Biography

Janos Prohaska was born on October 10, 1919 in Budapest, Hungary. He was an actor, known for Star Trek (1966), Bewitched (1964) and Billy Rose's Jumbo (1962). He was married to Irene Knoke. He died on March 13, 1974 in Bishop, California, USA.

Playing Gilligan's Island Gorilla, Ape, Orangutan, Lion, and Spider and Dusty's Trail Bears and Gorilla (in Gorilla Suits and Bear Suits)

Died in a plane crash, along with his son, Robert Prohaska, while working on the ABC TV series Up from the Ape (1975) (aka "Primal Man").

Actor/stunt man/animal imitator.

Best known as the talking, cookie-mad bear during the last years of The Andy Williams Show (1969). This character was always trying to wheedle a cookie out of Williams and was constantly, but never violently, rebuffed. Because of Prohaska's Hungarian accent, his voice was dubbed by one of the show's writers, Ray Reese.

Father of stuntman Robert Prohaska.