In 1961, Ansara played the role of Miguel Alvarez in the film "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea", co-starring with Barbara Eden and Walter Pidgeon, who played the role of Admiral Harriman Nelson. Ansara later appeared in an episode of the television series "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea", playing the rebel sub commander Captain Ruiz in "Killers of the Deep" (1966). He also appeared in the episode "Hot Line" (broadcast on November 9, 1964) as a Soviet scientist who disarms a defective Soviet atomic satellite that has crashed off the coast of California and he appeared as Carl in the episode "Night Visitors" of the NBC anthology series "The Barbara Stanwyck Show".In 1962, he starred in a Broadway show with the silent film actor Ramon Novarro.