Frank Overton

AKA: Фрэнк Овертон, Frank Emmons Overton
1.3783

1918-03-12

Babylon, New York, U.S.

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Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {76}

Gen. Bogan

1964-10-07 7.8

Fail Safe

Because of a technical defect an American bomber team mistakenly orders the destruction of Moscow. The President of the United States has but little time to prevent an atomic catastrophe from occurrin ...
Genre :Thriller, Drama, War

Sheriff Heck Tate

1962-12-20 8

To Kill a Mockingbird

Scout Finch, 6, and her older brother Jem live in sleepy Maycomb, Alabama, spending much of their time with their friend Dill and spying on their reclusive and mysterious neighbor, Boo Radley. When At ...
Genre :Drama

Robert Sloan (archive footage)

2019-11-14 10

The Twilight Zone: A 60th Anniversary Celebration

Six episodes of the original series, restored and on the big screen for the first time, and a special retrospective documentary encompass this Fathom Event. ...
Genre :Documentary, Drama, Thriller, Mystery, Science Fiction

Man in Mob Behind Courthouse (uncredited)

1947-02-28 7

Boomerang!

When a kindly priest is murdered while waiting at a street corner in a quiet Connecticut town, the citizens are horrified and demand action from the police. All of the witnesses identify John Waldron, ...
Genre :Drama, Mystery

Walter Clark

1960-05-26 7.26

Wild River

A young bureaucrat for the Tennessee Valley Authority goes to rural Tennessee to oversee the building of a dam. He encounters opposition from the local people, in particular a farmer who objects to hi ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Father O'Connors

1959-02-18 6.3

The Last Mile

Jail house tensions mount as a killer's execution approaches. ...
Genre :Drama, Thriller, Crime

Burt Hogan

1961-03-01 6.2

Posse from Hell

Banner Cole is a tough sheriff's deputy who forms a small posse to go after 4 death cell escapees who killed the sheriff , along with 3 other men, and kidnapped a woman with rape in mind. ...
Genre :Western

Simeon Cabot

1958-03-12 6.857

Desire Under the Elms

Ephraim Cabot is an old man of amazing vitality who loves his New England farm with a greedy passion. Hating him, and sharing his greed, are the sons of two wives Cabot has overworked into early grave ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Self (archive footage)

2020-01-28 0

'Fail-Safe' and the Cold War

Film critic J. Hoberman discusses the best-selling 1962 novel by Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler on which "Fail-Safe" is based, along with the pervasiveness of nuclear paranoia in films of the sixti ...
Genre :Documentary

Self (archive footage)

2000-10-31 0

Revisiting 'Fail-Safe'

Documentary featuring interviews with director Sidney Lumet, "Fail-Safe" (2000) producer George Clooney, star Dan O’Herlihy and screenwriter Walter Bernstein. ...
Genre :Documentary

Morris Lacey

1960-09-28 6.7

The Dark at the Top of the Stairs

In Oklahoma in the 1920s, Rubin Flood loses his job as a traveling salesman when the company goes bankrupt. This adds to his worries at home. His wife Cora is frigid because of trying to make ends mee ...
Genre :Drama

Harley Peasley

1961-09-20 5.5

Claudelle Inglish

A young daughter of poor farmers is forced by her mother to ditch her young boyfriend in order to marry an old rich neighbor but the girl rebels by becoming the town's harlot. ...
Genre :Drama

Intern (uncredited)

1950-08-16 6.923

No Way Out

Two hoodlum brothers are brought into a hospital for gunshot wounds, and when one of them dies the other accuses their black doctor of murder. ...
Genre :Drama, Crime, Thriller

Mr. Davis

1958-01-01 0

An American Girl

The story of a teenage girl who starts wearing a Jewish charm bracelet that she received for her birthday. She then begins to experience anti-semitism and prejudice first hand from her friends at high ...
Genre :Drama

Guard (uncredited)

1950-06-23 6.7

Mystery Street

When a young woman's skeletal remains turn up on a Massachusetts beach, Barnstable cop Peter Moralas teams with Boston police and uses forensics, with the help of a Harvard professor, to determine the ...
Genre :Crime, Thriller

Maj. Rufus Cobb

1957-03-22 6.202

The True Story of Jesse James

Having fought with the Confederacy during the Civil War, Jesse James and his brother Frank dream of a farm life in Missouri. Harassed by Union sympathizers, they assemble a gang of outlaws, robbing tr ...
Genre :Western

Sheriff

1953-03-01 0

The Trip to Bountiful

A woman has to live with a daughter in law who hates her and a son who does not dare take her side. While the unhappy family lives in a Houston apartment, Carrie Watts dreams of returning to Bountiful ...
Genre :Drama

Mr. Sargeant

1959-03-04 6.1

Lonelyhearts

Burdened by a family secret, Adam White lands a job as a newspaper advice columnist. Little does he realize that it's all part of a nasty desire by cynical editor William Shrike to crush the souls of ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Hamilton Calhoun

1956-05-28 0

Bloomer Girl

In 1956, BLOOMER GIRL was presented in a live television production starring the magnificent Barbara Cook, whose star was then on the rise, with leading roles in CANDIDE and THE MUSIC MAN still in her ...
Genre :Music, Romance, TV Movie

John Emroy

1951-11-12 0

A Bolt of Lightning

The story of James Otis who was a part of the American revolution. He contested in court the right of the British to search colonists' homes. ...
Genre :Drama

Elias Sandoval

1966-09-08 8.014

Star Trek

Space. The Final Frontier. The U.S.S. Enterprise embarks on a five year mission to explore the galaxy. The Enterprise is under the command of Captain James T. Kirk with First Officer Mr. Spock, from t ...
Genre :Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Drama

Bruce Reynolds

1963-10-10 5.3

Kraft Suspense Theatre

Kraft Suspense Theatre is an American anthology series that was telecast from 1963 to 1965 on NBC. Sponsored by Kraft Foods, it was seen three weeks out of every four and was pre-empted for Perry Como ...
Genre :Mystery, Drama

Andrew Bates

1958-09-30 5.5

Naked City

Naked City is a police drama series which aired from 1958 to 1963 on the ABC television network. It was inspired by the 1948 motion picture of the same name, and mimics its dramatic “semi-documentary” ...
Genre :Drama, Crime, Action & Adventure

Father Paul

1957-09-21 7.719

Perry Mason

The cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most difficult of cases in the aid of the innocent. ...
Genre :Mystery, Drama, Crime

Alan Wall

1948-11-07 5

Studio One

An American radio–television anthology series, created in 1947 by Canadian director Fletcher Markle, who came to CBS from the CBC. Studio One, presented by Westinghouse, was one of the first of the an ...
Genre :Drama

Robert Sloan

1959-10-02 8.5

The Twilight Zone

An anthology series containing drama, psychological thriller, fantasy, science fiction, suspense, and/or horror, often concluding with a macabre or unexpected twist. ...
Genre :Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery, Drama

1962-09-15 6

Sam Benedict

Sam Benedict is an American legal drama that aired on NBC from September 1962 to March 1963. The series was created and executive produced by E. Jack Neuman. Sam Benedict is based on real-life lawyer ...
Genre :Drama

1961-10-01 0

Bus Stop

Bus Stop is a 26-episode American drama which aired on ABC from October 1, 1961, until March 25, 1962, starring Marilyn Maxwell as Grace Sherwood, the owner of a bus station and diner in the fictitiou ...
Genre :Drama

Sheriff Al Springer

1963-09-17 7.207

The Fugitive

Richard Kimble is falsely convicted of his wife's murder and given the death penalty. En route to death row, Kimble's train derails and crashes, allowing him to escape and begin a cross-country search ...
Genre :Action & Adventure, Drama, Mystery

Sam Cafferty

1962-09-19 6.344

The Virginian

The Shiloh Ranch in Wyoming Territory of the 1890s is owned in sequence by Judge Henry Garth, the Grainger brothers, and Colonel Alan MacKenzie. It is the setting for a variety of stories, many more b ...
Genre :Western, Drama

Bart Hattering

1960-09-13 6.417

Thriller

Thriller is an American anthology television series that aired during the 1960–61 and 1961–62 seasons on NBC. The show featured host Boris Karloff introducing a mix of self-contained, macabre weird-ho ...
Genre :Crime

Prefect

1950-10-02 6.333

Lux Video Theatre

Lux Video Theatre is an American anthology series that was produced from 1950 until 1959. The series presented both comedy and drama in original teleplays, as well as abridged adaptations of films and ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

1958-09-22 6.526

Peter Gunn

Peter Gunn is an American private eye television series. Filmed in a film noir atmosphere and featuring Henry Mancini music that could tell you the action with your eyes closed, Peter Gunn worked in s ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Calvin Gannis

1959-01-20 5.6

One Step Beyond

Alcoa Presents: One Step Beyond is an American anthology series created by Merwin Gerard. The original series ran for three seasons on ABC from January 1959 to July 1961. ...
Genre :Mystery, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Max Brodie

1959-10-05 5.7

Adventures in Paradise

Adventures in Paradise is an American television series created by James Michener which ran on ABC from 1959 until 1962, starring Gardner McKay as Adam Troy, the captain of the schooner Tiki III, whic ...
Genre :Action & Adventure, Drama

Pete Harvey

1962-10-03 6

The Eleventh Hour

The Eleventh Hour is an American medical drama about psychiatry starring Wendell Corey, Jack Ging, and Ralph Bellamy, which aired sixty-two new episodes plus selected rebroadcasts on NBC from October ...
Genre :Drama

Sheriff

1948-10-03 6.286

The Philco Television Playhouse

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 respe ...
Genre :Drama

Bergen

1957-10-14 6.2

Decoy

New York City policewoman Casey Jones' assignment to fight crime often entails her going undercover in some of the seediest and most dangerous parts of the city. Decoy is a groundbreaking American cri ...
Genre :Drama, Crime, Action & Adventure, Mystery

Pete Hooker

1959-01-10 6

Black Saddle

Black Saddle is an American Western television series starring Peter Breck that aired 44 episodes on ABC from January 10, 1959 to May 6, 1960. The half-hour program was produced by Dick Powell's Four ...
Genre :Western, Drama

John Galt

1959-10-04 5.1

The Rebel

After the end of the Civil War, a former Confederate Army private roams the Wild West, and, as a rogue drifter, gets involved in helping out various settlers threatened by various bad guys... THE REB ...
Genre :Western

Nick Logan

1959-09-13 6.2

Riverboat

Riverboat is a 44-episode western television series starring Darren McGavin and Burt Reynolds broadcast on the NBC television network from September 13, 1959 until January 2, 1961. It was produced by ...
Genre :Western

Lester

1950-01-30 5.6

Robert Montgomery Presents

Robert Montgomery Presents is an American dramatic television series which was produced by NBC from January 30, 1950 until June 24, 1957. The live show had several sponsors during its seven-year run, ...
Genre :Drama

1955-10-04 6

Playwrights '56

Genre :

1960-06-08 4.5

Tate

Tate is an American Western television series that aired on NBC from June 8 until September 14, 1960. It was created by Harry Julian Fink, who wrote most of the scripts, and produced by Perry Como's R ...
Genre :Western, Drama

Chief Ramsey

1962-10-01 5.7

Stoney Burke

Stoney Burke is an American western television series broadcast on ABC from October 1, 1962 until May 20, 1963. Six years before the premiere of his CBS crime drama, Hawaii Five-0, Jack Lord starred i ...
Genre :Western

John Oliver

1961-09-27 5.5

Dr. Kildare

The story of a young intern in a large metropolitan hospital trying to learn his profession, deal with the problems of his patients, and win the respect of the senior doctor in his specialty, internal ...
Genre :Drama

D.A. Bill Bryan

1961-09-16 6.2

The Defenders

The Defenders is an American courtroom drama series . It starred E. G. Marshall and Robert Reed as father-and-son defense attorneys who specialized in legally complex cases, with defendants such as ne ...
Genre :Drama

William Bryan

1961-09-16 6.2

The Defenders

The Defenders is an American courtroom drama series . It starred E. G. Marshall and Robert Reed as father-and-son defense attorneys who specialized in legally complex cases, with defendants such as ne ...
Genre :Drama

District Attorney

1961-09-16 6.2

The Defenders

The Defenders is an American courtroom drama series . It starred E. G. Marshall and Robert Reed as father-and-son defense attorneys who specialized in legally complex cases, with defendants such as ne ...
Genre :Drama

Malcolm Page

1961-09-16 6.2

The Defenders

The Defenders is an American courtroom drama series . It starred E. G. Marshall and Robert Reed as father-and-son defense attorneys who specialized in legally complex cases, with defendants such as ne ...
Genre :Drama

Richard Holmes

1961-09-16 6.2

The Defenders

The Defenders is an American courtroom drama series . It starred E. G. Marshall and Robert Reed as father-and-son defense attorneys who specialized in legally complex cases, with defendants such as ne ...
Genre :Drama

1961-04-02 5

The Asphalt Jungle

Police adventure series set in a modern American metropolis, concerning the problems of a special police group formed to fight high echelon crime. The series is a TV projection of the 1950 MGM motion ...
Genre :

Andy Ferguson

1960-10-07 6.324

Route 66

After discovering that his late father has gone through most of the family fortune, Tod Stiles hits the title trans-America highway in his Corvette in search of adventure with friend Buz Murdock, a su ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

Roy

1960-09-19 6.2

The Barbara Stanwyck Show

The Barbara Stanwyck Show is an American anthology drama television series which ran on NBC from September 1960 to September 1961. Barbara Stanwyck served as hostess, and starred in all but four of th ...
Genre :Drama

Gene Farrell

1963-10-04 5.714

Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre

Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre is an American anthology series, sponsored by Chrysler Corporation, which ran on NBC from 1963 through 1967. The show was hosted by Bob Hope, but it had a variet ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy, Talk

Martin Jennings

1957-09-18 6.3

Wagon Train

The series initially starred veteran movie supporting actor Ward Bond as the wagon master, later replaced upon his death by John McIntire, and Robert Horton as the scout, subsequently replaced by look ...
Genre :Western, Drama, Family

The Doctor

1957-09-18 6.3

Wagon Train

The series initially starred veteran movie supporting actor Ward Bond as the wagon master, later replaced upon his death by John McIntire, and Robert Horton as the scout, subsequently replaced by look ...
Genre :Western, Drama, Family

Hanson

1960-10-07 6.324

Route 66

After discovering that his late father has gone through most of the family fortune, Tod Stiles hits the title trans-America highway in his Corvette in search of adventure with friend Buz Murdock, a su ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

Cord Webster

1960-10-07 6.324

Route 66

After discovering that his late father has gone through most of the family fortune, Tod Stiles hits the title trans-America highway in his Corvette in search of adventure with friend Buz Murdock, a su ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

Peter Graham

1960-10-07 6.324

Route 66

After discovering that his late father has gone through most of the family fortune, Tod Stiles hits the title trans-America highway in his Corvette in search of adventure with friend Buz Murdock, a su ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

Capt. Matthew White

1959-09-12 7.512

Bonanza

The High-Sierra adventures of Ben Cartwright and his sons as they run and defend their ranch while helping the surrounding community. ...
Genre :Western, Action & Adventure, Drama, Family

Harry Wheeler

1959-10-02 8.5

The Twilight Zone

An anthology series containing drama, psychological thriller, fantasy, science fiction, suspense, and/or horror, often concluding with a macabre or unexpected twist. ...
Genre :Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery, Drama

Amos Crenshaw

1959-09-12 7.512

Bonanza

The High-Sierra adventures of Ben Cartwright and his sons as they run and defend their ranch while helping the surrounding community. ...
Genre :Western, Action & Adventure, Drama, Family

1947-05-07 7.5

Kraft Television Theatre

Kraft Television Theater is an American, well-received anthology series presenting live television dramas. ...
Genre :Drama

Brad Turner

1958-10-05 5.6

Lawman

Lawman is an American western television series originally telecast on ABC from 1958 to 1962 starring John Russell as Marshal Dan Troop and featuring Peter Brown as Deputy Marshal Johnny McKay. The se ...
Genre :Western

Bill Corman

1959-09-12 6.2

The Deputy

The Deputy is an American western series that aired on NBC from September 1959, to July 1961. The series stars Henry Fonda as Chief Marshal Simon Fry of the Arizona Territory and Allen Case as Deputy ...
Genre :Western

Mr. Umber

1962-09-19 6.344

The Virginian

The Shiloh Ranch in Wyoming Territory of the 1890s is owned in sequence by Judge Henry Garth, the Grainger brothers, and Colonel Alan MacKenzie. It is the setting for a variety of stories, many more b ...
Genre :Western, Drama

Sam Atkins

1962-09-19 6.344

The Virginian

The Shiloh Ranch in Wyoming Territory of the 1890s is owned in sequence by Judge Henry Garth, the Grainger brothers, and Colonel Alan MacKenzie. It is the setting for a variety of stories, many more b ...
Genre :Western, Drama

Martin Brack

1960-09-17 4.1

Checkmate

Checkmate is an American detective television series starring Anthony George, Sebastian Cabot, and Doug McClure. The show aired on CBS Television from 1960 to 1962 for a total of 70 episodes and was p ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, Mystery

Deputy D.A. Nelson Taylor

1957-09-21 7.719

Perry Mason

The cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most difficult of cases in the aid of the innocent. ...
Genre :Mystery, Drama, Crime

Dr. Manning

1948-11-07 5

Studio One

An American radio–television anthology series, created in 1947 by Canadian director Fletcher Markle, who came to CBS from the CBC. Studio One, presented by Westinghouse, was one of the first of the an ...
Genre :Drama

Mr. Davis

1948-10-03 6.286

The Philco Television Playhouse

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 respe ...
Genre :Drama

Pat Garrett

1948-10-03 6.286

The Philco Television Playhouse

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 respe ...
Genre :Drama

Dr. Grayson

1967-01-10 6.807

The Invaders

The Invaders, alien beings from a dying planet. Their destination: the Earth. Their purpose: to make it their world. David Vincent has seen them, for him it began one lost night on a lonely country ro ...
Genre :Action & Adventure, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Drama

Major Harvey Stovall

1964-09-18 7.15

12 O'Clock High

This series chronicles the adventures--in the air and on the ground--of the men of the 918th Bombardment Group of the U.S. Eighth Air Force. First commanded by irascible General Frank Savage--and late ...
Genre :Drama, War & Politics

George Felse

1962-09-20 7.822

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

A continuation of the anthology series “Alfred Hitchcock Presents”, hosted by the master of suspense and featuring thrillers and mysteries. ...
Genre :Crime, Mystery, Drama