- Passed away on May 12, 1972, his wife's 30th birthday.
- His son, Stefan Ihnat (Stefan Andrew Ihnat), died at age 32. He was born on April 12, 1972, and died on July 27, 2004. He had battled diabetes from age 20. Sally Carter-Ihnat said, "Steve's gift for his 70th birthday is that he gets his boy back. Now they will know each other." Stefan is also interred at Westwood Memorial Park.
- Was a close friend of Edward Asner, who announced Ihnat's sudden death in Cannes on the Emmy telecast.
- His widow, Sally Carter-Ihnat, later married The Hollywood Squares (Daytime) (1965) TV host Peter Marshall.
- Moved to the United States in 1958 to pursue a career in acting and attended the Pasadena Playhouse. Although he enlisted in the Army and served a two-year hitch in Korea, he never became a US citizen.
- Buried in the prestigious Westwood Memorial Park, Los Angeles, CA. He is located in the Corridor of Memories near Marilyn Monroe.
- He and his wife, Sally Carter-Ihnat, had a son together. Sally also had a daughter from a previous marriage.
- Became hooked on acting when he played a child role in an amateur theatre near Lynden, Ontario.
- Raised on a farm in Lynden, Ontario, Canada. His family settled there after fleeing his native Czechoslovakia in 1939, when he was five. Ihnat, his mother, father and two young boys from other families left Czechoslovakia three days before Prague was closed.
- SPOILER: His character Garth of Izar was intended to appear in DC Comics' "Star Trek" series at the end of a story arc during which Garth stabs Captain Kirk in the stomach, being unmasked as the attacker in issue 55. However, the artist was forced to depict Garth as a bald-headed old man in a dark gray uniform to avoid using Ihnat's likeness in the comic.
- His parents migrated from his native Czechoslovakia. Moved to Hollywood in 1958 from Canada.
- In 1960 Ihnat, then a USA Army private stationed in South Korea, won second prize in the Republic of Korea poetry contest for his entry entitled "Toil in the Night" while stationed at Hq. and Hq. Co., U.S. Army Port Inchon.
- Ice-eyed, brown-haired, smooth-looking villain, mostly on US TV.
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