Felix Maurice Locher


Felix Maurice Locher, known as Felix Locher was a Swiss actor and inventor and father of actor Jon Hall.

Career

Felix Locher was an inventor who held over 100 copyrights and patents relating to a unique mapping system that he used when lecturing to insurance salesmen. Locher started acting late in life, when he was discovered for the film Hell Ship Mutiny in 1957, he by then was 73 years old. Father of actor Jon Hall , he visited his son on the set when he was discovered by director Elmo Wiliams who convinced him to play the part of an elderly Tahitian Chief. From then on he appeared in numerous television productions throughout the 1950s and 1960s until his death in 1969 at age of 87.
He also appeared in Star Trek, The Outlaw , Gunsmoke The Man from U.N.C.L.E., House of the Damned , with Joseph Campanella, The Twilight Zone: The Silence, Thunder in the Sun, and Curse of the Faceless Man. He is considered the oldest Star Trek'' actor of all time by birth year.
He was buried at the Forest Lawn, Hollywood Hills Cemetery in Los Angeles.

Filmography