Mike Kellin

The son of an English-immigrant clothier, Mike Kellin decided to become an actor in the second grade, after watching a school production of A Christmas Carol. The restless Kellin briefly attended three colleges before serving in the Navy in World War II. After flunking out of Yale Drama School, Kellin headed to New York, where he studied acting under Lee Strasberg, Sanford Meisner and Stella Adler. Denied leading-man assignments because of what he described as his "lived-in face," Kellin's big Broadway break came in the role of the abrasive sergeant in the 1949 Broadway comedy At War with the Army; he would reprise his role in the 1950 film version, which starred Martin and Lewis. Kellin went on to win the Tony award for his performance in the 1956 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Pipe Dream. In 1960, Kellin was cast as slovenly Chief Mate McCarthy in The Wackiest Ship in the Army; when this film was adapted into a TV series in 1965, Kellin came along for the ride in substantially the same role, though the character was rechristened as Chief Petty Officer Willie Miller. Mike Kellin's most celebrated movie appearance was his Oscar-nominated role as the father of the imprisoned protagonist in Midnight Express (1978).

Highest Rated Movies

Rating	Title	Credit	Box Office	Year
82%	Sleepaway Camp	Mel	—	1983
No Score Yet	Living Nightmare	Sid Berman	—	1983
No Score Yet	Just Before Dawn	Ty	—	1981
No Score Yet	Paternity	Tour Guide	—	1981
67%	So Fine	Sam Schlotzman	—	1981
19%	The Jazz Singer	Leo	—	1980
No Score Yet	On the Yard	Red	—	1979
96%	Midnight Express	Mr. Hayes	—	1978
100%	Girlfriends	Abe	—	1978
77%	Next Stop, Greenwich Village	Mr. Lapinsky	—	1976
80%	God Told Me To	Deputy Commissioner	—	1976
25%	Freebie and the Bean	Lt. Rosen	$8.8K	1974
No Score Yet	Fools' Parade	Steve Mystic	—	1971
No Score Yet	The People Next Door	Dr. Margolin	—	1970
No Score Yet	The Phynx	Bogey	—	1970
No Score Yet	Cover Me Babe	Derelict	—	1970
No Score Yet	The Maltese Bippy	(uncredited)	—	1969
No Score Yet	Riot	Bugsy	—	1969
86%	The Boston Strangler	Julian Soshnick	—	1968
86%	The Incident	Harry Purvis	—	1967
No Score Yet	Banning	Kalielle	—	1967
No Score Yet	Invitation to a Gunfighter	Tom	—	1964
83%	Hell Is for Heroes	Pvt. Kolinsky	—	1962
No Score Yet	The Great Imposter	Thompson	—	1961
No Score Yet	The Wackiest Ship in the Army	Chief Mate MacCarthy	—	1960
No Score Yet	The Mountain Road	Prince	—	1960
No Score Yet	The Wonderful Country	Pancho Gil	—	1959
No Score Yet	Lonelyhearts	Frank Goldsmith	—	1958
No Score Yet	Hurricane Smith	Dicer	—	1952
No Score Yet	At War With the Army	Sgt. McVey	—	1950
No Score Yet	Martin & Lewis: At War with the Army	Actor	—	1950

Rating	Title	Credit	Year
No Score Yet	All in the Family 1971-1979	Bummie Fensil	1976
No Score Yet	Barney Miller 1975-1982	Mitchell	1976
No Score Yet	Starsky & Hutch 1975-1979	Al Grossman	1976
No Score Yet	Ironside 1967-1975	Dallavaca	1974
No Score Yet	Kojak 1973-1978	Frank	1974
No Score Yet	Lost in Space 1965-1968	Myko	1966
No Score Yet	Rawhide 1959-1965	Vassily	1964
80%	The Twilight Zone 1959-1964	Chief Bell	1963
No Score Yet	Alfred Hitchcock Presents 1955-1962	Stranger	1958

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