Otto Felix (December 31, 1942 – December 13, 2008) was a motion picture and television actor, acting teacher and still photographer.
Raised in Pennsylvania, and a graduate of Fishburne Military School, Waynesboro, Virginia, then he served in the U.S. Army, and worked as a disc jockey in Florida, before beginning an acting career. Felix was cast in over 350 TV commercials after arriving in Hollywood in the early 1970s.
He played the mellow cop in the Cheech and Chong feature motion picture Up in Smoke (1978).
In his later life Otto Felix was an acting teacher based in Hollywood, California. He specialized in actors just getting a start in the fields of film and television, acting at his Film Actors Shop that also served as the office for his efforts on behalf of H.A.A.P.I. - Handicapped Artists, Performers & Partners, Inc. that he founded.
As a screenwriter, he received a "story by" credit on South of Heaven, West of Hell (2000) a movie western directed by Dwight Yoakam.
Felix authored several books of poems, still photographs and drawings. As a still photographer he shot the cover for Dwight Yoakam's first album Guitars, Cadillacs, Etc., Etc. (1986). His photographs appeared in Time, People, Life, BAM, L.A. Weekly, Billboard, Drama Logue, Variety, and Photographer. He won the Golden Boot Award for Best Country Album and The American Photographers Association Award for best Black & White in 1989 & 99.
Felix died unexpectedly on the 13th December 2008 after a short illness, with a diagnosis of amyloidosis.
2008
as Older Customer
2001
as 'Eden' Camera Assistant
1990
as Dr. Morgan
1984
as Deputy
1984
as Judge Huntfield
1984
as Resident (uncredited)
1984
as Resident
1984
as Lonny Frost
1982
as Officer Thomas
1982
as Harve
1981
as Asst. Director
1981
1979
as Man in Bar
1978
as Soldier #2
1978
as Motorcycle Cop
1978
as Tom
1977
as Mating Game Announcer
1976
as Hotel Policeman