mapleville Story{{cite book|author=Rubin, Steven|title=Twilight Zone Encyclopedia|year=2018|publisher=Chicago Review Press|isbn=978-1-61373-888-7}} and in 1951 he moved to New York City where he appeared in early television series such as One Man's Family and Kraft Television Theatre.{{cite book|author=Hamrick, Craig|title=Big Lou: The Life and Career of Actor Louis Edmonds|department=iUniverse Star|publisher=iUniverse|year=2004|orig-year=2003|page=21|isbn=0-595-29716-1}} In 1960, ABC called with a starring role in the series Hong Kong with co-star Rod Taylor. Faced against NBC's Wagon Train, then one of the most highly rated programs on the air, Hong Kong ended with the 26th episode. In 1961, he guest-starred in The Americans, an American Civil War drama about how the conflict divided families, starring Darryl Hickman.

A few years later, Bochner appeared in one of his most famous roles, that of a cryptographer attempting to decipher an alien text in the classic 1962 Twilight Zone episode "To Serve Man",{{cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-nov-03-me-passings3.1-story.html|title=Lloyd Bochner, 81; Actor Noted for Sophisticated Film and TV Roles|work=Los Angeles Times|date=November 3, 2005|access-date=May 7, 2019|url-access=subscription}} a part he spoofed years later in the comedy The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear.{{cite book|author=Wolfe, Peter|title=In the Zone: The Twilight World of Rod Serling|publisher=Bowling Green State University Popular Press|year=1997|page=8|isbn=0-87972-729-2}} In 1962 and 1963, he appeared in two episodes of the CBS anthology series, GE True, hosted by Jack Webb; he portrayed the part of Stoughton in "Code Name: Christopher, Part I"{{cite book|author=Ward, Jack|title=Television Guest Stars: An Illustrated Career Chronicle for 678 Performers of the Sixties and Seventies|publisher=McFarland & Company|year=1993|page=66|isbn=978-0-8995-0807-8}} and Captain Ian Stuart in "Commando".

From 1963 to 1964, Bochner was a member of the repertory cast of NBC's The Richard Boone Show.{{cite book|title=The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows, 1946-Present|author=Brooks, Tim|author2=March, Earle F.|publisher=Ballantine Books|orig-year=1979|year=2007|edition=9th|page=1153|isbn=978-0-345-49773-4}} In 1964, he guest-starred in the Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea season-one episode "The Fear-Makers". Later that year, he appeared as murderer Eric Pollard in the Perry Mason episode, "The Case of the Latent Lover". In 1965, he guest-starred on ABC's Western series The Legend of Jesse James starring Christopher Jones in the title role. Two years later, he appeared on the ABC military-Western Custer starring Wayne Maunder in the title role. He appeared twice on the long-running television Western The Virginian in the 1960s.{{cite book|author=Green, Paul|title=A History of Television's The Virginian, 1962-1971|date=November 19, 2009|publisher=McFarland & Company|page=253|isbn=978-0-7864-4680-3}} Bochner is also memorably smooth and malicious as the gangster Carter against Lee Marvin in John Boorman's seminal 1960s film noir Point Blank. In 1971, Bochner appeared as Abel Wilks in "The Men From Shiloh" (rebranded name for The Virginian) in the episode titled "The Town Killer."

Over the years, Bochner continued to portray a variety of roles in television and film, from a warlock on Bewitched to a homosexual doctor coming out at middle age in the 1977 television movie Terraces,{{cite magazine|title=Television|magazine=New York Magazine|date=September 2, 1985|page=94}} to Pia Zadora's abusive screenwriter husband in the camp classic film The Lonely Lady.{{cite book|author=Matthew Rettenmund|author-link=Matthew Rettenmund|title=Totally Awesome 80s: A Lexicon of the Music, Videos, Movies, TV Shows, Stars and Trends of That Decadent Decade|publisher=St. Martin's Griffin|year=1996|page=3}} In 1960, he starred in an adaptation of A. J. Cronin's The Citadel along with Ann Blyth. His son Paul said he "almost always played a suave, handsome, wealthy villain."

=Notable roles=

Bochner played the scheming Cecil Colby on Dynasty. The character suffered a heart attack while having sex with Alexis Carrington (Joan Collins), and later died in his hospital bed seconds after marrying her.{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2005/nov/05/guardianobituaries.usa|title=Obituary: Lloyd Bochner|author=Reed, Christopher|work=The Guardian|location=Manchester|date=November 5, 2005|access-date=May 7, 2019}} A few years later, Bochner planned to star as C.C. Capwell on the daytime drama Santa Barbara, but a heart attack caused his departure from the series. Bochner continued to appear in television series for the next few decades, doing frequent voiceover work for the highly acclaimed animated series Batman: The Animated Series and The New Batman Adventures. He joined the Stratford Festival of Canada in its first season in 1953 and spent six years there, playing Horatio in Hamlet, Orsino in Twelfth Night, and Duke Vincentio in Measure for Measure opposite James Mason.{{cite book|author=Nicoll, Allardyce|title=Shakespeare Survey|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=1956|volume=9|page=111|isbn=052152394X}}

=Television roles=

In 1962, Bochner played in The Twilight Zone episode, "To Serve Man." In 1965, he guest starred on Combat! in the fourth season episode "Evasion" as Major Thorne. In 1966 on The Wild Wild West he played Zachariah Skull, an ingenious murderer, in "The Night of the Puppeteer." In 1966, Bochner played the author Robert Louis Stevenson in the episode "Jolly Roger and Wells Fargo" of Death Valley Days.{{cite book|author=Harris M. Lentz III|title=Television Westerns Episode Guide: All United States Series, 1949-1996|publisher=McFarland & Company|year=1997|page=128|isbn=078647386X}} That same year he appeared in 12 O'Clock High, playing the British officer, Major Mallory, episode "Fortress Wiesbaden".{{cite web|url=http://www.tv.com/shows/twelve-oclock-high/fortress-wiesbaden-103944/|title=Twelve O'Clock High: Fortress Wiesbaden|publisher=TV.com|access-date=May 7, 2019}}

In 1967, he appeared as a Royal Air Force officer and his German double on an episode of Hogan's Heroes in the episode "A Funny Thing Happened On the Way To London". In 1967, he played an 'U.N.C.L.E.' agent in the last season of The Man From U.N.C.L.E.; a unique role in that while he was a 'good guy' in the final dialogue he was described as being "reassuringly unlikeable". He also appeared three times on the TV series Mission: Impossible. 1969 "The Glass Cage", 1971 "Takeover" and 1972 "The Deal". In 1969, Bochner played a handsome warlock named Franklyn in the Bewitched season five episode, "Marriage Witches Style". In 1969, he played as the cat-loving bad guy Clayton Hewitt in the episode "Catspaw on It Takes a Thief and the final episode of same, "Project X", as Dr. George Kingsford in 1970.{{cite book|author=Meyers, Gina|title=The Magic of Bewitched Trivia and More|publisher=iUniverse|year=2004|isbn=0-595-31557-7}}

In 1970, Bochner played Walter Gregson, a strangler on Hawaii Five-O in the season three episode, "Beautiful Screamer".{{cite book|author=Rhodes, Karen|title=Booking Hawaii Five-O: An Episode Guide and Critical History of the 1968-1980 Television Detective Series|date=February 14, 2007 |publisher=McFarland & Company|page=83|isbn=978-0-7864-3108-3}} Later on Hawaii Five-O, he was the Navy captain in the 1975 episode, "Murder: Eyes Only".{{cite book|author=Martindale, David|title=Television Detective Shows of the 1970s: Credits, Storylines and Episode Guides for 109 Series|publisher=McFarland & Company|year=1991|edition=Illustrated|isbn=0899505570}} He also appeared in Hawaii Five-O season 12 in an episode called "Clash of the Shadows" as a Jewish diplomat. He appeared in the episode "Prosecutor" of the ABC crime drama The Silent Force in 1970.{{cite magazine|title=Cue|magazine=Cue|volume=39|issue=27–39|publisher=North American Publishing Company|year=1970|page=43}} In 1973, he played a chess coach in Columbo: The Most Dangerous Match{{cite book|author=Rowan, Terry|title=Character-Based Film Series Part|year=2016 |publisher=Lulu.com|page=51|isbn=978-1365021282}} and was in the episode "The Pisces" of the short-lived TV show The Starlost.

In 1974 and 1977, he appeared in four episodes of The Six Million Dollar Man; he portrayed Gavern Wilson in "Day of the Robot", Ulrich Rau in "Carnival of Spies", and Gordon Shanks in Deadly Countdown (part 1 and 2). In 1977, he was in an episode of the ABC crime drama The Feather and Father Gang{{cite book|author=Perry, Jeb H.|title=Screen Gems: A History of Columbia Pictures Television from Cohn to Coke, 1948-1983|publisher=Scarecrow Press|year=1991|page=78|isbn=978-0-8108-2487-4}} and an episode of the ABC situation comedy The San Pedro Beach Bums. Bochner also appeared in Barnaby Jones in an episode titled "The Loose Connection"(03/18/1973). He was Commandant Leiter in the Battlestar Galactica original-series episode "Greetings from Earth" (1978).

In the 1980s, Bochner was in two episodes of The Golden Girls — as suave television-turned-stage actor (and womanizer) Patrick Vaughn in the Season 2 episode "The Actor" in 1987; and as Eduardo the Hairdresser two years later in the Season 4 episode "Rites of Spring" (1989).{{cite book|author=Huryk, Harry|title=The Golden Girls - The Ultimate Viewing Guide|date=July 2007|page=58|publisher=Lulu.com |isbn=978-1-4116-8528-4}}

Personal life and death

Bochner was born in Toronto, Ontario, to a middle-class Jewish family, the son of Frieda ({{nee}} Kenen) and Charles Abraham Bochner. His uncle was Isaiah L. Kenen, founder of the American Zionist Committee for Public Affairs.{{cite journal|author=Isaiah L. Kenen|author-link=Isaiah L. Kenen|publisher=Near East Research|year=1985|title=All my causes: an 80-year life span in many lands and for many causes|page=129}}

In 1998, he co-founded the committee to End Violence, a panel designed to study the impact violent images had on culture. He was also active in the Association of Canadian Radio and Television Artists and was a licensed amateur radio operator.{{Cite web |title=ULS License - Amateur License - N6CKF - BOCHNER, LLOYD W |url=https://wireless2.fcc.gov/UlsApp/UlsSearch/license.jsp?licKey=712431 |access-date=30 October 2023}}

Bochner was married to Ruth Roher Bochner (1925–2017), a concert pianist, until his death from cancer on October 29, 2005, at the age of 81 at home in Santa Monica, California.{{cite news|work=The Globe and Mail|location=Toronto|date=October 5, 1956|page=26|title=Births|quote=at Women's College Hospital}}{{cite news|title=On The Air|page=4|work=Drummondville Spokesman|date=March 24, 1950|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=04swAAAAIBAJ&pg=3435,595408&dq=un-me-air|access-date=May 7, 2019}} Bochner and his wife had three children — Hart Bochner (actor, who also provided voices for Batman), Paul (director and animator) and Johanna.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/02/arts/television/lloyd-bochner-81-actor-of-stage-screen-and-tv-dies.html|author=Potts, Monica|title=Lloyd Bochner, 81, Actor of Stage, Screen and TV, Dies|newspaper=The New York Times|date=November 2, 2005}}

Filmography

= Film =

class="wikitable sortable"

!Year

!Title

!Role

!Notes

1963

|Drums of Africa

|David Moore

1964

|data-sort-value="Night Walker, The" | The Night Walker

|The Dream

rowspan=2 | 1965

|Sylvia

|Bruce Stamford III

Harlow

|Marc Peters

rowspan=2 | 1967

|Point Blank

|Frederick Carter

Tony Rome

|Vic Rood

rowspan=3 | 1968

|data-sort-value="Detective, The" | The Detective

|Dr. Roberts

data-sort-value="Young Runaways, The" | The Young Runaways

|Raymond Allen

data-sort-value="Horse in the Gray Flannel Suit, The" | The Horse in the Gray Flannel Suit

|Archer Madison

rowspan=2 | 1970

|Tiger by the Tail

|Del Ware

data-sort-value="Dunwich Horror, The" | The Dunwich Horror

|Dr. Cory

1972

|Ulzana's Raid

|Captain Gates

rowspan=2 | 1975

|data-sort-value="Man in the Glass Booth, The" | The Man in the Glass Booth

|Dr. Churchill

It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time

|Burton

1978

|Mr. No Legs

|D'Angelo

1981

|data-sort-value="Hot Touch, The" | The Hot Touch

|Severo

1983

|data-sort-value="Lonely Lady, The" | The Lonely Lady

|Walter Thornton

1986

|Fine Gold

|Don Pedro

1989

|Millennium

|Walters

1991

|data-sort-value="Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear, The" | The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear

|Terence Baggett

1992

|Landslide

|"Bull" Matterson

1993

|Morning Glory

|Bob Collins

2003

|data-sort-value="Commission, The" | The Commission

|John McCloy

= Television =

class="wikitable sortable"

!Year

!Title

!Role

!Notes

1962

|data-sort-value="Twilight Zone, The" | The Twilight Zone

|Mr. Chambers

|Episode: "To Serve Man"

1964

|Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea

|Martin Davis

|Episode: "The Fear-Makers"

1964

|Perry Mason

|Eric Pollard

|Episode: "The Case of the Latent Lover"

1965

|Honey West

|Guy Patterson

|Episode: "The Owl and the Eye"

1965

| Kraft Suspense Theatre

| Wolfe Hastings

| "The Trains of Silence"

1965

|Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea

|General Hobson

|Episode: "The Deadliest Game"

1966

|data-sort-value="Green Hornet, The" | The Green Hornet

|Dan Carley

|Episode: "The Silent Gun"

1966

|The Wild Wild West

|Zachariah Skull

|Episode: "The Night of the Puppeteer"

1967

|Sail to Glory

|James Cox Stevens

|Television film

1967

|Hogan's Heroes

|Captain Roberts and Lieutenant Baumann

|Episode: "A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To London"

1967

|Stranger on the Run

|Mr. Gorman

|Television film

1970

|Crowhaven Farm

|Kevin Pierce

|Television film

1969-1972

|Mission: Impossible

|Maj. Nicholas Zelinko, Mayor Steve Tallman, General Oliver Hammond

|3 Episodes

1971

|data-sort-value="Megantic Outlaw, The" | The Megantic Outlaw

|Inspector Carpenter

|Television film

1973

|Columbo: The Most Dangerous Match

|Mazoor Berozski

|Television film

1973

|Mannix

|Burt Sands

|Episode: "To Quote a Dead Man"

1973

|Satan's School for Girls

|Professor Delacroix

|Television film

1978

|data-sort-value="Immigrants, The" | The Immigrants

|Chris Noel

|Television film

1978

|data-sort-value="Fire in the Sky, A" | A Fire in the Sky

|Paul Gilliam

|Television film

1979

|Battlestar Galactica

|Commandant Leiter

|2 episodes

1979

|Riel

|Dr. Schultz

|Television film

1982

|Mazes and Monsters

|Hall

|Television film

1987-1989

|data-sort-value="Golden Girls, The" | The Golden Girls

|Multiple Roles

|2 episodes

1992-1994

|Batman: The Animated Series

|Hamilton Hill

|Voice, 11 episodes

1997

|data-sort-value="New Batman Adventures, The" | The New Batman Adventures

|Hamilton Hill

|Voice, 2 episodes

1998

|Loyal Opposition: Terror in the White House

|President Mark Hayden

|Television film

1998

|Bram Stoker's Legend of the Mummy

|Abel Trelawny

Awards

Bochner received an ACTRA Award in 2004.{{cite web|title=ACTRA Awards|url=https://www.actra.ca/media-centre/actra-awards/|publisher=ACTRA|access-date=May 7, 2019}}

References

External links

{{IMDb name|0001957}}
{{IBDB name|108124}}
{{iobdb name|31927}}
[https://web.archive.org/web/20060427015701/http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20051101/Lloyd_Bochner_051101/20051101?hub=Entertainment CTV.ca Toronto-born actor Lloyd Bochner dies at 81]
[https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/character-actor-lloyd-bochner-dies-at-81-1.566201 CBC Report on Lloyd Bochner's Death]
{{Find a Grave|89411870}}
[https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/lloyd-wolfe-bochner Bochner] at The Canadian Encyclopedia

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Category:2005 deaths

Category:Canadian Ashkenazi Jews

Category:Canadian male film actors

Category:Canadian male television actors

Category:Canadian male voice actors

Category:20th-century Canadian male actors

Category:Jewish Canadian male actors

Category:Canadian people of Russian-Jewish descent

Category:Male actors from Toronto

Category:Burials at Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery

Category:Canadian expatriate male actors in the United States