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Known For
Acting
Birthday
January 27, 1920
Died
February 16, 1990
Place of Birth
New York, New York, USA
Joshua Shelley
0.3 Popularity
Biography
Joshua Shelley (born Joshua Kurzweil; January 27, 1920 – February 16, 1990) was one of the actors blacklisted by movie studios as a result of the House Un-American Activities Committee's (HUAC) investigation of the Communist Party in Hollywood in 1952. He did not begin to again work regularly in Hollywood until 1973 when his career restarted. A member of The Actors Studio from its inception in 1947, Shelley worked frequently on stage, both on and off Broadway, during his Hollywood exile. Shelley's onscreen work, both pre- and post-blacklist, was confined primarily to television. Nonetheless, two career highlights remain Shelley's enthusiastically received 1949 feature film debut in City Across the River, as well as the blacklist-related 1976 film, The Front, notable for reuniting Shelley with several fellow blacklistees, including cast members Zero Mostel, Herschel Bernardi, and Lloyd Gough, screenwriter Walter Bernstein and director Martin Ritt, the latter also a fellow Actors Studio member. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Known For
Credits
The Twilight Zone
as (segment "Personal Demons")
1985
7.8
Hell Town
as Frasno
1985
5.0
Hunter
as Colin
1984
7.1
Remington Steele
as Bullets Bloustein
1982
7.1
Family Ties
as Sam
1982
7.2
Cassie & Co.
1982
4.5
Nurse
as Ted Ambler
1981
5.0
Little Miss Marker
as Benny
1980
6.6
Hart to Hart
1979
6.9
Loose Change
as Sol Berenson
1978
0.0
Ring of Passion
as Max
1978
7.0
The Incredible Hulk
1977
7.2
Soap
1977
7.3
🎬
Sugar Time!
1977
0.0
Quincy, M.E.
as Claude Whitley
1976
7.5
The Front
as Sam
1976
7.0
All the President's Men
as Al Lewis
1976
7.7
Crackle of Death
1976
6.0
Ellery Queen
1975
7.4
Switch
as Dutch
1975
6.7
Joe Forrester
1975
7.0
Switch
as Man in Shooting Gallery
1975
0.0
Funny Lady
as Painter
1975
5.2
Baretta
1975
6.4
The Front Page
as Cab Driver
1974
7.3
Police Woman
1974
6.2
Kolchak: The Night Stalker
as George
1974
7.6
Harry O
1974
4.6
Sonny Boy
as Uncle Ralph
1974
0.0
Happy Days
1974
7.6
Kojak
as Obitsky
1973
7.0
Kojak
as Bob Harris
1973
7.0
🎬
Needles and Pins
1973
5.0
The Marcus-Nelson Murders
as Mr Sack
1973
7.4
Firehouse
as Mr. Warnecke
1973
4.6
The Streets of San Francisco
1972
7.0
The Paul Lynde Show
as Joe Patterson
1972
5.0
🎬
Temperatures Rising
as Larkin
1972
5.0
McMillan & Wife
1971
6.9
All in the Family
as Willie
1971
7.8
The Odd Couple
as Accountant
1970
7.8
The Odd Couple
as Race Announcer (voice)
1970
7.8
The Odd Couple
as Burglar #2
1970
7.8
McCloud
1970
7.1
Decoy
as Willie Graff
1957
6.4
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Hercules Mulligan
1951
8.6
🎬
Lux Video Theatre
as Pete
1950
6.3
🎬
Danger
1950
8.0
Yes Sir, That's My Baby
as Arnold Schultze
1949
4.0
City Across the River
as Theodore 'Crazy' Perrin
1949
5.5
Suspense
as Tony
1949
4.9
Studio One
as Arturo
1948
5.0
The Ed Sullivan Show
as Self
1948
6.8