15 Facts About Yale Summers

Yale Summers was an American actor and producer, whose credits included the 1960s CBS television series, Daktari, with Marshall Thompson.

Yale Summers was a member of the SAG national board of directors for twenty-seven years and the national executive committee for eighteen years.

Yale Summers's best known role was as Jack Dane on Daktari, which aired from 1966 to 1968.

From 1972 to 1974, Yale Summers replaced Lawrence Casey in the NBC daytime series, Return to Peyton Place, as the character Rodney Harrington.

Yale Summers was a founding member of the SAG Awards Committee and for a time the chairman of that committee.

Yale Summers was a co-founder and producer of the Screen Actors Guild Awards from 1995 until 2009.

Yale Summers served as the former national treasurer and the recording secretary for SAG.

Yale Summers was a trustee of the SAG Pension and Health Funds and a member of the board for the SAG Foundation.

Yale Summers was active with another actors' union, the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists.

Yale Summers served a combined twenty-four years on the national AFTRA board and the union's local Los Angeles chapter.

The only child of Joseph and Edlie Neuvohner, Yale Summers received a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from Cornell University in 1955 and served in the United States Army, having attained the rank of lieutenant.

Yale Summers had 2 grandchildren at the time of his death.

Yale Summers died in Beverly Hills, California at the age of 78 from complications of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

Yale Summers had a purist vision of how the guild should be run and wasn't swayed by the influence of special interest groups.

Yale Summers put the best interest of the guild and union first.