Ted de Corsia
Being bad did Ted De Corsia a lot of good during a prolific quarter-century-long career. His New York City street looks and voice made him a perfect fit for tough guy roles, and he played scores of them in 60 films and over twice as many TV appearances. The typecasting started early and strong when De Corsia played a killer in Orson Welles's offbeat mystery "The Lady From Shanghai" (1947). From then, the actor never slowed down, usually appearing in several films and TV productions every year. He put on his bad-guy suit often--for example, when he played a memorable crook turned government snitch in "The Enforcer" (1951), starring Humphrey Bogart. But it wasn't only evil men he played; in Stanley Kubrick's gritty crime classic "The Killing" (1956), he switched to the other side of the law to portray a cop, Patrolman Kennan. He also had the role of determined ship captain Farragut in the immodestly budgeted 1954 Jules Verne adaptation, "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea." De Corsia was even busier on TV, doing guest appearances or brief recurring roles on most of the well-known shows during his working lifetime. Among the many were "The Twilight Zone" (1959) and "Get Smart" (1966).
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Ted de Corsia
Filmography
Movies
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Five Card Stud | Eldon Bates (Character) | - | 1968 |
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The Money Trap | Police captain (uncredited) (Character) | - | 1966 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Blood on the Arrow | Jud (Character) | - | 1964 |
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The Quick Gun | Spangler (Character) | - | 1964 |
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It's Only Money | Patrolman (Character) | - | 1962 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Oklahoma Territory | Chief Buffalo Horn (Character) | - | 1960 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Slowest Gun in the West | Black Bart (Character) | - | 1960 |
31% |
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From the Terrace | Mr. Ralph W. Benziger (Character) | - | 1960 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Noose for a Gunman | Jack Cantrell (Character) | - | 1960 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Inside the Mafia | Augie Martello (Character) | - | 1959 |
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The Buccaneer | Capt. Rumbo (Character) | - | 1958 |
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Handle With Care | Sam Lawrence (Character) | - | 1958 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Enchanted Island | Capt. Vangs (Character) | - | 1958 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Lawless Eighties | Grat Bandas (Character) | - | 1958 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Man on the Prowl | Detective (Character) | - | 1957 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Midnight Story | Lieutenant Kilrain (Character) | - | 1957 |
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Baby Face Nelson | Rocca (Character) | - | 1957 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Gun Battle at Monterey | Max Reno (Character) | - | 1957 |
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The Joker Is Wild | Georgie Parker (Character) | - | 1957 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Showdown at Abilene | Dan Claudius (Character) | - | 1956 |
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The Conqueror | Kumlek (Character) | - | 1956 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Mohawk | Indian Chief Kowanen (Character) | - | 1956 |
96% |
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The Killing | Randy Kennan (as Ted DeCorsia) (Character) | - | 1956 |
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Dance With Me Henry | Big Frank (Character) | - | 1956 |
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Slightly Scarlet | Solly Caspar (Character) | - | 1956 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Steel Jungle | Steve Madden (Character) | - | 1956 |
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Man With the Gun | "Frenchy" Lescaux (Character) | - | 1955 |
93% |
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The Big Combo | Ralph Bettini (Character) | - | 1955 |
57% |
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Kismet | Police subaltern (Character) | - | 1955 |
70% |
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Crime Wave | `'Doc'` Penny (Character) | - | 1954 |
90% |
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20,000 Leagues Under the Sea | Capt. Farragut (Character) | - | 1954 |
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Captain Pirate | Capt. Easterling (Character) | - | 1953 |
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Ride, Vaquero | Sheriff Parker (Character) | - | 1953 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hot News | Dino Rizzo (Character) | - | 1953 |
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Man in the Dark | Lefty (Character) | - | 1953 |
80% |
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The Turning Point | Harrigan (Character) | - | 1952 |
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The Savage | Iron Breast (Character) | - | 1952 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | New Mexico | Acoma (Character) | - | 1951 |
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Inside the Walls of Folsom Prison | Warden Ben Rickey (Character) | - | 1951 |
89% |
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The Enforcer | Joseph Rico (Character) | - | 1951 |
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Three Secrets | Del Prince (Character) | - | 1949 |
100% |
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Neptune's Daughter | Lukie Luzette (Character) | - | 1949 |
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Mr. Soft Touch | Rainey (Character) | - | 1949 |
88% |
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It Happens Every Spring | Manager Jimmy Dolan (Character) | - | 1949 |
85% |
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The Lady From Shanghai | Sidney Broome (Character) | - | 1948 |
87% |
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The Naked City | Garzah (Character) | - | 1948 |
TV
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The High Chaparral | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1970 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Mannix | William Lavor (Guest Star) | 1970 |
No Score Yet | 100% | The Wild, Wild West | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1969 |
No Score Yet | 84% | Get Smart | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1966-1967 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Green Acres | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1967 |
No Score Yet | 58% | I Dream of Jeannie | Two-Gun Richard Sheldon (Guest Star) | 1966 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Perry Mason | Chief Polek (Guest Star) | 1964 1966 |
100% | No Score Yet | The Man From U.N.C.L.E. | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1966 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Ben Casey | Mr. Arnold (Guest Star) | 1964 |
92% | 92% | The Outer Limits |
New Sentry (Character), Unknown (Guest Star) |
1963-1964 |
92% | 96% | The Twilight Zone | Foreman Dickerson (Character) | 1959 1964 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Rawhide | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1962-1964 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Dr. Kildare | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1964 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Alfred Hitchcock Hour | Unknown (Character) | 1964 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | 77 Sunset Strip | Ben Gale (Guest Star) | 1959 1961 1963 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Dakotas | Winters (Guest Star) | 1963 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Untouchables | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1959 1962 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Surfside 6 | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1960 1962 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Gunsmoke | Garvy (Guest Star) | 1962 |
No Score Yet | 87% | Alfred Hitchcock Presents | Lt. Christensen (Character) | 1959 1961 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Laramie | Matthew Witmore (Guest Star) | 1960-1961 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Deputy | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1961 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Thriller | Unknown (Character) | 1961 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Dante | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1960 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Johnny Staccato | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1960 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Bat Masterson | John Watson (Guest Star) | 1959-1960 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Mr. Lucky | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1959 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Sea Hunt | Ahman Dhabi (Guest Star) | 1958-1959 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Sugarfoot | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1958-1959 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Trackdown | George Caldwell (Guest Star) | 1958 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Rifleman | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1958 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Zorro | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1958 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Climax! | Unknown (Character) | 1958 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Restless Gun | Cal Jason (Guest Star) | 1957 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Tales of Wells Fargo | John McCloud (Guest Star) | 1957 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Showcase 39 | Unknown (Character) | 1957 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Lone Ranger | Sam Slater (Guest Star) | 1955 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Stage 7 | Vic Kelcey (Character) | 1955 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Four Star Playhouse | Vic Kelcey (Character) | 1954 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Burns and Allen Show | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1954 |