Felix Maurice Locher (pronounced Lo-Shay) (July 16, 1882,

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- 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

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s and patents relating to a unique mapping system that he used when lecturing to insurance salesmen. Locher started acting late in life: when he began his career in 1955 (performing in an unsold TV show which became the 1957 film ''

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'') he was 73 years old. The father of actor Jon Hall (born Charles Felix Locher), he visited his son on the set when he was discovered by director

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who convinced him to play the part of an elderly

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an Chief. From then on he appeared in numerous television productions throughout the 1950s and 1960s until his death in 1969 at age of 86. He also appeared in ''

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'' (''

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'',

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), The Munsters – Season 2, Episode 18 Heap Big Herman (1966),''

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'' (1968) '' The Man from U.N.C.L.E.,'' '' House of the Damned'' (1963), '' Mission: Impossible (''1967) with

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, ''

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: The Silence'' (TV), ''

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'', and ''Curse of the Faceless Man'' (1958). He is considered the oldest ''Star Trek'' actor of all time by birth year (the second-oldest is

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, born 1883). He was buried at the Forest Lawn, Hollywood Hills Cemetery in Los Angeles.

Filmography

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Locher, Felix Maurice 1882 births 1969 deaths American people of Swiss descent Swiss actors 20th-century Swiss inventors Burials at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills)