During the 1950s, Ansara appeared in several episodes of "Alfred Hitchcock Presents". He appeared in a 1951 episode of "The Lone Ranger" titled "Trouble at Black Rock." In 1953, he appeared as Pindarus in Joseph Mankiewicz' big screen adaptation of "Julius Caesar", with Marlon Brando, James Mason and John Gielgud. However, the popular television series "Broken Arrow" (1956), wherein he played the lead role of Cochise, raised Ansara's profile and made him a household name. While making the series, the 20th Century-Fox publicity department arranged a date between Ansara and actress Barbara Eden. The two later married and Ansara guest-starred on Eden's sitcom "I Dream of Jeannie" as the Blue Djinn. He also played King Kamehameha in the "Jeannie" episode "The Battle of Waikīkī", and in the final season, he played Major Biff Jellico in the episode "My Sister, the Home Wrecker". Ansara and Eden divorced in 1974. The couple had one son together, actor Matthew Ansara, who died on June 25, 2001, of a heroin overdose.