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Known For
Acting
Birthday
December 23, 1911
Died
September 16, 2002
Place of Birth
Bronx, New York, USA
Also Known As
- Robert Dixon
- Jim Gregory
James Gregory
1.5 Popularity
Biography
James Gregory (December 23, 1911 – September 16, 2002) was an American actor. His best-known roles include Schaffer in Al Capone (1959), the McCarthy-like Sen. John Iselin in The Manchurian Candidate (1962), General Ursus in Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970), and Inspector Frank Luger in the television sitcom Barney Miller (1975–1982). Gregory grew up in New Rochelle, NY. In high school, he was elected president of the Drama Club. He went to work on Wall Street as a runner shortly after the 1929 crash. Gregory performed in drama groups and achieved pro status as a summer stock player in 1935. He performed in plays throughout New York, New Jersey and Maryland. His troupe of performers toured small towns in Pennsylvania and West Virginia, towing a trailer full of theatre props; they performed in school gyms, churches and YMCAs, earning $25 for a week of one-night stands. In 1939, Gregory made his Broadway debut in a production of "Key Largo". Over the next 16 years, he performed in approximately 25 Broadway productions. His career was interrupted by WWII; he served for 3 years in the Navy and Marine Corps. His tour of duty took him to the Pacific where he spent 83 days on Okinawa. He married Anne Miltner in 1944; they were married for 58 years (until his death). During his Broadway career, Gregory earned consistently favorable reviews by drama critics from the New York Press, Boston Globe, New York Times, Chicago Tribune, Hollywood Reporter and Variety. Gregory did a few TV spots as early as 1951, and in 1955 he made the transition from the Broadway stage to live television. The following year, after a couple of earlier uncredited movie appearances, he would also begin his movie career in earnest. He worked steadily throughout the early years of TV, working for major live television productions from New York to Hollywood. In 1959, Gregory made television history by costarring in the pilot episode of the The Twilight Zone (1959); the episode "Where Is Everybody?" concerning the relevant topic of the USA winning the space race by sending a manned spaceship to the moon sold the series. Gregory would play Dean Martin's exasperated boss MacDonald in the first 3 of the Matt Helm movies: The Silencers (1966), Murderers' Row (1966) and The Ambushers (1967). One of his final roles, perhaps his most acclaimed, was as Inspector Frank Luger for the entire run of Barney Miller (1975 - 1982). As the Inspector, he would be lovable, irritating, ingratiating, exasperating, and humorous, sometimes all at the same time. Gregory retired from acting in 1983, with over 100 TV and movie credits.
Known For
3.7
Dan Peters
Wait Till Your Mother Gets Home
1983
6.7
Bryagh / Smrgol (voice)
The Flight of Dragons
1982
0.0
Leo Hackett
Goldie and the Boxer Go to Hollywood
1981
6.0
Gen. Caribou Caruthers
Gridlock
1980
5.9
Scotty
The Comeback Kid
1980
5.5
Detective School
1979
5.3
Gough
The Main Event
1979
4.5
Flying High
1978
5.8
Will Campbell
The Bastard
1978
6.3
Milton Benson
The Love Boat
1977
Credits
Wait Till Your Mother Gets Home
as Dan Peters
1983
3.7
The Flight of Dragons
as Bryagh / Smrgol (voice)
1982
6.7
Goldie and the Boxer Go to Hollywood
as Leo Hackett
1981
0.0
Gridlock
as Gen. Caribou Caruthers
1980
6.0
The Comeback Kid
as Scotty
1980
5.9
Detective School
1979
5.5
The Main Event
as Gough
1979
5.3
Flying High
1978
4.5
The Bastard
as Will Campbell
1978
5.8
The Love Boat
as Milton Benson
1977
6.3
Quincy, M.E.
1976
7.5
Quincy, M.E.
as Tony Gordon
1976
7.5
Francis Gary Powers: The True Story of the U-2 Spy Incident
as James Donovan
1976
0.0
All's Fair
1976
7.0
The Strongest Man in the World
as Chief Blair
1975
6.1
Barney Miller
as Inspector Frank Luger
1975
7.3
Barney Miller
as Frank Luger
1975
7.3
The Abduction of Saint Anne
as Pete Haggerty
1975
6.0
Kolchak: The Night Stalker
as Captain Quill
1974
7.6
Miracle on 34th Street
as District Attorney
1973
6.8
Police Story
1973
6.9
The Weekend Nun
as Sid Richardson
1972
6.3
The Streets of San Francisco
1972
7.0
M*A*S*H
as General Kelly
1972
7.9
Search
1972
6.9
The Paul Lynde Show
1972
5.0
🎬
Temperatures Rising
as James Jerome
1972
5.0
A Very Missing Person
as Oscar Piper
1972
8.0
Emergency!
1972
7.8
Sanford and Son
1972
7.4
The Marshal of Madrid
as Oil Tycoon
1972
0.0
Columbo
as David Buckner
1971
8.1
Cannon
1971
6.6
The Late Liz
as Sam Burns
1971
0.0
Shoot Out
as Sam Foley
1971
6.4
The Million Dollar Duck
as Rutledge
1971
5.8
All in the Family
as William R. Kirkwood
1971
7.8
Night Gallery
1970
7.8
The Partridge Family
as Claude Tubbles
1970
6.8
The Headmaster
1970
0.0
The Hawaiians
as Dr. Whipple Sr. (uncredited)
1970
5.4
Beneath the Planet of the Apes
as Ursus
1970
6.1
McCloud
1970
7.1
My World and Welcome to It
1969
5.5
The Love God?
as Darrell Evans Hughes
1969
5.8
The Mod Squad
1968
6.2
Lancer
1968
4.7
The Outcasts
1968
5.3
Hawaii Five-O
as Jonathan Kaye
1968
7.1
Hawaii Five-O
as Mike Finney
1968
7.1
Cocoon
as Jonathan Kaye
1968
8.0
The Outsider
1968
5.2
🎬
Premiere
1968
0.0
The Secret War of Harry Frigg
as Gen. Homer Prentiss
1968
6.0
The Ambushers
as MacDonald
1967
4.9
Clambake
as Duster Heyward
1967
5.9
The Hunted
as Buckman
1967
0.0
The High Chaparral
as Jake Stoner
1967
6.6
Judd for the Defense
1967
7.5
Cimarron Strip
1967
5.5
Ironside
as Herb Jarman
1967
6.8
Ironside
as TV Presenter
1967
6.8
Ironside
as Tony Hudson
1967
6.8
Murderers' Row
as MacDonald
1966
5.7
Mission: Impossible
1966
7.6
Star Trek
as Dr. Tristan Adams
1966
8.0
That Girl
1966
6.1
Tarzan
1966
6.7
The Silencers
as MacDonald
1966
6.0
A Rage to Live
as Dr. O'Brien
1965
4.4
The F.B.I.
as Bert Anslem
1965
5.4
The Loner
1965
5.7
Hogan's Heroes
as General Biedenbender
1965
7.5
The Wild Wild West
1965
7.6
The Big Valley
as Simon Carter
1965
6.1
The Big Valley
as Senator Jim Bannard
1965
6.1
The Big Valley
as Harry Bodine
1965
6.1
F Troop
1965
6.2
The Sons of Katie Elder
as Morgan Hastings
1965
7.0
Quick, Before It Melts
as Vice Admiral
1965
2.7
Daniel Boone
as Captain Asa Webb
1964
7.0
A Distant Trumpet
as Maj. Gen. Alexander Upton Quaint
1964
5.3
Captain Newman, M.D.
as Col. Edgar Pyser
1963
6.6
Twilight of Honor
as Norris Bixby
1963
6.1
Kraft Suspense Theatre
as Lieutenant Wade
1963
5.3
The Fugitive
as Pete Crandall
1963
7.2
The Lieutenant
1963
6.0
PT 109
as Commander C.R. Ritchie
1963
6.0
The Manchurian Candidate
as Sen. John Yerkes Iselin
1962
7.5
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
as Fred Kruger
1962
7.8
The Virginian
as Slim Jessup
1962
6.4
The Virginian
as Cal Young
1962
6.4
Sam Benedict
1962
6.0
Two Weeks in Another Town
as Brad Byrd
1962
5.9
X-15
as Tom Deparma
1961
5.9
The New Breed
as Father Al
1961
7.0
Ben Casey
1961
5.6
Target: The Corruptors!
1961
3.5
The Defenders
as Paul Tasso
1961
5.9
My Three Sons
1960
6.5
Thriller
as Howard Yates
1960
6.6
Journey to the Day
as Endicott
1960
0.0
The Snows of Kilimanjaro
as Editor
1960
0.0
The Twilight Zone
as Confederate Sergeant
1959
8.5
The Twilight Zone
as Air Force General
1959
8.5
The DuPont Show with June Allyson
as John Kramer
1959
6.3
Laramie
1959
6.6
Bonanza
as Mulvaney
1959
7.5
Bonanza
as Sgt. Mike Russell
1959
7.5
Bonanza
as Whitney Parker
1959
7.5
Hey Boy! Hey Girl!
as Father Burton
1959
0.0
The Lawless Years
as Barney Ruditsky
1959
7.0
Al Capone
as Schaefler (narrator)
1959
6.6
Rawhide
as Owen Spencer
1959
7.2
Rawhide
as Mister Brothers
1959
7.2
Rawhide
as Lash Whitcomb
1959
7.2
Onionhead
as Lt. Cmdr. Fox aka The Skipper
1958
4.9
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
1958
5.8
A Town Has Turned to Dust
as Hennify
1958
0.0
🎬
Underwater Warrior
as Lt. William Arnold
1958
5.0
Gun Glory
as Grimsell
1957
5.8
The Big Caper
as Flood
1957
6.2
The Young Stranger
as Sergeant Shipley
1957
5.8
Nightfall
as Ben Fraser
1956
6.9
The Scarlet Hour
as Ralph Nevins
1956
5.1
🎬
Playwrights '56
1955
6.0
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Mr. Wescott
1955
7.8
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as John Gregory
1955
7.8
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Wayne Campbell
1955
7.8
Gunsmoke
as Scanlon, Sr.
1955
6.6
Gunsmoke
as Judge Calvin Strom
1955
6.6
Gunsmoke
as Wes Martin
1955
6.6
Climax!
as Joe McCarthy
1954
3.3
Climax!
as Dr. Froelich
1954
3.3
Inner Sanctum
1954
7.0
At This Moment
as Bill Ritter
1954
6.0
Letter to Loretta
as Jim Patton
1953
6.5
General Electric Theater
as Sandy Green
1953
6.4
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
as Morgan
1951
7.2
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
as Lieutenant Billy Kyle
1951
7.2
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951
7.2
The Frogmen
as Chief Petty Officer Lane
1951
6.1
🎬
Lux Video Theatre
as Mac
1950
6.3
🎬
Lux Video Theatre
as Mr. Randolph
1950
6.3
🎬
Danger
1950
8.0
🎬
Danger
as Willie
1950
8.0
Robert Montgomery Presents
1950
5.6
Suspense
1949
4.9
Suspense
as Jerry
1949
4.9
Studio One
as Gas Man
1948
5.0
Studio One
as Mr. Black
1948
5.0
Studio One
as James Metcalf
1948
5.0
Studio One
as Mr. Bales
1948
5.0
Studio One
as George Monzo
1948
5.0
Studio One
as Corey
1948
5.0
Studio One
as Private Alan Pomeroy
1948
5.0
The Philco Television Playhouse
1948
6.3
The Philco Television Playhouse
as Lester Thompson
1948
6.3
The Philco Television Playhouse
as Angus
1948
6.3
The Naked City
as Patrolman Albert Hicks (uncredited)
1948
7.2
The Things People Want
as Pete
1948
0.0
Kraft Television Theatre
as Steve
1947
7.5