Ted de Corsia
Ted de Corsia ( born September 29, 1905 in Brooklyn, New York City; † 11 April 1973 in Encino, California, in fact Edward De Corsia Gildea ) was an American actor.
Life
Ted de Corsia was born in 1905 as the only child of vaudeville artist Edward De Corsia and Helen Le Sage in Brooklyn. Because the profession of his parents his childhood of numerous parades and school change was marked. At the age of six he was on stage for the first time. While he attended the New York Evening High School and studied at New York University, he earned as a plumber, electrician and sellers something. At times, he also worked as a cook. After that, he was with his distinctive voice at first mainly as an actor for radio active. In 1947, he was next to Rita Hayworth and Orson Welles in the film noir The Lady from Shanghai ( The Lady from Shanghai) made his screen debut. It was followed by numerous supporting roles, mostly as a villain, as in the city without a mask ( The Naked City, 1948) or in The Tiger ( The Enforcer, 1951) with Humphrey Bogart. From 1953 he was also a busy actor in U.S. television, where he worked until 1972 in many series such as Gunsmoke ( Gunsmoke, 1962-1966 ), Perry Mason ( 1964-1966 ), or I Dream of Jeannie (I Dream of Jeannie, 1966) occurred.
His marriage to his first wife, Mary Robertson ended in 1935 in divorce. With his second wife Rachel Thurber, whom he married in 1939, de Corsia had two daughters. He died in 1973 at the age of 67 in Encino, California.