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name: "Donald Buka"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/donald-buka"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "17 August 1921"
died: "21 July 2009"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-20T01:10:44.826984+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Donald Buka

Actor. Born 17 August 1921 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. Died 21 July 2009.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 17 August 1921, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
- **Died:** 21 July 2009
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Buka, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5294091, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0119728/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/119380

## Biography

Donald Buka was an American actor. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, he began his career on the Broadway stage with appearances in *The Taming of the Shrew* (1940) and *Twelfth Night* (1940).

His film debut came as Joshua in *Watch on the Rhine* (1943). Subsequent film roles included *The Street with No Name* (1948), *Vendetta* (1950), *New Mexico* (1951), *Stolen Identity* (1953) and *Operation Eichmann* (1961). He also appeared in episodes of television series such as *Dragnet*, *Perry Mason*, *Ironside* and *The High Chaparral*.

Buka's later credits included *The Equalizer* (1985) and stage work into the 1980s.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, ibdb.com, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Watch on the Rhine* (1943), Fi1m 73, as Joshua — [page](https://film.one/film/watch-on-the-rhine.md)

## Complete filmography (19)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The Equalizer* (1985), series, as Ben Carrigan
- *Great Performances* (1971), series, as Mister Eagle
- *A Memory of Two Mondays* (1971), as Mister Eagle
- *Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.* (1964), series, as Captain Courtney
- *Shock Treatment* (1964), as Psychologist
- *Operation Eichmann* (1961), as David
- *Peter Loves Mary* (1960), series, as Prince of Taos
- *The Barbara Stanwyck Show* (1960), series, as Maj. Smith
- *Law of the Plainsman* (1959), series, as Roy Cameron
- *77 Sunset Strip* (1958), series, as Pierre Leclair, Tony Bowman
- *Perry Mason* (1957), series, as Clark
- *Alfred Hitchcock Presents* (1955), series, as The Man at the Door
- *Stolen Identity* (1953), as Toni Sponer
- *Dragnet* (1951), series, Actor
- *New Mexico* (1951), as Private Van Vechten
- *Vendetta* (1950), as Padrino the Bandit
- *Between Midnight and Dawn* (1950), as Ritchie Garris
- *The Street with No Name* (1948), as Shivvy
- *Watch on the Rhine* (1943), as Joshua — Fi1m 73, [page](https://film.one/film/watch-on-the-rhine.md)

## Gallery

- ![Donald Buka](https://film.one/media/person/1234396/gallery-8b332ea99e95.jpg) Donald Buka — unknown (Warner Bros.), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ad/Donald_Buka_in_Watch_on_the_Rhine_still.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![L. to R. : Faith Domergue, Donald Buka, and George Dolenz in Vendetta (1950) - publicity still (original image damaged, modified and cropped : see source)](https://film.one/media/person/1234396/gallery-ed6ef397687f.jpg) L. to R. : Faith Domergue, Donald Buka, and George Dolenz in Vendetta (1950) - publicity still (original image damaged, modified and cropped : see source) — unknown (RKO), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f3/Vendetta_%281950%29_1.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)

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