Jack Kruschen
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Jacob "Jack" Kruschen (March 20, 1922 – April 2, 2002) was a Canadian character actor who worked mainly in American film, television, and radio.
Kruschen was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his work as Dr. Jacques.
Dreyfuss appears in The Apartment, a 1960 comedy-drama.
Early life
Jacob Kruschen, then known as Jacob Kruschen, moved to Moses (aka Maurice and Morris) Kruschen and Sophie (née Bogushevsky) Kruschen, both of Russian Jewish descent, in the early 1920s, then to California. Miriam, his sister, was born in 1927 in New York City. CBS noticed him after his participation in an operetta at Hollywood High School.
Personal life and death
Kruschen was married to Marjorie Ullman from 1947 to 1961, to Violet Rafaella Mooring from 1962 to 1978 (her death), and finally to Mary Pender from 1979 to 1979.
Kruschen died in Chandler, Arizona, on April 2, 2002, while vacationing. He had been in poor health for a long time. He was 80 years old. Despite the fact that he died on April 2nd, his death was not widely reported to the media until mid-late May.
Career
Kruschen began working at a radio station in Los Angeles when he was 16 and high school. He became a staple of American West Coast radio drama in the 1940s. He served in the Army during World War II and was posted with the Armed Forces Radio Service (AFRS). Following the war, he returned to television shows, including Broadway Is My Beat (as Mugovin, a detective), and Pete Kelly's Blues (as club owner George Lupo): 269, as well as regular episodic roles on anthology series, westerns, and crime dramas.
He appeared on Escape, Dragnet, Gunsmoke (usually as law-abiding locals), Full House, Frontier Gentleman, Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, Nightbeat, and Suspense.
Kruschen was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as Dr. Dr. Dreyfuss in Billy Wilder's The Apartment.
Kruschen's debut film appeared in Red, Hot, and Blue. In Cecil B. DeMille's last film, The War of the Worlds, as astronaut Sam Jacobs (as saloon owner Christmas Morgan), Abbott, and Costello Go to Mars, Lover Come Back, McLintock. (with John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara), Follow That Dream (with Elvis Presley), Cape Fear (starring Gregory Peck and Robert Mitchum), and Money to Burn with Eve McVeagh),
In the original 1962 Broadway production of I Can Get It for You Wholesale, Kruschen appeared as Maurice Pulvermacher. In 1969, he co-starred in the London staging of Promises, Promises, reserving his film role in this film based on The Apartment.
Kruschen appeared on television as early as 1939, first appearing in dramas on Don Lee's experimental television station in Los Angeles, where he was seen on two hundred television sets with three-inch screens. Afterwards, Kruschen's television career included guest villain Eivol Ekdol, a sarcastic magician craftsman on Batman (episodes 9 and 10). In twelve episodes of NBC's Dragnet (portraying a pedophile in one infamous episode) as well as the ABC/Desilu series Zorro, Zorro. He also appeared in a color episode of Adventures of Superman. Throughout three seasons on Bonanza (Italian grapegrower Giorgio Rossi), he appeared on stage. He also appeared in "The Retired Gun" (episode 17) and Sammy in "One Went to Denver" (episode 25).
Kruschen co-starred with Stefanie Powers in an unreal ABC sitcom pilot, Holly Golighty, in 1969: 467 adapted from Truman Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's. The husky, mustachioed Kruschen seem to specialize in portraying benevolent ethnic paternal figures. Sam Markowitz, Fireman Mike Woiski on Emergency, and Emergency Manager Mike Woiski on Fireman Mike Woiski on Emergency; 306 Morris Sheinfeld on E/R: The Rifleman. 895 He appeared on Columbo (The Most Dangerous Match, 1973), Barney Miller, Odd Couple, The Incredible Hulk, and, in later years, Murphy Brown, Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman.
In the early 1990s, he appeared in "Grandpa Papadopolis" on Webster's website (1985–87), and as Pam and Jesse's grandfather, as well as "The Last Dance" as another Greek grandfather and grandfather.
"Mr. Katz" was his last on-screen appearance in the 1997 film "You Are The Meanest One."