The Philco Television Playhouse(1948-1956)
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Overview
The Philco Television Playhouse is an American anthology series that was broadcast live on NBC from 1948 to 1955. Produced by Fred Coe, the series was sponsored by Philco. It was one of the most respected dramatic shows of the Golden Age of Television, winning a 1954 Peabody Award and receiving eight Emmy nominations between 1951 and 1956.
Seasons: 8 • Episodes: 267
Last Episode
12 Feb 1956 12:00 - 69 years ago
8x12 - Kyria Katina
Cast
Bert Lytell
Self - Host
267 episodes
E.G. Marshall
Horace Greeley
N. Y. Times editor
Jerry
and 4 more...
13 episodes
Vinton Hayworth
Mr. Devereaux
H.L. Potter
Ted Nichols
10 episodes
David Opatoshu
George
Colie
Ibrahim
and 2 more...
8 episodes
Alfred Ryder
Van Dorn
Philip
7 episodes
John Newland
D.W. Griffith
Steven Kent
7 episodes
Walter Matthau
Stuart Benson
Iago
7 episodes
William Prince
Hadrian the adopted son
6 episodes
Loring Smith
Ghost of Christmas Present
5 episodes
Vaughn Taylor
Mr. Mergenthwirker
Pa Blanchard
Sir Andrew Aguecheek
Alfred Stubbs
and 1 more...
5 episodes
Grace Kelly
Paula
Lucy Bakewell Audubon
Ann Rutledge
Bethel Merriday
and 1 more...
5 episodes
Leora Dana
Clarice
Emmy Blanchard
5 episodes
Eileen Heckart
Ruthie
Jessie Mae
5 episodes
Warren Stevens
4 episodes
Leo Penn
4 episodes
Jack Warden
4 episodes
Sidney Blackmer
Marvin Platt
4 episodes
James Daly
4 episodes
Rod Steiger
Marty Pilletti
4 episodes
Neva Patterson
Elizabeth Chapin
4 episodes
Werner Klemperer
Leopold
4 episodes
Shepperd Strudwick
Lincoln Venner
Benedict Arnold
4 episodes
James Gregory
Lester Thompson
Angus
4 episodes
Frances Reid
Roxane
4 episodes
Bramwell Fletcher
Maxim de Winter
4 episodes
Everett Sloane
Dr. Ignatius Semmelweis
Vincent Van Gogh
4 episodes
Cloris Leachman
Jenny Blanchard
Patricia
Marianne Dashwood
4 episodes
Addison Powell
Chester Wilson
Chester
4 episodes
Eva Marie Saint
Bonnie Keel
Dorie Wilson
Betty
Thelma
4 episodes
Peter Mark Richman
Charles Blake
Tinian
Jack
4 episodes
Paul McGrath
3 episodes
Wesley Addy
3 episodes
Lesley Woods
3 episodes
Edmon Ryan
3 episodes
Augusta Dabney
Laura Wilkins
3 episodes
Murray Hamilton
3 episodes
Philip Bourneuf
3 episodes
Marian Seldes
Emilia
3 episodes
J. Pat O'Malley
Brannigan
3 episodes
Bethel Leslie
3 episodes
Anthony Ross
Father
3 episodes
Dorothy Gish
Mary Surratt
3 episodes
Ralph Bellamy
Tice Collins
3 episodes
Mildred Natwick
3 episodes
Eli Wallach
Nacho
3 episodes
Arthur Treacher
Uncle Fred
3 episodes
Jack Klugman
3 episodes
Frank Maxwell
Captain Dana Healey
3 episodes
Edward Binns
3 episodes
Leo G. Carroll
Father Moynihan
Duncan
Professor White
3 episodes
Pat Hingle
3 episodes
William Eythe
Foxworth
3 episodes
Jo Van Fleet
Shirley
3 episodes
Kent Smith
John Wilkes Booth
3 episodes
Kevin McCarthy
Romeo
3 episodes
Betsy Palmer
Janice Gans
3 episodes
Wright King
3 episodes
Lillian Gish
Abby
Carrie Watts
Narrator
3 episodes
Florida Friebus
Mary Greeley
3 episodes
Philip Abbott
David Lomak
3 episodes
Herbert Berghof
Zuker
3 episodes
James Broderick
Horace
Danny Keel
3 episodes
Frank Sutton
Bill
3 episodes
Martin Balsam
Charlie Malick
Mike Galloway
3 episodes
Frank Overton
Pat Garrett
Mr. Davis
Sheriff
3 episodes
Arthur O'Connell
Jim Elkins
Grant
3 episodes
Tonio Selwart
2 episodes
John Marley
2 episodes
Nydia Westman
2 episodes
Walter Brooke
2 episodes
Margaret Wycherly
2 episodes
Dorothy Peterson
2 episodes
Brandon De Wilde
2 episodes
John Ireland
2 episodes
Geoffrey Horne
2 episodes
Charlton Heston
2 episodes
Frank Albertson
2 episodes
Ruth McDevitt
2 episodes
Enid Markey
2 episodes
Dane Clark
2 episodes
Cyril Ritchard
2 episodes
Lee Meriwether
2 episodes
Nehemiah Persoff
Ed Kagan
2 episodes
Kim Hunter
2 episodes
Henry Calvin
2 episodes
Peggy McCay
2 episodes
Audra Lindley
2 episodes
John Forsythe
2 episodes
Marsha Hunt
Viola
Phoebe Throssel
2 episodes
Melvyn Douglas
The Stranger
Richard Gordon
2 episodes
Patricia Breslin
Juliet
2 episodes
Constance Ford
2 episodes
Ernest Truex
2 episodes
Madge Evans
Elizabeth Bennet
Elinor Dashwood
2 episodes
Ethel Griffies
Grandmother
Mrs. White
2 episodes
Bartlett Robinson
2 episodes
David White
Cary Sloane
2 episodes
John Beal
Ludie
2 episodes
Torin Thatcher
Othello
2 episodes
Steven Hill
Horace Mann Borden
George
2 episodes
Anne Jackson
Daughter
2 episodes
Betty Field
Rose
2 episodes
Bert Freed
Al Rago
2 episodes
Maureen Stapleton
Daughter
Mrs. Johnson
2 episodes
Biff McGuire
2 episodes
Michael Strong
Lloyd Mills
John Poe
2 episodes
Peggy Wood
Florence McDavid
Mrs. Oliver Jordan
2 episodes
Robert H. Harris
2 episodes
Walter Abel
Macduff
2 episodes
Paul Ford
2 episodes
Mildred Dunnock
Berdina Ferris
2 episodes
Richard Sanders
Prosecuting Attorney
2 episodes
Eddie Albert
Charlie
2 episodes
Don Murray
Axel Nordman
2 episodes
Anne Crawford
Theresa
Margaret Fuller
2 episodes
John Randolph
Neil Dalton
Hotstuff
2 episodes
Tony Randall
Ernest Winkler
2 episodes
James Westerfield
H.T. Carmichael
2 episodes
Larry Blyden
2 episodes
Howard St. John
Abbot
2 episodes
Kim Stanley
Wilma Thompson
2 episodes
Hildy Parks
Penny Benson
2 episodes
Ross Martin
Rodney Wilkins
2 episodes
Kathleen Maguire
Helen
2 episodes
Ernest Borgnine
Mathew O'Rourke
2 episodes
Hume Cronyn
Ben Marriott
2 episodes
Joanne Woodward
Arabella Cookenboo
Emily
2 episodes
William Hansen
2 episodes
Johnny Desmond
Nick Mercer
2 episodes
Sidney Poitier
Tommy Tyler
2 episodes
Larry Gates
Darcy
2 episodes
Ed Begley
Ernie Barger
2 episodes
Jason Robards
Mason
Joe Grant
2 episodes
Barbara O'Neil
Mme. Pollard
Ruth
2 episodes
Kay Medford
Betty Winston
2 episodes
Charles Dingle
Daddy Tom
2 episodes
Madeleine Carroll
1 episode
Jerome Cowan
1 episode
Madeleine Sherwood
Tweed's daughter
1 episode
Natalie Schafer
1 episode
Phyllis Kirk
Dolly
1 episode
Robert Keith
1 episode
Buster Crabbe
1 episode
Gerald S. O'Loughlin
1 episode
Vanessa Brown
1 episode
Nancy Kelly
1 episode
Sylvia Sidney
1 episode
Carlos Montalbán
Saguro
1 episode
Robert Ellenstein
Dr. Lehmbruck
1 episode
Tom Tully
Major Avery
1 episode
Lenka Peterson
1 episode
John Cassavetes
1 episode
Joan Lorring
1 episode
Jeffrey Lynn
1 episode
Peter Brandon
1 episode
Terry Becker
1 episode
Edna Best
1 episode
Hugh Marlowe
1 episode
Claude Dauphin
1 episode
John Qualen
Gus Gruntle
1 episode
Ward Costello
Investigator Robert Wheelock
1 episode
William Smithers
1 episode
Patrick O'Neal
Cliff
1 episode
Mark Roberts
1 episode
Charlotte Rae
1 episode
Jean Stapleton
Bus Girl
1 episode
Sal Mineo
1 episode
Jessica Tandy
Liz Marriott
1 episode
Jack Lord
1 episode
William Bendix
Genteman Suitor
1 episode
Jean-Pierre Aumont
John James Audubon
1 episode
Mary Wickes
Amelia Coop
1 episode
Cameron Mitchell
Pvt. Kenneth Dowey
1 episode
Conrad Janis
1 episode
Bert Lahr
Skid Johnson
1 episode
Jeanne Bates
1 episode
Cara Williams
1 episode
Richard Webb
1 episode
Edward Everett Horton
1 episode
Mark Rydell
1 episode
Robert Mulligan
1 episode
Bess Myerson
1 episode
Lee Grant
1 episode
Paul Muni
George Simon
1 episode
Vivian Blaine
1 episode
Una O'Connor
1 episode
Donald Woods
1 episode
Joan Greenwood
1 episode
Georges Renavent
1 episode
Catherine McLeod
1 episode
Marjorie Gateson
1 episode
Joyce Van Patten
1 episode
Joan Chandler
1 episode
Richard Davalos
Tom Bates
1 episode
Cathleen Cordell
1 episode
Faye Emerson
The Glamour Girl
1 episode
Betsy Blair
1 episode
Jeff Morrow
1 episode
Florence Eldridge
Nanine
1 episode
George Coulouris
1 episode
William Windom
Dennis Baldwin
1 episode
Edith Atwater
Marian Burnett
1 episode
Carl Benton Reid
Papa
1 episode
Ruth Chatterton
1 episode
Zasu Pitts
Belinda Pryde
1 episode
Donald Cook
1 episode
Richard Hart
John
1 episode
Lilia Skala
Nellie Rimpleger
1 episode
Josephine Hull
1 episode
Francis Lederer
1 episode
Stephen Elliott
1 episode
Bill Goodwin
1 episode
Richard Coogan
1 episode
Barbara Baxley
1 episode
David Swift
1 episode
Will Hare
Houston Ticket Agent
1 episode
Oskar Homolka
Bert
1 episode
Robert Quarry
Dr. Wheeler
1 episode
Parker Fennelly
1 episode
Darren McGavin
Bill Starbuck
1 episode
Anthony Dawson
1 episode
Robert McQueeney
Doctor
1 episode
Joe Maross
1 episode
Malcolm Keen
1 episode
Richard Derr
1 episode
Tod Andrews
1 episode
Luis van Rooten
Harry Shelton
1 episode
Michael Conrad
Charles Bowdre
1 episode
Harry Bellaver
Joe
1 episode
Arthur Franz
Norman
1 episode
Don Fellows
Lanier
1 episode
Crahan Denton
1 episode
Joe Mantell
Bachelor
1 episode
Kurt Kasznar
Alexander Ingles
1 episode
Natalie Trundy
Emiliy Marriott
1 episode
Viveca Lindfors
Widow
1 episode
Victor Jory
1 episode
Henry Daniell
Colonel Chart
1 episode
Joyce Redman
Lady Macbeth
1 episode
Mary Astor
1 episode
Frank M. Thomas
Marley's Ghost
1 episode
Jean Carson
1 episode
Alfred Drake
Captain Brown
1 episode
Mary Morris
1 episode
Leueen MacGrath
Kathleen Moore
1 episode
Lilli Palmer
Molly Collicutt
1 episode
Bruce Gordon
Burton
1 episode
Virginia Gilmore
1 episode
Paul Hartman
Horace Upjohn
1 episode
Judith Evelyn
Marguerite Gautier
1 episode
Dean Jagger
Charles Burnett
1 episode
Mady Christians
Mama
1 episode
Joe Downing
Patton
1 episode
David Lewis
Albert Brisbane
1 episode
Janet Blair
Amelie
1 episode
Nina Foch
Elizabeth
1 episode
Claudia Morgan
1 episode
Aline MacMahon
1 episode
Burgess Meredith
1 episode
Francis L. Sullivan
1 episode
Scott McKay
1 episode
Phyllis Love
1 episode
Romney Brent
1 episode
John Hoyt
1 episode
Henry Beckman
1 episode
Mary Jackson
Aunt Edna
1 episode
Andrew Duggan
1 episode
Anne Meara
Betty Blake
1 episode
Jackie Cooper
Bubbo
1 episode
Dick York
Andy
1 episode
Logan Ramsey
1 episode
Scott Forbes
1 episode
Kevin Coughlin
Gary
1 episode
Eva Gabor
Melanie Winters
1 episode
June Lockhart
1 episode
George Chandler
1 episode
Martin E. Brooks
1 episode
Lin McCarthy
1 episode
Frank Marth
1 episode
Lily Cahill
1 episode
John Carradine
Malvolio
1 episode
Les Tremayne
1 episode
Howard Smith
1 episode
Mary Beth Hughes
1 episode
Joan Croydon
Mrs. Dennis
1 episode
Donald Curtis
1 episode
Adam West
Ham Ector
1 episode
Jack Weston
Lumpkin
1 episode
Harry Townes
1 episode
Bill Erwin
Herman
1 episode
Pat Henning
Claessens
1 episode
Henry Jones
Professor Stark-Purvis
1 episode
Bertha Belmore
1 episode
Jack Lemmon
1 episode
Walter Greaza
1 episode
Jason Evers
1 episode
Margaret Hayes
1 episode
Leopoldine Konstantin
Countess
1 episode
Addison Richards
1 episode
Edward Andrews
1 episode
Betty Lou Keim
Phyllis
1 episode
Paul Newman
Billy the Kid
1 episode
Anthony Eisley
Jimmy
1 episode
John Kerr
George Avery
1 episode
Mario Gallo
1 episode
Dan Frazer
2nd Announcer
1 episode
Anthony Quinn
1 episode
Dennis Cross
Railroad Ticket Agent
1 episode
Richard Fraser
Keith Reddington
1 episode
Louis Sorin
1 episode
Jean Muir
1 episode
Franchot Tone
1 episode
Lois Wilson
1 episode
Betty Furness
1 episode
Nancy Marchand
Clara
1 episode
John Ericson
1 episode
James Dean
Robbie Warren
1 episode
Ivan F. Simpson
1 episode
Mary Patton
1 episode
Stephen Courtleigh
Abraham Lincoln
1 episode
Carmen Mathews
Mariella Barger
1 episode
John Connell
Ray Barger
1 episode
Joseph Sweeney
Mr Barger
1 episode
Info
Status
Ended
Original Language
English
Networks
NBC