Alfred Hitchcock Presents - "Cheap Is Cheap" - 01:05 am Wednesday, June 10 on WJLP MeTV

Dennis Day (Actor) .. Alexander Gifford

Born: May 21, 1916
Died: May 22, 1988

Trivia: Irish Tenor Dennis Day is best known for the 25 years he spent working with Jack Benny, where he played the dim-bulbed but loquacious teenager who punctuated his lines with an enthusiastic "Gee, Mr. Benny." Day also appeared on the radio and on television, where at one point he had his own show. In addition, Day played in several films between 1940 and 1976. He got his start singing on Varieties, a CBS radio program.

Alice Backes (Actor) .. Jennifer

Born: May 17, 1923

Trivia: American actress Alice Backes has played supporting roles on stage, screen, radio, and primarily television (where she has played over 100 roles) since 1946.

Fred Essler (Actor) .. Arthur

Born: January 01, 1895
Died: January 01, 1973

Gage Clarke (Actor) .. Doctor

Born: January 01, 1899
Died: January 01, 1964

Trivia: Character actor Gage Clarke came to television (and then movies) after spending considerable time on-stage during the 1930s and 1940s. In addition to anthology series including Lux Video Theatre and Kraft Theatre, his list of small-screen credits included roles on Mr. Peepers and appearances in multiple episodes of Maverick and Gunsmoke (where he had the recurring role of Mr. Botkin). With his heavyset build, graying hair, and dignified bearing and diction, he was often cast as judges and clergymen later in his career, including a meaty role in Paul Landres' underrated horror opus The Return of Dracula (1958), in which he played the reverend who helps identify the threat of vampirism that has descended on a small California town. He also cut a memorable dramatic figure in the Twilight Zone episode "One More Pallbearer", as the minister who refuses to be cowed into abandoning his principles by megalomaniac millionaire Joseph Wiseman. Clarke stood in well with the Disney organization, which used him in Pollyanna (1960), The Absent-Minded Professor (1961) and The Monkey's Uncle (1965), the latter released the year after his death. His other feature film work included major roles in Mervyn LeRoy's The Bad Seed (1956) and Robert Wise's I Want to Live.

Jack Lambert (Actor) .. Hood

Born: January 01, 1920
Died: January 01, 1976

Trivia: When diehard American movie fans speak of Jack Lambert, they are generally not referring to the British character actor of that name, but of the New York-born supporting player who was most often seen in gangster roles. Following Broadway experience, Lambert came to Hollywood in 1943, to menace Kay Kyser in the MGM musical comedy Swing Fever. Usually a secondary bad guy, Lambert was the main menace -- a scarfaced thug with a hook for a hand -- in Dick Tracy's Dilemma (1947). A less malevolent Jack Lambert was seen on a weekly basis as Joshua on the 1959-60 TV adventure series Riverboat.

Frank Richards (Actor) .. Monk

Born: September 15, 1909
Died: April 15, 1992

Trivia: A stage actor from 1938, American-born Frank Richards made his earliest recorded-film appearance in 1940. Generally cast as stubble-chinned heavies and slick gangsters, he also served as an "art director" for the 1946 Western Rustler's Roundup. More notable among his 200 or so on-camera television credits was his bad-guy role on the 1951 Superman episode "A Night of Terror." Richards' last film was John Cassavetes' A Woman Under the Influence in 1974. He died in 1992.

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Cheap Is Cheap

01:05 am - 01:35 am, Wednesday, June 10 on WJLP MeTV (33.1)

Cheap Is Cheap

Season 4, Episode 26