Jay Rasumny(1948-2020)

Veteran actor-songwriter Jay Rasumny is the star of the science-fiction comedy film Wam Bam Thank You Spaceman (1975) and the producer of the horror classic Terreur dans la nuit (1980). He began his career on stage in New York after graduating from Queens College. He toured with the Obie-winning Open Eye Company and played Lincoln/MacArthur in Tom O'Horgan's "American Heroes". He has also been seen as Oscar in "The Odd Couple" and Bogie in "Play it Again Sam", and as spokesman for the great Art Metrano and his one-man show, "Metrano's Accidental Comedy . . . Jews Don't Belong on Ladders" On screen, Jay followed in the footsteps of his cousin Mikhail Rasumny, when he first appeared on the soap opera How to Survive a Marriage (1974) and in the film Les banquiers du vice (1972). Many roles followed in movies and on television, where he has played opposite such greats as Mickey Rooney, Jack Palance, James Garner, Louise Fletcher, Jack Warden, Robert Vaughan, Shecky Greene, Billy Crystal and Will Smith. He remains active in all media.