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Simon Oakland
Tough-talking actor Simon Oakland started out as a concert violinist before moving into acting on stage in the late 1940s. In the late 1950s, Oakland made some appearances on television before getting the pivotal role of Edward Montgomery, a newspaper reporter trying to get the full story in Susan Hayward's campy yet harrowing Oscar-winner "I Want to Live!." After that, in 1960, Oakland earned immortality as a glib doctor trying to offer a pat explanation for the behavior of the killer Norman Bates in Alfred Hitchcock's classic thriller "Psycho." He appeared in the Oscar-winning musical "West Side Story" in 1961, and then mainly appeared on television shows such as the mind-bending anthology series "Twilight Zone" and the Prohibition-era crime drama "The Untouchables" in the mid-'60s. Oakland played a doctor again on the big screen in Vincente Minnelli's musical "On a Clear Day You Can See Forever" in 1970, and then finished out his career on television.
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Simon Oakland
Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Drive, Lady, Drive | Bruno (Character) | - | 1979 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Young Joe, the Forgotten Kennedy | Delaney (Character) | - | 1977 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Black Sheep Squadron | Brig. Gen. Thomas Moore (Character) | - | 1976 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Flying Misfits | Brig. Gen. Thomas Moore (Character) | - | 1976 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Demon and the Mummy | Tony Vincenzo (Character) | - | 1975 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Crackle of Death | Tony Vincenzo (Character) | - | 1974 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Best of All the Safecrackers | Inspector Spooner (Character) | - | 1974 |
| 63% |
|
Emperor of the North | Policeman (Character) | - | 1973 |
| 100% |
|
The Night Strangler | Tony Vincenzo (Character) | - | 1973 |
| No Score Yet |
|
Happy Mother's Day, Love George | Roy (Character) | - | 1973 |
| No Score Yet |
|
Chato's Land | Jubal Hooker (Character) | - | 1972 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Toma: The Safecracker | Inspector Spooner (Character) | - | 1972 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Toma | Inspector Spooner (Character) | - | 1972 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Key West | General Tom Luker (Character) | - | 1972 |
| 20% |
|
The Hunting Party | Matthew Gunn (Character) | - | 1971 |
| 20% | No Score Yet | Scandalous John | Barton Whittaker (Character) | - | 1971 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Cable Car Murder | Capt. E.J. Goodlad (Character) | - | 1971 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Crosscurrent | Capt. E.J. Goodlad (Character) | - | 1971 |
| 88% |
|
The Night Stalker | Tony Vincenzo (Character) | - | 1971 |
| 100% |
|
On a Clear Day You Can See Forever | Dr. Conrad Fuller (Character) | - | 1970 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Revolutionary | Luis Fierro (Character) | - | 1969 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Chubasco | Laurindo (Character) | - | 1968 |
| 98% |
|
Bullitt | Captain Sam Bennett (Character) | - | 1968 |
| 63% |
|
Tony Rome | Rudy Kosterman (Character) | - | 1967 |
| 85% |
|
The Sand Pebbles | Stawski (Character) | - | 1966 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Plainsman | Chief Black Kettle (Character) | - | 1966 |
| 57% |
|
The Satan Bug | Tasserly (Character) | - | 1965 |
| No Score Yet |
|
Alexander the Great | Attalos (Character) | - | 1964 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Raiders | Sgt. Austin Tremaine (Character) | - | 1964 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Wall of Noise | Johnny Papadakis (Character) | - | 1963 |
| 0% |
|
Adventures of a Young Man | Joe Boulton (Character) | - | 1962 |
| No Score Yet |
|
Follow That Dream | Nick (Character) | - | 1962 |
| 92% |
|
West Side Story | Lieutenant Schrank (Character) | - | 1961 |
| 71% |
|
The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond | Lt. Moody (Character) | - | 1960 |
| No Score Yet |
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Murder, Inc. | Det. Sgt. William Tobin (Character) | - | 1960 |
| 97% |
|
Psycho | Dr. Fred Richmond (Character) | - | 1960 |
| 94% |
|
I Want to Live! | Edward S. "Ed" Montgomery (Character) | - | 1958 |
| 25% |
|
The Brothers Karamazov | Mavrayek (Character) | - | 1958 |
TV
| Credit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | CHiPs | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1979 1982 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Littlest Hobo | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1982 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Charlie's Angels | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1980-1981 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Rockford Files | Beppy Conigliaro (Guest Star) | 1977 1979 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | David Cassidy -- Man Undercover | Sgt. Abrams (Character) | 1978-1979 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Baa Baa Black Sheep | Brig. Gen. Thomas Moore (Character) | 1976-1978 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1978 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Kojak | Tom Donnelly (Guest Star) | 1976 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Gibbsville | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1976 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Marcus Welby, M.D. | Harry Burke (Guest Star) | 1976 |
| 100% | 82% | Kolchak: The Night Stalker | Tony Vincenzo (Character) | 1974-1975 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Toma | Inspector Spooner (Character) | 1973-1974 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Dan August | Maury Abrams (Guest Star) | 1971 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Name of the Game | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1968 1970 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Mod Squad | Lt. Earl Rakosi (Guest Star) | 1969 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Daniel Boone | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1965 1967 1969 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Bonanza | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1963 1967 1969 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Big Valley | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1969 |
| No Score Yet | 100% | The Wild, Wild West | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1968 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hawaii Five-0 | Benny Kalua (Guest Star) | 1968 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Good Morning World | Harry Lewis (Guest Star) | 1968 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Gentle Ben | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1967 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Felony Squad | Charles Murdock (Guest Star) | 1967 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Cimarron Strip | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1967 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Tarzan | Thompson (Guest Star) | 1967 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Virginian | Bob Coulter (Guest Star) | 1965 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Gunsmoke | Jim Nation (Guest Star) | 1956 1958-1959 1965 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Combat! | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1963 1965 |
| No Score Yet | 84% | Get Smart | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1965 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Rawhide | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1963 1965 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Mr. Novak | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1964 |
| 92% | 92% | The Outer Limits | Unknown (Character) | 1964 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | 77 Sunset Strip | Antonio Malfi (Guest Star) | 1963 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | East Side/West Side | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1963 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | My Favorite Martian | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1963 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Untouchables | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1962-1963 |
| 92% | 96% | The Twilight Zone | De Cruz (Character) | 1961 1963 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Wagon Train | Alonzo Galezio (Guest Star) | 1960 1962 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Ben Casey | Jake (Guest Star) | 1962 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Cain's Hundred | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1962 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Tales of Wells Fargo | Poderio (Guest Star) | 1962 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Bus Stop | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1962 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Route 66 | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1962 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Perry Mason | Howard Walters (Guest Star) | 1960-1961 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Law and Mr. Jones | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1961 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Zane Grey Theatre | Unknown (Character) | 1959-1960 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Laramie | Vernon Kane (Guest Star) | 1960 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Bronco | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1960 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Men Into Space | Dr. Horton (Guest Star) | 1959 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Marshal Dillon | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1956 1958-1959 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Have Gun -- Will Travel | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1958 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Thin Man | Ernie (Guest Star) | 1958 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Alcoa Hour | Bert (Character) | 1956 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Suspense | Unknown (Character) | 1950 |