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by Ed_Jones_XLIX2 | created - 26 Sep 2018 | updated - 26 Sep 2018 | PublicOne of the famous blacklisted actors during the McCarthy era Ned Glass started his career in motion pictures in 1937 as an MGM contract player. Best remembered as playing comedic roles, he had a long career supporting stars like John Houseman, Jackie Gleason, James Coburn, George Kennedy, Cary Grant, Audrey Hepburn, Bob Hope, and Moe Howard of The Three Stooges fame. (A close friend) His most memorable roles came from 1960 thru 1980. Which of these selections do you best remember him for? After voting, please discuss here.
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1. King Creole (1958)
PG | 116 min | Crime, Drama, Musical
A troubled youth's singing sets New Orleans rockin'. With a sweet girl to love him and nightclubbers cheering, it seems he will shake off his past and head for the top. But will a mobster and his man-trap moll snare him in a life of crime?
Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Elvis Presley, Carolyn Jones, Walter Matthau, Dolores Hart
Votes: 6,424
Hotel Desk Clerk (uncredited)
2. The Defiant Ones (1958)
Approved | 96 min | Crime, Drama
Two chained-together escaped convicts, White and Black, must learn to get along in order to elude capture.
Director: Stanley Kramer | Stars: Tony Curtis, Sidney Poitier, Cara Williams, Theodore Bikel
Votes: 17,821
Doctor (uncredited)
3. West Side Story (1961)
Approved | 153 min | Crime, Drama, Musical
Two youngsters from rival New York City gangs fall in love, but tensions between their respective friends build toward tragedy.
Directors: Jerome Robbins, Robert Wise | Stars: Natalie Wood, George Chakiris, Richard Beymer, Russ Tamblyn
Votes: 121,160 | Gross: $43.66M
Doc
4. The Five Pennies (1959)
Approved | 117 min | Biography, Drama, Music
Danny Kaye cuts loose with his trademark musical clowning. Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong plays his horn and croons in that famed gargling-granite voice. Big Band icons Bob Crosby, Ray Anthony and Shelly Manne join the fun.
Director: Melville Shavelson | Stars: Danny Kaye, Barbara Bel Geddes, Louis Armstrong, Harry Guardino
Votes: 2,120
Murray (uncredited)
5. North by Northwest (1959)
Approved | 136 min | Action, Adventure, Mystery
A New York City advertising executive goes on the run after being mistaken for a government agent by a group of foreign spies, and falls for a woman whose loyalties he begins to doubt.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason, Jessie Royce Landis
Votes: 346,046 | Gross: $13.28M
Ticket Seller (uncredited)
6.
Perry Mason (1957–1966)
Episode:
The Case of the Watery Witness
(1959)
TV-PG | 52 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Sleazy detective Fred Bushmiller questions movie actress Lorna Thomas whether she gave birth 25 years earlier to a daughter who was put up for adoption. George Clark pushes his wife Betty to see if she is Lorna's long-lost daughter.
Director: Richard Kinon | Stars: Raymond Burr, Barbara Hale, William Hopper, William Talman
Votes: 311
Episode of Perry Mason.......Mr. Smith
7. The Jayhawkers! (1959)
Approved | 100 min | Western
Before the U.S. Civil War rebel leader Luke Darcy sees himself as leader of a new independent Republic of Kansas but the military governor sends an ex-raider to capture Darcy.
Director: Melvin Frank | Stars: Jeff Chandler, Fess Parker, Nicole Maurey, Henry Silva
Votes: 747
Storekeeper
8.
Death Valley Days (1952–1970)
Episode:
Queen of the High Graders
(1960)
TV-PG | 25 min | Western
Mine owner Jim Barker sends for detective Romer Maxwell suspecting high grade ore is being smuggled out. Romer tests several theories then focuses on Kate Hanson but complicates matters by falling in love with her daughter Sarah.
Director: Jesse Hibbs | Stars: Larry Pennell, Virginia Christine, Lane Bradford, Wanda Shannon
Votes: 24
Death Valley Days.........Kape
9. Peter Gunn (1958–1961)
TV-14 | 30 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Peter Gunn is a private detective with a knack for finding trouble. His cases often mean he runs into the shadiest characters, most vicious thugs and the most powerful crime bosses. Cool and resourceful, he always gets the guilty party.
Stars: Craig Stevens, Herschel Bernardi, Lola Albright, Bill Chadney
Votes: 1,651
Several Sylvester / Natie / Scooter / Max Walston
10. The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
TV-PG | 51 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Ordinary people find themselves in extraordinarily astounding situations, which they each try to solve in a remarkable manner.
Stars: Rod Serling, Robert McCord, Jay Overholts, James Turley
Votes: 93,103
Fridge Repairman / Pawnshop Man
11. Experiment in Terror (1962)
Not Rated | 123 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
A man with an asthmatic voice telephones and assaults clerk Kelly Sherwood at home and coerces her into helping him steal a large sum from her bank.
Director: Blake Edwards | Stars: Glenn Ford, Lee Remick, Stefanie Powers, Roy Poole
Votes: 6,632
Popcorn
12. Kid Galahad (1962)
Approved | 96 min | Drama, Musical, Sport
After completing his military service, Walter Gulick takes a job as a sparring partner at a gym, the owner of which sees potential in Walter as a professional fighter and takes him under his wing.
Director: Phil Karlson | Stars: Elvis Presley, Gig Young, Lola Albright, Joan Blackman
Votes: 3,111 | Gross: $1.80M
Max Lieberman
13. The Untouchables (1959–1963)
50 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Special Agent Eliot Ness and his elite team of incorruptable agents battle organized crime in 1930s Chicago.
Stars: Robert Stack, Walter Winchell, Nicholas Georgiade, Paul Picerni
Votes: 3,075
4 appearances
14. Who's Got the Action? (1962)
Not Rated | 93 min | Comedy
A hunch horse-player's marriage is threatened by his betting ways; in desperation, his wife becomes his bookie.
Director: Daniel Mann | Stars: Dean Martin, Lana Turner, Eddie Albert, Walter Matthau
Votes: 482 | Gross: $3.49M
Baldy
15. Charade (1963)
Passed | 113 min | Comedy, Mystery, Romance
Romance and suspense ensue in Paris as a woman is pursued by several men who want a fortune her murdered husband had stolen. Whom can she trust?
Director: Stanley Donen | Stars: Cary Grant, Audrey Hepburn, Walter Matthau, James Coburn
Votes: 85,544 | Gross: $13.47M
Leopold W. Gideon
16. Ben Casey (1961–1966)
TV-MA | 60 min | Drama
Gritty realistic hospital drama featuring manly Dr. Casey against the medical establishment, at first, under the watchful eye of Dr. Zorba, and later under the thumb of Chief of Surgery Dr. Freeland.
Stars: Vince Edwards, Sam Jaffe, Harry Landers, Jeanne Bates
Votes: 645
Dr. Abraham Goodman
17. Please Don't Eat the Daisies (1965–1967)
30 min | Comedy, Family
The Nashes of Ridgemont, New York are an unusual suburban family. Jim Nash, a college English professor, and his wife Joan, a newspaper columnist, live with their four sons, a tolerant family maid, and a huge sheep dog.
Stars: Pat Crowley, Mark Miller, Kim Tyler, Brian Nash
Votes: 439
Mr. Hastings
18. Blindfold (1966)
Approved | 102 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
A New York psychiatrist is solicited by government agents in connection with a former patient of his who also happens to be a scientist wanted by certain foreign powers.
Director: Philip Dunne | Stars: Rock Hudson, Claudia Cardinale, Jack Warden, Guy Stockwell
Votes: 1,060
Lippy
19. Blackbeard's Ghost (1968)
Approved | 106 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy
An unassuming track coach accidentally invokes the spirit of a notorious pirate long believed dead, and who must now team up to lay the pirate to rest, and save a local hotel from a mobster.
Director: Robert Stevenson | Stars: Peter Ustinov, Dean Jones, Suzanne Pleshette, Elsa Lanchester
Votes: 6,751 | Gross: $10.90M
Teller
20. Never a Dull Moment (1968)
G | 99 min | Comedy, Crime, Family
Actor Jack Albany, who plays gangsters on TV, is mistaken for notorious hit-man Ace, and is hired by mob boss Leo Smooth to pull a heist, but Jack must find a way out of it.
Director: Jerry Paris | Stars: Dick Van Dyke, Edward G. Robinson, Dorothy Provine, Henry Silva
Votes: 793
Rinzy Tobreski
21. The Love Bug (1969)
G | 108 min | Comedy, Family, Sport
Down-on-his-luck race car driver Jim Douglas teams up with a little VW Bug that has a mind of it's own, not realizing Herbie's worth until a sneaky rival plots to steal him.
Director: Robert Stevenson | Stars: Dean Jones, Michele Lee, David Tomlinson, Buddy Hackett
Votes: 17,531 | Gross: $5.09M
Toll Booth Attendant
22. Gunsmoke (1955–1975)
TV-PG | 60 min | Western
Marshal Matt Dillon keeps the peace in rough-and-tumble Dodge City.
Stars: James Arness, Milburn Stone, Amanda Blake, Ken Curtis
Votes: 8,743
9 Episodes
23. Get Smart (1965–1970)
TV-G | 25 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Maxwell Smart, a highly intellectual but bumbling spy working for the CONTROL agency, battles the evil forces of rival spy agency KAOS with the help of his competent partner Agent 99.
Stars: Don Adams, Barbara Feldon, Edward Platt, Robert Karvelas
Votes: 13,783
Freddie the Forger
24. Julia (1968–1971)
TV-G | 30 min | Comedy
Julia Baker is a young African-American woman working as a nurse. She is also a widow (her husband died in Vietnam) trying to raise a young son alone.
Stars: Diahann Carroll, Lloyd Nolan, Marc Copage, Michael Link
Votes: 687
Sol Cooper
25. Lady Sings the Blues (1972)
R | 144 min | Biography, Drama, Music
The story of the troubled life and career of the legendary Jazz singer, Billie Holiday.
Director: Sidney J. Furie | Stars: Diana Ross, Billy Dee Williams, Richard Pryor, James T. Callahan
Votes: 4,843 | Gross: $6.03M
The Agent
26. Save the Tiger (1973)
R | 100 min | Drama
A disillusioned war veteran has two days to let go of his shaken morals if he wants his small fashion company to survive.
Director: John G. Avildsen | Stars: Jack Lemmon, Jack Gilford, Laurie Heineman, Norman Burton
Votes: 5,609 | Gross: $2.33M
Sid Fivush
27. Bridget Loves Bernie (1972–1973)
30 min | Comedy
The daily struggles of two newlyweds: rich Catholic Bridget and Jewish cabbie Bernie.
Stars: David Birney, Meredith Baxter, Harold J. Stone, Bibi Osterwald
Votes: 239
Uncle 'Moe' Plotnick
28. Barney Miller (1975–1982)
TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy, Drama
The Captain of the NYPD 12th Precinct and his staff handle the various local troubles and characters that come into the squad room.
Stars: Hal Linden, Abe Vigoda, Max Gail, Steve Landesberg
Votes: 7,370
Stanley Golden / Becker the Exterminator
29.
Cagney & Lacey (1981–1988)
Episode:
I'll Be Home for Christmas
(1982)
TV-PG | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Christmas Eve at the 14th finds everyone eager to get home for the holidays until an escaped criminal dressed as Santa complicates matters.
Director: Burt Brinckerhoff | Stars: Tyne Daly, Sharon Gless, Al Waxman, Carl Lumbly
Votes: 66
Cagney and Lacey episode.......Pickpocket
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