Alan Oppenheimer

**Alan Louis Oppenheimer** (born April 23, 1930) is an American actor and voice actor. He has performed numerous roles on live-action television since the 1960s, and has had an active career doing voice work in cartoons since the 1970s. As a character actor, Oppenheimer has had diverse roles in popular American television programming, from playing a Nazi in *Hogan's Heroes*, to playing an Israeli secret agent as well as a double-agent KAOS scientist on *Get Smart*, to being the second actor to play Dr. Rudy Wells in *The Six Million Dollar Man* (Martin Balsam played the role in the pilot telemovie). Oppenheimer took over as Rudy starting with the second film, "Wine, Women and War" and kept playing up until the introduction of the bionic woman in 1975, whereupon Martin E. Brooks took over as Wells until cancellation). He was the original Mickey Malph (Ralph Malph's dad) on *Happy Days*. He played a recurring role during the first two seasons of *St. Elsewhere* as Helen Rosenthal's husband, Ira. He had a recurring role as Mayor Alvin B. Tutwiller on *Mama's Family*.

Alan showed himself well suited to the science fiction genre in the 1973 cult classic *Westworld*, where he played the head IT technician. He has also appeared in three *Star Trek* series, always playing a different character. He appeared in the *Star Trek: The Next Generation* episode "Rightful Heir" as a Klingon cleric, Koroth, a primary instigator of the cloning of Kahless; on *Deep Space Nine* as a Starfleet Captain Declan Keogh in command of the *USS Odyssey*; and as an alien ambassador in *Voyager*.

Alan Oppenheimer appeared as film director Cecil B. DeMille in the 1994 Broadway production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's *Sunset Blvd.*[1]

Oppenheimer is recognized as the voice of many characters, often for Filmation in the 1970s and 1980s, such as Oil Can Harry, Swifty and the narrator on *The New Adventures of Mighty Mouse and Heckle & Jeckle*, Ming the Merciless on *Flash Gordon*, the Overlord on *BlackStar*, Skeletor, Man-At-Arms and Mer-Man from Filmation's 1980's cartoon *He-Man and the Masters of the Universe*, and the voice of Prime Evil in the 1986 TV series, Filmation's *Ghostbusters*.[2] Other notable voice roles include *Thundarr the Barbarian*, Vanity on *The Smurfs*, Rhinokey and Crock from *The Wuzzles* and Falkor, Gmork, Rockbiter, and the Narrator from 1984's *The NeverEnding Story*. In the early 1990s, Oppenheimer was the voice of Merlin in *The Legend of Prince Valiant*. He also provided the voice of Barkerville in the *Pound Puppies* TV special. He also voiced Fraidy Cat on *Fraidy Cat* in 1975 and provided additional voices on *Battle of the Planets* in 1978.

Oppenheimer worked on *The Transformers*, most notably as two contrasting characters, the pacifist Beachcomber and the bellicose Warpath. His rendition of Seaspraywas remarkably similar to Mer-Man, including the gurgling effects. He took over the voice of Roger Smith's butler Norman Burg in the second season of *The Big O*. He was the voice of the unseen Alistair Crane on the soap opera *Passions* up until 2004, when the character was made fully visible and played by David Bailey. More recently, he provided the voice of the Scientist for the 2009 film *9* and Batman's butler Alfred Pennyworth in *Superman/Batman: Public Enemies*.[*citation needed*]

Oppenheimer's repertoire also includes video games, voicing Dr. Piotr Ivanovich in *Soldier of Fortune II: Double Helix*, Prometheus in *God of War II* and Jandor the Airship Captain in *Nox*. In *Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel*, he spoke the part of Harold, an ancient mutated survivor of nuclear holocaust who has appeared in four of the *Fallout* series games, and played the roles of The Chariot Master and Dyntos, God of the Forge, in *Kid Icarus: Uprising*. Oppenheimer also voiced the parts of a non-player character Soldier and the Wasteland Trader, and the NPC 'enemies' Cult Ghoul Thug and Kamikaze in *Fallout: BoS*. Also, in the English TG-16 port of *Ys* Book I and II, Oppenheimer voiced the roles of the Narrator, and the game's lead antagonist, Darm.

In 2019 he guest-starred on the animated series *Tigtone.*