Felix Maurice Locher

Felix Maurice Locher, known as Felix Locher (pronounced Lo-Shay) (July 16, 1882, Bern, Switzerland - March 13, 1969, California) was a Swiss actor and inventor and father of actor Jon Hall.

Career

Felix Locher was an inventor who held over 100 copyrights and patents relating to a unique mapping system that he used when lecturing to insurance salesmen. Locher started acting late in life: when he began his career in 1955 (performing in an unsold TV show which became the 1957 film Hell Ship Mutiny) he was 73 years old. The father of actor Jon Hall (born Charles Felix Locher), he visited his son on the set when he was discovered by director Elmo Wiliams who convinced him to play the part of an elderly Tahitian Chief. From then on he appeared in numerous television productions throughout the 1950s and 1960s until his death in 1969 at age of 87.[1]

He also appeared in Star Trek, The Outlaw (1966), Gunsmoke (1968) The Man from U.N.C.L.E., House of the Damned (1963), Mission: Impossible (1967) with Joseph Campanella, The Twilight Zone: The Silence (TV),[2] Thunder in the Sun,[3] and Curse of the Faceless Man (1958).[4] He is considered the oldest Star Trek actor of all time by birth year (the second-oldest is Leonard Mudie, born 1883).

He was buried at the Forest Lawn, Hollywood Hills Cemetery in Los Angeles.

Filmography
Year Title Role Notes
1957Hell Ship MutinyKing Parea
1958Desert HellMarsaya, scout
1958Curse of the Faceless ManDr. Emanuel
1958Frankenstein's DaughterProf. Carter Morton
1959Thunder in the SunDanielle
1960Walk TallChief Black Feather
1962The FirebrandRamirez
1963CaliforniaDon Pablo Hernandez
1963House of the DamnedCorpseUncredited
1965The Greatest Story Ever ToldElderly Man Who Touches JesusUncredited
1966Made in ParisLeonUncredited

References
  1. "Felix Locher". IMDb. Retrieved February 7, 2018.
  2. The Twilight Zone: The Silence (TV) (1961), retrieved February 7, 2018
  3. Thunder in the Sun (1959), retrieved February 7, 2018
  4. Curse of the Faceless Man (1958), retrieved February 7, 2018
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