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Henry Beckman

Highest Rated: 81% The Brood (1979)

Lowest Rated: 17% Death Hunt (1981)

Birthday: Nov 26, 1921

Birthplace: Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

A veteran character actor and seasoned stage performer, Henry Beckman enjoyed a half-century run of memorable performances on film and TV. After serving in the Canadian military during World War II, Beckman returned to the United States and caught a major break when he was cast as heroic Commander Paul Richards on the popular sci-fi serial "Flash Gordon." By the '60s Beckman had established himself as a versatile supporting player; he played a trash-talking construction worker in the sitcom "I'm Dickens, He's Fenster" and a scheming Army colonel in the military comedy "McHale's Navy," and appeared in many of the popular Western shows of the time, like "The Virginian" and "Have Gun--Will Travel." He landed a recurring role as abusive husband George Anderson on the soap opera "Peyton Place," based on the 1956 novel about a seemingly perfect New England town. He left the show after just one season and worked steadily for several years before landing a lead role opposite Jack Palance in the cop drama "Bronk"; he played Harry Mark, a retired policeman with a second career as a junkyard dealer. One of his most memorable film roles, as distraught father Barton Kelly, came in David Cronenberg's "The Brood," a gruesome bio-horror film about a psychotherapist who treats his patients with unorthodox techniques.

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Highest-Rated Movies

81% 68% The Brood
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40% 61% The Stalking Moon
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17% 70% Death Hunt
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The Caper of the Golden Bulls
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Indict and Convict
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Bronk
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While Justice Sleeps
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The Harness
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Family Reunion
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Brock's Last Case
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Filmography

Movies TV Shows
Lion of Oz and the Badge of Courage 47% 2000 Narrator Voice While Justice Sleeps 1994 Ned Stokes Actor The Man Upstairs 1992 Sheriff Actor Family Reunion 1988 Leo Actor Death Hunt 17% 70% 1981 Bill Luce Actor The Brood 81% 68% 1979 Barton Kelly Actor Blood & Guts 40% 1978 Red Henkel Actor Bronk 1975 Harry Mark Actor Indict and Convict 1974 Mav Theisen Actor Why Rock the Boat? 1974 Philip Butcher Actor Brock's Last Case 1973 Jake Hinkley Actor Between Friends 1973 Will Actor Beg, Borrow... or Steal 1973 Hal Cooper Actor The Merry Wives of Tobias Rouke 1972 Tobias Rouke Actor The Harness 1971 Doc Marn Actor The Stalking Moon 40% 61% 1968 Sgt. Rudabaugh Actor The Caper of the Golden Bulls 1967 Bendell Actor McHale's Navy Joins the Air Force 53% 1965 Col. Platt Actor
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