Alfred Hitchcock Presents - "Specialty of the House" - 01:05 am Thursday, June 25 on WJLP MeTV

Madame Spivy (Actor) .. Spirro

Born: September 30, 1906

Robert Morley (Actor) .. Mr. Laffler

Born: May 26, 1908
Died: June 03, 1992

Trivia: A charming, rotund, portly, double-chinned character actor of British and American stage and screen, Robert Morley tended to be cast in jovial or pompous comedic roles. He was educated in England, Germany, France, and Italy, intending to go into diplomacy. He switched to acting and studied theater at London's Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. Morley debuted on the London stage in 1929, and on Broadway in 1938 when he reprised his London performance in the title role of Oscar Wilde. Also in 1938, he debuted onscreen in the Hollywood film Marie Antoinette, portraying the feeble-minded Louis XVI opposite Norma Shearer; for that performance he received a Best Supporting Actor Oscar nomination. He went on to play supporting roles in many films on both sides of the Atlantic. He was also a playwright; one of his plays, Edward My Son (written with Noel Langley), became a film in 1949. He was frequently seen as a witty, erudite guest on TV talk shows, and he was the TV commercial spokesman for British Airways.

Levoe Spivy (Actor) .. Spirro

Kenneth Haigh (Actor) .. Costain

Born: March 25, 1930

Trivia: Actor Kenneth Haigh received his preliminary training at that cradle of top British talent, the Central School of Speech and Drama. Haigh's first professional job was in a 1952 Irish stage production. He joined the vanguard of Britain's "angry young man" movement when he originated the role of Jimmy Porter in both the London and Broadway productions of John Osborne's Look Back in Anger. He remained in the Jimmy Porter mode in most of his film appearances: exceptions included the part of Brutus in the mammoth 1963 version of Cleopatra and his hilarious uncredited cameo as a supercilious TV producer in the Beatles' A Hard Day's Night (1964). Kenneth Haigh's television credits include the British TV series Man at the Top (1971-75), a spin-off of the 1959 film Room at the Top, and the role of Sir Richard Burton in the internationally distributed miniseries Search for the Nile (1972).

Bettye Ackerman (Actor) .. Miss Hinkle

Born: February 28, 1924
Died: November 01, 2006
Birthplace: Cottageville, South Carolina

Tetsu Komai (Actor) .. Lum Fong Ho

Born: January 01, 1893
Died: January 01, 1970

George Keymas (Actor) .. Paul

Born: November 18, 1925

Charles Wagenheim (Actor) .. Henlein

Born: January 01, 1895
Died: March 06, 1979

Trivia: Diminutive, frequently mustached character actor Charles Wagenheim made the transition from stage to screen in or around 1940. Wagenheim's most memorable role was that of "The Runt" in Meet Boston Blackie (1941), a part taken over by George E. Stone in the subsequent "Boston Blackie" B-films. Generally cast in unsavory bit parts, Wagenheim's on-screen perfidy extended from Hitchcock's Foreign Correspondent (1940) to George Stevens' Diary of Anne Frank (1959), in which, uncredited, he played the sneak thief who nearly gave away the hiding place of the Frank family. Wagenheim kept his hand in the business into the 1970s in films like The Missouri Breaks (1976). In 1979, 83-year-old Charles Wagenheim was bludgeoned to death by an intruder in his Hollywood apartment, five days before another veteran actor, Victor Kilian, met the same grisly fate.

Lee Turnbull (Actor) .. The Chef

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Specialty of the House

01:05 am - 01:35 am, Thursday, June 25 on WJLP MeTV (33.1)

Specialty of the House

Season 5, Episode 12