Biography
Fred Aldrich (December 23, 1904 β January 25, 1979) was an American character actor of both film and television. Born in New York. He would break into the film industry in 1939, appearing in two films that year in small roles: My Son Is Guilty, and the notable, Confessions of a Nazi Spy, which starred Edward G. Robinson and George Sanders. In the course of his thirty-year career he would appear in over 170 films, in small and bit roles. With the advent of television, Aldrich would work in that medium as well, making his first small screen appearance on I Love Lucy, on which he would appear multiple times over the life of the series.
Over the course of his film career he would appear in such notable films as: Kitty Foyle (1940), starring Ginger Rogers and Dennis Morgan; 1945's The Picture of Dorian Gray, starring George Sanders; Tycoon (1947), starring John Wayne and Laraine Day; A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, with Bing Crosby and Rhonda Fleming; Young Man with a Horn, starring Kirk Douglas, Lauren Bacall, and Doris Day; the Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn vehicle, Pat and Mike (1952); again with Paul Newman in 1956's Somebody Up There Likes Me; The Last Angry Man, starring Paul Muni; with Rock Hudson and Doris Day in Lover Come Back (1961); the spy spoof, Our Man Flint (1966), starring James Coburn; and 1967's A Big Hand for the Little Lady, starring Henry Fonda, Joanne Woodward, and Jason Robards.
Aldrich made an appearance to the 1956 film The Conqueror, which starred John Wayne and Susan Hayward. His television credits include appearances on such shows as The Rifleman, Have Gun - Will Travel, Bat Masterson, The Untouchables, Gunsmoke, Rawhide, and Perry Mason. Aldrich died on January 25, 1979, in Los Angeles, California, at the age of 74.
Filmography
all 93
Movies 92
TV Shows 1
The Shakiest Gun in the West (1968)
Who's Minding the Mint? (1967)
Our Man Flint (1966)
What a Way to Go! (1964)
Calhoun (1964)
The Best Man (1964)
Lover Come Back (1961)
King of the Roaring 20's β The Story of Arnold Rothstein (1961)
One Foot in Hell (1960)
Cry Tough (1959)
The Gunfight at Dodge City (1959)
Al Capone (1959)
The Last Hurrah (1958)
Bell, Book and Candle (1958)
A Town Has Turned to Dust (1958)
Raintree County (1957)
The Tattered Dress (1957)
Around the World in Eighty Days (1956)
Davy Crockett and the River Pirates (1956)
Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956)
The First Texan (1956)
A Life at Stake (1955)
The Yellow Mountain (1954)
River of No Return (1954)
Calamity Jane (1953)
Scared Stiff (1953)
Man in the Dark (1953)
The Unknown Man (1951)
I Love Lucy (1951)
Journey Into Light (1951)
M (1951)
Storm Warning (1951)
Gambling House (1950)
Short Grass (1950)
Pretty Baby (1950)
Bunco Squad (1950)
Sunset Boulevard (1950)
Where the Sidewalk Ends (1950)
711 Ocean Drive (1950)
Mrs. Mike (1949)
Pinky (1949)
House of Strangers (1949)
The Great Sinner (1949)
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1949)
A Woman's Secret (1949)
Wake of the Red Witch (1948)
Joe Palooka in Winner Take All (1948)
Big Town Scandal (1948)
Here Comes Trouble (1948)
Big Town After Dark (1947)
The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap (1947)
A Likely Story (1947)
Undercover Maisie (1947)
Johnny O'Clock (1947)
Dick Tracy vs. Cueball (1946)
The Strange Woman (1946)
Big Town (1946)
Larceny in Her Heart (1946)
Without Reservations (1946)
Badman's Territory (1946)
Deadline at Dawn (1946)
The Dolly Sisters (1945)
Riders of the Dawn (1945)
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood (1945)
Lady on a Train (1945)
Wanderer of the Wasteland (1945)
The Phantom of 42nd Street (1945)
I'll Be Seeing You (1944)
Belle of the Yukon (1944)
When Strangers Marry (1944)
Address Unknown (1944)
Mr. Skeffington (1944)
An American Romance (1944)
It Happened Tomorrow (1944)
Lady in the Death House (1944)
Mystery Broadcast (1943)
Oklahoma Outlaws (1943)
Captive Wild Woman (1943)
Mission to Moscow (1943)
Crash Dive (1943)
Once Upon a Honeymoon (1942)
Deep in the Heart of Texas (1942)
The Omaha Trail (1942)
It Happened in Flatbush (1942)
The Fleet's In (1942)
A Date with the Falcon (1942)
Over My Dead Body (1942)
Texas (1941)
Invisible Ghost (1941)
Kitty Foyle (1940)
Love Thy Neighbor (1940)
The Great Dictator (1940)
Confessions of a Nazi Spy (1939)
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GenderMale
Birthday1904-12-23
Deathday1979-01-25 (74 years old)
Birth PlaceNew York City, United States of America
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
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