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Lawrence Dobkin
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Name: Lawrence Dobkin
Born:   16 September 1919
Place: NYC, New York, USA

Died:  28 October 2002
Place: Los Angeles, California, USA
Cause: Heart failure

Spouse
Anne Collings     (1970 - 28 October 2002) (his death) 3 children
Joanna Barnes     (24 June 1962 - ?) (divorced)

Alternative Names: Larry Dobkin

 

Trivia

Children: daughters Deborah, Kristy Dobkin, Kaela Dobkin; son Laird.

He is one of only two "Star Trek" non-regulars to both direct and appear in an episode of "Star Trek: the original "Star Trek" (1966) episode "Charlie X" and the "Star Trek: The Next Generation" (1987) episode "The Mind's Eye" respectively. (the other being Andrew Robinson)

Attended Yale Drama School where he was roommates with fellow future director Richard Fleischer.

Both Lawrence Dobkin and Paul Frees are credited with narrating the hit television series "Naked City" (1958) (1958-1963), but it is Dobkin who speaks one of the most memorable tag lines in the history of television: "There are eight million stories in the Naked City. This has been one of them".

He had one daughter from his first marriage, and three children, twin daughters, Kaela Dobkin and Kristy Dobkin, and son Laird, from his third marriage to Anne Collings. Kaela became an actress and Kristy a writer.



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