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Gerald Mohr was an American radio, film and television character actor who appeared in more than 500 radio plays, 73 films and over 100 television shows. Born in New York City, he was educated in Dwight Preparatory School in New York City, where he learned to speak fluent French and German. At Columbia University, where he was on a course to become a doctor, before being discovered as promising voice talent by a radio producer. Mohr was hired by the radio station and became a junior reporter. In the mid-1930s, Orson Welles invited him to join his formative Mercury Theatre and appeared on Broadway. Mohr began appearing in films in the late 1930s, playing his first villain role in the 15-part cliffhanger serial Jungle Girl (1941). After three years' service in the US Army Air Forces during World War II, he returned to Hollywood, starring and appearing in numerous movies until 1949 when he joined Fred Foy has co-announcer for the first series of The Lone Ranger. From the 1950s on, he appeared as a guest star in more than one hundred television series, mostly westerns, though several comedy, variety, crime, and early science fiction serials. Mohr is remembered for his performance as "Ricky's friend" psychiatrist 'Dr. Henry Molin' (real life name of the assistant film editor on the show) in the classic February 1953 I Love Lucy episode, "The Inferiority Complex". Mohr's repeated line was, "Treatment, Ricky. Treatment".
Filmography
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1968
Funny Girl
Movie Branca
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1967
The Fantastic Four
TV show Mr. Fantastic (voice)
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1967
The Superman/Aquaman Hour of Adventure
TV show (voice)
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1966
Pistols 'n' Petticoats
TV show
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1966
The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.
TV show Dossetti
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1965
Laredo
TV show
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1965
The Big Valley
TV show Dr. Raoul Mendez
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1965
Lost in Space
TV show Morbus
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1965
The Family Jewels
Movie Movie Actor
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1964
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
TV show Josef Van Schreeten
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1964
The Rogues
TV show Carl Votrian
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1964
Wild West Story
Movie Gonzales
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1963
Burke's Law
TV show Paul Schreiner
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1963
Vacation Playhouse
TV show
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1962
The Lucy Show
TV show Ruby
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1960
Harrigan and Son
TV show
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1960
Surfside 6
TV show Dawson Wells
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1960
Outlaws
TV show
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1960
The Barbara Stanwyck Show
TV show Charlie Cahill
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1960
The Aquanauts
TV show Pete Burdett
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1960
This Rebel Breed
Movie Lt. Robert Brooks
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1959
The Angry Red Planet
Movie Col. Thomas O`Bannion
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1959
Hawaiian Eye
TV show
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1959
The Alaskans
TV show
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1959
The Third Man
TV show
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1959
Johnny Ringo
TV show Barney Chisom
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1959
The DuPont Show with June Allyson
TV show Lt. Killian
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1959
Bonanza
TV show Phil Reed
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1959
The Deputy
TV show Dustin Groat
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1959
Tightrope
TV show
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1959
A Date with Death
Movie Michael David Mason / Louis Deverman
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1959
Rawhide
TV show Brad Morgan
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1959
Guns Girls and Gangsters
Movie Charles (Chuck) Wheeler
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1958
77 Sunset Strip
TV show Carlos Traynor
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1958
Bat Masterson
TV show Courtney Shepherd
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1958
Lawman
TV show The Thimblerigger
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1958
The Rifleman
TV show
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1958
The Texan
TV show
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1958
Bronco
TV show
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1958
Wanted: Dead or Alive
TV show Leo Torrance