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Kenneth Tobey
Highest Rated: 91% The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms (1953)
Lowest Rated: 36% Big Top Pee-wee (1988)
Birthday: Mar 23, 1917
Birthplace: Oakland, California, USA
Solid character actor who also played a few action leads in 1950s films and TV. Tobey began playing bit parts shortly after WWII (a police photographer in Robert Siodmak's noir, "The File on Thelma Jordan," and a sentry in Henry King's war drama, "Twelve O'Clock High," both 1949). His first of a handful of leading roles in features came in one of his best-remembered films, the suspenseful science-fiction classic, "The Thing" (1951). As would be common for much of the rest of his career, Tobey played a dependable, unspectacular, heroic sort, in this case, the captain of a remote frozen outpost whose crew is being killed off by a thawed, murderous monster.
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Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | 22% | The Naked Monster | Col. Patrick Hendry (Character) | - | 2005 |
| 40% | 24% | Honey, I Blew Up the Kid | Smitty (Character) | $58.7M | 1992 |
| No Score Yet | 43% | Ghost Writer | Cop 2 (Character) | - | 1989 |
| 36% | 30% | Big Top Pee-wee | Sheriff (Character) | $14.9M | 1988 |
| No Score Yet | 18% | Freeway | Monsignor Kavanaugh (Character) | $106.0K | 1988 |
| 82% | 65% | Innerspace | Man in Restroom (Character) | $25.9M | 1987 |
| No Score Yet | 30% | The Lost Empire | Capt. Hendry (Character) | - | 1984 |
| 67% | 33% | Strange Invaders | Arthur Newman (Character) | - | 1983 |
| 74% | 60% | The Howling | Older cop (Character) | - | 1981 |
| No Score Yet | 67% | Hero at Large | Firechief (Character) | - | 1980 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Nowhere to Run | Mohr (Character) | - | 1978 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Don't Push, I'll Charge When I'm Ready | Oliver (Character) | - | 1977 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Baby Blue Marine | Buick Driver (Character) | - | 1976 |
| 67% | 62% | W.C. Fields and Me | Parker (uncredited) (Character) | - | 1976 |
| 47% | 68% | Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry | Carl Donahue (Character) | - | 1974 |
| No Score Yet | 71% | Homebodies | Construction Boss (Character) | - | 1974 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Death Squad | Hartman (Character) | - | 1974 |
| 77% | 71% | Walking Tall | Augie McCullah (Character) | - | 1973 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Coffee, Tea or Me | Captain (Character) | - | 1973 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Alpha Caper | Police Captain (Character) | - | 1973 |
| No Score Yet | 45% | Rage | Col. Alan A. Nickerson (Character) | - | 1972 |
| 89% | 74% | The Candidate | Floyd J. Starkey (Character) | - | 1972 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Fireball Forward | Gen. Dawson (Character) | - | 1972 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Crooked Hearts | Fisherman (Character) | - | 1972 |
| 63% | 63% | Billy Jack | Deputy Mike (Character) | - | 1971 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Terror in the Sky | Capt. Wilson (Character) | - | 1971 |
| 63% | 53% | Marlowe | Sgt. Fred Beifus (Character) | - | 1969 |
| No Score Yet | 37% | 40 Guns to Apache Pass | Cpl. Bodine (Character) | - | 1967 |
| No Score Yet | 60% | Stark Fear | Kane (Character) | - | 1962 |
| No Score Yet | 46% | X-15 | Col. Craig Brewster (Character) | - | 1961 |
| No Score Yet | 60% | Seven Ways From Sundown | Texas Ranger Lieutenant Herly (Character) | - | 1960 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Six-Gun Law | Unknown (Character) | - | 1959 |
| No Score Yet | 35% | Cry Terror | Agent Frank Cole (Character) | - | 1958 |
| 67% | 40% | Jet Pilot | Sergeant (uncredited) (Character) | - | 1957 |
| No Score Yet | 29% | The Vampire | Sheriff Buck Donnelly (Character) | - | 1957 |
| 87% | 69% | Gunfight at the O.K. Corral | Bat Masterson (Character) | - | 1957 |
| 40% | 56% | The Wings of Eagles | Capt. Herbert Allen Hazard (Character) | - | 1957 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Mark of the Vampire | Sheriff Buck Donnelly (Character) | - | 1957 |
| 71% | 73% | The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit | Lt. Hank Mahoney (Character) | - | 1956 |
| No Score Yet | 55% | The Great Locomotive Chase | Anthony Murphy (Character) | - | 1956 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Steel Jungle | Dr. Lewy (Character) | - | 1956 |
| 60% | 39% | It Came From Beneath the Sea | Cmdr. Pete Mathews (Character) | - | 1955 |
| No Score Yet | 50% | Rage at Dawn | Monk Claxton (Character) | - | 1955 |
| No Score Yet | 47% | Down Three Dark Streets | FBI Agent Zack Stewart (Character) | - | 1954 |
| No Score Yet | 50% | Ring of Fear | Shreveport (Character) | - | 1954 |
| 73% | 50% | The Bigamist | Tom Morgan (Character) | - | 1953 |
| 91% | 68% | The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms | Col. Jack Evans (Character) | - | 1953 |
| 77% | 77% | Angel Face | Bill Crompton (Character) | - | 1952 |
| No Score Yet | 60% | Rawhide | Lt. Wingate (Character) | - | 1951 |
| 87% | 73% | The Thing | Captain Patrick Hendry (Character) | - | 1951 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Flying Missile | Crewman Pete McEvoy (Character) | - | 1951 |
| No Score Yet | 72% | Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye | Det. Fowler (Character) | - | 1950 |
| No Score Yet | 60% | Task Force | Capt. Ken Willliamson (uncredited) (Character) | - | 1949 |
| 76% | 72% | I Was a Male War Bride | Red, Seaman (uncredited) (Character) | - | 1949 |
TV
| Credit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 91% | 89% | Star Trek: Deep Space Nine | Rurigan (Guest Star) | 1994 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hunter | Father Cusack (Guest Star) | 1987 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Barnaby Jones | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1975-1976 1979 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Rockford Files | University Police Chief Max Kilmore (Guest Star) | 1978 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Gibbsville | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1976 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Little House on the Prairie | Barrett (Guest Star) | 1976 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Streets of San Francisco | Sheriff Kenney (Guest Star) | 1974-1975 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Mannix | Sheriff Wells (Guest Star) | 1970 1972-1973 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Police Story | McWalters (Character) | 1973 |
| No Score Yet | 100% | Kung Fu | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1973 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Alias Smith and Jones | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1971-1972 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Gunsmoke | Ed Terrall (Guest Star) | 1960 1964 1969 1972 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Cannon | Sgt. Fred Macklin (Guest Star) | 1972 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Bonanza | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1968 1972 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Lassie | Luke Moran (Guest Star) | 1960 1962 1967 1969 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Family Affair | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1969 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | I Spy | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1967-1968 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Daktari | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1967 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Iron Horse | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1967 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Grindl | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1964 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Lieutenant | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1963 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Timmy & Lassie | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1960 1962 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Perry Mason | Asst. District Attorney Alvin (Guest Star) | 1960 1962 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Have Gun -- Will Travel | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1961 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Marshal Dillon | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1960 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Bronco | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1960 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | 77 Sunset Strip | Coach Jarech (Guest Star) | 1960 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Bat Masterson | Reed Amherst (Guest Star) | 1960 |
| No Score Yet | 85% | Alfred Hitchcock Presents | Jeff (Character) | 1959 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Behind Closed Doors | Unknown (Character) | 1958 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Restless Gun | Sheriff Cash Harcourt (Guest Star) | 1957 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Father Knows Best | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1956 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Climax! | Unknown (Character) | 1955 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Letter to Loretta | Unknown (Character) | 1954 |