About The Philco Television Playhouse
- Released on October 03, 1948
The Philco Television Playhouse is an American anthology series that was broadcast live on NBC from 1948 to 1955. Produced by Fred Coe, the series was sponsored by Philco. It was one of the most respected dramatic shows of the Golden Age of Television, winning a 1954 Peabody Award and receiving eight Emmy nominations between 1951 and 1956.
Main Cast of The Philco Television Playhouse
Bert Lytell plays Self - Host (267 episodes)
Secondary Cast of The Philco Television Playhouse
Tonio Selwart
Nydia Westman
Walter Brooke
Margaret Wycherly
Madeleine Carroll
Hugh Reilly
Jerome Cowan
Paul McGrath
Joseph Anthony
Madeleine Sherwood plays Tweed's daughter (1 episode)
Natalie Schafer
Dorothy Peterson
Phyllis Kirk plays Dolly (1 episode)
Robert Keith
Buster Crabbe
Brandon De Wilde
Gerald S. O'Loughlin
Vanessa Brown
Nancy Kelly
John Ireland
Joey Adams plays Bill Dix (1 episode)
Sylvia Sidney
Carlos Montalbán plays Saguro (1 episode)
Robert Ellenstein plays Dr. Lehmbruck (1 episode)
Tom Tully plays Major Avery (1 episode)
Lenka Peterson
Geoffrey Horne
John Cassavetes
Joan Lorring
Jeffrey Lynn
Peter Brandon
Terry Becker
Edna Best
Frank Albertson
Ruth McDevitt
Enid Markey
Hugh Marlowe
Dane Clark
Cyril Ritchard
Claude Dauphin
John Qualen plays Gus Gruntle (1 episode)
Ward Costello plays Investigator Robert Wheelock (1 episode)
William Smithers
Patrick O'Neal plays Cliff (1 episode)
Mark Roberts
Charlotte Rae
Lee Meriwether
Jean Stapleton plays Bus Girl (1 episode)
Sal Mineo
Jessica Tandy plays Liz Marriott (1 episode)
Jack Lord
William Bendix plays Genteman Suitor (1 episode)
Jean-Pierre Aumont plays John James Audubon (1 episode)
Mary Wickes plays Amelia Coop (1 episode)
Cameron Mitchell plays Pvt. Kenneth Dowey (1 episode)
Conrad Janis
Bert Lahr plays Skid Johnson (1 episode)
Jeanne Bates
Cara Williams
Richard Webb
Edward Everett Horton
Mark Rydell
Robert Mulligan
Bess Myerson
Lee Grant
Paul Muni plays George Simon (1 episode)
Vivian Blaine
Una O'Connor
Donald Woods
Joan Greenwood
Georges Renavent
Catherine McLeod
Marjorie Gateson
Joyce Van Patten
Joan Chandler
Richard Davalos plays Tom Bates (1 episode)
Cathleen Cordell
Faye Emerson plays The Glamour Girl (1 episode)
Betsy Blair
Jeff Morrow
Warren Stevens
Grace Hartman plays Nettie Upjohn (1 episode)
Florence Eldridge plays Nanine (1 episode)
George Coulouris
William Windom plays Dennis Baldwin (1 episode)
Edith Atwater plays Marian Burnett (1 episode)
Carl Benton Reid plays Papa (1 episode)
Ruth Chatterton
Zasu Pitts plays Belinda Pryde (1 episode)
Donald Cook
Richard Hart plays John (1 episode)
Lilia Skala plays Nellie Rimpleger (1 episode)
Josephine Hull
Francis Lederer
Leo Penn
Stephen Elliott
Bill Goodwin
Richard Coogan
Barbara Baxley
David Swift
Marian Winters
Will Hare plays Houston Ticket Agent (1 episode)
Wesley Addy
Oskar Homolka plays Bert (1 episode)
Robert Quarry plays Dr. Wheeler (1 episode)
Parker Fennelly
Nehemiah Persoff plays Ed Kagan (2 episodes)
Darren McGavin plays Bill Starbuck (1 episode)
Kim Hunter
Alfred Ryder plays Van Dorn (1 episode) , Philip (1 episode) , (5 episodes)
John Newland plays Steven Kent (1 episode) , D.W. Griffith (1 episode) , (5 episodes)
Henry Calvin
Lesley Woods
Peggy McCay
Anthony Dawson
Augusta Dabney plays Laura Wilkins (1 episode) , (2 episodes)
Edmon Ryan
Robert McQueeney plays Doctor (1 episode)
Joe Maross
Malcolm Keen
Richard Derr
Tod Andrews
John Forsythe
Luis van Rooten plays Harry Shelton (1 episode)
Gaby Rodgers
Michael Conrad plays Charles Bowdre (1 episode)
Harry Bellaver plays Joe (1 episode)
Marsha Hunt plays Phoebe Throssel (1 episode) , Viola (1 episode)
Ethel Remey plays Mrs. Mulberry (1 episode)
Arthur Franz plays Norman (1 episode)
Melvyn Douglas plays The Stranger (1 episode) , Richard Gordon (1 episode)
Don Fellows plays Lanier (1 episode)
Patricia Breslin plays Juliet (1 episode) , (1 episode)
Crahan Denton
Constance Ford
Ernest Truex
Madge Evans plays Elizabeth Bennet (1 episode) , Elinor Dashwood (1 episode)
Moultrie Patten plays 1st Announcer (1 episode)
Walter Matthau plays Stuart Benson (1 episode) , Iago (1 episode) , (5 episodes)
Murray Hamilton
Joe Mantell plays Bachelor (1 episode)
Ethel Griffies plays Mrs. White (1 episode) , Grandmother (1 episode)
Kurt Kasznar plays Alexander Ingles (1 episode)
Bartlett Robinson
Natalie Trundy plays Emiliy Marriott (1 episode)
Viveca Lindfors plays Widow (1 episode)
Victor Jory
Henry Daniell plays Colonel Chart (1 episode)
Burt Brinckerhoff
Joyce Redman plays Lady Macbeth (1 episode)
Mary Astor
Frank M. Thomas plays Marley's Ghost (1 episode)
Jean Carson
Alfred Drake plays Captain Brown (1 episode)
Mary Morris
Leueen MacGrath plays Kathleen Moore (1 episode)
Lilli Palmer plays Molly Collicutt (1 episode)
David White
Bruce Gordon plays Burton (1 episode)
Philip Bourneuf
Virginia Gilmore
Jack Warden
Paul Hartman plays Horace Upjohn (1 episode)
Judith Evelyn plays Marguerite Gautier (1 episode)
Dean Jagger plays Charles Burnett (1 episode)
Mady Christians plays Mama (1 episode)
Joe Downing plays Patton (1 episode)
David Lewis plays Albert Brisbane (1 episode)
Janet Blair plays Amelie (1 episode)
Louisa Horton Hill
John Beal plays Ludie (1 episode) , (1 episode)
Carol Stone plays Barbara Allen (1 episode)
Nina Foch plays Elizabeth (1 episode)
Claudia Morgan
Aline MacMahon
Burgess Meredith
Marian Seldes plays Emilia (1 episode) , (2 episodes)
Francis L. Sullivan
Scott McKay
Steven Hill plays George (1 episode) , Horace Mann Borden (1 episode)
Torin Thatcher plays Othello (1 episode) , (1 episode)
Phyllis Love
Romney Brent
Anne Jackson plays Daughter (1 episode) , (1 episode)
John Hoyt
Sidney Blackmer
Helen Wagner
Henry Beckman
Betty Field
Bert Freed plays Al Rago (1 episode) , (1 episode)
J. Pat O'Malley plays Brannigan (1 episode) , (2 episodes)
Maureen Stapleton plays Daughter (1 episode) , Mrs. Johnson (1 episode)
Biff McGuire
Peggy Wood plays Mrs. Oliver Jordan (1 episode) , Florence McDavid (1 episode)
Michael Strong plays Lloyd Mills (1 episode) , John Poe (1 episode)
Bethel Leslie
Robert H. Harris
Walter Abel
Peggy Allenby
Paul Ford
James Daly
Mary Jackson plays Aunt Edna (1 episode)
Andrew Duggan
Alex March plays Chauffeur (1 episode) , (1 episode)
Anne Meara plays Betty Blake (1 episode)
Anthony Ross plays Father (1 episode) , (2 episodes)
Ernest Graves
Jackie Cooper plays Bubbo (1 episode)
Dick York plays Andy (1 episode)
Logan Ramsey
Scott Forbes
Rod Steiger plays Marty Pilletti (1 episode) , (3 episodes)
Mildred Dunnock
Kevin Coughlin plays Gary (1 episode)
Richard Sanders plays Prosecuting Attorney (1 episode) , (1 episode)
Eva Gabor plays Melanie Winters (1 episode)
Dorothy Gish plays Mary Surratt (1 episode) , (2 episodes)
Eddie Albert
Neva Patterson plays Elizabeth Chapin (1 episode) , (3 episodes)
Don Murray plays Axel Nordman (1 episode) , (1 episode)
George Chandler
Martin E. Brooks
Anne Crawford plays Margaret Fuller (1 episode) , Theresa (1 episode)
Lin McCarthy
Ralph Bellamy plays Tice Collins (1 episode) , (2 episodes)
Frank Marth
William Prince plays Hadrian the adopted son (1 episode) , (5 episodes)
Lily Cahill
James Westerfield plays H.T. Carmichael (1 episode) , (1 episode)
John Randolph plays Neil Dalton (1 episode) , Hotstuff (1 episode)
Tony Randall
John McQuade
Mel Ruick
John Carradine plays Malvolio (1 episode)
Les Tremayne
Howard Smith
Mary Beth Hughes
Joan Croydon plays Mrs. Dennis (1 episode)
Mildred Natwick
Donald Curtis
Shepperd Strudwick plays Lincoln Venner (1 episode) , Benedict Arnold (1 episode) , (2 episodes)
Loring Smith plays Ghost of Christmas Present (1 episode) , (4 episodes)
James Gregory plays Angus (1 episode) , Lester Thompson (1 episode) , (2 episodes)
Larry Blyden
Vaughn Taylor plays Pa Blanchard (1 episode) , Mr. Mergenthwirker (1 episode) , Sir Andrew Aguecheek (1 episode) , (1 episode) , Alfred Stubbs (1 episode)
Adam West plays Ham Ector (1 episode)
Jack Weston plays Lumpkin (1 episode)
Frances Reid plays Roxane (1 episode) , (3 episodes)
Harry Townes
Eli Wallach plays Nacho (1 episode) , (2 episodes)
Bill Erwin plays Herman (1 episode)
Howard St. John
Gene Wood plays Henry Howard (1 episode)
Arthur Treacher plays Uncle Fred (1 episode) , (2 episodes)
Pat Henning plays Claessens (1 episode)
Jack Klugman
Frank Maxwell plays Captain Dana Healey (1 episode) , (2 episodes)
Edward Binns
Henry Jones plays Professor Stark-Purvis (1 episode)
Kim Stanley plays Wilma Thompson (1 episode) , (1 episode)
Bertha Belmore
Walter Greaza
Jason Evers
Margaret Hayes
Leo G. Carroll plays Duncan (1 episode) , Father Moynihan (1 episode) , Professor White (1 episode)
Leopoldine Konstantin plays Countess (1 episode)
Hildy Parks plays Penny Benson (1 episode) , (1 episode)
Addison Richards
Edward Andrews
Ross Martin plays Rodney Wilkins (1 episode) , (1 episode)
Bramwell Fletcher plays Maxim de Winter (1 episode) , (3 episodes)
Pat Hingle
William Eythe plays Foxworth (1 episode) , (2 episodes)
Betty Lou Keim plays Phyllis (1 episode)
Kathleen Maguire plays Helen (1 episode) , (1 episode)
Jo Van Fleet plays Shirley (1 episode) , (2 episodes)
Paul Newman plays Billy the Kid (1 episode)
Anthony Eisley plays Jimmy (1 episode)
Kent Smith plays John Wilkes Booth (1 episode) , (2 episodes)
John Kerr plays George Avery (1 episode)
Grace Kelly plays Bethel Merriday (1 episode) , Lucy Bakewell Audubon (1 episode) , Paula (1 episode) , (1 episode) , Ann Rutledge (1 episode)
Mario Gallo
Lydia Clarke
Dan Frazer plays 2nd Announcer (1 episode)
Calvin Thomas
Anthony Quinn
John Marriott
Dennis Cross plays Railroad Ticket Agent (1 episode)
Kevin McCarthy plays Romeo (1 episode) , (2 episodes)
John C. Becher
Chris Gampel plays Diego (1 episode)
Richard Fraser plays Keith Reddington (1 episode)
Hume Cronyn
Louis Sorin
Jean Muir
Everett Sloane plays Vincent Van Gogh (1 episode) , Dr. Ignatius Semmelweis (1 episode) , (2 episodes)
Franchot Tone
Lois Wilson
Betty Furness
Nancy Marchand plays Clara (1 episode)
Leora Dana plays Emmy Blanchard (1 episode) , Clarice (1 episode) , (3 episodes)
John Ericson
Vinton Hayworth plays Mr. Devereaux (1 episode) , Ted Nichols (1 episode) , H.L. Potter (1 episode) , (7 episodes)
Betsy Palmer plays Janice Gans (1 episode) , (2 episodes)
Joanne Woodward plays Arabella Cookenboo (1 episode) , Emily (1 episode)
Wright King
Lillian Gish plays Abby (1 episode) , Narrator (1 episode) , Carrie Watts (1 episode)
William Hansen
Florida Friebus
Philip Abbott plays David Lomak (1 episode) , (2 episodes)
Herbert Berghof
Cloris Leachman plays Marianne Dashwood (1 episode) , Patricia (1 episode) , (1 episode) , Jenny Blanchard (1 episode)
James Broderick
E.G. Marshall plays Dennis Leighton (1 episode) , Horace Greeley (1 episode) , Hiram Holliday (1 episode) , N. Y. Times editor (1 episode) , Jerry (1 episode) , Barnwell Rhett (1 episode) , Alf Rylett (1 episode) , (6 episodes)
Johnny Desmond
Frank Sutton plays Bill (1 episode) , (2 episodes)
Martin Balsam plays Mike Galloway (1 episode) , Charlie Malick (1 episode) , (1 episode)
Sidney Poitier plays Tommy Tyler (1 episode) , (1 episode)
Eileen Heckart plays Jessie Mae (1 episode) , Ruthie (1 episode) , (3 episodes)
Larry Gates
Ed Begley plays Ernie Barger (1 episode) , (1 episode)
Jason Robards plays Joe Grant (1 episode) , Mason (1 episode)
Barbara O'Neil plays Mme. Pollard (1 episode) , Ruth (1 episode)
David Opatoshu plays Boss (1 episode) , Colie (1 episode) , Joe Manx (1 episode) , Ibrahim (1 episode) , (2 episodes) , George (2 episodes)
Kay Medford
Eva Marie Saint plays Thelma (1 episode) , Dorie Wilson (1 episode) , Betty (1 episode) , Bonnie Keel (1 episode)
Addison Powell plays Chester Wilson (1 episode) , Chester (1 episode) , (2 episodes)
Frank Overton plays Pat Garrett (1 episode) , Sheriff (1 episode) , Mr. Davis (1 episode)
Arthur O'Connell
Charles Dingle plays Daddy Tom (1 episode) , (1 episode)
Peter Mark Richman plays Jack (1 episode) , Tinian (1 episode) , (1 episode) , Charles Blake (1 episode)
James Dean plays Robbie Warren (1 episode)
Oliver Thorndike
Ivan F. Simpson
Mary K. Wells
Frank Stephens
Katherine Meskill
Mary Patton
Ralph Longley
Stephen Courtleigh plays Abraham Lincoln (1 episode)
Carmen Mathews plays Mariella Barger (1 episode)
John Connell plays Ray Barger (1 episode)
Joseph Sweeney plays Mr Barger (1 episode)
Patricia Fay plays Louise (1 episode)
Crew of The Philco Television Playhouse
Production
Writing
Directing
- Tonio Selwart
- John Marley
- Nydia Westman
- Walter Brooke
- Margaret Wycherly
- Madeleine Carroll
- Hugh Reilly
- Jerome Cowan
- Paul McGrath
- Joseph Anthony
- Madeleine Sherwood
- Natalie Schafer
- Dorothy Peterson
- Phyllis Kirk
- Robert Keith
- Buster Crabbe
- Brandon De Wilde
- Gerald S. O'Loughlin
- Vanessa Brown
- Nancy Kelly
- John Ireland
- Joey Adams
- Sylvia Sidney
- Carlos Montalbán
- Robert Ellenstein
- Tom Tully
- Lenka Peterson
- Geoffrey Horne
- John Cassavetes
- Joan Lorring
- Jeffrey Lynn
- Peter Brandon
- Terry Becker
- Edna Best
- Charlton Heston
- Frank Albertson
- Ruth McDevitt
- Enid Markey
- Hugh Marlowe
- Dane Clark
- Cyril Ritchard
- Claude Dauphin
- John Qualen
- Ward Costello
- William Smithers
- Patrick O'Neal
- Mark Roberts
- Charlotte Rae
- Lee Meriwether
- Jean Stapleton
- Sal Mineo
- Jessica Tandy
- Jack Lord
- William Bendix
- Jean-Pierre Aumont
- Mary Wickes
- Cameron Mitchell
- Conrad Janis
- Bert Lahr
- Jeanne Bates
- Cara Williams
- Richard Webb
- Edward Everett Horton
- Mark Rydell
- Robert Mulligan
- Bess Myerson
- Lee Grant
- Paul Muni
- Vivian Blaine
- Una O'Connor
- Donald Woods
- Joan Greenwood
- Georges Renavent
- Catherine McLeod
- Marjorie Gateson
- Joyce Van Patten
- Joan Chandler
- Richard Davalos
- Cathleen Cordell
- Faye Emerson
- Betsy Blair
- Jeff Morrow
- Warren Stevens
- Grace Hartman
- Florence Eldridge
- George Coulouris
- William Windom
- Edith Atwater
- Carl Benton Reid
- Ruth Chatterton
- Zasu Pitts
- Donald Cook
- Richard Hart
- Lilia Skala
- Josephine Hull
- Francis Lederer
- Leo Penn
- Stephen Elliott
- Bill Goodwin
- Richard Coogan
- Barbara Baxley
- David Swift
- Marian Winters
- Will Hare
- Wesley Addy
- Oskar Homolka
- Robert Quarry
- Parker Fennelly
- Nehemiah Persoff
- Darren McGavin
- Kim Hunter
- Alfred Ryder
- John Newland
- Henry Calvin
- Lesley Woods
- Peggy McCay
- Anthony Dawson
- Augusta Dabney
- Edmon Ryan
- Audra Lindley
- Robert McQueeney
- Joe Maross
- Malcolm Keen
- Richard Derr
- Tod Andrews
- John Forsythe
- Luis van Rooten
- Gaby Rodgers
- Michael Conrad
- Harry Bellaver
- Marsha Hunt
- Ethel Remey
- Arthur Franz
- Melvyn Douglas
- Don Fellows
- Patricia Breslin
- Crahan Denton
- Constance Ford
- Ernest Truex
- Madge Evans
- Moultrie Patten
- Walter Matthau
- Murray Hamilton
- Joe Mantell
- Ethel Griffies
- Kurt Kasznar
- Bartlett Robinson
- Natalie Trundy
- Viveca Lindfors
- Victor Jory
- Henry Daniell
- Burt Brinckerhoff
- Joyce Redman
- Mary Astor
- Frank M. Thomas
- Jean Carson
- Alfred Drake
- Mary Morris
- Leueen MacGrath
- Lilli Palmer
- David White
- Bruce Gordon
- Philip Bourneuf
- Virginia Gilmore
- Jack Warden
- Paul Hartman
- Judith Evelyn
- Dean Jagger
- Mady Christians
- Joe Downing
- David Lewis
- Janet Blair
- Louisa Horton Hill
- John Beal
- Carol Stone
- Nina Foch
- Claudia Morgan
- Aline MacMahon
- Burgess Meredith
- Marian Seldes
- Francis L. Sullivan
- Scott McKay
- Steven Hill
- Torin Thatcher
- Phyllis Love
- Romney Brent
- Anne Jackson
- John Hoyt
- Sidney Blackmer
- Helen Wagner
- Henry Beckman
- Betty Field
- Bert Freed
- J. Pat O'Malley
- Maureen Stapleton
- Biff McGuire
- Peggy Wood
- Michael Strong
- Bethel Leslie
- Robert H. Harris
- Walter Abel
- Peggy Allenby
- Paul Ford
- James Daly
- Mary Jackson
- Andrew Duggan
- Alex March
- Anne Meara
- Anthony Ross
- Ernest Graves
- Jackie Cooper
- Dick York
- Logan Ramsey
- Scott Forbes
- Rod Steiger
- Mildred Dunnock
- Kevin Coughlin
- Richard Sanders
- Eva Gabor
- Dorothy Gish
- Eddie Albert
- June Lockhart
- Neva Patterson
- Don Murray
- George Chandler
- Martin E. Brooks
- Anne Crawford
- Lin McCarthy
- Ralph Bellamy
- Frank Marth
- William Prince
- Lily Cahill
- James Westerfield
- John Randolph
- Tony Randall
- Werner Klemperer
- John McQuade
- Mel Ruick
- John Carradine
- Les Tremayne
- Howard Smith
- Mary Beth Hughes
- Joan Croydon
- Mildred Natwick
- Donald Curtis
- Shepperd Strudwick
- Loring Smith
- James Gregory
- Larry Blyden
- Vaughn Taylor
- Adam West
- Jack Weston
- Frances Reid
- Harry Townes
- Eli Wallach
- Bill Erwin
- Howard St. John
- Gene Wood
- Arthur Treacher
- Pat Henning
- Jack Klugman
- Frank Maxwell
- Edward Binns
- Henry Jones
- Kim Stanley
- Bertha Belmore
- Jack Lemmon
- Walter Greaza
- Jason Evers
- Margaret Hayes
- Leo G. Carroll
- Leopoldine Konstantin
- Hildy Parks
- Addison Richards
- Edward Andrews
- Ross Martin
- Bramwell Fletcher
- Pat Hingle
- William Eythe
- Betty Lou Keim
- Kathleen Maguire
- Jo Van Fleet
- Paul Newman
- Anthony Eisley
- Kent Smith
- John Kerr
- Grace Kelly
- Mario Gallo
- Lydia Clarke
- Dan Frazer
- Calvin Thomas
- Anthony Quinn
- Ernest Borgnine
- John Marriott
- Dennis Cross
- Kevin McCarthy
- John C. Becher
- Chris Gampel
- Richard Fraser
- Hume Cronyn
- Louis Sorin
- Jean Muir
- Everett Sloane
- Franchot Tone
- Lois Wilson
- Betty Furness
- Nancy Marchand
- Leora Dana
- John Ericson
- Vinton Hayworth
- Betsy Palmer
- Joanne Woodward
- Wright King
- Lillian Gish
- William Hansen
- Florida Friebus
- Philip Abbott
- Herbert Berghof
- Cloris Leachman
- James Broderick
- E.G. Marshall
- Johnny Desmond
- Frank Sutton
- Martin Balsam
- Sidney Poitier
- Eileen Heckart
- Larry Gates
- Ed Begley
- Jason Robards
- Barbara O'Neil
- David Opatoshu
- Kay Medford
- Eva Marie Saint
- Addison Powell
- Frank Overton
- Arthur O'Connell
- Charles Dingle
- Peter Mark Richman
- James Dean
- Oliver Thorndike
- Ivan F. Simpson
- Mary K. Wells
- Frank Stephens
- Katherine Meskill
- Mary Patton
- Ralph Longley
- Stephen Courtleigh
- Carmen Mathews
- John Connell
- Joseph Sweeney
- Patricia Fay