Kay E. Kuter

Kay Edwin Emmert Kuter (April 25, 1925 – November 12, 2003) was an American actor who appeared on television and in films. He is mostly recognized for his role as farmer Newt Kiley on the CBS sitcoms Green Acres and Petticoat Junction, which shared several characters.The son of famed Hollywood art director Leo K. Kuter and silent screen actress Evelyn Edler, Kuter was born in Los Angeles, California. He performed mostly as a serious actor or heavy in many 1960s series, often in a beard, before taking a recurring roles on the two series.He appeared in many films, including The Last Starfighter as Enduran, Warlock and Gross Anatomy. His last film role was in the 2004 film Forbidden Warrior. He also provided voice work for kids films, including providing the voice of Santa Claus in Annabelles Wish and the voice of Grimsby in The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea, replacing Ben Wright, who died in 1989.In his later years, he did extensive voice acting in video games, including playing the bartender Griswold Goodsoup in The Curse of Monkey Island and Dockmaster Velasco in Grim Fandango, both well-known LucasArts Adventure games of the 1990s. He was probably best known to video game fans as Werner Huber in The Beast Within: A Gabriel Knight Mystery. He was the voice of Hersheys Kisses commercials for 14 years.He made guest appearances on many television series, including The Rifleman, Bonanza, Perry Mason, Gunsmoke, Star Trek: The Next Generation as a Cytherian in the season four episode The Nth Degree, and in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine as the Bajoran Sirah in the first-season episode The Storyteller. He also appeared on ER, the Charmed episode Happily Ever After, the Outer Limits episode The Premonition as a Limbo Being caught in time, Seinfeld as the Latvian Orthodox priest, The X-Files episode The Calusari as the head Calusari, and Frasier as a vagrant who wants a kiss from Martin Crane.Kuter died on November 12, 2003, from pulmonary complications at St. Josephs Hospital in Burbank, California. He was 78, and his death came only four months after his mothers passing at age 103. He was survived by his sister and nieces and nephews. He is buried in Forest Lawn - Hollywood Hills Cemetery.

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