Richard Carlson

ActorDirectorWriter Apr 30 (died age 65) Albert Lea, Minnesota, USA 1938–2015 (77 year career)

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Biography

Richard Dutoit Carlson (April 29, 1912 – November 25, 1977) was an American actor, television and film director, and screenwriter.

Known For

Film

Creature from the Black Lagoon

Dr. David Reed

Film

The Little Foxes

David Hewitt

Film

The Valley of Gwangi

Champ

Film

It Came from Outer Space

John Putnam

Film

King Solomon's Mines

John Goode

Film

Hold That Ghost

Doctor Jackson

Film

The Ghost Breakers

Geoff Montgomery

Film

All I Desire

Henry Murdoch

Filmography

Acting (95)

Movies (65)

3-D Rarities

as (archive footage)

Freedom 2000

The Valley of Gwangi

as Champ

Change of Habit

as Bishop Finley

The Power

as Prof. Norman E. Van Zandt

6.2

Kid Rodelo

1966

as Link

The Doomsday Flight

1966

as Chief Pilot Bob Shea

Della

as David Stafford

Famous Ghost Stories

as Tom Stewart (segment 'Tormented')

6.0

Tormented

1960

as Tom Stewart

4.9

The Unchained Goddess

1958

as The Writer

7.0

The Strange Case of the Cosmic Rays

1957

as The Fiction Writer

5.2

The Helen Morgan Story

1957

as Russell Wade

5.0

Hemo the Magnificent

1957

as Mr. Fiction Writer

Three for Jamie Dawn

as Martin Random

Bengazi

as Insp. Levering

The Last Command

as William B. Travis

An Annapolis Story

as Introductory Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

3.3

Riders to the Stars

1954

as Dr. Jerry Lockwood

5.6

Creature from the Black Lagoon

as Dr. David Reed

Seminole

as Major Degan

The Magnetic Monster

as Dr. Jeffrey Stewart

5.6

The Maze

1953

as Gerald MacTeam

5.6

It Came from Outer Space

as John Putnam

All I Desire

as Henry Murdoch

The Golden Blade

as Narrator (voice)

Flat Top

as Lt. (j.g.) Joe Rodgers

4.2

Retreat, Hell!

1952

as Capt. Paul Hansen

6.3

Whispering Smith vs. Scotland Yard

1952

as Steve Smith ("Whispering Smith")

6.3

Valentino

1951

as William 'Bill' King

3.9

A Millionaire for Christy

as Dr. Roland Cook

The Blue Veil

as Gerald Kean

King Solomon's Mines

as John Goode

The Sound of Fury

as Gil Stanton

Jungle Safari

as Himself (archival footage)

Behind Locked Doors

as Ross Stewart

The Amazing Mr. X

as Martin Abbott

So Well Remembered

as Charles Winslow / Charles Winslow Sr.

Fury in the Pacific

as Narrator

Presenting Lily Mars

as Owen Vail

Sucker Bait

as Bill - Soldier

A Stranger in Town

as Bill Adams

For God and Country

as Tom Manning

Young Ideas

1943

as Tom Farrell

4.6

The Man from Down Under

as Nipper Wilson

White Cargo

as Mr. Langford

Fly By Night

as Dr. Geoffrey Burton

6.4

Highways by Night

1942

as Tommy Van Steel

6.0

My Heart Belongs to Daddy

1942

as R.I.C. Kay

4.2

The Affairs of Martha

as Jeff Sommerfield

West Point Widow

as Dr. Jimmy Krueger

Back Street

as Curt Stanton

The Little Foxes

as David Hewitt

Hold That Ghost

as Doctor Jackson

The Ghost Breakers

as Geoff Montgomery

No, No, Nanette

as Tom Gillespie

Beyond Tomorrow

as James Houston

The Howards of Virginia

as Thomas Jefferson

Too Many Girls

as Clint Kelly

Winter Carnival

as Professor John Welden

Dancing Co-Ed

as 'Pug' Braddock

Little Accident

as Perry Allerton

These Glamour Girls

as Joe

The Young in Heart

as Duncan Macrae

The Duke of West Point

1938

as Jack West

4.0

Television (30)

The World of Hammer

1994

as Self (archive footage)

6.5

The Swiss Family Robinson

Cannon

Lancer

The F.B.I.

as Harold David Dewitt

5.4

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea

as Mattson

The Fugitive

as Allan Pruitt

Burke's Law

as Nels Manning

Arrest and Trial

as Turner Leigh

The Virginian

as Sheriff Marden

Going My Way

Bus Stop

Thriller

as Guy Guthrie

The Aquanauts

as Ross Porter

Rawhide

as Major Buford

Riverboat

as Paul Drake

Mackenzie's Raiders

Perry Mason

as Anthony Fry

Climax!

as Col. Dobie

I Led Three Lives

as Herbert Philbrick

General Electric Theater

as Archie Hawkins

Letter to Loretta

as Larry Carlson

I Led 3 Lives

as Herbert A. Philbrick

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

1951

7.2

Robert Montgomery Presents

1950

5.6

The Colgate Comedy Hour

as Self

Your Show of Shows

Lux Video Theatre

as John

Lights Out

Studio One

Crew (14)

Movies (7)

Kid Rodelo

1966

Director

The Unchained Goddess

1958

Director

7.0

The Saga of Hemp Brown

Director

Johnny Rocco

Story

Appointment with a Shadow

Director

Riders to the Stars

Director

Four Guns to the Border

1954

Director

4.9

Television (7)

Thriller

Director

The Detectives

Director

Men Into Space

Director

The Man and the Challenge

1959

Director

This Man Dawson

1959

Director

Mackenzie's Raiders

Director

Letter to Loretta

Director