Arthur Batanides

Arthur Batanides was born on Apr 09, 1923 in USA. Arthur Batanides's big-screen debut came with Rod Brown of the Rocket Rangers - Season 1 directed by George Gould in 1953, strarring 58 episodes, 1953-1954. Arthur Batanides is known for The Last Hurrah directed by Vincent Sherman, Carroll O'Connor stars as Frank Skeffington and Leslie Ackerman as Prudy Cass. The upcoming new movie Arthur Batanides plays is Police Academy 6: City Under Siege which will be released on Mar 10, 1989.

Stocky, general purpose actor, a prolific face on the small screen during the 1960s and 1970s. Batanides got into acting after performing stand-up routines in front of fellow GI's in Europe during World War II. His training in dramatic art at the Actors Lab in Los Angeles was followed by extensive stage experience. He was more recently noted as "Mr. Kirkland" in four instalments of the popular "Police Academy" franchise but is remembered by older viewers chiefly as the ill-fated U.S.S. Enterprise geologist Lieutenant D'Amato who died rather badly (cellular disruption) in the Star Trek (1966) episode, Star Trek: That Which Survives (1969). Other notable appearances include one of dictator Clemente's (Peter Falk) henchmen in La quatrième dimension (1959) episode, La quatrième dimension: The Mirror (1961); and the Mongol leader "Batu" in Au coeur du temps (1966) episode, Au coeur du temps: Attack of the Barbarians (1967). Batanides regularly played heavies in shows like Les espions (1965) and Mission impossible (1966), or spoofed them (for instance, as a KAOS agent in Max la menace (1965)). He retired from acting in 1989.