Joseph Wiseman

Joseph Wiseman (b May 15, 1918) is a Canadian actor who portrayed the title character, Doctor Julius No in the first James Bond film, Dr No.

He has not been in a film since 1988, but has appeared in TV shows such as MacGyver, LA Law, and Law & Order. He has had a long career in live theatre, including the title role in In the Matter of J Robert Oppenheimer in New York City, and the role of Father Massieu in the original Broadway production of Joan of Lorraine, the Maxwell Anderson play which eventually became the film Joan of Arc. His most recent Broadway appearance was in Judgement at Nuremberg in 2001.

He appeared in several films in the 1950s. The first major one came in 1951’s Detective Story where he recreated his performance from Broadway as an unstable small time hood. Soon after he played the bloodless opportunist who became Marlon Brando’s enemy in Viva Zapata! (1952). In 1967, he was cast as Billy Minsky’s father in The Night They Raided Minsky’s, a charming movie about burlesque.