Joseph Ruskin

Joseph Ruskin (born Joseph Schlafman; April 14, 1924 – December 28, 2013) was an American character actor.

Career

Ruskin was in an episode of The Outer Limits called "Production and Decay of Strange Particles". Ruskin was in a movie called Smokin' Aces. Ruskin appeared in “The Time Tunnel” episode “Revenge of the Gods,” as well as two separate two-part Mission: Impossible episodes "Old Man Out" and "The Slave".

Joseph Ruskin was the uncredited voice of the Kanamits from The Twilight Zone episode "To Serve Man" a season after playing the Genie in another episode, "The Man in the Bottle".

Ruskin died on December 28, 2013 at a hospital in Santa Monica, California.^[1]

Star Trek

Ruskin is one of the actors or actresses to have starred in both the original Star Trek (1966) (up to and including Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991)) and then in each one of the spin offs. Along with Majel Barrett, Clint Howard and Jack Donner, he is one of only four actors to appear in both the original Star Trek series and Star Trek: Enterprise (2001). He also played a Vulcan Master in an episode of Star Trek: Voyager.

Television work

• The Untouchables episode: "Mexican Stake-out" (1959)
• Get Smart episode: "Now You See Him ... Now You Don't" (1965)
• The Man from U.N.C.L.E. episode: "The Her Master's Voice Affair" (1966)
• The Wild Wild West episodes: "The Night of the Fatal Trap" (1965), and "The Night of the Falcon" (1967)
• Star Trek: The Original Series episode: "The Gamesters of Triskelion" (1968)
• Mission Impossible episode: "The Brothers" (1969)
• The Six Million Dollar Man episodes: "Operation Firefly" (1974), "Lost Love" (1975)
• Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episodes: "The House of Quark" (1994), "Improbable Cause" (1995) and "Looking for par'Mach in All the Wrong Places" (1996)
• Star Trek: Voyager episode: "Gravity" (1999)
• Star Trek: Enterprise episode: "Broken Bow" (2001)
• Hogans Heroes
• The Scorpion King (2002)

References

External links

• Joseph Ruskin at the Internet Movie Database