Ben Casey (1961)
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
Ben Casey / Director

Sam Jaffe
David Zorba

Jim McMullan

Franchot Tone
Dr. Daniel Niles Freeland

Marlyn Mason

Stella Stevens

Jack Laird
Producer / Writer

Norman Katkov
Writer

Don Spruance
Dr. Robert Ward

James E. Moser
Writer

Oscar Rodriguez
Costume Design

Irving Lerner
Director

Alex March
Director

Sydney Pollack
Director

Marc Daniels
Director

Mark Rydell
Director

John Meredyth Lucas
Director / Writer

Abner Biberman
Director

Fielder Cook
Director

Allen Reisner
Director

Richard C. Sarafian
Director

Gerald Mayer
Director

Robert Butler
Director

Harvey Hart
Director

Charles R. Rondeau
Director

Arthur Hiller
Director

Harmon Jones
Director

Stuart Rosenberg
Director

Joseph Pevney
Director

Irvin Kershner
Director

Leon Benson
Director

John Erman
Director

David Lowell Rich
Director

Gilbert Ralston
Writer

Oliver Crawford
Writer

Howard Head
Writer

Anthony Lawrence
Writer

Don Brinkley
Writer

William P. McGivern
Writer

Dean Riesner
Writer

Howard Browne
Writer

Meyer Dolinsky
Writer

Frances Young
Adaptation

William Bast
Writer

Dick Nelson
Writer

Fred Freiberger
Writer

Gloria Swanson
Victoria Hoffman

Dana Andrews
Dr. Ernest Farrow

Bruce Dern
Billy Harris

Peggy McCay
June Keller

Melvyn Douglas
Burton Strang

Ellen Burstyn
Dr. Leslie Fraser / Connie

Robert Walker Jr.
David Duncan

George Hamilton
Dr. Geoffrey Collicott

Eartha Kitt
Danielle Taylor

Michael Constantine
Engineer Andersen

Dyan Cannon
Donna Whitney

Bettye Ackerman
Dr. Maggie Graham

Harry Landers
Dr. Ted Hoffman / Director

Jeanne Bates
Miss Wills

Conrad Nagel
Mr. Schutz

Laurette Luez
Sophie Costeau

Nick Dennis
Nick Kanavaras

Elisa Ingram
Dora Hanson

Sherwood Price
Oren Carter / Owen Carter

Miranda Jones
Betty

Elizabeth Ashley
Jane Brewster

Roy Barcroft
Rudick

Leora Dana
Mrs. Duncan

Crahan Denton
Dr. Brewster

Nancy Rennick
Catherine Huett

James Hong

Tony Bill

Philip Bourneuf

Barney Phillips

Jerry Paris

Jill Ireland

Nicholas Colasanto

Irene Dailey

Felicia Farr

Michael Forest

Arthur Batanides

James Whitmore

James Griffith

Jack Weston

Benny Goldberg

Stafford Repp

Rod Steiger

Bradford Dillman

James Gregory

Rosemary Murphy

Don Keefer

Julie Parrish

Hans Conried

Glenda Farrell

Vincent Gardenia

Antoinette Bower

Peter Haskell

Ed Gilbert

Mary Wickes

Nydia Westman

Nick Stewart

L.Q. Jones

Richard Bakalyan

Eileen Heckart

Leonard P. Geer

Patty Duke

George Mitchell

Yoko Tani

Millie Perkins

Marge Redmond

Ralph Manza

Richard Jordan

Davy Jones

Brian Bedford

Percy Rodriguez

Argentina Brunetti

Ernie Anderson

Bill Bixby

Neva Patterson

Geraldine Brooks

Greg Mullavey

Curt Conway

Dennis Crosby

James Best

Peter Falk

Richard Reeves

Bernie Hamilton

Ricardo Montalban

Peter Mark Richman

Rachel Ames

Kathleen Freeman

Miriam Colon

Daryl Duke

Carol Eve Rossen

Mary Astor

Marcel Dalio

Mariette Hartley

Beatrice Straight

Jacqueline Scott

Gary Merrill

Bernard Kates

Joanne Linville

Joby Baker

Aneta Corsaut

Norman Burton

Lindsay Crosby

Karl Swenson

Booth Colman

Angela Greene

Maree Cheatham

Barbara Bain

Wilfrid Hyde-White

Victor French

James Doohan

Joe E. Tata

Peter Hobbs

Scott Marlowe

Simon Oakland

Eddie Albert

Paul Hartman

Charles Lampkin

Margaret Leighton

Larry Hovis

Bob Hastings

Stephen McNally

Virginia Christine

Kim Stanley

Burt Brinckerhoff

Bert Freed

Susan Gordon

Frank Aletter

Henry Beckman

Carroll O'Connor

John Anderson

Michael Murphy

Marsha Hunt

Janice Rule

Walter Brooke

Peggy Rea

Patricia Neal

Elizabeth Allen

Gerald S. O'Loughlin

Noreen Corcoran

Phil Harris

Milton Selzer

Anjanette Comer

Ann Jillian

Ulla Jacobsson

Richard Basehart

Aldo Ray

Butch Patrick

Macdonald Carey

Al Waxman

Julie Sommars

Michael Ansara

Ann Harding

James Farentino

Richard Dreyfuss

Dan Tobin

Phillip Crosby

William Long Jr.

Red Buttons

Norman Alden

Jerry Lewis
Director

Katharine Ross

Whit Bissell

James T. Callahan

Cesar Romero

Gene Roth

George N. Neise

Maureen O'Sullivan

Madeleine Sherwood

Robert Ellenstein

Betty Field

Alan Caillou

Len Lesser

Walter Koenig

Donald Woods

Collin Wilcox Paxton

Eddie Firestone

Herbert Rudley

Richard Kiley

Diana Hyland

Ruth White

Anne Seymour

Morgan Brittany

James Caan

Kathy Garver

Kathleen Nolan

Jess Kirkpatrick

Byron Morrow

Robert Culp

John Pickard

Luther Adler

Michael Higgins

Robert Ellis Miller
Director

Strother Martin

Garry Walberg

Paul Comi

Kevin Brodie

Betsy Jones-Moreland

Tim McIntire

Meg Wyllie

Russell Collins

William Allyn

Ellen Corby

Denver Pyle

Leo Penn
Director

Maidie Norman

Jack Elam

Clint Howard

Nehemiah Persoff

Dick Clark

Juanita Moore

Paul Mantee

Ludwig Donath

Frankie Ford

Oskar Homolka

Darren McGavin

Frank De Kova

Joaquín Martínez

Susan Flannery

Greg Morris

Rupert Crosse

Anne Francis

Gabriel Dell

Murray MacLeod

Nico Minardos

Burgess Meredith

Ann Robinson

Norma Crane

Dick Wessel

Kathryn Grant

Diana Douglas

Brian Davies

Benson Fong

Joyce Van Patten

James Franciscus

Suzanne Pleshette

Walter Reed

Michael Pataki

William Phipps

Cecil Kellaway

Henry Corden

Lane Bradford

Richard Bull

Burt Mustin

Craig Huxley

Alfred Ryder

Bill Erwin

Malachi Throne

Francis Lederer

Chris Robinson

Carole Mathews

Michael Donovan

Tuesday Weld

Sheldon Allman

William Demarest

Robert Blake

Ted Bessell

Gina Gillespie

Joseph Mell

George Murdock

Bryan O'Byrne

John Qualen

Tyler McVey

Sidney Blackmer

Virginia Eiler

Judi Meredith

Indus Arthur

Virginia Gregg

Dean Jones

Frances Reid

Maurice Jara

Peter Baldwin

Patricia Huston

William Fawcett

Robert Karnes

Charles Bateman

Mabel Albertson

Everett Sloane

Jim Hayward

Lillian Randolph

Robert H. Harris

Kevin McCarthy

Doreen Lang

Tom Bosley

Jeanne Cooper

Lenore Kingston

Jamie Farr

Carlos Romero

Raymond Guth

Jack Hogan

Keith Thibodeaux

Maudie Prickett
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Ben Casey is an American medical drama television 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 said "Man, woman, birth, death, infinity." Neurosurgeon Joseph Ransohoff served as a medical consultant for the show.
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