Karl Lukas
Karl Lukas in Shane 1966
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.
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]

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 in January 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 Episode: "The Shiny People"
1951 Pulitzer Prize Playhouse Episode: "The Thousand Yard Look"
1953 Dark of Night 1 episode
1953 Four Star Playhouse Ernie Episode: "The Squeeze"
1953 Armstrong Circle Theatre Kreuger Episode: "The Bells of Cockaigne"
1954 Inner Sanctum Tommy Episode: "Reward for Janie"
1954 Studio One in Hollywood Hank, Man Who Struck Carter Episode: "An Almanac of Liberty"
1955 The United States Steel Hour Stoker Episode: "Freighter"
1955-1958 The Phil Silvers Show Private 'Stash' Kadowski 96 episodes
1955 The Ed Sullivan Show Himself / Private 'Stash' Kadowski 2 episodes
1955 Crossroads Episode: "Broadway Trust"
1957 Climax! Episode: "Necessary Evil"
1957 The Court of Last Resort Karl Hooft Episode: "The Karl Hooft Case"
1958 Tombstone Territory 'Red' Slade Episode: "Skeleton Canyon Massacre"
1958 Suspicion Max Proudfoot Episode: "Death Watch"
1958 The Rifleman Oliver Episode: "The Brother-in-Law"
1958 Steve Canyon Dave Newman Episode: "Operation Moby Dick"
1958 Man with a Camera Pete Montee Episode: "Double Negative"
1958 Playhouse 90 Willie Marks Episode: "Seven Against the Wall"
1959 Lawman Sergeant Blaney Episode: "The Runaway"
1959 State Trooper Harry 'Duke' Jackson Episode: "The Choker"
1959 Yancy Derringer The Warrior Episode: "The Wayward Warrior"
1959 Johnny Ringo Cather Episode: "The Hunters"
1959 Hawaiian Eye Arthur Episode: "Secret of the Second Door"
1959-1963 The Untouchables Agent At Raid / Yanos Dalker 2 episodes
1959 The Deputy Luke Dillon Episode: "The Orphans"
1960 Not for Hire Jack Stefano Episode: "The Set Up"
1960 The Man from Blackhawk Boyd Episode: "Execution Day"
1960 Bourbon Street Beat Augie Liuzza / Davis 2 episodes
1960 The Slowest Gun in the West Jake Dalton TV movie
1960 This Man Dawson Unknown Episode: "Get Dawson"
1960 Pete and Gladys 'Rocky' Episode: "Oo-La-La"
1960 Surfside 6 Hood Uncredited, Episode: "Par-a-kee"
1960 The DuPont Show with June Allyson 1st Officer Episode: "A Silent Panic"
1961 Dante Roscoe Episode: "Wine, Women and Willie"
1961 Klondike Gang Member Episode: "The Golden Burro"
1961 Miami Undercover Toledo Episode: "The Rocky Caper"
1961-1964 77 Sunset Strip Hood #1 / Monk / Thug 3 episodes
1961 Guestward, Ho! Policeman Episode: "No Place Like Home"
1961 Hennesey Chief Kowalski / Herman / Franks 3 episodes
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"
1962 Alfred Hitchcock Presents Soldier Fresno Season 7 Episode 26: "Ten O'Clock Tiger"
1962 Outlaws York Episode: "No More Horses"
1962 Wagon Train Dr. Parnell Episode: "The Kurt Davos Story"
1962 Don't Call Me Charlie! Sergeant Childress / MP 2 episodes
1962-1965 Mister Ed Harry / George / Charlie / Policeman 4 episodes
1963 GE True Stoker Episode: "Open Season"
1963 The Beverly Hillbillies Frank Episode: "Elly's Animals"
1963 Ben Casey Mike Vetley Episode: "A Short Biographical Sketch of James Tuttle Peabody, M.D."
1963 Wide Country Turk Samuels Episode: "The Lucky Punch"
1963 The Alfred Hitchcock Hour Mel Tanner Season 1 Episode 28: "Last Seen Wearing Blue Jeans"
1963 My Favorite Martian Bruno Episode: "Rocket to Mars"
1964-1966 Gunsmoke Hardy / Williams / Lake 3 episodes
1964 The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters Rowdy #2 Episode: "The Day of the Tin Trumpet"
1964-1971 Bewitched 1st Policeman / Benny / Keeper #1 / Braun 4 episodes
1964 The Great Adventure Milk Truck Driver Episode: "The Henry Bergh Story"
1964 The Andy Griffith Show Sergeant Episode: "Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C."
1964 Many Happy Returns Cop Episode: "Joe's Place"
1964 The Cara Williams Show Police Officer Episode: "Help, I'm Being Held Prisoner by a Teenager"
1964 Mickey Policeman Episode: "For the Love of Grandpa Toddie"
1964 The Lucy Show Mail Sorter Episode: "Lucy and the Missing Stamp"
1965 Slattery's People Hensen Episode: "Question: How Do You Fall in Love with a Town?"
1965 My Living Doll Harry Episode: "A Paris Original"
1965-1972 Bonanza Brother / Irons 2 episodes
1965 The Legend of Jesse James Luke Hamlin Episode: "Three Men from Now"
1965 Rawhide Cole Wallace / Posse Member 2 episodes
1965 The Dick Van Dyke Show Hugo Episode: "Uhny Uftz"
1965 The Donna Reed Show Police Officer / Mr. Swanson 2 episodes
1966 I Spy Agent #2 Episode: "The Barter"
1966-1970 Family Affair Mr. Parker / Scotty 10 episodes
1966 The Monkees Rocco S1:E11, "Monkees à la Carte"
1966 Shane Ed Howell 2 episodes
1966 Occasional Wife Workman Episode: "Peter by Moonlight"
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"
1968-1971 Mannix Starkey / The Bartender 2 episodes
1968 Here Come the Brides 1st Mate Episode: "The Man of the Family"
1969 Room 222 Policeman Episode: "Fathers and Sons"
1969 Petticoat Junction Charlie Hanks Episode: "Kathy Jo's First Birthday"
1970 Bracken's World Detective Episode: "A Perfect Piece of Casting"
1970 Then Came Bronson Billy Episode: "Still Waters"
1970 The Immortal Supernintendent Episode: "White Elephants Don't Grow on Trees"
1970 The Bold Ones: The Lawyers Sam Jessop Episode: "The People Against Doctor Chapman"
1971 The Young Lawyers Mechanic Episode: "Conrad and the Taxi Squad"
1971-1974 Cannon Rettig / Truck Driver 2 episodes
1971 The Smith Family Mr. Hill Episode: "Man in the Middle"
1971 Night Gallery Iceman Episode: "Cool Air/Camera Obscura/Quoth the Raven"
1972 Nichols Harry Carmichael Episode: "Bertha"
1972 The Mod Squad Bus Driver Uncredited, Episode: "Taps, Play It Louder"
1972 The New Temperatures Rising Show Piano Mover Episode: "Tenor Loving Care"
1974 The Odd Couple Olaf Episode: "The Moonlighter"
1975 Little House on the Prairie Jebediah Mumfort Episode: "In the Big Inning"
1975 Barbary Coast 'Hobie' Episode: "Sharks Eat Sharks"
1975 The Invisible Man 1st Truck Driver Episode: "Pin Money"
1976 Ellery Queen Sergeant Harris Episode: "The Adventure of the Sinister Scenario"
1976 The Rockford Files Officer Episode: "The Italian Bird Fiasco"
1976 Ark II Cyrus Episode: "The Slaves"
1977 Switch Mario Episode: "Whatever Happened to Carol Harmony?"
1981 Quincy, M.E. 2nd Man Episode: "Jury Duty"
1985 Murder: By Reason of Insanity Speaker At Polish Hall TV movie
1985-1987 St. Elsewhere Carl, Maintenance Man 6 episodes
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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