Lawrence Dobkin (September 16, 1919 – October 28, 2002) was an American television director, character actor and screenwriter whose career spanned seven decades.

Filmography

• 2008The Munsters: Family Portrait — Director
• Judging Amy — Clyde Palmer
• Popular — Judge
• The Practice — Judge M. Gersh
• Profiler — Professor Bello
• 1994Roswell — General
• NYPD Blue — John Gilbert
• Melrose Place — Judge Stanley Pittman
• 1991The Rape of Doctor Willis — Striker
• 1990Curiosity Kills — Harry
• 1990Rock Hudson — Raoul Walsh
• Star Trek: The Next Generation — Ambassador Kell
• The Charmings
• L.A. Law — Judge Saul Edelstein
• Matlock — Marvin Shea
• MacGyver — Professor Julian Ryman, Alexander Karsoff
• Cover Up
• Night Court — Justice Welch
• Scarecrow and Mrs. King
• Fame — Director
• Knight Rider — Col. Alvin B. Kincaid
• Bret Maverick — U.S. Marshal Philip Mondragon
• Dynasty — Director
• Strike Force — Director
• The Fall Guy — Director
• Freebie and the Bean — Director
• 1980Hotwire — Bodine
• 1979Brenda Starr, Reporter — Director
• 1979In Search of Historic Jesus — Pontius Pilate
• Dallas — Director
• Fantasy Island — Director
• Project U.F.O. — Director
• Vega$ — Director
• Grizzly Adams — Writer, Story
• Hunter — Director
• Space Academy
• The Fitzpatricks — Director
• What Really Happened to the Class of '65? — Director
• Charlie's Angels — Director, Writer
• 1976Territorial Men — Director
• Adams of Eagle Lake — Director
• Matt Helm — Director
• The Blue Knight — Director
• Movin' On — Director
• 1974The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams — Writer
• The Manhunter — Director
• 1974The Midnight Man — Waldo Mason
• The Six Million Dollar Man — Director
• Barnaby Jones — Director
• Shaft — Director
• Banyon — Director
• Emergency! — Director
• 1972Sixteen — Director
• 1972The Streets of San Francisco — Gregory Praxas
• The Streets of San Francisco — Director
• The Waltons — Director
• Cannon — Director
• O'Hara, U.S. Treasury — Director
• 1970Patton — Colonel Gaston Bell
• 1970Underground — Boule
• Hawaii Five-O — General Oban, Director
• Adam-12 — Director
• The Doris Day Show — Director
• The Mod Squad — Director
• The Name of the Game — Director
• Custer — Director
• 1967Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night — Dr. Gettlinger
• Judd, for the Defense
• N.Y.P.D. — Director
• CBS Playhouse — Dr. Gettlinger
• Felony Squad — Director
• 1966Johnny Yuma — Linus Jerome Carradine
• Mission: Impossible — Colonel Alex Kohler
• Pistols 'n' Petticoats — Director
• Star Trek — Director
• Tarzan — Director
• The Rat Patrol — Director
• Branded — Director
• Laredo — Director
• Mister Roberts — Director
• Seaway — Director
• 1965Steel and America — Narrator (voice)
• The Big Valley — Ben Dawes, Director
• The F.B.I. — Horrigan, Director
• The Wild Wild West — Director
• 12 O'Clock High — Director
• Gilligan's Island — Director
• The Munsters — Director
• 1964The Restless Sea — Narrator
• Arrest and Trial — Maj. Ralph Libbott
• Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre — Director
• Burke's Law — Director
• Channing — Director
• Grindl
• Kraft Suspense Theatre — Doctor (uncredited)
• The Fugitive — Director
• Ensign O'Toole — Director
• 1962Geronimo — General George A. Crook
• Going My Way
• Sam Benedict — Judge Ryan, Director
• 1962The Cabinet of Caligari — Dr. Frank David
• The Eleventh Hour — Director
• 1961A Fire Called Jeremiah — Narrator
• Cain's Hundred — Dale Statesman
• Target: The Corruptors!
• Klondike — Director
• The Andy Griffith Show — Director
• The Best of the Post — Judge Barasco
• The Roaring 20's
• Adventures in Paradise — Nat Wilson
• Hawaiian Eye — Ronald Windsor
• Law of the Plainsman — Hempner
• 1959North by Northwest — U.S. Intelligence Agency Official (uncredited)
• Rawhide — Colonel Reed
• Riverboat — David Fields
• 1959The Big Operator — Phil Cernak
• The Detectives — Director
• The DuPont Show with June Allyson — Kurt Reynolds
• 1959The Gene Krupa Story — Speaker Willis
• 1959The Killers of Mussolini — Pavolini
• The Untouchables — Dutch Schultz
• 1959Tokyo After Dark — Maj. Bradley
• 77 Sunset Strip — Sergei Ruchev, Director
• Behind Closed Doors
• Bronco
• Lawman — Buck Walsh
• Man with a Camera
• Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer — Director
• Naked City — Narrator (voice)
• 1958The Defiant Ones — Editor
• The Donna Reed Show — Director
• 1958The Lost Missile — Narrator
• 1958The Plot to Kill Stalin — Shtemenko
• The Rifleman — Juan Argentez, Writer, Director, Teleplay
• Wanted: Dead or Alive — Bartolo
• Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse — Dave Harris
• 1958Wild Heritage — Josh Burrage
• Alcoa Theatre — Joe Frazier, Lieutenant Lacy
• Have Gun, Will Travel — Billy-Joe Kane, Haskell Sommers, Col. Oliver Lacey
• M Squad — Louie Prince, Barney Traxler
• Mr. Adams and Eve
• Official Detective
• Panic!
• Perry Mason — Gregory Dunkirk
• 1957Portland Exposé — Garnell
• 1957Raiders of Old California — Don Miguel Sebastian
• Richard Diamond, Private Detective — Warburton Flagge, Joey Kane
• 1957Sweet Smell of Success — Leo Bartha (uncredited)
• 1957The Badge of Marshal Brennan — Chickamon
• Trackdown — Walter Trump, Caldwell, Joel Paine, Director
• Whirlybirds — Will Carter
• 1956Sizeman and Son — Rosenzweig
• State Trooper — Director
• Telephone Time
• The Adventures of Jim Bowie
• 1956The Killer Is Loose — Bank Robber (uncredited)
• 1956The Ten Commandments — Hur Ben Caleb
• Wire Service — Mr. March
• 1955African Manhunt — Commentator (voice)
• Cheyenne — Lt Gen Phillip H. Sheridan
• Crossroads — Stoner
• Gunsmoke — Jacklin, Brand, Esteban Garcia
• 1955Illegal — Al Carol
• 1955Jump Into Hell — Major Maurice Bonet
• 1955Kiss of Fire — Padre Domingo
• Matinee Theater
• Navy Log
• 1955Sabaka — General's Aide (uncredited)
• The 20th Century Fox Hour — Sparks
• The Millionaire — Lewis Austin, John McKuehn
• 1954Day of Triumph — Matthew
• 1954Riders to the Stars — Dr. Delmar
• Studio 57 — Ray Davis, Hamid
• 1954The Big Moment — Worker
• 1954The Silver Chalice — Ephraim
• 1953Above and Beyond — Dr. Van Dyke
• City Detective
• General Electric Theater — Singh, Lieutenant
• I'm the Law
• 1953Julius Caesar — Citizen of Rome
• Letter to Loretta — Akhenaton, General
• 1953Remains to Be Seen — Captain of Waiters (uncredited)
• The Danny Thomas Show — Bob Hickey
• The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse — Vern Morris
• 19525 Fingers
• Adventures of Superman
• Biff Baker U.S.A. — Shahab Hussein
• Dangerous Assignment
• 1952Deadline - U.S.A. — Larry Hansen (uncredited)
• Four Star Playhouse — Doctor, Masterson, Buckov
• 1952Loan Shark — Walter Kerr
• Mr. & Mrs. North
• 1952Red Skies of Montana — Leo (uncredited)
• The Ford Television Theatre — Morton, Inspector Briand
• 1952Young Man with Ideas — Prosecutor at Hearing (uncredited)
• 1951Bannerline — Doctor
• 1951Chain of Circumstance — Dr. Callen (as Larry Dobkin)
• I Love Lucy — Maitre D', Counterfeiter, Counterman
• 1951People Will Talk — Business Manager (uncredited)
• Schlitz Playhouse of Stars — Captain Cotton
• The Living Christ — John The Baptist, Caiaphas
• 1950Frenchie — Bartender
• Lux Video Theatre — Dave
• 1950Never Fear — Dr. Middleton
• 1950Whirlpool — Dr. Wayne
• 1949D.O.A. — Dr. Schaefer
• 1949Not Wanted — Asst. District Attorney
• 1949Twelve O'Clock High — Captain Twombley, group chaplain
• Studio One — Porter
• 1946The Best Years of Our Lives — Bank Customer with Hat (uncredited)

Appearances as themselves (1)

• 1975Mysteries from Beyond Earth — Self – Host