Richard Carlson

Actor, Director and Writer
April 29, 1912 - November 24, 1977
Born in Albert Lea, Minnesota

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A Few Favorite Memories of Richard Carlson

• As "Geoff Montgomery" in the Bob Hope comedy/horror gem The Ghost Breakers (1940) featuring Paulette Goddard, Willie Best, Paul Lukas, Anthony Quinn, and Noble Johnson's great Zombie!
  
  
• As "Dr. Duncan 'Doc' Jackson" in Abbott and Costello's haunted house comedy Hold That Ghost (1941), with Evelyn Ankers, Mischa Auer and Marc Lawrence.
  
  
• As "Martin Abbott" in the supernatural romance The Amazing Mr. X (1948) starring Turhan Bey as the spiritualist, with Lynn Bari and Cathy O'Donnell.
  
  
• As "Ross Stewart, " a newspaper reporter trapped in an insane asylum in Behind Locked Doors (1948), with Lucille Bremer, Douglas Fowley, and Tor Johnson as a human gorilla inmate.
  
  
• As "John Goode," on a safari for treasure and Deborah Kerr's husband in King Solomon's Mines (1950), starring Stewart Granger as H. Rider Haggard's Great White Hunter, Allan Quatermain.
  
  
• As "Dr. Jeffrey Stewart," a government agent investigating a runaway experiment with radioactivity that threatens to destroy Earth in The Magnetic Monster (1953). Written and directed by Curt Siodmak (with Ivan Tors and Herbert L. Strock, respectively), featuring King Donovan, Jean Byron, Leonard Mudie and Byron Foulger.
  
  
• As "John Putnam," who discovers that aliens have landed in the desert in It Came from Outer Space (1953). Based on a story by Ray Bradbury, directed by Jack Arnold, and featuring Barbara Rush, Charles Drake, Joe Sawyer and Russell Johnson.
  
  
• As "Gerald McTeam," a mysterious Scotsman whose engagement is suddenly broken by a family curse in The Maze (1953).
  
  
• As "Herbert A. Philbrick," a government agent infiltrating communist organizations in the TV series I Led 3 Lives (1953).
  
  
• As director of, and as astronaut "Dr. Jerome Lockwood" in, the cutting-edge early 50's science fiction adventure Riders to the Stars (1954), written by Curt Siodmak and Ivan Tors.
  
  
• As "David Reed," heading a scientific expedition up the Amazon in quest of a humanoid "gill man" in Universal's classic Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954). Directed by Jack Arnold, and featuring Julie Adams, Richard Denning, Nestor Paiva, Whit Bissell, Ben Chapman and Ricou Browning.
  
  
• In live-action roles in two partly-animated educational documentaries directed by Frank Capra for schools and television: The Strange Case of the Cosmic Rays (1957, and Hemo the Magnificent (1957).
  
  
• As "Colonel Ranald S. Mackenzie" in the frontier cavalry TV series Mackenzie's Raiders (1958).
  
  
• As "Tom Stewart," haunted by the vengeful spirit of his dead girlfriend in Tormented (1960), directed by Bert I. Gordon.
  
  
• As writer (with Ivan Tors) of the "lost South Sea Island with prehistoric monsters" adventure Island of the Lost (1967), directed by Ricou Browning (!) and John Florea, and starring Richard Greene and Luke Halpin.
  
  
• As "Professor Norman E. Van Zandt" in the sci-fi thriller about telekinesis, The Power (1968), produced by George Pal, directed by Byron Haskin, and featuring George Hamilton, Suzanne Pleshette, Yvonne DeCarlo, Michael Rennie and Forrest J Ackerman.
  
  
• As "Champ Connors" in the dinosaur western adventure The Valley of Gwangi (1969), inspired by an original unfilmed Willis O'Brien concept, superbly animated by Ray Harryhausen.

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