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Simon Oakland

Actor
Simon Oakland

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Birth Place
New York City, New York, USA
Born
August 28, 1915
Died
August 29, 1983

Biography

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Tough-talking actor Simon Oakland started out as a concert violinist before moving into acting on stage in the late 1940s. In the late 1950s, Oakland made some appearances on television before getting the pivotal role of Edward Montgomery, a newspaper reporter trying to get the full story in Susan Hayward's campy yet harrowing Oscar-winner "I Want to Live!." After that, in 1960, Oakland ...

Filmography

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Young Joe, the Forgotten Kennedy (1977)
Delaney
The Night Strangler (1973)
Emperor of the North Pole (1973)
Happy Mother's Day... Love, George (1973)
Ron Howard
Key West (1973)
Toma (1973)
Inspector Spooner

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Sand Pebbles, The (1966) -- (Movie Clip) I Wish I Had Two Hundred
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Sand Pebbles, The (1966) -- (Movie Clip) It's His Rice Bowl

Biography

Tough-talking actor Simon Oakland started out as a concert violinist before moving into acting on stage in the late 1940s. In the late 1950s, Oakland made some appearances on television before getting the pivotal role of Edward Montgomery, a newspaper reporter trying to get the full story in Susan Hayward's campy yet harrowing Oscar-winner "I Want to Live!." After that, in 1960, Oakland earned immortality as a glib doctor trying to offer a pat explanation for the behavior of the killer Norman Bates in Alfred Hitchcock's classic thriller "Psycho." He appeared in the Oscar-winning musical "West Side Story" in 1961, and then mainly appeared on television shows such as the mind-bending anthology series "Twilight Zone" and the Prohibition-era crime drama "The Untouchables" in the mid-'60s. Oakland played a doctor again on the big screen in Vincente Minnelli's musical "On a Clear Day You Can See Forever" in 1970, and then finished out his career on television.

Filmography

 

Cast (Feature Film)

Young Joe, the Forgotten Kennedy (1977)
Delaney
The Night Strangler (1973)
Emperor of the North Pole (1973)
Happy Mother's Day... Love, George (1973)
Ron Howard
Key West (1973)
Toma (1973)
Inspector Spooner
Chato's Land (1972)
Jubal Hooker
The Night Stalker (1972)
The Hunting Party (1971)
Matthew Gunn
Scandalous John (1971)
Barton Whittaker
Crosscurrent (1971)
Captain E J Goodlad
On a Clear Day You Can See Forever (1970)
Dr. Conrad Fuller
Bullitt (1968)
Captain Bennett
Chubasco (1968)
Laurindo
Tony Rome (1967)
Rudolph Kosterman
The Sand Pebbles (1966)
Stawski
The Plainsman (1966)
Black Kettle
The Satan Bug (1965)
Tasserly
Who Has Seen the Wind? (1965)
The Raiders (1964)
Sgt. Austin Tremaine
Ready for the People (1964)
Murray Brock
Wall of Noise (1963)
Johnny Papadakis
Follow That Dream (1962)
Nick
Third of a Man (1962)
Doon
Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man (1962)
Joe Boulton
West Side Story (1961)
[Lieutenant] Schrank
Murder, Inc. (1960)
[Lt. William] Tobin
The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond (1960)
Lt. Moody
Who Was That Lady? (1960)
Belka
Psycho (1960)
Dr. Richmond
The Brothers Karamazov (1958)
Mavrayek
I Want to Live! (1958)
Editor Montgomery

Cast (Special)

The Third Commandment (1959)
Orlando

Cast (TV Mini-Series)

Evening in Byzantium (1978)

Life Events

Videos

Movie Clip

Sand Pebbles, The (1966) -- (Movie Clip) I Wish I Had Two Hundred In a bordello in 1926 China, rude sailor Stawski (Simon Oakland) aims to have his way with Maily (Marayat Andriane, a.k.a. Emmanuelle Arsan), who’s supposed to be only a hostess, Frenchy (Richard Attenborough), supported by Jake (Steve McQueen), intervening, in The Sand Pebbles. 1966.
Sand Pebbles, The (1966) -- (Movie Clip) It's His Rice Bowl Navy engineer Jake (Steve McQueen) acquaints himself with his new baby, the engine of the USS San Pablo, meeting his assistant Po-Han (Mako), then various shipmates, Simon Oakland as Stawski, Richard Attenborough as “Frenchy,” in 1926 China, in Robert Wise’s The Sand Pebbles, 1966.
Chubasco (1968) -- (Movie Clip) TV Trailer Television trailer for the action-melodrama Chubasco, 1968, starring the enigmatic James Dean-lookalike Christopher Jones and his then-wife, Susan Strasberg, with Richard Egan, Ann Southern and Audrey Totter.
Satan Bug, The -- (Movie Clip) The Possibilities Dr. Hoffman (Richard Basehart) explains that it's not just the Botulinums that may be missing, which somehow doesn't rattle Barrett (George Maharis) in The Satan Bug, 1965.

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