Oscar Beregi Jr.

Oscar Beregi Jr. was born on May 12, 1918 in Austria-Hungary [now Hungary]. Oscar Beregi Jr.'s big-screen debut came with Let's Make Love directed by George Cukor in 1960, strarring Chauffeur (uncredited). Oscar Beregi Jr. is known for Young Frankenstein directed by Mel Brooks, Gene Wilder stars as Dr. Frederick Frankenstein and Peter Boyle as The Monster. The upcoming new tvshow Oscar Beregi Jr. plays is Caribe - Season 1 which will be released on Feb 17, 1975.

Heavyweight Hungarian-born character actor Oscar Beregi Jr.'s best performances were on the small screen, usually as Eastern European or Russian heavies. His stock-in-trade villainy was of a cultured or psychological, rather than physical nature, urbane and intellectual, yet inevitably sinister. His father, matinee idol Oscar Beregi Sr., had appeared on the Hungarian and German stage in Shakespearean roles, as well as acting in films, since 1919. Both Beregis left Hungary in 1939, the father settling in the United States, while the son ran a restaurant in Chile. It took several years for the younger Beregi to be granted a visa to enter the U.S., and then only through the intervention of then-U.S. Senator Lyndon B. Johnson.When Beregi finally arrived in America, he spoke little English and worked as a salesman for several years, learning the language, before re-entering the acting profession well into middle age. On the big screen, he was largely restricted to small supporting roles. However, Beregi made the most of the meatier roles offered him in television, such as mob boss Joe Kulak (a character possibly based on real-life mobster Jake Guzik) in eight episodes of Les incorruptibles (1959). He was also impressively commanding as the scientific criminal mastermind Farwell in Rod Serling's La quatrième dimension: The Rip Van Winkle Caper (1961) and, in the same series, as former SS concentration camp commandant Guenther Lutze, driven to insanity by the ghosts of his former victims in La quatrième dimension: Deaths-Head Revisited (1961). He was also effective in Middle Eastern intrigue (The Third Man (1959)) and in parodying his evil personae in Max la menace: I'm Only Human (1966), Max la menace: Tequila Mockingbird (1969), and Frankenstein junior (1974).In his spare time, he was a successful breeder of Komondors, a breed of large, white Hungarian sheep dog, considered a living treasure in their native country.