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Abraham Sofaer (October 1, 1896 – January 21, 1988) was a Burmese Jew
Jew

A Jew is a member of the Jewish people, an ethnoreligious group that traces its ancestry to the Israelites or Hebrews of the Ancient Near East....
ish stage actor who became a familiar supporting player on film and television in his later years. He was born in Rangoon, Burma (now Yangon
Yangon

Yangon is the largest city and a former capital of Burma. It is the capital of Yangon Division. Although the State Peace and Development Council has officially relocated the capital to Naypyidaw since March 2006, Yangon, with a population of four million, continues to be the country's largest city and the most important commercial center....
, Myanmar
Myanmar

Burma, officially the Union of Myanmar, is the largest country by geographical area in mainland Southeast Asia, or Indochina. The country is bordered by the People's Republic of China on the northeast, Laos on the east, Thailand on the southeast, Bangladesh on the west, India on the northwest, and the Bay of Bengal to the southwest with...
). Sofaer's strong features and resonant voice complemented the many exotic character parts he played.

He began his acting career on the London stage in 1921, but soon was alternating between London and Broadway
Broadway theatre

Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 39 large professional theaters with 500 seats or more located in the Theatre District, New York in Manhattan, New York City....
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Abraham Sofaer (October 1, 1896 – January 21, 1988) was a Burmese Jew
Jew

A Jew is a member of the Jewish people, an ethnoreligious group that traces its ancestry to the Israelites or Hebrews of the Ancient Near East....
ish stage actor who became a familiar supporting player on film and television in his later years. He was born in Rangoon, Burma (now Yangon
Yangon

Yangon is the largest city and a former capital of Burma. It is the capital of Yangon Division. Although the State Peace and Development Council has officially relocated the capital to Naypyidaw since March 2006, Yangon, with a population of four million, continues to be the country's largest city and the most important commercial center....
, Myanmar
Myanmar

Burma, officially the Union of Myanmar, is the largest country by geographical area in mainland Southeast Asia, or Indochina. The country is bordered by the People's Republic of China on the northeast, Laos on the east, Thailand on the southeast, Bangladesh on the west, India on the northwest, and the Bay of Bengal to the southwest with...
). Sofaer's strong features and resonant voice complemented the many exotic character parts he played.

He began his acting career on the London stage in 1921, but soon was alternating between London and Broadway
Broadway theatre

Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 39 large professional theaters with 500 seats or more located in the Theatre District, New York in Manhattan, New York City....
. By the 1930s, he was appearing in both British and American films. Among his more prominent performances were the dual role of the Judge and Surgeon in Powell & Pressburger's A Matter of Life and Death
A Matter of Life and Death

A Matter of Life and Death is a romantic fantasy film set in the World War II by the United Kingdom writer-director-producer team of Powell and Pressburger....
 (1946) and St. Paul in Quo Vadis
Quo Vadis (1951 film)

Quo Vadis is an epic 1951 film made by MGM. It was directed by Mervyn LeRoy and produced by Sam Zimbalist, from a screenplay by John Lee Mahin, S....
 (1951).

He also appeared on television from its earliest days in the late 1930s. Although his film appearances diminished after the 1950s, he continued to have guest roles on dozens of major U.S. television series throughout the 1960s, including Star Trek
Star Trek

Star Trek is an American Science fiction on television entertainment series and media franchise. The Star Trek fictional universe created by Gene Roddenberry is the setting of six television series including the original 1966 Star Trek: The Original Series, in addition to ten feature films with Star Trek to be released on May 8,...
 ("Charlie X"), The Twilight Zone
The Twilight Zone

The Twilight Zone is an United States television anthology series created by Rod Serling. Each episode is a mixture of self-contained fantasy, science fiction, suspense, or horror fiction, often concluding with a macabre or Twist ending....
 ("The Mighty Casey
The Mighty Casey

"The Mighty Casey" is an episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone .The episode title is a reference to the baseball poem "Casey at the Bat"....
"), Lost in Space
Lost in Space

Lost in Space is a science fiction TV series created and produced by Irwin Allen, produced by 20th Century Fox Television, and broadcast on CBS....
  ("The Flaming Planet") and The Outer Limits
The Outer Limits

The Outer Limits is an United States television series. Similar in style to the earlier The Twilight Zone , with more science fiction than fantasy stories, The Outer Limits is an anthology of discrete story episodes, sometimes with a plot twist at the end....
 ("Demon with a Glass Hand
Demon with a Glass Hand

"Demon with a Glass Hand" is a widely referenced episode of The Outer Limits television series, the second to be based on a script by Harlan Ellison, which Ellison wrote specifically with actor Robert Culp in mind for the lead role....
"), until retiring in the mid 1970s. He may be best-remembered for his recurring role as Hadji, the master of all genies, on I Dream of Jeannie
I Dream of Jeannie

I Dream of Jeannie is a 1960s American situation comedy with a fantasy premise. Produced by Screen Gems, it originally aired from September 1965 to May 1970 with new episodes, and September 1970 with season repeats, on NBC....
.

Sofaer married Psyche Angela Christian, with whom he had two sons and four daughters. He died in Woodland Hills, California as the result of congestive heart failure in 1988.

The noted jurist
Abraham David Sofaer

Abraham David Sofaer was a federal judge for the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, and then a legal adviser to the United States State Department....
 of the same name is the son of one of the actor's cousins.

Partial filmography

  • Dreyfus
    Dreyfus (1931 film)

    Dreyfus is a 1931 in film British film on the Dreyfus affair, translated from the play by Wilhelm Herzog and Hans Rehfisch and the 1930 German film Dreyfus ....
     (1931)
  • Things to Come
    Things to Come

    Things to Come is a United Kingdom science fiction film, produced by Alexander Korda and directed by William Cameron Menzies. The screenplay was written by H....
     (1936) (uncredited)
  • Rembrandt
    Rembrandt (film)

    Rembrandt is a 1936 in film United Kingdom biographical film made by London Film Productions of the life of 17th century The Netherlands painter Rembrandt van Rijn....
     (1936)
  • Crook's Tour
    Crook's Tour

    Crook's Tour is a 1941 British film directed by John Baxter featuring Charters and Caldicott. It is adapted from a BBC radio serials of the same name....
     (1941)
  • A Matter of Life and Death (1946)
  • Christopher Columbus
    Christopher Columbus (film)

    Christopher Columbus is a 1949 in film biographical film starring Fredric March as Christopher Columbus and Florence Eldridge as Queen Isabella of Castille....
     (1949)
  • Pandora and the Flying Dutchman
    Pandora and the Flying Dutchman

    Pandora and the Flying Dutchman is a 1951 in film drama film made by Romulus Films and released by MGM. It was directed by Albert Lewin and produced by Joe Kaufmann and Albert Lewin from his own screenplay, based on the legend of The Flying Dutchman....
     (1951)
  • Quo Vadis
    Quo Vadis (1951 film)

    Quo Vadis is an epic 1951 film made by MGM. It was directed by Mervyn LeRoy and produced by Sam Zimbalist, from a screenplay by John Lee Mahin, S....
     (1951)
  • His Majesty O'Keefe
    His Majesty O'Keefe

    His Majesty O'Keefe is a 1954 in film adventure film starring Burt Lancaster. The film was directed by Byron Haskin and Otto Heller and included choreography by Daniel Nagrin....
     (1954)
  • The Naked Jungle
    The Naked Jungle

    The Naked Jungle is a 1954 in film directed by Byron Haskin, and starring Charlton Heston and Eleanor Parker. Telling the story of an attack of army ants on a Peruvian cocoa plantation, it was based on the short story "Leiningen Versus the Ants" by Carl Stephenson ....
     (1954)
  • Elephant Walk
    Elephant Walk

    Elephant Walk is a 1954 Paramount Pictures film, film director by William Dieterle, and starring Elizabeth Taylor, Dana Andrews, Peter Finch and Abraham Sofaer....
     (1954)
  • Bhowani Junction
    Bhowani Junction (film)

    Bhowani Junction is a 1956 in film film adaptation of the 1952 novel Bhowani Junction by John Masters made by MGM. The film was directed by George Cukor and produced by Pandro S....
     (1956)
  • The Story of Mankind (1957)
  • The Sad Sack
    The Sad Sack

    The Sad Sack is a 1957 Paramount Pictures comedy film starring Jerry Lewis and Peter Lorre....
     (1957)
  • Taras Bulba (1962)
  • Twice-Told Tales
    Twice-Told Tales (film)

    Twice-Told Tales is a 1963 in film American horror film directed by Sidney Salkow and starring Vincent Price. It is based on three of Nathaniel Hawthorne's stories found in the book Twice-Told Tales: Dr....
     (1963)
  • Journey to the Center of Time
    Journey to the Center of Time

    Journey to the Center of Time is a 1967 science fiction film, directed by David L. Hewitt, and starring Scott Brady and Anthony Eisley. It is a remake of The Time Travelers , and was also known as Time Warp....
     (1967)
  • Head
    Head (film)

    Head is a psychedelic motion picture 1968 in film, starring TV Musical ensemble The Monkees , and distributed by Columbia Pictures. It was written and produced by Bob Rafelson and Jack Nicholson, and directed by Rafelson....
     (1968)


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