H. M. Wynant (born Chaim Weiner; February 12, 1927)[2] is an American film and television actor.
H.M. Wynant | |
|---|---|
| Born | Chaim Weiner[1] February 12, 1927 Detroit, Michigan, U.S. |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1955–present |
| Spouse(s) | Ethel Wald (1951-1971; divorced); 3 children Paula Davis (January 30, 1993-present); 1 child |
Biography
Wynant was born in Detroit, Michigan to Bessie and Jacob Weiner from Zabolotiv, Poland.[3] He made his feature film debut as a Native American in Samuel Fuller's Run of the Arrow (1957). The following year, in Walt Disney film Tonka, Wynant played Yellow Bull, a Sioux Indian.
His film credits include Run Silent, Run Deep (1958); The Slender Thread (1965); Track of Thunder (1967); The Helicopter Spies (1968); Marlowe (1969); Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972); The Horror at 37,000 Feet (1973); Hangar 18 (1980); Earthbound (1981); and Solar Crisis (1990). He played a villain who fought Elvis Presley in the 1963 film, It Happened at the World's Fair.
Among his many television credits are appearances on shows such as Playhouse 90, Sugarfoot, Hawaiian Eye, Combat!, The Wild Wild West, Perry Mason, The Twilight Zone, Daniel Boone, Gunsmoke, Frontier Circus, Get Smart, Hawaii Five-O, The Big Valley, Hogan's Heroes, Bat Masterson, Mission: Impossible, Quincy, M.E., and Dallas.
In later years, he was a member of Larry Blamire's stock company, playing authoritative figures in several of Blamire's features and shorts, such as a Pentagon general in The Lost Skeleton Returns Again and a weird psychiatrist in Dark and Stormy Night. He returned to the big screen in 2011 in Footprints for which he was nominated as Best Supporting Actor at the Method Fest Independent Film Festival.[citation needed]
Partial filmography
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1956) (Season 2 Episode 3: "De Mortuis") - Truck Driver (credited as Haim Winant)
- Sweet Smell of Success (1957) - Patron at Toots Shor's (uncredited)
- Run of the Arrow (1957) - Crazy Wolf
- Decision at Sundown (1957) - Spanish
- Oregon Passage (1957) - Black Eagle
- Run Silent, Run Deep (1958) - Corpsman Hendrix (uncredited)
- Tonka (1958) - Yellow Bull
- It Happened at the World's Fair (1963) - Vince Bradley
- The Wheeler Dealers (1963) - Bo Bluedog (uncredited)
- The Slender Thread (1965) - Doctor Morris
- Track of Thunder (1967) - Maxwell Carstairs
- The Search for the Evil One (1967)
- Sail to Glory (1967) - Captain Dick Brown
- The Helicopter Spies (1968) - The Aksoy Brothers (archive footage)
- The Virginian (TV series) (1968) (Season 7 Episode 5: "The Wind of Outrage") - Sturdevant
- Marlowe (1969) - Sonny Steelgrave
- Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972) - Hoskyns
- The Horror at 37,000 Feet (1973, TV Movie) - Frank Driscoll
- The Last Tycoon (1976) - Man at Dailies (uncredited)
- Grand Jury (1976) - Mr. Potter
- Hangar 18 (1980) - Flight Director
- Earthbound (1981) - Dave
- Solar Crisis (1990) - IXL executive #1
- The Big Empty (1997) - J.W. McCreedy
- Whigmaleerie (2005) - Hector MacDougall
- Trail of the Screaming Forehead (2007) - Dr. Applethorpe
- The Lost Skeleton Returns Again (2008) - General Scottmanson
- Dark and Stormy Night (2009) - Dr. Van Von Vandervon
- Yesterday Was a Lie (2009) - Art Patron
- Footprints (2011) - Victor
- Marafon (2013) - David
- The Adventures of Biffle and Shooster (2015) - 'Montague Shaw' as Andrew
- Living Room Coffin (2018) - Terry