William Demarest
Acting
- Naissance:
- 1892-02-27
- Décès:
- 1983-12-28
- Lieu de naissance:
- Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA
Biographie
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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Television: The First Fifty Years
Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down the Line
The Millionaire
Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood
Ellery Queen
The Wild McCullochs
Les Créatures de l'ombre
Mcmillan
L'Espion aux pattes de velours
L'Amour en quatrième vitesse
Un monde fou, fou, fou, fou
The Jerry Lewis Show
L'Homme à la Rolls
The Greatest Show on Earth
Après lui, le déluge
Going My Way
The Tonight Show avec Johnny Carson
The Mike Douglas Show
Règlements de comptes à Black Horse Canyon
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 Quatrième Dimension
Love and Marriage
Bonanza
Wagon Train
Tales of Wells Fargo
Les Années sauvages
La Neige en deuil
Colère noire
Sincerely Yours
Lucy Gallant
Alfred Hitchcock présente
La guerre privée du major Benson
Horizons lointains
La Chérie de Jupiter
The Yellow Mountain
Le Monde merveilleux de Disney (Disneyland - Walt Disney Présente - Le Monde Merveilleux De Disney En Couleurs )
Jamboree
Studio 57
Fort Bravo
Here Come the Girls
Traversons la Manche
The Lady Wants Mink
The Blazing Forest
Deux durs à cuire
The Red Skelton Show
Behave Yourself!
The Strip
Excuse My Dust
The First Legion
He's a Cockeyed Wonder
Mon cow-boy adoré
Jour de chance
Planqué malgré lui
Red, Hot and Blue
Je chante pour vous
Sorrowful Jones
Smith le taciturne
Les yeux de la nuit
The Sainted Sisters
La Folle Enquête
Variety Girl
The Perils of Pauline
L'histoire Jolson
Our Hearts Were Growing Up
Pardon My Past
Hollywood Victory Caravan
La Taverne de la Folie
Le grand Bill
Salty O'Rourke
Miracle au village
Héros d'occasion
The Great Moment
Il était une fois
Nine Girls
True to Life
Dangerous Blondes
Le Cabaret des étoiles
Johnny Doughboy
Life Begins at Eight-Thirty
Behind the Eight Ball
Madame et ses flirts
Deux nigauds dans une île
My Favorite Spy
True to the Army
Echec à la Gestapo
Glamour Boy
Les Voyages de Sullivan
Dressed to Kill
Country Fair
Ride on Vaquero
Rookies on Parade
Le Diable s'en mêle
Un cœur pris au piège
Little Men
Le gros lot
The Golden Fleecing
Comin' Round the Mountain
Gouverneur malgré lui
The Farmer's Daughter
Wolf of New York
Laugh It Off
Monsieur Smith au Sénat
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
Mam'zelle vedette
Rosalie
La Grande Ville
Wake Up and Live
Blonde Trouble
Vie facile
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
Loufoque et Cie
Cadeau de mariage
Le Grand Ziegfeld
White Lies
Jeux de mains
Diamond Jim
Bright Lights
La Double vengeance
The Casino Murder Case
Chronique mondaine
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
Une fille dans chaque port
Sharp Shooters
The Night Court
A Reno Divorce
Le Chanteur 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