Jack Collins
Birthday: Born in 1918-08-24 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Deathday: 2005-01-31
TV Credits
Gunsmoke
Character: J. Stedman Edgecomb
Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman MacDonnell and writer John Meston. The stories take place in and around Dodge City, Kansas, during the settlement of the American West. The central character is lawman Marshal Matt Dillon, played by William Conrad on radio and James Arness on television....
Bewitched
Character: Mr. Gregson
Samantha Stephens is a seemingly normal suburban housewife who also happens to be a genuine witch, with all the requisite magical powers. Her husband Darrin insists that Samantha keep her witchcraft under wraps, but situations invariably require her to indulge her powers while keeping her bothersome mother Endora at bay....
Dallas
Character: Russell Slater
The world's first mega-soap, and one of the most popular ever produced, Dallas had it all. Beautiful women, expensive cars, and men playing Monopoly with real buildings. Famous for one of the best cliffhangers in TV history, as the world asked "Who shot J.R.?" A slow-burner to begin with, Dallas hit its stride in the 2nd season, with long storylines and expert character development. Dallas ruled the airwaves in the 1980's....
Occasional Wife
Character: Max Brahms
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The Addams Family
Character: Dr. Bird
A satirical inversion of the ideal of the perfect American nuclear family, they are an eccentric wealthy family who delight in everything grotesque and macabre, and are never really aware that people find them bizarre or frightening. In fact, they themselves are often terrified by "normal" people....
The Rockford Files
Character: Frank Martin / Finn O'Herlihy
Cranky but likable L.A. PI Jim Rockford pulls no punches (but takes plenty of them). An ex-con sent to the slammer for a crime he didn't commit, Rockford takes on cases others don't want, aided by his tough old man, his lawyer girlfriend and some shady associates from his past....
The Rockford Files
Character: Dr. Wetherford
Cranky but likable L.A. PI Jim Rockford pulls no punches (but takes plenty of them). An ex-con sent to the slammer for a crime he didn't commit, Rockford takes on cases others don't want, aided by his tough old man, his lawyer girlfriend and some shady associates from his past....
The Rockford Files
Character: Victor Kreski
Cranky but likable L.A. PI Jim Rockford pulls no punches (but takes plenty of them). An ex-con sent to the slammer for a crime he didn't commit, Rockford takes on cases others don't want, aided by his tough old man, his lawyer girlfriend and some shady associates from his past....
Adam-12
Character: Mr. Purdy
Adam-12 is a television police drama that followed two police officers of the Los Angeles Police Department, Pete Malloy and Jim Reed, as they patrolled the streets of Los Angeles in their patrol unit, 1-Adam-12....
Petticoat Junction
Character: Hubert Thatcher
The Bradley family are proud owners of the Shady Rest Hotel. Kate and her three young daughters do the job of running the hotel....
Here's Lucy
Character: Curt
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The Lucy Show
Character: Rocky
The Lucy Show is an American sitcom that aired on CBS from 1962–68. It was Lucille Ball's follow-up to I Love Lucy. A significant change in cast and premise for the 1965–66 season divides the program into two distinct eras; aside from Ball, only Gale Gordon, who joined the program for its second season, remained. For the first three seasons, Vivian Vance was the co-star. The earliest scripts were entitled The Lucille Ball Show, but when this title was declined, producers thought of calling the ...
The Lucy Show
Character: Ernie Williams
The Lucy Show is an American sitcom that aired on CBS from 1962–68. It was Lucille Ball's follow-up to I Love Lucy. A significant change in cast and premise for the 1965–66 season divides the program into two distinct eras; aside from Ball, only Gale Gordon, who joined the program for its second season, remained. For the first three seasons, Vivian Vance was the co-star. The earliest scripts were entitled The Lucille Ball Show, but when this title was declined, producers thought of calling the ...
Here's Lucy
Character: Johnson
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Here's Lucy
Character: Mr. Phillips
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Here's Lucy
Character: Dr. Proctor
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Here's Lucy
Character: Arthur Collins
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Here's Lucy
Character: Harvey Stevens
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The Odd Couple
Character: Brother Samuel
Felix and Oscar are two divorced men. Felix is neat and tidy while Oscar is sloppy and casual. They share a Manhattan apartment, and their different lifestyles inevitably lead to conflicts....
The Odd Couple
Character: Albert
Felix and Oscar are two divorced men. Felix is neat and tidy while Oscar is sloppy and casual. They share a Manhattan apartment, and their different lifestyles inevitably lead to conflicts....
I Dream of Jeannie
Character: General Hadley
While on a mission, American astronaut Captain Tony Nelson is forced to make an emergency landing that will forever change his life. On a deserted South Pacific island, Captain Nelson happens upon a bottle containing a beautiful two-thousand-year-old female genie named Jeannie. Rescuing her from the bottle nets Tony the requisite three wishes, and then some, when Jeannie pledges total devotion to her new "master"....
Barbary Coast
Character: Butler
Barbary Coast is an American television series that aired on ABC. The pilot movie first aired on May 4, 1975 and the series itself premiered September 8, 1975; the last episode aired January 9, 1976. Barbary Coast was inspired by a similar 19th-century spy series, The Wild Wild West, and like the earlier program, Barbary Coast mixed the genres of Western and secret agent drama....
Bewitched
Character: Mr. Harper
Samantha Stephens is a seemingly normal suburban housewife who also happens to be a genuine witch, with all the requisite magical powers. Her husband Darrin insists that Samantha keep her witchcraft under wraps, but situations invariably require her to indulge her powers while keeping her bothersome mother Endora at bay....
Lincoln
Character: Corey
Lincoln (aka Sandburg's Lincoln) is an American six-part miniseries broadcast on NBC from September 6, 1974 to April 14, 1976....
87th Precinct
Character: Garcy
87th Precinct is an American crime drama starring Robert Lansing, Gena Rowlands, and Ron Harper, which aired on NBC on Monday evenings during the 1961–1962 television season....
The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald
Character: Judge Claymore
The bizarre story behind the man accused of assassinating John F. Kennedy and what might have happened had he been brought to trial....
Movie Credits
The Towering Inferno
Character: Mayor Ramsay
At the opening party of a colossal—but poorly constructed—skyscraper, a massive fire breaks out, threatening to destroy the tower and everyone in it....
The Other
Character: Mr. P.C. Pretty
A series of gruesome accidents plague a small American farming community in the summer of 1935, encircling two identical twin brothers and their family....
Linda Lovelace for President
Character: Honest John
An intentionally campy film designed to capitalize on Linda Lovelace's sudden fame following "Deep Throat", this film centers around Linda's fictional grass roots campaign to run for president. Touring the country with a rag-tag team of strange and wacky people, hilarity supposedly ensues at every stop....
Emperor of the North
Character: Dispatcher (uncredited)
Hobos encounter a sadistic railway conductor that will not let anyone "ride the rails" for free....
The Sex Symbol
Character: Ted Brown
A thinly-disguised version of the life of Marilyn Monroe, detailing her ups and downs in life and how her erratic behavior contributed to her deteriorating career....
The Sting
Character: Duke Boudreau
A novice con man teams up with an acknowledged master to avenge the murder of a mutual friend by pulling off the ultimate big con and swindling a fortune from a big-time mobster....
The Nest
Character: Shakey Jake
Horrifying shocker as a biological experiment goes haywire when meat-eating mutant roaches invade an island community, terrorizing a peaceful New England fishing village and hideously butchering its citizens....
I Was a Mail Order Bride
Character: Archibald Tucker
On a bet with one of his practical-joking partners, a Los Angeles lawyer responds to an ad from a pretty Chicago magazine writer offering herself as a bridal candidate as an investigative reporting assignment, and then makes another bet that he can keep the relationship platonic for two weeks....
Get to Know Your Rabbit
Character: Mr. Reese
A young businessman goes to a magic expert to learn hardness and skill with his cynical and greedy collaborators. He becomes a very good tap dancer, but will he be able to get free of his old boss?...
Rock, Rock, Rock!
Character: Father
Teenage Dori can't convince her father to buy her a gown so she decides to get the money together herself in time for the prom....
The Last Ride of the Dalton Gang
Character: Poker Player
A light-hearted view of the Dalton Gang's legendary raid on Coffeyville, Kansas and the years leading up to it as the brothers form themselves into a gang of horse thieves and train and bank robbers with their arch enemy, Detective Will Smith, constantly on their heels....
Death Car on the Freeway
Character: Bobby
A determined TV reporter is out to find a maniac who is methodically attacking lone women drivers on the Los Angeles Freeway by pushing them off the road with his powerful van....
The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald
Character: Judge Claymore
The bizarre story behind the man accused of assassinating John F. Kennedy and what might have happened had he been brought to trial....
Goin' Coconuts
Character: Charlie
The toothsome singing duo, Donny and Marie Osmond, head for Hawaii in this comedy. The trouble begins when Marie acquires a lovely necklace without realizing that it is coveted by a group of thieves. An enigmatic woman is also after the necklace. Mayhem, music, and sibling rivalry ensue....
Death Sentence
Character: Willis Wright
A juror on a murder trial begins to believe that the man charged with the crime is innocent — and that the real killer is her own husband....
Flood!
Character: Jack Spangler
Two helicopter pilots rush aid to a small town devastated by a flood following the collapse of an aging dam....
Trial Run
Character: Henry Wycoff
A slice-of-life drama involving a young lawyer, his adoring secretary who tries to help to advance his career, and his employer, a famed lawyer burdened with an unfaithful wife....