Interesting actor trivia

Very interesting.

Leo Gordon also did some writing and appeared numerous times with his wife.
Also served time in real life. Could play a very scary bad guy.

Also couldn't help but notice, according to imdb, some of the actors went absolutely nowhere after Highway Patrol. Don't ask me to name them, as they are quite forgetful.

Thanks for the trivia. Looks like you put a lot of work into it.

Very interesting, and I appreciate the time and effort put into it.


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Interesting. Several of them I was aware of but that was mostly new information to me. But I think I can add the best one to your list. When I watched the episode on THIS network I was impressed with how exceptionally lovely this young lady was. When I looked her up I understood why.

Judy Lewis as "Honey" in the 1959 "Narcotics Racket" episode:

"A man and woman (Fred and Honey) pose as a federal narcotics agent and an apprehended pusher in order to swindle businesspeople by convincing them that their relatives will be implicated in drug crimes if they don't pay thousands of dollars in bribe money. When their attempt to swindle diner owner "Ma" Davis ends in murder, they decide to pull two more quick jobs before leaving the area. They panic and flee the scene when their second target refuses to be taken, and he is subsequently able to give the Highway Patrol a description of the two and their vehicles. They abandon one of their cars in an attempt to elude the roadblocks, but a violent confrontation ensues when they are spotted by Dan Mathews and Sergeant Williams."


From her obituary in the New York Times:

Judy Lewis, Secret Daughter of Hollywood, Dies at 76. Her mother was Loretta Young. Her father was Clark Gable.

Judy Lewis spent her first 19 months in hideaways and orphanages, and the rest of her early life untangling a web of lies spun by a young mother hungry for stardom but unwilling to end her unwed pregnancy.

Loretta Young’s deception was contrived to protect her budding movie career and the box-office power of the matinee idol Gable, who was married to someone else when they conceived their child in snowed-in Washington State. They were on location, shooting the 1935 film “The Call of the Wild,” fictional lovers in front of the camera and actual lovers outside its range.

When Ms. Lewis was 19 months old, her mother brought her back home and announced through the gossip columnist Louella Parsons that she had adopted the child.

Ms. Lewis, a former actress who died on Friday at the age of 76, was 31 before she discerned the scope of the falsehoods that cast her, a daughter of Hollywood royalty, into what she later described as a Cinderella-like childhood. Confronted by Ms. Lewis, Young finally made a tearful confession in 1966 at her sprawling home in Palm Springs, Calif."

That means when she filmed this episode, she wouldn't know the truth for another seven years.

Hollywood was much different back in the 1950s. Most actors belonged to specific studios. And many of them made the rounds of appearing on several series. It wasn't uncommon to see the same actor appear as different characters in a variety of tv series... and no one really thought it was odd back then. Hollywood seemed like a much smaller community back then.




I wish these guys would stop jumping

Thanks for posting this. Very interesting. I remember looking up Kay Falen after seeing that episode because I thought she was a beauty. Just saw Joe Flynn last night thanks to youtube.