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1955. Gunsmoke ( 1 episode) as Carl Mandee ( 1 episode) as Miguel ( 1 episode) as Jim Nation ( 1 episode) as Enoch Mills. 1953. General Electric Theater ( 1 episode) as Director. 1949. Suspense ( 1 episode) All. Department. Simon Oakland (August 28, 1915 – August 29, 1983) was an American actor of stage, screen, and television.
In Memoriam, 2015 edition. Writing Simon's birthday posts is always bittersweet, for two reasons. One, he's gone from this life now. Two, the death tribute must be written the very next day. It's also always hard to know what to say. There isn't a lot of information out there on Simon the person; much of what we know comes from bits and pieces ...
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Tough-talking actor Simon Oakland started out as a concert violinist before moving into acting on stage in the late 1940s. In the late 1950s, Oakland made some appearances on television before getting the pivotal role of Edward Montgomery, a newspaper reporter trying to get the full story in Susan Hayward's campy yet harrowing Oscar-winner "I Want to Live!." After that,...
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- August 28, 1915
Simon Oakland was a t hick-faced, square-built American actor, who was usually seen as a cigar-puffing crook or politician, with his sharkish grin marking him as up-to-no-good (1958, The Brothers Karamazov; 1958, I Want to Live, 1961, West Side Story). TV almost totally took over his acting output after 1973. He died from cancer in 1983.
Tough-talking actor Simon Oakland started out as a concert violinist before moving into acting on stage in the late 1940s. In the late 1950s, Oakland made some appearances on television before getting the pivotal role of Edward Montgomery, a newspaper reporter trying to get the full story in Susan Hayward's campy yet harrowing Oscar-winner "I ...
Biography by AllMovie [+] A former violinist, character actor Simon Oakland made his Broadway debut in 1948's The Skipper Next to God. Oakland's later stage credits include Light Up the Sky, The Shrike and Inherit the Wind. In films from 1957, Oakland was often cast as an outwardly unpleasant sort with inner reserves of decency and compassion.
But soon he needs him as a defense attorney as he is accused in the murder of Simon Oakland who is from the Inspector General's office there to investigate the continual failure of the missile being tested by the Air Force and the one that Rockwell is in charge of. There is also some personal history between Rockwell and Oakland dating from Korea.
