Alfred Hitchcock Presents - "Father and Son" - 01:05 am Thursday, April 23 on WJLP MeTV

Edmund Gwenn (Actor) .. Joe Saunders

Born: September 26, 1877
Died: September 06, 1959
Birthplace: Wandsworth, London, United Kingdom

Trivia: The son of a traveling British civil servant, Edmund Gwenn was ordered to leave his home at age 17 when he announced his intention to become an actor. Working throughout the British empire in a variety of theatrical troupes, Gwenn finally settled in London in 1902 when he was personally selected by playwright George Bernard Shaw for a role in Shaw's Man and Superman. Thanks to Shaw's sponsorship, Gwenn rapidly established himself as one of London's foremost character stars, his career interrupted only by military service during World War I. Gwenn's film career, officially launched in 1916, took a back seat to his theatrical work for most of his life; still, he was a favorite of both American and British audiences for his portrayals of blustery old men, both comic and villainous. At age 71, Gwenn was cast as Kris Kringle, a lovable old eccentric who imagined that he was Santa Claus, in the comedy classic Miracle on 34th Street (1947); his brilliant portrayal was honored with an Academy Award and transformed the veteran actor into an "overnight" movie star. Edmund Gwenn died shortly after making his final film, an oddball Mexican comedy titled The Rocket From Calabuch (1958); one of his surviving family members his cousin Cecil Kellaway, was a respected character actor in his own right.

Charles Davis (Actor) .. Sam Saunders

Born: May 20, 1933
Died: December 12, 2009

Pamela Light (Actor) .. Mae

Frederic Worlock (Actor) .. Gus

Born: December 14, 1886
Died: August 01, 1973

Trivia: Bespectacled, dignified British stage actor Frederick Worlock came to Hollywood in 1938. During the war years, Worlock played many professorial roles, some benign, some villainous. A semi-regular in Universal's Sherlock Holmes series, he essayed such parts as Geoffrey Musgrave in Sherlock Holmes Faces Death (1943). Active until 1966, Frederick Worlock's final assignments included a voice-over in the Disney cartoon feature 101 Dalmations (1961).

George Pelling (Actor) .. Mr. Schiller

Born: October 25, 1914

John Trayne (Actor) .. Policeman

Dan Sheridan (Actor) .. 2nd Sergeant

Born: January 01, 1916
Died: January 01, 1963

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Father and Son

01:05 am - 01:35 am, Thursday, April 23 on WJLP MeTV (33.1)

Father and Son

Season 2, Episode 36