Alan Louis Oppenheimer was born on April 23, 1930 in New York City, New York the son of Irene (née Rothschild; 1904-1991) and Louis E. Oppenheimer (1901-1984), who was a stockbroker.[citation needed]\n', '

As a character actor, Oppenheimer has had diverse roles in popular American television programming, from playing a Nazi in Hogan\'s Heroes, to playing an Israeli secret agent as well as a double-agent KAOS scientist on Get Smart, to being the second actor to play Dr. Rudy Wells in The Six Million Dollar Man (Martin Balsam played the role in the pilot telemovie). Oppenheimer took over as Rudy starting with the second film, "Wine, Women and War" and kept playing up until the introduction of the bionic woman in 1975, whereupon Martin E. Brooks took over as Wells until cancellation). He was the original Mickey Malph (Ralph Malph\'s dad) on Happy Days. He played a recurring role during the first two seasons of St. Elsewhere as Helen Rosenthal\'s husband, Ira. He had a recurring role as Mayor Alvin B. Tutwiller on Mama\'s Family. \n', '

Coincidentally, in his first appearance on Hogan\'s Heroes in 1967, he played a Nazi officer seeking information about the Manhattan Project, of which J. Robert Oppenheimer (no relation) was the director of the Los Alamos Laboratory which built the bomb.\n', '

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