Felix Maurice Locher

Felix Maurice Locher, known as Felix Locher (pronounced Lo-Shay) ( July 16, 1882, Bern, Switzerland - March 13, 1969, California) was a Swiss actor and inventor and father of actor Jon Hall.

Career

Felix Locher was an inventor who held over 100 copyrights and patents relating to a unique mapping system that he used when lecturing insurance salesmans. Locher started acting late in life, when he was discovered for the film Hell Ship Mutiny  in 1957, he by then was 73 years old. Father of actor Jon Hall (born Charles Felix Locher),he visited his son on the set when he was discovered by director Elmo Wiliams who convinced him to play the part of an elderly Tahitian Chief. From then on he appeared in numerous television productions throughout the 1950s and 1960s until his death in 1969 at age of 87.[1]

He also appeared in Star Trek, The Outlaw (1966), Gunsmoke (1968) The Man from U.N.C.L.E., House of the Damned (1963), Mission: Impossible (1967) mit Joseph Campanella, The Twilight Zone: The Silence (TV),[2] Thunder in the Sun,[3] Curse of the Faceless Man (1958)[4] He is considered the oldest Star Trek actor of all time by birth year (the second-oldest is Leonard Mudie, born 1883).

He was buried at the Forest Lawn, Hollywood Hills Cemetery in Los Angeles.

References

  1. ↑ "Felix Locher". IMDb. Retrieved 2018-02-07.
  2. ↑ The Twilight Zone: The Silence (TV) (1961), retrieved 2018-02-07
  3. ↑ Thunder in the Sun (1959), retrieved 2018-02-07
  4. ↑ Curse of the Faceless Man (1958), retrieved 2018-02-07
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