Arnold Moss

Arnold Moss (January 28, 1909 in Brooklyn, New York – December 15, 1989 in New York City) was an American character actor often playing sly or sinister foreigners. He is the father of songwriter Jeff Moss.

Moss made two memorable appearances in Bob Hope films, as Hope's Casablanca contact in the espionage spoof My Favorite Spy and as a conniving Venetian doge in Casanova's Big Night. He played Prospero in Margaret Webster's 1945 production of Shakespeare's The Tempest for a combined total of 124 performances, the longest run of the play in Broadway history. He was also the first voice of the character of Theodore "Ted" White on the radio serial, The Guiding Light, from April 1948 to May 1949. Moss appeared on Star Trek as mysterious actor Anton Karidian, alter-ego of the tyrannical Gov. Kodos of Tarsus IV, in the episode "The Conscience of the King".

Partial filmography

• Temptation (1947) as Ahmed Effendi
• Border Incident (1949) as Zapilote
• Reign of Terror (1949, also known as The Black Book) as Fouché
• Kim (1950) as Lurgan Sahib
• My Favorite Spy (1951) as Tasso
• Viva Zapata! (1952) as Don Nacio
• Casanova's Big Night (1954) as the Doge
• The 27th Day (1957) as the Alien
• The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1962) as a publisher of a murderer
• The Fool Killer (1965) as Reverend Spotts
• Gambit (1966) as Abdul
• Star Trek: TOS (1966) as Kodos the Executioner
• The Caper of the Golden Bulls (1967) as Mr. Shanari

External links

• Find-A-Grave profile for Arnold Moss
• Arnold Moss at Memory Alpha (a Star Trek wiki)
• Arnold Moss at the Internet Movie Database

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