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Sam Jaffe
Highest Rated: 100% The Accused (1948)
Lowest Rated: Not Available
Birthday: Mar 10, 1891
Birthplace: New York, New York, USA
Stage actor with wildly staring eyes and a fascinating whispery voice who made a brilliantly memorable Hollywood debut as the crazed Peter in Josef von Sternberg's unique biopic of Catherine the Great, "The Scarlet Empress" (1934), starring Marlene Dietrich. Jaffe subsequently divided his time among theater and (primarily as a character player) film and TV; he was especially memorable as one of the robbery gang in John Huston's "The Asphalt Jungle" (1950) for which he won an Oscar nomination as Best Supporting Actor. Baby boomers would recall the actor for his role as Dr. Zorba on the popular ABC medical drama "Ben Casey" (1961-66).
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Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0% | 10% | The Bogus Witch Project | Screenwriter | - | 2000 |
| No Score Yet | 20% | On the Line | El Gabacho (Character) | - | 1984 |
| No Score Yet | 51% | Nothing Lasts Forever | Father Knickerbocker (Character) | - | 1984 |
| 50% | 42% | Battle Beyond the Stars | Dr. Hephaestus (Character) | - | 1980 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Columbo: Forgotten Lady | Unknown (Character) | - | 1975 |
| No Score Yet | 57% | QB VII | Unknown (Character) | - | 1974 |
| 67% | 74% | Bedknobs and Broomsticks | Bookman (Character) | - | 1971 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Enemies | Gittelman (Character) | - | 1971 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Who Killed the Mysterious Mr. Foster? | Toby (Character) | - | 1971 |
| 29% | 29% | The Dunwich Horror | Old Whateley (Character) | - | 1970 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Old Man Who Cried Wolf | Abe Stillman (Character) | - | 1970 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Quarantined | Mr. Berryman (Character) | - | 1970 |
| No Score Yet | 29% | The Great Bank Robbery | Brother Lilac Bailey (Character) | - | 1969 |
| No Score Yet | 78% | Night Gallery | Bleum (Character) | - | 1969 |
| No Score Yet | 51% | Guns for San Sebastian | Father Joseph (Character) | - | 1968 |
| 88% | 86% | Born Free | Producer | - | 1966 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Damon and Pythias | Producer | - | 1962 |
| 85% | 89% | Ben-Hur | Simonides (Character) | - | 1959 |
| 40% | 42% | The Barbarian and the Geisha | Henry Heusken (Character) | - | 1958 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Spies | Sam Cooper (Character) | - | 1957 |
| No Score Yet | 50% | I Can Get It for You Wholesale | Sam Cooper (Character) | - | 1951 |
| 95% | 87% | The Day the Earth Stood Still | Prof. Jacob Barnhardt (Character) | - | 1951 |
| 98% | 87% | The Asphalt Jungle | Doc Erwin Riedenschneider (Character) | - | 1950 |
| No Score Yet | 44% | Rope of Sand | Dr. Francis Hunter (Character) | - | 1949 |
| 100% | 67% | The Accused | Dr. Romley (Character) | - | 1948 |
| 82% | 78% | Gentleman's Agreement | Professor Lieberman (Character) | - | 1947 |
| 83% | 54% | 13 rue Madeleine | Mayor Gallimard (Character) | - | 1946 |
| 93% | 74% | Gunga Din | Gunga Din (Character) | - | 1939 |
| 93% | 82% | Lost Horizon | High Lama (Character) | - | 1937 |
| 86% | 85% | The Scarlet Empress | Grand Duke Peter (Character) | - | 1934 |
| 80% | 30% | We Live Again | Gregory Simonson (Character) | - | 1934 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Emergency Call | Producer | - | 1933 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Vanishing Frontier | Producer | - | 1932 |
TV
| Credit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Love Boat | Professor Roscoe Weber (Character) | 1983 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Kojak | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1977 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Bionic Woman | Admiral Richter (Guest Star) | 1976 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Harry O | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1975 |
| No Score Yet | 79% | Columbo | Dr. Henry Willis (Guest Star) | 1975 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Streets of San Francisco | Alex Zubatuk (Guest Star) | 1974 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Snoop Sisters | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1973 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Alias Smith and Jones | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1971 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Tarzan | Dr. Singleton (Guest Star) | 1967 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Ben Casey | Dr. David Zorba (Character) | 1961-1966 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Bonanza | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1966 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Cain's Hundred | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1961 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Law and Mr. Jones | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1960-1961 |
| No Score Yet | 85% | Alfred Hitchcock Presents | The Abbot (Character) | 1960-1961 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Untouchables | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1961 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Westerner | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1960 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Tales of Tomorrow | Unknown (Character) | 1951 |