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Ihnat died of a heart ailment on May 27, 1972, attending the Cannes Film Festival in France. Carter had a daughter from a previous marriage. Ihnat was married to Marya Carter, who posed as Playboy's Playmate of the Month for May 1962.

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He also co-wrote the movie with Stephen Lodge. He wrote, produced and starred in Do Not Throw Cushions Into The Ring, which while never released, led to his receiving the plum position of directing The Honkers, starring James Coburn, with whom he had appeared in In Like Flint. Ihnat was a screenwriter and director as well.

His other film credits included The Chase (1966), In Like Flint (1967), Hour of the Gun (1967), Zig Zag (1970), and Fuzz (1972). Also in 1968, he memorably portrayed a murderous thug in the film Madigan, starring Richard Widmark and Henry Fonda and a NASA administrator in the film Countdown, directed by Robert Altman and starring James Caan and Robert Duvall. In 1968, Lamont Johnson cast him in the film Kona Coast in which Ihnat played a murderous playboy in Hawaii doping up teenagers and causing mayhem to the property and person of the character played by lead actor Richard Boone. He often played villains, using his abilities to subtly turn one-dimensional characters into complex and multi-dimensional antagonists. įrom 1964 to 1968 he appeared in eight feature films. While he played other roles (mostly villains, like in 'The Astrologer') in the show, his performance in this episode is his most memorable. Ihnat had several guest roles in Mission: Impossible including the brilliant Soviet Union investigator Stefan Miklos in the 1969 episode 'The Mind of Stefan Miklos,' widely praised as one of the most cerebral and intelligent episodes of the entire series.

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In 1971 Inhat was in Sweet, Sweet Rachel, a TV movie that formed the basis for the series The Sixth Sense. ('Region of Peril' and 'The Prey'), The Name of the Game ('The Chains of Command' and 'Nightmare'), Medical Center ('Fright and Flight') and Perry Mason ('The Case of the Duplicate Case'). Ganns), The Virginian ('Jed' and 'Last Grave at Socorro Creek'), Mission: Impossible ('The Astrologer'), ('The Mind of Stefan Miklos'), Cimarron Strip ('The Hunted'), I Dream of Jeannie ('My Master the Rainmaker'), Mannix ('Huntdown', 'End Game' and 'To Draw the Lightning'), The F.B.I.

Other credits include Blue Light ('Field of Dishonor'), Gunsmoke ('Exodus 21:22', 'Jenny' with Lisa Gerritsen (December 28, 1970), “The Mission” & 'Noose of Gold'), The Silent Force ('Take As Directed For Death'), Bonanza ('Dead and Gone' as Johann Brunner, 'A Dream to Dream' as Josh Carter and 'Terror at 2:00' as Mr. Ihnat held over 70 guest credits in such well known series as Star Trek episode ' Whom Gods Destroy' (1969) as the psychotic Garth of Izar and also two episodes of The Fugitive, entitled ' Cry Uncle' (alongside Ron Howard) and ' The Walls of Night'. In 1965, he guest starred as murderer Charlie Parks in the Perry Mason episode, 'The Case of the Duplicate Case.' Ihnat guest-starred in many television series during the 1960s, including a mind-controlled lieutenant in the science fiction television series The Outer Limits in the two-part episode, ' The Inheritors', (1964). Ihnat won second prize in the Republic of Korea poetry contest for his entry titled 'Toil in the Night.'

Army for two years and served at Headquarters U.S. At a time when he had difficulty finding work he enlisted in the U.S.

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In 1959, he played a truck driver in with cargo hijackers in an episode of Highway Patrol. Ihnat moved to the United States in 1956 to pursue a career in acting and attended the Pasadena Playhouse. Acting is the best way to do it.' Film and television career I was raised on a farm and I decided I wanted to be everything in life. He said, 'I knew this was the only thing I wanted to do with my life.' He also said, 'I think wanting to act started when I was about 14 as an escape valve to my environment. Ihnat became hooked on acting when he played a child role in an amateur theatre near Lynden. Ihnat, his mother, father, younger sister, and two young boys from other families left Czechoslovakia three days before Prague was occupied by invading German forces in March of that year. His family settled there after fleeing his native Czechoslovakia in 1939, when he was five years old. Ihnat was born in Slovakia and was raised on a farm in Lynden, Ontario.