Jonathan Harris (November 6, 1914–November 3, 2002), born Jonathan Charasuchin, was the character actor best known for his TV work when Bradford Webster in The Third Man and Dr. Zachary Smith within Lost in Space.

Innate around Bronx, New York to impoverished Russian Jewish emigrés, Harris worked in the pharmacy, and received the pharmacology degree from Fordham University. Around hopes of becoming an actor, he trained himself against his Bronx accent, & changed his title to produce it more leisurely to pronounce (and peradventure to deflect antisemitism). Inside 1938, he married Gertrude Bergman, to whom he was married for 64 years. He went in to perform complete C plays by owning stock index corporations countrywide, & number one appeared in Broadway with Heart of a City within 1942, and toured using a USO in the Pacific Theater of Operations.

He number one worked within survive television in 1948, and mass produced his film debut sustaining Alan Ladd and James Mason in Botany Bay in 1953. Harris went back to television, appearing in The Third Man as Harry Lime's manservant. Within 1965, he first appeared in the role of Dr. Zachary Smith within Lost in Space, where, originally cast as a 1-shot character, he well stole a indicate from either his castmates. Several of his one-liners from a Bill Dana Indicate were reused inside Lost in Space. Although he's considered something of a cult icon for this role, Harris became greatly typecast when the decadent villain. Within 1970, Harris played a role of a does'nt-and then-likeable villain, whenever he guest starred when the Bulmanian Ambassador in the Get Smart episode, "How Green was my Valet".

Harris spent virtually all of the remainder of his career as a voice actor, appearing in television commercials as well as cartoons like The Banana Splits, My Favorite Martians, Rainbow Brite, Darkwing Duck, Happily Ever After, Problem Child, Freakazoid!, ''A Bug's Life, Buzz Lightyear of Star Command and Toy Story 2. He too experienced many cameo and guest appearances, including Zorro, Bewitched, Ark II, Uncle Croc's Block & Space Academy. Harris besides provided a voiceover of the Cylon character "Lucifer" on the original Battlestar Galactica series.

Harris reprised his role when Dr. Smith in the 1-hour TV favorite Wasted around Space Forever inside 1998. Nonetheless, unlike his costars in the original indicate (June Lockhart, Mark Goddard, Marta Kristen and Angela Cartwright) he refused a cameo in the motion picture version of Lost in Space'' later that year. He announced that whenever he was unable to play his have role within the moving-picture show, he wanted there is no a share in it in the least. Instead, Gary Oldman played the a share of Dr. Smith.

Harris died inside November Three, 2002 in Encino, California of a blood clot to the heart, just Deuce-ace years prior to his 88th birthday, survived by his widow woman, Gertrude, & their boy, Richard.

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