Joseph Ruskin

Born: 1924-04-14, Haverhill, Massachusetts, USA

Died: 2013-12-28

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Joseph Ruskin (born April 14, 1924 - December 28, 2013) is an American character actor. Ruskin is one of only 4 actors or actresses to have starred in both the original Star Trek (1966) (up to and including Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991)) and then in one of the spin offs. Along with Majel Barrett, Clint Howard and Jack Donner, he is one of only four actors to appear in both the original Star Trek series and Star Trek: Enterprise (2001). He also played a Vulcan Master in an episode of Star Trek: Voyager. Ruskin was also in an episode of The Outer Limits called "Production and Decay of Strange Particles". Ruskin was also in a movie called Smokin' Aces. Joseph Ruskin was the uncredited voice of the Kanamits from the Twilight Zone episode "To Serve Man". He also may be remembered as the Genie from the 1960 episode of the Twilight Zone, "The Man in the Bottle". He married Patricia Herd in 1959 and was later divorced in 1976.

Filmography

• Star Trek: Voyager (1995)
• The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1962)
• Murder, She Wrote (1984)
• Knight Rider (1982)
• Hill Street Blues (1981)
• L.A. Law (1986)
• Hogan's Heroes (1965)
• The Twilight Zone (1959)
• The Wild Wild West (1965)
• Night Gallery (1970)
• The Doris Day Show (1968)
• St. Elsewhere (1982)
• Lawman (1958)
• Jake and the Fatman (1987)
• Wanted: Dead or Alive (1958)
• Hotel (1982)
• Police Woman (1974)
• Peter Gunn (1958)
• The Six Million Dollar Man (1974)
• DuckTales (1987)
• Route 66 (1960)
• Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction (1997)
• Gunsmoke (1955)
• The Streets of San Francisco (1972)
• Surfside 6 (1960)
• Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre (1956)
• Burke's Law (1963)
• Richard Diamond, Private Detective (1957)
• Mister Ed (1961)
• Matt Houston (1982)