Oscar Beregi Jr. (May 12, 1918 â€" November 1, 1976) was a
Hungarian-born film and television actor. He was the son of actor
Oscar Beregi Sr. and often was billed simply as Oscar Beregi. Beregi
was most famous for his roles in The Twilight Zone.Beregi had a major
recurring role as fictional gang lord Joe Kulak on The Untouchables.
He played the starring role as ex-Nazi Captain Gunther Lutze in the
Twilight Zone episode "Deaths-Head Revisited." He also appeared in the
Twilight Zone episodes "The Rip Van Winkle Caper" and "Mute" and in
dozens of shows that used his distinctively paradoxical heavy-set
European urbanity to comic effect, including Hogan's Heroes (twice),
The Monkees, The Man From U.N.C.L.E., Blue Light, The Wild Wild West,
Mission: Impossible, season 1 episodes 4 and 5, Get Smart, Green Acres
in the 1968 episode 1 & 2 of "A Star Named Arnold is Born" as well as
the 1970 episode "A Royal Love Story," and in an episode of The Lucy
Show which featured Hogan's Heroes star Bob Crane and a cameo by John
Banner in character as Stalag 13's Sergeant Schultz. Airing on March
29, 1968, he appeared in the episode “Love and Goulash†on Gomer
Pyle, U.S.M.C..Beregi's film career included small roles in several
major films, including Judgement at Nuremberg (1961), The Incredible
Mr. Limpet (1964), My Fair Lady (1964), Ship of Fools (1965),
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to
Ask) (1972) and Young Frankenstein (1974).Beregi died of a heart
attack on November 1, 1976 in Los Angeles, California. He was buried
in Glendale's Grand View Memorial Park Cemetery.
Hungarian-born film and television actor. He was the son of actor
Oscar Beregi Sr. and often was billed simply as Oscar Beregi. Beregi
was most famous for his roles in The Twilight Zone.Beregi had a major
recurring role as fictional gang lord Joe Kulak on The Untouchables.
He played the starring role as ex-Nazi Captain Gunther Lutze in the
Twilight Zone episode "Deaths-Head Revisited." He also appeared in the
Twilight Zone episodes "The Rip Van Winkle Caper" and "Mute" and in
dozens of shows that used his distinctively paradoxical heavy-set
European urbanity to comic effect, including Hogan's Heroes (twice),
The Monkees, The Man From U.N.C.L.E., Blue Light, The Wild Wild West,
Mission: Impossible, season 1 episodes 4 and 5, Get Smart, Green Acres
in the 1968 episode 1 & 2 of "A Star Named Arnold is Born" as well as
the 1970 episode "A Royal Love Story," and in an episode of The Lucy
Show which featured Hogan's Heroes star Bob Crane and a cameo by John
Banner in character as Stalag 13's Sergeant Schultz. Airing on March
29, 1968, he appeared in the episode “Love and Goulash†on Gomer
Pyle, U.S.M.C..Beregi's film career included small roles in several
major films, including Judgement at Nuremberg (1961), The Incredible
Mr. Limpet (1964), My Fair Lady (1964), Ship of Fools (1965),
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to
Ask) (1972) and Young Frankenstein (1974).Beregi died of a heart
attack on November 1, 1976 in Los Angeles, California. He was buried
in Glendale's Grand View Memorial Park Cemetery.
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