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Carl Benton Reid

Carl Benton Reid

Actor · 1893 – 1973 · Lansing, Michigan, USA

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Carl Benton Reid (August 14, 1893 – March 16, 1973) was an American actor. He achieved fame on the Broadway stage in 1939 as Oscar Hubbard, one of Regina Giddens's (Tallulah Bankhead) greedy, devious brothers in the play The Little Foxes, and made his film debut reprising his role opposite Bette Davis in the 1941 film version. He also appeared in several Shakespeare plays on Broadway, and in the original production of Eugene O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh, as Harry Slade. His stern, cold demeanor quickly stereotyped him in villainous, and/or unpleasant characters, although he could play a sympathetic role, as he did occasionally in such films as the 1957 TV-movie version of The Pied Piper of Hamelin. Here he played the Mayor of Hamelout, who unsuccessfully requests help from the Mayor of Hamelin (Claude Rains), when Hamelout is the victim of a flood. The flood leads to the famous plague of rats which invade Hamelin, and set the main plot in motion. He played the American Admiral, who is leading the peace talks between the Americans and Chinese during the Korean War in MGM's Pork Chop Hill. Reid made four guest appearances on Perry Mason during the show's nine-year run between 1957-66. His last two roles came in 1966; as the judge in the film version of Madame X and as Claude Townsend in the TV series The F.B.I.

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  • Movie7.6

    In a Lonely Place

    1950 · 685 votes

  • Movie6.5

    The Egyptian

    1954 · 111 votes

  • Movie5.5
  • Movie6.3

    The Left Hand of God

    1955 · 45 votes

  • Movie6.3

    Escape from Fort Bravo

    1953 · 88 votes

  • Movie5.9

    The Great Caruso

    1951 · 20 votes

  • Movie6.7

    Pork Chop Hill

    1959 · 79 votes

  • Movie7.5

    The Little Foxes

    1941 · 199 votes

  • Movie6.5

    Broken Lance

    1954 · 88 votes

  • Movie6.7

    The Sniper

    1952 · 84 votes

  • Movie6.1

    The Fuller Brush Girl

    1950 · 11 votes

  • Movie6.9

    The Trap

    1959 · 18 votes

  • Movie7.2

    Time Limit

    1957 · 28 votes

  • Movie6.5

    The Last Wagon

    1956 · 90 votes

  • Movie6.4

    Madame X

    1966 · 44 votes

  • Movie4.8

    Tarzan's Fight for Life

    1958 · 12 votes

  • Movie5.8

    Athena

    1954 · 8 votes

  • Movie6.6

    The Ugly American

    1963 · 37 votes

  • Movie6.2
  • Movie6.4

    Wichita

    1955 · 61 votes

  • Movie6.0

    Spoilers of the Forest

    1957 · 2 votes

  • Movie7.3
  • Movie5.5

    The Spoilers

    1955 · 8 votes

  • Movie5.7

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  • TV7.7

    Perry Mason

    1957 · 140 votes

  • TV7.6

    The Andy Griffith Show

    1960 · 175 votes

  • TV7.3

    Have Gun, Will Travel

    1957 · 44 votes

  • TV7.9
  • TV5.7

    Dr. Kildare

    1961 · 19 votes

  • TV5.6

    The F.B.I.

    1965 · 25 votes

  • TV6.5

    The Virginian

    1962 · 35 votes

  • TV6.3

    Lassie

    1954 · 74 votes

  • TV5.9

    Ben Casey

    1961 · 15 votes

  • TV6.2
  • TV6.6
  • TV7.6

    The Dick Van Dyke Show

    1961 · 110 votes

  • TV7.1

    The Lucy Show

    1962 · 53 votes

  • TV6.2

    Burke's Law

    1963 · 12 votes

  • TV6.7

    Gunsmoke

    1955 · 119 votes

  • TV5.7

    One Step Beyond

    1959 · 15 votes

  • TV6.7

    Thriller

    1960 · 20 votes

  • TV6.5

    Kraft Suspense Theatre

    1963 · 4 votes

  • TV6.0
  • TV6.7

    The Detectives

    1959 · 10 votes

  • TV6.7

    Laramie

    1959 · 18 votes

  • TV5.8

    The Millionaire

    1955 · 4 votes

  • TV8.2

    Arrest and Trial

    1963 · 4 votes

  • TV6.5

    The Deputy

    1959 · 6 votes