Richard Carlson

Born: 1912-04-30

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


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Creature from the Black Lagoon

as Dr. David Reed
Released: 1954-03-05

When scientists exploring the Amazon River stumble on a “missing link” connecting humans and...

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The Valley of Gwangi

as Champ
Released: 1969-07-24

A turn of the century wild west show struggling to make a living in Mexico comes into the...

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King Solomon's Mines

as John Goode
Released: 1950-11-09

Fortune hunter Allan Quatermain teams up with a resourceful woman to help her find her missing...

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The Little Foxes

as David Hewitt
Released: 1941-08-29

In 1900, a clan attempts to strike a deal with a Chicago industrialist to get him to build...

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Tormented

as Tom Stewart
Released: 1960-09-22

A jazz pianist is haunted by his dead ex-lover's crawling hand and floating head.

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The Maze

as Gerald MacTeam
Released: 1953-07-02

A Scotsman abruptly breaks off his engagement to pretty Kitty and moves to his uncle's castle in...

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It Came from Outer Space

as John Putnam
Released: 1953-06-05

Author & amateur astronomer John Putnam and schoolteacher Ellen Fields witness an enormous...

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Hold That Ghost

as Doctor Jackson
Released: 1941-08-08

Two bumbling service station attendants are left as the sole beneficiaries in a gangster's will....

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The Ghost Breakers

as Geoff Montgomery
Released: 1940-06-21

After intrepid working girl Mary Carter becomes the new owner of a reputedly haunted mansion...

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A Stranger in Town

as Bill Adams
Released: 1943-04-01

In the small town of Crownport local attorney Bill Adams is trying to break up the ring of...

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The Magnetic Monster

as Dr. Jeffrey Stewart
Released: 1953-02-18

The Office of Scientific Investigations tracks down the source of increased magnetism and...

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No, No, Nanette

as Tom Gillespie
Released: 1940-12-19

Perky young Nanette attempts to save the marriage of her uncle and aunt by untangling Uncle...

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Behind Locked Doors

as Ross Stewart
Released: 1948-09-13

Behind the locked doors of a mental institution resides crooked politico Judge Drake, free from...

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Change of Habit

as Bishop Finley
Released: 1969-11-10

Dr. John Carpenter takes the job of running a health center in a low-income district. He enlists...

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The Sound of Fury

as Gil Stanton
Released: 1950-12-12

A family man – desperate for a job – latches onto a friend who encourages him into being a criminal.

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The Amazing Mr. X

as Martin Abbott
Released: 1948-07-29

On the beach one night, Christine Faber, two years a widow, thinks she hears her late husband...

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Seminole

as Major Degan
Released: 1953-03-20

Lance Caldwell, a cavalry lieutenant, recounts his efforts to make peace with the Seminole...

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The Blue Veil

as Gerald Kean
Released: 1951-10-26

A World War I widow loses her only child and spends the rest of her life as a children's nurse.

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Back Street

as Curt Stanton
Released: 1941-02-07

Previously filmed in 1932, and remade a third time in 1961, this second film version of Fannie...

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Presenting Lily Mars

as Owen Vail
Released: 1943-04-29

Starstruck Indiana small-town girl Lily is pestering theatrical producer John Thornway for a...

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The Last Command

as William B. Travis
Released: 1955-08-03

During the Texas War of Independence of 1836 American frontiersman and pioneer Jim Bowie pleads...

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Bengazi

as Insp. Levering
Released: 1955-09-14

An American with a shady past joins with a morally-bankrupt Irishman to find treasure buried by...

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The Young in Heart

as Duncan Macrae
Released: 1938-07-06

A family of confidence tricksters sets their sights on a very rich, very lonely old lady named...

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Beyond Tomorrow

as James Houston
Released: 1940-05-10

The ghosts of three elderly industrialists killed in an airplane crash return to Earth to help...

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White Cargo

as Mr. Langford
Released: 1942-12-12

In Africa early in World War II, a British rubber plantation executive reminisces about his...

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Della

as David Stafford
Released: 1964-08-08

Della Chappell is a very wealthy and incredibly reclusive woman. When a big company wants to...

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Kid Rodelo

as Link
Released: 1966-01-01

An embittered ex-convict cowboy sets out to find the hidden gold his partner told him about.

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The Power

as Prof. Norman E. Van Zandt
Released: 1968-02-21

One by one members of a special project team are being killed by telekinesis - the ability to...

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Retreat, Hell!

as Capt. Paul Hansen
Released: 1952-02-17

During the Korean War, a U.S. Marine battalion must fight its way out of a frozen mountain pass...

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Young Ideas

as Tom Farrell
Released: 1943-08-02

A widow's grown children try to break up her romance with a college professor.

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The Doomsday Flight

as Chief Pilot Bob Shea
Released: 1966-12-13

A bomb on board an airliner has an altitude-sensitive trigger. Unless a ransom is paid, it will...

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The Strange Case of the Cosmic Rays

as The Fiction Writer
Released: 1957-10-25

Part of acclaimed filmmaker Frank Capra's "Wonders of Life" series of science-based films (which...

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The Golden Blade

as Narrator (voice)
Released: 1953-08-12

Basra merchant Harun Al-Rashid avenges his father's murder in this adventure set in ancient...

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Whispering Smith Vs. Scotland Yard

as Steve Smith ("Whispering Smith")
Released: 1952-01-01

Mystery directed by Francis Searle.

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All I Desire

as Henry Murdoch
Released: 1953-07-03

In 1910, a stage actress re-visits her husband and children she deserted ten years ago.

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Fury in the Pacific

as Narrator
Released: 1945-03-22

Documentary short film depicting American Army, Navy, Marine, Air Forces, and Coast Guard joint...

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These Glamour Girls

as Joe
Released: 1939-08-18

A drunken college student invites a dance hostess to the big college dance and then forgets he...

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Famous Ghost Stories

as Tom Stewart (segment 'Tormented')
Released: 1961-12-31

A TV pilot masterminded by B movie auteur Bert I. Gordon and cable production company Herts-Lion...

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Dancing Co-Ed

as 'Pug' Braddock
Released: 1939-09-29

After discovering his star dancer is expecting and can't perform, film producer H.W. Workman and...

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A Millionaire for Christy

as Dr. Roland Cook
Released: 1951-09-02

Christy Sloane is sent on a business trip to inform radio personality Peter Lockwood that his...

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The Howards of Virginia

as Thomas Jefferson
Released: 1940-09-19

Beautiful young Virginian Jane steps down from her proper aristocratic upbringing when she...

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The Man from Down Under

as Nipper Wilson
Released: 1943-08-04

An Australian blowhard raises two orphaned children as his own in the years leading up to WWII.

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Hemo the Magnificent

as Mr. Fiction Writer
Released: 1957-03-20

Professor Frank Baxter and some animated friends answer questions about blood. what makes it...

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The Affairs of Martha

as Jeff Sommerfield
Released: 1942-06-21

Members of a well-to-do small community become worried when it is revealed that one of their...

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So Well Remembered

as Charles Winslow / Charles Winslow Sr.
Released: 1947-07-09

A mill-owner's ambitious daughter almost ruins her husband's political career.

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Winter Carnival

as Professor John Welden
Released: 1939-07-28

A divorced glamour girl keeps warm with a professor amid sports and romance at Dartmouth...

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For God and Country

as Tom Manning
Released: 1943-05-15

The story of the U.S. Army Chaplain Service as dramatized in the stories of three chaplains,...

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Riders to the Stars

as Dr. Jerry Lockwood
Released: 1954-01-14

Three men gamble their lives in space to change the history of the world

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Too Many Girls

as Clint Kelly
Released: 1940-10-08

Mr. Casey's daughter, Connie, wants to go to Pottawatomie College and without her knowledge, he...

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3-D Rarities

as (archive footage)
Released: 2015-06-11

Selections include Kelley's Plasticon Pictures, the earliest extant 3-D demonstration film from...

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Valentino

as William 'Bill' King
Released: 1951-03-08

Italian immigrant Rudolph Valentino makes it big in silent Hollywood, but he ends up struggling...

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The Duke of West Point

as Jack West
Released: 1938-12-29

A cocky new West Point cadet from Cambridge is given the cold shoulder by his classmates because...

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Fly-By-Night

as Dr. Geoffrey Burton
Released: 1942-01-19

Young intern Jeff Burton, impulsively offers a lift to an odd-looking gentlemen. It soon turns...

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The Helen Morgan Story

as Russell Wade
Released: 1957-10-02

Torch singer Helen Morgan rises from sordid beginnings to fame and fortune only to lose it all...

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Flat Top

as Lt. (j.g.) Joe Rodgers
Released: 1952-10-26

A rock hard commander trains Navy Carrier Pilots during the Second World War

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Highways by Night

as Tommy Van Steel
Released: 1942-10-02

A young millionaire (Richard Carlson) joins the real world and meets a maid (Jane Randolph) and...

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My Heart Belongs to Daddy

as R.I.C. Kay
Released: 1942-11-07

A distinguished professor finds his well-ordered life tospy-turvy after he is forced to take in...

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West Point Widow

as Dr. Jimmy Krueger
Released: 1941-06-20

In this romance, a hospital nurse marries a West Point football hero. She soon gets pregnant,...

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Little Accident

as Perry Allerton
Released: 1939-10-26

A baby is passed from hand to hand after her father abandons her.

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An Annapolis Story

as Introductory Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Released: 1955-04-10

Two brothers, both cadets at Annapolis, fall in love with the same girl.

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Three for Jamie Dawn

as Martin Random
Released: 1956-07-08

Three jurors are ripe for bribery by the lawyer of a playgirl up for murder.

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Sucker Bait

as Bill - Soldier
Released: 1943-01-25

Military training film exposing the means used by Nazi agents to extract military information...

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Perry Mason

as Anthony Fry
First aired: 1957-09-21

The cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most...

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Perry Mason

as Clete Hawley
First aired: 1957-09-21

The cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most...

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The Fugitive

as Allan Pruitt
First aired: 1963-09-17

Richard Kimble is falsely convicted of his wife's murder and given the death penalty. En route...

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The Virginian

as Sheriff Marden
First aired: 1962-09-19

The Shiloh Ranch in Wyoming Territory of the 1890s is owned in sequence by Judge Henry Garth,...

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The Virginian

as Major Ralph Forrester
First aired: 1962-09-19

The Shiloh Ranch in Wyoming Territory of the 1890s is owned in sequence by Judge Henry Garth,...

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Climax!

as Col. Dobie
First aired: 1954-10-07

Climax! is an American anthology series that aired on CBS from 1954 to 1958. The series was...

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Climax!

as Cass Terhgune
First aired: 1954-10-07

Climax! is an American anthology series that aired on CBS from 1954 to 1958. The series was...

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Cannon

as uncredited
First aired: 1971-09-14

Cannon is a CBS detective television series produced by Quinn Martin which aired from March 26,...

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Studio One

as uncredited
First aired: 1948-11-07

An American radio–television anthology series, created in 1947 by Canadian director Fletcher...

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Studio One

as Harvey Lindfield
First aired: 1948-11-07

An American radio–television anthology series, created in 1947 by Canadian director Fletcher...

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Studio One

as Father
First aired: 1948-11-07

An American radio–television anthology series, created in 1947 by Canadian director Fletcher...

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Burke's Law

as Nels Manning
First aired: 1963-09-20

Burke's Law is an American detective series that ran on ABC from 1963 to 1965 and was revived on...

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Burke's Law

as Dr. Carol Smith
First aired: 1963-09-20

Burke's Law is an American detective series that ran on ABC from 1963 to 1965 and was revived on...

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Rawhide

as Major Buford
First aired: 1959-01-09

The tale of trail boss Gil Favor and his trusty foreman Rowdy Yates as they drives cattle across...

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Robert Montgomery Presents

as uncredited
First aired: 1950-01-30

Robert Montgomery Presents is an American dramatic television series which was produced by NBC...

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The F.B.I.

as Harold David Dewitt
First aired: 1965-09-19

The F.B.I. is an American television series that was broadcast on ABC from 1965 to 1974. It was...

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Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea

as Mattson
First aired: 1964-09-14

Join the crew of the Seaview aboard their super high-tech submarine, where no mission is too...

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Thriller

as Guy Guthrie
First aired: 1960-09-13

Thriller is an American anthology television series that aired during the 1960–61 and 1961–62...

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Lancer

as uncredited
First aired: 1968-09-24

Lancer is an American Western series that aired on CBS from September 1968, to May 1970. The...

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The Colgate Comedy Hour

as Self
First aired: 1950-09-10

The Colgate Comedy Hour is an American comedy-musical variety series that aired live on the NBC...

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Your Show of Shows

as uncredited
First aired: 1950-02-25

Your Show of Shows was a live 90-minute variety show that was broadcast weekly in the United...

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Riverboat

as Paul Drake
First aired: 1959-09-13

Riverboat is a 44-episode western television series starring Darren McGavin and Burt Reynolds...

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Lights Out

as uncredited
First aired: 1949-07-19

Lights Out was an extremely popular American old-time radio program, an early example of a...

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Going My Way

as uncredited
First aired: 1962-10-03

Going My Way is an American comedy-drama series

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The Aquanauts

as Ross Porter
First aired: 1960-09-14

The Aquanauts is an American adventure/drama series that aired on CBS in the 1960-1961 season....

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Arrest and Trial

as uncredited
First aired: 1963-09-15

Arrest and Trial is a 90-minute American crime/legal drama series that ran during the 1963-1964...

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Bus Stop

as uncredited
First aired: 1961-10-01

Bus Stop is a 26-episode American drama which aired on ABC from October 1, 1961, until March 25,...

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I Led Three Lives

as uncredited
First aired: 1953-01-01

I Led Three Lives is an American drama series which was syndicated by Ziv Television Programs...

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Mackenzie's Raiders

as uncredited
First aired: 1958-10-10

Mackenzie's Raiders is an American Western television series starring Richard Carlson that aired...

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Letter to Loretta

as Larry Carlson
First aired: 1953-09-20

Letter to Loretta is an American anthology drama series telecast on NBC from September 1953 to...

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Letter to Loretta

as Radio Announcer (voice)
First aired: 1953-09-20

Letter to Loretta is an American anthology drama series telecast on NBC from September 1953 to...

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The Swiss Family Robinson

as uncredited
First aired: 1975-09-14

The Swiss Family Robinson is an American action and adventure series

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General Electric Theater

as Archie Hawkins
First aired: 1953-02-01

General Electric Theater is an American anthology series hosted by Ronald Reagan that was...

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Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

as uncredited
First aired: 1951-10-05

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars is an anthology series that was telecast from 1951 until 1959 on CBS....

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Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

as Josef Lindquist
First aired: 1951-10-05

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars is an anthology series that was telecast from 1951 until 1959 on CBS....

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Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

as Kelly McCall
First aired: 1951-10-05

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars is an anthology series that was telecast from 1951 until 1959 on CBS....

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Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

as Lawrence 'Larry' Cameron
First aired: 1951-10-05

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars is an anthology series that was telecast from 1951 until 1959 on CBS....

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Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

as Alan Mitchell
First aired: 1951-10-05

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars is an anthology series that was telecast from 1951 until 1959 on CBS....

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