David Hurst

David Hurst was an actor who played Ambassador Hodin in the third season episode . He filmed his scenes on Wednesday and Thursday at Desilu Stage 9.
Born Heinrich Theodor Hirsch into a German Jewish family, he moved to Northern Ireland at the age of 12, among the nearly ten thousand children who were rescued from the Nazi pogroms by the British government's Kindertransport program. Changing his name to David Hurst, he first appeared on the Belfast stage at a repertory theater. Hurst joined the British Army during World War II, and was assigned – due to his German background – to the Entertainments National Service Association, where he performed as an actor and comedian.
After appearing in a number of British films and on the London stage, Hurst moved to the United States in 1957. In Hollywood, he made guest appearances on such television series as Mission: Impossible (with Steve Ihnat, Paul Carr, Ed McCready, Robert Bralver, Bart La Rue, Monty O'Grady, and the voice of Robert C. Johnson), , (starring Clarence Williams III and Tige Andrews, guest starring Byron Morrow and James B. Sikking), (starring Diana Muldaur, guest starring Nehemiah Persoff, Robert Phillips, and Walt Davis), (with Robert Ito, Harry Townes, and Garry Walberg), and (with Katherine Moffat and Charles Picerni).
Hurst co-starred with Julie Newmar, Fritz Weaver, Alan Oppenheimer, Arthur Batanides, and Garry Walberg in (1969). He also had supporting roles in such classic feature films as (1969, with Billy Curtis, Morgan Farley, Carey Foster, Robert Hitchcock, Shep Houghton, Arthur Tovey, and Hubie Kerns, Sr.), Kelly's Heroes (1970, with Perry Lopez and Tom Troupe), and The Boys from Brazil (1978, with John Rubinstein).
Hurst returned to Germany in the early 1990s, and lived in Vienna, Austria and his city of birth, Berlin, for the rest of his life. He retired from acting work in 2000. He died on , suffering a stroke and pneumonia.
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