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род. в 1936 г. · a physician who played the medical examiner twice
Milt Kogan
Milt Kogan is a real doctor — a practising family physician in Los Angeles — and also an actor with more than a hundred television parts. In Columbo he twice, in 1989, plays the medical examiner: a rare case of a man with a medical degree inside the white coat.
Parts in Columbo
| Episode | Season | Year | Character | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Make Me a Perfect Murder 7×03 | 7 | 1978 | Dubbing Chief | 7.5 |
| Columbo Goes to the Guillotine 8×01 | 8 | 1989 | Medical Examiner | 7.5 |
| Grand Deceptions 8×04 | 8 | 1989 | Medical Examiner | 6.5 |
Three parts
A dubbing chief in Make Me a Perfect Murder (1978), then the medical examiner in Columbo Goes to the Guillotine and Grand Deceptions, both from 1989.
His best-known part is Desk Sergeant Kogan in Barney Miller. He left Cornell to study medicine and went back to finish his bachelor’s degree fifty years later, in 2007.
Facts
- A practising family physician — and twice the medical examiner in Columbo.
- Desk Sergeant Kogan in Barney Miller.
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Cast data from TMDB. Biographical details from open reference sources.