David Opatoshu
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David Opatoshu (January 30, 1918 – April 30, 1996) was an American television actor with occasional roles in films. He was born David Opatovsky in New York City, where he was raised and educated.
His career in television began in 1952 and lasted through the 1980s.
Prior to this he acted in theatre and in a few films. His first film, The Light Ahead (1939), directed by Henry Felt and Edgar G. Ulmer, is notable for being entirely in Yiddish. He appeared on Broadway in Bravo Giovanni in 1962. He also wrote the screenplay for the film Romance of a Horsethief (1971), based on a novel by his father Joseph Opatoshu.
He married Lillian Weinberg, a psychiatric social worker, on June 10, 1941, by whom he had one child, a son.