Don Oreck

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Don Oreck (August 31, 1930—March 5, 2006) was an American actor who was active in films and television between 1955 and 1961.

Born Donald Allen Oreck in Los Angeles, he became a member of the Los Angeles Police Department following a stint in the Army. While at the LAPD, he started taking small acting assignments, which gradually increased in importance. In the late 1950s he could be seen in a number of TV shows, playing supporting roles.

In 1955 he married 20-year-old Joanna Cook Moore who, after their divorce in 1957, became a well-known movie and TV actress and, following her later marriage to Ryan O'Neal, the mother of Griffin and Tatum O'Neal.

His second marriage, in 1958, was to Tulsa native Mary Ann Powell (born August 19, 1930). They had two children, son Kevin Robert and daughter Elizabeth Diane, before divorcing in 1971.

Don Oreck died in Los Angeles of a degenerative brain disease at the age of 75.

[edit] Selected filmography

[edit] External links

Don Oreck at the Internet Movie Database

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