Joseph Wiseman
Joseph Wiseman
Intense, incisive Canadian-born actor Joseph Wiseman first set foot on stage with a Manhattan-based Italian acting troupe. One of his earliest Broadway appearances was as a townsman in the Pulitzer Prize-winning Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1939). He went on to share the spotlight with such notables as Helen Hayes, Katherine Cornell, Tallulah Bankhead, and Julie Harris. Wiseman's first important film role was the whining, psychopathic burglar in Detective Story (1951), a part he'd previously played on Broadway. One of his most colorful roles (though hardly his personal favorite) was the Fu Manchu-like title character in Dr. No (1962). A busy film and TV actor into the 1980s, Joseph Wiseman was also active with the Lincoln Repertory Theater in New York. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Filmography of Joseph Wiseman:
- Dr. No with Sean Connery , Ursula Andress , Jack Lord , Bernard Lee , Lois Maxwell
- Lawman with Burt Lancaster , Robert Ryan , Lee J. Cobb , Sheree North , Robert Duvall , J.D. Cannon , Robert Emhardt , John Hillerman , John McGiver , Albert Salmi , Charles Tyner , Richard Jordan , Ralph Waite
- The Silver Chalice with Virginia Mayo , Pier Angeli , Jack Palance , Paul Newman , Walter Hampden , Natalie Wood , Alexander Scourby , Lorne Greene , Herbert Rudley , E.G. Marshall , Michael Pate , Robert Middleton , Ian Wolfe , Lawrence Dobkin , Albert Dekker , Frank S. Hagney , Strother Martin , Mel Welles
- Pursuit with Ben Gazzara , E.G. Marshall , William Windom , Martin Sheen
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