Eugene Dynarski


Eugene "Gene" Dynarski was an American actor. Three of the most popular projects that he has been involved with were two Steven Spielberg films, Duel and Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and the Westwood Studios computer game '.
In 1971's Duel, Dynarski had a small role as a truck driver in a cafe. In Command & Conquer: Red Alert, Dynarski plays a major supporting role as Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin, appearing throughout much of the game's Soviet campaign and, to a lesser extent, the Allied campaign. In the 1974 film Earthquake, Dynarski portrays Fred, a worker at the Mulholland Dam who becomes the first fatality of the disaster.
Dynarski has also appeared in numerous television shows. He is one of 32 actors or actresses to have guest-starred in both the original ' television series and in one of the series' spin offs. In Monkees TV series, Dynarski played the Dragonman's sidekick, Toto, in the episode titled "Monkee Chow Mein". His many other TV credits include episodes of Batman, Starsky & Hutch, CHiPs, Little House on the Prairie and The A-Team. He is also known for his two appearances as Izzy Mandelbaum Jr. on Seinfeld. Dynarski appeared in the short Apple Jack as Helmut Jitters.
Dynarski died on February 27, 2020, at the age of 86.

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