The Philco Television Playhouse
Overview
The Philco Television Playhouse is an American anthology series that was broadcast live on NBC from 1948 to 1955. Produced by Fred Coe, the series was sponsored by Philco. It was one of the most respected dramatic shows of the Golden Age of Television, winning a 1954 Peabody Award and receiving eight Emmy nominations between 1951 and 1956.
Cast
Bert Lytell
Self - Host
E.G. Marshall
Barnwell Rhett / Dennis Leighton / Jerry / N. Y. Times editor / Hiram Holliday / Alf Rylett / Horace Greeley
Vinton Hayworth
Mr. Devereaux / H.L. Potter / Ted Nichols
David Opatoshu
Boss / George / Joe Manx / Colie / Ibrahim
Alfred Ryder
Philip / Van Dorn
John Newland
Steven Kent / D.W. Griffith
Walter Matthau
Iago / Stuart Benson
William Prince
Hadrian the adopted son
Loring Smith
Ghost of Christmas Present
Vaughn Taylor
Mr. Mergenthwirker / Pa Blanchard / Alfred Stubbs / Sir Andrew Aguecheek
Leora Dana
Clarice / Emmy Blanchard
Grace Kelly
Lucy Bakewell Audubon / Bethel Merriday / Paula / Ann Rutledge
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Eileen Heckart
Ruthie / Jessie Mae
Warren Stevens
Leo Penn
Jack Warden
Sidney Blackmer
Marvin Platt
James Daly
Rod Steiger
Marty Pilletti
Neva Patterson
Elizabeth Chapin
Werner Klemperer
Leopold
John McQuade
Shepperd Strudwick
Lincoln Venner / Benedict Arnold
James Gregory
Angus / Lester Thompson
Frances Reid
Roxane
Bramwell Fletcher
Maxim de Winter
Everett Sloane
Dr. Ignatius Semmelweis / Vincent Van Gogh
Addison Powell
Chester / Chester Wilson
Eva Marie Saint
Betty / Thelma / Bonnie Keel / Dorie Wilson
Cloris Leachman
Patricia / Marianne Dashwood / Jenny Blanchard
Peter Mark Richman
Charles Blake / Tinian / Jack
Paul McGrath
Wesley Addy
Lesley Woods
Edmon Ryan
Augusta Dabney
Laura Wilkins
Murray Hamilton
Marian Seldes
Emilia
Philip Bourneuf
Anthony Ross
Father
J. Pat O'Malley
Brannigan
Bethel Leslie
Dorothy Gish
Mary Surratt
Ralph Bellamy
Tice Collins
Mildred Natwick
Eli Wallach
Nacho
Arthur Treacher
Uncle Fred
Jack Klugman
Edward Binns
Frank Maxwell
Captain Dana Healey
Leo G. Carroll
Professor White / Duncan / Father Moynihan
Pat Hingle
William Eythe
Foxworth
Jo Van Fleet
Shirley
Kent Smith
John Wilkes Booth
Kevin McCarthy
Romeo
Betsy Palmer
Janice Gans
Wright King
Lillian Gish
Narrator / Carrie Watts / Abby
Florida Friebus
Mary Greeley
Philip Abbott
David Lomak
Herbert Berghof
Zuker
Frank Sutton
Bill
James Broderick
Danny Keel / Horace
Martin Balsam
Charlie Malick / Mike Galloway
Frank Overton
Mr. Davis / Sheriff / Pat Garrett
Arthur O'Connell
Grant / Jim Elkins
Tonio Selwart
John Marley
Nydia Westman
Walter Brooke
Margaret Wycherly
Hugh Reilly
Dorothy Peterson
Brandon De Wilde
John Ireland
Geoffrey Horne
Charlton Heston
Frank Albertson
Ruth McDevitt
Enid Markey
Dane Clark
Cyril Ritchard
Lee Meriwether
Nehemiah Persoff
Ed Kagan
Kim Hunter
Henry Calvin
Peggy McCay
Audra Lindley
John Forsythe
Gaby Rodgers
Marsha Hunt
Phoebe Throssel / Viola
Melvyn Douglas
The Stranger / Richard Gordon
Patricia Breslin
Juliet
Constance Ford
Ernest Truex
Madge Evans
Elinor Dashwood / Elizabeth Bennet
Ethel Griffies
Mrs. White / Grandmother
Bartlett Robinson
David White
Cary Sloane
John Beal
Ludie
Steven Hill
Horace Mann Borden / George
Torin Thatcher
Othello
Anne Jackson
Daughter
Helen Wagner
Inez
Betty Field
Rose
Bert Freed
Al Rago
Biff McGuire
Maureen Stapleton
Mrs. Johnson / Daughter
Michael Strong
John Poe / Lloyd Mills
Peggy Wood
Mrs. Oliver Jordan / Florence McDavid
Robert H. Harris
Walter Abel
Macduff
Paul Ford
Alex March
Chauffeur
Ernest Graves
Christian de Neuvillette
Mildred Dunnock
Berdina Ferris
Richard Sanders
Prosecuting Attorney
Eddie Albert
Charlie
Don Murray
Axel Nordman
Anne Crawford
Margaret Fuller / Theresa
James Westerfield
H.T. Carmichael
John Randolph
Hotstuff / Neil Dalton
Tony Randall
Ernest Winkler
Larry Blyden
Howard St. John
Abbot
Kim Stanley
Wilma Thompson
Hildy Parks
Penny Benson
Ross Martin
Rodney Wilkins
Kathleen Maguire
Helen
Ernest Borgnine
Mathew O'Rourke
Hume Cronyn
Ben Marriott
Joanne Woodward
Arabella Cookenboo / Emily
William Hansen
Johnny Desmond
Nick Mercer
Sidney Poitier
Tommy Tyler
Larry Gates
Darcy
Ed Begley
Ernie Barger
Jason Robards
Mason / Joe Grant
Barbara O'Neil
Mme. Pollard / Ruth
Kay Medford
Betty Winston
Charles Dingle
Daddy Tom
Madeleine Carroll
Jerome Cowan
Joseph Anthony
Madeleine Sherwood
Tweed's daughter
Natalie Schafer
Phyllis Kirk
Dolly
Robert Keith
Buster Crabbe
Gerald S. O'Loughlin
Vanessa Brown
Nancy Kelly
Joey Adams
Bill Dix
Sylvia Sidney
Carlos Montalbán
Saguro
Robert Ellenstein
Dr. Lehmbruck
Tom Tully
Major Avery
Lenka Peterson
John Cassavetes
Joan Lorring
Jeffrey Lynn
Peter Brandon
Terry Becker
Edna Best
Hugh Marlowe
Claude Dauphin
John Qualen
Gus Gruntle
Ward Costello
Investigator Robert Wheelock
William Smithers
Patrick O'Neal
Cliff
Mark Roberts
Charlotte Rae
Jean Stapleton
Bus Girl
Sal Mineo
Jessica Tandy
Liz Marriott
Jack Lord
William Bendix
Genteman Suitor
Jean-Pierre Aumont
John James Audubon
Mary Wickes
Amelia Coop
Cameron Mitchell
Pvt. Kenneth Dowey
Conrad Janis
Bert Lahr
Skid Johnson
Jeanne Bates
Cara Williams
Richard Webb
Edward Everett Horton
Mark Rydell
Robert Mulligan
Bess Myerson
Lee Grant
Paul Muni
George Simon
Vivian Blaine
Una O'Connor
Donald Woods
Joan Greenwood
Georges Renavent
Catherine McLeod
Marjorie Gateson
Joyce Van Patten
Joan Chandler
Richard Davalos
Tom Bates
Cathleen Cordell
Faye Emerson
The Glamour Girl
Betsy Blair
Jeff Morrow
Grace Hartman
Nettie Upjohn
Florence Eldridge
Nanine
George Coulouris
William Windom
Dennis Baldwin
Edith Atwater
Marian Burnett
Carl Benton Reid
Papa
Ruth Chatterton
Zasu Pitts
Belinda Pryde
Donald Cook
Richard Hart
John
Lilia Skala
Nellie Rimpleger
Josephine Hull
Francis Lederer
Stephen Elliott
Bill Goodwin
Richard Coogan
Barbara Baxley
David Swift
Marian Winters
Will Hare
Houston Ticket Agent
Oskar Homolka
Bert
Robert Quarry
Dr. Wheeler
Parker Fennelly
Darren McGavin
Bill Starbuck
Anthony Dawson
Robert McQueeney
Doctor
Joe Maross
Malcolm Keen
Richard Derr
Tod Andrews
Luis van Rooten
Harry Shelton
Michael Conrad
Charles Bowdre
Harry Bellaver
Joe
Ethel Remey
Mrs. Mulberry
Arthur Franz
Norman
Don Fellows
Lanier
Crahan Denton
Moultrie Patten
1st Announcer
Joe Mantell
Bachelor
Kurt Kasznar
Alexander Ingles
Natalie Trundy
Emiliy Marriott
Viveca Lindfors
Widow
Victor Jory
Henry Daniell
Colonel Chart
Burt Brinckerhoff
Joyce Redman
Lady Macbeth
Mary Astor
Frank M. Thomas
Marley's Ghost
Jean Carson
Alfred Drake
Captain Brown
Mary Morris
Leueen MacGrath
Kathleen Moore
Lilli Palmer
Molly Collicutt
Bruce Gordon
Burton
Virginia Gilmore
Paul Hartman
Horace Upjohn
Judith Evelyn
Marguerite Gautier
Dean Jagger
Charles Burnett
Mady Christians
Mama
Joe Downing
Patton
David Lewis
Albert Brisbane
Janet Blair
Amelie
Louisa Horton Hill
Carol Stone
Barbara Allen
Nina Foch
Elizabeth
Claudia Morgan
Aline MacMahon
Burgess Meredith
Francis L. Sullivan
Scott McKay
Phyllis Love
Romney Brent
John Hoyt
Henry Beckman
Peggy Allenby
Mary Jackson
Aunt Edna
Andrew Duggan
Anne Meara
Betty Blake
Jackie Cooper
Bubbo
Dick York
Andy
Logan Ramsey
Scott Forbes
Kevin Coughlin
Gary
Eva Gabor
Melanie Winters
June Lockhart
George Chandler
Martin E. Brooks
Lin McCarthy
Frank Marth
Lily Cahill
Mel Ruick
John Carradine
Malvolio
Les Tremayne
Howard Smith
Mary Beth Hughes
Joan Croydon
Mrs. Dennis
Donald Curtis
Adam West
Ham Ector
Jack Weston
Lumpkin
Harry Townes
Bill Erwin
Herman
Gene Wood
Henry Howard
Pat Henning
Claessens
Henry Jones
Professor Stark-Purvis
Bertha Belmore
Jack Lemmon
Walter Greaza
Jason Evers
Margaret Hayes
Leopoldine Konstantin
Countess
Addison Richards
Edward Andrews
Betty Lou Keim
Phyllis
Paul Newman
Billy the Kid
Anthony Eisley
Jimmy
John Kerr
George Avery
Mario Gallo
Lydia Clarke
Dan Frazer
2nd Announcer
Calvin Thomas
Anthony Quinn
John Marriott
Dennis Cross
Railroad Ticket Agent
John C. Becher
Chris Gampel
Diego
Richard Fraser
Keith Reddington
Louis Sorin
Jean Muir
Franchot Tone
Lois Wilson
Betty Furness
Nancy Marchand
Clara
John Ericson
James Dean
Robbie Warren
Oliver Thorndike
Ivan F. Simpson
Mary K. Wells
Frank Stephens
Katherine Meskill
Mary Patton
Ralph Longley
Stephen Courtleigh
Abraham Lincoln
Carmen Mathews
Mariella Barger
John Connell
Ray Barger
Joseph Sweeney
Mr Barger
Patricia Fay
Louise
Eberhard Krumschmidt
- Rating source
- TMDB
- Keywords
- #anthology, #playhouse
