‘Seinfeld’ actor who played mohel found dead in Ore.
Authorities in Oregon said Monday that they had located the remains of actor Charles Levin, best known for his one-off portrayal of a mohel in “Seinfeld” and a recurring role in the series “Alice” in the 1980s.
Levin, 70, was found on Saturday several hundred feet from his car, which contained the remains of his pug,
Boo Bear, in an “incredibly remote” area near Grants Pass in southwestern Oregon, said Warren Hensman, the city’s public safety chief.
The case is not being treated as a homicide or suicide, he said.
The car was off an “almost impassable road” and had been “disabled due to terrain,” the Grants Pass Department of Public Safety said in a statement.
The actor, who had lived in Grants Pass, had not been heard from since June 28, said his son, Jesse, adding that his father’s last phone call was to a family friend in the area. “It was breaking up,” he said. “It wasn’t very clear what he was saying, but he did seem to sound confused and lost.”
Jesse Levin said he had filed a missing-person report after his father’s landlord noticed that he had not moved out of his home on July 1 as agreed. The actor had been set to move from one part of Grants Pass to another, his son said.
The authorities searched for the older Levin for over a week, narrowing their search on Friday through an emergency cellphone ping. The next day, an Illinois Valley resident spotted Levin’s car.
Hensman said that a small compact vehicle was not meant for such terrain.