Cliff Emmich(1936-2022)

Tubby and engaging character actor Cliff Emmich was born on December 13, 1936 in Cincinnati, Ohio, and raised in Los Angeles, California. His father Clifford was a popular exotic car dealer whose celebrity customers included Clark Gable, Gary Cooper, and Ozzie Nelson. Following graduation from John Muir High School, Emmich served in the air force for four years as a photo technician. He first began acting on stage. Veteran character actor Keenan Wynn advised Emmich to enroll at the Pasadena Playhouse. He studied at the Pasadena Playhouse for eight months. Emmich then toured the country with the American Repertory Players and spent a summer performing in summer stock at the Pink Garter Theatre in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. He made his film debut in Chicago, Chicago (1969).

Later memorable roles were as a coroner in L'Invasion des femmes abeilles (1973), as sexist jerk business executive who insults Yvette Mimieux at the beginning of La prison du viol (1976), as a bumbling small town deputy in Barracuda (1978), as the ill-fated hospital security guard Mr. Garrett in Halloween II (1981), as an asylum doctor in the trashy Hellhole: La clinique de l'horreur (1985), and as a small town sheriff in Digital Man (1995). He has appeared in such television shows as Preuve à l'appui (2001), Walker, Texas Ranger (1993), Nash Bridges (1996), Coach (1989), Alerte à Malibu (1989), Arabesque (1984), Côte ouest (1979), Tribunal de nuit (1984), Rick Hunter (1984), Riptide (1984), Simon et Simon (1981), Chips (1977), K 2000 (1982), L'incroyable Hulk (1977), Vegas (1978), L'île fantastique (1977), Happy Days - Les jours heureux (1974), La petite maison dans la prairie (1974) (this is one of Emmich's favorite parts), Drôles de dames (1976), Baretta (1975), Sergent Anderson (1974), and Starsky et Hutch (1975). He is a member of both the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.