H. M. Wynant (born Chaim Winant; February 12, 1927) is an American film and television actor.

Biography

Wynant was born in

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. He made his feature film debut as an Indian in Samuel Fuller's ''

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'' (1957). In the 1958

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film ''

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'', Wynant played Yellow Bull, a Sioux Indian, who was the cousin of White Bull, played by

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, and is killed at the

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. Among his many other film credits are '' Run Silent, Run Deep'' (1958); ''

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'' (1965); '' Track of Thunder'' (1967); '' The Helicopter Spies'' (1968); '' Marlowe'' (1969); ''

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'' (1972); ''

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'' (1973); '' Hangar 18'' (1980); '' Earthbound'' (1981); and '' Solar Crisis'' (1990). He played a villain who fought

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in the 1963 film, '' It Happened at the World's Fair''. Among his many television credits are appearances on shows such as '' Playhouse 90'', ''

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'', '' Hawaiian Eye'', ''

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'', '' The Wild Wild West'', ''

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'', '' Gunsmoke'', '' Frontier Circus'', ''

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'', ''

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'' in a 1958 episode where he again played a renegade Indian chief, '' Mission: Impossible'', ''

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'', and ''

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''. He was cast as

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in the 1961 episode, "The Red Petticoat", on the syndicated

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, ''

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'', hosted by

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. In the storyline, Sheridan's friendship with Indian scout Kahlu (Allen Jaffe) (1928–1989) is questioned after a number of ambushes result in dead troopers. Sheridan sticks to his instincts and defends his ally against the enraged residents of the fort. In recent years, he has been a member of Larry Blamire's stock company, playing authoritative figures in several of Blamire's features and shorts, such as a Pentagon general in '' The Lost Skeleton Returns Again'' and a weird psychiatrist in '' Dark and Stormy Night''. He returned to the big screen in 2011 in ''

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'' for which he was nominated as Best Supporting Actor at the Method Fest Independent Film Festival.

Partial filmography

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'' (1957) - Patron at Toots Shor's (uncredited) *''

'' (1957) - Crazy Wolf *'' Decision at Sundown'' (1957) - Spanish *'' Oregon Passage'' (1957) - Black Eagle *'' Run Silent, Run Deep'' (1958) - Corpsman Hendrix (uncredited) *''

'' (1958) - Yellow Bull *'' It Happened at the World's Fair'' (1963) - Vince Bradley *''

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'' (1963) - Bo Bluedog (uncredited) *''

'' (1965) - Doctor Morris *'' Track of Thunder'' (1967) - Maxwell Carstairs *''The Search for the Evil One'' (1967) *''Sail to Glory'' (1967) - Capt. Dick Brown *'' The Helicopter Spies'' (1968) - The Aksoy Brothers (archive footage) *'' Marlowe'' (1969) - Sonny Steelgrave *''

'' (1972) - Hoskyns *''

'' (1973, TV Movie) - Frank Driscoll *''

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'' (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 *''

'' (2011) - Victor *''Marafon'' (2013) - David *''The Adventures of Biffle and Shooster'' (2015) - 'Montague Shaw' as Andrew *''Living Room Coffin'' (2018) - Terry

References

External links

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