
Ted de Corsia
Highest Rated: 100% Neptune's Daughter (1949)
Lowest Rated: 31% From the Terrace (1960)
Birthday: Sep 29, 1905
Birthplace: Brooklyn, New York, USA
Being bad did Ted De Corsia a lot of good during a prolific quarter-century-long career. His New York City street looks and voice made him a perfect fit for tough guy roles, and he played scores of them in 60 films and over twice as many TV appearances. The typecasting started early and strong when De Corsia played a killer in Orson Welles's offbeat mystery "The Lady From Shanghai" (1947). From then, the actor never slowed down, usually appearing in several films and TV productions every year. He put on his bad-guy suit often--for example, when he played a memorable crook turned government snitch in "The Enforcer" (1951), starring Humphrey Bogart. But it wasn't only evil men he played; in Stanley Kubrick's gritty crime classic "The Killing" (1956), he switched to the other side of the law to portray a cop, Patrolman Kennan. He also had the role of determined ship captain Farragut in the immodestly budgeted 1954 Jules Verne adaptation, "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea." De Corsia was even busier on TV, doing guest appearances or brief recurring roles on most of the well-known shows during his working lifetime. Among the many were "The Twilight Zone" (1959) and "Get Smart" (1966).
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Highest Rated Movies
Filmography
Movies
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No Score Yet | 52% | Five Card Stud | Eldon Bates (Character) | - | 1968 |
No Score Yet | 36% | The Money Trap | Police captain (uncredited) (Character) | - | 1966 |
No Score Yet | 42% | The Quick Gun | Spangler (Character) | - | 1964 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Blood on the Arrow | Jud (Character) | - | 1964 |
No Score Yet | 62% | It's Only Money | Patrolman (Character) | - | 1962 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Slowest Gun in the West | Black Bart (Character) | - | 1960 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Noose for a Gunman | Jack Cantrell (Character) | - | 1960 |
31% | 58% | From the Terrace | Mr. Ralph W. Benziger (Character) | - | 1960 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Oklahoma Territory | Chief Buffalo Horn (Character) | - | 1960 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Inside the Mafia | Augie Martello (Character) | - | 1959 |
No Score Yet | 66% | The Buccaneer | Capt. Rumbo (Character) | - | 1958 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Enchanted Island | Capt. Vangs (Character) | - | 1958 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Lawless Eighties | Grat Bandas (Character) | - | 1958 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Midnight Story | Lieutenant Kilrain (Character) | - | 1957 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Gun Battle at Monterey | Max Reno (Character) | - | 1957 |
No Score Yet | 56% | Baby Face Nelson | Rocca (Character) | - | 1957 |
No Score Yet | 88% | The Joker Is Wild | Georgie Parker (Character) | - | 1957 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Man on the Prowl | Detective (Character) | - | 1957 |
No Score Yet | 44% | Dance With Me Henry | Big Frank (Character) | - | 1956 |
No Score Yet | 10% | The Conqueror | Kumlek (Character) | - | 1956 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Mohawk | Indian Chief Kowanen (Character) | - | 1956 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Showdown at Abilene | Dan Claudius (Character) | - | 1956 |
98% | 92% | The Killing | Randy Kennan (as Ted DeCorsia) (Character) | - | 1956 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Steel Jungle | Steve Madden (Character) | - | 1956 |
No Score Yet | 29% | Slightly Scarlet | Solly Caspar (Character) | - | 1956 |
57% | 48% | Kismet | Police subaltern (Character) | - | 1955 |
93% | 81% | The Big Combo | Ralph Bettini (Character) | - | 1955 |
No Score Yet | 36% | Man With the Gun | "Frenchy" Lescaux (Character) | - | 1955 |
89% | 74% | 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea | Capt. Farragut (Character) | - | 1954 |
67% | 71% | Crime Wave | `'Doc'` Penny (Character) | - | 1954 |
No Score Yet | 20% | Captain Pirate | Capt. Easterling (Character) | - | 1953 |
No Score Yet | 22% | Man in the Dark | Lefty (Character) | - | 1953 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hot News | Dino Rizzo (Character) | - | 1953 |
No Score Yet | 38% | Ride, Vaquero | Sheriff Parker (Character) | - | 1953 |
No Score Yet | 42% | The Turning Point | Harrigan (Character) | - | 1952 |
No Score Yet | 60% | The Savage | Iron Breast (Character) | - | 1952 |
88% | 70% | The Enforcer | Joseph Rico (Character) | - | 1951 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Inside the Walls of Folsom Prison | Warden Ben Rickey (Character) | - | 1951 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | New Mexico | Acoma (Character) | - | 1951 |
No Score Yet | 60% | Mr. Soft Touch | Rainey (Character) | - | 1949 |
100% | 59% | Neptune's Daughter | Lukie Luzette (Character) | - | 1949 |
No Score Yet | 71% | Three Secrets | Del Prince (Character) | - | 1949 |
83% | 68% | It Happens Every Spring | Manager Jimmy Dolan (Character) | - | 1949 |
88% | 80% | The Naked City | Garzah (Character) | - | 1948 |
83% | 85% | The Lady From Shanghai | Sidney Broome (Character) | - | 1948 |
TV
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The High Chaparral | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1970 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Mannix | William Lavor (Guest Star) | 1970 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Shotgun Slade | Unknown (Guest Star) | |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Wild, Wild West | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1969 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Get Smart | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1966-1967 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Green Acres | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1967 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | I Dream of Jeannie | Two-Gun Richard Sheldon (Guest Star) | 1966 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Perry Mason | Chief Polek (Guest Star) | 1966 1964 |
100% | No Score Yet | The Man From U.N.C.L.E. | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1966 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Death Valley Days | Jim Jennet (Character) | 1966 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Ben Casey | Mr. Arnold (Guest Star) | 1964 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Outer Limits | Unknown (Character) | 1964 |
82% | 94% | The Twilight Zone | Foreman Dickerson (Character) | 1964 1959 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Rawhide | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1962-1964 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Dr. Kildare | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1964 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Alfred Hitchcock Hour | Unknown (Character) | 1964 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | 77 Sunset Strip | Ben Gale (Guest Star) | 1963 1961 1959 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Dakotas | Winters (Guest Star) | 1963 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Untouchables | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1962 1959 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Surfside 6 | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1962 1960 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Gunsmoke | Garvy (Guest Star) | 1962 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Alfred Hitchcock Presents | Unknown (Character) | 1961 1959 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Laramie | Matthew Witmore (Guest Star) | 1960-1961 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Deputy | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1961 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Thriller | Unknown (Character) | 1961 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Dante | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1960 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Johnny Staccato | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1960 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Bat Masterson | John Watson (Guest Star) | 1959-1960 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Mr. Lucky | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1959 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Sugarfoot | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1958-1959 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Trackdown | George Caldwell (Guest Star) | 1958 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Rifleman | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1958 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Zorro | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1958 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Mike Hammer | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1958 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Climax! | Unknown (Character) | 1958 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Restless Gun | Cal Jason (Guest Star) | 1957 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Showcase 39 | Unknown (Character) | 1957 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Lone Ranger | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1955 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Stage 7 | Vic Kelcey (Character) | 1955 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Four Star Playhouse | Vic Kelcey (Character) | 1954 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Burns and Allen Show | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1954 |
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