He worked in 83 episodes of the series that ran until 1968 and established him as a plumy villain and cult icon. Born In 1914. Jonathan Harris. Harris delighted in his character's alliterative Harris also made part of the Bible TV movie project filmed as a cinema production for the TV, a project produced by Lux Vide Italy with the collaboration of Radio Televisione Italiana RAI and Channel 5 of France,[28] and premiered in the United States in the channel TNT in the 1990s. I went to the Polish Consulate to find out how they spoke, but everyone there had a different accent so I went home and tried to make one up. In The Third Man (1959-61) he played the dour, humorless assistant He was born Jonathan Charasuchin on 14 November He was interred in Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles, California. He was 87 and lived in the Encino section of Los Angeles. He played the title role in Abraham (1994) and had the lead in Cry, the Beloved Country (1995). Until his death, he received 500 letters each month. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. Harris was cast over two other actors for the role of Dr. Zachary Smith, the evil and conniving enemy agent on Lost in Space. lived in the Encino section of Los Angeles. Acting was Harris's first love. Golden Rendezvous was a flop but The Wild Geese (1978), where Harris played one of several mercenaries, was a big success outside America. [7] The role led to other roles in such series as: The Web, Lights Out, Goodyear Television Playhouse, two episodes of Hallmark Hall of Fame, Armstrong Circle Theatre, three episodes of Studio One, Telephone Time, Schlitz Playhouse of Stars, Climax!, Outlaws, The Twilight Zone, Bonanza, The Rogues, The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet, and Zorro, among many others. Born Jonathan Charasuchin in November 1914, the son of . Want a little coffee? Concurrently, he also worked in other TV productions, including 40 episodes of The Bill Dana Show (1963-1965). 20 reviews. [32] In January 1984 remarks he made on the previous month's Harrods bombing caused great controversy, after which he discontinued his support for the PIRA.[33][34][32]. The 26-year-old was very close to his parents, Richard and Patricia, and grew up with two siblings, Lloyd Harris and Sidney Gaines. For a while in the 1980s, Harris went into semi-retirement on Paradise Island, in the Bahamas, where he kicked his drinking habit and embraced a healthier lifestyle. Dies." This seemed an ironic and somehow fitting way to die for a man whose Dr. When he and the rest of his sisters changed their last name, for $35, his father never forgave him. to the opera and the theater. His female assistant was named Zachary. Harris returned to television, where he landed a co-starring role opposite Michael Rennie in The Third Man, from 1959 to 1965. He spent nearly a decade in obscurity, learning his profession on stages throughout the UK.[10]. insults for the mechanized co-star and often thought up his own lines to So I began to sneak in the things for which I am -- at the risk of seeming immodest -- justly famous. Comedy. Harris played the director and Reilly the titular host, Uncle Croc. At the 2009 BAFTAs, Mickey Rourke dedicated his Best Actor award to Harris, calling him a "good friend and great actor". The lead role of "Bull" McCabe was to be played by former Abbey Theatre actor Ray McAnally. He enrolled in the Fordham University in 1932 with a new surname. delivery and melodramatic cries of "We're doomed!" The son of impoverished Russian-Jewish migrs, his father worked in the garment industry and young Jonathan contributed to the family income by working as a box boy in a pharmacy at age 12, which inspired him enough to, after graduating from James Monroe High School, earn a pharmacy degree at Fordham University in 1936.However, Jonathan's desire to act was quite strong at an early age and it proved overwhelming in the end, forsaking a steady pharmaceutical career for the thoroughly unsteady work in the theater. Having been grateful for the character he played on. However, this character was the polar opposite of Dr. Zachary Smith -- wise, honorable and brave.Jonathan's crisp, eloquent voice was also used frequently with great relish in commercials and for sci-fi and animated series purposes -- The Banana Splits Adventure Hour (1968), Battlestar Galactica (1978), Foofur (1986), Visionaries: Knights of the Magical Light (1987), Problem Child (1993), The Twisted Tales of Felix the Cat (1995), Freakazoid! Jonathan Harris passed away only three days before he would have had his 88th birthday. off course but he also found himself trapped with them in the craft. [citation needed] Harris made a number of other convention appearances with other cast members of Lost in Space, including a 1996 appearance at Disney World. I never forget it. The son of impoverished Russian-Jewish migrs, his father worked in the garment industry and young Jonathan contributed to the family income by working as a box boy in a pharmacy at age 12, which inspired him enough to, after graduating from James Monroe High School, earn a pharmacy degree at Fordham University in 1936. and so on. Long Island, where he performed in sixteen company productions. A. Panuska[22][23] and raised funds for a scholarship for Irish students established in honour of his brother and manager, Dermot, who had died the previous year of a heart attack. Critic Roger Ebert described the casting of Harris and Vanessa Redgrave as "about the best King Arthur and Queen Guenevere I can imagine". However, Harris fell out with Brando over the latter's behaviour during the film's production. Harris was diagnosed with Hodgkin's disease in August 2002, reportedly after being hospitalised with pneumonia. actor who portrayed the dastardly, cowardly antagonist Dr. Zachary Smith He then went to Hollywood to support Charlton Heston in Sam Peckinpah's Major Dundee (1965), as an Irish immigrant who became a Confederate cavalryman during the American Civil War. He was married to childhood sweetheart, Gertrude Bregman, until his death in 2002 and they had one son, Richard. [on his Dr. Zachary Smith character]: Dr. Smith is really nutty. Swapped his New York City accent for a more sophisticated baritone voice, after he watched B-movies. "Hanging around 53 Division for hours on end sucked, but getting driven to Dad's place in a crappy yellow police car really sucked the bag.". ", "Never fear, Smith is here!" [citation needed], Two months before the reunion TV movie Lost in Space: The Journey Home was set to film, Harris was taken to the hospital with what he thought was a back problem. from Fordham, he submitted a falsified rsum and auditioned His last series guest-starring role was on an episode of Fantasy Island. He legally changed his name from "Charasuchin" to "Harris" before entering college after a year-long standoff with his father, who disagreed with the change. He was interred in Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles, California. Wardlaw asked Lost in Space co-stars Bill Mumy, Angela Cartwright, and Marta Kristen to contribute their voices to the film. I've done so much work, and then, the curtain comes down and you go on to something else. After "Lost In Space," Harris returned to regional I was born in New York City, and you know something interesting? (A similar formula was later used in John Cleese's British hotel comedy Fawlty Towers.) The Richard Harris Film Festival is one of Ireland's fastest-growing film festivals, growing from just ten films in 2013 to over 115 films in 2017. Comedic villainy. We all agreed that our original name was all but unpronounceable. In 1938, he married his high school sweetheart, Biographical note adapted with gratitude from Harris appeared in two 1961 episodes of The Twilight Zone, including a heroic role in "The Silence", in which he ended up defending a young man challenged to be silent for a whole year at a prestigious gentleman's club. Harris details his time as "Dr. Zachary Smith" on Lost in Space, including how he got the part and added comedy to the character, and his sometime rocky relationship with fellow cast members, including Guy Williams and June Lockhart. Gertrude Bregmen. He began getting roles in West End theatre productions, starting with The Quare Fellow in 1956, a transfer from the Theatre Workshop. [citation needed], As a tribute to Harris, writer/director John Wardlaw wrote an additional scene for the film The Bolt Who Screwed Christmas, which included Harris's final performance before his death. He could not find any suitable training courses, and enrolled in the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art to learn acting. My original speech was 'Listen to me! That year British exhibitors voted him the 9th-most popular star at the UK box office.[13]. I am selfish, self-pitying, pompous, pretentious, peremptory, conniving, unctuous, scornful, greedy, unscrupulous, cruel, cowardly, egotistical and absolutely delightful. He appeared in 72 episodes as the dour and humorless assistant, Bradford Webster. For the 2018 reboot of Lost in Space as a Netflix original series, Parker Posey was cast as Dr. Zachary Smith, a female psychopath using a stolen identity to assume the role of the ship's psychologist.[8]. [36] He died at University College Hospital in Bloomsbury, London, on 25October 2002, aged 72. [citation needed], Harris paid 75,000 for William Burges' Tower House in Holland Park in 1968, after discovering that the American entertainer Liberace had arranged to buy the house but had not yet put down a deposit. His career on the The American character actor Jonathan Harris, who has died aged 87, was the camply menacing space stowaway and spy Dr Zachary Smith in the CBS science . In the cartoon Visionaries: Knights of the Magical Light, he played lackey and sycophant to the main villain. [In 1967]: I developed the accent by attending English movies. [5] Harris earned a degree in pharmacology from Fordham University, from which he graduated in 1936. Jonathan Harris got his first acting job in 1939 with a fake resume. He and wife Gertrude had a son named Richard. In 1971 Harris starred in a BBC TV film adaptation The Snow Goose, from a screenplay by Paul Gallico. I could not play a part like that, I'd fall apart laughing on the floor. He announced, "I've never played a bit part in my life and I'm not going to start now!" Dr. Smith's best-known tropes included spitefully calling The Robot epithets such as "bubble-headed booby" and "clamoring clod". Richard St John Francis Harris (1 October 1930 25 October 2002)[1] was an Irish actor and singer. His Broadway debut was in the play "Heart of the City" (1942). been his 88th birthday, at Westwood Memorial Park in Los Angeles. In Echoes of a Summer (1976) he played the father of a young girl with a terminal illness. Harris also provided the voice of the Cylon character Lucifer, an antagonist on the original 1978 ABC version of Battlestar Galactica. Eulogists at his funeral included long time friends: director Arthur Hiller; former 20th Century Fox television executive and producer Kevin Burns; and fellow Lost in Space castmate Bill Mumy. In The Molly Maguires (1970), he played James McParland, the detective who infiltrates the title organisation, headed by Sean Connery. Most remembered for playing Dr. Zachary Smith on the science fiction series, Lost in Space. So I lied and told him my parents were Polish immigrants and this is how they spoke. father. the following sources: For his full interview, see http://www.emmytvlegends.org/interviews/people/jonathan-harris After appearing in a number of television anthologies such as "The Chevrolet Tele-Theatre", "Pulitzer Prize Playhouse", "Betty Crocker Star Matinee", "Goodyear Playhouse" and "Hallmark Hall of Fame", he made his film debut as part of a band of potential mutineers in the film Botany Bay (1952) starring doctor hero Alan Ladd and villainous captain James Mason. Survived by his wife of 64 years, Gertrude Bregman, and one son, Richard Harris (born 1942). A Bug's Life. I've used that accent many times since, whenever they need something foreign. Norris credited Harris for teaching him "how to speak" by sticking his fingers in Norris's mouth, adding that Harris was the only person in the world he would allow to do that.[10]. In multiple episodes of the 19951997 cartoon series Freakazoid!, Harris reprised the cowardly Smith character and dialogue under the name "Professor Jones," uttering Smith's catchphrase "Oh, the pain!" [19] Ravagers (1979) was more action, set in a post-apocalyptic world. We are here to learn more about the man who touched us through his work in stage, movies and television. Jonathan would find himself severely typecast as a plummy villain for the remainder of his career, and was seen usually in cryptic form on such television series as The Ghost & Mrs. Muir (1968), Land of the Giants (1968), Get Smart (1965), Bewitched (1964), McMillan & Wife (1971), Night Gallery (1969), Love, American Style (1969), Sanford and Son (1972), Vega$ (1978), Fantasy Island (1977), etc. Other film roles include Catch It doesn't get any better than that, you can go on forever. In an apparent homage to his earlier role, Harris played a similarly pompous diplomat on Get Smart in 1970. role for a television movie based on the old series, in which a new group Harris also appeared with Alan Ladd and James Each year, one of Harris's sons attends the festival in Limerick. Social justice Facebook page The . Harris was also a co-star, alongside Charles Nelson Reilly, in the series Uncle Croc's Block, in which Harris and Reilly portrayed malcontents producing a children's television show. [11] Harris revived the role in a Broadway revival at the Winter Garden Theatre from 15 November 1981, to 2 January 1982, and broadcast on HBO a year later. He made his Broadway debut in 1942, starring in But on November 3, 2002, he was found dead from a blood clot to the heart, just three days before his 88th birthday. the series. He never retired from acting until his death. [41] Harris was ultimately succeeded as Dumbledore by Michael Gambon. to 1968, was a science fiction adaptation of the Swiss Family Robinson Began working at a pharmacy, when he was only 12. [35] He gave up drugs after almost dying from a cocaine overdose in 1978. Harris starred in two thrillers: 99 and 44/100% Dead (1974), for John Frankenheimer, and Juggernaut (1974), for Richard Lester. In a 1971 episode of Night Gallery, titled "Since Aunt Ada Came to Stay", Harris played Professor Nicholas Porteus, an expert on witchcraft.[9]. The biggest break of Harriss acting career came in 1965 when he began to star as Dr. Zachary Smith in Lost in Space. He also did some dancing in his spare time. (1995) and Buzz Lightyear of Star Command (2000). in 1939 for the repertory company at the Millpond Playhouse in Roslyn, and The Teahouse of the August Moon. I wish you well and I hope it will be a huge hit, because that would be very good for me. The Associated Press reports that Jonathan Harris, the "flamboyantly fussy" actor who portrayed the dastardly antagonist Dr. Zachary Smith on the 1960s sci-fi show Lost in Space, has died. Here is all you want to know, and more! In order to make extra money, his mother often rented some portion of their home. In 1938 he married his childhood sweetheart, Gertrude . In 2020, he was listed at number 3 on The Irish Times's list of Ireland's greatest film actors.[2]. Harris next performed the role of King Arthur in the film adaptation of the musical play Camelot (1967). Genealogy for Jonathan Harris (1710 - 1785) family tree on Geni, with over 230 million profiles of ancestors and living relatives. (6 November 2002). Fisherman (1959). By age 12 he was working in a pharmacy as a stockboy. In high school, he developed interests in the Latin language, Shakespeare, romantic poetry and archaeology. Publicity Listings Due to Harris's popularity on the show, Irwin Allen approved his changes and gave him carte blanche as a writer. In 1946, he starred in A Flag Is Born, opposite Quentin Reynolds and Marlon Brando. But he became so popular with the viewers that the creators made his character a series regular. He was 87 and He also starred as the character Fagan in the first episode of the science fiction series Ark II. Harris starred in a Western for Samuel Fuller, Riata, which stopped production several weeks into filming. He developed a love for acting while he was studying in James Monroe High School, from where he graduated in 1931. Dennis Martin. The film Kaena: The Prophecy (2003) was dedicated to him posthumously as he had voiced the character Opaz before his death. was scheduled for 10 a.m. Wednesday, 6 November 2002, which would have He is friendly only with the robot, treating the machine as the only true, real person aboard the spacecraft. When the series was renewed for its third and final season, it remained focused on Harris' character, Dr. Smith. and Freakazoid! Harris um f de mgica, e ele mesmo um mgico como seu personagem em How I Met Your Mother.Ele atua no Conselho de Administrao do Magic Castle de Hollywood, venceu o Tannen's Magic Louis Award em 2006 e apresentou o World Magic Awards em 11 de outubro de 2008.Alm disso, Harris foi a celebridade convidado de honra para Top Chef Masters, que aconteceu no Magic Castle, e . [Who remembered his character on his very first, Visionaries: Knights of the Magical Light, View agent, publicist, legal and company contact details on IMDbPro, Interviews: The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation. That same day, his family and friends attended his funeral. Brown-grey haired, green-eyed, 5' 11" tall actor born in New York City, N.Y. His parents emigrated to the United States from Russia. Refused to discuss the pie throwing in the face, during his time on. He was married to childhood sweetheart, Gertrude Bregman, until his death in 2002 and they had one son, Richard. He also did voiceover work in an episode of the animated Superman series. Jonathan Harris. [on trying his hand on being a leading man of the 1940s]: I thought I was Cary Grant. I believed that an actor should look in the mirror and see what he had to see and then go out and sell it better than anyone else. As played by Jonathan Harris in the the 1960s sitcom, the Doc had major gayface. pharmacy and went on to study pharmacology at Fordham University, but his Jonathan Harris 1914 - 2002 (m. 1938 . He had a cameo as Richard the Lionheart in Robin and Marian (1976), for Lester, then was in The Return of a Man Called Horse (1976). Often brought a large bag of tootsie-roll pops to work for the cast and crew. About Jonathan . Associated With. New York Times. Appearing as a double agent, his character was to be killed after a while. This indicated declining popularity which Harris told his biographer, Michael Feeney Callan, he was "utterly reconciled to". [46] Harris was a popular character actor for 30 years on television, making his first guest appearance on the episode "His Name Is Jason" on The Chevrolet Tele-Theatre in 1949. In the mid-1970s, Harris starred in live-action roles in two Saturday morning children's series, Space Academy and Uncle Croc's Block, and was a well-known TV spokesman for the International House of Pancakes. [on asking Irwin Allen for a Special Guest Star credit on every episode of. Best remembered by the public for his special guest starring role as Dr. Zachary Smith on. [Who stayed up nights drawing up lists of alliterations for his Dr. Smith character to spout to the Robot, which soon became the catalyst of the show]: Fans have shown me lots of lists over the years, but none of them were complete. [40], Harris was a lifelong friend of actor Peter O'Toole, and his family reportedly hoped that O'Toole would replace Harris as Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004). Burns said Harris was planning to reprise the (1995). Scorpio Named Jonathan #11. The sculptor was Seamus Connolly and the work was unveiled by Russell Crowe. J. A few years after receiving a degree in pharmacology trained British actor with his grandiloquent accent, crisp enunciation including the children's series Problem Child (1993) as well as The three actors reunited in the recording studio on June 14, 2006. Self-trained to shake his thick Bronx accent by watching British movies and pursuing interests in Shakespeare and archaeology, Jonathan changed his surname to one much easier to pronounce. After years of dialysis, his one kidney failed when he was just 12 years old. This won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival. However, he did make promotional appearances for the film: In late 2002, Harris and the rest of the surviving cast of the television series were preparing to film an NBC two-hour movie titled Lost in Space: The Journey Home; however, the project was unable to proceed after Harris was found dead. In 1957, Harris married Elizabeth Rees-Williams, daughter of David Rees-Williams, 1st Baron Ogmore. the arm-waggling, glass-domed robot. The Papers Are Already Filed, Queerbaiting, Latine, and WOC Among New Words Added to Dictionary.com, Black Trans & Nonbinary Youth at High Risk of Suicide: Report, What to Know About 2023's HIV is Not a Crime Awareness Day, Kerri Colby Spills on Sasha Colby's Legacy & Kim Petras Making History, Youngkin Latest GOP Gov. Harris's teenaged son would visit the set at this time, and Harris did whatever he could to bridge the gap between father and son and tried to make up for lost time. [on his father's, Sam's death]: My father was a wonderful man, who was 93 years old, when he was killed by a car in New York City, because I adored him, because he was the sweetest, good-est and my fan. Mon 16 Dec 2002 21.17 EST. Jonathan Harris, the delightfully flamboyant He was survived by his long-time wife (from 1938), Gertrude Bregman, and son Richard (born 1942). [4] The family lived in a six-story tenement, and his mother often took in boarders to make ends meet, giving them Jonathan's room and bed and relegating him to sleep on the dining room chairs. Harris' character, Dr. Smith, He wouldn't make another film for another five years, with a supporting role as Lysias in the biblical story of Simon Peter in The Big Fisherman (1959) starring Howard Keel.However, it was television that would make keep Jonathan working and make a stronger impression. [31], Harris was a vocal supporter of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA) from 1973 until 1984. It was based on the novel by David Storey and directed by Lindsay Anderson. When he was attending high school, Jonathan was interested in archeology, Latin, romantic poetry and Shakespeare. A memorial service eighteen. As a change of pace, he was the romantic lead in a Doris Day spy spoof comedy, Caprice (1967), directed by Frank Tashlin. When McAnally died suddenly on 15 June 1989, Harris was offered the McCabe role. That you can live with and the rest, as they say, is history. Yes, I do! TV Actors. He had a memorable bit part in the film The Guns of Navarone (1961) as a Royal Australian Air Force pilot who reports that blowing up the "bloody guns" of the island of Navarone is impossible by an air raid. Gavin Gaughan. Amity Smith. Written by, Clipped quasi-English sounding villainous baritone, June 19, 1938 - November 3, 2002 (his death, 1 child), Visionaries: Knights of the Magical Light (1987), The Twisted Tales of Felix the Cat (1995). Early television career [ edit] With the $2 that was given to him by his mother, he used that money to go to the movies. I found that the way to get rid of my accent was to superimpose another. Before he was a successful actor, he used to work for the Bulova Watch Company. 'You there, where did you get that accent' he bellowed. In 1970, Harris played the role of another not-so-likeable villain, the Bulmanian Ambassador in the Get Smart episode "How Green Was My Valet". In 1932, when he was only 17, he legally changed his name, from Charasuchin to Harris, he also didn't inform his parents about this. In similar fashion, several of Harris's catch phrases from the series, such as "Oh, the pain! Emphasizing the target of the parody, numerous characters would ask him, "Weren't you on a TV show with a robot? It had a beneficial effect. The project was re-assembled with a new director and cast, except for Harris, who returned: The Deadly Trackers (1973). During Harris's first starring role was in the film This Sporting Life (1963), as a bitter young coal miner, Frank Machin, who becomes an acclaimed rugby league football player. At the height of his stardom in the 1960s and early 1970s Harris was almost as well known for his hellraiser lifestyle and heavy drinking as he was for his acting career. Harris remained proud of the character he created, He holds the world record for a guest-starring role in a single series, having been in most of the episodes of. He followed it with another Canadian film, Highpoint, a movie so bad it was not released for several years. In 1942, he made his Broadway debut in The Heart of a City, appearing in a leading role. A talented rugby player, he appeared on several Munster Junior and Senior Cup teams for Crescent, and played for Garryowen. And if, God forbid, it's a terrible flop, well that would be very good for me. Stage: Appeared in "The Madwoman of Chaillot" on Broadway. Was physically healthy and physically active until his death at age 87. He used to stop people on the street and say, 'Guess who's my son?,' and he was wonderful, he was a darling man. He was survived by his long-time wife (from 1938), Gertrude Bregman, and son Richard (born 1942). Thereafter, he began his career, working in different drugstores. Harris passed away from a blood clot in his heart while receiving therapy at an Encino-area hospital for a chronic back problem. He was born on 4th Street in Manhattan, New York City, the same place where both of his sisters were born. Harris died of a blood clot in the heart while receiving therapy for a chronic back problem at a hospital on November 3, 2002. He graduated from there with a degree in pharmacology in 1936. I still get nervous, isn't that wonderful! However, Harris declined to do a walk-on role Harris spent much of his later career working as a voice actor, and during it he was heard on television commercials as well as on cartoons such as Channel Umptee-3, The Banana Splits, My Favorite Martian, Rainbow Brite, Darkwing Duck, Happily Ever After, Problem Child, Spider-Man, A Bug's Life, Buzz Lightyear of Star Command and Toy Story 2. Bradford Webster. Instantly recognizable for his sophisticated and grim-visaged manner of speech and his sharp, expressive features, popular character actor Jonathan Harris' villainous role on the beloved series Lost in Space earned him both a noted spot in the annals of television history and a warm place in the hearts of TV viewers everywhere. Dr. Smith. He joined a repertory company at the Millpond Playhouse in Long Island, New York and went on to appear in 16 plays for them. Harris also guest-starred on The Ghost & Mrs. Muir. At the first rehearsal I was shaking like a leaf, worrying that I'd get fired, when the director pointed at me. The pub was a favourite drinking place of Harris on his visits to Limerick. Remaining steadfast on classy anthologies dramas such as "Armstrong Circle Theatre", "Studio One in Hollywood", "Matinee Theatre", "Schlitz Playhouse", "Climax", "Colgate Theatre", "Kraft Theatre", "General Electric Theatre", as well as the role of Exton in a TV-movie version of King Richard II (1954), he began appearing on more popular television series such as Zorro (1957), Father Knows Best (1954), The Law and Mr. Jones (1960), Outlaws (1960), The Twilight Zone (1959), The Lloyd Bridges Show (1962) and Bonanza (1959), Jonathan got his first taste of television success and audiences got to witness the fusty, cowardly, uppity side of Jonathan in two archetypal regular roles: as cowardly assistant Bradley Webster on the crime drama The Third Man (1959) starring Michael Rennie and as persnickety hotel manager Mr. Phillips on the short-lived sitcom The Bill Dana Show (1963) starring the Latin-speaking comic as a bellhop.This culminated in the television regular role that would make Jonathan a cult icon, as Dr. Zachary Smith, the dastardly, effete spaceship stowaway on Lost in Space (1965). 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