Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Drama for his work on the CBS Playhouse episode, Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night (1967). In 1991, Dobkin appeared in an episode of the television series Night Court as State Supreme Court Justice Welch. In the Star Trek media franchise Dobkin directed the original series episode "Charlie X", and later portrayed the traitorous Klingon ambassador Kell on Star Trek: The Next Generation in the fourth-season episode "The Mind's Eye." As a writer, Dobkin created the title character for the 1974 film and the 1977–1978 NBC series The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams. He began directing for television in 1960, and his work in this area included episodes 1, 9, 10, and 13 of The Munsters (1964), 16 episodes of The Waltons (1972–1981), and an episode of Sara (1976). Films Dobkin's notable supporting film roles include Twelve O'Clock High (1949), The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951), Julius Caesar (1953), The Ten Commandments (1956), The Defiant Ones (1958), Johnny Yuma (1966) and Patton (1970). He had a cameo appearance in the 1954 sci-fi thriller Them. In an uncredited performance in Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest, Dobkin has a memorable line as an intelligence official who remarks on the plight of the hapless protagonist, on the run for murder after being mistaken for a person who doesn't exist: "It's so horribly sad. Why is it I feel like laughing?" Personal life On June 24, 1962, Dobkin married actress Joanna Barnes; they had no children, but he had one daughter, Debra Dobkin, by his first wife, Frances Hope Walker. Dobkin married actress Anne Collings in 1970 and had two children: identical twin daughters, Kristy and Kaela. Death On October 28, 2002, Dobkin died of heart failure at his home in Los Angeles. He was 83 years old. Filmography Not Wanted (1949) - Assistant District Attorney Whirlpool (1949) - Surgeon Wayne (uncredited) Twelve O'Clock High (1949) - Capt. Twombley (uncredited) Never Fear (1949) - Dr. Middleton D.O.A. (1950) - Dr. Schaefer Frenchie (1950) - Bartender Broken Arrow (1950) - (uncredited) Chain of Circumstance (1951) - Dr. Callen People Will Talk (1951) - Business Manager (uncredited) The Mob (1951) - Clegg's Doctor (uncredited) Angels in the Outfield (1951) - Rabbi Allen Hahn (uncredited) The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) - Army Physician (uncredited) On the Loose (1951) - Ruegg,