Ben Casey (1961)
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Ben Casey is an American medical drama series which ran on ABC from 1961 to 1966. The show was known for its opening titles, which consisted of a hand drawing the symbols "♂, ♀, ✳, †, ∞" on a chalkboard, as cast member Sam Jaffe intoned, "Man, woman, birth, death, infinity." Neurosurgeon Joseph Ransohoff was a medical consultant for the show and may have influenced the personality of the title character.
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Cast & Crew.
Vince Edwards
Dr. Ben Casey
Sam Jaffe
Dr. David Zorba
Harry Landers
Dr. Ted Hoffman / Ted Hoffman
Jeanne Bates
Nurse Wills / Miss Wills / Nurse Willis
James E. Moser
Writer
Bettye Ackerman
Dr. Maggie Graham / Maggie Graham
Jack Laird
Producer / Writer
Norman Katkov
Writer
Nick Dennis
Nick Kanavaras / Nick
Franchot Tone
Dr. Daniel Niles Freeland / Robert Ashton
Don Spruance
Dr. Robert Ward
John Zaremba
Dr. Harold Jensen / Dr. Jensen
Oscar Rodriguez
Costume Design
Irving Lerner
Director
Marc Daniels
Director
John Meredyth Lucas
Director / Writer
Sydney Pollack
Director
Alex March
Director
Mark Rydell
Director
Abner Biberman
Director
Fielder Cook
Director
Allen Reisner
Director
Richard C. Sarafian
Director
Charles R. Rondeau
Director
Harvey Hart
Director
Arthur Hiller
Director
Gerald Mayer
Director
Robert Butler
Director
Stuart Rosenberg
Director
Joseph Pevney
Director
Harmon Jones
Director
Irvin Kershner
Director
Leon Benson
Director
David Lowell Rich
Director
John Erman
Director
Gilbert Ralston
Writer
Oliver Crawford
Writer
Howard Head
Writer
Don Brinkley
Writer
Anthony Lawrence
Writer
William P. McGivern
Writer
Dean Riesner
Writer
William Bast
Writer
Fred Freiberger
Writer
Howard Browne
Writer
Dick Nelson
Writer
Meyer Dolinsky
Writer
Gloria Swanson
Victoria Hoffman
Dana Andrews
Dr. Ernest Farrow
Bruce Dern
Billy Harris
Peggy McCay
June Keller
Ellen Burstyn
Dr. Leslie Fraser / Connie
George Hamilton
Dr. Geoffrey Collicott
Eartha Kitt
Danielle Taylor
Michael Constantine
Engineer Andersen
Dyan Cannon
Donna Whitney
Conrad Nagel
Mr. Schutz
Laurette Luez
Sophie Costeau
Elisa Ingram
Dora Hanson
Sherwood Price
Oren Carter / Owen Carter
Miranda Jones
Betty
Elizabeth Allen
Barbara Barrie
Dane Clark
Juliet Mills
Ruth Foster
Greg Morris
Stephen McNally
Richard Basehart
Marcel Dalio
Paul Mantee
Juanita Moore
Van Johnson
Susan Oliver
Carol Eve Rossen
Rachel Ames
Viveca Lindfors
Angela Greene
Rupert Crosse
Anne Francis
Virginia Christine
Burt Brinckerhoff
Bert Freed
William Demarest
Frankie Ford
Oskar Homolka
Darren McGavin
Frank De Kova
Julie Sommars
Michael Ansara
Richard Dreyfuss
Brian Bedford
Ernie Anderson
Aki Aleong
Sally Kellerman
Joseph Mell
Rosemary Murphy
Chris Robinson
Carole Mathews
Susan Bay Nimoy
Isabel Cooley
Lillian Bronson
Mary Wickes
Paul Hartman
Betty Garde
Jon Cedar
Michael Donovan
Wilfrid Hyde-White
Virginia Gregg
Ned Glass
Jeanette Nolan
Jeanne Baird
Arthur Malet
Paul Richards
Benny Goldberg
Allen Jenkins
Marlo Thomas
Norman Alden
Susan Gordon
Frank Aletter
Booth Colman
Henry Beckman
Geraldine Brooks
Curt Conway
Dennis Crosby
James Best
Glenda Farrell
Luana Anders
Lloyd Gough
Sidney Blackmer
Virginia Eiler
Judi Meredith
Karl Swenson
Indus Arthur
Malachi Throne
Nydia Westman
Nick Stewart
James Hong
Scott Marlowe
Simon Oakland
Eddie Albert
Larry D. Mann
Jessica Walter
Michael Forest
Arthur Batanides
James Whitmore
James Griffith
L.Q. Jones
Kathleen Maguire
Tol Avery
Jesse White
Richard Bakalyan
Eileen Heckart
Leonard P. Geer
Patty Duke
Jack Sahakian
Jack Weston
BarBara Luna
Charles Lampkin
Norman Burton
Émile Genest
Mike Kellin
Butch Patrick
Jerry Paris
Jill Ireland
Nicholas Colasanto
Irene Dailey
Michael Conrad
Peter Baldwin
Diana Hyland
Noreen Corcoran
Phil Harris
Ulla Jacobsson
Maree Cheatham
Barbara Bain
Margaret Leighton
Richard Reeves
Bernie Hamilton
Stafford Repp
Rod Steiger
Bradford Dillman
Paul Lambert
Joe Turkel
J. Pat O'Malley
Ricardo Montalban
Peter Mark Richman
Leora Dana
Kathleen Freeman
Daryl Duke
Mary Astor
Clint Howard
Marge Redmond
Ralph Manza
Beatrice Straight
Jacqueline Scott
Gary Merrill
Bernard Kates
Gerald S. O'Loughlin
Barney Phillips
Jerry Lewis
Director
Katharine Ross
Whit Bissell
James T. Callahan
Cesar Romero
Gene Roth
George N. Neise
Philip Bourneuf
Tuesday Weld
Yvonne Craig
Maureen O'Sullivan
Madeleine Sherwood
Robert Ellenstein
Nan Martin
Betty Field
Alan Caillou
Len Lesser
Walter Koenig
Donald Woods
Stuart Margolin
Collin Wilcox Paxton
Eddie Firestone
Herbert Rudley
Richard Kiley
Brian Davies
Stanley Adams
Benson Fong
Joyce Van Patten
James Franciscus
Paul Comi
Kevin Brodie
Antoinette Bower
Betsy Jones-Moreland
Sammy Davis Jr.
Harry Townes
William Windom
Michael Parks
Bing Russell
Kathie Browne
William Stevens
Phillip Crosby
William Long Jr.
Red Buttons
Kim Stanley
Edward Andrews
Bethel Leslie
Steven Hill
James Dunn
Carl Benton Reid
Abraham Sofaer
Hari Rhodes
Leo Penn
Director
Maidie Norman
Peter Falk
Miriam Colon
Fay Spain
Shelley Winters
Jack Carter
Melvyn Douglas
Ludwig Donath
JoaquÃn MartÃnez
Susan Flannery
Jack Elam
Gabriel Dell
Julie Parrish
Murray MacLeod
Nico Minardos
Burgess Meredith
Ann Robinson
Norma Crane
Dick Wessel
Kathryn Grant
Diana Douglas
Suzanne Pleshette
Lee Tracy
Russell Johnson
Katherine Victor
Phil Brown
Denise Alexander
David Ladd
Bill Mumy
Percy Rodriguez
Richard Jordan
Argentina Brunetti
Colleen Dewhurst
Don Francks
Walter Reed
Michael Pataki
William Phipps
Cecil Kellaway
Henry Corden
Lane Bradford
Richard Bull
Beau Bridges
Irene Tedrow
Joseph V. Perry
Bryan O'Byrne
Kim Darby
George C. Scott
Chester Morris
George Dunn
Denny Miller
Elsa Lanchester
James Farentino
Bill Bixby
Tyler McVey
Philip Abbott
Howard Da Silva
Elisabeth Fraser
Barry Sullivan
Davy Jones
S. John Launer
Norman Fell
Joan Hackett
John Qualen
Greg Mullavey
Tige Andrews
Robert Walker Jr.
Jack Warden
Baruch Lumet
Patricia Huston
Jeanne Cooper
Lenore Kingston
Jamie Farr
Carlos Romero
Raymond Guth
Jack Hogan
Keith Thibodeaux
Nehemiah Persoff
John Pickard
Luther Adler
Carroll O'Connor
Dianne Foster
Michael Higgins
Robert Ellis Miller
Director
Strother Martin
Garry Walberg
Charles Bateman
James Doohan
Joe E. Tata
Mabel Albertson
Everett Sloane
Aneta Corsaut
Jim Hayward
Lillian Randolph
Robert H. Harris
Kevin McCarthy
Crahan Denton
Doreen Lang
Tom Bosley
David Lewis
Dana Wynter
Dabney Coleman
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Ben Casey is an American medical drama series that aired on ABC from 1961 to 1966. The show was known for its opening titles, which consisted of a hand drawing the symbols "♂, ♀, ✳, †, ∞" on a chalkboard, as cast member Sam Jaffe uttered, "Man, woman, birth, death, infinity." Neurosurgeon Joseph Ransohoff served as a medical consultant for the show.
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