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Conrad Janis (born February 11, 1928) is an American Jazz
Jazz

Jazz is a primarily American musical art form which originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions....
 musician and also a theatre
Theatre

Theatre is the branch of the performing arts defined by Bernard Beckerman as what "occurs when one or more actor, isolated in time and/or Theater , present themselves to Audience." By this broad definition, theatre has existed since the dawn of man, as a result of human tendency for story telling....
, film
Film

Film encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the film industry. Films are produced by recording images from the world with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or special effects....
, and television
Television

Television is a widely used telecommunication mass-media for transmitting and receiving moving , either monochrome or color, usually accompanied by sound....
 actor
Actor

An actor or actress is a person who acting in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio programming in that capacity....
. In the fall of 1953, he played eldest son Edward in the Ezio Pinza
Ezio Pinza

The Italian basso Ezio Pinza was one of the outstanding opera singers of the first half of the 20th century. He spent 22 seasons at New York's Metropolitan Opera, appearing in more than 750 performances of 50 operas....
 situation comedy
Situation comedy

A situation comedy, usually referred to as a sitcom, is a genre of comedy programs which originated in radio. Today, sitcoms are found almost exclusively on television as one of its dominant narrative forms....
 Bonino
Bonino (TV series)

Bonino is an ethnic situation comedy television series starring Ezio Pinza as an Italian-American opera singer trying to rear his six children after the death of their mother....
 on NBC. His costars were Mary Wickes
Mary Wickes

Mary Isabella Wickes was an United States film and television actress.Wickes was born as Mary Isabelle Wickenhauser in St. Louis, Missouri, Missouri, of Germany Church of Ireland extraction....
, Chet Allen
Chet Allen

Chet Allen was an American child actor of the 1950s known for his role as Amahl in Gian Carlo Menotti's Amahl and the Night Visitors, the first opera written for television....
, Van Dyke Parks
Van Dyke Parks

Van Dyke Parks is an United States composer, arranger, producer, musician, singer, and actor. His work spans six decades, and he has worked with luminaries from Grace Kelly to the Beach Boys and the Byrds, and recently, Loudon Wainwright III and Joanna Newsom....
, and David Opatoshu
David Opatoshu

David Opatoshu was an United States television actor with occasional roles in films. He was born David Opatovsky in New York City, where he was reared and educated....
.

He appeared in an episode of Get Smart
Get Smart

Get Smart is an United States comedy television series that Satire the Spy fiction genre. Created by Mel Brooks and Buck Henry, the show starred Don Adams as Maxwell Smart, Agent 86, and Barbara Feldon as Agent 99 of CONTROL, a secret U.S....
 playing a KAOS agent, but is most noted for playing Mindy's father on the sitcom Mork & Mindy. He also appeared in the sci-fi sitcom Quark
Quark (TV series)

Quark is an United States science fiction situation comedy starring Richard Benjamin that aired on NBC. The pilot first aired on May 7, 1977, and the series followed as a mid-season replacement in February 1978....
 and was featured in The Buddy Holly Story
The Buddy Holly Story

| name = The Buddy Holly Story| image = Buddy_holly_story_cover.jpg| image_size =| caption= The Buddy Holly Story DVD cover...
 movie.

Janis was born in New York City, New York, the son of Harriet, a writer, and Sidney Janis, an art dealer and writer.








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Conrad Janis (born February 11, 1928) is an American Jazz
Jazz

Jazz is a primarily American musical art form which originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions....
 musician and also a theatre
Theatre

Theatre is the branch of the performing arts defined by Bernard Beckerman as what "occurs when one or more actor, isolated in time and/or Theater , present themselves to Audience." By this broad definition, theatre has existed since the dawn of man, as a result of human tendency for story telling....
, film
Film

Film encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the film industry. Films are produced by recording images from the world with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or special effects....
, and television
Television

Television is a widely used telecommunication mass-media for transmitting and receiving moving , either monochrome or color, usually accompanied by sound....
 actor
Actor

An actor or actress is a person who acting in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio programming in that capacity....
. In the fall of 1953, he played eldest son Edward in the Ezio Pinza
Ezio Pinza

The Italian basso Ezio Pinza was one of the outstanding opera singers of the first half of the 20th century. He spent 22 seasons at New York's Metropolitan Opera, appearing in more than 750 performances of 50 operas....
 situation comedy
Situation comedy

A situation comedy, usually referred to as a sitcom, is a genre of comedy programs which originated in radio. Today, sitcoms are found almost exclusively on television as one of its dominant narrative forms....
 Bonino
Bonino (TV series)

Bonino is an ethnic situation comedy television series starring Ezio Pinza as an Italian-American opera singer trying to rear his six children after the death of their mother....
 on NBC. His costars were Mary Wickes
Mary Wickes

Mary Isabella Wickes was an United States film and television actress.Wickes was born as Mary Isabelle Wickenhauser in St. Louis, Missouri, Missouri, of Germany Church of Ireland extraction....
, Chet Allen
Chet Allen

Chet Allen was an American child actor of the 1950s known for his role as Amahl in Gian Carlo Menotti's Amahl and the Night Visitors, the first opera written for television....
, Van Dyke Parks
Van Dyke Parks

Van Dyke Parks is an United States composer, arranger, producer, musician, singer, and actor. His work spans six decades, and he has worked with luminaries from Grace Kelly to the Beach Boys and the Byrds, and recently, Loudon Wainwright III and Joanna Newsom....
, and David Opatoshu
David Opatoshu

David Opatoshu was an United States television actor with occasional roles in films. He was born David Opatovsky in New York City, where he was reared and educated....
.

He appeared in an episode of Get Smart
Get Smart

Get Smart is an United States comedy television series that Satire the Spy fiction genre. Created by Mel Brooks and Buck Henry, the show starred Don Adams as Maxwell Smart, Agent 86, and Barbara Feldon as Agent 99 of CONTROL, a secret U.S....
 playing a KAOS agent, but is most noted for playing Mindy's father on the sitcom Mork & Mindy. He also appeared in the sci-fi sitcom Quark
Quark (TV series)

Quark is an United States science fiction situation comedy starring Richard Benjamin that aired on NBC. The pilot first aired on May 7, 1977, and the series followed as a mid-season replacement in February 1978....
 and was featured in The Buddy Holly Story
The Buddy Holly Story

| name = The Buddy Holly Story| image = Buddy_holly_story_cover.jpg| image_size =| caption= The Buddy Holly Story DVD cover...
 movie.

Janis was born in New York City, New York, the son of Harriet, a writer, and Sidney Janis, an art dealer and writer.

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