Gerald Mohr

Acting • Born 1914-06-11 – Died 1968-11-09

Acting1New York City, New York, USA

Biography

Gerald Mohr was an American radio, film and television character actor who appeared in more than 500 radio plays, 73 films and over 100 television shows. Born in New York City, he was educated in Dwight Preparatory School in New York City, where he learned to speak fluent French and German. At Columbia University, where he was on a course to become a doctor, before being discovered as promising voice talent by a radio producer. Mohr was hired by the radio station and became a junior reporter. In the mid-1930s, Orson Welles invited him to join his formative Mercury Theatre and appeared on Broadway. Mohr began appearing in films in the late 1930s, playing his first villain role in the 15-part cliffhanger serial Jungle Girl (1941). After three years' service in the US Army Air Forces during World War II, he returned to Hollywood, starring and appearing in numerous movies until 1949 when he joined Fred Foy has co-announcer for the first series of The Lone Ranger. From the 1950s on, he appeared as a guest star in more than one hundred television series, mostly westerns, though several comedy, variety, crime, and early science fiction serials. Mohr is remembered for his performance as "Ricky's friend" psychiatrist 'Dr. Henry Molin' (real life name of the assistant film editor on the show) in the classic February 1953 I Love Lucy episode, "The Inferiority Complex". Mohr's repeated line was, "Treatment, Ricky. Treatment".

Filmography

126 credits

Gilda

Movie • 1946

Capt. Delgado

Detective Story

Movie • 1951

Tami Giacoppetti

Sirocco

Movie • 1951

Major Jean Leon

The Reluctant Dragon

Movie • 1941

Studio Guard / Narrator (segment "Baby Weems") (voice) (uncredited)

The Angry Red Planet

Movie • 1959

Col. Thomas O`Bannion

The Sniper

Movie • 1952

Joe Ferris

The Duel at Silver Creek

Movie • 1952

Rod Lacy

Funny Girl

Movie • 1968

Branca

Wild West Story

Movie • 1964

Invasion, U.S.A.

Movie • 1952

Vince Potter

A Date with Death

Movie • 1959

Michael David Mason / Louis Deverman

The Ring

Movie • 1952

Pete Ganusa

Hunt the Man Down

Movie • 1950

Walter Long

This Rebel Breed

Movie • 1960

Lt. Robert Brooks

Undercover Girl

Movie • 1950

Reed Menig

My World Dies Screaming

Movie • 1958

Philip Tierney

The Buckskin Lady

Movie • 1957

Slinger

The Lone Wolf in London

Movie • 1947

Michael Lanyard

The Lady Has Plans

Movie • 1942

Joe Scalsi

The Catman of Paris

Movie • 1946

Inspector Severen

The Notorious Lone Wolf

Movie • 1946

Michael Lanyard / The Lone Wolf

Heaven Only Knows

Movie • 1947

Treason

The Monster and the Girl

Movie • 1941

Munn

Murder in Times Square

Movie • 1943

O'Dell Gissing

King of the Cowboys

Movie • 1943

Maurice

Lady of Burlesque

Movie • 1943

Louie "The Grin" Grindero

Smoky Canyon

Movie • 1952

Narrator (voice)

The Blonde Bandit

Movie • 1949

Joe Sapelli

Raiders of the Seven Seas

Movie • 1953

Captain Jose Salcedo

The Magnificent Rogue

Movie • 1946

Mark Townley

Dragonfly Squadron

Movie • 1954

Capt. MacIntyre

The Truth About Murder

Movie • 1946

Johnny Lacka

We Go Fast

Movie • 1941

Nabob of Borria

Panama Patrol

Movie • 1939

Pilot

Two Guys from Texas

Movie • 1948

Link Jessup

Money from Home

Movie • 1953

Marshall Preston

The Eddie Cantor Story

Movie • 1953

Rocky Kramer

The Family Jewels

Movie • 1965

Movie Actor

Wyoming Mail

Movie • 1950

Opening Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

Dangerous Business

Movie • 1946

Duke

Love Affair

Movie • 1939

Man (uncredited)

Movies Are Adventure

Movie • 1948

Narrator (uncredited)

Charlie Chan at Treasure Island

Movie • 1939

Dr. Zodiac (in disguise)

The Housekeeper's Daughter

Movie • 1939

Gangster

Passkey to Danger

Movie • 1946

Malcolm Tauber

The Lone Wolf in Mexico

Movie • 1947

Michael Lanyard

The Sea Hawk

Movie • 1940

Spanish Messenger

The Invisible Informer

Movie • 1946

Eric Baylor

A Guy Could Change

Movie • 1946

Eddy Raymond

Redhead from Manhattan

Movie • 1943

Chick Andrews

Ten Tall Men

Movie • 1951

Kayeed Hussein

Woman of the Year

Movie • 1942

Radio Emcee (voice) (uncredited)

Slightly French

Movie • 1949

J.B. (voice) (uncredited)

One Dangerous Night

Movie • 1943

Harry Cooper

The Desert Song

Movie • 1943

Hassan

Adventures of Captain Marvel

Movie • 1941

The Scorpion (Voice)

Dr. Broadway

Movie • 1942

Red

Guns, Girls and Gangsters

Movie • 1959

Charles (Chuck) Wheeler

Young Widow

Movie • 1946

Walter (Uncredited)

Jungle Girl

Movie • 1941

Slick Latimer

Son of Ali Baba

Movie • 1952

Capt. Youssef

Burke's Law

TV • 1963

Paul Schreiner

Maverick

TV • 1957

The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.

TV • 1966

Dossetti

The Lucy Show

TV • 1962

Ruby

I Love Lucy

TV • 1951

Dr. Stewart

Surfside 6

TV • 1960

Dawson Wells

The Superman/Aquaman Hour of Adventure

TV • 1967

(voice)

Lost in Space

TV • 1965

Morbus

Perry Mason

TV • 1957

Joe Medeci

Hawaiian Eye

TV • 1959

Laredo

TV • 1965

Pistols 'n' Petticoats

TV • 1966

Outlaws

TV • 1960

Rawhide

TV • 1959

Brad Morgan

The Aquanauts

TV • 1960

Pete Burdett

Climax!

TV • 1954

Quinn

The Big Valley

TV • 1965

Dr. Raoul Mendez

Bronco

TV • 1958

The Rogues

TV • 1964

Carl Votrian

Private Secretary

TV • 1953

The Alaskans

TV • 1959

Wanted: Dead or Alive

TV • 1958

Leo Torrance

The Rifleman

TV • 1958

Sugarfoot

TV • 1957

Jasper Monday

Bat Masterson

TV • 1958

Courtney Shepherd

The Texan

TV • 1958

Harrigan and Son

TV • 1960

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

TV • 1956

Veringo - Outlaw Leader

Johnny Ringo

TV • 1959

Barney Chisom

Vacation Playhouse

TV • 1963

Tightrope

TV • 1959

The DuPont Show with June Allyson

TV • 1959

Lt. Killian

Letter to Loretta

TV • 1953

Willie Sheepshead

The Third Man

TV • 1959

Foreign Intrigue

TV • 1951

Christopher Storm