H.M. Wynant
Born
Chaim Weiner[1]

(1927-02-12) February 12, 1927
Detroit, Michigan, U.S.
OccupationActor
Years active1955–present
Spouse(s)Ethel Wald (1951-1971; divorced); 3 children
Paula Davis (January 30, 1993-present); 1 child

H. M. Wynant (born Chaim Weiner; February 12, 1927)[2] is an American film and television actor.

Biography

Wynant was born in Detroit, Michigan to Bessie and Jacob Weiner from Zabolotiv, Poland.[3] He made his feature film debut as an Indian in Samuel Fuller's Run of the Arrow (1957). In the 1958 Walt Disney film Tonka, Wynant played Yellow Bull, a Sioux Indian, who was the cousin of White Bull, played by Sal Mineo, and is killed at the Battle of the Little Big Horn.

Among his many other film credits are Run Silent, Run Deep (1958); The Slender Thread (1965); Track of Thunder (1967); The Helicopter Spies (1968); Marlowe (1969); Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972); The Horror at 37,000 Feet (1973); Hangar 18 (1980); Earthbound (1981); and Solar Crisis (1990). He played a villain who fought Elvis Presley in the 1963 film, It Happened at the World's Fair.

Among his many television credits are appearances on shows such as Playhouse 90; Sugarfoot; Hawaiian Eye; Combat!; The Wild Wild West; Perry Mason; The Twilight Zone; Daniel Boone; Gunsmoke; Frontier Circus; Get Smart; Hawaii Five-O; The Big Valley ; Hogan's Heroes; Bat Masterson in a 1958 episode where he again played a renegade Indian chief; Mission: Impossible; Quincy, M.E.; and Dallas.

He was cast as General Philip Sheridan in the 1961 episode, "The Red Petticoat", on the syndicated anthology series, Death Valley Days, hosted by Stanley Andrews. In the storyline, Sheridan's friendship with Indian scout Kahlu (Allen Jaffe) (1928–1989) is questioned after a number of ambushes result in dead troopers. Sheridan sticks to his instincts and defends his ally against the enraged residents of the fort.

In recent years, he has been a member of Larry Blamire's stock company, playing authoritative figures in several of Blamire's features and shorts, such as a Pentagon general in The Lost Skeleton Returns Again and a weird psychiatrist in Dark and Stormy Night. He returned to the big screen in 2011 in Footprints for which he was nominated as Best Supporting Actor at the Method Fest Independent Film Festival.

Partial filmography

References

  1. ↑ https://digital.bentley.umich.edu/djnews/djn.2017.09.21.001/60
  2. ↑ "TV-Movie Actor Uses Initials". The Evening Sun. Maryland, Baltimore. North America Newspaper Alliance. April 25, 1957. p. 39. Retrieved July 10, 2018 – via Newspapers.com. Open access icon
  3. ↑ Detroit Jewish News
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