Twilight Zone’s Bochner Is Dead

Lloyd Bochner, a veteran character actor best known to SF fans for his starring role in the classic Twilight Zone episode “To Serve Man,” died Oct. 29 at his home in Santa Monica, Calif., after battling cancer, the Associated Press reported. He was 81.

The Canadian actor was also known to SF fans as Commandant Leiter in episodes of the 1979 TV series Battlestar Galactica. Bochner and his son Hart Bochner also voiced characters in the animated Batman TV series and feature film.

Bochner’s career in television and film spanned more than five decades and included character roles in such TV shows as Mission: Impossible and Wild Wild West.

In 1963, Bochner starred as a government cryptographer in The Twilight Zone episode “To Serve Man,” which TV Guide ranked number 11 in its “100 Greatest TV Episodes of All Time.”

Bochner is survived by his son Paul of Valley Cottage, N.Y.; his wife, Ruth Bochner, of Santa Monica; son Hart Bochner of Los Angeles; and a daughter, Johanna Courtleigh, of Portland, Ore.

Source: SciFi Wire