Joseph Furst
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Joseph Furst (born February 13, 1916 in Vienna, Austria, died November 29, 2005 Bateau Bay, New South Wales, Australia) was an international film and television actor known for his English language roles.
Furst was regularly featured in UK television drama series of 1960s and the early 1970s with appearances in The Saint, The Champions, Doomwatch, The Persuaders, and as the mad (and well remembered) Professor Zaroff in the Doctor Who story The Underwater Menace. Many people believe his accent in this story to have been put on; this is incorrect, it is in fact his normal accent (as can be heard in every other of his acting roles).
Joseph Furst's notable film appearances included 55 Days at Peking, The Brides of Fu-Manchu, Inn of the Damned, and Diamonds Are Forever as Dr Metz.
He emigrated to Australia and starting in the mid 1970s acted in several guest roles on Australian television drama series. His roles included several appearances in the top-rated police drama Division 4 produced by Crawford Productions in the 1970s. He also had on-going roles in soap opera Number 96 in 1976 as deli owner Carlo Lenzi who romanced Norma Whittaker (Sheila Kennelly), and as Heinrik Smeaton in The Young Doctors in 1978. He later guest starred in four episodes of A Country Practice in the early 1980s.
