Michael George Ansara (April 15, 1922 – July 31, 2013) was a Lebanese-born American stage, screen, and voice actor who portrayed Cochise in the American television series Broken Arrow, Kane in the 1979–1981 series Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Commander Kang on three different Star Trek television series, Deputy U.S. Marshal Sam Buckhart on the NBC series Law of the Plainsman, and provided the voice for Mr. Freeze in Batman: The Animated Series and several of its spin-offs.

Biography

Ansara was married three times, first to Jean Byron in 1955; after a year of marriage, the couple divorced in 1956. In 1958, Ansara married Barbara Eden, who is best known for the I Dream of Jeannie sitcom series. The couple had a son named Matthew born in 1965. Ansara and Eden divorced in 1974, and he married actress Beverly Kushida in 1977. On June 25, 2001, his son Matthew died from a drug overdose in Monrovia, California.

Ansara died following a long illness at his home in Calabasas on July 31, 2013, at the age of 91. His interment is at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Hollywood Hills, next to his son Matthew.