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Born Shalom Jaffe, he built one of Hollywood's most versatile character-acting careers: the title role in Gunga Din (1939) brought him an Academy Award nomination, and his performance as an aging criminal mastermind in the noir classic The Asphalt Jungle (1950) won him the Volpi Cup. He went on to appear in The Day the Earth Stood Still, Ben-Hur and Bedknobs and Broomsticks, and spent the mid-1960s as the gruff neurosurgeon Dr. David Zorba on the television drama Ben Casey, a role that earned him an Emmy nomination.