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Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor - Drama Series
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Ray Milland
Ray Milland (January 3, 1907 – March 10, 1986) was a Welsh-American actor and director. His screen career ran from 1929 to 1985, and he is best-remembered for his Academy Award-winning portrayal of an alcoholic writer in The Lost Weekend (1945)....
Ben Alexander
Ben Alexander (May 26, 1911 – July 5, 1969) was an Emmy-nominated American motion picture actor, who started out as a child actor in 1915.
Born Nicholas Benton Alexander IV in Goldfield, Nevada and raised in California, Alexander made his screen...
Robert Vaughn
Robert Francis Vaughn, Ph.D. (born November 22, 1932) is an American actor noted for stage, film and television work. He is perhaps best known as suave spy Napoleon Solo in the 1960s TV series The Man from U.N.C.L.E.. His most famous film role is...
William Hopper
William Hopper (January 26, 1915 – March 6, 1970) was an American actor. He is probably best-remembered for playing Paul Drake on TV's Perry Mason.
Hopper was born William DeWolf Hopper, Jr. in New York, New York, the only child of actor/matinee...
Herschel Bernardi
Herschel Bernardi (30 October 1923 New York City - 9 May 1986 Los Angeles, California) was an American film, Broadway and television actor.
He is best known for his starring roles on Broadway including Fiddler on the Roof (as Tevye), Zorba, and...
Billy Gray
Peter Falk
Peter Michael Falk (born September 16, 1927) is an American actor, best known for his role as Lieutenant Columbo in the television series Columbo. He appeared in numerous films and television guest roles, and has been nominated for an Academy Award...
Charles Bronson
Charles Bronson (November 3, 1921 – August 30, 2003) was an American actor best known for his "tough guy" image, who starred in such classic films as Once Upon a Time in the West, The Magnificent Seven, The Dirty Dozen, The Great Escape, The Evil...
Barbara Hale
Barbara Hale (born April 18, 1922) is an American actress best known for her role as Della Street, the loyal secretary of Perry Mason.
Hale was born in DeKalb, Illinois, the daughter of Willa (née Colvin) and Luther Ezra Hale, a landscape gardener....
Abby Dalton
Abby Dalton (born August 15, 1935) is an American actress. Born as Marlene Wasden in Las Vegas, Nevada, she has made numerous appearances on television, including the recurring role of "Julia Cumson" on Falcon Crest.
Dalton's character was fist...
Roddy McDowall
Roderick Andrew Anthony Jude "Roddy" McDowall (17 September 1928 – 3 October 1998) was an English-born actor and photographer. He is known for beginning his long career as a child actor. His best known role is in the "Planet of the Apes" films and...
Sorrell Booke
Sorrell Booke (January 4, 1930 – February 11, 1994) was an American actor who performed on stage, screen, and television. He is best-known for his role as the heavyset, corrupt politician "Boss" Jefferson Davis Hogg in the television show The Dukes...
Albert Paulsen
Albert Paulsen (Guayaquil, Ecuador, 13 December 1925—Los Angeles, California, 25 April 2004) was an Ecuadorian actor who appeared in many United States television series beginning in the 1960s, playing characters primarily of European origin. He...
Conlan Carter
Chester Conlan Carter (born October 3, 1934) is a former film and television actor best known for the role of "Doc", featured in sixty-six episodes of the Rick Jason and Vic Morrow ABC World War II television series Combat! (1962-1967). In 1964,...
James Daly
James Daly (Irish: Séamas Ó Dálaigh; October 23, 1918 - July 3, 1978) was an American theater, film and television actor born in Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin, who is perhaps best-known for his role as Dr. Paul Lochner in the hospital drama series...
Leo G. Carroll
Leo Gratten Carroll (October 25, 1892 – October 16, 1972) was an English actor, best known for his roles in several Hitchcock films and The Man from U.N.C.L.E..
He was born in Weedon Bec, Northamptonshire, to William and Catherine Carroll. His Roman...
Milburn Stone
Milburn Stone (July 5, 1904 – June 12, 1980) was an American television actor, a nephew of Broadway comedian Fred Stone and the son of a shopkeeper, best known for his role as "Doc" (Dr. Galen Adams) on the CBS western series Gunsmoke.
Stone was...
Joseph Campanella
Joseph Campanella is an American character actor who has appeared in over 200 TV and film roles since 1955, including such shows as The Eleventh Hour, Mission: Impossible, Gunsmoke, The Road West, The Golden Girls and Mama's Family. He also had a...
Lawrence Dobkin
Lawrence Dobkin (16 September 1919, New York City – 28 October 2002, Los Angeles, California) was an American television director, actor and television screenwriter whose career spanned seven decades.
Dobkin was a prolific performer during the...
James Earl Jones
James Earl Jones (born January 17, 1931) is an American actor of stage and screen, well known for his deep basso voice. To modern audiences, he is best known for providing the voice of Darth Vader in the Star Wars franchise, Terrence Mann in Field...
David Burns
David Burns (June 22, 1902 – March 12, 1971) was an American Broadway theatre and motion picture actor and singer.
Burns was born on Mott Street in the Manhattan Chinatown of New York City. He made his Broadway debut in Face the Music in 1932, Cole...
Robert Young
Robert George Young (February 22, 1907 – July 21, 1998) was an American actor, best known for his leading roles of Jim Anderson, the father of Father Knows Best (NBC and then CBS) and physician Marcus Welby in Marcus Welby, M.D. (ABC).
Born in...
Greg Morris
Francis Gregory Alan Morris (September 27, 1933 – August 27, 1996) was an American television and movie actor.
Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Morris began his acting career in the 1960s making guest appearances on many TV shows such as The Twilight Zone...
Michael Douglas
Michael Kirk Douglas (born September 25, 1944) is an American actor and producer, primarily in movies and television. Douglas's first television exposure was that of Karl Malden's young college-educated partner, Insp. Steve Keller, in the 1970s...
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Dennis Weaver
Dennis Weaver (June 4, 1924 – February 24, 2006) was an American actor, best known for his work in television, including roles on Gunsmoke, as Marshal Sam McCloud on the NBC police drama McCloud, and the 1971 TV movie Duel.
Weaver was born William...
Brad Dourif
Bradford Claude "Brad" Dourif (born March 18, 1950) is a BAFTA-winning and Academy Award- and Emmy-nominated American film and television actor, best known for his roles as Younger Brother in Ragtime, Billy Bibbit in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest,...
J. D. Cannon
John Donovan "J. D." Cannon (April 24, 1922 in Salmon, Idaho – May 20, 2005 in Hudson, New York), was an American actor. An alumnus of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, he is probably best known for his co-starring role of Chief Clifford in the...
Anthony Zerbe
Anthony Jared Zerbe (born May 20, 1936) is an American stage, film and Emmy-winning television actor. He is perhaps best remembered for his role as the post-apocalyptic cult leader Matthias in The Omega Man, a 1971 film adaptation of Richard...
Tom Ewell
Tom Ewell (April 29, 1909 – September 12, 1994) was an American actor.
Born Samuel Yewell Tompkins in Owensboro, Kentucky, where his family expected him to follow in their footsteps as lawyers or whiskey and tobacco dealers.
Ewell began acting in...
Noah Beery, Jr.
Noah Lindsey Beery (August 10, 1913 – November 1, 1994), known professionally as Noah Beery, Jr. or just Noah Beery, was an American actor specializing in warm, friendly character parts similar to the ones played by his uncle Wallace Beery, although...
David Doyle
David Fitzgerald Doyle (December 1, 1929 – February 26, 1997) was an American actor.
Doyle was born in Omaha, Nebraska, the son of Mary Ruth (née Fitzgerald) and Lewis Raymond Doyle, an attorney. His maternal grandfather, John Fitzgerald, was a...
Robert Reed
Robert Reed (October 19, 1932 – May 12, 1992) was an American stage and television actor.
Reed was born John Robert Rietz, in Highland Park, Illinois, the son of Helen (née Teaverbaugh) and John R. Rietz. Reed spent much of his childhood in Muskogee...
Gary Frank
Gary Frank (born October 9, 1950, in Spokane, Washington) is an American actor who won an Emmy Award for his performances on the TV series Family (which also starred James Broderick, Sada Thompson, Meredith Baxter, and Kristy McNichol). He has been...
David Warner
David Warner (born 29 July, 1941) is an English actor, who is known for playing sinister or villainous characters.
Warner was born in Manchester, Lancashire, England, the son of Doreen (née Hattersley) and Herbert Simon Warner, who was a nursing...
Sam Wanamaker
Samuel Wanamaker (14 June 1919 – 18 December 1993) was an American film director and actor, credited as the person most responsible for the modern recreation of Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in London.
Wanamaker was born in Chicago, Illinois, the son...
Jack Warden
Jack Warden (September 18, 1920 – July 19, 2006) was an American character actor.
Warden was born John H. Lebzelter in Newark, New Jersey, the son of Laura M. (née Costello) and John Warden Lebzelter, who was an engineer and technician. His father...
Will Geer
Will Geer (March 9, 1902 – April 22, 1978) was an American actor and social activist. His original name was William Aughe Ghere. He is remembered for his portrayal of Grandpa Zebulon Tyler Walton in the 1970s TV series, The Waltons.
Geer was born in...
Joe Santos
Joe Santos (born June 9, 1931) is an American film and television actor.
Santos was born Joseph Minieri in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Rose (née Sarno) and Joseph Minieri. He began his film acting career in the mid-1960s, appearing in films...
Stuart Margolin
Stuart Margolin (b. January 31, 1940) is an American film and television actor and director.
Margolin is best known for his role on the television show The Rockford Files, playing Evelyn "Angel" Martin, the shifty friend and former cellmate of Jim...
James Coco
James Coco (March 21, 1930 – February 25, 1987) was an American character actor.
Born in New York City, Coco began acting as a child. As an overweight and prematurely balding adult, he found himself relegated to character roles. He made his Broadway...
Mason Adams
Mason Adams (February 26, 1919 – April 26, 2005) was an American character actor and voice-over artist.
Adams was born in Brooklyn, New York of Jewish background. He earned an MA degree from the University of Michigan in Theatre Arts and Speech and...
Robert Walden
Robert Walden (born Robert Wolkowitz; September 25, 1943) is an American television and motion picture actor.
Walden was born in New York, New York, the son of Hilda (née Winokur) and Max Wolkowitz.
Walden's career began in 1970, in Bloody Mama for...
Leonard Nimoy
Leonard Simon Nimoy (pronounced /ˈniːmɔɪ/; born March 26, 1931) is an American actor, film director, poet, musician and photographer. He is famous for playing the character of Spock on the original Star Trek series, and he reprised the role in...
Ed Asner
Edward Asner (born November 15, 1929) is an American film and television actor and former President of the Screen Actors Guild, primarily known for his role as Lou Grant on The Mary Tyler Moore Show and its spin-off series, Lou Grant. More recently,...
Charles Haid
Charles Maurice Haid III (born June 2, 1943) is an American actor and director, with notable work in both movies and television. He is known for his potrayal of Officer Andy Renko in Hill Street Blues.
Haid was born in San Francisco, California, the...
Michael Warren
Michael Warren (born March 5, 1946 in South Bend, Indiana) is an American TV actor and former college basketball player, best known for playing Officer Bobby Hill on the NBC television series Hill Street Blues.
As a college basketball player, Warren...
Taurean Blacque
Taurean Blacque (born Herbert Middleton Jr. in Newark, New Jersey, May 10, 1941) is an American television and stage actor, best known for his role as Det. Neal Washington on the series Hill Street Blues. He also is a past national spokesperson for...
Harry Morgan
Harry Morgan (born April 10, 1915) is an American television actor. Morgan is perhaps best-known as Colonel Sherman T. Potter on M*A*S*H (1975-83), Pete Porter on both Pete and Gladys (1960-62) and December Bride (1954-1959), Detective Bill Gannon...
Joe Spano
Joseph Peter "Joe" Spano (born July 7, 1946) is an American actor who was formerly perhaps best known for his role as Lt. Henry Goldblume on Hill Street Blues but who is now recognized for his work in NCIS.
He was born in San Francisco, California,...
Sam Waterston
Samuel Atkinson Waterston (born November 15, 1940) is an American actor noted particularly for his portrayal of Jack McCoy on the NBC television series Law & Order. He has also appeared in many feature films.
Waterston, one of four siblings, was...
James Sikking
James Barrie Sikking (born March 5, 1934) is an American actor known for his role as Lt. Howard Hunter on the 1980s NBC TV series Hill Street Blues. He also starred on the ABC TV series Doogie Howser, M.D. as Dr. David Howser and on the short-lived...
Michael Conrad
Michael Conrad (October 16, 1925 - November 22, 1983) was an American television actor who was born in New York. Conrad had a long acting career in television from the 1950s to the 1980s. He is perhaps best known for his portrayal of veteran cop...
William Hurt
William M. Hurt (born March 20, 1950) is an American actor. He won both the Academy and BAFTA Awards for his work in Kiss of the Spider Woman.
Hurt was born in Washington, D.C., the son of Claire Isabel (née McGill), who worked at Time, Inc., and...
Bruce Weitz
Bruce Peter Weitz (born May 27, 1943) is an American actor. He is perhaps best-known for his role as Sgt. Michael "Mick" Belker in the 1980s TV series Hill Street Blues for which he won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama...
John Karlen
John Karlen (born John Adam Karlewicz on May 28, 1933) is a character actor best known for playing Willie Loomis and other characters on the ABC cult serial Dark Shadows, in various episodes between 206 and 1245, which aired from 1966-1971. In 1971...
John Hillerman
John Benedict Hillerman (born December 20, 1932) is an American actor, best known for his starring role on the television show Magnum, P.I.
Hillerman was born in Denison, Texas, the son of Lenora Joan (née Medlinger) and Christopher Benedict...
Edward James Olmos
Edward James "Eddie" Olmos (born February 24, 1947) is a Mexican American actor and director. His most memorable roles are Commander/Admiral William Adama in the Battlestar Galactica re-imagined series , Lt. Martin Castillo in Miami Vice, Jaime...
Dean Stockwell
Robert Dean Stockwell (born March 5, 1936) is an American actor of film and television, active for over 60 years. He played Rear Admiral Albert "Al" Calavicci in the NBC television series Quantum Leap, and most recently appeared in the Sci Fi...
Ed Begley, Jr.
Edward James "Ed" Begley, Jr. (born September 16, 1949) is an American actor, game show panelist and environmentalist. Begley is perhaps best known for his role as Dr. Mark Craig's intern, Dr. Victor Ehrlich on the television series St. Elsewhere,...
