H. M. Wynant (born Chaim Weiner; 1926 or 1927)[4] is an American film and television actor.
Life and career
Wynant was born in Detroit, Michigan to Bessie and Jacob Weiner from Zabłotów, Poland (present-day Zabolotiv, Ukraine).[1] He made his feature film debut as a Native American in Samuel Fuller‘s Run of the Arrow (1957). The following year Wynant played Yellow Bull, a Sioux Indian, in the Walt Disney film Tonka.
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 (10 appearances); The Twilight Zone; Daniel Boone; Gunsmoke (8 appearances); Frontier Circus; Get Smart; Hawaii Five-O; The Big Valley; Hogan’s Heroes; Bat Masterson; Mission: Impossible; Quincy, M.E.; and Dallas.[5]
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
- Get Smart (1967) (Season 2 Episode 27: “Pussycats Galore”) – Frank Valentine
- 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 (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 Rockford Files (1975) (Season 2 Episode 2: “The Farnsworth Stratagem”) – Danzi
- 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.
- ^ https://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/14/nyregion/ethel-winant-81-pioneering-woman-in-tv-production.html
- ^ https://www.facebook.com/share/1AhtrTb9uk/
- ^ “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.
- ^ “H.M. Wynant”. TVGuide.com. Retrieved 2025-04-23.