H. M. Wynant

American film and television actor (born 1927)

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H.M. Wynant
Born	Chaim Weiner^[1] 1926 or 1927 (age 97–98) Detroit, Michigan, U.S.
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1955–present

H. M. Wynant (born Chaim Weiner; 1926 or 1927)^[2] is an American film and television actor.

Biography

Wynant was born in Detroit, Michigan to Bessie and Jacob Weiner from Zabolotiv, Poland.^[1] He made his feature film debut as a Native American in Samuel Fuller's Run of the Arrow (1957). The following year, in Walt Disney film Tonka, Wynant played Yellow Bull, a Sioux Indian.

His film credits include Run Silent, Run Deep (1958); The Slender Thread (1965); Track of Thunder (1967); The Helicopter Spies (1968); Marlowe (1969); Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972); The Horror at 37,000 Feet (1973); Hangar 18 (1980); Earthbound (1981); and Solar Crisis (1990). He played a villain who fought Elvis Presley in the 1963 film, It Happened at the World's Fair.

Among his many television credits are appearances on shows such as Playhouse 90, Sugarfoot, Hawaiian Eye, Combat!, The Wild Wild West, Perry Mason, The Twilight Zone, Daniel Boone, Gunsmoke, Frontier Circus, Get Smart, Hawaii Five-O, The Big Valley, Hogan's Heroes, Bat Masterson, Mission: Impossible, Quincy, M.E., and Dallas.

Partial filmography

Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1956) (Season 2 Episode 3: "De Mortuis") - Truck Driver (credited as Haim Winant)
Sweet Smell of Success (1957) - Patron at Toots Shor's (uncredited)
Run of the Arrow (1957) - Crazy Wolf
Decision at Sundown (1957) - Spanish
Oregon Passage (1957) - Black Eagle
Run Silent, Run Deep (1958) - Corpsman Hendrix (uncredited)
Tonka (1958) - Yellow Bull
It Happened at the World's Fair (1963) - Vince Bradley
The Wheeler Dealers (1963) - Bo Bluedog (uncredited)
The Slender Thread (1965) - Doctor Morris
Track of Thunder (1967) - Maxwell Carstairs
The Search for the Evil One (1967)
Sail to Glory (1967) - Captain Dick Brown
The Helicopter Spies (1968) - The Aksoy Brothers (archive footage)
The Virginian (TV series) (1968) (Season 7 Episode 5: "The Wind of Outrage") - Sturdevant
Marlowe (1969) - Sonny Steelgrave
Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972) - Hoskyns
The Horror at 37,000 Feet (1973, TV Movie) - Frank Driscoll
The Last Tycoon (1976) - Man at Dailies (uncredited)
Grand Jury (1976) - Mr. Potter
Hangar 18 (1980) - Flight Director
Earthbound (1981) - Dave
Solar Crisis (1990) - IXL executive #1
The Big Empty (1997) - J.W. McCreedy
Whigmaleerie (2005) - Hector MacDougall
Trail of the Screaming Forehead (2007) - Dr. Applethorpe
The Lost Skeleton Returns Again (2008) - General Scottmanson
Dark and Stormy Night (2009) - Dr. Van Von Vandervon
Yesterday Was a Lie (2009) - Art Patron
Footprints (2011) - Victor
Marafon (2013) - David
The Adventures of Biffle and Shooster (2015) - 'Montague Shaw' as Andrew
Living Room Coffin (2018) - Terry

References

^ ^a ^b "Soul of blessed memory". The Detroit Jewish News. 2017-09-21. p. 60.
^ "TV-Movie Actor Uses Initials". The Evening Sun. Maryland, Baltimore. North America Newspaper Alliance. April 25, 1957. p. 39. Retrieved July 10, 2018 – via Newspapers.com.