Booth Colman
{{Short description|American actor (1923–2014)}}
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{{Infobox person
| name = Booth Colman
| image = Booth Colman in Man With a Camera (The Last Portrait).jpg
| caption = Colman in Man with a Camera (1959)
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1923|3|8|mf=yes}}
| birth_place = Portland, Oregon, U.S.
| death_date = {{Death date and age|2014|12|15|1923|3|8|mf=yes}}
| death_place = Los Angeles, California, U.S.
| alma_mater = University of Washington
University of Michigan
| occupation = Actor
| years_active = 1952–2008
| website ={{URL|boothcolman.com}}
}}
Booth Colman (March 8, 1923 – December 15, 2014) was an American film, television and stage actor. In his later years he played older authority figures, such as doctors and lawyers. Colman appeared in films since 1952, when he debuted (uncredited) in The Big Sky directed by Howard Hawks.
Life and career
Colman was born to a Jewish parents Sol and Sona Cohn in Portland, Oregon.https://obits.oregonlive.com/us/obituaries/oregon/name/booth-colman-obituary?id=22561555https://www.jewishportland.org/obituaries/howard-martin-cohn As a child actor in local productions, he became active in local radio. He studied Oriental language at the University of Washington and University of Michigan. During World War II, he enlisted in the United States Army on May 12, 1943, and attended language training at the University of Michigan from 1943 to 1944.University of Michigan Official Publication, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, volume 47, number 40, October 2, 1945, "Part XXII Register of Students 1943-1944", page 73. Note, listed as "Cohn, Robert Sanford". After language training, he worked in New York City and was discharged from the army in 1944 at Fort Dix, New Jersey.[http://potatv.kassidyrae.com/booth_colman.pdf High Council - An Interview with Booth Colman], by Jeff Krueger - 'Simian Scrolls' #12"Index Record for Cohn, Robert S", military service number 39331977, Fold3 by Ancestry.com website. While in New York, he began a long career in Broadway theater, first appearing in a production of Irwin Shaw's war drama The Assassin. He was soon invited to join Maurice Evans' acting company, where he continued to act on stage, and later in films.{{cite web|url=http://www.boothcolman.com|title=The Official Booth Colman Website|website=www.boothcolman.com}} His other Broadway credits include Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep (1950), Tonight at 8:30 (1948), and Hamlet (1945).{{cite web|title=Booth Colman|url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/booth-colman-84288|website=Internet Broadway Database|publisher=The Broadway League |accessdate=November 2, 2018|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20181102015720/https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/booth-colman-84288|archivedate=November 2, 2018}}
He appeared dozens of times on prime-time television dramas and comedies. In 1964, he appeared in two full episodes of Perry Mason, one as a doctor in police investigations and the other as a prosecuting attorney. Other televisions appearances include My Three Sons (1962), Frasier, Gilligan's Island, McCloud and The Monkees. Films include Them! (1954), The Silver Chalice (1954), Moonfleet (1955), My Gun Is Quick (1957), Wild on the Beach (1965), Maryjane (1968), The Lawyer (1970), Scandalous John (1971), Time Travelers (1976), Norma Rae (1979) and Intolerable Cruelty (2003). In 1983, he portrayed the kindly scientist, Professor Hector Jerrold, in the ABC daytime melodrama General Hospital.{{cite news |last=Dagan |first=Carmel |date=December 21, 2014 |title=Actor Booth Colman Dies at 91 |url=https://variety.com/2014/film/people-news/actor-booth-colman-dies-at-91-1201384795/ |work=Variety |access-date=December 21, 2014}}{{cite news |last=Bloom |first=David |date=December 21, 2014 |title=Actor Booth Colman Dies At 91 |url=https://deadline.com/2014/12/booth-colman-dead-1201332931/ |work=Deadline Hollywood |access-date=December 21, 2014}}
In 1974, Colman played the role of Dr. Zaius in the popular short-lived TV series, Planet of the Apes; the role made famous on the big screen by his former teacher, Maurice Evans. In the six episodes in which he appeared, he wore the original costume Evans used in Planet of the Apes and Beneath the Planet of the Apes.
Colman played Scrooge over 600 times on stage in A Christmas Carol at the Meadow Brook Theatre in the Detroit area.
Death
He died in his sleep in Los Angeles at the age of 91 on December 15, 2014.{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturenews/11307456/Booth-Colman-dies-aged-91.html|title=Booth Colman dies aged 91|first=Rupert|last=Hawksley|date=December 22, 2014|work=The Daily Telegraph|access-date=December 22, 2014}}
Filmography
=Film=
| class="wikitable sortable" |
| Year
! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable" | Notes |
|---|
| 1952
| Pascal | Uncredited |
| 1953
| Citizen of Rome | Uncredited |
| 1953
| Australian | Uncredited |
| 1954
| Juan Fernandez | Uncredited |
| 1954
| Them! | Reporter | Uncredited |
| 1954
| Psychiatrist | Uncredited |
| 1954
| Fernandez | Uncredited |
| 1954
| The Adventures of Hajji Baba | Akim | Uncredited |
| 1954
| Wallace | |
| 1954
| Hiram | |
| 1955
| Ghost of Buckingham Palace | Uncredited |
| 1955
| Barber | Uncredited |
| 1955
| Legionnaire | Uncredited |
| 1955
| Capt. Stanhope | |
| 1956
| Mories | |
| 1956
| Maxler | |
| 1957
| Det. Pat Chambers | |
| 1958
| Lt. Stefko | |
| 1958
| George - TV Interviewer | Uncredited |
| 1958
| Sam Pelligram | Uncredited |
| 1958
| Alan - Party Guest | Uncredited |
| 1958
| The Power of the Resurrection | James | |
| 1959
| The Man Who Understood Women | Max | Uncredited |
| 1960
| Dr. Peterford | Uncredited |
| 1960
| | |
| 1961
| Customs Officer | |
| 1961
| Hotel Clerk | Uncredited |
| 1964
| United Nations Delegate | Uncredited |
| 1964
| TV Producer | Uncredited |
| 1964
| Technician with Seagull feather | Uncredited |
| 1964
| TV Interviewer | Uncredited |
| 1964
| Raiders from Beneath the Sea | Purdy | |
| 1965
| Angelo Guglietta | |
| 1965
| Harlow | Minister | Uncredited |
| 1965
| Ohio Gazette Editor | Uncredited |
| 1965
| Dean Parker | |
| 1968
| Maryjane | Maynard Parlow | |
| 1970
| Judge Crawford | |
| 1970
| Citizens Committee Man | Uncredited |
| 1971
| Governor Murray | |
| 1973
| Time to Run | Officer Harvey | |
| 1974
| I Love You... Good-bye | Professor Halton | |
| 1979
| Dr. Watson | |
| 2000
| Return to the Secret Garden | Old Man | |
| 2001
| Judge #2 | |
| 2003
| Gutman Trial Judge | |
=Television=
| class="wikitable sortable" |
| Year
! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable" | Notes |
|---|
| 1950
| | Episode: "The String of Beads" |
| 1952–1954
| Napoleon | 2 episodes |
| 1953
| Reese | Episode: "Seven Sacred Rubies" |
| 1953
| | Episode: "The Doctor's Downfall" |
| 1953
| | Episode: "Equal Justice" |
| 1953–1955
| | 4 episodes |
| 1955
| Episode: "The Life of Emile Zola" |
| 1955
| Climax! | | Episode: "Flight 951" |
| 1955
| Dr. McLeod | Episode: "Dead Storage" |
| 1956
| | Episode: "Marseilles" |
| 1956
| Jacques / Brissac / Lantanac | 3 episodes |
| 1956
| | Episode: "Savrola" |
| 1956
| | Episode: "Fortunatus" |
| 1956–1958
| Arthur Spruance / Wilkins | 2 episodes |
| 1957
| The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show | Art Roberts | Episode: "The Texan Italian" |
| 1957
| Grady | Episode: "The Missing Colonel" |
| 1958
| Dragnet | | Episode: "The Big Grifter" |
| 1958
| Tompkins / Charlie | 2 episodes |
| 1958
| The Silent Service | Chief Torpedoman Swerdling | Episode: "The Silversides Story" |
| 1958
| Rescue 8 | Will Dorset / Dorton - Director | Episode: "Calamity Coach" |
| 1958
| The Veil | Edmond Valier | Episode: "The Crystal Ball" |
| 1958–1962
| Dr. Frank Shelton / Defense Attorney / Bob Stevenson | 3 episodes |
| 1959
| Idrees Lateef | Episode: "The Last Portrait" |
| 1959
| Henry Duval | Episode: "The Louisiana Dude" |
| 1959
| Branko | Episode: "The Meeting" |
| 1959
| Ralph Keel | Episode: "The Fugitive" |
| 1959
| Zorro | Pineda | Episode: "An Affair of Honor" |
| 1961
| Doctor | Episode: "Degrees of Guilt" |
| 1961
| Jeremiah | Episode: "The High Country" |
| 1961–1962
| Thriller | Lieutenant Bailey / Hotel Desk Clerk | 2 episodes |
| 1962
| Dr. Finney / Chitral | 2 episodes |
| 1962
| Route 66 | Dr. Snyder | Episode: "Even Stones Have Eyes" |
| 1962
| Robbins | Episode: "Carla" |
| 1962
| | Episode: "Nurse Dickens" |
| 1962
| Mort Tyler | Episode: "Marshal of Sweetwater" |
| 1962
| Cheyenne | Colonel Travers | Episode: "Johnny Brassbuttons" |
| 1962–1963
| Nicholas Continue / Mike Pavanos / Victor Bartok | 3 episodes |
| 1962–1966
| Bonanza | Parson Parley / Flint Durfee / Henry P. Quince | 4 episodes |
| 1962–1972
| Dr. Fredericks / Mr. Kranzman / Kramer / Dr. Zoltan / Enoch Lieb | 5 episodes |
| 1963
| Warden | Episode: "Tissue of Hate" |
| 1963
| German Captain | Episode: "Ol' Buddy" |
| 1963
| GE True | Funeral Director | Episode: "The Black-Robed Ghost" |
| 1963
| Walter Dorn / Judge Taylor | 2 episodes |
| 1963
| | Episode: "The Twisted Rope" |
| 1963
| Boykin | Episode: "Garve" |
| 1963–1972
| Gunsmoke | Rand / Gant | 2 episodes |
| 1964
| Doctor Howard Warren | Episode: "ZZZZZ" |
| 1964
| Prosecutor / Doctor Younger | 2 episodes |
| 1964
| Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea | Chairman | 2 episodes |
| 1964
| Hoagland | Episode: "The Day They Gave Diamonds Away" |
| 1964
| Dr. Norman Dryfus | Episode: "Courage at 3:00 A.M." |
| 1965
| Aaron Burr / Emerson | 2 episodes |
| 1965
| Judge | Episode: "Question: Did He Who Made the Lamb Make Thee?" |
| 1965
| Les Donaldson | Episode: "Trial by Fire" |
| 1965
| Professor John Corwell | Episode: "Smile, You're on Mars Camera" |
| 1965
| Ambassador Xavier Perkins | Episode: "The Night of the Dancing Death" |
| 1965–1968
| Doc / Prosecutor Colman | 2 episodes |
| 1965–1969
| Gov. Patrick Henry / Whitmore / High Pvt. A. Slimpsey | 4 episodes |
| 1965–1966
| Judge / MacDougall | 2 episodes |
| 1966
| Captain Guenther | Episode: "The Safecracker Suite" |
| 1966
| The Chief | Episode: "The Spy Who Came in from the Cool" |
| 1966–1967
| General Pichegru / Dean Geller | 2 episodes |
| 1966–1967
| Albert Vogel / Lane Morris / Martin Davis | 3 episodes |
| 1967
| Man #3 | Episode: "The Golden Web" |
| 1967
| Barrows | Episode: "Little Lady X" |
| 1967
| Ernst Gerloch | Episode: "Banker's Hours" |
| 1967
| Judge | Episode: "Death from a Flower Girl" |
| 1967–1970
| Stravos / Dr. Huss | 2 episodes |
| 1967–1971
| Mannix | Leo Kolligian / Max Bonnett | 3 episodes |
| 1968
| Coroner Braemer | Episode: "The Possessed" |
| 1968
| Tarzan | Commissioner Lacing | Episode: "Rendezvous for Revenge" |
| 1968
| Benjamin Seaton | Episode: "What Flowers Daisies Are" |
| 1968–1969
| Volmer / Dr. Whitman | 2 episodes |
| 1968–1970
| Priest / Bishop Parnell | 2 episodes |
| 1969
| Mr. Huntsman | Episode: "The Foal" |
| 1969
| Adam-12 | Judge Robert Ricks | Episode: "Log 123: Courtroom" |
| 1970
| Dr. Walter Persky | Episode: "The Deceived" |
| 1970
| Mr. Compton / Jeff Turner | 2 episodes |
| 1970
| Mr. Finletter | Episode: "The Inheritance" |
| 1970
| Dr. Grant Ames | Episode: "Who Are the Keepers, Who Are the Inmates?" |
| 1970
| Dr. Germain | Episode: "The Color of Fury" |
| 1971
| Arnie | Minister | Episode: "Stand Up for Julius" |
| 1971
| Telegraph Operator / Carlton | 2 episodes |
| 1971
| Gideon | Hezekiah | Television film |
| 1971
| The D.A. | Dr. Parkins | Episode: "The People vs. Drake" |
| 1971–1972
| Ex Con | 2 episodes |
| 1971–1977
| McCloud | Coroner / Hines | 3 episodes |
| 1972
| Adventures of Nick Carter | Parsons | Television film |
| 1972
| Cannon | Dante Linquist | Episode: "That Was No Lady" |
| 1972–1976
| The Streets of San Francisco | Ira Foster / Jensen, Records Clerk | 2 episodes |
| 1973
| Victor Sterne | Episode: "The Murdering Class" |
| 1973
| Kung Fu | Sentinel | Episode: "The Squawman" |
| 1973
| Lewin | Episode: "When the Girls Came Out to Play" |
| 1974
| Doctor | Television film |
| 1974
| Fools, Females and Fun | Wally | Television film |
| 1974
| Zaius | 6 episodes |
| 1974
| Mayor | Episode: "The Outsider" |
| 1974–1976
| Pearl / Pathologist / Medical Examiner | 3 episodes |
| 1975
| Lincoln | Episode: "Sad Figure, Laughing" |
| 1975
| Jerry Trevin | Episode: "A Touch of Bribery" |
| 1975
| Returning Home | Vern Miller | Television film |
| 1975
| Coroner | Episode: "Two to Make Deadly" |
| 1975
| Dr. Mattwick | Episode: "The Day Cable Was Hanged" |
| 1975–1976
| Switch | Phil Hardice / Seegar | 2 episodes |
| 1976
| Harry O | Sturgis | Episode: "Mister Five and Dime" |
| 1976
| Dr. Amos Cummings | Television film |
| 1976
| | Episode: "The Bloodshot Eye" |
| 1976
| The Return of the World's Greatest Detective | Psychiatrist | Television film |
| 1976
| Francis Gary Powers: The True Story of the U-2 Spy Incident | | Television film |
| 1976
| Mr. Austin | Episode: "The Thornhill Affair" |
| 1977
| Yesterday's Child | Doctor | Television film |
| 1977
| Col. Richardson | Episode: "The Last Mission Over Sengai" |
| 1977
| Judge Schnider | 2 episodes |
| 1977
| In the Glitter Palace | Kubishan | Television film |
| 1977
| Mr. Cameron | Episode: "All I've Tried to Be" |
| 1977–1979
| Mr. Fenton / Dr. Edwards | 2 episodes |
| 1977–1981
| Dr. Prentiss / Mr. McClintock / Judge / Mr. Curtis | 4 episodes |
| 1978
| Mr. Klemin | Episode: "The Young and the Fair" |
| 1978
| Arthur Hammond | Episode: "Sighting 4019: The Believe It or Not Incident" |
| 1979
| Pawn Brooker | Episode: "Wanna Bet?" |
| 1979
| Dr. Caldwell | Episode: "The Parting" |
| 1979
| Kingsley | Episode: "Hillary" |
| 1979
| | Television film |
| 1979
| The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo | The Professor | Episode: "The Day That Shark Ate Lobo" |
| 1979
| Marciano | Dr. Stevens | Television film |
| 1980
| Rogers | Episode: "Space Croppers" |
| 1986
| Dr. Felix Burke | 5 episodes |
| 1987
| Destination America | | Television film |
| 1988
| Bernard | Television film |
| 1991–1992
| Judge Herbert Hoffer | 3 episodes |
| 1995
| Father Fatima | Episode: "Rise from the Dead" |
| 1997
| Penno | Episode: "Nemesis" |
| 1999
| Nicolai Vyshenko | Episode: "American Gulag" |
| 2003
| Frasier | Mr. Slobodkin | Episode: "Daphne Does Dinner" |
| 2005
| The Ice Cream Man | Episode: "Desperate Houseguy" |
| 2006
| Scientist | Episode: "Monkeys in Space" |
| 2008
| The Suite Life of Zack & Cody | Scooter | Episode: "Foiled Again" |
References
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External links
{{Commons category}}
- {{Official website|http://www.boothcolman.com}}
- {{IMDb name|0172884}}
- {{IBDB name|84288}}
- [http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/latimes/obituary.aspx?pid=173533949 Obituary - Los Angeles Times]
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