Vito Scotti appeared on four episodes of Gilligan's Island. He played two different characters. In So Sorry, My Island Now he plays the Jappanesse Solider. Latter on in the first season he is back but in a dream squence by all the castaways in Diogenes, Won't You Please Go Home. Next season he is back as Dr. Boris Balinkoff in The Friendly Physician. He is turned into a dog but somehow he returns in the next season as the same doctor in "Ring Around Gilligan". Each episode is a great one. Which is your favorite.

My fave was Diogenes Won't You Please Go Home.

Vito Scotti was a terrific actor, the kind that could always bring something of quality to whatever he worked in, whether there was an air of silliness, like in GI, or high drama, like in The Godfather.

All 4 of his GI episodes were good ones. I voted for "The Friendly Physician" because it was full of fantasy and required a really over-the-top performance. The fact that you can watch it and suspend your disbelief says a lot about the great job he did beyond the hokey accent and melodrama! :)

I totally agree, he was a great actor. I can't believe I didn't notice that was him in The Godfather! I'll have to see that movie again. ;)

I like Vito Scottie in both roles,he was a great actor but,if I have to choose my favorite is the japonese sailor with the sub in Sorry my island Now.

I have seen him on many other classic shows like Dick Van Dyke and Andy Griffith and Gunsmoke.

I'll have to go with the one where he is a Japanese sailor in "So sorry, my Island now!"

When I was younger, I actually thought he might have really been Japanese. :lol:

THE FRIENDLY PHYSICIAN (#66, 4/7/66)--it was an oddball depature for the series..not only did the castaways get OFF the island, but it was a comic spookfest with the right kind of music (and that creepy castle supposedly from the old Vincent Price 1961 flick THE PIT & THE PENDULUM--I think NO imAge crepped me out, without giving me nightmares but was still awesome, 'till the late Stanley Kubrick and Warner Bros,.'s EyES WIDE SHUT (1999) ad, saying...CRUISE............KIDMAN....KUBRICK as that spooky piano music chimes...(That and the EXORCIST, the HAUNTED MANSION music and a 1969-1970 McDOnald's spooky house ad...I had B&W TV back then..:))

Definitely "The Friendly Physician."
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I loved The Friendly Physician! :D