Teno A. Pollick

Teno Arthur Pollick was born Arthur Teno Pollick on July 14th, 1929 in New York, to Andrew Pollick, born 1885, and Anne Teno, born 1890. His father was born in Poland and his mother was born in Pennsylvania. He had one brother and one sister: Eleanor Marie Pollick (1911 - 1997) and Edward Pollick, born 1917. He went by Teno Pollick during his acting career and lived in Los Angeles. Although he began his career on Broadway, Teno is best remembered for appearing in the 1975 film "The Hindenburg", the television show "Time Tunnel" (1966), and as Manuel Lopez in "Madame X" (1966), and "Kojack" (1973). Even in small roles, he often shined onscreen. On October 23rd 1965, in the Abilene Reporter News in Texas, the author said that "Gunsmoke has one of those stories it has told several times before: a young Indian out to gain revenge on the lecherous white who stole the Indian's furs, killed his father and attacked his sister. But young Teno Pollick, as the Indian, will win your sympathy, and you'll find yourself rooting for him to turn out all right as he tracks down dirty no-good Neville Brand." According to the biography "Split Image: The Life of Anthony Perkins," by Charles Winecoff, Dutton, 1996, Teno Pollick was romantically involved with Anthony Perkins. It is believed that he was also romantically linked to actor George Maharis. There is no record of his having married, nor did he have children. Teno suffered from depression, and reportedly committed suicide in 1991 in Los Angeles, California, at the age of 61. A complete list of his films can be found at Filmography and see Find A Grave Memorial by Lowell Thurgood for more details about Teno's life.