H. M. Wynant

H.M. Wynant (born Haim Weiner,^[1] February 12, 1927 in Detroit, Michigan) is an American film and television actor best known for his roles in the films Conquest of the Planet of the Apes and Marlowe and for his frequent guest appearances on The Wild Wild West, Gunsmoke, and Perry Mason. He is also known for playing Dave Ellington in The Twilight Zone episode The Howling Man and for his role on Days of Our Lives.

Career

Among his many television credits are appearances on shows such as Playhouse 90, Sugarfoot, Hawaiian Eye, Combat!, The Wild Wild West, Perry Mason, Daniel Boone, Gunsmoke, Frontier Circus, Get Smart, Hawaii Five-O, Hogan's Heroes, Mission: Impossible, Quincy, and Dallas. Wynant made ten guest appearances on Perry Mason, including three as Deputy District Attorney Sampson during the 1960-1961 season. In his first appearance on the show in 1958 he played defendant Daniel Conway in "The Case of the Daring Decoy." In 1963 he played murder victim Tobin Wade in "The Case of the Decadent Dean." One of his more memorable appearances was as traveler David Ellington in the Twilight Zone episode "The Howling Man".

He made his feature film debut as an Indian in Samuel Fuller's Run of the Arrow (1957). Among his many other film credits are Run Silent, Run Deep (1958), The Slender Thread (1965), Track of Thunder (1967), The Helicopter Spies (1967), Marlowe (1969), Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972), The Horror at 37,000 Feet (1973), Hangar 18 (1980), Earthbound (1981), and Solar Crisis (1990). In the 1958 Walt Disney film Tonka, Wynant played Yellow Bull, a Sioux Indian, who was the cousin of White Bull, played by Sal Mineo, and is killed at the Battle of the Little Big Horn, also known as Custer's Last Stand. He also played a villain who fought Elvis Presley in It Happened at the World's Fair (1963).

In recent years, he has become a member of Larry Blamire's stock company, playing authoritative figures in several of Blamire's features and shorts, such as a Pentagon general in The Lost Skeleton Returns Again and a weird psychiatrist in Dark and Stormy Night.

He returned to the big screen in 2011's Footprints for which he was nominated Best Supporting Actor at the Method Fest Independent Film Festival.

Personal life

He is Jewish and his first language was Yiddish.^[2]. He was married to producer Ethel Winant from 1951 till their divorce in 1971. Their marriage produced three children, actor Bruce Winat, director and producer Scott Winat, and percussionist William Winant. In 1993. he married Paula Davis. In 2000, his daughter Pasha Winant was born.^[3].

References

1. ↑ H. M. Wynant on IMDb
2. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sy_hIvSwSwk
3. ↑ http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0943894/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm