Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1893-08-13
Day of Death
1973-03-16
Place of Birth
Lansing, Michigan, USA
Carl Benton Reid
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Carl Benton Reid (August 14, 1893 – March 16, 1973) was an American actor. He achieved fame on the Broadway stage in 1939 as Oscar Hubbard, one of Regina Giddens's (Tallulah Bankhead) greedy, devious brothers in the play The Little Foxes, and made his film debut reprising his role opposite Bette Davis in the 1941 film version. He also appeared in several Shakespeare plays on Broadway, and in the original production of Eugene O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh, as Harry Slade. His stern, cold demeanor quickly stereotyped him in villainous, and/or unpleasant characters, although he could play a sympathetic role, as he did occasionally in such films as the 1957 TV-movie version of The Pied Piper of Hamelin. Here he played the Mayor of Hamelout, who unsuccessfully requests help from the Mayor of Hamelin (Claude Rains), when Hamelout is the victim of a flood. The flood leads to the famous plague of rats which invade Hamelin, and set the main plot in motion. He played the American Admiral, who is leading the peace talks between the Americans and Chinese during the Korean War in MGM's Pork Chop Hill. Reid made four guest appearances on Perry Mason during the show's nine-year run between 1957-66. His last two roles came in 1966; as the judge in the film version of Madame X and as Claude Townsend in the TV series The F.B.I.
Filmography (52)
Madame X
1966
The Ugly American
1963
Pressure Point
1962
The Underwater City
1962
One Must Die
1961
The Gallant Hours
1960
The Bramble Bush
1960
Pork Chop Hill
1959
The Trap
1959
Tarzan's Fight for Life
1958
The Last of the Fast Guns
1958Nightmare at Ground Zero
1958
The Pied Piper of Hamelin
1957
Time Limit
1957
