Gene Dynarski, a character actor who appeared in Steven Spielberg'sDuelandClose Encounters of the Third Kindand playedIzzy Mandelbaum Jr., the son of Lloyd Bridges' character, onSeinfeld, has died.He was 86.
Dynarski died Feb. 27 in a rehabilitation center in Studio City, playwrightErnest Kearney announced. The Brooklyn nativealso worked twice on the originalStar Trek, as the miner Ben Childress on the 1966 episode "Mudd's Women"and asKrodak, who represents a city up for Federation membership, on the 1969 installment "The Mark of Gideon." Dynarski was seen as Benedict, one of Egghead's (Vincent Price) henchmen, onBatmanin 1966, and on a 2000 episode ofThe X-Files, his characterfell victim to a monstrous bat creature.
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