Joshua Shelley
Acting • Born 1920-01-27 – Died 1990-02-16
Biography
Joshua Shelley (born Joshua Kurzweil; January 27, 1920 – February 16, 1990) was one of the actors blacklisted by movie studios as a result of the House Un-American Activities Committee's (HUAC) investigation of the Communist Party in Hollywood in 1952. He did not begin to again work regularly in Hollywood until 1973 when his career restarted. A member of The Actors Studio from its inception in 1947, Shelley worked frequently on stage, both on and off Broadway, during his Hollywood exile. Shelley's onscreen work, both pre- and post-blacklist, was confined primarily to television. Nonetheless, two career highlights remain Shelley's enthusiastically received 1949 feature film debut in City Across the River, as well as the blacklist-related 1976 film, The Front, notable for reuniting Shelley with several fellow blacklistees, including cast members Zero Mostel, Herschel Bernardi, and Lloyd Gough, screenwriter Walter Bernstein and director Martin Ritt, the latter also a fellow Actors Studio member. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Filmography
54 credits
Ring of Passion
Movie • 1978
Max
Firehouse
Movie • 1973
Mr. Warnecke
The Marcus-Nelson Murders
Movie • 1973
Mr Sack
The Front
Movie • 1976
Sam
Switch
Movie • 1975
Man in Shooting Gallery
City Across the River
Movie • 1949
Theodore 'Crazy' Perrin
Yes Sir, That's My Baby
Movie • 1949
Arnold Schultze
All the President's Men
Movie • 1976
Al Lewis
The Front Page
Movie • 1974
Cab Driver
Little Miss Marker
Movie • 1980
Benny
Funny Lady
Movie • 1975
Painter
Crackle of Death
Movie • 1976
Sonny Boy
Movie • 1974
Uncle Ralph
Quicksilver
Movie • 1986
Shorty
Family Ties
TV • 1982
Sam
Remington Steele
TV • 1982
Bullets Bloustein
The Incredible Hulk
TV • 1977
The Odd Couple
TV • 1970
Accountant
The Twilight Zone
TV • 1985
(segment "Personal Demons")
All in the Family
TV • 1971
Willie
Quincy, M.E.
TV • 1976
Claude Whitley
The Streets of San Francisco
TV • 1972
Baretta
TV • 1975
Soap
TV • 1977
Happy Days
TV • 1974
Kojak
TV • 1973
Obitsky
Hart to Hart
TV • 1979
Studio One
TV • 1948
Arturo
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV • 1951
Hercules Mulligan
Hunter
TV • 1984
Colin
Kolchak: The Night Stalker
TV • 1974
George
McMillan & Wife
TV • 1971
Harry O
TV • 1974
Temperatures Rising
TV • 1972
Larkin
Police Woman
TV • 1974
Switch
TV • 1975
Dutch
Lux Video Theatre
TV • 1950
Pete
McCloud
TV • 1970
The Paul Lynde Show
TV • 1972
Joe Patterson
Decoy
TV • 1957
Willie Graff
Ellery Queen
TV • 1975
Needles and Pins
TV • 1973
Suspense
TV • 1949
Tony
Hell Town
TV • 1985
Frasno
Danger
TV • 1950
Nurse
TV • 1981
Ted Ambler
Joe Forrester
TV • 1975
Sugar Time!
TV • 1977
Kojak
TV • 1973
Bob Harris
The Ed Sullivan Show
TV • 1948
Self
The Odd Couple
TV • 1970
Burglar #2
The Odd Couple
TV • 1970
Race Announcer (voice)
Loose Change
TV • 1978
Sol Berenson
Cassie & Co.
TV • 1982
Eddy the Ear