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H.M. Wynant | |
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| Born | Chaim Weiner [1] February 12, 1927 Detroit, Michigan, U.S. |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1955–present |
| Spouse(s) | Ethel Wald (1951-1971; divorced); 3 children Paula Davis (January 30, 1993-present); 1 child |
H. M. Wynant (born Chaim Weiner; February 12, 1927) [2] is an American film and television actor.
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Wynant was born in Detroit, Michigan to Bessie and Jacob Weiner from Zabolotiv, Poland. [3] He made his feature film debut as a Native American in Samuel Fuller's Run of the Arrow (1957). The following year, in Walt Disney film Tonka , Wynant played Yellow Bull, a Sioux Indian.
His film credits include Run Silent, Run Deep (1958); The Slender Thread (1965); Track of Thunder (1967); The Helicopter Spies (1968); Marlowe (1969); Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972); The Horror at 37,000 Feet (1973); Hangar 18 (1980); Earthbound (1981); and Solar Crisis (1990). He played a villain who fought Elvis Presley in the 1963 film, It Happened at the World's Fair .
Among his many television credits are appearances on shows such as Playhouse 90 , Sugarfoot , Hawaiian Eye , Combat! , The Wild Wild West , Perry Mason , The Twilight Zone , Daniel Boone , Gunsmoke , Frontier Circus , Get Smart , Hawaii Five-O , The Big Valley , Hogan's Heroes , Bat Masterson , Mission: Impossible , Quincy, M.E. , and Dallas .
In later years, he was a member of Larry Blamire's stock company, playing authoritative figures in several of Blamire's features and shorts, such as a Pentagon general in The Lost Skeleton Returns Again and a weird psychiatrist in Dark and Stormy Night . He returned to the big screen in 2011 in Footprints for which he was nominated as Best Supporting Actor at the Method Fest Independent Film Festival.[ citation needed ]
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