MICHAEL ANSARA

'Michael Ansara' (born April 15, 1922) is a stage, screen and voice actor.
Ansara was born in Syria. His family emigrated to the United States when he was two years old. He originally wanted to be a physician but developed a passion for acting when he began acting classes to overcome his shyness.
It was the popular TV series ''Broken Arrow'' (1956) where he played the lead role of Cochise, raising Ansara's profile and making him a household name on television.
Whilst making the series, the 20th Century Fox Publicity Department arranged a date between Ansara and actress Barbara Eden. The two later married and Ansara guest starred on Eden's ''I Dream of Jeannie'' series, as the Blue Djinn, who had imprisoned Jeannie in a bottle, and as King Kamehameha in the episode ''The Battle of Waikiki''. The couple had one son together, actor Matthew Ansara, who died on June 25, 2001 after a heroin overdose.
Michael Ansara and Barbara Eden divorced in 1974. In 1977, Ansara starred in the movie ''Mohammad, Messenger of God'' (also titled ''The Message'') about the origin of Islam, and the message of prophet Mohammad. Ansara is now semi-retired.
Another big success of Ansara was the TV series ''Law of the Plainsman'' (1959, with Gina Gillespie), where he performed as Indian US-Marshall ''Sam Buckhart''.
Michael Ansara also played in the Biblical epics The Ten Commandments) (1956) and The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965).
In recent years he is perhaps best known as the voice of Mr. Freeze in ''.
Along with Jonathan Frakes, Marina Sirtis, Armin Shimerman, John de Lancie and Richard Poe, he is one of only six actors to play the same character on three different ''Star Trek'' series. He played Kang in '', '' and ''. He also provided the voice of Q's supervisor in the Next Generation episode ''True Q'' and played Lwaxana Troi's husband Jeyal on the ''Deep Space Nine'' episode, "The Muse".
Ansara played the Technomage Elric in the acclaimed sci-fi series ''Babylon 5'' in the episode The Geometry of Shadows, in which Elric and his fellow Technomages go into hiding, anticipating the return of the Shadows and the subsequent great war that will tear the galaxy apart. The Elric character is to feature prominently in the "Technomage Trilogy" books that deal with events before, during and after the Technomages go into hiding.
Ansara played "Killer Kane" in the 1979-1980 season of ''Buck Rogers in the 25th Century'', and previously played two different characters in two episodes of the 1966 Sci-Fi TV series ''The Time Tunnel''. In episode #11, he played ''Colonel Hruda'' and in episode #28 played ''The Curator''.

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