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David Opatoshu is a Actor and Scriptwriter American born on 30 january 1918 at New York City (USA)

David Opatoshu

David Opatoshu
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Birth name David Opatovsky
Nationality USA
Birth 30 january 1918 at New York City (USA)
Death 30 april 1996 (at 78 years) at Los Angeles (USA)
Awards Emmy Award

David Opatoshu (January 30, 1918 – April 30, 1996) was an American film, stage and television actor. He was born as David Opatovsky in New York City, where he was reared and educated. His father was the Yiddish writer Joseph Opatoshu.

Best films

The Naked City (1948)
(Actor)

Usually with

John Saxon
John Saxon
(4 films)
Lee J. Cobb
Lee J. Cobb
(4 films)
Mort Shuman
Mort Shuman
(1 films)
Carl Reiner
Carl Reiner
(1 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of David Opatoshu (29 films)

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Actor

Forced Vengeance, 1h30
Directed by James Fargo
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Martial arts, Action, Adventure, Martial arts
Themes Sports films, Martial arts films
Actors Chuck Norris, Mary Louise Weller, David Opatoshu, Robert Lee Minor, Howard Caine, Robert Emhardt
Roles Sam Paschal
Rating55% 2.752252.752252.752252.752252.75225
Josh Randall is the head of security for the Lucky Dragon casino in Hong Kong. As the movie begins, Randall is visiting Los Angeles to collect $114,000 owed by a rich gambler to his employer, David Pascal (Liu). After a few threats and some fighting he collects the debt. He dozes during a jet flight back to Hong Kong and the viewer sees in flash back how he got in a fight in the Casino when he was on leave from the US Army and ended up befriending David’s father, Sam (Opatoshu).
Flash Gordon: The Greatest Adventure of All, 1h35
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Fantasy, Action, Adventure, Animation
Themes Space adventure films, Superhero films, Space opera
Actors Robert Ridgely, Bob Holt, Diane Pershing, Vic Perrin, David Opatoshu, Melendy Britt
Roles Prince Vultan (voice)
Rating74% 3.7134353.7134353.7134353.7134353.713435
The story takes place during World War II. Flash Gordon is on a mission in Warsaw, which is suffering heavy bombing. He arrives too late and his contact, who is near death, says he has a message for Doctor Zarkov, but can utter only one word, "Mongo," before he dies.
Beyond Evil, 1h34
Genres Horror
Actors John Saxon, Lynda Day George, Michael Dante, Janice Lynde, David Opatoshu, Alan Caillou
Roles Dr. Solomon
Rating42% 2.1127552.1127552.1127552.1127552.112755
When an architect and his bride move into their dream home—a colonial mansion—they find that their new digs have a rich history of bloody violence. What's more, the manor is already occupied by a 100-year-old ghost with a thirst for vengeance and a yearning to oust the newlyweds from his haunt.
Americathon, 1h26
Directed by Neal Israel
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Environmental films, Films set in the future, Films based on plays
Actors John Ritter, Peter Riegert, Harvey Korman, Fred Willard, Richard Schaal, Chief Dan George
Roles Abdul Muhammad
Rating45% 2.2598352.2598352.2598352.2598352.259835
In the (then-near future) year 1998, the USA has run out of oil, and many Americans are living in their now-stationary cars and using other non-gas-powered means of transportation such as jogging, riding bicycles and rollerskating. Many Americans wear sweatsuits. In search of leadership, Americans elect Chet Roosevelt (Ritter) as President. Roosevelt, a "cosmically inspired" former governor of California, proves to have little else in common with Teddy Roosevelt or FDR other than his name. Roosevelt, an overly-optimistic man who quotes positive affirmation slogans, stages a number of highly publicized fund raising events, all of which fail. Real money comes in the form of loans from a cartel of Native Americans, led by billionaire Sam Birdwater (George), in control of Nike (which has been renamed "National Indian Knitting Enterprise").
Who'll Stop the Rain, 2h6
Directed by Karel Reisz
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, War, Thriller, Comedy, Action, Horror, Crime
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about drugs, Political films
Actors Nick Nolte, Tuesday Weld, Michael Moriarty, Richard Masur, Stuart Wilson, David Opatoshu
Roles Bender
Rating66% 3.34713.34713.34713.34713.3471
The film opens in Saigon at the height of the Vietnam War. John Converse (Moriarty), a disillusioned war correspondent, approaches Ray Hicks (Nolte), a merchant marine sailor and acquaintance of Converse's from the US, for help in smuggling a large quantity of heroin from Vietnam to San Francisco, where he will exchange the drugs for payment with Converse's wife Marge (Weld), who has become addicted to Dilaudid. When Hicks discovers he is being followed by thugs connected either to Converse or his suppliers, he goes on the run with Marge and the heroin, and is eventually pursued by the corrupt DEA agent (Zerbe), who initially set the deal in motion. As Marge is separated from her supply of prescription drugs, she experiences withdrawal, and Hicks decides to help her wean off her dilaudid addiction by using the heroin. Hicks also attempts to find another buyer for the heroin before his pursuers can catch up to him.
Raid on Entebbe, 2h25
Directed by Irvin Kershner
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Thriller, Documentary, Action, Historical
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about terrorism, Transport films, Aviation films, Political films, Dans un avion, Children's films, Films about hijackings
Actors Peter Finch, Charles Bronson, Yaphet Kotto, James Woods, Robert Loggia, Horst Buchholz
Roles Menachem Begin
Rating66% 3.3442153.3442153.3442153.3442153.344215
The film focuses on the basic facts of the rescue of hostages held when hijackers belonging to a splinter group of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine under the orders of Wadie Haddad boarded and hijacked an Air France plane. It recounts the events and response of the Israeli government and the controversy that the rescue stirred.
Romance of a Horsethief, 1h41
Directed by Abraham Polonsky
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Adventure, Historical
Actors Yul Brynner, Eli Wallach, Jane Birkin, Serge Gainsbourg, David Opatoshu, Henri Serre
Roles Schloime Kradnik
Rating51% 2.567232.567232.567232.567232.56723
In Polish Russia, Stoloff, a Cossack in exile has gained control over a Jewish village. The villagers live by horse-thievery and under the leadership of Kifke. Stoloff's regime is tolerated until he commandeers the village's horses for the Russian army. Naomi has been away in France and gotten ideas of a revolution and inspires the town to resist. This gets Naomi into deep trouble, from which only Kifke and his compatriot Zanvil can rescue her. Zanvil is highly motivated since he is in love with Naomi.
A Walk in the Spring Rain, 1h38
Directed by Guy Green
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality
Actors Anthony Quinn, Ingrid Bergman, Fritz Weaver, Katherine Crawford, Tom Holland, Virginia Gregg
Rating61% 3.050743.050743.050743.050743.05074
Libby Meredith (Ingrid Bergman) and her husband, Roger (Fritz Weaver) move from New York to a small house in backwoods Tennessee. Their neighbor, Will Cade (Anthony Quinn), is very helpful to them and to Libby especially. While her intellectual husband is busy writing a book and paying her little attention, she comes to like the country life and finds herself attracted to Will's rural sensibilities. Though he is married to Ann (Virginia Gregg), Will and Libby start up a middle-aged affair. Libby's daughter, Ellen (Katharine Crawford), arrives asking for help raising her son Bucky while she attends Harvard. Soon enough, Will's son Boy Cade (Tom Holland) finds out about the affair and molests Libby, but she is rescued by Will, who accidentally kills his own son. The disillusioned Merediths return to the city, Libby having abandoned her romantic hopes, Roger his literary ambitions.
Death of a Gunfighter, 1h31
Directed by Don Siegel, Robert Totten
Origin USA
Genres Action, Western
Actors Richard Widmark, Lena Horne, Carroll O'Connor, Kent Smith, Jacqueline Scott, John Saxon
Roles Edward Rosenbloom
Rating62% 3.1005553.1005553.1005553.1005553.100555
In the town of Cottonwood Springs, Texas at the turn of the century, Marshal Frank Patch is an Old West style lawman in a community determined to be modern. When Patch kills drunken Luke Mills in self-defense, the town decides it is time for the marshal to resign. But Patch refuses, reminding the citizens that when he took he job, the agreement was he could have it as long as he wanted. Afraid of Patch because of his knowledge of their misdeeds in the town's wilder days, the city fathers then decide the only way to remove Patch from office is by violence.
The Fixer
The Fixer (1968)
, 2h12
Directed by John Frankenheimer
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Crime
Themes Films about racism
Actors Alan Bates, Dirk Bogarde, Georgia Brown, Hugh Griffith, Ian Holm, David Warner
Roles Latke
Rating67% 3.3912353.3912353.3912353.3912353.391235
It is the story of a man named Yakov Bok, a Jew living in the Russian Empire, who was unjustly imprisoned based on prejudice and the blood libel. It was based on the incidents of the Beilis Trial in 1913, in which Menahem Mendel Beilis was wrongly accused of having murdered a Ukrainian boy named Andrei Yushchinsky, with blood libel being presented as the alleged motivation.
Enter Laughing, 1h51
Directed by Carl Reiner
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romance
Themes Films about religion, Films about television, Films about Jews and Judaism, Films based on plays
Actors José Ferrer, Shelley Winters, Elaine May, Jack Gilford, Janet Margolin, Don Rickles
Roles Morris Kolowitz
Rating62% 3.1441753.1441753.1441753.1441753.144175
David Kolowitz (Santoni) works as a delivery boy and assistant for a machine shop in New York City in 1938, and is fascinated with the movies.
The Defector, 1h46
Directed by Raoul Lévy
Origin France
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Spy
Themes Spy films, Political films
Actors Montgomery Clift, Hardy Krüger, Roddy McDowall, Macha Méril, Christine Delaroche, David Opatoshu
Roles Orlovsky
Rating57% 2.852722.852722.852722.852722.85272
Professor Bower, an American physicist, is effectively blackmailed by a shady CIA agent named Adams to help the CIA obtain secret microfilm from a defecting Russian scientist. The reluctant Bower travels to East Germany undercover as an antiques collector where he encounters Heinzmann, an East German fellow physicist, who is also a secret agent. Heinzmann is aware of Bower's meeting with Adams and his intention to steal the microfilm, but their mutual respect for one another's tactics complicate the proceedings.
Torn Curtain, 2h2
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Romance
Themes Spy films, Political films
Actors Paul Newman, Julie Andrews, Lila Kedrova, Ludwig Donath, Wolfgang Kieling, David Opatoshu
Roles Mr. Jacobi
Rating65% 3.2998253.2998253.2998253.2998253.299825
Michael Armstrong (Paul Newman), an esteemed American physicist and rocket scientist, is to attend a scientific conference in Copenhagen. He takes a cruise ship to Copenhagen along with his assistant and fiancée, Sarah Sherman (Julie Andrews). Armstrong tells Sherman that he did not want her to come along, and en route to Copenhagen, he receives a radiogram to pick up a book once in Copenhagen. The book, allegedly a first-edition of one of Armstrong's book, actually contains a message that says, "Contact π in case [of emergency.]" He tells Sherman he is going to Stockholm, but she discovers he is flying to East Berlin, and she follows him there. When they land, he is welcomed by representatives of the East German government, and Sherman realizes that Armstrong has defected to the other side. Sherman, however, is extremely uncomfortable with this move, realizing if the apparent defection is in fact real, given the circumstances of the Cold War of the period, she would likely never see her home or family again. They are constantly accompanied by Professor Karl Manfred (Günter Strack), who took part in arranging Armstrong's defection to the East.
One Spy Too Many, 1h42
Directed by Joseph Sargent
Origin USA
Genres Adventure, Crime
Themes Spy films
Actors Robert Vaughn, James Hong, David McCallum, Rip Torn, Dorothy Provine, Leo G. Carroll
Roles Mr. Kavon
Rating57% 2.8989452.8989452.8989452.8989452.898945
The film opens with Alexander (Rip Torn) stealing a chemical weapon from a military base. The weapon causes an enemy’s troops to lose the will to fight, thereby making conquest in battle far easier. This is part of Alexander’s dual goal: to conquer the world in the manner of Alexander the Great and to break each of the major moral codes in so doing (which essentially means the ten commandments as detailed throughout the movie).