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Joshua Shelley

Actor, Director, Additional Credits
Died February 16, 1990 (70 years)
Joshua Shelley (born Joshua Kurzweil; January 27, 1920 – February 16, 1990) was one of the actors blacklisted by movie studios as a result of the House Un-American Activities Committee's (HUAC) investigation of the Communist Party in Hollywood in 1952. He did not begin to again work regularly in Hollywood until 1973 when his career restarted.

A member of The Actors Studio from its inception in 1947, Shelley worked frequently on stage, both on and off Broadway, during his Hollywood exile. Shelley's onscreen work, both pre- and post-blacklist, was confined primarily to television. Nonetheless, two career highlights remain Shelley's enthusiastically received 1949 feature film debut in City Across the River, as well as the blacklist-related 1976 film, The Front, notable for reuniting Shelley with several fellow blacklistees, including cast members Zero Mostel, Herschel Bernardi, and Lloyd Gough, screenwriter Walter Bernstein and director Martin Ritt, the latter also a fellow Actors Studio member.

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Movies & Shows on Plex
  • Hunter
  • Firehouse
Known For
  • M*A*S*H
  • The Front
  • Get Smart
  • When Things Were Rotten
  • Little Miss Marker
  • Love, American Style

Filmography

1986
Quicksilver · as Shorty
1986
Blacke's Magic (TV Series) · as Roscoe
1985
1985
Hell Town (TV Series) · as Frasno
1984
Hunter (TV Series) · as Colin
1982
Remington Steele (TV Series) · as Bullets Bloustein
1982
Family Ties (TV Series) · as Sam
1982
Cassie & Co. (TV Series)
1981
Nurse (TV Series) · as Ted Ambler
1980
Little Miss Marker · as Benny
1979
Hart to Hart (TV Series)
1978
B.J. and the Bear (TV Series) · as Bullets
1978
Ring of Passion · as Max
1977
1977
Soap (TV Series)
1976
Quincy, M.E. (TV Series) · as Claude Whitley
1976
Holmes and Yoyo (TV Series) · as Clerk
1976
The Front · as Sam
1976
Delvecchio (TV Series) · as Marlo
1976
1975
The Apple Dumpling Gang · as Broadway Phil
1975
The Blue Knight (TV Series) · as Erwin
1975
Joe Forrester (TV Series)
1975
Ellery Queen (TV Series)
1975
Switch (TV Series) · as Dutch
1975
Funny Lady · as Painter
1975
Baretta (TV Series)
1974
1974
The Front Page · as Cab Driver
1974
Police Woman (TV Series)
1974
Kolchak: The Night Stalker (TV Series) · as George
1974
The Rockford Files (TV Series) · as Russo's Manager
1974
Happy Days (TV Series)
1973
Kojak (TV Series) · as Bob Harris
1973
Police Story (TV Series) · as Jackie Lenihan
1973
Harry O (TV Series)
1973
1973
Firehouse · as Mr. Warnecke
1972
Madigan (TV Series) · as Hot Dog Stand Owner
1972
1972
The Paul Lynde Show (TV Series) · as Joe Patterson
1972
Temperatures Rising (TV Series) · as Larkin
1971
McMillan and Wife (TV Series)
1971
All in the Family (TV Series) · as Willie
1970
The Odd Couple (TV Series) · as Race Announcer (voice)
1970
McCloud (TV Series)
1969
Love, American Style (TV Series) · as Carl Berley (segment "love And The Suspicious Husband")
1963
East Side/West Side (TV Series) · as Mel Chance
1961
The Defenders (TV Series) · as Mr. Maxwell
1957
Decoy (TV Series) · as Willie Graff
1952
Omnibus (TV Series) · as (segment "the Bad Men")
1952
The Doctor (1952) (TV Series) · as George Magnus
1952
Mister Peepers (TV Series) · as Don Rooten
1951
Hallmark Hall Of Fame (TV Series) · as Hercules Mulligan
1951
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars (TV Series) · as Cast
1951
Tales of Tomorrow (TV Series) · as Cast
1950
The Lux Video Theatre (TV Series) · as Pete
1950
Danger (TV Series)
1950
Treasury Men in Action (TV Series) · as Cast
1949
Yes Sir, That's My Baby · as Arnold Schultze
1949
The Big Story (TV Series) · as The Horticulturist
1949
City Across the River · as Theodore 'crazy' Perrin
1949
Suspense (TV Series) · as Tony
1948
Studio One (TV Series) · as Arturo
1948
The Philco Television Playhouse (TV Series) · as Cast
1948
The Chevrolet Tele-Theatre (TV Series) · as Cast
1948
Actors Studio (TV Series) · as Cast

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