Arnold Moss (January 28, 1910 – December 15, 1989) was an American character actor. His son was songwriter Jeff Moss.Moss made two memorable appearances in Bob Hope films, as Hope's Casablanca contact in the espionage spoof My Favorite Spy and as a conniving Venetian doge in Casanova's Big Night. He played Prospero in Margaret Webster's 1945 production of Shakespeare's The Tempest for a combined total of 124 performances, the longest run of the play in Broadway history.He was also the first voice of the character of Ted White on the radio serial, The Guiding Light, from April 1948 to May 1949. Moss appeared on Star Trek as mysterious actor Anton Karidian, alter-ego of the tyrannical Gov. Kodos of Tarsus IV, in the episode "The Conscience of the King".He appeared in the original Broadway production of the Hal Prince/Stephen Sondheim musical Follies, playing impresario Dimitri Weismann. He also played in The Rifleman as the school teacher, Mr. Griswald, and as Chief Lonespear in Bonanza episode "In Defense of Honor" in 1968.
I learned a long time ago that as an actor, you just can't sit home and wait for the phone to ring or you go crazy.
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He was a regular performer and writer for the CBS Radio Mystery Theater from 1974 through 1982.
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He was one of the major crossword puzzle constructors, or "cruciverbalists", in America from the 1940s into the 1980s, constructing a great number of New York Times Sunday crossword puzzles.
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Taught drama for nearly a decade at Brooklyn College.
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Received his Ph.D. from New York University in 1973, at age 63.
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His mellifluous voice was frequently used to serve as narrator-soloist with the Boston, Milwaukee and Detroit Symphonies, among others.
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Wife Stella Reynolds, was a writer; they had a daughter and son.
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