Obscure Actors that we rememeber from our childhood

[Inept]

Myrna Loy and William Powell may have had the best chemistry of a couple ever. Even better than Tracy & Hepburn.

Now that you mention it ......

 

[Inept]

I remember that series as a kid. It's funny though, when I think of Boston Blackie, James Gleason always comes to mind.

That is strange. Maybe you're thinking of inspector Faraday?

 

[ChiroDoc]

That is strange. Maybe you're thinking of inspector Faraday?

No, it wasn't Richard Lane as Faraday in Meet Boston Blackie (1941).

Gleason played a number of detectives-- even a comic one in Arsenic and Old Lace (1944). So it was probably one of those roles where I got him confused in my mind as Boston Blackie.

 

[Beezer]

Victoria Principal.

Here's her in a duet with Andy Gibb. Love this song and their version together!

 

[Paladin1950]

Gene Barry/Gale Gordon

 

[Paladin1950]

Hank Patterson/Frank Cady

 

[Paladin1950]

Efrem Zimbalist Jr.

 

[Paladin1950]

George Reeves

 

[Paladin1950]

Steve Reeves

 

[Inept]

No, it wasn't Richard Lane as Faraday in Meet Boston Blackie (1941).

Gleason played a number of detectives-- even a comic one in Arsenic and Old Lace (1944). So it was probably one of those roles where I got him confused in my mind as Boston Blackie.

It wasn't too difficult to confuse many back then. The men all had a moustache and a fedora.

 

[Inept]

Scatman Crothers started out as a band leader in Akron, Ohio ...

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Scatman, Redd Foxx, Desmond Wilson and Billy Eckstein:

 

[debodun]

Skip Young. Had the recurring role of Wally Plumstead on "The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet".

 

[debodun]

Burt Mustin. Usually portrayed a cantankerous or befuddled senior citizen. Seen occasionally in early episodes of "Leave It to Beaver" as Gus the fireman, but turned up in many 1950s and 60s TV shows as a guest character.

 

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Comedian and actor, Orson Bean. Showed up an almost every game show of the 1950s & 60s. Played an oddball character on "The Twilight Zone" episode "Mr. Bevis".

 

[MACKTEXAS]

Ida Lupino in "The Food of the Gods," 1976

 

[Inept]

Ida Lupino...

I haven't heard that name in a long time.

 

[ChiroDoc]

Scatman, Redd Foxx, Desmond Wilson and Billy Eckstein:

What a great routine! That must have been one of the few Sanford and Son's I missed.

 

[Paladin1950]

I haven't heard that name in a long time.

She was in a classic episode of the original Twilight Zone, The Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine.

 

[Inept]

She was in a classic episode of the original Twilight Zone, The Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine.

I'll have a look at it today:

 

[Inept]

Martin Balsam

 

[Paladin1950]

Martin Balsam

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In Psycho, the Janet Leigh murder scene in the shower, is considered one of the most shocking murder scenes in movie history. People keep forgetting the murder of Detective Arbogast on the stairs. That scene has to rank near #2 in movie history.

 

[Pepper]

Ida Lupino wasn't obscure, she was a star. Many people mentioned in this thread were stars, not obscure at all.

 

[Inept]

In Psycho, the Janet Leigh murder scene in the shower, is considered one of the most shocking murder scenes in movie history. People keep forgetting the murder of Detective Arbogast on the stairs. That scene has to rank near #2 in movie history.

I agree one thousand percent! The camera angle at the top of the stairs as his mother darts out of her room ...... Jesus! "Near #2" for sure"!

 

[debodun]

Frank McGrath. Likely best remembered for playing the cook, Charlie Wooster, on "Wagon Train".

 

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Keye Luke. Acted in a series of Charlie Chan movies and guested an many TV series.