Gerald Mohr
- Acting
- June 11, 1914 · New York City, New York, USA
- November 9, 1968
Biography
Gerald Mohr was an American radio, film and television character actor who appeared in more than 500 radio plays, 73 films and over 100 television shows. Born in New York City, he was educated in Dwight Preparatory School in New York City, where he learned to speak fluent French and German. At Columbia University, where he was on a course to become a doctor, before being discovered as promising voice talent by a radio producer. Mohr was hired by the radio station and became a junior reporter. In the mid-1930s, Orson Welles invited him to join his formative Mercury Theatre and appeared on Broadway. Mohr began appearing in films in the late 1930s, playing his first villain role in the 15-part cliffhanger serial Jungle Girl (1941). After three years' service in the US Army Air Forces during World War II, he returned to Hollywood, starring and appearing in numerous movies until 1949 when he joined Fred Foy has co-announcer for the first series of The Lone Ranger. From the 1950s on, he appeared as a guest star in more than one hundred television series, mostly westerns, though several comedy, variety, crime, and early science fiction serials. Mohr is remembered for his performance as "Ricky's friend" psychiatrist 'Dr. Henry Molin' (real life name of the assistant film editor on the show) in the classic February 1953 I Love Lucy episode, "The Inferiority Complex". Mohr's repeated line was, "Treatment, Ricky. Treatment".
Known for
Filmography
- Funny Girl · Branca
- The Superman/Aquaman Hour of Adventure · Voice
- The Fantastic Four · Mr. Fantastic (Voice)
- Pistols 'n' Petticoats
- The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. · Dossetti
- Laredo
- Lost in Space · Morbus
- The Big Valley · Dr. Raoul Mendez
- The Family Jewels · Movie Actor
- The Man from U.N.C.L.E. · Josef Van Schreeten
- The Rogues · Carl Votrian
- Wild West Story · Gonzales
- Burke's Law · Paul Schreiner
- Vacation Playhouse
- The Lucy Show · Ruby
- Harrigan and Son
- Surfside 6 · Dawson Wells
- Outlaws
- The Barbara Stanwyck Show · Charlie Cahill
- The Aquanauts · Pete Burdett
- This Rebel Breed · Lt. Robert Brooks
- The Angry Red Planet · Col. Thomas O`Bannion
- Hawaiian Eye · Roger Alston, Martin Haney
- The Alaskans
- Johnny Ringo · Barney Chisom
- The Third Man
- The DuPont Show with June Allyson · Lt. Killian, Danny Roberts
- Bonanza · Phil Reed, Cato Troxell
- The Deputy · Dustin Groat
- Tightrope
- A Date with Death · Michael David Mason / Louis Deverman
- Rawhide · Brad Morgan
- Guns Girls and Gangsters · Charles (Chuck) Wheeler
- 77 Sunset Strip · Carlos Traynor, Artie Henneghan
- Bat Masterson · Courtney Shepherd, Crimp Ward
- Lawman · The Thimblerigger
- The Rifleman
- The Texan
- Bronco · Mace Tilsey
- Wanted: Dead or Alive · Leo Torrance
- My World Dies Screaming · Philip Tierney
- Tombstone Territory · Doc Holliday
- Alcoa Theatre · Jason Nichols
- Maverick · Doc Holliday, Johnny Bolero
- Perry Mason · Joe Medeci, Andy Rubin
- Sugarfoot · Jasper Monday, The Baron
- The Buckskin Lady · Slinger
- Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre · Veringo
- Conflict · Dr. Moss
- Cheyenne · Pat Keogh, Elmer Bostrum
- Climax! · Quinn
- Dragonfly Squadron · Capt. MacIntyre
- Money from Home · Marshall Preston
- The Eddie Cantor Story · Rocky Kramer
- Letter to Loretta · Willie Sheepshead, Elliott Sayer
- Raiders of the Seven Seas · Captain Jose Salcedo
- Private Secretary
- Invasion, U.S.A. · Vince Potter
- The Ring · Pete Ganusa
- Four Star Playhouse
- The Duel at Silver Creek · Rod Lacy
- Son of Ali Baba · Capt. Youssef
- The Sniper · Joe Ferris
- Smoky Canyon · Narrator (Voice)
- Ten Tall Men · Kayeed Hussein
- Detective Story · Tami Giacoppetti
- Foreign Intrigue · Christopher Storm
- I Love Lucy · Dr. Stewart
- The Red Skelton Show · Scarface
- Sirocco · Major Jean Leon
- Hunt the Man Down · Walter Long
- Undercover Girl · Reed Menig
- Wyoming Mail · Opening Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
- The Blonde Bandit · Joe Sapelli
- The Lone Ranger · Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
- Slightly French · J.B. (voice) (uncredited)
- Movies Are Adventure · Narrator (uncredited)
- Two Guys from Texas · Link Jessup
- The Lone Wolf in London · Michael Lanyard
- Heaven Only Knows · Treason