Karl Lukas

For the English comedian, actor and writer with a similar sounding name, see Karl Lucas.

Karl Lukas
Karl Lukas in Man with a Camera (1958)
Born
Karol Louis Lukasiak

(1919-08-21)August 21, 1919
Lowell, Massachusetts, U.S.
DiedJanuary 16, 1995(1995-01-16) (aged 75)
Westlake Village, California, U.S.
Resting placeSan Fernando Mission Cemetery
Occupation(s)Film and television actor
SpouseStephanie Lukas
Children2

Karl Lukas (born Karol Louis Lukasiak; August 21, 1919 – January 16, 1995) was an American film and television actor.[1] He was best known for playing Private Stash Kadowski in The Phil Silvers Show.[2]

Biography

Lukas guest-starred in numerous television programs including The Andy Griffith Show, Gunsmoke, Bonanza, The Rockford Files, The Dick Van Dyke Show, Rawhide, Wagon Train, The Beverly Hillbillies, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, The F.B.I., Petticoat Junction, and The Monkees. He also appeared in a few episodes of Family Affair, Bewitched, and Mister Ed. Lukas died on January 16, 1995 of heart failure in Westlake Village, California, at the age of 75.[3][4][5] He was buried in San Fernando Mission Cemetery.[5]

Filmography

Film

Year Title Role Notes
1954 The Long, Long Trailer Inspector Uncredited
1957 Under Fire Sergeant Hutchins
1958 The True Story of Lynn Stuart Hal Bruck Uncredited
1958 Onionhead Agnelli
1958 Torpedo Run Hallert Uncredited
1959 The Trap 'Greenie' Uncredited
1959 Don't Give Up the Ship Dugan Uncredited
1960 Visit to a Small Planet Policeman Uncredited
1960 Tall Story 1st Detective
1960 The Facts of Life Parent At Meeting Uncredited
1960 The Great Impostor Prisoner Uncredited
1961 Creature from the Haunted Sea Bartender Uncredited
1963 The Thrill of It All Worker Uncredited
1967 Warning Shot Custodian Uncredited
1967 Thoroughly Modern Millie Bouncer Uncredited
1970 Watermelon Man Policeman #2
1970 Which Way to the Front? SS Guard Uncredited
1970 There Was a Crooked Man... Otis
1970 Tora! Tora! Tora! Captain Harold C. Train, USS California
1971 Josie's Castle 1st Narc
1972 Black Jack
1973 Blume in Love Karl, Cleaning Man
1973 Emperor of the North Pole 'Pokey' Stiff
1973 Oklahoma Crude Hobo #1
1974 Blazing Saddles Cutthroat #1 Uncredited
1974 Herbie Rides Again Angry Construction Worker
1974 99 and 44/100% Dead Guard
1974 Earthquake Man #3 Uncredited
1975 Las Vegas Lady Connors
1975 Whiffs Wally, The Bartender
1975 Hustle Charley
1976 Two-Minute Warning Couple At S.W.A.T. Call
1976 The Shaggy D.A. Painter
1979 The Frisco Kid Bartender
1986 Big Trouble Police Captain
1988 Memories of Me Bartender

Television

Year Title Role Notes
1951 Lux Video Theatre Bob Season 1 Episode 18: "The Shiny People"
1951 Pulitzer Prize Playhouse Season 1 Episode 32: "The Thousand Yard Look"
1953 Dark of Night Season 1 Episode 13
1953 Four Star Playhouse Ernie Season 2 Episode 2: "The Squeeze"
1953 Armstrong Circle Theatre Kreuger Season 4 Episode 12: "The Bells of Cockaigne"
1954 Inner Sanctum Tommy Season 1 Episode 30: "Reward for Janie"
1954 Studio One in Hollywood Hank, Man Who Struck Carter Season 7 Episode 8: "An Almanac of Liberty"
1955 The United States Steel Hour Stoker Season 2 Episode 12: "Freighter"
1955 The Ed Sullivan Show Himself / Private 'Stash' Kadowski 2 episodes
1955 Crossroads Season 1 Episode 6: "Broadway Trust"
1955-1958 The Phil Silvers Show Private 'Stash' Kadowski 96 episodes
1957 Climax! Season 3 Episode 45: "Necessary Evil"
1957 The Court of Last Resort Karl Hooft Season 1 Episode 6: "The Karl Hooft Case"
1958 Tombstone Territory 'Red' Slade Season 1 Episode 25: "Skeleton Canyon Massacre"
1958 Suspicion Max Proudfoot Season 1 Episode 34: "Death Watch"
1958 The Rifleman Oliver Season 1 Episode 5: "The Brother-in-Law"
1958 Steve Canyon Dave Newman Season 1 Episode 8: "Operation Moby Dick"
1958 Man with a Camera Pete Montee Season 1 Episode 6: "Double Negative"
1958 Playhouse 90 Willie Marks Season 3 Episode 11: "Seven Against the Wall"
1959 Lawman Sergeant Blaney Season 1 Episode 18: "The Runaway"
1959 State Trooper Harry 'Duke' Jackson Season 3 Episode 15: "The Choker"
1959 Yancy Derringer The Warrior Season 1 Episode 28: "The Wayward Warrior"
1959 Johnny Ringo Cather Season 1 Episode 5: "The Hunters"
1959 Hawaiian Eye Arthur Season 1 Episode 10: "Secret of the Second Door"
1959 The Deputy Luke Dillon Season 1 Episode 15: "The Orphans"
1959 The Untouchables Agent at Raid Pilot Episode
1960 Not for Hire Jack Stefano Season 1 Episode 18: "The Set Up"
1960 The Man from Blackhawk Boyd Season 1 Episode 21: "Execution Day"
1960 Bourbon Street Beat Augie Liuzza Season 1 Episode 19: "The 10% Blues"
1960 Bourbon Street Beat Davis Season 1 Episode 29: "Six Hours to Midnight" (uncredited)
1960 The Slowest Gun in the West Jake Dalton TV movie
1960 This Man Dawson Unknown Season 1 Episode 20: "Get Dawson"
1960 Pete and Gladys 'Rocky' Season 1 Episode 6: "Oo-La-La"
1960 Surfside 6 Hood Season 1 Episode 6: "Par-a-kee" (uncredited)
1960 The DuPont Show with June Allyson 1st Officer Season 2 Episode 13: "A Silent Panic"
1961 Dante Roscoe Season 1 Episode 13: "Wine, Women and Willie"
1961 Klondike Gang Member Season 1 Episode 13: "The Golden Burro"
1961 Miami Undercover Toledo Season 1 Episode 17: "The Rocky Caper"
1961 Guestward, Ho! Policeman Season 1 Episode 38: "No Place Like Home"
1961 Hennesey Chief Kowalski Season 2 Episode 28: "The Patient Vanishes"
1961 Hennesey Herman Season 2 Episode 29: "Shore Patrol Revisited"
1961 Hennesey Franks Season 3 Episode 1: "The Gossip Go-Round"
1961 Alfred Hitchcock Presents Otto Season 6 Episode 28: "Gratitude"
1961 Alfred Hitchcock Presents Mailman Season 7 Episode 2: "Bang! You're Dead"
1961 Alfred Hitchcock Presents Uncle Ben, the Bar Owner Season 7 Episode 10: "Services Rendered"
1961 77 Sunset Strip Hood #1 Season 3 Episode 19: "The College Caper"
1962 Alfred Hitchcock Presents Soldier Fresno Season 7 Episode 26: "Ten O'Clock Tiger"
1962 Outlaws York Season 2 Episode 20: "No More Horses"
1962 Wagon Train Dr. Parnell Season 6 Episode 11: "The Kurt Davos Story"
1962 Don't Call Me Charlie! Sergeant Childress Season 1 Episode 4: "A Friend in Need"
1962 Don't Call Me Charlie! MP Season 1 Episode 13: "Build a Better Mousetrap"
1962 Mister Ed Harry Season 2 Episode 16: "Horse Wash"
1962 Mister Ed George Season 3 Episode 2: "Wilbur the Good Samaritan"
1962 Mister Ed Charlie Season 3 Episode 10: "Disappearing Horse"
1963 77 Sunset Strip Monk Season 5 Episode 32: "Lady in the Sun" (uncredited)
1963 The Untouchables Yanos Dalker Season 4 Episode 25: "The Giant Killer"
1963 GE True Stoker Season 1 Episode 14: "Open Season"
1963 The Beverly Hillbillies Frank Season 1 Episode 19: "Elly's Animals"
1963 Ben Casey Mike Vetley Season 2 Episode 19: "A Short Biographical Sketch of James Tuttle Peabody, M.D."
1963 Wide Country Turk Samuels Season 1 Episode 27: "The Lucky Punch"
1963 The Alfred Hitchcock Hour Mel Tanner Season 1 Episode 28: "Last Seen Wearing Blue Jeans"
1963 My Favorite Martian Bruno Season 1 Episode 9: "Rocket to Mars"
1964 77 Sunset Strip Thug Season 6 Episode 17: "Not Such a Simple Knot" (uncredited)
1964 The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters Rowdy #2 Season 1 Episode 20: "The Day of the Tin Trumpet"
1964 The Great Adventure Milk Truck Driver Season 1 Episode 22: "The Henry Bergh Story"
1964 The Andy Griffith Show Sergeant Season 4 Episode 32: "Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C."
1964 Many Happy Returns Cop Season 1 Episode 6: "Joe's Place"
1964 The Cara Williams Show Police Officer Season 1 Episode 10: "Help, I'm Being Held Prisoner by a Teenager"
1964 Mickey Policeman Season 1 Episode 12: "For the Love of Grandpa Toddie"
1964 The Lucy Show Mail Sorter Season 3 Episode 14: "Lucy and the Missing Stamp"
1964 Gunsmoke Hardy Season 10 Episode 8: "Hung High" (uncredited)
1964 Bewitched 1st Policeman Season 1 Episode 3: "It Shouldn't Happen to a Dog"
1965 Mister Ed Policeman Season 5 Episode 23: "Robin Hood Ed"
1965 Slattery's People Hensen Season 1 Episode 16: "Question: How Do You Fall in Love with a Town?"
1965 My Living Doll Harry Season 1 Episode 24: "A Paris Original"
1965 The Legend of Jesse James Luke Hamlin Season 1 Episode 1: "Three Men from Now"
1965 Rawhide Cole Wallace Season 7 Episode 27: "The Calf Women"
1965 Rawhide Posse Member Season 8 Episode 1: "Encounter at Boot Hill" (uncredited)
1965 The Dick Van Dyke Show Hugo Season 5 Episode 3: "Uhny Uftz"
1965 The Donna Reed Show Police Officer Season 8 Episode 1: "Pop Goes Theresa"
1965 The Donna Reed Show Mr. Swanson Season 8 Episode 9: "Trees"
1965 Bonanza Brother Season 7 Episode 6: "Devil on Her Shoulder"
1966 Gunsmoke Williams Season 11 Episode 16: "Death Watch"
1966 Gunsmoke Lake Season 12 Episode 9: "The Well"
1966 I Spy Agent #2 Episode: "The Barter"
1966 The Monkees Rocco S1:E11, "Monkees à la Carte"
1966 Shane Ed Howell 2 episodes
1966 Occasional Wife Workman Episode: "Peter by Moonlight"
1966-1970 Family Affair Mr. Parker / Scotty 10 episodes
1967 The Phyllis Diller Show Wally 1 episode
1967 Lassie Workman Episode: "A Matter of Seconds"
1967 Batman Acacia Episode: "Louie, the Lilac"
1967 Iron Horse Bartender Episode: "Death Has Two Faces"
1968 Bewitched Benny Season 5 Episode 11: "I Don't Want to Be a Toad, I Want to Be a Butterfly"
1968 Bewitched Keeper #1 Season 5 Episode 27: "Daddy Does His Thing"
1968 Here Come the Brides 1st Mate Season 1 Episode 4: "The Man of the Family"
1968 Mannix Starkey Season 1 Episode 23: "To Kill a Writer"
1969 Room 222 Policeman Season 1 Episode 10: "Fathers and Sons"
1969 Petticoat Junction Charlie Hanks Season 7 Episode 11: "Kathy Jo's First Birthday"
1970 Bracken's World Detective Season 1 Episode 18: "A Perfect Piece of Casting"
1970 Then Came Bronson Billy Season 1 Episode 22: "Still Waters"
1970 The Immortal Supernintendent Season 1 Episode 2: "White Elephants Don't Grow on Trees"
1970 The Bold Ones: The Lawyers Sam Jessop Season 2 Episode 4: "The People Against Doctor Chapman"
1971 Bewitched Braun Season 7 Episode 23: "Money Happy Returns"
1971 Mannix Bartender Season 5 Episode 6: "Days Beyond Recall"
1971 The Young Lawyers Mechanic Season 1 Episode 23: "Conrad and the Taxi Squad"
1971 The Smith Family Mr. Hill Season 2 Episode 11: "Man in the Middle"
1971 Night Gallery Iceman Season 2 Episode 12: "Cool Air/Camera Obscura/Quoth the Raven"
1971 Cannon Rettig Season 1 Episode 3: "Call Unicorn"
1972 Bonanza Irons Season 13 Episode 20: "Shanklin"
1972 Nichols Harry Carmichael Season 1 Episode 24: "Bertha"
1972 The Mod Squad Bus Driver Season 5 Episode 5: "Taps, Play It Louder" (uncredited)
1972 The New Temperatures Rising Show Piano Mover Season 1 Episode 8: "Tenor Loving Care"
1974 Cannon Truck Driver Season 4 Episode 7: "Call Unicorn"
1974 The Odd Couple Olaf Season 4 Episode 14: "The Moonlighter"
1975 Little House on the Prairie Jebediah Mumfort Season 2 Episode 4: "In the Big Inning"
1975 Barbary Coast 'Hobie' Season 1 Episode 10: "Sharks Eat Sharks"
1975 The Invisible Man 1st Truck Driver Season 1 Episode 8: "Pin Money"
1976 Ellery Queen Sergeant Harris Season 1 Episode 17: "The Adventure of the Sinister Scenario"
1976 The Rockford Files Officer Season 2 Episode 19: "The Italian Bird Fiasco"
1976 Ark II Cyrus Season 1 Episode 2: "The Slaves"
1977 Switch Mario Season 2 Episode 23: "Whatever Happened to Carol Harmony?"
1981 Quincy, M.E. 2nd Man Season 6 Episode 12: "Jury Duty"
1985 Murder: By Reason of Insanity [es] Speaker at Polish Hall TV movie
1985-1987 St. Elsewhere Carl, Maintenance Man Season 4 Episode 4: "The Naked and the Dead" (1985)
Season 4 Episode 7: "Close Encounters (1985)
Season 4 Episode 10: "Loss of Power" (1985)
Season 4 Episode 21: "Cheek to Cheek" (1986)
Season 6 Episode 1: "Resurrection" (1987)
Season 6 Episode 10: "No Chemo, Sabe?" (1987)
1991 Don't Touch My Daughter Casey TV movie, (final film role)

References

  1. ^ "Karl Lukas Biography". Fandango. Retrieved June 2, 2021.
  2. ^ Przygoda, Jacek (1978). Polish Americans in California, 1827-1977 and Who's Who. Polish American Historical Association. p. 140. ISBN 9780960161409 – via Google Books.
  3. ^ Brady, David (January 19, 1995). "Obituaries: *Karl Lukas; Actor". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved April 26, 2021.
  4. ^ "Karl Lukas". Variety. March 19, 1995. Retrieved April 26, 2021.
  5. ^ a b Wilson, Scott (August 19, 2016). Resting Places - The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons, 3d Ed. McFarland. p. 460. ISBN 9781476625997 – via Google Books.
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