Ted De Corsia

Actor

About

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Also Known As

Ted Decorsia

Birth Place

New York City, New York, USA

Born

September 29, 1903

Died

April 11, 1973

Biography

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Being bad did Ted De Corsia a lot of good during a prolific quarter-century-long career. His New York City street looks and voice made him a perfect fit for tough guy roles, and he played scores of them in 60 films and over twice as many TV appearances. The typecasting started early and strong when De Corsia played a killer in Orson Welles's offbeat mystery "The Lady From Shanghai" (1947...

Filmography

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The Outside Man (1973)

The Delta Factor (1970)

5 Card Stud (1968)

The King's Pirate (1967)

Captain McTigue

Nevada Smith (1966)

The Quick Gun (1964)

Photos & Videos

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Killing, The (1956) -- (Movie Clip) These Two Other Guys

Crime Wave (1954) -- (Movie Clip) That's Gershwin

Biography

Being bad did Ted De Corsia a lot of good during a prolific quarter-century-long career. His New York City street looks and voice made him a perfect fit for tough guy roles, and he played scores of them in 60 films and over twice as many TV appearances. The typecasting started early and strong when De Corsia played a killer in Orson Welles's offbeat mystery "The Lady From Shanghai" (1947). From then, the actor never slowed down, usually appearing in several films and TV productions every year. He put on his bad-guy suit often--for example, when he played a memorable crook turned government snitch in "The Enforcer" (1951), starring Humphrey Bogart. But it wasn't only evil men he played; in Stanley Kubrick's gritty crime classic "The Killing" (1956), he switched to the other side of the law to portray a cop, Patrolman Kennan. He also had the role of determined ship captain Farragut in the immodestly budgeted 1954 Jules Verne adaptation, "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea." De Corsia was even busier on TV, doing guest appearances or brief recurring roles on most of the well-known shows during his working lifetime. Among the many were "The Twilight Zone" (1959) and "Get Smart" (1966).

Filmography

Cast (Feature Film)

The Outside Man (1973)

The Delta Factor (1970)

5 Card Stud (1968)

The King's Pirate (1967)

Captain McTigue

Nevada Smith (1966)

The Quick Gun (1964)

Blood on the Arrow (1964)

It's Only Money (1962)

Noose for a Gunman (1960)

Spartacus (1960)

From the Terrace (1960)

Oklahoma Territory (1960)

The Buccaneer (1959)

Inside the Mafia (1959)

Enchanted Island (1958)

South Seas Adventure (1958)

Handle with Care (1958)

The Joker Is Wild (1957)

Baby Face Nelson (1957)

Gun Battle at Monterey (1957)

Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957)

Shanghai Pierce

The Midnight Story (1957)

Man on the Prowl (1957)

The Lawless Eighties (1957)

Slightly Scarlet (1956)

Showdown at Abilene (1956)

The Kettles in the Ozarks (1956)

Dance with Me, Henry (1956)

The Conqueror (1956)

The Killing (1956)

Man with the Gun (1955)

Police sub-altern

The Big Combo (1955)

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954)

Crime Wave (1954)

Ride, Vaquero! (1953)

Man in the Dark (1953)

Hot News (1953)

The Turning Point (1952)

The Savage (1952)

Captain Pirate (1952)

A Place in the Sun (1951)

Inside the Walls of Folsom Prison (1951)

Vengeance Valley (1951)

New Mexico (1951)

The Enforcer (1951)

Crazy Over Horses (1951)

Three Secrets (1950)

Cargo to Capetown (1950)

The Outriders (1950)

The Life of Riley (1949)

Neptune's Daughter (1949)

Mr. Soft Touch (1949)

It Happens Every Spring (1949)

The Lady from Shanghai (1948)

The Naked City (1948)

[Willie] Garzah

Film Production - Main (Feature Film)

Oklahoma Territory (1960)

Cast (Special)

Knight's Gambit (1964)

Life Events

1948

First film as actor

Videos

Killing, The (1956) -- (Movie Clip) These Two Other Guys Ex-con Johnny (Sterling Hayden) briefing his cohorts, Joe Sawyer as Mike, Ted de Corsia as cop Randy, Jay C. Flippen as Marvin and Elisha Cook as racetrack employee George, whose wife Sherry (Marie Windsor) turns out to be listening-in, in Stanley Kubrick’s heist drama The Killing, 1956.

Crime Wave (1954) -- (Movie Clip) That's Gershwin Opening at what probably really is (as later reported on police radio) Maple Ave. in downtown LA, goons Morgan (Ned Young) and Hastings (Charles Buchinsky-later-Bronson) then Penny (Ted de Corsia) show up, making trouble for gas jockey Dub Taylor, in Crime Wave, 1954, starring Sterling Hayden.

Naked City, The (1948) -- (Movie Clip) Story Of The City Producer Mark Hellinger's narration boasts the virtues of the picture "you're about to see," leading to the murder by Ted de Corsia and Walter Burke in the famous opening of The Naked City, 1948.

From The Terrace (1960) -- (Movie Clip) Do You Have A Heart Condition? Sent by his Wall Street firm to charm her Pennsylvania coal baron father (Ted de Corsia), unhappily-married dinner guest Alfred (Paul Newman) makes a play for Natalie (Ina Balin), who at first chooses virtue, in From The Terrace, 1960, Ernest Lehman's script from John O'Hara's novel.

Joker Is Wild, The (1957) -- (Movie Clip) I Cried For You Director Charles Vidor's opening, rival speakeasy owners Bliss (Harold Huber) and Parker (Ted de Corsia) facing off as leading man Frank Sinatra performs, playing entertainer Joe E. Brown, the song credited to Arthur Freed, Gus Arnheim and Abe Lyman, in the 1957 bio-pic The Joker Is Wild.

Quick Gun, The (1964) -- (Movie Clip) I'm Kind Of Against Dying Gunslinger Clint Cooper (Audie Murphy) headed back to his hometown, has been diverted by a gang led by his old partner Spangler (Ted de Corsia), early in The Quick Gun, 1964.

It Happens Every Spring - (Textless Trailer) Ray Milland is a scientist who invents a baseball that cannot be hit in It Happens Every Spring (1949).

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