Personal Info
Birth date
1907-12-25 (117 Years)
Day of death
1990-12-09
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Tarnopol, Galicia, Austria-Hungary [now Ternopil, Ukraine]
Also known as
Michail Mazuruski
'Iron' Mike Mazurki
Michael Mazurki
Markiyan Yulianovich Mazurkevich
Маркіян (Михайло) Мазуркевич
Mike Mazurki
Biography
Mike Mazurki (born: Markijan Mazurkiewicz; 25 December 1907 – 9 December 1990) was an American actor and professional wrestler who appeared in more than 100 films. His towering 6 ft 5 in (196 cm) presence and intimidating face usually got him roles playing tough guys, thugs, strong men, and gangsters.
Filmography
The Red Skelton Show
7.375
Overview:
The Red Skelton Show is an American variety show that was a television staple for two decades, from 1951 to 1971. It was second to Gunsmoke and third to The Ed Sullivan Show in the ratings during that time. Skelton, who had previously been a radio star, had appeared in several motion pictures as well. Although his television series is largely associated with CBS, where it appeared for more than fifteen years, it actually began and ended on NBC. During its run, the program received three Emmy Awards, for Skelton as best comedian and the program as best comedy show during its initial season, and an award for comedy writing in 1961.My Three Sons
6.5
Overview:
A widower and aeronautical engineer named Steven Douglas raises three sons with the help of his father-in-law, and later the boys' great-uncle. An adopted son, a stepdaughter, wives, and another generation of sons join the loving family in later seasons.Love, American Style
6.056
Overview:
An anthology comedy series featuring a line up of different celebrity guest stars appearing in anywhere from one, two, three, and four short stories or vignettes within an hour about versions of love and romance.I Dream of Jeannie
7.831
Overview:
While on a mission, American astronaut Captain Tony Nelson is forced to make an emergency landing that will forever change his life. On a deserted South Pacific island, Captain Nelson happens upon a bottle containing a beautiful two-thousand-year-old female genie named Jeannie. Rescuing her from the bottle nets Tony the requisite three wishes, and then some, when Jeannie pledges total devotion to her new "master".Have Gun, Will Travel
7.4
Overview:
Have Gun – Will Travel is an American Western television series that aired on CBS from 1957 through 1963. It was rated number three or number four in the Nielsen ratings every year of its first four seasons. It was one of the few television shows to spawn a successful radio version. The radio series debuted November 23, 1958. The television show is presently shown on the Encore-Western channel. Have Gun – Will Travel was created by Sam Rolfe and Herb Meadow and produced by Frank Pierson, Don Ingalls, Robert Sparks, and Julian Claman. There were 225 episodes of the TV series, 24 written by Gene Roddenberry. Other contributors included Bruce Geller, Harry Julian Fink, Don Brinkley and Irving Wallace. Andrew McLaglen directed 101 episodes and 19 were directed by series star Richard Boone.Bonanza
7.5
Overview:
The High-Sierra adventures of Ben Cartwright and his sons as they run and defend their ranch while helping the surrounding community.The Beverly Hillbillies
6.8
Overview:
Jed Clampett's swamp is loaded with oil. When a wildcatter discovers the huge pool, Jed sells his land to the O.K. Oil Company and at the urging of cousin Pearl, moves his family to a 35-room mansion in Beverly Hills, California.Charlie's Angels
6.7
Overview:
Beautiful, intelligent, and ultra-sophisticated, Charlie's Angels are everything a man could dream of... and way more than they could ever handle! Receiving their orders via speaker phone from their never seen boss, Charlie, the Angels employ their incomparable sleuthing and combat skills, as well as their lethal feminine charm, to crack even the most seemingly insurmountable of cases.Mannix
6.7
Overview:
Mannix is an American television detective series that ran from 1967 through 1975 on CBS. Created by Richard Levinson and William Link and developed by executive producer Bruce Geller, the title character, Joe Mannix, is a private investigator. He is played by Mike Connors. Mannix was the last series produced by Desilu Productions.Perry Mason
7.7
Overview:
The cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most difficult of cases in the aid of the innocent.The Colgate Comedy Hour
6.8
Overview:
The Colgate Comedy Hour is an American comedy-musical variety series that aired live on the NBC network from 1950 to 1955. The show starred many notable comedians and entertainers of the era, including Eddie Cantor, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, Fred Allen, Donald O'Connor, Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, Bob Hope, Jimmy Durante, Ray Bolger, Gordon MacRae, Ben Blue, Robert Paige, Tony Curtis, Burt Lancaster, Broadway dancer Wayne Lamb and Spike Jones and His City Slickers.Daniel Boone
6.9
Overview:
Daniel Boone is an American action-adventure television series starring Fess Parker as Daniel Boone that aired from September 24, 1964 to September 10, 1970 on NBC for 165 episodes, and was made by 20th Century Fox Television. Ed Ames co-starred as Mingo, Boone's Cherokee friend, for the first four seasons of the series. Albert Salmi portrayed Boone's companion Yadkin in season one only. Dallas McKennon portrayed innkeeper Cincinnatus. Country Western singer-actor Jimmy Dean was a featured actor as Josh Clements during the 1968–1970 seasons. Actor and former NFL football player Rosey Grier made regular appearances as Gabe Cooper in the 1969 to 1970 season. The show was broadcast "in living color" beginning in fall 1965, the second season, and was shot entirely in California and Kanab, Utah.The Adventures of Jim Bowie
4.5
Overview:
The Adventures of Jim Bowie is an American Western television series that aired on ABC from 1956 to 1958. Its setting was the 1830s-era Louisiana Territory. The series was an adaptation of the book Tempered Blade, by Monte Barrett. The series stars Scott Forbes as the real-life adventurer Jim Bowie. The series initially portrayed Jim Bowie as something of an outdoors-man, riding his horse through the wilderness near his home in Opelousas, where he would stumble across someone needing his assistance. He was aided by the Bowie Knife, his ever-present weapon. He designed it in the first episode, The Birth of the Blade.Gilligan's Island
7.4
Overview:
The slapstick adventures of hapless Gilligan, long-suffering Skipper and their gang of mismatched castaways, all stranded on an uncharted desert isle after their tiny ship hit stormy weather.The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis
5.8
Overview:
The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis is an American sitcom that aired on CBS from 1959 to 1963. The series and several episode scripts were adapted from a 1951 collection of short stories of the same name, written by Max Shulman, who had also written a feature film adaptation of his short stories for MGM in 1953, The Affairs of Dobie Gillis. The series revolved around the life of teenager/young adult Dobie Gillis, who, along with his best friend, beatnik Maynard G. Krebs, struggles against the forces of his life - high school, the military, college, and his parents - as he aspires to attain both wealth and dates with girls. The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis was produced by Martin Manulis Productions in association with 20th Century Fox Television. Creator Shulman also wrote the theme song in collaboration with Lionel Newman.The Munsters
7.9
Overview:
A family of friendly monsters that have misadventures all while never quite understanding why people react to them so strangely.The Untouchables
7.9
Overview:
Special Agent Eliot Ness and his elite team of incorruptible agents battle organized crime in 1930s Chicago.Batman
7.3
Overview:
Wealthy entrepreneur Bruce Wayne and his ward Dick Grayson lead a double life: they are actually crime fighting duo Batman and Robin. A secret Batpole in the Wayne mansion leads to the Batcave, where Police Commissioner Gordon often calls with the latest emergency threatening Gotham City. Racing to the scene of the crime in the Batmobile, Batman and Robin must (with the help of their trusty Bat-utility-belt) thwart the efforts of a variety of master criminals, including The Riddler, The Joker, Catwoman, and The Penguin.Switch
6.7
Overview:
Switch is an American action-adventure, tongue-in-cheek detective series starring Eddie Albert and Robert Wagner, who work as private eyes, for a deceptive sting operation. It was broadcast on the CBS network for three seasons between September 9, 1975 and August 20, 1978, bumping the Hawaii Five-O detective series to Friday nights.Adam-12
7
Overview:
Adam-12 is a television police drama that followed two police officers of the Los Angeles Police Department, Pete Malloy and Jim Reed, as they patrolled the streets of Los Angeles in their patrol unit, 1-Adam-12.Mister Ed
6.8
Overview:
Wilbur Post and his wife Carol move into a beautiful new home. When Wilbur takes a look in his new barn, he finds that the former owner left his horse behind. This horse is no ordinary horse . . . he can talk, but only to Wilbur, which leads to all sorts of misadventures for Wilbur and his trouble-making sidekick Mister Ed.Land of the Giants
6.7
Overview:
Set fifteen years in the then-future year 1983, the series tells the tale of the crew and passengers of a sub-orbital transport ship named Spindrift. In the pilot episode, the Spindrift is en route from Los Angeles to London, on an ultra-fast sub-orbital flight. Just beyond Earth's boundary with space, the Spindrift encounters a magnetic space storm, and is dragged through a space warp to a mysterious planet where everything is twelve times larger than on Earth, whose inhabitants the Earthlings nickname "the Giants". The Spindrift crash-lands, and the damage renders it inoperable.The Texan
5.5
Overview:
The Texan was a Western television series starring popular B movie actor Rory Calhoun, which aired on the CBS television network from 1958 to 1960.Public Defender
6
Overview:
The Public Defender is a half-hour 69-episode television dramatic series starring Reed Hadley as Bart Matthews, an attorney for the indigent. The series aired on CBS from March 11, 1954 to June 23, 1955, a season and a half.Studio 57
NYR
Overview:
Studio 57 is an American anthology series that was broadcast on the now-defunct DuMont Television Network from September 1954 to September 1955, and in syndication from 1955 to 1956.The Roaring 20's
NYR
Overview:
The adventures of a newspaper reporter covering the world of cops and gangsters in 1920s Chicago.The Bill Dana Show
6
Overview:
The Bill Dana Show is a United States comedy series .The plot follows the daily lifestyle of Latin American, Jose Jimenez, as a bellhop in a New York hotel.Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
6.5
Overview:
An American sketch comedy television program hosted by comedians Dan Rowan and Dick Martin.Tightrope
5.5
Overview:
Tightrope is an American crime drama series that aired on CBS from September 1959 to September 1960, under the alternate sponsorship of the J.B. Williams Company, and American Tobacco. Produced by Russell Rouse and Clarence Greene in association with Screen Gems, the series stars Mike Connors as an undercover agent named "Nick" who was assigned to infiltrate criminal gangs. The show was to have originally been titled Undercover Man but it was changed before going to air.F Troop
6.2
Overview:
F Troop is a satirical American television sitcom that originally aired for two seasons on ABC-TV. It debuted in the United States on September 14, 1965 and concluded its run on April 6, 1967 with a total of 65 episodes. The first season of 34 episodes was filmed in black-and-white, but the show switched to color for its second season.Acting
2020The Bowery Boys: Legends of Laughter as Self (archive footage)
1994Abbott and Costello Meet Jerry Seinfeld as Self (archive footage)
1990Mob Boss as Don Taglianeti
1990Dick Tracy as Old Man at Hotel
1987Amazon Women on the Moon as Dutch (segment "Reckless Youth")
1985Doin' Time as Bruno
1981The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn as Logan
1981...All the Marbles as Chicago Referee (uncredited)
1980The Man with Bogart's Face as Himself
1980Alligator as Gatekeeper
1979Gas Pump Girls as Moiv
1978The Magic of Lassie as Apollo
1977Mad Bull as Tidy
1977The Incredible Rocky Mountain Race as Crazy Horse
1976Charlie's Angels (1 Episode) as Robbins
1976Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood as Studio Guard
1975Challenge to be Free as Trapper
1975Switch (1 Episode) as Blaine
1975The Wild McCullochs as Cliff Randall
1975Bronk (1 Episode) as Unknown
1975The Christmas Tree: Christmas Eve in the Ukraine as Old Man
1974The Centerfold Girls as The Caretaker
1972Kung Fu (1 Episode) as Hannibal
1970Which Way to the Front? as Rocky (uncredited)
1969Love, American Style (1 Episode) as Rocky
1968Land of the Giants (1 Episode) as Loach
1968Adam-12 (1 Episode) as Claude Terry
1968Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (1 Episode) as Self
1967Mannix (1 Episode) as Kony
1967The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin as Mountain Ox
1967Rango (1 Episode) as Unknown
1967Mr. Terrific (1 Episode) as Shoulders
1966It's About Time (1, 26 Episode) as Unknown, Clon
1966Batman (1 Episode) as Allegro
19657 Women as Tunga Khan
1965The Loner (1 Episode) as Unknown
1965I Dream of Jeannie (1 Episode) as Girard
1965Laredo (1 Episode) as Unknown
1965F Troop (1 Episode) as Unknown
1965Requiem for a Gunfighter as Ivy Bliss
1964Cheyenne Autumn as Sr. First Sergeant
1964Gilligan's Island (1 Episode) as Unknown
1964The Munsters (1 Episode) as Leo 'Knuckles' Kraus
1964Daniel Boone (1, 1 Episode) as El Toro, Akasheta (uncredited)
19634 for Texas as Chad
1963It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World as Miner
1963The Bill Dana Show (1 Episode) as Unknown
1963Donovan's Reef as Monk Menkowicz
1963The Losers as Mr. Anston
1962Zotz! as Igor
1962The Beverly Hillbillies (1 Episode) as Unknown
1962Five Weeks in a Balloon as Slave Captain
1961Pocketful of Miracles as Big Mike
1961The Errand Boy as Blonde 'Movie Siren'
1961Swingin' Along as Bookie
1961Mister Ed (1 Episode) as Unknown
1960The Facts of Life as First Husband in Motel Room
1960The Roaring 20's (1 Episode) as Unknown
1960My Three Sons (1 Episode) as Hugo
1960Johnny Midnight (1 Episode) as Unknown
1959The Untouchables (1 Episode) as Frankie Marlowe
1959The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis (1 Episode) as Unknown
1959NBC Sunday Showcase (1 Episode) as Maxwell Mason
1959Bonanza (1 Episode) as Big Jack
1959Tightrope (1 Episode) as Unknown
1959Alias Jesse James as Dirty Dog Tough (uncredited)
1959Some Like It Hot as Spats' Henchman
1958The Texan (1 Episode) as First Bank Robber
1958The Man Who Died Twice as Rax
1957Hell Ship Mutiny as Ross
1957Perry Mason (1, 1 Episode) as Arthur Jacks, Cully Barstow
1957Have Gun, Will Travel (1, 1, 1 Episode) as Breed, Power, Jo Jo
1957Official Detective (1 Episode) as Unknown
1956Man in the Vault as Louie
1956Around the World in Eighty Days as Drunk in Hong Kong Dive
1956The Adventures of Jim Bowie (1 Episode) as Unknown
1956Comanche as Flat Mouth
1955Kismet as Chief Policeman
1955Blood Alley as Big Han
1955Gunsmoke (1 Episode) as Whale
1955Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier as Bigfoot Mason
1955New Orleans Uncensored as Big Mike
1955New York Confidential as Arnie Wendler
1955Davy Crockett Goes to Congress as Big Foot
1954Studio 57 (1 Episode) as Unknown
1954The Egyptian as Foreman, House of Death
1954Public Defender (1, 1 Episode) as Derek, Bruce Sherman
1953General Electric Theater (1 Episode) as Hoodlum
1951My Favorite Spy as Monkara
1951The Light Touch as Charles
1951Ten Tall Men as Roshko
1951Schlitz Playhouse of Stars (1 Episode) as Unknown
1951The Red Skelton Show (1 Episode) as Max the Black (Pirate)
1951Criminal Lawyer as 'Moose' Hendricks
1951Pier 23 as Ape Danowski
1950He's a Cockeyed Wonder as 'Lunk' Boxwell
1950Dark City as Sidney Winant
1950The Colgate Comedy Hour (3 Episodes) as Self
1950Night and the City as The Strangler
1949Samson and Delilah as Leader of Philistine Soldiers
1949Abandoned as Hoppe
1949The Devil's Henchman as Rhino
1949Rope of Sand as Pierson (guard)
1949Come to the Stable as Sam
1949Neptune's Daughter as Mac Mozolla
1948Relentless as Jake
1948The Noose Hangs High as Chuck
1947I Walk Alone as Dan
1947Unconquered as Bone
1947Nightmare Alley as Bruno
1947Killer Dill as Little Joe
1947Sinbad the Sailor as Yusuf
1946The French Key as Sam Cragg
1946Mysterious Intruder as Harry Pontos
1946Live Wires as Patsy 'Pat' Clark
1945Dakota as 'Bigtree' Collins
1945Dick Tracy as 'Splitface'
1945Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood as Klondike Pete
1945The Spanish Main as Erik Swaine
1945The Horn Blows at Midnight as Bass Player / Humphrey Rafferty
1944Murder, My Sweet as Joe "Moose" Malloy
1944The Princess and the Pirate as Pirate (uncredited)
1944The Missing Juror as Cullie, Steam Room Attendant (Uncredited)
1944The Canterville Ghost as Metropolus
1944Summer Storm as Tall Policeman Bending Over Petroff (uncredited)
1943Lost Angel as Fighter (uncredited)
1943Whistling in Brooklyn as Henchman on Ship (uncredited)
1943Swing Fever as Wrestler (uncredited)
1943Thank Your Lucky Stars as Olaf (uncredited)
1943Behind the Rising Sun as Japanese Wrestler
1943Mission to Moscow as Russian Machinist Workman (uncredited)
1943Taxi, Mister as Henchman Joe
1943It Ain't Hay as Bouncer (uncredited)
1942Gentleman Jim as Jake Kilrain (uncredited)
1942That Other Woman as Jealous Sunbather at Hotel
1942Dr. Renault's Secret as Rogell (uncredited)
1942About Face as Tough Sailor (uncredited)
1941The Shanghai Gesture as The Coolie
1938Mr. Moto's Gamble as Bit Part (Uncredited)
Crew
1950Night and the City ... Technical Advisor