David Opatoshu began his stage career in New York's Yiddish theatre in the late 1930s. Though he worked extensively in English-language plays, films and TV programs, the scholarly looking Opatoshu never completely severed his ties with his roots. His first film was the all-Yiddish The Light Ahead (1939); from 1941 through 1945, he delivered the news in Yiddish on New York radio station WEVD; in the 1970s, he was directing and starring in ethnic stage productions; and in 1985, he narrated a documentary film on the Yiddish theatre in America, Almonds and Raisins. Occasionally cast as a villain in mainstream productions, Opatoshu's "good" characters (notably his courageous political activists in 1960's Exodus and 1981's Masada) far outweigh his bad. A veteran of hundreds of television productions, David Opatoshu won an Emmy for his performance in "A Prayer for the Goldsteins," a 1990 episode of the weekly series Gabriel's Fire.
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Under Siege
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1986 | |||
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Forty Days of Musa Dagh
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1983 | |||
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Forced Vengeance
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1982 | |||
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Beyond Evil
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1980 | |||
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Americathon
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1979 | |||
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| 1979 | ||||
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Sodom and Gomorrah
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1979 | |||
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Who'll Stop the Rain?
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1978 | |||
| 1978 | ||||
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Raid on Entebbe
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1977 | |||
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| 1976 | ||||
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Conspiracy of Terror
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1975 | |||
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The F.B.I.: The Gopher
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1972 | |||
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Romance of a Horsethief
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1971 | |||
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Death of a Gunfighter
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1969 | |||
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Ironside: L'Chayim
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1969 | |||
| 1969 | ||||
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Murder One
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1969 | |||
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The Dybbuk
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1968 | |||
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The Fixer
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1968 | |||
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The Smugglers
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1968 | |||
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Enter Laughing
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1967 | |||
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| 1967 | ||||
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Lautlose Waffen
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1966 | |||
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One Spy Too Many
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1966 | |||
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Sands of Beersheba
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1966 | |||
| 1966 | ||||
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The F.B.I.: Vendetta
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1966 | |||
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Torn Curtain
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1966 | |||
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Rebels Against the Light
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1964 | |||
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| 1962 | ||||
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Guns of Darkness
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1962 | |||
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The Best of Enemies
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1962 | |||
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Cimarron
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1960 | |||
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Exodus
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1960 | |||
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Party Girl
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1958 | |||
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The Brothers Karamazov
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1958 | |||
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Crowded Paradise
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1956 | |||
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The Goldbergs
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1950 | |||
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Thieves' Highway
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1949 | |||
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Naked City
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1948 | |||
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The Light Ahead
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1939 |

