Ned Glass
Ned Glass was born on Apr 01, 1906 in Poland. Ned Glass's big-screen debut came with True Confession directed by Wesley Ruggles in 1937, strarring Second Photographer (uncredited). Ned Glass is known for Street Music directed by Jenny Bowen, Elizabeth Daily stars as Sadie Deleward and Larry Breeding as Eddie. The upcoming new movie Ned Glass plays is Street Music which will be released on Oct 01, 1981.
Veteran Polish-born character actor Ned Glass grew up in New York. After working in vaudeville he started acting in small parts on Broadway from the early 1930s. He gained further experience in the capacity of theatrical production supervisor before entering motion pictures in 1937 as an MGM contract player. Until the mid-1950s he was seen primarily in tiny supporting roles as clerks, reporters, bank tellers and small-time managers. His career was briefly put on hold after being blacklisted during the McCarthy era, but, with help from friends like John Houseman and Moe Howard (of The Three Stooges fame) he managed to get enough film work to make ends meet.By 1953, Ned began to find a new lease of life in television where his roles were more varied and substantial. This afforded him the opportunity to fully develop his screen persona: that of the balding, weedy, perpetually nervy conman or weaselly stooge, often delivering barbed repartee or wisecracks in a heavy Brooklyn accent. Ned was at his best in comedy, put to good use in several episodes of Jackie Gleason's The Honeymooners (1955), and adapting well to anything else with a New York theme, from Kojak (1973) to Barney Miller (1975). He had many other good guest-starring roles on television, including several shifty characters in Les incorruptibles (1959), and as Freddie the Forger in Max la menace (1965) ('Do I Hear a Vaults?',1970). He was twice nominated for Emmy Awards, first for an episode of Julia (1968) (as Sol Cooper); the second time for Bridget Loves Bernie (1972) (Uncle Moe Plotnick).From the time he played Doc in West Side Story (1961), Ned also began to land some meatier roles on the big screen, including the character of Popcorn in Allô... brigade spéciale (1962), and as Doc Schindler, in one of the funniest 60's comedies, La grande combine (1966), directed by Billy Wilder. His best portrayal was that of the wily Leonard Gideon, sharpest of the villainous trio (the others being James Coburn and George Kennedy) on the trail of a quarter of a million dollar loot in gold, in the Hitchcockian thriller Charade (1963).Ned continued playing crusty reprobates in films and on television, his last being a small-time thief in an episode of Cagney et Lacey (1981). He died two years later in Encino, California, at the age of 78.
Birthday
Apr 01, 1906Place of Birth
Radom, Mazowieckie, Poland
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