Regis Toomey
- Schauspiel
- 13. August 1898 · Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
- 12. Oktober 1991
Biografie
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia John Regis Toomey (August 13, 1898 – October 12, 1991) was an American film and television actor. Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, he was one of four children of Francis X. and Mary Ellen Toomey and attended Peabody High School. He initially pondered a law career, but acting won out and he established himself as a musical stage performer. Educated in dramatics at the University of Pittsburgh, where he became a brother of Sigma Chi, Toomey began as a stock actor and eventually made it to Broadway. Toomey was a singer on stage until throat problems (acute laryngitis) while touring in Europe stopped that aspect of his career. In 1929, Toomey first began appearing in films. He initially started out as a leading man, but found more success as a character actor (sans his toupee). Toomey appeared in over 180 films, including classics such as The Big Sleep with Humphrey Bogart. In 1956, he appeared as a judge, with Chuck Connors as "Andy", in the third episode, "The Nevada Nightingale", of the NBC anthology series The Joseph Cotten Show. Toomey thereafter appeared in another anthology series too as the character "Harry" in the 1960 episode "The Doctor and the Redhead", with Dick Powell and Felicia Farr, of CBS's The DuPont Show with June Allyson. In the 1961–1962 television season, he appeared in a supporting role with George Nader in the syndicated crime drama Shannon about insurance investigators. From 1963–1966, Toomey was one of the stars of the ABC crime drama, Burke's Law, starring Gene Barry. He played Sergeant Les Hart, one of the detectives assisting the murder investigations of the millionaire police captain Amos Burke. He also guest-starred on dozens of television programs, including the "Shady Deal at Sunny Acres" episode of Maverick. In 1941, Toomey appeared in You're in the Army Now, in which he and Jane Wyman had the longest screen kiss in cinema history: 3 minutes and 5 seconds.
Bekannt aus
Filmografie
- Evil Town · Doc Hooper
- Robodog · Chief Patterson
- Fantasy Island · Dr. Thomas
- Won Ton Ton, der Hund der Hollywood rettete · Burlesque Stagehand
- Dr. Shagetz · Doc Hooper
- Das Phantom von Hollywood · Joe
- Teufelskreis der Angst · Sam Streeter
- Der Mörder im weißen Mantel · Sanderson the Pathologist
- Cover Me Babe · Michael Atterbury
- Ein himmlischer Schwindel · Father Gibbons
- Adam-12 · Billy Heckman
- Gunn · The Bishop
- The Time Tunnel · Dr. Ben Berkhart
- Die Todes-Ranch · Cotton Benson
- Johnny Shiloh · Mr. Clem
- F.B.I. · Calvin Betts
- Green Acres
- The Legend of Jesse James · Defense Attorney Reed
- Die Seaview - In geheimer Mission · George Penfield
- Ein Goldfisch an der Leine · Bagley
- Petticoat Junction · Doc Stuart
- Burkes Gesetz · Detective Lester Hart
- St. Dominic und seine Schäfchen
- Die Leute von der Shiloh-Ranch · Joseph Denton
- Der Bürotrottel · Studio Exec with the Baron
- Shannon klärt auf · Bill Cochran
- Dr. Kildare · Arthur Wheeler
- Cain's Hundred · Judge Thomas Otto
- Unternehmen Feuergürtel · Dr. Jamieson
- King of the Roaring 20's – The Story of Arnold Rothstein · Bill Baird
- El Perdido · Milton Wing
- Route 66
- The Tall Man
- Er kam, sah und siegte · Sheriff Taylor
- The DuPont Show with June Allyson · Dr. Harry Randolph
- Tightrope
- Der Henker · Soldier at Fort, Orderly (uncredited)
- Warlock · Skinner
- Tausend Meilen Staub
- Joy Ride · Miles Renny
- Bronco · Judge Claymore
- Peter Gunn
- Josh · Lenny the Bartender
- Sing Boy Sing · Rev. Easton
- No Time at All · Joe Donaldson
- Trackdown · Murdoch
- Maverick · Ben Granville
- Perry Mason · Sam Crane, Andy Grant
- Wagon Train · Mr. Hunter
- Sugarfoot · John Peel
- Richard Diamond, Privatdetektiv · Lt. Dennis McGough
- Curfew Breakers · Coach Bettger
- Abenteuer im wilden Westen · Will Jenkins, Sheriff Barnes
- Playhouse 90 · Regis Toomey
- The Adventures of Jim Bowie
- Die Todesschlucht von Laramie · Minstrel
- Three for Jamie Dawn · Murph
- Skrupellos · Father Murphy
- Schwere Jungs - leichte Mädchen · Arvide Abernathy
- Unbesiegt · Jim O'Hara
- Matinee Theater
- The 20th Century Fox Hour
- Cheyenne · Pat Evans
- Navy Log
- The Millionaire · Pete Marlowe
- Atomic Energy as a Force for Good · Mike Farrell
- Climax! · Fred Warren
- December Bride
- Immer jagte er Blondinen · Bob Geddes
- Hey Mulligan · Joe Mulligan
- Es wird immer wieder Tag · Tim Garfield
- Adlerschwinge · Sheriff Jim Beal
- The Backbone of America · Bill Carmody
- Bis zur letzten Kugel · Col. Markham
- Sprung auf, marsch, marsch! · Chaplain (uncredited)
- Main Street to Broadway · Desk Sergeant (uncredited)
- The Danny Thomas Show · Bob Carter
- Ihr Star: Loretta Young · Everett Strawn, Henry Herman
- Das letzte Signal · Sergeant Harper
- Son of Belle Starr · Tom Wren