Checkmate (1960)
Checkmate (1960)
Plot.
Checkmate is an American detective television series starring Anthony George, Sebastian Cabot, and Doug McClure. The show aired on CBS Television from 1960 to 1962 for a total of 70 episodes and was produced by Jack Benny's production company, "JaMco Productions" in co-operation with Revue Studios. Guest stars included Charles Laughton, Peter Lorre, and Lee Marvin, among many other commensurately prominent performers.
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Cast & Crew.
Anthony George
Don Corey
Eric Ambler
Creator / Writer
Ken Lynch
Lt. Thomas Brand
Jack Betts
Chris Devlin
Donna Douglas
Barbara Simmons
Jeane Wood
Maid
Norman Leavitt
Bus Driver
Sebastian Cabot
Dr. Carl Hyatt
Don Weis
Director
Herschel Daugherty
Director
Tom Gries
Director
Robert Ellis Miller
Director / Producer
James Wong Howe
Director
William A. Graham
Director
Alexander Singer
Director
Doug McClure
Jed Sills
Ron Winston
Director
Walter Doniger
Director
Sidney Lanfield
Director
Robert Florey
Director
Paul Stewart
Director
Don Medford
Director
Jules Munshin
Director
Douglas Heyes
Director / Writer
Jules Bricken
Director
Herman Hoffman
Director
Richard Berg
Producer
Jon Kubichan
Associate Producer
James Gunn
Writer
Lewis Reed
Teleplay / Story
Mark Rodgers
Writer / Teleplay
William P. McGivern
Writer
Leigh Brackett
Writer
Robert J. Shaw
Writer
Anthony Spinner
Writer
Juarez Roberts
Writer
Larry Cohen
Writer
Howard Browne
Writer
Harold Jack Bloom
Writer
Jonathan Latimer
Story
Max Ehrlich
Writer
Jameson Brewer
Writer
Oliver Crawford
Writer
Richard De Roy
Writer
John Kneubuhl
Writer
Keir Dullea
Eddie Phillips
Anne Baxter
Beatrice Martin Kipp
Angie Dickinson
Karen Vale
Sid Caesar
Johnny Wilder
Dianne Foster
Phyllis Wood
Jimmy Lydon
Ben Roberts
Norman Burton
Lou Lewis
Lloyd Bridges
Howard Robert Gentry
Audrey Dalton
Ann Miles
Paul Langton
The Architect
Barney Phillips
Capt. Jack Howard
Dennis Patrick
Nick Culley
Diana Van der Vlis
Hope Reardon
Laraine Day
Amnesiac Woman
Charles Drake
Mack Weston
Helen Brown
Miss Treadwell
Jack Benny
Jack Bowen
Tina Louise
Joanne Dunn
Otto Kruger
George Emery
Edward Mallory
Arthur Cole
Diana Lynn
Jodi Lynn
Henry Jones
Ed Thurston, D.A.
Vladimir Sokoloff
Pedro Moreno
Philip Ober
Marshall Winslow
Claire Bloom
Gina Burton
William Windom
Peter Morell
Katherine Squire
Mrs. Vorlund
Les Tremayne
Simon Oelrich
Jeffrey Hunter
Edward 'Jocko' Townsend
Dorothy Malone
Lorna Shay
John Dehner
George Shay
Tony Randall
Luther Gage
Ina Victor
Vicky
William Bramley
Burke
Ralph Bellamy
Governor Tom Barker
Chester Morris
Albert DeWitt
Patricia Huston
Anne
Elizabeth Montgomery
Vicki Page
Jack Lord
Ernie Chapin
Émile Genest
Felix Landauer
Carole Eastman
Julie Enhart
Eleanor Parker
Marion Bannion/Gussie Hill
Herschel Bernardi
Ned Hazly
Harriet MacGibbon
The Countess
Sam Hearn
Max
Dina Merrill
Laura Hammond
Robert Ellenstein
Rudy Pasada
Louise Lorimer
Judge Singer
Patricia Neal
Fran Davis
John Baragrey
Mitch Kane
Julie Adams
Jean Damion
Lucy Prentis
Martha Kane
John Astin
Jim Poole
Walter Pidgeon
John Baker
Kent Smith
Ainslee
Margaret Phillips
Beatrice Lawlor
George Sanders
Richard Gilmore
John Emery
Lawrence Price
Ross Elliott
Jerry Bronson
Richard Conte
Victor Ragar/Romak
Signe Hasso
Marta Ragar
Werner Klemperer
Franz Leder
Noah Keen
Paul Delorio
John Alderman
Andreas
Anne Seymour
Mrs. Creighton
Joyce Van Patten
Marcia James
Warren Stevens
Eric Williams
Myron McCormick
Phillip 'Doc 'Walters
Sean McClory
Stamper
Charles Seel
The Electrician / Georgie Prince
Dabbs Greer
Hokey
Jay Adler
Baines
Mary Astor
Esther Brack
Scott Marlowe
Daniel Brack
Frank Overton
Martin Brack
Olive Sturgess
Felice O'Neill
Ford Rainey
Paul O'Neill
Nick Adams
Weiler ('Kid')
James Coburn
Gresch
Alan Napier
Father Dunne, the Abbot
Brendan Dillon
Father Thomas
Ed Nelson
Chuck Palmer / Gil Stoneham
Dana Andrews
Judge Leland McIntyre
Philip Abbott
Lawrence Dresher
Lori March
Evelyn McIntyre
Carolyn Craig
Joanna Leigh
Tom Reese
Bucky Tate
David Janssen
Len Kobalsky
Robert Colbert
Phil Lowell
Ed Peck
Ernie
Don 'Red' Barry
Kyle Horgan
Celeste Holm
Loraine Whitman
Susan Oliver
Hope Anthony
Doris Singleton
Mavis Long
Phillip Pine
Harry Clark
Lee Philips
Joe Meade
William Phipps
John Lee
Nobu McCarthy
Helen Low
Tod Andrews
Dr. James Low
James Hong
Louis Quong
Teru Shimada
Ling Chow
Dan O'Herlihy
Stephen Jordan
Bethel Leslie
Cynthia Jordan
Frank Maxwell
Alex Wismer
Don Hanmer
Barney Cowl
Don Taylor
Chip Damion / Director / Teleplay
Ron Randell
Ron Randell
George Petrie
Jack Pennell
Joseph Hoover
Tommy Bigelow
Macdonald Carey
Frederick Haley
Kathleen Crowley
Pauline Spencer
Maxine Stuart
Dianne Cartwright
William Allyn
Joel Drake
Peter Helm
Ted Haley
Ellen Burstyn
Margo as Ellen McRae
Harry Carey, Jr.
Phil Cassidy
Earl Holliman
Jack Quentin
Edward Binns
Harl Stoner
Stanley Adams
Cholly Luke
Ilka Windish
Maria Richards
Stefan Schnabel
Anton Szorny
Milton Selzer
Wladyslaw Szorny
Oscar Beregi Jr.
The Conductor
Susan Kohner
Victoria Angelo
Ilka Chase
Mary Milburn Reed
Joe De Santis
Joe Angelo
Warren Parker
Arthur Harper
Buddy Ebsen
Pete O'Mara
Paul Carr
Johnny Kay
Judith Braun
Barbara O'Mara
Patricia Kane
Leona Higgins
Tom Allen
Second Reporter
Mary LaRoche
Martha
Sheila Bromley
Mrs. Welch
Myron Healey
Charlie Barron
James Bell
Old Ben
Kenneth MacDonald
Elmer
Frankie Darro
Sonny
Bart Patton
The Young Man
Dorothy Green
Mildred Cowl / Diana Micolas
Frank Albertson
Jimmy Purdy
Oliver McGowan
Julian Hartman
Vinton Hayworth
Joseph Cotten
Peter Lorre
Richard Bakalyan
Jane Wyman
Ricardo Montalban
Mary Tyler Moore
Arthur Franz
Olan Soule
John Hoyt
Robert Osterloh
Elizabeth Allen
Doris Dowling
Media.
Details.
Release DateSeptember 17, 1960
StatusEnded
Seasons2
Episodes69
Running Time1h
Content RatingTV-PG
Genres
Last updated:
This TV Show Is About.
san francisco
private investigator
detective agency
Scripted
Wiki.
Checkmate is an American detective television series created by Eric Ambler, starring Anthony George, Sebastian Cabot, and Doug McClure. The show aired on CBS Television from 1960 to 1962 for a total of 70 episodes. It was produced by Jack Benny's production company, "JaMco Productions" in co-operation with Revue Studios. Guest stars included Charles Laughton, Peter Lorre, Lee Marvin, Mickey Rooney and many other prominent performers.
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