Actor / Episode Trivia

[Lagavulin]

Thought it would be fun to share some inside information on the actors, writers, etc that people have discovered. I have searched through my bookshelves for my copy of the Portable Curmudgeon in which I am sure that E.G was quoted for something or other... but must have lent it out. I believe in a footnote the editor commented on E.G.'s initials; a quick internet search confirmed my memory:

E. G. Marshall…the actor has told everyone that the initials E.G…….stand for…”Everyone’s Guess”…his real name is Edda Gunther Marshall.
(source: http://www.pearyperry.com/ponderpoints/july26.htm)

[vgarci]

Hmmmm. I'd go by the initials, too! ;)

[hamlet2003]

As a sidenote, I discovered that book [u:5d05d36048]A Portable Curmudgeon[/u:5d05d36048] year's ago and quoted from it often and endlessly. I think the world will always need a few good curmudgeons. Glad to hear E.G. Marshall is quoted with the best of them.

[hamlet2003]

What movies have you seen starring E.G. Marshall? The only three that stand out for me are "Twelve Angry Men," a great jury drama also starring Henry Fonda, "Creepshow" in which poor E.G. plays a germ-o-phobe who gets consumed by roaches (a scene that made my flesh crawl), and "Superman 2" where he plays the President of the U.S. and was forced to obey villian General Zod. Even worse, the producers forced him to wear one of the worst toupees in motion picture history!

[Lagavulin]

[img:b626a2485b]http://k12edtech.mb.ca/cbsrmt/EGMarshall.jpg[/img:b626a2485b]

E.G. Marshall's bio is online here and includes his filmography and notable television appearances.

http://us.imdb.com/Name?Marshall,+E.G.

I've looked up a few of the other CBSRMT actors/actresses and found some interesting stuff.

cheers
Miles

[brian1984_2001]

I remember him from such films as Christmas Vacation where he played Clark Griswold's father and the ABC TV Miniseries "The Tommyknockers" based on the Stephen King novel where he played the grandfather of the boy who makes his brother disappear.

[Texas]

He played a penny pinching (not a sin within itself) old grandfather who gets murdered by his grandsons and daughter in this based-on-a-true-story movie...it was unnerving to watch:

http://us.imdb.com/Title?0092590

[Michael]

I went to Kent State University and we had a movie that told the story of the killing of 4 students by the National Guard. EG was the narrator this incredible low budget documantary. I will see if I can find the exact name of the film. I was a student orientation instructor and I must have seen it 20 times. It becamp a cult classic on campus with people saying the lines with EG.

[brian1984_2001]

I remember this movie, I think. Didn't it incorporate some mysterious "agitators" to explain why the "riot" took place on the normally peaceful Kent State Campus.

What a sad situation that was -- for both the students and the guardsmen.

I went to the University of Toledo --- another school from the great MAC.

[Lagavulin]

Alexander Scourby read the entire Bible onto cassette.

He was in the following episodes:
80 24-Apr-74 The Hand
131 12-Aug-74 The Beach of Falesa
142 02-Sep-74 The Return of Anatole Chevenic
196 05-Jan-75 The Many Names of Death
364 20-Oct-75 Never in This World
409 06-Jan-76 Is He Living or Is He Dead?
681 12-Jul-77 The Colonel Chabert
813 10-Apr-78 Childish Laughter
1275 11-Jan-82 Les Miserables, Part I:
1276 12-Jan-82 Les Miserables, Part II:
1277 13-Jan-82 Les Miserables, Part III:
1278 14-Jan-82 Les Miserables, Part IV:
1279 15-Jan-82 Les Miserables, Part V:

[Lagavulin]

Arnold Moss was a very diverse actor and appeared in small roles in TV throughout the 50s and 60s

Here are three showing his diverse talent

"Star Trek" (1966) playing "Anton Karidian" in episode: "The Conscience of the King" (episode # 1.13) 8 December 1966

"Monkees, The" (1966) playing "Vidaru" in episode: "Everywhere a Shiek, Shiek" (episode # 2.3) 25 September 1967

"Daniel Boone" (1964) playing "Anthony Bedloe" in episode: "Take the Southbound Stage" (episode # 3.27) 6 April 1967

(source: http://us.imdb.com/Name?Moss,+Arnold)

He was in the following episodes
18 23-Jan-74 And Nothing But the Truth
98 29-May-74 The Phantom Lullaby
118 15-Jul-74 The Canterville Ghost
208 20-Jan-75 The Precious Killer
333 27-Aug-75 The Eavesdropper
473 22-Apr-76 The Green-Eyed Monster
524 24-Sep-76 Queen of the Deadly Night
605 22-Feb-77 Jane Eyre
699 24-Aug-77 The Adv of Don Quixote
708 13-Sep-77 The Way to Dusty Death
755 16-Dec-77 The Ghost With a Knife
877 09-Aug-78 The Versegy Case
1171 13-Mar-81 The Heel of Achilles
1207 05-Jun-81 Matched Pair for Murder
1242 14-Sep-81 Flower of Evil
1294 24-Feb-82 Invaders from Atlantis

[Lagavulin]

[img:162fa4788d]http://k12edtech.mb.ca/cbsrmt/JerryStiller.jpg[/img:162fa4788d]

Jerry Stiller,
Father of Ben Stiller,
actor that portrayed Frank Costanza in the Sienfeld series.

Appeared in Episode 0132 13-Aug-74 "The Frontiers of Fear"

http://us.imdb.com/Name?Stiller,+Jerry

[Lagavulin]

[img:fdb34d2128]http://k12edtech.mb.ca/cbsrmt/KeirDullea.jpg[/img:fdb34d2128]

Keir Dullea is probably best known for his role as astronaut Dave Bowman in Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey"

Dave: Open the Pod Bay Doors, Hal
HAL: I'm sorry, Dave. I can't do that.

Keir Dullea starred in the following episodes
197 06-Jan-75 The Premature Burial
213 27-Jan-75 A Coffin for the Devil
241 18-Mar-75 It's Murder, Mr Lincoln
1304 19-Mar-82 The Magic Stick of Manitu
1309 31-Mar-82 I Am the Killer

[Lagavulin]

[img:7d93422325]http://k12edtech.mb.ca/cbsrmt/KimHunter1.jpg[/img:7d93422325]
[img:7d93422325]http://k12edtech.mb.ca/cbsrmt/KimHunter2.jpg[/img:7d93422325]

Kim Hunter appeared as Dr. Zira in the Planet of the Apes movies beside Roddy McDowel, who was, of course, Cornelius.

Kim Hunter starred in the following episodes
4 09-Jan-74 Lost Dog
39 16-Feb-74 A Lady Never Loses Her Head
67 02-Apr-74 The Pharoah's Curse
90 13-May-74 The Lodger
110 25-Jun-74 Where Fear Begins
145 09-Sep-74 Double Exposure
178 25-Nov-74 The Sighting
218 04-Feb-75 Death in the Stars
375 07-Nov-75 Killing Valley
553 23-Nov-76 The Awakening
619 18-Mar-77 Little Green Death
622 24-Mar-77 The Gift of Doom
713 22-Sep-77 The Plan
786 21-Feb-78 A Phantom Yesterday
904 11-Oct-78 The Man in Black
966 28-Mar-79 Waste Paper
1156 06-Feb-81 Is Venice Drowning?
1193 04-May-81 Garden of the Moon
1233 14-Aug-81 Lovely People
1296 01-Mar-82 The Blue Sedan
1346 02-Jul-82 Bring Back My Body
1361 17-Aug-82 Famous Last Words

[Lagavulin]

http://k12edtech.mb.ca/cbsrmt/MargaretHamilton.jpg[/img:53c1720260]

Margaret Hamilton was the Wicked Witch of the West in the Wizard of Oz with Judy Garland.

Margaret Hamilton appeared in Episode 0371 30-Oct-75 Triptych for a Witch.

Once a witch, always a witch [img]smile.gif

[Texas]

[img:140622a723]http://www.dacre.org/stills/webh/Heaf681.jpg[/img:140622a723]

Gordon Heath - (Played in a bunch of episodes, including "Sophia and the Pilgrim" and "The house and the brain")

[img:140622a723]http://www.whatsaiththescripture.com/The.Holy.Bible/Bible.Graphics/Alexander.Scourby2.JPG[/img:140622a723]

Alexander Scourby (pictured above on the site which makes available the Bible reading he's done...Scourby sounds like a wonderful man)


[img:140622a723]http://sitepreview.netfirms.com/ossie/photos-01.jpg[/img:140622a723]

(Ruby Dee with her husband Ossie Davis...Ms. Dee acted in the 1974 RMT episode "Cold Storage" alongside Bryanna Raeburn and...)

[img:140622a723]http://www.howard.edu/collegefinearts/theatre/Roxie.jpg[/img:140622a723]

(...Roxie Roker (She of "The Jeffersons" fame. In the "Cold Storage" show, Ms. Dee played a black slave, while Ms. Roker played a white "debutante" of sorts). The late Ms. Roker, in answer to "how many RMT actors/actresses are the parents of rock and roll stars?", was the mother of...)

[img:140622a723]http://www.cdshakedown.com/03_2001/kravitz_cover2.jpg[/img:140622a723]

[Lagavulin]

[img:5ea81f4b3d]http://k12edtech.mb.ca/cbsrmt/RosemaryHarris.jpg[/img:5ea81f4b3d]

Rosemary Harris played Aunt May Reilly Parker in the new Spiderman movie and will appear in the sequal due for release in 2004.

Rosemary Harris appeared in Episode 0217 03-Feb-75 Death on Skis

[Lagavulin]

In the Internet Movie Database I have skimmed through the listings for every actor listed in the CBSRMT LOG and was amazed at how many have appeared in Law and Order episodes.

I am compiling a listing of all the actors and actresses with links to their listings on the IMDB.COM website. It's fun to flip through them and see what else the CBSRMT alumni have done.

I have posted the list of links at my web site. It's not pretty, but it's functional and all links have been verified.

http://k12edtech.mb.ca/cbsrmt/cbsrmttalentlinks.htm

Feel free to copy, save, distribute, etc.

cheers
Miles

[Lagavulin]

[img:315d490152]http://k12edtech.mb.ca/cbsrmt/22m.jpg[/img:315d490152]
The gorgeous Morgan Fairchild, of Falcon Crest fame, at the tender age of 26-27 appeared in several episodes:

443 05-Mar-76 The Infernal Triangle
472 21-Apr-76 The Love Song of Death
531 07-Oct-76 Pool of Fear
596 07-Feb-77 I Pronounce You Dead
617 15-Mar-77 The Shining Man
627 01-Apr-77 You Bet Your Life

[Michael]

I did a little checking and the name of the Kent State movie that EG appeared in was originally enough-“Kent State-May, 1970”. For those of you that have a real desire to see it, you can purchase it at the website below.
http://www.buyindies.com/listings/8/5/AIMS-8568.html

For those of you that would like to learn more about the events of KSU and May 4, 1970 here is a link to an informational website. I will tell you in advance that much of the information comes from the point of view of Alan Canfora, one of the students wounded during the shooting. I have met Alan (as well as several other students who were shot and the parents of two of the student who were killed), and must warn you that his version of what happened may not be the most unbiased.
http://www.may4.org/index.html

Let me know what you think.

[Texas]

[img:4f94a7f3c0]http://www.broadwaytovegas.com/MSeldes.jpg[/img:4f94a7f3c0]

Marian Seldes

[brian1984_2001]

I did a research project on this as an undergrad for Ohio History. I have a few opinions on what actually happened and what triggered it. It wasn't Richard Nixon. It wasn't Jim Rhodes. It wasn't the students and it wasn't the guardsmen.

It was the times. Hippies turned into the Yippies of Jerry Rubin and Abbie Hoffman. "Peace and Love" became "Burn baby, Burn." The country was tired of violence in the name of peace. Pressure was building at all levels of society.

While some of those students wanted to protest what they felt was an expansion of an unjust war, most were just spectators. They were tired of their friends dying in an undeclared war.

What most people don't know about the National Guardsmen was that they had just come off a long tour of duty protecting coal trucks going into Youngstown during a wildcat trucker strike. They had been shot at by snipers and generally abused. They were tired, stressed and overworked.

All those things combined caused the deaths at Kent State --- an unlikely place considering the violence that took place just 90 minutes south at Ohio State and four hours east at Columbia. It was sad and it was wrong and we should not forget what happened there (or at Jackson State University in NC just days later). But we should not blame anybody.

I'll stop prostelyzing now. I just hate it when people with an agenda use this unfortunate tragedy to abuse Richard Nixon and Jim Rhodes (like this guy did on his board). There were plenty of reasons to dislike both men. There's no reason to make them up.

For those of you who don't know Ohio, Jim Rhodes was our longest serving Governor, having served 16 years. His callous attitude in the aftermath led to his defeat in his race for the U.S. Senate in 1970.

[Michael]

Brian, I commend you on your knowledge of the situation. My own extensive research in the subject agrees with your opinions. As I said in my origional post I have met Alan and can tell you that he is very biased in his opinions. Unlike most of the victims of May 4th he was very aggressive in his taunting of the guard. He was not someone who just happened to be crossing the commons when the Guard opened fire. Having spoken with many of the other students I can tell you that his point of veiw does not reflect the majoriy of them. I think Dean Kahler (who was paralyzed by the bullet the stuck him in the back) speaks for the majority when he says "I had one bad day in all of my time at KSU"

[Lagavulin]

[img:4561bef728]http://k12edtech.mb.ca/cbsrmt/CaseyKasem.jpg[/img:4561bef728]

The unmistakable voice of Casey Kasem can be heard in

Episode 0160
A Scaffold for Two
October 14, 1974

[Lagavulin]

[img:1def4d8dc0]http://www.k12edtech.mb.ca/cbsrmt/mccambridge.jpg[/img:1def4d8dc0]Mercedes McCambridge won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for her rolein "All the King's Men"

Mercedes also provided the voice for Pazuzu in the movie The Exorcist. According to the director commentary on the DVD she went out of her way to destroy her voice, smoking dozens of packages of cigarettes every day, screaming, and getting sick in order to create the deep throaty wheezing gravely phlegmy voice of satan that came out of that cute little Linda Blair.

fan mail can be sent to:

Mercedes McCambridge
2500 Torrey Pines #1203
La Jolla, CA 92037

[hamlet2003]

Lois Nettleton, who plays the lead in [b:514cc67616]Honeymoon with Death [/b:514cc67616](Jan. 11, 1974) also starred in the third season Twilight Zone Episode "Midnight Sun."

[img:514cc67616]http://leapinbass.com/zone/picture_pages/tz_pictures_03/tz075-03.jpg[/img:514cc67616]

[img:514cc67616]http://leapinbass.com/zone/picture_pages/tz_pictures_03/tz075-02.jpg[/img:514cc67616]

She was married to writer Jean Shepherd for eight years.

[brian1984_2001]

That is interesting about Lois Nettleton. I've seen that episode of "The Twilight Zone" several times. I never realized who that was. There is a photo out there of her recording CBSRMT in the studio.

I think if you watch a lot of those sixties and seventies sitcoms, you're going to see a lot of cbsrmt performers with bit parts. TV Land used to be good for an episode of Adam 12 or Emergency. Now they'd rather run McGyver.

I'm not good at the pasting and posting of pictures. But somebody ought to be able to find a picture of the late Kim Hunter as Dr. Zira, the chimpanzee psychologist in "The Planet of the Apes".

[Texas]

[img:5846910e54]http://www.thetzsite.com/images/season1/024_18.jpg[/img:5846910e54]

Speaking of the "Twilight Zone", above is the star of the RMT episode "Dream Woman", Chris McCarthy, playing "Professor Walter Jameson" in an excellent TWZ episode my daughter and I saw on July 4th entitled (appropriately enough) "Long live Walter Jameson".

[img:5846910e54]http://themave.com/Powell/cc/doubwed-jail.jpg[/img:5846910e54]

And pictured on the left (I believe) is the star of RMT episodes "The ruby lamp", "High Caqueta", "Life Blood", "Love me, don't leave me" and one of my current SOTWs "Time and again"...John Beal.

[hamlet2003]

Thanks for the John Beal photo. Here is one of [b:420db32044]Mason Adams [/b:420db32044]who was in a ton of CBSRMT episodes including The Demon Spirit (Oct 31, 1974), Murder Will Out (Jul 3, 1975) and The Chinaman Button (Jan 20, 1974). He had such a distinctive voice that he was instantly recognizable whether doing radio drama or commercials (remember the old Smucker's commerical: "With a name like Smuckers...it's gotta be good.") I particularly remember him as a regular on the TV series "Lou Grant."
[img:420db32044]http://www.mirrorrepertoryco.com/pics/tovuh.jpg[/img:420db32044]

[hamlet2003]

[img:9075f6d6e8]http://www.tactnyc.org/images/hds/phecht.jpg[/img:9075f6d6e8]
Guess who? It's actor [b:9075f6d6e8]Paul Hecht [/b:9075f6d6e8]who was in such episodes as [b:9075f6d6e8]A Second Chance[/b:9075f6d6e8](Jul 3, 1981), [b:9075f6d6e8]The Captain of the Polestar [/b:9075f6d6e8](Oct 6, 1978), [b:9075f6d6e8]The Walking Dead [/b:9075f6d6e8](May 20, 1976 ) and one of my favorites: [b:9075f6d6e8] The Real Printer's Devil [/b:9075f6d6e8](Jul 17, 1974).
[img:9075f6d6e8]http://rmt.radio.shows.org/images/phecht.jpg[/img:9075f6d6e8]
He still works steadily on TV and in movies.

[Lagavulin]

Janet Waldo appears in:

0155 The Bride that Wasn't
0343 The Ghost Plane

was the voice of Judy Jetson in the original cartoon series, the 1990 movie. She also lent her voice to many cartoon productions including The Smurfs (Hogatha), Yogi Bear's girlfriend Cindy, Scooby Doo and Scrappy Do, Jabberjaw, Tom & Jerry, Hong Kong Phooey, Josie and the ¤¤¤¤¤cats (she was the voice of Josie), and even receltly was in King of the Hill.

[Lagavulin]

I posted earlier that there were a number of names of stars in the CBSRMT series that have also appeared in one of the Law and Order series. Here's the list:

Jerry Orbach, of course, is one of the lead characters

Don Scardino and
Kristoffer Tabori both receive credit as directors

The following are people who have made guest appearances, some more than once:
- Jordan Charney
- Joan Copeland
- Augusta Dabney
- Keir Dullea
- Joyce Gordon
- Martha Greenhouse
- Jennifer Harmon
- Cynthia Harris
- Paul Hecht
- Bob Kaliban
- Robert Lansing
- Heather MacRae
- Roberta Maxwell
- Rosemary Murphy
- Glynnis O'Connor
- Lenka Peterson
- Anne Pitoniak
- William Prince
- Lee Richardson
- Tony Roberts
- Norman Rose
- Marian Seldes
- Carole Shelley
- Lois Smith
- Frances Sternhagen
- Jerry Stiller
- Allen Swift
- Roy Thinnes
- Michael Tolan

[vgarci]

Lag,
Great information!

[Lagavulin]

[img:6a5113491a]http://www.k12edtech.mb.ca/cbsrmt/CelestHolm.jpg[/img:6a5113491a]
[img:6a5113491a]http://www.k12edtech.mb.ca/cbsrmt/CelestHolmyoung.jpg[/img:6a5113491a]

Celeste Holm (far right, in her youth) is a veteran Broadway stage actress and screen star having won a Supporting Actress Oscar and a Golden Globe for her part in 'Gentlemen's Agreement.' She was nominated two more times for Academy Awards in the 'Come to the Stable' and 'All About Eve'.

[Lagavulin]

[img:313caf5819]http://www.k12edtech.mb.ca/cbsrmt/JulieNewmartoday.jpg[/img:313caf5819]
Pretty amazing for someone approaching 70!!

[img:313caf5819]http://www.k12edtech.mb.ca/cbsrmt/julienewmar.jpg[/img:313caf5819]

[img:313caf5819]http://www.k12edtech.mb.ca/cbsrmt/catsmilepink.jpg[/img:313caf5819]

The internet is rife with web sites about the attractive Julie Newmar. She was the original Cat Woman in the campy Batman television series.

[Lagavulin]

[img:eb0024c12a]http://www.k12edtech.mb.ca/cbsrmt/robertamaxwell-left.jpg[/img:eb0024c12a]

Roberta Maxwell, on the left, appearing with Susan Sarandon in "Dead Man Walking" has also appeared in

[b:eb0024c12a]The Postman[/b:eb0024c12a] with Kevin Costner
[b:eb0024c12a]Philadelphia[/b:eb0024c12a] with Tom Hanks and Denzel Washington
[b:eb0024c12a]Psycho III[/b:eb0024c12a] with Anthony Perkins
[b:eb0024c12a]Popeye[/b:eb0024c12a] with Robin Williams

[Texas]

Don Scardino, in 1980, got one of the top billings (under Al Pacino) in a very weird, disturbing film called "Cruising" (http://us.imdb.com/Title?0080569) that roused the ire of the gay community. (Probably because a lot of what it portrayed was true, unfortunately.)

I had the (mis)fortune of working as a theatre usher when this came out. It had some very graphic murder scenes.

[hamlet2003]

Actually, Texas, I believe it was just the opposite. "Cruising" was seen by many people to be a complete Hollywood sterotype that took a tabloid approach to the gay community just to sell tickets. Even Al Pacino has since admitted the film was inappropriate and unrealistic.

[Lagavulin]

Texas

After your post I went on a mad hunt for a picture of Don Scardino with absolutely no luck, but I did turn up a lot of reviews and press about the movie Cruising... Like they say about press... even bad press is good press, and that film certainly had a lot of press on both sides. I'm thinking of popping out tonight and renting it partly to make up my own mind about it, and partly to see if I can get a good screen capture of Don Scardino!

hahaha

cheers
Miles

[Texas]

Brian,

No offense, because I think you're right about the perception but...even Paul Sorvino's character in the film tried to tell Al Pacino's that the men he was about to see were in a subculture, not representative of all gay men. I've seen many reviews of that movie where that's acknowledged.

Unfortunately, I think there was a lot of realism in that film that people simply didn't want to admit to. Also, if one had a stereotypical image of gay men as being all effeminate, designer types that myth was quickly dispelled in the opening scenes of the film. The first murder scene featured two guys who appeared to not fit that category whatsoever, with the murder victim looking (and talking, frankly) as though he could have been Charles Atlas' twin brother or a defensive lineman for the New York Jets football team.

Sorry to go off on that tangent.

[Texas]

Lagavulin,

Sorry I didn't put this in the response above but:

- I hope you can find a DVD or version with as much footage as possible. About 40 minutes was cut from this movie which, according to the reviewers, might have made it a less confusing, tremendous film. Even if you can't, be prepared for some grim scenes particularly at the beginning.

- Talk about MUSIC. William "The Exorcist" Friedkin must have been a fan of setting the tone much like "The Twilight Zone/RMT". I used to have the "Cruising" soundtrack. EVERY song on that record was moody and ominous, from early 80s new wave (Mink DeVille's recording of "It's so easy") to "cult status" singers (John Hiatt's "Spy boy") to punk (Germs/G.I. "Lion's share", sung by a singer who was rumored to be gay himself) to funk "(Parliament/funkadelic's Jerome Brailey leading the band "Mutiny" singing a dance tune called "Lump" (as in "Lump, lump can you move your rump, can you cut the funk?")). The latter tune, even though Brailey sang in a high voice things about the "Georgia penitentiary", was apparently a dig at his former (?) Parliament band mate George McClinton.

The music that wasn't part of the movie soundtrack was equally chilling. It's a shame Friedkin took so much heat for this film...the man is really talented.

[Lagavulin]

If this isn't an indication of my CBSRMT addiction, I don't know what is. I tracked down the movie [b:b2410784d8]'Cruising' [/b:b2410784d8]with Al Pacino and Don Scardino. I managed to grab a few screen captures from the old VHS tape from the video store of Don Scardino.

[img:b2410784d8]http://www.k12edtech.mb.ca/cbsrmt/donscardino1.jpg[/img:b2410784d8]
[img:b2410784d8]http://www.k12edtech.mb.ca/cbsrmt/donscardino2.jpg[/img:b2410784d8]
[b:b2410784d8]<Scardino> Damn these new ketchup bottles... always comes out so slow!! Can you give me a hand with this Al?
<Pacino> Sure Don. Hold the bottle while I whack the bottom.
[/b:b2410784d8][img:b2410784d8]http://www.k12edtech.mb.ca/cbsrmt/donscardino3.jpg[/img:b2410784d8]
[b:b2410784d8]<Scardino> Not too hard, Al. AWWWW, my shirt!![/b:b2410784d8]

[Lagavulin]

These are pictures of Leon Janney appearing as Dr. Richard Nemur in the 1969 movie CHARLIE, adapted from the book Flowers for Algernon.

[img:576e89778d]http://www.k12edtech.mb.ca/cbsrmt/leonjanney1.jpg[/img:576e89778d]
[img:576e89778d]http://www.k12edtech.mb.ca/cbsrmt/leonjanney2.jpg[/img:576e89778d]

[Lagavulin]

Unmistakable voice appearing in so many episodes. These pictures are screen caps from the 1974 version of The Great Gatsby staring Robert Redford as Gatsby and a young Sam Waterson (another Law and Order regular) as Nick Carraway.
"Howard was in both the 1945 and 1974 film productions of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, portraying the gas station owner Wilson in the former and the gambler Meyer Wolfsheim in the latter"
- http://www.lolitablue.com/dasilva

[img:97e3e13ca8]http://www.k12edtech.mb.ca/cbsrmt/howarddasilva1.jpg[/img:97e3e13ca8]
[img:97e3e13ca8]http://www.k12edtech.mb.ca/cbsrmt/howarddasilva2.jpg[/img:97e3e13ca8]

[Lagavulin]

Michael Tolan appeared as Lazarus in the 1965 film, "The Greatest Story Ever Told". Unlike Lazarus though, he didn't need divine intervention to revive his career... he has appeared in a steady stream of films right up until 1990.

[img:ab76073094]http://www.k12edtech.mb.ca/cbsrmt/michaeltolan1.jpg[/img:ab76073094]
Michael Tolan, center

[img:ab76073094]http://www.k12edtech.mb.ca/cbsrmt/michaeltolan2.jpg[/img:ab76073094]

[Texas]

Way to capture (and caption) those Scardino images above, Lagavulin.

Here's the star of this week's current SOTW "The imp in the bottle", the late (died of leukemia around 1977) William Redfield. Does anyone remember the 60s sci-fi drive-in flick "Fantastic Voyage"? He was in that. The pictures below, mostly, are from a weird musical (that, mercifiully, may have not gotten far) from the creator of "Hair"...this one with Redfield was called "Dude".:

[img:6f21aadae8]http://www.orlok.com/hair/holding/photographs/dude/images/WilliamRedfield.jpg[/img:6f21aadae8]

[img:6f21aadae8]http://www.orlok.com/hair/holding/photographs/dude/images/Duderehearsal.jpg[/img:6f21aadae8]

Redfield's the guy singing with the lady at his side and the dwarf behind him.

[img:6f21aadae8]http://www.orlok.com/hair/holding/photographs/dude/images/Dude1.jpg[/img:6f21aadae8]

Redfield's in the middle, wired up like a puppet with his woman.

[img:6f21aadae8]http://www.larryblyden.net/watersm.jpg[/img:6f21aadae8]

Redfield's at far right.

[Texas]

At lunch, I think I just heard Paul Hecht doing a radio commercial for lendingtree.com.

Nice to hear an "active" RMT voice, if this is the case.

[brian1984_2001]

That was an interesting page about Howard DaSilva. I had always pictured him as a hulking, jolly figure with thick, black hair.

His biography, it must be pointed out, contains an error. DaSilva was not blacklisted by the House Un-American Activities Committee. He was blacklisted by Hollywood. Hollywood blacklisted its own. The government did not create or maintain a blacklist.

there are political factions out there that like to keep alive the myth of the government stomping out artistic expression during that time. It helps maintain the myth of Joe McCarthey as a monster hell-bent on destroying Hollywood. (No one is more over-rated for their impact on history than the pitiful McCarthey).

I'm sorry for the history lesson. But it's my mission in life to correct commonly misunderstood things like the myth of the Blacklist.

[Lagavulin]

thanks for the info Brian. I've been enjoying tracking down the faces to put to the voices I've come to know so well! I was very surprised to find a Howard daSilva web site.

cheers
Miles

[Texas]

The star of "Her long blonde hair", Lloyd Battista. (He was also the hit man in "The suicide club", and was in several other RMTs like "Has anyone seen my shadow?" and "Time out of mind". For some reason hearing his voice I always pictured him as Dennis the Menace's father in the old comic strip...don't know why.)

(Pondering at the left side of this picture: "Hmmm...we certainly didn't do THIS stuff in the RMT.")
[img:699a1bcf3e]http://www.inthedarkproductions.com/dave3.jpg[/img:699a1bcf3e]

[img:699a1bcf3e]http://www.katywallin.com/santiara/images/santiara_armand_sm.jpg[/img:699a1bcf3e]

This short bio of him mentions his RMT appearances. (http://www.shrinkingviolet.tv/battista.htm)
[img:699a1bcf3e]http://www.shrinkingviolet.tv/images/head_L-lloyd.jpg[/img:699a1bcf3e]

[Lagavulin]

Actor Russell Horton appeared in a handfull of mostly unmemorable films in small roles. His largest billing was in the Steven King film, "Cat's Eye", a collection of suspense/thriller shorts strung together into a feature length film with the use of a cat. Russell Horton appears in the first segment with James Woods and is billed as Mr. Milquetoast (http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=milquetoast)

If you haven't seen the film yet, it's very similar in nature to CBSRMT and other programs of the genre.

[img:16b42dbdc2]http://k12edtech.mb.ca/cbsrmt/russellhorton1.jpg[/img:16b42dbdc2][img:16b42dbdc2]http://k12edtech.mb.ca/cbsrmt/russellhorton2.jpg[/img:16b42dbdc2]

[brian1984_2001]

Miles,

You have done an excellent job tracking down these images. I am a fan of "Law and Order" (It and "The Simpsons" are the only tv I watch). So I'll have to pay close attention to the credits to see some of those people.

It's not hard to see that CBSRMT was a repository for 1970s up-and-comers like Fairchild and Orbach and 1950s and 1960s has-beens like DaSilva and Nettleton.

Some were Broadway people supplementing their income like Redfield and Celeste Holm.

These actors received $75 a show -- not exactly bad money in the 1970s.

[brian1984_2001]

Miles,

You have done an excellent job tracking down these images. I am a fan of "Law and Order" (It and "The Simpsons" are the only tv I watch). So I'll have to pay close attention to the credits to see some of those people.

It's not hard to see that CBSRMT was a repository for 1970s up-and-comers like Fairchild and Orbach and 1950s and 1960s has-beens like DaSilva and Nettleton.

Some were Broadway people supplementing their income like Redfield and Celeste Holm.

These actors received $75 a show -- not exactly bad money in the 1970s.

[Texas]

Mandel Kramer (from "The Edge of Night" TV show...he was in too many RMTs to list):

[img:f29a871322]http://members.fortunecity.com/edge_fan/marceau.jpg[/img:f29a871322]

[Lagavulin]

Tex -

you're coming up with some great pics, from original sources too, it looks like!

I was surprised when I went hunting through soap opera fan sites that there weren't more pictures of characters. The only soap I really watch is the British "Coronation Street" and it's not hard to find sites with pictures of virtually every major character, and many of the minor ones. So man yof the CBSRMT voices were also on soap operas. Until the studios start releasing old episodes of the soaps on video, it's probably unlikely that we'll see pics of some of them. Mind you... I never thought I'd find all the CBSRMT episodes online either!

cheers
Miles

[brian1984_2001]

I wanted to contribute to this forum, so here are a few (very) trivial things I've learned through a little research:

Jackson Beck was the voice of Bluto in the Popeye cartoons.

Kevin McCarthey and Augusta Dabney were husband and wife.

Anne Pitoniak was Mildred Potter in the dreadful "After MASH"

Russell Horton was the voice of Toucan Sam and the Trix Rabbit.

Carmen Matthews guest starred as the fiesty and lusty Colonel Lillian Rayburn in MASH.

Michael Tolan starred in a few episodes of the short-lived, but memorable show called "Ghost Story" later renamed "Circle of Fear"

CBSRMT lost a few performers along the way:

William Redfield died on August 17, 1976. His last episode aired on October 7, 1976.

Staats Cotsworth died on February 17, 1979.

Nat Polen died on May 3, 1981.

Ian Martin also died in 1981.

[Texas]

[img:71248d71d2]http://www.soap-news.com/atwt/20/polen.jpg[/img:71248d71d2]

Nat Polen

(Just heard him in an excellent RMT "The memory killers". Polen was a choice to play erudite, Ph.D. scientist types, and did so in at least three RMT episodes "The Breaking point" (a brain surgeon), "Deadly Darling Delores" (a DoD scientist) and "I thought I saw a shadow" (another scientist working for the DoD).)

[Texas]

<a href="http://www.burkedevlin.freewebsites.com/01burke/wilburstrake.jpg" target="_blank">

Joseph Julian

If Larry Haines sounded like a working class Brooklyn guy on the edge of a nervous breakdown, Julian (Played the uncle on the RMT's "The horror within" and the guy who testified against his former mobster friend in "Deadline for death") sounded like the Brooklyn guy's crusty old uncle.

He apparently died in 1982, but not before writing[url=http://www.flyingturkeys.com/lsw/lswhistory.html]"This was radio"</a>.

[Texas]

[img:664068a187]http://www.burkedevlin.freewebsites.com/01burke/wilburstrake.jpg[/img:664068a187]

Joseph Julian

If Larry Haines sounded like a working class Brooklyn guy on the edge of a nervous breakdown, Julian (Played the uncle on the RMT's "The horror within" and the guy who testified against his former mobster friend in "Deadline for death") sounded like the Brooklyn guy's crusty old uncle.

He apparently died in 1982, but not before writing"This was radio" (http://www.flyingturkeys.com/lsw/lswhistory.html).

[Texas]

June Gable

[img:82824ccfdb]http://www.hollywoodplayhouse.com/images/showlogos/596.jpg[/img:82824ccfdb]

She's the sweet-voiced woman who plays Joe Julian's love interest in the current SOTW "Deadline for death".

She also apparently was a regular on "Barney Miller", and plays an agent (David Schwimmer's character's agent, I think) in the sitcom "Friends".

[Texas]

Jada Rowland

[img:9750d08605]http://members.aol.com/jadarowland/resources/jada4926.jpg[/img:9750d08605]

She has just as sweet of a voice as Gable. She's also an accomplished portrait artist and painter (http://members.aol.com/jadarowland/).

[brian1984_2001]

I'm thinking about e-mailing her to see if she would consent to an interview. She started on episode 20 "Speak of the Devil" in 1974 and finished with 1357 "Mind Over Mind" in July 1982. In between, she did about 50 episodes.

I'd like to do oral histories with some of the perfomers. I think they could offer some insight into some of these shows.

[vgarci]

Brian,
Here, here! I think such a dialogue would be terrific!!!

[dave]

i second the motion

this thread is fantastic!
you sure are a hard worker. thanks.

[brian1984_2001]

Kurt has fired off an e-mail to her. We are awaiting her reply.

[brian1984_2001]

She doesn't seem interested in any kind of dialogue with us.

She has moved on in her life to an entirely different profession. Perhaps she is making a clean break with her past.

[Texas]

Yep...I still hope we get someone to visit here someday. So many of the RMT actors have left us, but many of the regulars are still here:

Marian Seldes
Tony Roberts
Jada Rowland
Don Scardino
Russel Horton
Lloyd Battista
Paul Hecht
Norman Rose (though he's getting "up there" in years)

I had, apparently, the wrong Michael Tolan. (Thought the guy who directed "Radio" was he.) I think this is the correct actor...he has a list of TV and movie appearances as long as a coal train:

[img:faa679a9c8]http://www.tvtome.com/images/people/9/0/82-16116-sm.jpg[/img:faa679a9c8]

[Lagavulin]

I was watching a movie on TV today called "Journey to the Far Side of the Sun", aka "Doppleganger" starring a quite attractive Lynn Loring. Just for fun, I looked her up on the internet and found a CBSRMT connection. She has appeared in
0133 Journey Into Terror
0137 Having a Horrible Time

[img:97fefe9d33]http://www.k12edtech.mb.ca/cbsrmt/lynnloring.jpg[/img:97fefe9d33]
Lynn Loring
[img:97fefe9d33]http://www.k12edtech.mb.ca/cbsrmt/lynnloringroythinnes.jpg[/img:97fefe9d33]
Lynne Loring and Roy Thinnes

[brian1984_2001]

[quote:2e1243917e]So many of the RMT actors have left us, but many of the regulars are still here:
[/quote:2e1243917e]

Robert Dryden died just before Christmas.

[doublex]

Several RMT actors appeared in Woody Allen's films-

Jackson Beck- narrator of Take The Money And Run
Russell Horton- appeared in Annie Hall
Norman Rose- The Front and Radio Days
Ralph Bell- Zelig

and of course, Tony Roberts, who appeared in quite a few-
Play It Again Sam, Annie Hall, Stardust Memories, A Midsummer's Night Comedy, Hannah and Her Sisters, and Radio Days.

If I recall, William Redfield was taping RMT's even when he was fatally ill with cancer. He has a particularly compelling role in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

[Texas]

[img:79f99d0400]http://www.howardweinberg.net/press/SidandBob.jpg[/img:79f99d0400]

On the right side of this picture, next to his actor friend Sid Raymond, is a well-tanned RMT alumnus [b:79f99d0400]Bob Kaliban[/b:79f99d0400] (whose voice sounded like he could have been Russel Horton's brother...the two were interesting to listen to together in the RMT's "If I can't have you" and "A god named Smith").

[Lagavulin]

I watched Gone With the Wind tonight and in the opening credits saw a name that rang a bell:

Victor Jory as Jonas Wilkerson, the overseer

[img:6c381609e4]http://k12edtech.mb.ca/cbsrmt/vicjory.jpg[/img:6c381609e4]

Sure enough... only in one episode though!

342. Sep 11, 1975 The Voice of Death Victor Jory

He was also the voice of Lamont Cranston / The Shadow.
There's a good biography of him here
HERE (http://movies.yahoo.com/shop?d=hc&amp;id=1800013598&amp;cf=biog&amp;intl=us)

[scarlson33]

I was watching an episode of Law and Order from the second season when I heard a voice I knew--it was Ralph Bell. He was playing a judge in Episode 34 of Law &amp; Order. I found his page on Internet Movie Database but there was no picture. I realize Ralph Bell has passed on, but it is still amazing to find one of the CBSRMT actors on film.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0068466/


Sonya

[Lagavulin]

see this previous post for more Law and Order connections:

http://www.cbsrmt.info/forum/viewtopic.php?p=3171#3171

[Lagavulin]

see this previous post for more Law and Order connections:

http://www.cbsrmt.info/forum/viewtopic.php?p=3171#3171

[Texas]

[img:0032c5b361]http://www.fansview.com/2002/awa/092702c251.jpg[/img:0032c5b361]

Anyone remember the RMT episode (which I'm listening to at work now) "The locked room" (740408) with Jack Grimes in one of his few menacing roles in the RMT? The younger woman in this episode (it was a dark one, IMO) was played by Corinne Orr, pictured above. Orr has done a lot of voice work, including playing "Snuggle", the little teddy bear with semi-menacing eyes in the commercials for Snuggle fabric softener. She's apparently also made her mark in later years with voices for Japanese "Anime" cartoons...

http://www.imdb.com/gallery/hh/0558618/Carmen_Mathews.jpg

In that same episode, Carmen Mathews played Orr's character's mother.

[Texas]

Looks like the new bbs format doesn't take images.

Nonetheless, here's a link to a picture of Alan Hewitt, who was the lead role in RMT's "Dead man's mountain" (he played the rich guy who wanted to buy the allegedly haunted mountain) and was the attorney in "Miracle in Sharon City" (a great RMT show).

http://www.aveleyman.com/ActorsH/P00007909.HTML

Hewitt was in several movies, including Disney's "The absent minded professor", and also for awhile played a detective in "My favorite martian". On radio, Hewitt always seemed to sound (in his regular voice) like he was trying to speak through clenched jaws, sounding erudite yet edgy.

[Texas]

http://twinpeak.club.fr/Fielding.jpg I don't know if this is the same actor (there's no other "William Griffis" in the imdb.com database) but here's a(n unfortunately blurred) screen capture on a french web site of "William Griffis".

If it's him, this is one of my favorite RMT actors. (He was the boat skipper "Ernie Chowders" in "The laughing maiden"...his best of many RMT performances, IMO. I also liked him as the kindly old train conductor in "Come fill my cup".)