Alan Oppenheimer

 ( 1930 Births ) 

Alan Oppenheimer (born April 23, 1930) is an American retired actor. He has performed numerous roles on live-action television since the 1960s and has had an active career doing voice work since the 1970s.

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Early life Oppenheimer was born in New York City on April 23, 1930, to Louis and Irene Oppenheimer. His father was a stockbroker.

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Career

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Character roles As a character actor, Oppenheimer has had diverse roles in popular American television programming, from playing a Nazi and a Hollywood movie star on Hogan's Heroes, to playing an Israeli secret agent as well as a double-agent KAOS scientist on Get Smart, to being the second actor to play Dr. Rudy Wells in The Six Million Dollar Man (Martin Balsam played the role in the pilot film). Oppenheimer took over as Rudy starting with the second pilot film, Wine, Women and War, up until the introduction of The Bionic Woman in 1975, whereupon Martin E. Brooks took over as Wells up until cancellation. He was the original Mickey Malph (Ralph Malph's dad) on Happy Days. He played a recurring role during the first two seasons of St. Elsewhere as Helen Rosenthal's husband, Ira. He had a recurring role as Mayor Alvin B. Tutwiller on Mama's Family.

Oppenheimer has appeared in science fiction in the 1973 cult classic Westworld, where he played the head IT technician. He has also appeared in three 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 Starfleet Captain Declan Keogh in command of the USS Odyssey; and as an alien ambassador in .

Oppenheimer also appeared as film director Cecil B. DeMille in the 1994 Broadway production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Sunset Blvd. Sunset Boulevard entry, broadwaymusicalhome.com; accessed May 9, 2015.

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Voice acting Oppenheimer has voiced many characters, often for Filmation in the 1970s and 1980s, such as Fraidy Cat, Jasper Catdaver, Captain Eddie Kittenbacker and Cloud Nine on Uncle Croc's Blocks Fraidy Cat; Mighty Mouse, Oil Can Harry, Swifty and the narrator on The New Adventures of Mighty Mouse and Heckle & Jeckle; Ming the Merciless on Flash Gordon; the Overlord on BlackStar; Skeletor, Man-At-Arms and Mer-Man from Filmation's 1980s cartoon He-Man and the Masters of the Universe; and the voice of Prime Evil in the 1986 TV series, Filmation's Ghostbusters. Other notable voice roles include Thundarr the Barbarian, Vanity on The Smurfs, Rhinokey and Crock from The Wuzzles and Falkor, Gmork, Rockbiter, and the Narrator from 1984's The NeverEnding Story. In the early 1990s, Oppenheimer was the voice of Merlin in The Legend of Prince Valiant. He also provided the voice of Barkerville in the Pound Puppies TV special, and provided additional voices on Battle of the Planets in 1978. Oppenheimer worked on The Transformers, most notably as two contrasting characters, the pacifist Beachcomber and the bellicose Warpath. His rendition of Seaspray was remarkably similar to Mer-Man, including the gurgling effects. He took over the voice of Roger Smith's butler Norman Burg in the English dub of the second season of The Big O. He was the voice of the never-seen Alistair Crane on the soap opera Passions until 2004, when the character was finally shown on camera, played by David Bailey. More recently, he provided the voice of the scientist for the 2009 film 9 and Batman's butler Alfred Pennyworth in .

Oppenheimer's repertoire also includes , voicing Dr. Piotr Ivanovich in , Prometheus in God of War II and Jandor the Airship Captain in Nox. He additionally voiced Harold in , Dyntos and the Chariot Master in , and Darm and the Narrator in Ys.

In 2019, Oppenheimer guest-starred on the animated series Tigtone and featured in Toy Story 4 as Old Timer.

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Personal life Oppenheimer married costume designer Marianna Elliott in 1958 and together they had three children. The couple divorced, but they remarried in 1992 and they remained married until her death in 2003. In March 2025, Oppenheimer was unable to attend a local convention because he contracted pneumonia.

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Filmography

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Films

1966	Gamera 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, Oil Can Harry, Swifty, Narrator, additional voices	Voice
1984	The NeverEnding Story	Falkor, Gmork, Rockbiter	Voices A green check mark indicates that a role has been confirmed using a screenshot (or collage of screenshots) of a title's list of voice actors and their respective characters found in its credits or other reliable sources of information.
1985	The Secret of the Sword	Skeletor, Man-At-Arms, Battle Cat, Bald Rebel, Chef Alan
		Skeletor, Man-At-Arms, Zipper	Voices
1988		Handlebar, Outlaw Scuzz, Stampede
	Moving	Mr. Cadell
1989		Oomp	Voice
1992	Love Field	Announcer
1993	Invisible: The Chronicles of Benjamin Knight	Dr. Knox
1994		Farr
1997	Culture
2008	Juan Frances: Live	Mr. French
2009	The Secret Life of Bees	Additional voices
	9	The Scientist	Voice
		Alfred Pennyworth
2014	Foxcatcher	Du Point Dynasty Narrator
2017	Best Fiends: Boot Camp	King Slug
2019	Toy Story 4	Old Timer	Voices
2022		He-Man, Skeletor

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Television

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	4 episodes: 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	2 episodes: 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	4 episodes: Dr. Globe, Morgan Jerome, Mr. Katz, Stewart Hurly
	Here Come the Brides	2 episides: 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
		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	3 episodes: Darius Dalrymple, Ernesto, Wentworth
	Insight	2 episodes: Marty, Sergeant Varron
	The Doris Day Show	2 episodes: Marvin Patterson, The Doctor
1972	The Paul Lynde Show	Fletcher Lyons
	Bewitched	Blades Buckholtzer
	Here's Lucy	2 episodes: 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, Jasper Catdaver, Captain Eddie Kittenbacker, Cloud Nine, additional voices	Voice
	Fraidy Cat
	The Tom & 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(December 16, 2015) "SkelEtor Masters of the Universe Alan Oppenheimer He-Man Phoenix Comicon Fan Fest". Nai Wang. Retrieved February 13, 2023.
1976–1979	Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle	Tomos, Orbin, Phobeg	Voice
1977		Simon Cappell
	CB Bears	Sidney Merciless	Voice
	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, Inspector, Gaylord, Irwin, Grelber, additional voices	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, additional voices
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, Wizard 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
		Arthur Lazar	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, Battle Cat, Man-At-Arms, Mer-Man, Buzz-Off, Roboto, Chef Alan, Nepthu, Chimera, Additional voices	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		Skeletor, Battle Cat, Man-At-Arms, Spyster, Additional voices	Voice
1986	The Centurions	Dr. Gates	Voice
	Ghostbusters	Prime Evil, Fangster, Long John Scarechrome
		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		Plato, Aldrin Klordane, Captain Kernel	Voice
		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"
		Additional voices
	James Bond Jr.	The Chameleon	Voice
		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
		Koroth
1994		Captain Keogh
		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		Nezu Ambassador
1997–1998	The New Adventures of Zorro	Additional voices
1998		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		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		Moss Man	Voice
2022	He-Man and the Masters of the Universe	King Grayskull	Voice

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Video games

1990	Ys I & II	Darm	English dub
1999		Leopard Master
1999	Revenant	Ogrok, Urgg
2000	Nox	Captain, Necromancer, Lewis
2000		Guardian Telwyn, Sir Sarles, Mornmaster Thaddin Dawnhunter
2000		Additional voices
2000	Invictus	Additional voices
2001		Harold, Cult Ghoul Thug, Cult Ghoul Soldier
2002	Earth & Beyond	Memnon
2002		Piotr Ivanovich
2003		Additional voices
2004		Harold, Cult Ghoul Thug, Soldier
2004		Additional voices
2004		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		Dyntos, Chariot Master	English dub
2015	Fallout 4	Paladin Brandis
2016	He-Man: Tappers of Greyskull	Skeletor

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Awards and nominations

• 1991 – Nominated – Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series as Eugene Kinsella in Murphy Brown

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External links

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