Bill Zuckert

Bill Zuckert was an American actor. A native of The Bronx, New York, he first became involved with little theater groups in the Washington, D.C. area, then began a radio career in 1941 and provided voices for hundreds of dramas over about twenty years. For old-time radio, he portrayed Lieutenant Louis Parker in Crime and Peter Chambers, an NBC crime drama. Later he worked steadily in television, with guest and character roles spanning roughly fifty years. His small-screen credits included three different parts on Gunsmoke during the 1960s and Sheriff Johnny Behan in a 1968 Star Trek episode, Spectre of the Gun. He appeared on Broadway in Sixth Finger in a Five Finger Glove (1956) and The Gang's All Here (1959). He also served on the boards of the Screen Actors Guild and American Federation of Television and Radio Artists.