Oscar Beregi, Jr.

Oscar Beregi Jr. (May 12, 1918 – November 1, 1976) was a Hungarian-American film and television actor. He was the son of actor Oscar Beregi Sr. and often was billed simply as Oscar Beregi.

Early life Beregi was born in Budapest, then a part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, in 1918. His father, Oscar Beregi, was an actor and matinee idol of Hungarian-Jewish origin. The Beregi family moved to Vienna in the early 1920s, after the dissolution of the Empire, due to the elder Oscar's political activities. Both left Europe in 1939 to escape the Nazi takeover, the elder Beregi moved to the United States and the son settled in Chile, where he ran a restaurant. 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.

Career

Television Making his acting debut at the age of 40, Beregi had a major recurring role as gangster Joe Kulak on The Untouchables. He played the starring role as former Nazi Gunther Lutze in the Twilight Zone episode "Deaths-Head Revisited." He also appeared in the Twilight Zone episodes "The Rip Van Winkle Caper" and "Mute". He also appeared in other television shows, including Hogan's Heroes (twice), The Monkees, The Man From U.N.C.L.E., Blue Light, Don't Call Me Charlie!, The Wild Wild West, Mission: Impossible, Get Smart, Green Acres, and in an episode of The Lucy Show which featured Hogan's Heroes stars Bob Crane and John Banner. He appeared in the Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. episode “Love and Goulash”, which aired on March 29, 1968.

Film Beregi's film career included small roles in several major films, including Judgment at Nuremberg (1961), The Incredible Mr. Limpet (1964), My Fair Lady (1964), Ship of Fools (1965), Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask) (1972) and Young Frankenstein (1974).

Death Beregi died of a heart attack on November 1, 1976, aged 58, in Los Angeles, California. He was buried in the Grand View Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale.

Filmography