Darrell Zwerling (September 9, 1928 – April 11, 2014) was an American character actor in film and television. His most famous role was Hollis Mulwray, the unfortunate Water Authority Commissioner (the husband of Faye Dunaway's character) in Roman Polanski's Chinatown. In 1973, he portrayed Mr. Charney, a voice-over applicant with laryngitis at WJM-TV, in the season four episode, "The Lou and Edie Story" on The Mary Tyler Moore Show.

He was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to Irwin and Esther Zwerling, Jewish emigrants from Austria and Romania, respectively, and had one elder sibling, a sister, Bernice. Zwerling died in Hollywood, California on April 11, 2014, aged 85, from undisclosed causes. His death was not disclosed until September 16, 2014, by The Juilliard School in New York.

Darrell Zwerling

Filmography

Darrell appeared in many movies and on television.

Darrell Zwerling

References

External links

Juilliard School - In Memoriam

Notice of death

Picture of gravestone

1928 births

2014 deaths

20th-century American male actors

American male film actors

American male television actors

American people of Austrian-Jewish descent

American people of Romanian-Jewish descent

Jewish American male actors

Male actors from Pittsburgh

Doc Savage

Burials at Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery

Darrell Zwerling