12 Facts About Steve Ihnat

Stefan Ihnat was a Slovak-born American actor and director.

Steve Ihnat was born to Andrew and Mary Steve Ihnat in Slovakia and was raised on a farm in Lynden, Ontario.

Steve Ihnat's family settled there after fleeing his native Czechoslovakia in 1939, when he was five years old.

Steve Ihnat moved to the United States in 1956 to pursue a career in acting and attended the Pasadena Playhouse.

Steve Ihnat guest-starred in many television series during the 1960s, including a mind-controlled lieutenant in the science fiction television series The Outer Limits in the two-part episode, "The Inheritors",.

Steve Ihnat had several guest roles in Mission: Impossible including the brilliant Soviet Union investigator Stefan Miklos in the 1969 episode "The Mind of Stefan Miklos," widely praised as one of the most cerebral and intelligent episodes of the entire series.

Steve Ihnat often played villains, using his abilities to subtly turn one-dimensional characters into complex and multi-dimensional antagonists.

In 1968, Lamont Johnson cast him in the film Kona Coast in which Steve Ihnat played a murderous playboy in Hawaii doping up teenagers and causing mayhem to the property and person of the character played by lead actor Richard Boone.

Steve Ihnat wrote, produced and starred in Do Not Throw Cushions Into The Ring, which while never released, led to his receiving the plum position of directing The Honkers, starring James Coburn, with whom he had appeared in In Like Flint.

Steve Ihnat was married to Marya Carter, who posed as Playboy's Playmate of the Month for May 1962.

Steve Ihnat died of a heart ailment on May 12,1972, attending the Cannes Film Festival in France.

Steve Ihnat was interred in the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles.