Gene Dynarski has died at the age of 86. The actor was best known for starring in Seinfeld and Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
He also appeared in Star Trek and Batman. Gene died on February 27 at a rehabilitation centre in Studio City, playwright Ernest Kearney has announced.
The actor had a busy career, but was perhaps best known for playing Izzy Mandelbaum Jr, the son of Lloyd Bridges' character in US sitcom Seinfeld.
Gene appeared in Star Trek twice, as miner Ben Childress in the 1966 episode Mudd's Women and as Krodak, a representative of a city up for Federation membership in 1969 episode The Mark of Gideon.
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