Milt Kogan
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Occupation | Actor |
Years active | 1962-2012 |
Milt Kogan (born April 10, 1936) is an American actor who made well over one hundred guest appearances on American network television shows. He is perhaps best known for playing Desk Sergeant Kogan on six episodes of the television series Barney Miller, and for appearing in six different roles in the 1970s on Police Story.
Filmography[]
He also made guest appearances on many television series including It Takes a Thief, Mission: Impossible, Ironside, Sanford and Son, Mannix, The Law, Cannon, Police Story, Kojak, Eight Is Enough, Chico and the Man, The Rockford Files (3 episodes), Quincy, M.E., Diff'rent Strokes, Lou Grant, Night Court, Cagney & Lacey, Columbo, Knots Landing, Quantum Leap, General Hospital, Wonder Woman, Airwolf, The A-Team, My Two Dads, and many more.
Kogan's movie credits include Lucky Lady (1975), The Sunshine Boys (1975), No Deposit, No Return (1976), Dr. Black and Mr. Hyde (1976), The Lady in Red (1979), E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982), Bachelor Party (1984), The Woman in Red (1984), Brewster's Millions (1985), Solar Crisis (1990), Hesher (2010), (2011), The Descendants (2011), among others.
He produced two award-winning documentaries titled Different From You (2002), and Final Farewell of the Fabulous Apostles (2006).
Early life and career[]
Milt is an M.D. who practices board-certified Family Medicine in Los Angeles, California. He entered Cornell University with the class of 1957, but left after his junior year to earn his medical degree. He returned to Cornell to finish his B.S. in Animal Science fifty years later, graduating in 2007.[1] As an undergraduate, he was a member of the Quill and Dagger society. He also holds an M.P.H. (Epidemiology) from University of California, Los Angeles (1974–1976). He was a Peace Corps Physician in West Africa (1969–1972), practiced with the National Health Service Corps in Harlowton, Montana (1982–1983), served with the U.S. Army in Hanau, West Germany (1984–1986) and practiced in Vermillion, South Dakota (1996–1998). He speaks English, French, German, and Spanish.
Published works include: Escape From Montana (2009), Diary of the Ouagadougou Doc (2010), and Second Act (2010).
Filmography[]
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1974 | I Love You... Good-bye | Alton Stockard | |
1975 | The Swinging Barmaids | Dan | |
1975 | Darktown Strutters | Officer Babel | |
1975 | The Sunshine Boys | Doctor | |
1975 | Lucky Lady | Supercargo | |
1976 | Dr. Black and Mr. Hyde | Lt. Harry O'Connor | |
1976 | No Deposit, No Return | Policeman #3 | |
1977 | Big Time | FBI Chief | |
1977 | Herowork | D.A. Durney | |
1978 | The Fifth Floor | Dr. Shaw | |
1979 | The Lady in Red | Preacher | |
1982 | E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial | Medical Unit #4 | |
1983 | Angel of H.E.A.T. | Harry Covert | |
1983 | Wavelength | Chief Pathologist | |
1984 | Bachelor Party | Restaurant Customer | |
1984 | The Woman in Red | Air Traffic Boss | |
1984 | My Therapist | Steve Kovacs | |
1985 | Brewster's Millions | Heller | |
1986 | The Check Is in the Mail... | Mr. Fanning | |
1990 | Solar Crisis | IXL man #2 (Baldy) | |
2002 | Random Shooting in L.A. | Dan | |
2010 | Hesher | Doctor | |
2011 | Mickey | ||
2011 | The Descendants | Dr. Johnston |
References[]
- ^ Lang, Susan (May 23, 2007). "'Barney Miller's' Officer Kogan is back on campus after lifetime as doctor and actor, and now, finally, a Cornell grad". Cornell Chronicle. Archived from the original on June 7, 2011. Retrieved February 29, 2012.
External links[]
- Milt Kogan at IMDb
- Different From You (2002) at Fanlight Productions
- 1936 births
- American primary care physicians
- American male television actors
- Cornell Big Red men's basketball players
- Living people
- Peace Corps volunteers
- Actors from Camden, New Jersey
- Male actors from Los Angeles
- UCLA School of Public Health alumni
- 20th-century American male actors
- 21st-century American male actors
- Male actors from New Jersey
- American men's basketball players