Everett SloaneFilmography

Hercules and the Princess of Troy

Synopsis: The special effects and cinematography are perhaps the most impressive attributes of this movie. Zeus' son, Hercules, takes on an angry sea monster to rescue fair maiden in distress. This was a pilot for a television series. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide Read More

Jonny Quest: Turu the Terrible

Actors: Tim Mathieson, Mike Road, Danny Bravo, Don Messick

Synopsis: The title character in this Jonny Quest episode is a huge, voracious bird. While in the midst of a jungle expedition in search of a rare alloy called trinauxite, the Quest team is forced to do battle against the monstrous Turu. Veteran character actor Everett Sloane is heard as the villainous Read More

Jonny Quest: Shadow of the Condor

Actors: Tim Mathieson, Mike Road, Danny Bravo, Don Messick

Synopsis: This time, the Quest team is forced to make an emergency landing high in the Andes mountains of South America. Here, our heroes find themselves at the mercy of Baron Heinrich Von Froelich, a former German fighter pilot. The Baron intends to kill everyone, but not before engaging Jonny Quest's Read More

The Disorderly Orderly

Actors: Jerry Lewis, Glenda Farrell, Everett Sloane, Karen Sharpe, Kathleen Freeman

Synopsis: In this comedy classic, Jerry Lewis plays Jerome Littlefield, an orderly in a mental hospital in this slapstick situation comedy that makes full use of Lewis's patented brand of screwball comedy. Dr. Jean Howard (Glenda Farrell) is the exasperated head of the sanitarium who almost becomes a Read More

Petticoat Junction: The Very Old Antique

Synopsis: Homer Bedloe (Charles Lane) is back in Hooterville with another scheme to rid the C&F.W. railroad of the ancient Hooterville Cannonball. This time, Bedloe hopes that retired railroad tycoon and renowned antique collector Philip Waterhouse (Everett Sloane) will purchase the Cannonball, thereby Read More

The Patsy

Actors: Jerry Lewis, Ina Balin, Everett Sloane, Phil Harris, Keenan Wynn

Synopsis: Toward the end of Jerry Lewis's Paramount studio period, Lewis slapped together this bitter comedy about Hollywood phoniness and fame that has to be the most rancid portrait of the Hollywood star system in the Rat Pack era this side of Clifford Odets. When a famous entertainer suddenly is killed Read More

Jonny Quest: Treasure of the Temple

Actors: Tim Mathieson, John Stephenson, Mike Road, Danny Bravo, Don Messick

Synopsis: There's a rumor afoot that a fabulous treasure is hidden in the lost Mayan city of Malatan. The Quest team -- Dr. Benton Quest, son Jonny, Race Bannon, and Hadji -- are asked to investigate. Their lives are promptly endangered by greedy treasure hunter Perkins and his murderous henchman, Montoya. Read More

Ready for the People

Actors: Simon Oakland, Everett Sloane, Anne Helm, Karl Held

Synopsis: Murray Brock (Simon Oakland) is a crusading New York district attorney out to prove that young Eddie Dickenson (Richard Jordan) is innocent of murder in this uneven crime drama. With the help of legal assistant Dave Ryan (Karl Held), he tries to keep Eddie from being convicted and sentenced to Read More

Famous Adventures of Mr. Magoo: Mr. Magoo's Little Snow White

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea: Hot Line

Synopsis: The Soviet Union launches a satellite carrying a nuclear reactor that goes out of control and comes down off the coast of California. The Seaview is assigned to pick up a pair of Russian technicians equipped to deactivate the reactor -- but the distrust between the two sides may doom the mission. Read More

The Dick Van Dyke Show: I'm No Henry Walden!

Actors: Everett Sloane, Doris Packer, Carl Reiner, Betty Lou Gerson, Howard Wendell

Synopsis: Rob (Dick Van Dyke) feels like a fish out of water when he and Laura (Mary Tyler Moore) are invited to a literary party honoring poet Henry Walden (Everett Sloane). For one thing, he's the only comedy writer in a room full of poets and novelists. For another, it appears that he has been invited by Read More

The Man from the Diners' Club

Actors: Danny Kaye, Cara Williams, Martha Hyer, Telly Savalas, Everett Sloane

Synopsis: Heavy on slapstick and light on the more subtle forms of humor, this standard comedy by Frank Tashlin is still an amusing junket with Danny Kaye at the forefront as Ernie Klenk, a bumbling employee of the Diner's Club credit card company. Ernie has his hands full trying to manage the new computers Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Poison Pen Pal

Synopsis: Wilma Gregson (Kathryn Givney), imperious owner of the Gregson Cannery Company, is outraged when details of a secret merger with Super Brand Foods is made public. It turns out that the information was accidentally leaked by Wilma's little granddaughter Sandra (Chrystine Jordan) while corresponding Read More

Brushfire

Actors: John Ireland, Everett Sloane, Jo Morrow, Al Avalon, Carl Esmond

Synopsis: Presaging the upcoming Vietnam War without knowing it, this routine drama directed by Jack Warner, Jr. (his only directorial effort) is set in Vietnam where the recent battles with the French have concluded and two soldiers have remained in the country to set up their own plantation. Their lives Read More

The Andy Griffith Show: Keeper of the Flame

Actors: Everett Sloane

Synopsis: Opie is made "Keeper of the Flame" for the Wildcats, a secret boy's club. Shortly thereafter, the club's meeting place, the barn of cantankerous Jubell Foster (Everett Sloane), burns to the ground. It takes the gentle prodding of Sheriff Andy-and an increasingly besotted Barney-to prove that Opie Read More

The Dick Tracy Show [Animated TV Series]

Synopsis: This cartoon series, consisting of 130 5-minute programs, looked a lot like Mr. Magoo, which was understandable as both the Tracy and Magoo series produced by United Productions of America. Dick Tracy, drawn in the realistic style of the newspaper strip (and voiced by Everett Sloane), was Read More

By Love Possessed

Actors: Lana Turner, Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., Jason Robards, Jr., George Hamilton, Susan Kohner

Synopsis: There's always something simmering beneath the quaint and placid surface of small-town New England lives -- and that includes the usual maladies of alcoholism, rape, and suicide. At least this is the case if you go by the tortuous tale told in By Love Possessed, a Peyton Place knock-off, directed Read More

The Dick Tracy Show: The Loch Ness Monster

The Dick Tracy Show: Pearl Thief Grief

The Dick Tracy Show: Rocket Racket

The Dick Tracy Show: The Medicine Showcase

The Dick Tracy Show: Air Freight Fright

The Dick Tracy Show: Scrambled Yeggs

The Dick Tracy Show: A Boodle of Loot

The Twilight Zone: The Fever

Actors: Everett Sloane, Vivi Janiss, Art Lewis, William Kendis, Lee Sands

Synopsis: Everett Sloane, who previously starred in Rod Serling's award-winning TV play Patterns, was reunited with Serling for this January 29, 1960, Twilight Zone installment. Having won an all-expense-paid trip to Las Vegas, parsimonious Franklin Gibbs (Everett Sloane) refuses to enter into the spirit of Read More

Bonanza: Blood on the Land

Actors: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Everett Sloane

Synopsis: Crooked sheepherder Jeb Drummond (Everett Sloane) is caught trying to graze his flock on the Ponderosa without permission. Ben Cartwright orders Jeb and his sons Billy (Ray Daley) and Burton (Tom Reese) to get out and stay out. But Jeb has other plans -- and he kidnaps Ben's son Adam to make sure Read More

Home from the Hill

Actors: Robert Mitchum, Eleanor Parker, George Peppard, George Hamilton, Everett Sloane

Synopsis: William Humphrey's novel Home From the Hill is compressed into 150 minutes for this MGM all-starrer. Robert Mitchum plays Capt. Wade Hunnicutt, a Texas millionaire, married to Hannah (Eleanor Parker). The Hunnicutts have two children of approximately the same age: Wade's biological son, Theron (George Hamilton Read More

The Chevy Mystery Show: The Machine Calls It Murder

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: The Waxwork

Synopsis: Working the London beat, American reporter Raymond Houston (Barry Sullivan) is in danger of losing his job because of his chronic gambling. As a last-ditch effort to remain employed, Houston arranges to spend a night in a wax museum, then write an article about his nocturnal experiences in the Read More

Marjorie Morningstar

Actors: Gene Kelly, Natalie Wood, Claire Trevor, Everett Sloane, Martin Milner

Synopsis: Marjorie Morgenstern (Natalie Wood) is an 18-year-old, middle-class, Jewish girl from New York who wants nothing more than to be an actress, despite the hopes and wishes of her parents (Everett Sloane and Claire Trevor) that she graduate from college, marry, and settle down to have a family. At Read More

Playhouse 90: No Time at All

Actors: William Lundigan, Jane Greer, Betsy Palmer, Keenan Wynn, Cliff Edwards

Synopsis: Every so often, the prestigious 1950s CBS anthology Playhouse 90 would digress from its "live" format and offer a sumptuously produced film presentation. One of these was the suspenseful 1958 offering No Time at All, a fascinating precursor to the Airport films of the 1970s. On a routine night Read More

The Gun Runners

Actors: Audie Murphy, Eddie Albert, Patricia Owens, Everett Sloane, Gita Hall

Synopsis: The third and (as of 2005) the last film adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's short story To Have and Have Not, The Gun Runners was as topical as this morning's news when it came out in 1958. Audie Murphy plays Sam Martin, a charter-boat skipper based in Key West, whose bad luck has enlarged from the Read More

Somebody Up There Likes Me

Actors: Paul Newman, Anna Maria Pier Angeli, Everett Sloane, Eileen Heckart, Sal Mineo

Synopsis: Once you get past the fact that handsome Paul Newman could never pass for plug-ugly boxer Rocky Graziano in real life, you will be able to accept Somebody Up Their Likes Me as one of the more accomplished movie biopics of the 1950s. Based on Graziano's autobiography (co-written with Rowland Read More

Massacre at Sand Creek

Synopsis: Troops are led into a battle with an innocent and defenseless Cheyenne tribe by their Indian-hating colonel. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Lust for Life

Actors: Kirk Douglas, Anthony Quinn, James Donald, Pamela Brown, Everett Sloane

Synopsis: This filmed biography of Vincent Van Gogh was adapted by Norman Corwin from the best-selling novel by Irving Stone, which was in turn inspired by the written correspondence between Van Gogh and his brother Theo. Kirk Douglas plays the tormented genius, whose obsessive devotion to his art engulfs Read More

Ford Star Jubilee: High Tor

Synopsis: Originally telecast in 1956 as a presentation of the CBS anthology Ford Star Jubilee, "High Tor" was a musical adaptation of Maxwell Anderson's 1937 stage play, with lyrics by Anderson and music by veteran Broadway and Hollywood tunesmith Arthur Schwartz. Bing Crosby stars as Van Van Dorn, the Read More

Patterns

Actors: Van Heflin, Ed Begley, Sr., Everett Sloane, Beatrice Straight, Elizabeth Wilson

Synopsis: Rod Serling's incisive "gray flannel suit" TV drama created such a sensation when Kraft Television Theatre first aired it live on January 11, 1955 that, in an unprecedented move, it was repeated four weeks later, on February 9, again live. Richard Kiley starred as Fred Staples, a bright young man Read More

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: A Place of Shadows

Synopsis: Hoping to murder the man who has swindled him, Ray Clements (Mark Damon) worms his way into the remote monastery where his intended victim is convalescing after a serious car accident. Father Vincent (Everett Sloane), head of the monastery, senses that Ray is up to no good, and tries to persuade Read More

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Our Cook's a Treasure

Synopsis: As a gift to his young wife Ethel (Janet Ward), real estate agent Ralph Montgomery (Everett Sloane) hires a cook named Mrs. Sutton (Beulah Bondi). Before long, however, Ralph has reason to regret this act of extravagance, as evidence begins to pile up suggesting that Mrs. Sutton is the same woman Read More

The Big Knife

Actors: Jack Palance, Ida Lupino, Wendell Corey, Rod Steiger, Shelley Winters

Synopsis: Robert Aldrich's screen adaptation of Clifford Odets' stage play reflects the quandary of the writer's later career; the golden boy of the Group Theater in the '30s, when his plays were the toast of Broadway, his talent seemed to wither after a number of years in the screenwriting trenches, and a Read More

Studio One: Mark of Cain

Way of a Gaucho

Actors: Rory Calhoun, Gene Tierney, Richard Boone, Hugh Marlowe, Everett Sloane

Synopsis: Producer/writer Philip Dunne adapted the screenplay of Way of a Gaucho from the novel by Herbert Childs. Largely filmed on location in Argentina, this is the story of Martin (Rory Calhoun), a freewheeling gaucho of the 1870s. Resenting the incursions of civilization, Martin accidentally kills a Read More

The Blue Veil

Actors: Jane Wyman, Charles Laughton, Joan Blondell, Richard Carlson, Agnes Moorehead

Synopsis: The Blue Veil was the single most successful effort from the production team of Jerry Wald and Norman Krasna. Jane Wyman pulls out all the emotional stops as a young Frenchwoman named Louise, who, after losing her husband and child in WW I, devotes the rest of her life to selflessly caring for Read More

The Enforcer

Actors: Humphrey Bogart, Zero Mostel, Ted de Corsia, Everett Sloane, Roy Roberts

Synopsis: Humphrey Bogart plays Martin Ferguson, a prosecutor about to put Albert Mendoza (Everett Sloane), the head of a murder-for-hire ring, on trial. But the night before the trial, his key witness, Joe Rico (Ted de Corsia), dies in a fall out of the window of the room in which he's been guarded, part Read More

The Desert Fox

Actors: James Mason, Cedric Hardwicke, Jessica Tandy, Luther Adler, Everett Sloane

Synopsis: The Desert Fox is a superb filmed biography of German general Erwin Rommel, concentrating on the period between his retreat from North Africa and his government-decreed death. A brilliant tactician, Rommel earns the respect not only of his own men but of the enemy. Unfortunately, Adolph Hitler (Luther Adler Read More

Sirocco

Actors: Humphrey Bogart, David Bond, Märta Torén, Peter Brocco, Lee J. Cobb, Everett Sloane, Edward Colmans, Gerald Mohr, Zero Mostel

Synopsis: In Sirocco Humphrey Bogart is cast as Harry Smith, a casino operator in 1925 Damascus. For a tidy profit, Smith runs guns to the Arab insurrectionists attempting to overthrow the French Protectorate. Chastised by French Colonel Feroud (Lee J. Cobb) for his lack of morals and political convictions Read More

The Prince Who Was a Thief

Actors: Tony Curtis, Piper Laurie, Everett Sloane, Jeff Corey, Betty Garde

Synopsis: Universal's newest "heartthrobs" Tony Curtis and Piper Laurie were first teamed in this lavish adaptation of Theodore Dreiser's The Prince Who Was a Thief. Curtis stars as Julna, the rightful heir to a Middle Eastern throne. Kidnapped in infancy, Julna is raised as a thief by the roguish Yussef (Everett Sloane Read More

The Sellout

Actors: Walter Pidgeon, Paula Raymond, John Hodiak, Audrey Totter, Thomas Gomez

Synopsis: Gerald Mayer proved once more that he had talent above and beyond being the nephew of MGM-head Louis B. Mayer with his direction of The Sellout. The story begins with a bang, as big-city newspaper editor Haven Allridge (Walter Pidgeon) falls victim to the small-town tyranny of corrupt sheriff Read More

Bird of Paradise

Actors: Louis Jourdan, Debra Paget, Jeff Chandler, Everett Sloane, Jack Elam, Maurice Schwartz

Synopsis: Richard Walton Tully's war-horse theatrical drama Bird of Paradise was filmed twice in Hollywood. This second version stars Louis Jourdan as French sailor of fortune Andre Lawrence, who joins his Polynesian friend, Tenga (Jeff Chandler), on a visit to the South Seas. Once he's arrived in the Read More

The Men

Actors: Marlon Brando, Teresa Wright, Everett Sloane, Jack Webb, Richard Erdman

Synopsis: Fred Zinnemann's sensitive film on the plight of paraplegic WWII veterans features Marlon Brando in his superbly moving screen debut. He plays Lt. Bud Wilozek, one of a group of veterans recovering in the paraplegic ward of a hospital in his hometown. His former fiancée, Ellen (Theresa Wright) Read More

Jigsaw

Actors: Franchot Tone, Jean Wallace, Myron McCormick, Marc Lawrence, Winifrid Lenihan

Synopsis: Made on a miniscule budget primarily financed by its star Franchot Tone, Jigsaw is a strange little crime film. Howard Malloy (Tone), a crusading New York assistant district attorney, is dedicated to exposing a group of supposedly patriotic Americans who have murdered his friend after he Read More

Prince of Foxes

Actors: Tyrone Power, Orson Welles, Wanda Hendrix, Everett Sloane, Marina Berti, Katina Paxinou

Synopsis: Filmed entirely on location in Italy, Prince of Foxes is an adaptation of Samuel Shellabarger's popular novel. Set during the Renaissance, the film stars Tyrone Power as Orsini, a good-will ambassador for scheming, covetous Cesare Borgia (Orson Welles). Orsini is aware that he is being used to Read More

The Lady from Shanghai

Actors: Rita Hayworth, Orson Welles, Everett Sloane, Ted de Corsia, Glenn Anders, Gus Schilling

Synopsis: The Lady From Shanghai, a complex, involving puzzle-within-a-puzzle mystery story, is a showcase for Orson Welles, showing his singular talents and sensibilities as few other films have. The story is superficially simple: a seaman Michael O'Hara (Welles) is hired as a crew member on the yacht of Read More

We Accuse

Actors: Everett Sloane

Synopsis: We Accuse was the first American feature-length documentary on Nazi wartime atrocities: in fact, the film's title was originally Atrocities, presumably changed because the word was still unknown to many filmgoers. Using the trial of three German officers as its framework, the film is largely Read More

Journey into Fear

Actors: Joseph Cotten, Dolores Del Rio, Ruth Warrick, Orson Welles, Jack Durant, Agnes Moorehead

Synopsis: Orson Welles had planned to produce, direct and star in RKO's Journey Into Fear, but prior commitments compelled him to vacate the director's chair in favor of Norman Foster. Joseph Cotten, who starred as an American gunnery engineer up to his armpits in international intrigue, adapted the Read More

Citizen Kane

Actors: Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Everett Sloane, Dorothy Comingore, Ray Collins, Ruth Warrick, George Coulouris

Synopsis: Orson Welles first feature film -- which he directed, produced, and co-wrote, as well as playing the title role -- proved to be his most important and influential work, a ground-breaking drama loosely based on the life of William Randolph Hearst which is frequently cited as the finest American Read More