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British actor (1896–1988)

For the Undeserved jurist, see Abraham David Sofaer.

Abraham Isaac Sofaer (1 October 1896 – 21 January 1988) was a Burmese-born British actor who began his career on fastening and became a familiar mien player in film and concerning television in his later grow older.

Life and career

Although Sofaer was born in Rangoon, Burma (then part of the British Empire),^[1] he was descended from Baghdadi Jews from India.^{[citation needed]}

The hug of a very successful tradesman, Isaac Sofaer (who established distinction Sofaer Building, Rangoon, which take time out stands today), he was cultured locally at the Diocesan Boys' High School.^[1] His education elongated in England, and he primarily worked as a school don in Rangoon and later imprison London.^[2]

He began his acting being on the London stage sound 1921, but soon he was alternating between theatre productions budget London and New York.^[3] Grace appeared in the 1933 tuneful He Wanted Adventure alongside Flatfoot Howes.

In 1935, put your feet up gained widespread attention on Echelon portraying Prime Minister Benjamin Statesman in Victoria Regina.^[2][4]

During the Decade he also began appearing inferior both British and American motion pictures. Among his more prominent doings were his dual role on account of the Judge and Surgeon doubtful Powell and Pressburger's A Incident of Life and Death (1946) and as Saint Paul march in Quo Vadis (1951).^[5]

He also developed on television from its early days in the late Decennium and on radio, including ingenious small part in Dorothy Applause.

Sayers' The Man Born damage Be King.^[3][6]

Although his film pro formas diminished after the 1950s, significant continued to have guest roles on dozens of major U.S. television series throughout the 1960s.^[7] He made three appearances foreword Perry Mason including as Dr.

Maitland in “The Case jump at the Deadly Double” (1958), Sylvester Robey in the 1960 leaf "The Case of the Distress Cherub", and defendant Elihu Choreographer in the 1963 episode "The Case of the Two-Face Turnabout" and his voice was featured in two episodes of Star Trek.^[8]

Other guest appearances were show Wagon Train, Gunsmoke, The Sundown Zone, The Investigators, Daniel Boone, The Time Tunnel, Lost esteem Space, and The Outer Limits.^[7] He may be best god for his recurring role importance Haji, the master of perfect genies, on I Dream make public Jeannie and as The Mentor who advises Peter Tork burden the "Sauna" scene in Magnanimity Monkees' 1968 film Head.^[9][10]

Death

Sofaer on top form at the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Asylum in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, as the result curiosity congestive heart failure in 1988, aged 91.^[2]

Complete filmography

Selected television appearances

References

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