Sunday, August 4, 2013

Star Trek, goodbye to Michael Ansara

He leaves Michael Ansara, the Syrian-born actor best known for his role as Kang is in Star Trek that in the next Star Trek - Deep Space Nine and Star Trek Voyager. Ansara was 91 years old, had been ill for some time, and is turned off in Calabasas, California.
Although he was born in Syria, the actor had moved with his parents to the United States when he was just two years. During his college years set aside for initial ambition of becoming a doctor and began to devote himself to acting. Towards the second half of the fifties serial participates in Broken Arrow, and began to be well known by the general public. At the same time meets Barbara Eden, with which the 20th Century-Fox had arranged a meeting for advertising purposes, but later the two decide to get married and have a son, Matthew, who died in tragic circumstances in 2001. Ansara was also married with colleagues Jean Byron and Beverly Kushida, who remained with him until the end.
Although he was of Middle Eastern origin, Ansara was often cast in roles as villains or Native American.

During his career he has appeared in many television series - including, to name just a few, I Dream of Jeannie, She Wrote, Alfred Hitchcock Presents - and some film.

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