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Les Tremayne

Acting

Born April 16, 1913 · Balham, London, England, UK

Died December 19, 2003

Also known as Lester Tremayne · Lester "Les" Tremayne

Biography

Les Tremayne (16 April 1913 – 19 December 2003) was a radio, film, and television actor. Born Lester Tremayne in England, he moved with his family at the age four to Chicago, where he began in community theater. He danced as a vaudeville performer and worked as amusement park barker. He began working in radio when he was 17 years old. Description above from the Wikipedia article Les Tremayne, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.​

Filmography39 titles

North by Northwest

1959as Auctioneer

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

1962as Mr. Selby

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

1955as Peter Talbot

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea

1964

Perry Mason

1957as Frederic Archer III

The Andy Griffith Show

1960as C.J. Hasler

Bonanza

1959as Doc Lyman

The Story of Ruth

1960as Elimelech

The Fortune Cookie

1966as Thompson

Rawhide

1959as Dr. Gardner

Forbidden Planet

1956as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

The Rifleman

1958

The Phantom Tollbooth

1970as Humbug (voice)

The Beverly Hillbillies

1962as Dr. Stuyvesant

The War of the Worlds

1953as General Mann

Daffy Duck's Movie: Fantastic Island

1983as The Well (voice)

The Gallant Hours

1960as Frank Enright

Wagon Train

1957as Horace Jurist Hamilton

A Man Called Peter

1955as Senator Willis K. Harvey

Girl Happy

1965as Opening Narrator (uncredited)

The Virginian

1962as Mr. Lowell

The Monolith Monsters

1957as Martin Cochrane

Starchaser: The Legend of Orin

1985as Arthur (voice)

Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol

1962as Ghost of Christmas Present (voice)

The Racket

1951as Harry Craig

I Love Melvin

1953as Mr. Henneman

My Favorite Martian

1963as Mr. Clary

Susan Slept Here

1954as Harvey Butterworth

Strange Bedfellows

1965as Opening Off-Screen Narrator (uncredited)

The Texan

The 20th Century Fox Hour

The Lieutenant Wore Skirts

1956as Henry 'Hank' Gaxton

The Angry Red Planet

1959as Prof. Theodore Gettell

The Monster of Piedras Blancas

1959as Dr. Sam Jorgenson

Shootout at Big Sag

1962as Chan Bartholomew

Dream Wife

1953as Ken Landwell

The Naked Monster

2005as General Mann

The Slime People

1963as Norman Tolliver

Creature of Destruction

1967as Dr. John Basso