Salome

Rita Hayworth (Actor) .. Princess Salome

Born: October 17, 1918
Died: May 14, 1987
Birthplace: New York City (Brooklyn), New York

Trivia: The definitive femme fatale of the 1940s, Rita Hayworth was the Brooklyn-born daughter of Spanish dancer Eduardo Cansino and Ziegfeld Follies showgirl Volga Haworth. She joined the family dancing act in her early teens and made a few '30s films under her real name, Margarita Cansino, and with her real hair color (black), including Charlie Chan in Egypt (1935) and Meet Nero Wolfe (1936). Over the next few years -- at the urging of Columbia Studios and her first husband -- she reshaped her hairline with electrolysis, dyed her hair auburn, and adopted the name Rita Hayworth. Following her performance in Only Angels Have Wings (1939), she became a major leading lady to most of the big stars, including Tyrone Power, Fred Astaire, Charles Boyer, Gene Kelly, and her second and soon to be ex-husband Orson Welles in The Lady From Shanghai (1948). Hayworth then became involved in a tempestuous romance with married playboy Aly Khan, son of the Pakistani Muslim leader Aga Khan III, and they married in 1949. Following their divorce two years later, she was married to singer Dick Haymes from 1953 to 1955, and then for three years to James Hill, the producer of her film Separate Tables (1958). Her career had slowed down in the '50s and came to a virtual standstill in the '60s, when rumors of her supposed erratic and drunken behavior began to circulate. In reality, Hayworth was suffering from the first symptoms of Alzheimer's disease. For years, she would be cared for by her daughter Princess Yasmin Khan, and her death from the disease in 1987 gave it public attention that led to increased funding for medical research to find a cure.

Alan Badel (Actor) .. John The Baptist

Born: September 11, 1923
Died: March 19, 1982

Trivia: British stage and screen actor Alan Badel flourished from his debut in the early 1940s to the late 1970s. He made both his English and American film bows in 1953, with Britain's The Stranger Left No Card and Hollywood's Salome (as John the Baptist). One film historian has commented that the versatile but plain-looking Badel was "not easy to cast in leading roles," but the actor enjoyed at least one starring part, as German composer Richard Wagner, in the 1956 biopic Magic Fire. Alan Badel was the father of actress Sarah Badel.

Stewart Granger (Actor) .. Commander Claudius

Born: May 06, 1913
Died: August 16, 1993

Trivia: British actor Stewart Granger, born James Stewart, studied acting at the Webber-Douglas School of Dramatic Art and began getting work as an extra in British films in 1933. In the late '30s he adopted his professional name to avoid confusion with recent star James Stewart. He worked with various stage companies before getting his first lead role onscreen in So This Is London (1939). In the '40s Granger was one of British films' two top romantic leading men (along with James Mason) and a steady box-office draw, attracting the interest of Hollywood. He signed with MGM in 1950, and for the next seven years played a variety of virile "he-man" types such as romantic swashbucklers and white hunters. After becoming a U.S. citizen in 1956, Granger began free-lancing, appearing again in British films as well as in international productions in the following decade. He began accepting starring roles on TV in the early '70s. From 1950-60 Stewart Granger was married to actress Jean Simmons, the second of his three wives.

Cedric Hardwicke (Actor) .. Tiberius Ceasar

Born: February 19, 1883
Died: August 06, 1964

Trivia: British actor Sir Cedric Hardwicke's physician father was resistant to his son's chosen profession; nonetheless, the elder Hardwicke paid Cedric's way through the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts. The actor was fortunate enough to form a lasting friendship with playwright George Bernard Shaw, who felt that Hardwicke was the finest actor in the world (Shaw's other favorites were the Four Marx Brothers). Working in Shavian plays like Heartbreak House, Major Barbara and The Apple Cart throughout most of the 1920s and 1930s in England, Hardwicke proved that he was no one-writer actor with such roles as Captain Andy in the London production of the American musical Show Boat. After making his first film The Dreyfus Case in 1931, Hardwicke worked with distinction in both British and American films, though his earliest attempts at becoming a Broadway favorite were disappointments. Knighted for his acting in 1934, Hardwicke's Hollywood career ran the gamut from prestige items like Wilson (1944), in which he played Henry Cabot Lodge, to low-budget gangster epics like Baby Face Nelson (1957), where he brought a certain degree of tattered dignity to the role of a drunken gangland doctor. As proficient at directing as he was at acting, Hardwicke unfortunately was less successful as a businessman. Always a step away from his creditors, he found himself taking more and more journeyman assignments as he got older. Better things came his way with a successful run in the 1960 Broadway play A Majority of One and several tours with Charles Laughton, Agnes Moorehead and Charles Boyer in the "reader's theatre" staging of Shaw's Don Juan in Hell. A talented writer, Hardwicke wrote two autobiographies, the last of these published in 1961 as A Victorian in Orbit. It was here that he wittily but ruefully observed that "God felt sorry for actors, so he gave them a place in the sun and a swimming pool. The price they had to pay was to surrender their talent."

Charles Laughton (Actor) .. King Herod

Born: July 01, 1899
Died: December 15, 1962
Birthplace: Scarborough, Yorkshire, England

Trivia: Tortured but brilliant British actor Charles Laughton's unique performances made him a compelling performer both on stage and in film. After starting his career as an hotel manager, Laughton switched to acting. His performances in London's West End plays brought him early acclaim, which eventually led him to the Old Vic, Broadway and Hollywood. When he repeated his stage success in The Private Life of Henry VIII for Alexander Korda on film in 1933, he won a "Best Actor" Oscar. Known both for his fascination with the darker side of human behavior and for his comic touch, Laughton should be watched as a frightening Nero in Sign of the Cross (1932), the triumphant employee in If I Had a Million (1932), the evil doctor in Island of Lost Souls (1932), the incestuous father in The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1934), the irrepressible Ruggles in Ruggles of Red Gap (1935), the overbearing Captain Bligh in Mutiny on the Bounty (1935), which garnered him another Oscar nomination, and the haunted hunchback in The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939), with a very young Maureen O'Hara. During the war years, he played some light roles in Tales of Manhattan (1942), Forever and a Day (1943) and The Canterville Ghost (1944), among others. By the late '40s, Laughton sought greater challenges and returned to the stage in The Life of Galileo, which he translated from Bertolt Brecht's original and co-directed. As stage director and/or performer, he made Don Juan in Hell in 1951, John Brown's Body in 1953, The Caine Mutiny Court Martial in 1954, and Shaw's Major Barbara in 1956, all in New York. When he returned to England in 1959, he appeared in Stratford-upon-Avon productions of A Midsummer Night's Dream, and King Lear. Later film appearances include O. Henry's Full House (1952), Hobson's Choice (1954), Witness for the Prosecution (1957) (which gave him another Oscar nomination), Spartacus (1960) and Advise and Consent (1962). Laughton was married from 1929 to his death to actress Elsa Lanchester, with whom he occasionally appeared. His direction of the film The Night of the Hunter (1955) is critically acclaimed.

Judith Anderson (Actor) .. Queen Herodias

Born: February 10, 1898
Died: January 03, 1992
Birthplace: Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

Trivia: Australian-born Dame Judith Anderson (she was knighted in 1960) was for nearly 70 years one of the foremost Shakespearian actresses of the stage, playing everything from Lady MacBeth to Portia to Hamlet (yes, Hamlet). In films, she was Cruella DeVil--over and over again. Perhaps this is an oversimplification, but it is true that movies seldom took full advantage of Anderson's versatility and rich speaking voice, opting instead to confine her to unsympathetic roles on the basis of her hard, cruel facial features. She made her first film appearance as an incongrously sexy temptress in 1933's Blood Money; seven years later, she essayed her most famous screen role, the obsessed housekeeper Mrs. Danvers in Rebecca (1940). For the rest of her career, she was apparently regarded by Hollywood as an alternate for Gale Sondergaard in roles calling for refined truculence. She played the New York society dragon who "keeps" weak-willed Vincent Price in Laura (1944), the sinister wife of tormented farmer Edward G. Robinson in The Red House (1948), the imperious Queen Herodias in Salome (1953) and the wicked stepmother of Jerry Lewis in Cinderfella (1960). Some of Judith Anderson's later film roles allowed her a modicum of audience empathy, notably the aged Sioux Indian matriarch in A Man Called Horse (1970) and the High Priestess of the Vulcans in Star Trek IV: The Search for Spock (1984).

Basil Sydney (Actor) .. Pontius Pilate

Born: April 23, 1894
Died: January 01, 1968

Trivia: On the British stage from the age of 15, Basil Sydney first toured the U.S. in 1914, just before his army service in World War I. During the postwar years, Sydney established himself as a dependable leading man, rising to matinee idol status with the London stage hit Romance. It was this property which also launched his screen career in 1920. Though he spent most of the 1930s in America, Sydney avoided film work in Hollywood because the producers would not honor his request that he only appear in movie versions of Shakespeare and Shaw. He resettled in England in the early '40s, where he appeared in such roles as Rufio in the 1945 filmization of Shaw's Caesar and Cleopatra, Claudius in Laurence Olivier's 1948 film version of Hamlet, and Captain Smollett in Walt Disney's British-filmed Treasure Island (1950). In 1956, Basil Sydney, together with several of his fellow British thespians, played an amusing cameo in Mike Todd's all-star Around the World in 80 Days.

Maurice Schwartz (Actor) .. Ezra

Born: June 18, 1890
Died: May 10, 1960

Trivia: Born in Ukraine, Maurice Schwartz moved to the United States in 1902. After working with several Yiddish theatre troupes, Schwartz hoped to take Broadway by storm with a repertoire of Yiddish-language versions of European plays. Though this venture failed, Schwartz went on to fame and prestige when, in 1926, he founded the Yiddish Art Theatre on New York's 2nd Avenue. Also in 1926, he starred in and directed his first film, Broken Hearts. Schwartz' major contribution to the American theatrical world was his promotion and perpetuation of the works of Jewish playwright/essayist Sholom Alecheim. In 1939, Schwartz directed and starred in a film adaptation of Alecheim's Tevye the Milkman, which served as the basis for the much-later Broadway musical hit Fiddler on the Roof. Schwartz made his first appearance in a "mainstream" Hollywood film, Mission to Moscow, in 1943. His best-known Hollywood role was as Ezra in Columbia's expensive 1953 Biblical drama Salome. When Columbia decided to utilize leftover Salome sets, costumes and background footage for the 1953 programmer Slaves of Babylon, Schwartz reprised his "Ezra" characterization as Nebuchadnezzer. In 1959, with the Yiddish theatrical tradition in decline in the U.S., Maurice Schwartz journeyed to Israel, hoping to establish a theatre there; after mounting one single production, Schwartz died at the age of 70.

Rex Reason (Actor) .. Marcellus Fabius

Born: November 20, 1928

Trivia: Born in Germany and raised in the U.S., tall, dark, and handsome leading man Rex Reason studied his craft at the Pasadena Playhouse. He made his first film in 1952, and his last (thus far) in 1959. On TV, Reason starred as newspaper editor Adam MacLean in the syndicated 1958 Western Man Without a Gun, and as still another journalist, reporter Scott Norris, on ABC's The Roaring 20s (1960-1962). Rex Reason briefly billed himself as Bart Roberts, possibly to avoid confusion with his lookalike actor brother Rhodes Reason.

Arnold Moss (Actor) .. Micha

Born: January 28, 1910
Died: December 15, 1989

Trivia: Upon receiving a master's degree in teaching at New York University, American actor Arnold Moss decided that the life of a teacher wasn't for him and set to find theatre work. Moss was engaged by the LeGallienne Civic Repertory Theatre, where he played his first villainous role in Peter Pan. Radio provided a great deal of work for Moss, whose deep, mellifluous voice was perfect for narration and commercial assignments; additionally, he produced and wrote for various radio series. The actor's first film was Temptation; with his Satanic eyebrows and raven-like features Moss was generally cast as high-born villains or sinister foreigners. Moss made two memorable appearances in Bob Hope films, first as Hope's Casablanca contact in the espionage spoof My Favorite Spy and then as a conniving Venetian doge in Casanova's Big Night. Arnold Moss was also shown to good advantage as the usurping Antonio in the 1960 Hallmark Hall of Fame production of Shakespeare's The Tempest, which starred Maurice Evans and Richard Burton.

Sujata (Actor) .. Oriental Dance Team

Asoka (Actor) .. Oriental Dance Team

Robert Warwick (Actor) .. Courier

Born: October 09, 1878
Died: June 06, 1964

Trivia: As a boy growing up in Sacramento, Robert Warwick sang in his church choir. Encouraged to pursue music as a vocation, Warwick studied in Paris for an operatic career. He abandoned singing for straight acting when, in 1903, he was hired by Clyde Fitch as an understudy in the Broadway play Glad of It. Within a few year, Warwick was a major stage star in New York. He managed to retain his matinee-idol status when he switched from stage to screen, starring in such films as A Modern Othello and Alias Jimmy Valentine and at one point heading his own production company. He returned to the stage in 1920, then resumed his Hollywood career in authoritative supporting roles. His pear-shaped tones ideally suited for talkies, Warwick played such characters as Neptune in Night Life of the Gods (1933), Sir Francis Knolly in Mary of Scotland (1936) and Lord Montague in Romeo and Juliet (1936). He appeared in many of the Errol Flynn "historicals" at Warner Bros. (Prince and the Pauper, Adventures of Robin Hood, The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex); in more contemporary fare, he could usually be found in a military uniform or wing-collared tuxedo. From The Great McGinty (1940) onward, Warwick was a particular favorite of producer/director Preston Sturges, who was fond of providing plum acting opportunities to veteran character actors. Warwick's best performance under Sturges' guidance was as the brusque Hollywood executive who insists upon injecting "a little sex" in all of his studio's product in Sullivan's Travels (1942). During the 1950s, Warwick played several variations on "Charles Waterman," the broken-down Shakespearean ham that he'd portrayed in In a Lonely Place (1950). He remained in harness until his eighties, playing key roles on such TV series as The Twilight Zone and The Law and Mr. Jones. Robert Warwick was married twice, to actresses Josephine Whittell and Stella Lattimore.

Carmen D'Antonio (Actor) .. Salome's Servant

Born: November 28, 1911

Michael Granger (Actor) .. Capt. Quintus

Born: January 01, 1922
Died: January 01, 1981

Theda Bara (Actor) .. Salome

Born: July 20, 1885
Died: April 07, 1955

Trivia: Although publicized as an Egyptian of royal lineage, silent film actress Theda Bara was actually born Theodosia Goodman in Cincinnati, Ohio. Her exotic good looks brought her to the attention of Fox studios in 1914; reasoning that there were too many sweet little ingenues in films of that period, Fox decided to create a worldly "vamp" character, a woman who could destroy men with little more than a sexy glance. The studio changed Theodosia's name to Theda Bara (which coincidentally was an anagram for "Arab Death"), casting her in a liberal adaptation of Rudyard Kipling's A Fool There Was(1914). She became Fox's biggest star, appearing in as many as ten feature films per year, including Salome (1918) and Cleopatra (1918). Her somewhat overripe histrionics became out of fashion by 1920, so she retired from acting to married life; Bara resurfaced in a "so bad it's good" Broadway play The Blue Flame, then made an unsuccessful film comeback attempt in 1925. Her last screen work was in a two-reel lampoon of her vamp character, Madame Mystery (1926), directed by, of all people, Stan Laurel. Though happily married and fabulously wealthy, Bara never gave up the dream that she might someday return to screen glory; at the time of her death in 1955, Hollywood's casting service directories still listed the actress as "at liberty."

Karl Davis (Actor) .. Slave Master

Joe Schilling (Actor) .. Advisor

Genevieve Blinn (Actor) .. Queen Marian

Died: January 01, 1956

David Wold (Actor) .. Advisor

Ray Beltram (Actor) .. Advisor

Joe Sawaya (Actor) .. Advisor

Anton Northpole (Actor) .. Advisor

Carlo Tricoli (Actor) .. Advisor

Born: January 01, 1889
Died: January 01, 1966

Merrill McCormack (Actor) .. Advisor

Born: February 05, 1892
Died: August 19, 1953

Trivia: Bearded and scruffy-looking, William Merrill McCormick became one of the busiest character actors in B-Western history. Beginning his screen career in the late 1910s, McCormick excelled at playing unshaven henchmen, rustlers, stage robbers, and a host of other less-than-desirable prairie varmints. Rarely the main villain, he could usually be spotted sneering in the background alongside such fellow bit part players as Jim Corey, Bill Gillis, and Al Ferguson. Taking time out to direct good friend Marin Sais in a couple of very inexpensive oaters in 1923, McCormick kept up a hectic acting schedule that lasted well into the television era. He died of a heart attack right after finishing a scene for the television series The Roy Rogers Show.

Mickey Simpson (Actor) .. Herod's Captain of the Guards

Born: January 01, 1912
Died: January 01, 1985

Trivia: Well-muscled former 1935 New York City heavyweight boxing champ Mickey Simpson was typically cast as a villain in numerous low-budget actioners, adventures, and Westerns of the '40s, '50s, and '60s. Before making his screen debut with a bit part in Stagecoach, Simpson had been Claudette Colbert's personal chauffeur. He served with the military during WWII and then returned to Hollywood to continue his busy onscreen career.

Eduardo Cansino (Actor) .. Roman Guard

Born: January 01, 1894
Died: January 01, 1968

Lou Nova (Actor) .. Executioner

Born: March 16, 1920

Vera Doria (Actor) .. Naomi

Fred Letuli (Actor) .. Sword Dancer

John E. Wood (Actor) .. Sword Dancer

William Spaeth (Actor) .. Fire Eater

Bertram Grassby (Actor) .. Prince David

Born: January 01, 1880
Died: January 01, 1953

Abel Pina (Actor) .. Acrobat

Jerry Pina (Actor) .. Acrobat

Herbert Heyes (Actor) .. Sejanus

Born: August 03, 1889
Died: May 30, 1958

Trivia: Herbert Heyes was somewhere between the ages of 10 and 13 when he first trod the boards as a member of the Baker Stock Company in Portland, Oregon. By 1910, Heyes was playing leads in the touring company run by actor/manager James K. Hackett. He was firmly established on Broadway when, in 1916, he was hired by Fox Films to play opposite Theda Bara in a series of steamy romances (Under Two Flags, Salome, etc.). Returning to New York, Heyes remained a busy stage and radio actor into the 1940s. He resumed his film career in the early 1940s, playing such character parts as department store magnate Mr. Gimbel in Miracle on 34th Street (1947), Ronald Reagan's prospective father-in-law in Bedtime for Bonzo (1951), and his favorite screen role, manufacturer Charles Eastman in George Stevens' A Place in the Sun (1951). Heyes' dignified demeanor kept him in demand throughout the 1950s for minor but pivotal roles like President Thomas Jefferson in The Far Horizons (1955) and General Pershing in The Court Martial of Billy Mitchell (1955). Herbert Heyes was the father of writer/director Douglas Heyes, of Maverick and Twilight Zone fame.

Henry Pina (Actor) .. Acrobat

Henry Escalante (Actor) .. Acrobat

Gilberto Marques (Actor) .. Acrobat

Richard Rivas (Actor) .. Acrobat

Miguel Gutierez (Actor) .. Acrobat

Ramiro Rivas (Actor) .. Acrobat

Ruben T. Rivas (Actor) .. Acrobat

Hector Urtiaga (Actor) .. Acrobat

Duke Johnson (Actor) .. Juggling Specialty

Earl Brown (Actor) .. Galilean Soldier

Bud Cokes (Actor) .. Galilean Soldier

George Khoury (Actor) .. Assassin

Leonard George (Actor) .. Assassin

Eva Hyde (Actor) .. Herodias' Servant

G. Raymond Nye (Actor) .. King Herod

Born: January 01, 1889

Trivia: A tall, dark-haired supporting actor of the early silent screen, G. Raymond Nye had spent five years with various road companies and appeared in vaudeville prior to entering films with American in Santa Barbara, CA, in 1914. He later played villains at Fox and Universal and was the featured villain in scores of low-budget melodramas of the 1920s. Nye, who appeared in films as late as the 1950s, became an extra after the changeover to sound.

Charles Wagenheim (Actor) .. Simon

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.

Italia DeNubila (Actor) .. Convert

David Ahdar (Actor) .. Convert

Charles Soldani (Actor) .. Convert

Dimas Sotello (Actor) .. Convert

Billy Wilkerson (Actor) .. Convert

Mario Lamm (Actor) .. Convert

Tina Menard (Actor) .. Convert

Born: August 26, 1904

Leslie Denison (Actor) .. Court Attendant

Born: June 16, 1905
Died: September 25, 1992

Trivia: In Hollywood from 1941, British actor Leslie Dennison played scores of military officers, secret service agents, and Scotland Yard detectives, often merely as part of the wartime ambience but well remembered for playing the detective tracking down Bela Lugosi's ghoul in The Return of the Vampire and as Alan-a-Dale in Bandits of Sherwood Forest (1946). Denison, who also did voice-over work, retired in the '60s.

Henry Dar Boggia (Actor) .. Politician

Michael Couzzi (Actor) .. Politician

Robert Ben Ali (Actor) .. Politician

Don De Leo (Actor) .. Politician

Born: June 30, 1904

John Parrish (Actor) .. Politician

Born: February 25, 1896

Eddy Fields (Actor) .. Politician

Robert Garabedian (Actor) .. Politician

Sam Scar (Actor) .. Politician

Bruce Cameron (Actor) .. Guard

Born: January 01, 1910
Died: January 01, 1959

John Crawford (Actor) .. Guard

Born: March 26, 1926

Trivia: Character actor John Crawford has appeared on screen in many films since 1945.

Michael Mark (Actor) .. Old Farmer

Born: March 15, 1889
Died: February 03, 1975

Trivia: Russian-born Michael Mark spent his first two decades in America as a vaudeville and legit-theatre director/producer. In films from 1924, Mark played featured roles until his retirement 25 years later. A fixture of Universal's horror-film output, he is best remembered as the father of the little drowned girl in the original Frankenstein (1931). During the late 1940s, Michael Mark was a semi-regular in Monogram's "Joe Palooka" series, playing the title character's father.

David Leonard (Actor) .. Dissenting Scholar

Born: January 01, 1891
Died: January 01, 1967

Maurice Samuels (Actor) .. Dissenting Scholar

Born: January 01, 1884
Died: January 01, 1964

Ralph Moody (Actor) .. Dissenting Scholar

Born: January 01, 1887
Died: January 01, 1971

Trivia: A favorite of producer/director Jack Webb, character actor Ralph Moody was a familiar face to viewers of Dragnet in both its 1950s and 1960s incarnations -- but that would be an unfair (as well as inaccurate) way to describe an actor who amassed hundreds of film and television appearances in barely 20 years of movie and television work. Born in St. Louis, MO, in 1886, Moody didn't make his screen debut until 1948, with a small role in Man Eaters of Kumaon. Already in his sixties, he always looked older than he was, and his craggy features could also impart a fierceness that made him threatening. Although Moody was known for playing kindly or crotchety old men, he occasionally brought that fierceness to bear, as in the Adventures of Superman episode "Test of a Warrior", in which he played the sinister medicine man Okatee. But in between that and dozens of other one-off television assignments, Moody also managed to work in scenes as the coffin-boat skipper in Samuel Fuller's Pickup on South Street and one of the rescue workers in Billy Wilder's Ace in the Hole. Moody was one of those actors who could work quickly and milk a line or a scene for all its emotional worth. What's more, he could do it without over-emoting. He was the kind of character player that directors and producers in budget-conscious television of the 1950s needed. In an episode of Circus Boy, he played a touching scene with a young Micky Dolenz, as an aging railroad engineer introducing the boy to the world of locomotives and trains. After that, Moody got called back to do three more episodes. But it was Jack Webb who really put him to work in Dragnet and many of his other productions, in radio and feature films as well as television. His more memorable appearances on Dragnet included "The Big Producer", as a once-famous movie producer who is reduced to selling pornographic pictures to high-school students, and "The Hammer", from the 1967 revival of the series, in which he portrayed the neighbor of a murder victim. Moody continued working regularly in television until a year before his death in 1971, at age 84. His final appearance was in the Night Gallery episode "The Little Black Bag".

Saul Martell (Actor) .. Dissenting Scholar

Paul Hoffman (Actor) .. Patrician

Stanley Waxman (Actor) .. Patrician

Born: January 13, 1914

Franz Roehn (Actor) .. Townsman/Advisor

Born: October 06, 1896

Jack Low (Actor) .. Townsman

Born: January 01, 1898
Died: January 01, 1958

Bert Rose (Actor) .. Townsman

Trevor Ward (Actor) .. Blind Man

Barry Brooks (Actor) .. Roman Guard

Roque Barry (Actor) .. Slave

George Keymas (Actor) .. Sailor

Born: November 18, 1925

Frederic Berest (Actor) .. Sailor

Rick Vallin (Actor) .. Sailor

Born: January 01, 1920
Died: August 31, 1977

Trivia: Russian-born leading man Rick Vallin inaugurated his Hollywood career in 1942. Handsome and personable enough for leading roles, Vallin was also an effectively sinister villain when the occasion arose. He spent the bulk of his career at such B-factories as Republic, Monogram, and PRC; he was a semi-regular in the East Side Kids films of the 1940s, and later showed up in a couple of 1950s Bowery Boys efforts. Additionally, Vallin was a fixture of the Columbia Pictures serial unit, essaying leads and supporting roles in such cliffhangers as Brick Bradford (1948), Batman and Robin (1949), and Blackhawk (1952, in a dual role). Rick Vallin made his final film appearance in 1958.

Carleton Young (Actor) .. Officer

Born: May 26, 1907
Died: July 11, 1971

Trivia: There was always something slightly sinister about American actor Carleton G. Young that prevented him from traditional leading man roles. Young always seemed to be hiding something, to be looking over his shoulder, or to be poised to head for the border; as such, he was perfectly cast in such roles as the youthful dope peddler in the 1936 camp classic Reefer Madness. Even when playing a relatively sympathetic role, Young appeared capable of going off the deep end at any minute, vide his performance in the 1937 serial Dick Tracy as Tracy's brainwashed younger brother. During the 1940s and 1950s, Young was quite active in radio, where he was allowed to play such heroic leading roles as Ellery Queen and the Count of Monte Cristo without his furtive facial expressions working against him. As he matured into a greying character actor, Young became a special favorite of director John Ford, appearing in several of Ford's films of the 1950s and 1960s. In 1962's The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, it is Young, in the small role of a reporter, who utters the unforgettable valediction "This is the west, sir. When the legend becomes fact...print the legend." Carleton G. Young was the father of actor Tony Young, who starred in the short-lived 1961 TV Western Gunslinger.

Guy Kingsford (Actor) .. Officer

Born: September 30, 1911
Died: November 09, 1986

Trivia: The son of British-born character actor Walter Kingsford (Dr. Carey in MGM's Dr. Kildare series), Guy Kingsford had appeared on-stage at London's West End and on Broadway (in Frederick Lonsdale's Once Is Enough (1937) with Ina Claire) but his screen career proved a disappointment. Often appearing unbilled, Kingsford played scores of typical "British" characters and was especially busy during World War II. Father and son appeared together only once, in Bomber's Moon (1943), where, once again, Kingsford Jr. performed unbilled. He later appeared on such television programs as Sergeant Preston of the Yukon and Alcoa Presents.

Tom Hernández (Actor) .. Townsman

Tristram Coffin (Actor)

Born: January 01, 1910
Died: March 26, 1990

Trivia: The namesake nephew of American journalist Tris Coffin, actor Tristram Coffin set his stage career in motion at age 14. By 1939, the tall, silver-mustached Coffin was well on his way to becoming one of the screen's most prolific character actors. Generally cast as crooked lawyers, shifty business executives, and gang bosses in B-pictures, Coffin projected a pleasanter image in A-films, where he often played soft-spoken doctors and educators. In 1949, he essayed his one-and-only film starring role: heroic Jeff King in the Republic serial King of the Rocket Men. Even busier on TV than in films (he was virtually a regular "guest villain" on the Superman series), Tristram Coffin starred as Captain Ryning of the Arizona Rangers in the weekly syndicated Western 26 Men (1957-1958).

Chief Leonard George (Actor) .. Assassin

Bobby Rose (Actor) .. Townsman

Juliet Anderson (Actor) .. Königin Herodias

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