![]() ![]() It’s of course investigative journalist Carl Kolchak (McGavin) who puts all the pieces together. Pollack’s sleep laboratory, under constant monitoring, for the past six weeks. All clues point to Paul Langois (Mantooth), a member of Chicago’s Cajun community trouble is, Langois has been asleep in Dr. Both victims, as well as those who follow, are crushed to death, their bodies found adorned with gloops of spanish moss. Next is the chef (uncredited) at a chichi restaurant (“The total value of Chez Voltaire’s wine cellar exceeded the gross national product of Paraguay”). Roberta Dean as Michelle Kelly, the first victim.įirst to die at the hands of this latest monster is Michelle Kelly (Dean), one of the lab assistants to sleep researcher Dr. In many ways, one of the most inventive of all the series, including the two precursor TVMs, this has a tremendous climax in the Chicago sewers that’s let down, in its final moments, by a lack of imagination. Browne Cast: Darren McGavin, Simon Oakland, Keenan Wynn, Severn Darden, Randy Boone, Johnny Silver, Jack Grinnage, Ruth McDevitt, Ned Glass, Richard Kiel, Virginia Gregg, Elisabeth Brooks, Donald Mantooth, Roberta Dean. The couple had one daughter, Barbara.US / 52 minutes / color / Francy, Universal, ABC Dir: Gordon Hessler Pr: Cy Chermak Scr: Al Friedman, David Chase Story: Al Friedman Cine: Ronald W. Oakland was married to Lois Lorraine Porta (1918–2003). Oakland played General Thomas Moore on NBC's Baa Baa Black Sheep, starring Robert Conrad. Oakland appeared once each on the CBS western, Dundee and the Culhane and in another syndicated crime drama series, Sheriff of Cochise, starring John Bromfield. He also appeared in the syndicated crime drama, Decoy, starring Beverly Garland. He made two guest appearances on CBS's Perry Mason, both times as the murder victim. He also appeared in West Side Story, The Sand Pebbles, Bullitt, and the television series Kolchak: The Night Stalker. Simon Oakland's notable performance in I Want to Live! led to his playing a long series of tough-guy types, usually in positions of authority, most notably in Psycho, in which he plays the psychiatrist who explains Norman Bates's multiple personality disorder. Oakland's portrayal of the journalist as a "tough, but compassionate" personality resulted in the actor often being typecast in his subsequent roles in both films and on television. He next appeared in two films released in 1958: as the character Mavrayek in The Brothers Karamazov and then in the role of Edward Montgomery in I Want to Live! The character Montgomery was a real-life journalist, who had reported on the California murder trial and 1955 execution of Barbara Graham, played by Susan Hayward in the film. In 1955 Oakland made his film debut, though uncredited, as a Indiana state trooper in The Desperate Hours. ![]() He was a concert violinist until the 1940s. ![]() He enjoyed a series of Broadway hits, including Light Up the Sky, The Shrike and Inherit the Wind, and theater was one of his lasting passions. Oakland began his acting career in the late 1940s. He began his performing arts career as a musician (he was a violinist, an avocation he would pursue during his entire career as an actor). While he later claimed in media interviews to have been born in 1922 (a date repeated in his New York Times obituary), Social Security and death indexes indicate he was born Simon Weiss in 1915 his stage name was likely derived from his mother's maiden name, Oaklander. Oakland was born in the Brooklyn borough of New York City, the son of a plasterer and builder Jacob Weiss and his wife Ethel Oaklander. ![]()
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