Kermit Murdock

Nacimiento : 1908-03-20, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

Muerte : 1981-02-11

Historia

Kermit Murdock (20 March 1908 – 11 February 1981) was an American film, television and radio actor known for his avuncular and professorial character portrayals. His more prominent character roles in major motion pictures included Dean Pollard in Splendor in the Grass (1961), Henderson in In the Heat of The Night (1967), and Dr. Robertson in The Andromeda Strain (1970). He is also well known for his voice acting in many episodes of the 1950s science fiction radio series X Minus One. He was in The Mysterious Traveler episode "Survival of the Fittest" with Everett Sloane, and was featured in an episode of the series Adventure Ahead. He appeared in character roles in television drama of the 1960s and 1970s including episodes of Kung Fu, The Mod Squad, and The Defenders. He portrayed a prosecutor of witches in the Star Trek episode, "All Our Yesterdays".

Películas

The Godchild
The Godchild
Nathaniel Mony
Three Union POWs fleeing across the desert to escape both their Confederate pursuers and rampaging Apaches come across a dying woman and her infant child. They promise the woman that they will take care of the child and get it to safety, even though none of them knows anything whatsoever about children or babies.
La amenaza de Andrómeda
La amenaza de Andrómeda
Dr. Robertson
Después de que un satélite artificial se estrelle en una remota aldea de Nuevo Méjico, el equipo encargado de recuperarlo descubre que casi todos los habitantes del lugar han perecido víctimas de una horrible muerte, con la misteriosa excepción de un niño y un viejo. Los superviventes son trasladados a un laboratorio de avanzadísima tecnología situado a una profundidad de cinco pisos bajo tierra, donde los perplejos científicos tratan de determinar la naturaleza del mortífero microbio antes de que cause estragos en todo el mundo.
Vuelve a mi lado
Vuelve a mi lado
Hoyt III
Daisy Gamble es una mujer un tanto peculiar: es capaz de predecir cosas tan triviales como llamadas telefónicas o hacer resucitar flores marchitas. Pero tiene un vicio que desagrada a su novio Warren: es una fumadora empedernida. Para dejar de fumar, acude a la consulta de un médico que decide hipnotizarla. Como consecuencia de la hipnosis, Daisy adopta diversas personalidades que corresponden a diferentes épocas. El médico se sentirá fascinado por la mujer inglesa del siglo XIX que habla a través de ella.
Dial Hot Line
Dial Hot Line
Fourth Board Member
The head of a psychiatric telephone hotline inspires his associates to get out of the office and into the streets to help people with psychiatric problems.
The Lonely Profession
The Lonely Profession
Senator
Private investigator Leo Gordon is hired to trail Karen Mendaros, the mistress of a reclusive billionaire. When they meet, Gordon and Mendaros hit it off and check in at a motel. Gordon wakes up the next morning and discovers that Mendaros had been murdered during the night. Gordon opens his own investigation of Mendaros' past in an attempt to determine who killed Mendaros and why he's been set up as the fall guy.
The Whole World Is Watching
The Whole World Is Watching
2nd Judge
A student radical, accused of murdering a cop during a campus revolt, welcomes a court confrontation and then refuses to take the stand, despite the urging of the three high-priced lawyers he has hired to represent him in this second pilot of "The Lawyers," a rotating segment of "The Bold Ones" series.
En el calor de la noche
En el calor de la noche
Henderson
En una pequeña población de Mississippi, el policía Sam Wood descubre el cadáver de un industrial. Poco después, detiene en la estación a un hombre negro que, tras ser interrogado por el jefe de la policía local, Billl Gillespie, resulta ser un inspector de la policía de Filadelfia llamado Virgil Tibbs. Ambos policías deciden colaborar para investigar el asesinato.