Phillip Pine
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Born | Phillip Edmund Pine July 16, 1920 Hanford, California, U.S. |
Died | December 22, 2006 Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S. | (aged 86)
Occupation | Actor |
Years active | 1945–2005 |
Phillip Pine (July 16, 1920 – December 22, 2006) was an American film and television actor, writer, film director, and producer.[1]
Early life
[edit]Pine was born in Hanford, California, the son of immigrants from Portugal. The family name was Pinheiro, which Pine stated in an interview was changed at Ellis Island. His father Miguel Pine ran a general store and meat market in downtown Hanford. His family moved to Santa Cruz when he was five.[2]
Career
[edit]Pine played John Wesley Hardin in a 1955 episode of The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp (John Wesley Hardin, S1 E9). In a 1957 episode of the same series, Pine again played Hardin (The Time for All Good Men, S2 E39). Later that year, he appeared on Gunsmoke, as “Vint” - a cheating card dealer turned murderer in the episode “Moon”.
Pine appeared in two episodes of Adventures of Superman titled "The Mystery of the Broken Statues" and "The Case of the Talkative Dummy". In the latter, he played a theater usher who was part of a robbery gang. He appeared in three episodes of Wagon Train titled "The Ben Courtney Story", "The Esteban Zamora Story" in 1959 and “The Dr. Swift Cloud Story” in 1960 (as Straight Arrow). Pine was in the second episode of The Outer Limits entitled "The Hundred Days of the Dragon". He also appeared in two episodes of The Twilight Zone, "The Four of Us Are Dying", and "The Incredible World of Horace Ford". Pine appeared as mobster Jack Zuta in the third episode of The Untouchables titled "The Jake Lingle Killing" and in 1962 he co-starred in the episode "The Whitey Steele Story". He also appeared in The Fugitive. He made a 1964 appearance as Phillip Stewart in the Perry Mason episode, "The Case of the Wednesday Woman". In 1964 Pine guest starred on Combat! as Pvt. Steve Cantrell in the third season episode "Birthday Cake". He played a World War II submarine captain marooned inside an underwater cave with four other survivors in the 1965 Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea episode "And Five of Us Are Left".
Pine played a confessed bank robber in the ninth episode of the television series Peter Gunn entitled "Image of Sally", first aired November 17, 1958.
Pine played Kid Curry in the episode "Kid Curry" on the TV series Tales of Wells Fargo (1959).
In 1967, Pine appeared in an episode of The Invaders entitled "Genesis". Pine also appeared in an episode of Rawhide entitled "Incident at Dangerfield Dip". He also played a gangster known only as "Mark" in Irving Lerner's film noir classic, Murder by Contract.[3]
He appeared in an episode of Kojak (season 5) called "Cry for the Children" as "Eddie Creagan", in an episode of Ironside (season 3) called "Alias Mrs Braithwaite?" and in Hawaii Five-O (season 1) called "Full Fathom 5". Notably, he played a Japanese man in a later Hawaii Five-O episode called "Which Way Did They Go?"
In 1969, Pine appeared in a Star Trek episode of season 3, "The Savage Curtain", as the genocidal Earth warlord Colonel Green. Pine also appeared in the first season of Barnaby Jones in the episode titled "Murder in the Doll's House" (03/25/1973).
Partial filmography
[edit]- The Sailor Takes a Wife (1945) - Aide (uncredited)
- The Street with No Name (1948) - Monk (uncredited)
- I Shot Jesse James (1949) - Man in Saloon
- The Set-Up (1949) - Souza
- Red Light (1949) - Pablo Cabrillo
- Battleground (1949) - G.I. Non-Com (uncredited)
- D.O.A. (1949) - Angelo (uncredited)
- My Foolish Heart (1949) - Sergeant Lucey
- The Flame and the Arrow (1950) - One of Dardo's Band (uncredited)
- Insurance Investigator (1951) - 2nd Hood
- The Wild Blue Yonder (1951) - Sergeant Tony
- Hoodlum Empire (1952) - Louis Barretti
- Black Tuesday (1954) - Fiaschetti (uncredited)
- The Phantom from 10,000 Leagues (1955) - George Thomas
- The Price of Fear (1956) - Vince Burton
- Men in War (1957) - Sergeant Riordan
- Gunsmoke (1957) - Vin
- Desert Hell (1958) - Corporal Carlo Parini
- Murder by Contract (1958) - Marc
- The Lost Missile (1958) - Dr. Joe Freed
- The Big Fisherman (1959) - Lucius
- Combat!, "Birthday Cake" (1964) - Private Steve Cantrell
- Brainstorm (1965) - Dr. Ames
- Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round (1966) - George Logan
- Project X (1968) - Dr. Lee Craig
- Hook, Line & Sinker (1969) - Head Surgeon
- The Cat Ate the Parakeet (1972) - Earl
- Glass Houses (1972) - Ted
- Money to Burn (1983) - Dean Hayden
- Run If You Can (1988) - Kudelski
Television
[edit]Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1958 | Alfred Hitchcock Presents | Victor Manett | Season 3 Episode 36: "The Safe Place" |
1959 | Tales of Wells Fargo | Harvey Logan | Season 3 Episode 35: "Kid Curry" |
1959 | Wanted Dead or Alive (TV series) | Tom Dunn | Season 2 Episode 4: "Breakout" |
1967 | Mannix | William Larkin | Season 1 Episode 5: "Make It Like It Never Happened" |
1969 | Star Trek: The Original Series | Colonel Green | Season 3 Episode 22: "The Savage Curtain" |
1980 | Little House on the Prairie | Winthrop Morgan | Season 6 Episode 15: "Whatever Happened to the Class of '56?" |
References
[edit]- ^ "Philip Pine Filmography". Archived from the original on 2015-05-22. Retrieved 2015-05-22.
- ^ Polley, Doris Robertson (9 March 1997). "Hanford's Philip Pine Talks About Life in the Footlights". The Hanford Sentinel. p. 6. Retrieved 22 May 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ New York Times: Philip Pine
External links
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