Richard Bakalyan
Richard Bakalyan
American actor Richard Bakalyan didn't have to "stretch" much to play juvenile delinquents in the films of the 1950s. Bakalyan had been something of a J.D. all his life, graduating into an "official" punk when he did a year's probation at age 15. Appropriately, the actor's first film was a 1957 Kansas City-based epic directed by Robert Altman, The Delinquents - which was followed with an appearance in Jerry Lewis' The Delicate Delinquent (1957). Proud that his demeanor, haircut and mode of dress had assured him a living in Hollywood, Bakalyan continued to appear in such low-budgeters as The Cool and the Crazy (1957) and The Bonnie Parker Story (1958). He extended his switchblade-wielding activities into television, maturing into a dependable middle-aged villain when the juvenile-delinquent cycle burned itself out in the early 1960s. How, then, are we to explain Dick Bakalyan's presence as a regular in the 1972 NBC variety series The Bobby Darin Amusement Company? Perhaps Bakalyan was attracted to Darin's hit song "Mack the Knife." ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Filmography of Richard Bakalyan:
- The Patsy with Jerry Lewis , Ina Balin , Everett Sloane , Phil Harris , Keenan Wynn , Peter Lorre , John Carradine , Hans Conried , Richard Deacon , Neil Hamilton , Scatman Crothers , Nancy Kulp , Fritz Feld , Jerome Cowan , Jack Albertson , Kathleen Freeman , Hedda Hopper , Norman Leavitt , Mantan Moreland , George Raft , Michael Ross , Mel Torme , Dave Willock , Ed Wynn
- The Greatest Story Ever Told with Max vonSydow , Dorothy McGuire , Robert Loggia , Claude Rains , Jose Ferrer , Charlton Heston , Michael Ansara , Donald Pleasence , David McCallum , Roddy McDowall , Burt Brinckerhoff , David Hedison , Telly Savalas , Angela Lansbury , Paul Stewart , Harold J. Stone , Frank Silvera , Michael Tolan , Carroll Baker , Pat Boone , Sal Mineo , Van Heflin , Ed Wynn , Shelley Winters , Martin Landau , Nehemiah Persoff , Joseph Schildkraut , Victor Buono , John Wayne , Sidney Poitier , Richard Conte , Frank DeKova , Russell Johnson , Mickey Simpson , Robert Blake
- The Errand Boy with Jerry Lewis , Brian Donlevy , Howard McNear , Renee Taylor , Kathleen Freeman , Isobel Elsom , Sig Rumann , Doodles Weaver , Fritz Feld , Kenneth MacDonald , Roscoe Ates , Don "Red" Barry , Lorne Greene , Mike Mazurki , Harry "Snub" Pollard , Michael Ross , Frank Scannell , Herb Vigran , Dick Winslow , Michael Landon , Benny Rubin
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