Michael Pataki

Michael Pataki had a long, varied and impressive career in both movies and TV shows, alike, that spanned a little over 50 years. Pataki gave a superbly chilling and compelling performance as vicious bloodsucker "Caleb Croft" in the creepy horror winner, Grave of the Vampire. Other memorable roles included nasty biker "Snake" in The Dirt Gang, Marianna Hill's weak masochistic boyfriend "Dennis" in the perverse The Baby, the lecherous "Sergeant Ward" in the crummy, The Bat People, hi-jacker "Wilson" in Airport '77, Dracula's modern-day descendant "Michael Drake" in the hilariously horrible Dracula's Dog, sleazy bounty hunter "Harry Iverson" in The Glove, hard-nosed "District Attorney Dino Fulgoni" in the splendidly gritty The Onion Field, oddball cemetery caretaker "Sam" in the offbeat zombie doozy Dead & Buried, ramrod Russian sports official "Nicoli Koloff" in Rocky IV and the stern "Dr. Hoffman" in Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers. Pataki had a recurring role on the TV series, The Amazing Spider-Man; he also appeared in the two spin-off theatrical pictures, Spider-Man (1970) and Spider-Man Strikes Back. 

Michael directed two low-budget 70s drive-in exploitation features, the potently unnerving horror shocker, Mansion of the Doomed, and the amusingly silly soft-core comedy musical, Cinderella.