

He died at the age of 90 in Houston, Texas.

He made his onscreen debut on an episode of “Ben Casey,” the ABC medical drama. Gerald Castillo is a stage actor-turned-Hollywood star who began his career in the 1970s. Tom Hanks, Ed Harris and Elisabeth Shue also performed shows there before it shut down in the mid-1990s.īefore getting acting jobs through casting director Lynn Stalmaster, Dynarski worked at a bowling alley and served in the U.S. 31 Comments Pat Cooper, ‘Seinfeld’ and ‘Analyze This’ star, dead at 93 By Fox News J7:31pm Updated 0 of 56 secondsVolume 0 00:10 00:56 Pat Cooper, a longtime stand-up comedian. In 1979, he opened the Gene Dynarski Theatre near Sunset Boulevard and Western Avenue in Los Angeles.
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The Brooklyn native had a small role in Steven Spielberg’s 1971 telefilm “Duel” as a truck driver in a cafe and appeared in two episodes on the original “Star Trek,” once in the 1966 episode “Mudd’s Women” as the miner Ben Childress and as Krodak in “The Mark of Gideon” in 1969.ĭynarski also starred as one of the Egghead’s henchmen in the 1960s Batman series and played a character who falls victim to a bat creature in an episode of “The X-Files” in 2000. It wasn’t until the release of the 30th Anniversary Ultimate Edition that included the 1977 edition that Dynarski’s performance could be seen again,” Kearney wrote. Pissed him off to the point where, after its 1977 debut, Spielberg cut Dynarski out of all the film’s subsequent releases.
