Lloyd Wolfe Bochner (July 29, 1924 – October 29, 2005) was a Canadian actor. He appeared in many Canadian and Hollywood productions between the 1950s and 1990s, including the films Point Blank (1967), The Detective (1968), The Young Runaways (1968), Ulzana's Raid (1972) and Satan's School for Girls (1973), and the television prime time soap opera Dynasty (1981–82). Bochner also voiced Mayor Hamilton Hill in Batman: The Animated Series (1992–95) and its follow-up The New Batman Adventures (1997–99).

At the age of 11, Bochner began his acting career on Ontario radio programs.^[1] He went on to garner two Liberty Awards, the highest acting honour in Canada, for his work in Canadian film and theatre. Bochner served in the Royal Canadian Navy during World War II.^[2][3] In 1946, he made his debut with The Mapleville Story^[4] and in 1951 he moved to New York City where he appeared in early television series such as One Man's Family and Kraft Television Theatre.^[5] In 1960, ABC called with a starring role in the series Hong Kong with co-star Rod Taylor. Faced against NBC's Wagon Train, then one of the most highly rated programs on the air, Hong Kong ended with the 26th episode. In 1961, he guest-starred in The Americans, an American Civil War drama about how the conflict divided families, starring Darryl Hickman.

A few years later, Bochner appeared in one of his most famous roles, that of a cryptographer attempting to decipher an alien text in the classic 1962 Twilight Zone episode "To Serve Man",^[6] a part he spoofed years later in the comedy The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear.^[7] In 1962 and 1963, he appeared in two episodes of the CBS anthology series, GE True, hosted by Jack Webb; he portrayed the part of Stoughton in "Code Name: Christopher, Part I"^[8] and Captain Ian Stuart in "Commando".

From 1963 to 1964, Bochner was a member of the repertory cast of NBC's The Richard Boone Show.^[9] In 1964, he guest-starred in the Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea season-one episode "The Fear-Makers". Later that year, he appeared as murderer Eric Pollard in the Perry Mason episode, "The Case of the Latent Lover".^[8] In 1965, he guest-starred on ABC's Western series The Legend of Jesse James starring Christopher Jones in the title role. Two years later, he appeared on the ABC military-Western Custer starring Wayne Maunder in the title role. He appeared twice on the long-running television Western The Virginian in the 1960s.^[10] Bochner is also memorably smooth and malicious as the gangster Carter against Lee Marvin in John Boorman's seminal 1960s film noir Point Blank.^[6] In 1971, Bochner appeared as Abel Wilks in "The Men From Shiloh" (rebranded name for The Virginian) in the episode titled "The Town Killer."

Over the years, Bochner continued to portray a variety of roles in television and film, from a warlock on Bewitched to a homosexual doctor coming out at middle age in the 1977 television movie Terraces,^[11] to Pia Zadora's abusive screenwriter husband in the camp classic film The Lonely Lady.^[12] In 1960, he starred in an adaptation of A. J. Cronin's The Citadel along with Ann Blyth. His son Paul said he "almost always played a suave, handsome, wealthy villain."

Bochner was born in Toronto, Ontario, to a middle-class Jewish family, the son of Frieda (née Kenen) and Charles Abraham Bochner.^[13] His uncle was Isaiah L. Kenen, founder of the American Zionist Committee for Public Affairs.^[24]

In 1998, he co-founded the Committee to End Violence, a panel designed to study the impact violent images had on culture.^[6] He was also active in the Association of Canadian Radio and Television Artists and was a licensed amateur radio operator.^[25]

Bochner was married to Ruth Roher Bochner (1925–2017), a concert pianist, until his death from cancer on October 29, 2005, at the age of 81 at home in Santa Monica, California.^[26][27] Bochner and his wife had three children — Hart Bochner (actor, who also provided voices for Batman), Paul (director and animator) and Johanna.^[28]

Bochner received an ACTRA Award in 2004.^[29]