Name Richard Carlyle | ||
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Movies Torpedo Run, The Gallant Hours, Harper, Haldane of the Secret Service, The Iron Mistress Similar People Joseph Pevney, Robert Montgomery, Harry Houdini, Mark W Travis, Jack Smight | ||
Richard Carlyle (March 20, 1914 – November 15, 2009) was a film, television and Broadway actor. (The reference book Encyclopedia of Early Television Crime Fighters: All Regular Cast Nembers in American Crime and Mystery Series gives Carlyle's birth date as March 20, 1920.)
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Early years
Carlyle was born in St. Catherines, Ontario, Canada. His education included attendance at Sherwood Dramatic Art School and the Art Institute of Chicago.
Career
Carlyle's early work on stage came with the troupe at the Barter Theatre and in stock theater in Springfield, Illinois.
In 1951, Carlyle starred as Jack Casey in the television version of Casey, Crime Photographer on CBS.
He had a prolific career beginning in the 1950s appearing in a variety of theater productions and as a character actor on numerous television series. He played Rezin Bowie in The Iron Mistress (1952) and Commander Don Adams in the Oscar-nominated war drama Torpedo Run (1959) starring Glenn Ford. He also had a long tenure with Theatre West in Los Angeles.
In the original Star Trek series he played Lt. Karl Jaeger in "The Squire of Gothos" (1967).
Death
On November 15, 2009, Carlyle died in Los Angeles.