William Demarest
Acting
- Nacimiento:
- 1892-02-27
- Fallecimiento:
- 1983-12-28
- Lugar de nacimiento:
- Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA
Biografía
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Carl William Demarest (February 27, 1892 – December 27, 1983) was an American character actor, known for playing Uncle Charley in My Three Sons. A veteran of World War I, Demarest became a prolific film and television actor, appearing in over 140 films, beginning in 1926 and ending in the 1970s. He frequently played crusty but good-hearted roles. Demarest started in show business working in vaudeville, appearing with his wife Estelle Collette (real name Esther Zychlin) as "Demarest and Colette", then moved on to Broadway. Demarest worked regularly with director Preston Sturges, becoming part of a "stock" troupe of actors that Sturges repeatedly cast in his films. He appeared in ten films written by Sturges, eight of which were under his direction, including The Lady Eve, Sullivan's Travels and The Miracle of Morgan's Creek. Demarest was such a familiar figure at the Paramount studio that just his name was used in the movie Sunset Boulevard as a potential star for William Holden's unsold baseball screenplay. Demarest appeared with veteran western film star Roscoe Ates in the 1958 episode "And the Desert Shall Blossom" of CBS's Alfred Hitchcock Presents. In the story line, Ates and Demarest appear as old timers living in the Nevada desert. The local sheriff, played by Ben Johnson, appears with an eviction notice, but he agrees to let the pair stay on their property if they can make a dead rosebush bloom within the next month. In 1959 Demarest was named the lead actor of the 18-week sitcom Love and Marriage on NBC in the 1959–1960 season. Demarest played William Harris, the owner of a failing music company who refuses to handle popular rock and roll music, which presumably might save the firm from bankruptcy. Joining Demarest on the series were Jeanne Bal, Murray Hamilton and Stubby Kaye. Demarest appeared as Police Chief Aloysius of the Santa Rosita Police Department in the film It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963), as well as on a memorable episode ("What's in the Box") of Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone as a hen-pecked husband driven to the murder of his wife. His most famous television role was in the ABC and then CBS sitcom My Three Sons from 1965 to 1972, playing Uncle Charley O'Casey. He replaced William Frawley, whose failing health had made procuring insurance impossible. Demarest had worked with Fred MacMurray previously in the films Hands Across the Table (1935), Pardon My Past (1945), On Our Merry Way (1948), and The Far Horizons (1955) and was a personal friend of MacMurray. Also, he worked with Irene Dunne in Never a Dull Moment (1950).
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Filmografía
Television: The First Fifty Years
Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down the Line
The Millionaire
Won Ton Ton, el perro que salvó a Hollywood
Ellery Queen
The Wild McCullochs
Frío en la noche
McMillan y esposa
Un gato del FBI
Cita en Las Vegas (Viva Las Vegas)
El mundo está loco, loco, loco, loco
The Jerry Lewis Show
El agente Burke
The Greatest Show on Earth
El sabio en apuros
Going My Way
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
The Mike Douglas Show
Duelo en el cañón
Ben Casey
Dr. Kildare
Twenty Plus Two
King of the Roaring 20's – The Story of Arnold Rothstein
Pepe
My Three Sons
The Rebel
La dimensión desconocida
Love and Marriage
Bonanza
Caravana
Calibre 44
Aquellos duros años
La montaña siniestra
Infierno en la bahía de San Francisco
Sincerely Yours
Orgullo contra orgullo
Alfred Hitchcock presenta
La guerra privada del mayor Benson
Horizontes azules
La amada de Júpiter
Ambición maldita
The Wonderful World of Disney
Jamboree
Studio 57
Fort Bravo
Here Come the Girls
Mojada y peligrosa
La señora quiere visón
The Blazing Forest
El precio de la gloria
The Red Skelton Show
Pórtate bien
The Strip
Excuse My Dust
The First Legion
He's a Cockeyed Wonder
¡Qué vida ésta!
Lo quiso la suerte
Bill, qué grande eres
Red, Hot and Blue
Jolson Sings Again
Sorrowful Jones
Smith el silencioso
Mil ojos tiene la noche
The Sainted Sisters
Una encuesta llamada milagro
Variety Girl
Los peligros de Paulina
The Jolson Story
Our Hearts Were Growing Up
Pardon My Past
Hollywood Victory Caravan
Carnaval de estrellas
El caballero del Oeste
Fuera de la ley
El milagro de Morgan Creek
Salve, héroe victorioso
El gran momento
El eterno pretendiente
Nine Girls
True to Life
Dangerous Blondes
Tres días de amor y fe
Johnny Doughboy
Life Begins at Eight-Thirty
Behind the Eight Ball
Un marido rico
Dos caraduras con suerte
Mi espía favorita
True to the Army
A través de la noche
Glamour Boy
Los viajes de Sullivan
Dressed to Kill
Country Fair
Ride on Vaquero
Rookies on Parade
El diablo burlado
Las tres noches de Eva
Little Men
Navidades en Julio
The Golden Fleecing
Comin' Round the Mountain
El gran McGinty
The Farmer's Daughter
Wolf of New York
Laugh It Off
Caballero sin espada
Miracles for Sale
The Cowboy Quarterback
The Gracie Allen Murder Case
King of the Turf
The Great Man Votes
While New York Sleeps
Peck's Bad Boy with the Circus
Josette
One Wild Night
Romance on the Run
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
Rosalie
Big City
Wake Up and Live
Blonde Trouble
Una chica afortunada
The Great Gambini
The Great Hospital Mystery
The Hit Parade
Oh, Doctor
Don't Tell the Wife
Time Out for Romance
Mind Your Own Business
Charlie Chan at the Opera
Amor entre espías
Cásate conmigo... si puedes
El gran Ziegfeld
White Lies
Candidata a millonaria
El hombre de los brillantes
Bright Lights
La voz que acusa
The Casino Murder Case
El escándalo del día
Fugitive Lady
Many Happy Returns
Fog Over Frisco
Seeing Things
The Crash
The Butter and Egg Man
Five and Ten Cent Annie
Pay as You Enter
Una chica en cada puerto
Sharp Shooters
The Night Court
A Reno Divorce
El cantor de Jazz
A Sailor's Sweetheart
The Bush Leaguer
The First Auto
What Happened To Father
The Black Diamond Express
Simple Sis
A Million Bid
Matinee Ladies
The Gay Old Bird
Don't Tell the Wife
Finger Prints