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Jack Riley, a regular actor on “The Bob Newhart Show” and the voice of Stu Pickles on the popular animated show “Rugrats,” has died. He was 80. He died of pneumonia at a hospital in Los Angeles and is survived by his wife Ginger Lawrence, two children and two grandchildren, according to Paul Doherty at Cunningham Escott Slevin & Doherty. Riley gained recognition for his role as the selfish and neurotic patient Elliot Carlin, who is credited in 49 episodes of “The Bob Newhart Show.” Riley’s career spanned close to 50 years and he has amassed 157 credits over that duration. He was also a regular in “Diff’rent Strokes,” “Night Court” and “Son of the Beach.” In addition to his career on television, Riley was a part of several Mel Brooks films including “Silent Movie,” “High Anxiety,” “History of the World: Part I” and “Spaceballs.” http://variety.com/2016/tv/news/jack-riley-dead-bob-newhart-show-rugrats-dies-1201841172/

I can't place the second scene, but the first sounds like Red Sundown (1956). Dying James Millican (who was dying in real life as well, this was his last film) hopes to save Rory Calhoun by burying him alive, and allowing him to breathe through a pipe contraption. After the fire the outlaws (led by Leo Gordon) go in the cabin, see no one alive, and leave. The shot where Calhoun then rises out of the grave is memorably eerie.

This sounds like a scene in Last Train From Gun Hill (1959), though it doesn't take place in a tepee

IMHO Jailhouse Rock is superior in every way, especially the script (Guy Trosper) and Leiber Stoller score "“He was an instinctive actor...He was quite bright...he was very intelligent...He was not a punk. He was very elegant, sedate, and refined, and sophisticated.”-- Walter Matthau, who co-starred with Elvis in King Creole To see Elvis give a solid acting performance watch the Don Siegel directed Flaming Star -- especially the "renunciation" scene, where he turns his back on his white family to join the Indians.

Jack Warner got hauled in front of a Congressional committee for making Mission To Moscow

I ought to know this, but I don't. I do know that the Control Voice wraparounds in The Outer Limits were usually the work of the scriptwriter -- of course Harlan Ellison b*tched about his being misread.

"The Lateness of the Hour", and (IIRC) five other first-season TZ episodes were shot on videotape to save money. While it may look cheap, seeing a 1959 TV production on black and white videotape does give it an immediacy missing in the filmed episodes.

Call it "Universal Pictures Starring Entertainment Titans" (UPSET)

From Lucille Fletcher's story, first done on radio by Orson Welles

This was the responsibility of producers Joan Harrison and Norman Lloyd. When AH had a window between features he would read summaries of scripts to be filmed and direct the one that appealed to him. AH probably was able to cast some stars for his episodes. I just recently watched the classic AHP "Arthur" w/ Laurence Harvey. LH was then in talks to do No Bail For The Judge w/ Audrey Hepburn for AH (never filmed) and probably did "Arthur" as a favor to AH.

Menu at Walt Disney's Studio Restaurant, 1940s:

My favorite was for "The Jar", which went something like this: "Some viewers may note a similarity between The Jar and another popular home entertainment device. But I assure you, there is absolutely no comparison at all as far as quality is concerned. Still, we in television are improving all the time, and someday -- who knows?"

1962 The aforementioned "Revenge" was a half hour, the very first one in fact, directed by none other than Hitchcock himself. Another AHH fave: "The Cadaver", in which some practical joking med school students get a bit more than they bargained for.

Lloyd directed "The Jar". He's interviewed in some documentaries on AH. I recall he talked about the wraparounds AH did. They were written by James Allardice, who kept coming up with more and more outrageous things for AH to do. Lloyd would read Allardice's scripts and say to himself, "Oh Hitch will never do this". But as Lloyd added, "He did them all". Like deMille, Hitchcock was something of a frustrated actor. IIRC Friedkin met AH exactly once during his job, and all Hitch said to him was a complaint that he wasn't wearing a tie. Years later Friedkin was at an Oscar party after winning for French Connection and saw Hitchcock there. He yelled out, "Hey Hitch! I'm wearing a tie!" But AH apparently didn't remember what he was referring to.

Don't think I've seen that one. I have see the one where Gavin is a cop who is suspended for killing a suspect and takes a job as a night deputy in a lake resort. This episode was the first Hollywood directing job for a young William Friedkin, and he goes into considerable detail about it in his recent memoir.

Didn't see the mini-fest but I'm a big fan of the Hitchcock TV series. Here are a few AHH favorites: Ray Bradbury's "The Jar": Richard Basehart as an amnesiac in an excellent adaptation of Cornell Woolrich's "The Black Curtain": And my favorite AHH episode, the suspense classic "An Unlocked Window":

Jeff and Lloyd Bridges. Lloyd seems to be having a bad hair day.

Rare publicity photo of "Sebastian Venable", the much-discussed character whose face is never seen in Suddenly Last Summer (1959) -- the identity of the actor playing the role remains unknown

Supposedly, the Beach Party film was originally planned to be a fairly serious drama about juvenile delinquents, roughly in the manner of the current Interns series. William Asher claimed credit for the switch to comedy.

I think most people will recognize him as the other American in The Great Escape

Alvin Sargent (no relation), Oscar-winning screenwriter of Julia and Ordinary People, is the soldier running across the parade ground yelling "They're bombing Wheeler Field!!" to Burt Lancaster at the beginning of the Japanese attack in From Here To Eternity. Before Star Trek Nimoy's acting career was going so poorly that he enrolled in MGM's director training program and intended to switch fields.

Virginia Hill, later the mistress of gangster Bugsy Siegel, is credited as "Hat check girl" in Manpower (1941). According to legend she and Siegel met on the set, introduced by George Raft.

Looking up WV (never seen it) I learned another future director was in the cast: Don Taylor is one of the male leads. Then-unknowns Judy Holliday and Red Buttons also appear.

Lamont Johnson was not much of an actor but not a bad director. Actors in his films often give much better performances than you'd expect from them. He's sort of the TV version of Martin Ritt. Ritt, FWIW, appeared in Winged Victory (1944) and a handful of live TV plays in the early '50s. According to Rod Steiger, Paddy Chayefsky wrote Marty specifically for Ritt, but he was not allowed to play it due to blacklisting issues, and Steiger inherited the role. And how we can forget Joe Pevney? William Conrad, Joseph Pevney, and John Garfield in Body and Soul Pevney on the set of Star Trek

Sam Peckinpah as a meter reader in Invasion of The Body Snatchers