Corey Fischer

Corey John Fischer (February 28, 1945 – June 6, 2020) was an American actor. Early life and education Fischer was born in Los Angeles, California. He earned a bachelor of arts degree in French and Theatre Arts from UCLA. Career In the mid-1960s, he worked in Los Angeles in improvisational theatre, notably with The Committee, and went on to work in film and television. An early film appearance was in the biker cult film Naked Angels, and an early television appearance was in a 1966 episode of Daniel Boone. Fischer appeared in Robert Altman's first three Hollywood movies: MASH, Brewster McCloud, and McCabe and Mrs. Miller and many of the best-known TV comedies of the 1970s, including All in the Family, Sanford and Son and Barney Miller Season 5, Episode 11, Titled “ The Radical”, as “ John Dodd” for he was “ Underground “ because of the list of his Name on the “ Most Wanted by the “FBI and United States Marshall,” for his involvement in the Protest Against the Vietnam War, and staged a protest at “Columbia University”. Whet “ Dodd” was hiding for almost 10 years, while awaiting to be found by the FBI; as well as the TV version of M*A*S*H. In 1972-75 he played Givits, a guitar-playing ex-rabbinical student in Sunshine starting with the groundbreaking TV movie that became the prototype for a number of "Disease-of-the-Week" movies that followed. He continued to play Givits in the short-lived spin-off series, also titled Sunshine, (13 episodes) and, finally, a second TV movie, Sunshine Christmas.