Cast & creator
Ernest Truex
Best known for Climax!, Matinee Theater, The Twilight Zone
70
film credits
27
television credits
97
1913–1965 · acting roles
6.8
average across scored titles
Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (97)
Showing 97 of 97 credits
Climax!
Uncle William
1954
Matinee Theater
1955
The Twilight Zone
Pedott
1959The Twilight Zone
Charles Whitley
1959
Petticoat Junction
Oliver Fenton
1963Petticoat Junction
Tony Allison
1963
Studio One
Martin Bristol
1948
The Philco Television Playhouse
1948
Kraft Television Theatre
White Knight
1947
Father Knows Best
Grampa
1954
Dennis the Menace
1959
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Howard Rutherford
1955Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Wilkens
1955
The Millionaire
Andrew Sterling
1955
Suspense
George Thomas
1949
Hazel
Robert Dunlap
1961
The DuPont Show with June Allyson
Daniel
1959Lux Video Theatre
Barkley Cooper
1950Lux Video Theatre
Aloysius P. McKeever
1950
Pete and Gladys
1960
Inner Sanctum
1954
The Ann Sothern Show
Jason McCauley
1958Jamie
Grandpa McHummer
1953
The Tom Ewell Show
1960
Grindl
1963
His Girl Friday
Bensinger
1940
The Ford Theatre Hour
Dan Dorgan
1948Cameo Theatre
1950
All Mine to Give
Doctor Delbert
1957
Ambush
Mr. Gibbs
1939
This Is the Army
Soldier's Father (uncredited)
1943
Start Cheering
Blodgett
1938
It's a Wonderful World
Willie Heyward
1939
The Adventures of Marco Polo
Binguccio
1938
On an Island with You
(uncredited)
1948
Dance, Girl, Dance
Bailey #1
1940
The Girl from Manhattan
Homer Purdy
1948
Men in Her Diary
Vernon Williams
1945
Bachelor Mother
Investigator
1939
Island of Lost Men
Frobenius
1939
Star Spangled Rhythm
Murgatroyd
1942
The Warrior's Husband
Sapiens
1933
Lillian Russell
Charles K. Leonard
1940
Christmas in July
Mr. Baxter
1940
Whistling in the Dark
Wallace Porter
1933
Twilight for the Gods
Rev. Butterfield
1958
Twin Beds
Larky
1942
Our Town
Dr. Gibbs
1955
Kraft Television Theatre: Alice in Wonderland
White Knight
1954
Chip Off the Old Block
Henry McHugh
1944
The Affairs of Martha
Llewellyn Castle
1942
Fluffy
Claridge
1965
True to Life
Oscar Elkins
1943
If You Knew Elizabeth
Uncle John
1957
Life with Blondie
Theodor Glassby
1945
Night in Paradise
Scribe
1946
Don't Get Personal
Jules Kinsey
1942
You're Telling Me
Charles Handley
1942
Club Havana
Willy Kingston
1945
Rhythm of the Islands
Mr. Holton
1943
Her Primitive Man
Uncle Hubert
1944
We Go Fast
Harold Bruggins
1941
A Good Little Devil
Charles MacLance - a Good Little Devil
1914
The Leather Saint
Father Ritchie
1956
Private Buckaroo
Col. Elias Weatherford
1942
Slightly Honorable
P. Hemingway Collins
1939
Swing, Sister, Swing
Prof. L. Orlando Beebee
1938
Everybody Dance
Wilbur Spurgeon
1936
Fired Wife
Willie Wilson
1943
Pan-Americana
Uncle Rudy
1945
Calling All Husbands
Homer Trippe
1940
Caprice
Wally Henderson
1913
An American Citizen
Mercury
1914
Get That Venus
Tom Wilson
1933
Always Together
Timothy J. Bull
1947
Unexpected Uncle
Wilkins
1941
Little Orvie
Frank Stone
1940
These Glamour Girls
Alumnus
1939
The Under-Pup
Mr. Binns
1939
Adventure in Diamonds
Toutasche
1940
Sleepy Lagoon
Dudley Joyner
1943
Swing That Cheer
Professor Peabody
1938
Six Cylinder Love
Gilbert Sterling
1923
Tillie the Toiler
George Winkler
1941
Little Accident
Tabby Morgan
1939Gentlemen of the Bar
1934
Good-Bye, Bill
Teddy Swift
1918
The Gay Vagabond
A.J. Wilber
1941
Freshman Year
Professor Peabody
1938
Mama Runs Wild
Ernest Summers
1937
Oh, You Women!
Abraham Lincoln Jones
1919His Lucky Day
1934The Expectant Father
1934
Come on In
Ernest Short
1918The Bomb Boy
Jimmie - the Messenger Boy
1914Dog-gone Babies
1934Mr. Adam
Adam
1933