Emerging from a New York upbringing as the son of an AP correspondent and a surgeon, he left formal schooling early, apprenticed with sculptor Daniel Chester French, and after a stint painting portraits turned to the stage, debuting in 1925 and joining a traveling repertory troupe that led to work with Cecil B. DeMille’s stock company and later John Ford’s ensemble. Recognized for a resonant barit… Read more
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Known for The Ten Commandments 1956 The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance 1962 Stagecoach 1939 Bride of Frankenstein 1935 Series ★ 7.9 The Munsters 1964
★ 7.4 The Secret of NIMH 1982
Great Owl (voice) Series ★ 7.5 Bonanza 1959
Jedediah Milbank Series ★ 7.7 Kung Fu 1972
Rev. Serenity Johnson Series ★ 7.4 Starsky & Hutch 1975
The Professor Series ★ 7 Wonder Woman 1975
Harlow Gault Series ★ 7.9 Night Gallery 1970
★ 7.4 Captains Courageous 1937
Long Jack ★ 7.1 The Hound of the Baskervilles 1939
Barryman ★ 7.2 Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films 2014
Lord Elijah Grisbane (archive footage) (uncredited) Series ★ 7.9 The Alfred Hitchcock Hour 1962
Gavin Revere Series ★ 7.4 The Green Hornet 1966
James Rancourt / The Scarf Series ★ 7.9 Emergency! 1972
Jonas Larson Series ★ 6.9 The Beverly Hillbillies 1962
★ 6.9 Man Hunt 1941
Mr. Jones ★ 6.7 Cheyenne Autumn 1964
Jeff Blair ★ 7.2 The Last Hurrah 1958
Amos Force Series ★ 6.7 Gunsmoke 1955
Ephraim Hunt Series ★ 7.2 McCloud 1970
★ 7.1 Les Misérables 1935
Enjolras ★ 6.6 Fallen Angel 1945
Professor Madley Series ★ 7.1 The Rifleman 1958
Series ★ 7.3 Have Gun, Will Travel 1957
Series ★ 6.8 Fame 1982
Danny Amatullo ★ 6.6 Jesse James 1939
Bob Ford ★ 6.7 The Night Strangler 1973
Llewellyn Crossbinder Series ★ 7 The Lucy Show 1962
Guzman ★ 6.5 Drums Along the Mohawk 1939
Caldwell ★ 6.8 The Prisoner of Shark Island 1936
Sergeant Rankin ★ 6.5 The Egyptian 1954
Grave Robber Series ★ 7.1 Wanted: Dead or Alive 1958
Amos McKenna ★ 6.7 The Hurricane 1937
Guard Captain Series ★ 6.8 Land of the Giants 1968
Egor Crull ★ 6.4 House of the Long Shadows 1983
Elijah Grisbane Series ★ 7 Daniel Boone 1964
Zack Pike ★ 6.3 The Last Tycoon 1976
Tour Guide Series ★ 7.2 77 Sunset Strip 1958
★ 6.3 The Return of Frank James 1940
Bob Ford ★ 6.5 Blood and Sand 1941
Nacional ★ 6.8 Alexander's Ragtime Band 1938
Speakeasy Doorman Series ★ 7 Vega$ 1978
★ 6.4 Munster, Go Home! 1966
Cruikshank ★ 6.5 The Sign of the Cross 1932
Christian Martyr / Gladiator Leader / Voice in Coliseum Mob (uncredited) ★ 6.5 The Story of Temple Drake 1933
Courtroom Spectator (uncredited) Series ★ 6.6 Wagon Train 1957
Park Cleatus ★ 6.1 Peggy Sue Got Married 1986
Leo Series ★ 6.8 The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp 1955
Don Ignacio Vasquez ★ 6.4 Swamp Water 1941
Jesse Wick ★ 6.4 Five Came Back 1939
Mr. Crimp ★ 6.3 The True Story of Jesse James 1957
Rev. Jethro Bailey Series ★ 6.7 Thriller 1960
Jed Carta ★ 6.1 The Sentinel 1977
Fr. Francis Matthew Halloran ★ 6.6 Dimples 1936
Richards ★ 6.4 The Last Gangster 1937
Casper ★ 6.5 Reunion in France 1942
Ulrich Windler, Head of Paris Gestapo ★ 6.1 House of Frankenstein 1944
Dracula / Baron Latos ★ 6.2 The Patsy 1964
Bruce Alden Series ★ 6.2 The Big Valley 1965
Elias Brown ★ 6.3 Frontier Marshal 1939
Ben Carter ★ 6.2 The Black Sleep 1956
Bohemund ★ 6.2 Mary of Scotland 1936
Rizzio ★ 6.1 Cleopatra 1934
Roman Citizen/Party Guest/Soldier (uncredited) (voice) ★ 6.2 Captain Kidd 1945
Orange Povey Series ★ 6.2 Cheyenne 1955
★ 6.2 The Private Affairs of Bel Ami 1947
Charles Forestier ★ 6.2 Thank You, Mr. Moto 1937
Pereira Series ★ 6.2 Love, American Style 1969
Old George Pomerantz ★ 6 The Proud Rebel 1958
Traveling Salesman ★ 6 Casanova's Big Night 1954
Foressi ★ 6 Western Union 1941
Doc Murdoch ★ 6 Of Human Hearts 1938
President Lincoln ★ 6 Ali Baba Goes to Town 1937
Ishak ★ 6 The Garden of Allah 1936
Sand Diviner ★ 5.9 To the Last Man 1933
Pete Garon (uncredited) ★ 5.9 Crowhaven Farm 1970
Nate Cheever ★ 5.9 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 1960
Slave Catcher ★ 5.8 Stranger on Horseback 1955
Col. Buck Streeter ★ 5.8 The Kentuckian 1955
Ziby Fletcher ★ 5.6 Mr. Moto's Last Warning 1939
Danforth / Richard Burke ★ 5.5 The Good Guys and the Bad Guys 1969
Ticker ★ 5.4 Crash! 1976
Dr. Welsey Edwards ★ 5.4 Revenge of the Zombies 1943
Dr. Max Heinrich von Altermann ★ 5.2 Jungle Woman 1944
Dr. Sigmund Walters (archive footage / uncredited) ★ 5.8 The Monster Club 1981
R.Chetwynd-Hayes, Writer ★ 5.2 Bikini Drive-In 1995
★ 5.3 C-Man 1949
Doc Spencer ★ 5.2 Terror in the Wax Museum 1973
Claude Dupree ★ 5.5 Bluebeard 1944
Gaston Morrell ★ 5.8 Boxcar Bertha 1972
H. Buckram Sartoris ★ 5 Mary, Mary, Bloody Mary 1975
The Man ★ 4.9 The Trouble with Girls 1969
Mr. Drewcolt ★ 5.2 Captive Wild Woman 1943
Dr. Sigmund Walters ★ 5.3 The Nesting 1981
Col. LeBrun ★ 5 Invisible Invaders 1959
Dr. Karol Noymann ★ 4.2 Buried Alive 1989
Jacob Julian ★ 5 Voodoo Man 1944
Toby ★ 4.4 The Story of Mankind 1957
Khufu ★ 4.5 Dr. Terror's Gallery of Horrors 1967
Narrator / Tristram Halbin ★ 3.9 Evil Spawn 1987
Dr. Emil Zeitman ★ 5.6 The Ice Pirates 1984
Supreme Commander ★ 5.5 House of Dracula 1945
Count Dracula ★ 4.7 The House of Seven Corpses 1974
Edgar Price ★ 4 The Unearthly 1957
Dr. Charles Conway ★ 3.3 Bigfoot 1970
Jasper B. Hawks ★ 4.3 Blood of Dracula's Castle 1969
George ★ 4.5 Satan's Cheerleaders 1977
The Bum ★ 3.5 Blood Legacy 1971
Christopher Dean ★ 3.2 Blood of Ghastly Horror 1967
Dr. Howard Vanard ★ 3.8 The Tomb 1986
Andoheb ★ 4.6 The Bees 1978
Dr. Sigmund Hummel ★ 3.4 Frankenstein Island 1981
Dr. Frankenstein ★ 4 Terror in the Midnight Sun 1959
Narrator (US Re-Edit) ★ 4.6 Myra Breckinridge 1970
Surgeon ★ 3.7 Vampire Hookers 1978
Richmond Reed ★ 5 Night of the Dark Full Moon 1972
Charlie Towman ★ 3.1 Boogeyman II 1983
Dr. Warren (archive footage) ★ 4.9 Monster in the Closet 1986
Old Joe Shempter ★ 3.9 Star Slammer 1986
The Justice ★ 4.1 Billy the Kid Versus Dracula 1966
Count Dracula ★ 4.9 The Boogey Man 1980
Dr. Warren ★ 3.2 Horror of the Blood Monsters 1970
Dr. Rynning ★ 3.6 The Astro-Zombies 1968
Dr. DeMarco ★ 2.7 Red Zone Cuba 1966
Mr. Wilson ★ 3.5 The Incredible Petrified World 1959
Prof. Millard Wyman ★ 2.8 Hillbillys in a Haunted House 1967
Dr. Himmel ★ 3.6 Jack-O 1995
Walter Machen ★ 4.8 Shock Waves 1977
Captain ★ 3.7 Evils of the Night 1985
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