American actor
Kay E. Kuter
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Kuter in
Petticoat Junction
, 1965
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Born
| Kay Edwin Emmert Kuter
(
1925-04-25
)
April 25, 1925
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Died
| November 12, 2003
(2003-11-12)
(aged 78)
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Resting place
| Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Hollywood Hills
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Occupation
| Actor
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Years active
| 1954?2003
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Kay Edwin Emmert Kuter
(April 25, 1925 ? November 12, 2003) was an American
actor
who appeared on television and in films. He is mostly recognized for his role as farmer Newt Kiley on the CBS sitcoms
Green Acres
and
Petticoat Junction
, which shared several characters.
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The son of famed Hollywood art director
Leo K. Kuter
and silent screen actress Evelyn Edler, Kuter was born in
Los Angeles, California
. He performed mostly as a serious actor or "heavy" in many 1960s series, often in a beard, before taking the recurring role on the two comedy series.
He appeared in many films, including
The Last Starfighter
as Enduran,
Warlock
and
Gross Anatomy
. His last film role was in the 2004 film
Forbidden Warrior
. He also provided voice work for animated films, including providing the voice of Santa Claus in
Annabelle's Wish
and the voice of Grimsby in
The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea
, replacing
Ben Wright
, who died in 1989. In his later years, he did extensive voice acting in video games, including playing the bartender Griswold Goodsoup in
The Curse of Monkey Island
and Dockmaster Velasco / the casino croupier in
Grim Fandango
, both well-known LucasArts Adventure games of the 1990s. He was probably best known to video game fans as Werner Huber in
The Beast Within: A Gabriel Knight Mystery
. He was the voice of "
Hershey's Kisses
" commercials for 14 years.
He made guest appearances on many television series, including
The Rifleman
,
Bonanza
,
Perry Mason
,
Gunsmoke
,
Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction
as Anatole Guttenoff in the twelfth episode of the third season,
Star Trek: The Next Generation
as a Cytherian in the season four episode "
The Nth Degree
", and in
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
as the
Bajoran
Sirah in the first-season episode "
The Storyteller
". He also appeared on
ER
, the
Charmed
episode "Happily Ever After", the
Outer Limits
episode "
The Premonition
" as a "Limbo Being" caught in time,
Seinfeld
as the
Latvian Orthodox
priest,
The X-Files
episode "
The Calusari
" as the head Calusari, and
Frasier
as a vagrant who wants a kiss from
Martin Crane
.
Death
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Kuter died on November 12, 2003, from
pulmonary complications
at St. Joseph's Hospital in Burbank, California, aged 78. His death came only four months after the death of his mother, former Silent film actress Evelyn Edler,
who died at the age of 103. He was survived by his sister, Jeane Kuter Harvey and by extended family. He is buried in
Forest Lawn - Hollywood Hills Cemetery
.
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