Gary Merrill

Actor Aug 2 (died age 74) Hartford, Connecticut, USA 1943–2021 (78 year career)

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Biography

Gary Fred Merrill (August 2, 1915 – March 5, 1990) was an American film and television character actor whose credits included more than fifty feature films, a half-dozen mostly short-lived TV series, and dozens of television guest appearances. Description above from the Wikipedia article Gary Merrill, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For

Film

All About Eve

Bill Sampson

Film

Where the Sidewalk Ends

Tommy Scalise

Film

Twelve O'Clock High

Colonel Keith Davenport

Film

Mysterious Island

Gideon Spilitt

Film

The Incident

Douglas McCann

Film

Rawhide

Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

Film

Witness to Murder

Police Lt. Lawrence Mathews

Film

Another Man's Poison

George Bates

Filmography

Acting (99)

Movies (59)

Titans of Destruction: The Evolution of Giant Monster Movies

2021

as Self - (archive footage)

The Seekers

1979

as Capt. Hull

Thieves

as Street Man

World of Darkness

as Dr. Thomas Madsen

For Liberty and Union

1977

as Self - Narrator (voice)

The Zodiac Murders

Huckleberry Finn

as Pap

The Murderers

Pueblo

as Adm. Thomas E. Moorer

5.7

Murder and the Computer

1973

as Gordon Craig

Earth II

1971

as Walter Dietrich

5.4

Secret of the Sacred Forest

1970

as Mike Parks

Loving Badly

Then Came Bronson

as Inspector Otis

The Power

as Mark Corlane

Run, Psycho, Run

as George Dennison

The Incident

as Douglas McCann

Clambake

as Sam Burton

Hondo and the Apaches

1967

as General Philip Sheridan

6.8

The Last Challenge

1967

as Squint Calloway

6.3

The Dangerous Days of Kiowa Jones

1966

as Marshal Duncan

6.0

Ride Beyond Vengeance

1966

as Dub Stokes

5.9

Destination Inner Space

1966

as Dr. LaSatier

4.9

In Search of Hart Crane

1966

as Narrator (voice)

Atomic Power Today: Service with Safety

1966

as Narrator

Catacombs

1965

as Raymond Garth

6.0

Around the World Under the Sea

1965

as Dr. August 'Gus' Boren

The Searching Eye

as Narrator

A Girl Named Tamiko

as Max Wilson

Mysterious Island

as Gideon Spilitt

The Pleasure of His Company

as James Dougherty

The Great Impostor

as Pa Demara

The Savage Eye

as The Poet

The Wonderful Country

as Major Colton

Rhapsody of Steel

as Narrator

The Missouri Traveler

1958

as Doyle Magee

6.4

Crash Landing

1958

as Captain Steve Williams

5.7

If You Knew Elizabeth

1957

as Walter Hubbard

Navy Wife

1956

as Jack Blain

Bermuda Affair

1956

as Bob Scoffield

The Black Dakotas

1954

as Brock Marsh (alias Zachary Paige)

The Human Jungle

as John Danforth

Witness to Murder

as Police Lt. Lawrence Mathews

6.3

A Blueprint for Murder

1953

as Fred Sargent

6.1

Phone Call from a Stranger

as David Trask

The Girl in White

as Dr. Seth Pawling

Night Without Sleep

as Richard Morton

Decision Before Dawn

as Col. Devlin

The Frogmen

as Lt. Cmdr. Pete Vincent

Another Man's Poison

as George Bates

Rawhide

as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

6.7

All About Eve

1950

as Bill Sampson

8.1

Where the Sidewalk Ends

1950

as Tommy Scalise

7.2

Mother Didn't Tell Me

1950

as Dr. Peter Roberts

6.2

Twelve O'Clock High

1949

as Colonel Keith Davenport

Slattery's Hurricane

as Cmdr E.T. Kramer

Strange Victory

as Narrator

Winged Victory

as Captain McIntyre

This Is the Army

as Backstage MP on Right (uncredited)

5.6

Television (40)

The Littlest Hobo

1979

as Willie Brogan

7.3

The Seekers

1979

as Capt. Hull

Movin' On

Kung Fu

as Dan Hoyle

Cannon

Young Dr. Kildare

as Dr. Leonard Gillespie

Marcus Welby, M.D.

1969

as Orlando 'Cord' Corday

Medical Center

Then Came Bronson

as Inspector Otis

Hondo

The Time Tunnel

as Senator Leroy Clark

Branded

Profiles in Courage

as John Marshall

Reporter

The Outer Limits

as Dr. James Hamilton / Major Roger Brothers

7.8

Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre

1963

5.7

Kraft Suspense Theatre

1963

as Mark Jordan

5.3

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

as John Pemberton

Combat!

as Capt. August

Sam Benedict

Ben Casey

The New Breed

as Karl Lippert

Bus Stop

Outlaws

The Twilight Zone

as Joseph Paradine

Laramie

New York Confidential

Suspicion

Alcoa Theatre

as Dick Bowen

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

1956

as Col. Boyd Nelson

6.0

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

1955

as Sgt. Rockwell

7.8

The 20th Century Fox Hour

1955

5.4

Justice

1954

as Jason Tyler

General Electric Theater

as McMasters

Letter to Loretta

as Bill Masters

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

1951

as John Beasley / Nash

7.2

Robert Montgomery Presents

as Felice Benuzzi

Studio One

as Paul Gormay

The Ed Sullivan Show

as Self

Winston Churchill: The Valiant Years

as Narrator

10.0