Booth Colman obit

Actor Booth Colman Dies At 91

 

He was not on the list.

Veteran actor Booth Colman – a character actor who appeared on seemingly countless TV shows and in more than 50 films over five decades – has died at the age of 91. He died in his sleep on Dec. 15.

An expert on Shakespeare who typically portrayed authority figures, Colman made frequent appearances on shows such as Gunsmoke, Hogan’s Heroes, Perry Mason, Chicago Hope, Lou Grant, Star Trek, The Waltons, Frasier, The Rifleman, Bonanza, Mannix and Marcus Welby, among much else.

He had long runs on the soap operas The Young and The Restless and General Hospital. He also appeared in several episodes of the Planet of the Apes 1974 TV series as Dr. Zaius, a role that brought him invites to fan conventions for years after.

His big-screen roles included a 1952 debut in The Big Sky and a role in Norma Rae and later in roles in Intolerable Cruelty and The Man Who Wasn’t There.

He also appeared hundreds of times on stage as Ebenezer Scrooge each year with a theater group in Rochester, Mich.

Colman was born March 8, 1923 in Portland, Ore., and attended college at the University of Washington and the University of Michigan. During WWII, he served in military intelligence, where his facility with foreign languages was useful.

 

Filmography

Film

Year     Title            Role            Notes

1952    The Big Sky      Pascal            Uncredited

1953    Julius Caesar Citizen of Rome            Uncredited

1953    Flight Nurse            Australian            Uncredited

1954    Secret of the Incas            Juan Fernandez            Uncredited

1954    Them!            Reporter            Uncredited

1954    Ring of Fear            Psychiatrist            Uncredited

1954    Living It Up            Fernandez            Uncredited

1954    The Adventures of Hajji Baba            Akim            Uncredited

1954    The Human Jungle            Wallace         

1954    The Silver Chalice            Hiram  

1955    Prince of Players            Ghost of Buckingham Palace            Uncredited

1955    The Prodigal            Barber            Uncredited

1955    Jump into Hell            Legionnaire            Uncredited

1955            Moonfleet        Capt. Stanhope         

1956    World Without End            Mories

1956    Flight to Hong Kong            Maxler

1957    My Gun Is Quick            Det. Pat Chambers  

1958    The Beast of Budapest            Lt. Stefko 

1958    The Case Against Brooklyn            George - TV Interviewer            Uncredited

1958    Tarawa Beachhead            Sam Pelligram            Uncredited

1958    Auntie Mame  Alan - Party Guest            Uncredited

1958    The Power of the Resurrection            James  

1959    The Man Who Understood Women            Max            Uncredited

1960    The Bramble Bush            Dr. Peterford            Uncredited

1960    Under Ten Flags                    

1961            Romanoff and Juliet            Customs Officer          

1961    The Comancheros            Hotel Clerk            Uncredited

1964    A Global Affair            United Nations Delegate            Uncredited

1964    Kisses for My President            TV Producer            Uncredited

1964    Fate Is the Hunter            Technician with Seagull feather            Uncredited

1964            Youngblood Hawke            TV Interviewer            Uncredited

1964    Raiders from Beneath the Sea Purdy  

1965            Runaway Girl  Angelo Guglietta          

1965    Harlow            Minister            Uncredited

1965    Arizona Raiders Ohio Gazette Editor            Uncredited

1965    Wild on the Beach            Dean Parker 

1968            Maryjane            Maynard Parlow         

1970    The Lawyer Judge Crawford        

1970    The Great White Hope    Citizens Committee Man            Uncredited

1971            Scandalous John            Governor Murray        

1973    Time to Run      Officer Harvey

1974    I Love You... Good-bye            Professor Halton         

1979    Norma Rae      Dr. Watson           

2000    Return to the Secret Garden Old Man    

2001    The Man Who Wasn't There            Judge #2       

2003            Intolerable Cruelty            Gutman Trial Judge       

Television

Year     Title            Role            Notes

1950            Somerset Maugham TV Theatre                   Episode: "The String of Beads"

1952–1954            Schlitz Playhouse of Stars            Napoleon        2 episodes

1953    Mr. and Mrs. North            Reese            Episode: "Seven Sacred Rubies"

1953    Ford Television Theatre             Episode: "The Doctor's Downfall"

1953    The Revlon Mirror Theater             Episode: "Equal Justice"

1953–1955            Cavalcade of America             4 episodes

1955    Lux Video Theatre            Anatol France            Episode: "The Life of Emile Zola"

1955    Climax!                        Episode: "Flight 951"

1955    Science Fiction Theatre            Dr. McLeod            Episode: "Dead Storage"

1956            Passport to Danger                  Episode: "Marseilles"

1956    The Adventures of Jim Bowie            Jacques / Brissac / Lantanac            3 episodes

1956            Matinee Theatre                      Episode: "Savrola"

1956            Telephone Time                      Episode: "Fortunatus"

1956–1958            Broken Arrow  Arthur Spruance / Wilkins 2 episodes

1957    The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show            Art Roberts            Episode: "The Texan Italian"

1957    The Gray Ghost            Grady            Episode: "The Missing Colonel"

1958    Dragnet                        Episode: "The Big Grifter"

1958    How to Marry a Millionaire            Tompkins / Charlie            2 episodes

1958    The Silent Service            Chief Torpedoman Swerdling            Episode: "The Silversides Story"

1958    Rescue 8          Will Dorset / Dorton - Director            Episode: "Calamity Coach"

1958    The Veil            Edmond Valier            Episode: "The Crystal Ball"

1958–1962            Death Valley Days            Dr. Frank Shelton / Defense Attorney / Bob Stevenson            3 episodes

1959    Man with a Camera            Idrees Lateef            Episode: "The Last Portrait"

1959    Yancy Derringer            Henry Duval            Episode: "The Louisiana Dude"

1959    Behind Closed Doors            Branko            Episode: "The Meeting"

1959    The Californians            Ralph Keel            Episode: "The Fugitive"

1959    Zorro            Pineda            Episode: "An Affair of Honor"

1961    Cain's Hundred            Doctor            Episode: "Degrees of Guilt"

1961    The Rifleman            Jeremiah            Episode: "The High Country"

1961–1962            Thriller            Lieutenant Bailey / Hotel Desk Clerk    2 episodes

1962            Adventures in Paradise            Dr. Finney / Chitral            2 episodes

1962    Route 66        Dr. Snyder            Episode: "Even Stones Have Eyes"

1962    King of Diamonds            Robbins            Episode: "Carla"

1962    I'm Dickens, He's Fenster             Episode: "Nurse Dickens"

1962    Have Gun – Will Travel   Mort Tyler            Episode: "Marshal of Sweetwater"

1962            Cheyenne         Colonel Travers            Episode: "Johnny Brassbuttons"

1962–1963            The Untouchables            Nicholas Contine / Mike Pavanos / Victor Bartok            3 episodes

1962–1966            Bonanza          Parson Parley / Flint Durfee / Henry P. Quince            4 episodes

1962–1972            My Three Sons            Dr. Fredericks / Mr. Kranzman / Kramer / Dr. Zoltan / Enoch Lieb     5 episodes

1963    The Dick Powell Theatre            Warden            Episode: "Tissue of Hate"

1963    The Gallant Men            German Captain            Episode: "Ol' Buddy"

1963    GE True     Funeral Director            Episode: "The Black-Robed Ghost"

1963    77 Sunset Strip            Walter Dorn / Judge Taylor  2 episodes

1963    Temple Houston                       Episode: "The Twisted Rope"

1963    The Greatest Show on Earth            Boykin            Episode: "Garve"

1963–1972            Gunsmoke      Rand / Gant     2 episodes

1964    The Outer Limits            Doctor Howard Warren            Episode: "ZZZZZ"

1964    Perry Mason            Prosecutor / Doctor Younger            2 episodes

1964    Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea            Chairman         2 episodes

1964    The Rogues            Hoagland            Episode: "The Day They Gave Diamonds Away"

1964    Ben Casey   Dr. Norman Dryfus            Episode: "Courage at 3:00 A.M."

1965    Profiles in Courage            Aaron Burr / Emerson            2 episodes

1965            Slattery's People            Judge            Episode: "Question: Did He Who Made the Lamb Make Thee?"

1965    The Fugitive            Les Donaldson            Episode: "Trial by Fire"

1965            Gilligan's Island            Professor John Corwell            Episode: "Smile, You're on Mars Camera"

1965    The Wild Wild West            Ambassador Xavier Perkins            Episode: "The Night of the Dancing Death"

1965–1968            Run for Your Life            Doc / Prosecutor Colman            2 episodes

1965–1969            Daniel Boone  Gov. Patrick Henry / Whitmore / High Pvt. A. Slimpsey            4 episodes

1965–1966            The Farmer's Daughter            Judge / MacDougall            2 episodes

1966            Hogan's Heroes            Captain Guenther            Episode: "The Safecracker Suite"

1966    The Monkees            The Chief            Episode: "The Spy Who Came in from the Cool"

1966–1967            I Dream of Jeannie General Pichegru / Dean Geller   2 episodes

1966–1967            The F.B.I.   Albert Vogel / Lane Morris / Martin Davis    3 episodes

1967    Iron Horse   Man #3            Episode: "The Golden Web"

1967    The Second Hundred Years            Barrows            Episode: "Little Lady X"

1967            Garrison's Gorillas            Ernst Gerloch            Episode: "Banker's Hours"

1967    Judd, for the Defense            Judge            Episode: "Death from a Flower Girl"

1967–1970            Mission: Impossible            Stravos / Dr. Huss            2 episodes

1967–1971            Mannix            Leo Kolligian / Max Bonnett            3 episodes

1968    The Invaders            Coroner Braemer            Episode: "The Possessed"

1968    Tarzan            Commissioner Lacing            Episode: "Rendezvous for Revenge"

1968    The Outsider            Benjamin Seaton            Episode: "What Flowers Daisies Are"

1968–1969            The Name of the Game   Volmer / Dr. Whitman            2 episodes

1968–1970            The Flying Nun            Priest / Bishop Parnell            2 episodes

1969    Marcus Welby, M.D.            Mr. Huntsman            Episode: "The Foal"

1969    Adam-12        Judge Robert Ricks            Episode: "Log 123: Courtroom"

1970            Medical Center            Dr. Walter Persky            Episode: "The Deceived"

1970    The Virginian            Mr. Compton / Jeff Turner  2 episodes

1970    Family Affair    Mr. Finletter            Episode: "The Inheritance"

1970    The Mod Squad            Dr. Grant Ames            Episode: "Who Are the Keepers, Who Are the Inmates?"

1970    Dan August  Dr. Germain            Episode: "The Color of Fury"

1971    Arnie            Minister            Episode: "Stand Up for Julius"

1971    Alias Smith and Jones            Telegraph Operator / Carlton 2 episodes

1971    Gideon            Hezekiah            Television film

1971    The D.A.     Dr. Parkins            Episode: "The People vs. Drake"

1971–1972            The Smith Family            Ex Con            2 episodes

1971–1977            McCloud            Coroner / Hines            3 episodes

1972            Adventures of Nick Carter  Parsons            Television film

1972    Cannon            Dante Linquist            Episode: "That Was No Lady"

1972–1976            The Streets of San Francisco            Ira Foster / Jensen, Records Clerk            2 episodes

1973            Barnaby Jones Victor Sterne            Episode: "The Murdering Class"

1973    Kung Fu        Sentinel            Episode: "The Squawman"

1973    Love Story    Lewin            Episode: "When the Girls Came Out to Play"

1974    A Tree Grows in Brooklyn            Doctor            Television film

1974    Fools, Females and Fun      Wally            Television film

1974    Planet of the Apes            Zaius            6 episodes

1974    Apple's Way     Mayor            Episode: "The Outsider"

1974–1976            Police Story    Pearl / Pathologist / Medical Examiner            3 episodes

1975    Lincoln            Senator Samuel C. Pomeroy            Episode: "Sad Figure, Laughing"

1975    Lucas Tanner  Jerry Trevin            Episode: "A Touch of Bribery"

1975            Returning Home            Vern Miller            Television film

1975    The Blue Knight            Coroner            Episode: "Two to Make Deadly"

1975            Barbary Coast            Dr. Mattwick            Episode: "The Day Cable Was Hanged"

1975–1976            Switch            Phil Hardice / Seegar  2 episodes

1976    Harry O         Sturgis            Episode: "Mister Five and Dime"

1976    Time Travelers            Dr. Amos Cummings            Television film

1976    City of Angels              Episode: "The Bloodshot Eye"

1976    The Return of the World's Greatest Detective            Psychiatrist            Television film

1976    Francis Gary Powers: The True Story of the U-2 Spy Incident                        Television film

1976    Holmes & Yoyo            Mr. Austin            Episode: "The Thornhill Affair"

1977            Yesterday's Child            Doctor            Television film

1977    Baa Baa Black Sheep   Col. Richardson            Episode: "The Last Mission Over Sengai"

1977            Delvecchio      Judge Schnider            2 episodes

1977    In the Glitter Palace            Kubishan            Television film

1977            Gibbsville         Mr. Cameron            Episode: "All I've Tried to Be"

1977–1979            Quincy, M.E.    Mr. Fenton / Dr. Edwards            2 episodes

1977–1981            Lou Grant    Dr. Prentiss / Mr. McClintock / Judge / Mr. Curtis   4 episodes

1978    Police Woman            Mr. Klemin            Episode: "The Young and the Fair"

1978    Project U.F.O. Arthur Hammond            Episode: "Sighting 4019: The Believe It or Not Incident"

1979    The White Shadow            Pawn Brooker            Episode: "Wanna Bet?"

1979    The Waltons            Dr. Caldwell            Episode: "The Parting"

1979    How the West Was Won            Kingsley            Episode: "Hillary"

1979    The Best Place to Be                    Television film

1979    The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo            The Professor            Episode: "The Day That Shark Ate Lobo"

1979            Marciano        Dr. Stevens            Television film

1980            Galactica 1980            Rogers            Episode: "Space Croppers"

1986    The Young and the Restless            Dr. Felix Burke            5 episodes

1987            Destination America                 Television film

1988            Shootdown            Bernard            Television film

1991–1992            Civil Wars    Judge Herbert Hoffer            3 episodes

1995            Chicago Hope Father Fatima            Episode: "Rise from the Dead"

1997    Star Trek: Voyager            Penno            Episode: "Nemesis"

1999    Air America            Nicolai Vyshenko            Episode: "American Gulag"

2003    Frasier            Mr. Slobodkin            Episode: "Daphne Does Dinner"

2005    Jake in Progress            The Ice Cream Man            Episode: "Desperate Houseguy"

2006    My Name Is Earl            Scientist            Episode: "Monkeys in Space"

2008    The Suite Life of Zack & Cody            Scooter            Episode: "Foiled Again"