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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

References

  1. ^ a b “Soul of blessed memory”. The Detroit Jewish News. 2017-09-21. p. 60.
  2. ^ https://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/14/nyregion/ethel-winant-81-pioneering-woman-in-tv-production.html
  3. ^ https://www.facebook.com/share/1AhtrTb9uk/
  4. ^ “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. Open access icon
  5. ^ “H.M. Wynant”. TVGuide.com. Retrieved 2025-04-23.