The recent death of Orson Bean, as noted in The Grandstander last month, prompted me to seek out and watch an episode of "The Twilight Zone" in which Bean starred. The episode was called "Mr. Bevis." It was from Season One of The Twilight Zone, and it first aired in June 1960. As episodes of that series go, it was just okay, certainly not one of the classic episodes for which the series is most remembered.
What often strikes me when watching episodes of old television shows is the number of recognizable faces that you see. Sometimes, they are people who went on to become big stars, sometimes they are old and faded stars who are looking to cash a paycheck well after their glory years, but most often they are character actors, the recognizable faces of people that you have seen a million times on TV and in the movies, but whose names you probably don't even know. Such was the case in "Mr. Bevis." This episode featured five such character actors who, among them, totaled 1,336 acting credits, some of the going back into the 1930's, according to IMDB.
Here are the names to go with these so recognizable faces:
Charles Lane, 374 credits.
Henry Jones, 205 credits.
William Schallert, 386 credits
Horace McMahon, 140 credits.
Vito Scotti, 231 credits.
And of course, Bean, seen below with Jones in "Mr. Bevis", racked up 106 credits of his own.
Like I always say, Stars are Stars, but you can't make movies and TV shows without people like Lane, Jones, Schallert, McMahon, and Scotti.
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