
Ray Buktenica
Department: Acting
Biography
Ray Buktenica /bʌkˈtɛniːˈkɑː/ (born August 6, 1943) is an American film and television character actor. He has played numerous roles, primarily on television since 1972. He is best known for playing the character Benny Goodwin, the boyfriend and later fiancé of Brenda Morgenstern on the 1970s sitcom Rhoda, Dr. Solomon on House Calls and Jerry Berkson, Libby's boss on Life Goes On. He provided the voice of Hugo Strange in the character's sole appearance on Batman: The Animated Series. In 1996, he guest-starred on Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman as Leo Nunk, a newspaper reporter. In 1997, he guest-starred on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, in the episode "By Inferno's Light", as Deyos, the Vorta in command of the Dominion's Internment Camp 371.
Known For

Heat
1995

The Amazing Howard Hughes
1977

Imps*
1983

MacShayne: Winner Takes All
1994

The George McKenna Story
1988

The Adventures of Nellie Bly
1981

Heart of a Champion: The Ray Mancini Story
1985

Police Story: Gladiator School
1988

Mary Jane Harper Cried Last Night
1977

The Jayne Mansfield Story
1980

Surviving Gilligan's Island: The Incredibly True Story of the Longest Three Hour Tour in History
2001

King Kong
1976

Shopgirl
2005

A Circle of Children
1977

My Girl
1991

Wait Till Your Mother Gets Home
1983

L.A. Law
1986

Murder, She Wrote
1984

Magnum, P.I.
1980

Hardcastle and McCormick
1983

Rhoda
1974

Touched by an Angel
1994

Simon & Simon
1981

Hawaii Five-O
1968

The Twilight Zone
1985

Hawkins
1973

Diagnosis: Murder
1993

JAG
1995

Police Woman
1974

Booker
1989

House Calls
1979

Cutters
1993

Batman: The Animated Series
1992

Hawaii Five-O
1968

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
1993

Civil Wars
1991

The Love Boat
1977

Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman
1993

JAG
1995

Empty Nest
1988

Designing Women
1986

The Partridge Family
1970

Cybill
1995

The Partridge Family
1970

Matlock
1986

The Art of Being Nick
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