"interred at the Grand View Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California. Leo G. Carroll Leo Gratten Carroll (25 October 1886 – 16 October 1972) was an English actor. He was best known for his roles in several Hitchcock films, and in three television series, ""Topper"", ""Going My Way"", and ""The Man from U.N.C.L.E."". Carroll was born in Weedon Bec, Northamptonshire, to William and Catherine Carroll. His Roman Catholic parents named him after then-Pope Leo XIII. In 1897, his family lived in York, where his Irish-born father was a foreman in an ordnance store. In the 1901 Census for West Ham,"
"in 1964. In eventually casting Carroll in the role, the programme makers took a considerable departure from this original concept since the actor was in his 70s at the time. However, the casting was also apt since Carroll had featured in many of Alfred Hitchcock's films and Hitchcock's work was a touchstone for the show's originators. Indeed, he had played the 'Professor', the head of the espionage agency in ""North by Northwest"" (1959), the film which inspired Norman Felton to bring the spy genre to the small screen. Along with Solo and Kuryakin, Alexander Waverly was the only character to"
"1960, is blackmailed through a romantic affair with a young woman named Erica (Erika Peters) into passing secret information to the communists at the height of the Cold War. He confessed his guilt despite the protection of diplomatic immunity. Karl Swenson and Parley Baer also appear in this episode. In ""A Pattern for Espionage"", United States Army Colonel Harvey Madison (Rex Reason), is approached by a former Russian comrade-in-arms to spy for the communists. Instead, he covertly cooperates with the Federal Bureau of Investigation to uncover a spy ring operated by the former Soviet Union. Anthony Eisley and Gregory Walcott"
"a one-hour timeslot, modified somewhat to – among other minor changes – substitute Leo G. Carroll's character Alexander Waverley for that of Mr. Allison (played by Will Kuluva), and broadcast in black and white (as was the rest of the first season of the show). The film version started with the color pilot footage, added in additional footage and subplots (also in color, and including a new subplot featuring the actress Luciana Paluzzi), and was first released in Hong Kong in late 1964 and later shown in the U.S. as a double feature with ""The Spy with My Face"" in"
"feature with ""To Trap a Spy"". ""Alpine"" sequences were filmed at the Griffith Park Observatory in California. Sequences added to the original ""The Double Affair"" for a feature were reused in ""The Four-Steps Affair"" and ""The Dippy Blonde Affair"" episodes of the series. Mr. Waverly (Leo G. Carroll) gives U.N.C.L.E. agents Solo, Kuryakin, Arsene Coria (Fabrizio Mioni) from Italy, and Namana (Bill Gunn) from Liberia their assignment: they are to take a top secret code to a hidden location. After they leave, Waverly sends another agent, Australian Kitt Kittridge (Donald Harron), to follow them without their knowledge. However, THRUSH has"
"troubleshooting team working for multi-national secret intelligence agency U.N.C.L.E. (United Network Command for Law and Enforcement): American Napoleon Solo (Robert Vaughn), and Russian Illya Kuryakin (David McCallum). Leo G. Carroll played Alexander Waverly, an English head of the organization. Barbara Moore joined the cast as Lisa Rogers in the fourth season. The series, though fictional, achieved such cultural prominence that props, costumes and documents, and a video clip are in the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library's exhibit on spies and counterspies. Similar U.N.C.L.E. exhibits are in the museums of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and other US intelligence agencies. U.N.C.L.E.'s primary"
"ABC Mystery Theater ABC Mystery Theater, also known as just simply Mystery Theater or Mystery Theatre, was an American radio anthology, crime and mystery series from the 1950s. The program starred originally, actor Robert Carroll in the title role of Inspector Mark Saber, a British detective from ""The Homicide Squad"" then by actor Les Damon for seasons two and three. The program also centered on Saber's assistant Sgt. Tim Maloney, originally portrayed by character actor James Westerfield for the first half of season one, actor Douglas Chandler for the second half of season one and finally by character actor Walter"
"an actor named Walter Burke who remained through the course of the show. ABC Mystery Theater ABC Mystery Theater, also known as just simply Mystery Theater or Mystery Theatre, was an American radio anthology, crime and mystery series from the 1950s. The program starred originally, actor Robert Carroll in the title role of Inspector Mark Saber, a British detective from ""The Homicide Squad"" then by actor Les Damon for seasons two and three. The program also centered on Saber's assistant Sgt. Tim Maloney, originally portrayed by character actor James Westerfield for the first half of season one, actor Douglas Chandler"
"in his buttonhole ('The Deep Six Affair'). In 1968, Carroll made his final appearance in the role one week after the show's cancellation when he appeared on ""Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In"", the series that replaced ""U.N.C.L.E."" His final lines on screen are ""Mr. Kuryakin, come quick. I think I've found THRUSH headquarters at last."" Carroll died in 1972 and his character did not appear in the 1983 reunion movie ""Return of the Man from U.N.C.L.E.:The Fifteen Years Later Affair"" where it is implied that Mr. Waverly had died relatively recently. Hugh Grant portrayed Waverly in ""The Man from U.N.C.L.E."", a"
"focus upon this individual agent as the hero. Robert Vaughn was cast in this role to give the character an urbane, sophisticated style similar to Cary Grant's role in ""Notorious"". The Russian agent, Illya Kuryakin, only had four lines in this episode as the role had yet to attract the attention which it subsequently achieved due to the casting of blond actor David McCallum, who was a great favourite of female fans. The other main regular character appearing was the leader of U.N.C.L.E., Alexander Waverly. He was played by Leo G. Carroll who was cast because he had played a"
"Q.E.D. (U.S. TV series) Q.E.D. is a 1982 adventure television series set in Edwardian England, starring Sam Waterston as Professor Quentin Everett Deverill. The Professor was a scientific detective in the mold of Sherlock Holmes, and the series had a smattering of what would later be called steampunk. In the show, the lead character was known primarily by his initials, Q.E.D; the reference here is that Q.E.D. usually stands for ""quod erat demonstrandum"", a statement signalling the end of a proof. However, characters would sometimes state the initials to represent ""quite easily done."" The show aired on the CBS network"
"1967-1968 Contrabandits John Coubert, Hoffman, Kraft (television series) 1968 Hunter Brian Clarke (television series) 1967-1975 Homicide Ellis (1975), Kevin Davies (1969), Billy Farrell (1967) (television series) 1961 The First Joanna (telemovie) 1959 Antony and Cleopatra Caesar (telemovie) 1958 African Patrol Jim Stevens (television series) 1957 Aggie Jack Reynolds (television series) 1955 Othello 1st Gentleman (telemovie) In 1971 Kevin Miles won a Penguin Commendation for his portrayal of David Mason in the Australian 1970s television series Dynasty and in 1984 he was awarded a Logie Award for Best Lead Actor in a Series for the role of Godfrey Carson (Carson's Law)"
"Michael Durrell Michael Durrell (born October 6, 1943 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American actor. He began his career in the role of attorney Peter Wexler on CBS in the soap opera ""The Guiding Light"". In 1969 he appeared on stage in ""Cock-A-Doodle-Dandy"" at the Lyceum Theatre in New York City. Other television roles were as police Lieutenant Moraga in the short-lived CBS crime drama ""Shannon"" (1981–1982), starring Kevin Dobson in the title role, and then as Nicholas Stone from 1984-1985 on CBS's ""Alice"". Another well-known role was in 1983 in the NBC science fiction miniseries called ""V"" and"
"in the United States, and by a variety of ITV companies in the United Kingdom. Q.E.D. (U.S. TV series) Q.E.D. is a 1982 adventure television series set in Edwardian England, starring Sam Waterston as Professor Quentin Everett Deverill. The Professor was a scientific detective in the mold of Sherlock Holmes, and the series had a smattering of what would later be called steampunk. In the show, the lead character was known primarily by his initials, Q.E.D; the reference here is that Q.E.D. usually stands for ""quod erat demonstrandum"", a statement signalling the end of a proof. However, characters would sometimes"
"the United Kingdom, it was shown by the BBC in the late 1950s and early 1960s and repeated in the 1970s and 1980s. In Italy, RAI dubbed many episodes in the early 1960s with the title ""Avventure in elicottero"". Whirlybirds Whirlybirds (sometimes called The Whirlybirds or Copter Patrol) is a syndicated American drama/adventure television series, which aired for 111 episodes — broadcast from February 4, 1957, through January 18, 1960. It was produced by Desilu Studios. The program features the exploits of Chuck Martin (Kenneth Tobey) and Pete ""P. T."" Moore (Craig Hill), owners of a fictitious helicopter chartering company,"
"the master of disguise, British Major Bently Royce), Don Rickles (as the crazy renegade Indian Bald Eagle, son of Chief Wild Eagle), Jack Elam as the outlaw gunfighter Sam Urp), John Dehner (as conman Prof. Cornelius Clyde), Lee Meriwether (as Lily O'Reilly who is out to take over the town saloon), Jamie Farr (as Geronimo's friend and standup comic Standup Bull), George Gobel (as Wrangler Jane's cousin Henry Terkel, whose inventions parody the telephone, radio and steam automobile), Pat Harrington Jr. (as secret agent ""B. Wise"" – an imitation of Don Adams's character on ""Get Smart""), Zsa Zsa Gabor (as"
"Inspector George Gently Inspector George Gently (also known as George Gently for the pilot and first series) is a British television crime drama series produced by Company Pictures for BBC One, set in the 1960s and loosely based on some of the Inspector Gently novels written by Alan Hunter. The series stars Martin Shaw as the eponymous Inspector and Lee Ingleby as Detective Sergeant John Bacchus, with Simon Hubbard and Lisa McGrillis in supporting roles as police constables in the fictitious North East Constabulary. The series moved the setting of the stories to North East England, centring on Newcastle upon"
"responded to the compliment by calling Malden ""my mentor,"" and both also expressed that they enjoyed working together on the show. The show revolved around two police officers who investigated homicides in San Francisco. The center of the series was a veteran cop and widower, Lt Michael Stone, star # 2248, (played by Karl Malden), who had more than twenty years of police experience and was now assigned to the Homicide Detail of SFPD's Bureau of Inspectors (ex: Detective Division). He was partnered with a young plainclothes detective and energetic partner, Assistant Inspector Steve Keller (played by Michael Douglas), a"
"The Champions The Champions is a British espionage/science fiction/occult detective fiction adventure television series. It was produced by Lew Grade's ITC Entertainment production company, and consists of 30 episodes broadcast on the UK network ITV during 1968–1969. The series was broadcast in the US on NBC, starting in summer 1968. The series features Craig Stirling, Sharron Macready and Richard Barrett as agents for a United Nations law enforcement organization called 'Nemesis', based in Geneva. Barrett is a codebreaker, Stirling a pilot, and Macready a recently widowed scientist and doctor. During their first mission as a team, their plane crashes in"
"Robert Vaughn Robert Francis Vaughn (November 22, 1932 – November 11, 2016) was an American actor noted for his stage, film and television work. His best-known television roles include suave spy Napoleon Solo in the 1960s series ""The Man from U.N.C.L.E.""; wealthy detective Harry Rule in the 1970s series ""The Protectors""; Morgan Wendell in the 1978–79 mini series ""Centennial""; formidable General Hunt Stockwell in the fifth season of the 1980s series ""The A-Team""; and grifter and card sharp Albert Stroller in the British television drama series ""Hustle"" (2004–2012), for all but one of its 48 episodes. He also appeared in"
"""Sugarfoot"" (1959), ""Buckskin"" (1959), ""Peter Gunn"" (1959), ""U.S. Marshal"" (1959-1960), ""77 Sunset Strip"" (1960), ""Bonanza"" (1960), """" (1960), ""Alfred Hitchcock Presents"" (1960–61); ""Hawaiian Eye"" (1962), ""The Virginian"" (1962), ""Laramie"" (1960-1963), ""Perry Mason"" (1959-1966), ""Empire"" (as Hoot Hinkley in ""The Tiger Inside"", 1963), ""The Dakotas"" (1963), ""Lost in Space"" (1966, as Keema ""The Golden Man""), ""Dark Shadows"" (1967-1970), ""Emergency!"" (three episodes, 1972-1975), ""Dallas"" (1979-1984, as Vaughn Leland), ""Quincy, M.E."", (three episodes, 1979-82) and ""The Incredible Hulk, (as Buck Hendricks, a big game hunter looking to help news reporter Jack McGee capture ""The jolly green giant"") Patrick played Sheriff Patterson in the"
"represented by Stephen Yardley as Inspector Cadogan and Jude Akuwudike as Sergeant Gummer. Complementing the occult elements and those of virtual reality, there was a thread of playful, sometimes dark humour running through the scripts and an underlying sexual frisson between Clay and Thomson. Other regular characters were Professor Owen Griffiths (Alan David) and Phoebe Littlejohn (Carole Boyd, best known for her role as Lynda Snell in BBC radio’s ""The Archers""). The series was created and produced at the BBC’s Pebble Mill studios in Birmingham by Brian Degas, a scriptwriter for the film ""Barbarella"" (1968) and co-creator of the TV"
"Top Secret (TV series) Top Secret was a British TV spy series broadcast in two seasons on ITV in 1961-1962 which was produced by Associated-Rediffusion. It starred William Franklyn as suave secret agent Peter Dallas, over a total of 26 black-and-white episodes, each filling a 60 minutes slot. All episodes also featured Patrick Cargill as wealthy businessman Miguel Garetta, and Alan Rothwell as Dallas's nephew Mike. The series was produced by Associated-Rediffusion Television. The directors were Adrian Brown and Raymond Menmuir, and the main writer was Cedric Wells. The series was set in South America, and was filmed partly in"
"to 1964: ""Murder, She Said"" (1961), ""Murder at the Gallop"" (1963), ""Murder Most Foul"" (1964) and ""Murder Ahoy!"" (1964). For Hammer Films he appeared in ""The Secret of Blood Island"" (1964) and """" (1966). He had the lead in a TV series ""An Enemy of the State"" (1965). In the late 1960s, he performed various minor voice roles for the Gerry Anderson ""Supermarionation"" TV series ""Thunderbirds"" and ""Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons"", besides appearing in the first series of ""Catweazle"". He was the recurring character of Motel Manager Kevin McArthur in ""Crossroads"" in the late 1960s and early 1970s. (Vincent"
"that also connected the various series; for example, some of the Spectrum officers seen in ""Captain Scarlet"" were revealed to be former World Space Patrol agents. This did not necessarily contradict any of the TV series themselves as all were assumed to be set in the mid-21st century at least up until ""Captain Scarlet""; Anderson's final two Supermarionation series, ""Joe 90"" (1968 – 69) and ""The Secret Service"" (1969), had more contemporary settings. A recurring plot element was the fictional Eastern European nation of Bereznik, a country not part of and hostile to the World Government. It appeared most frequently"
"Bureau. ""Sparrow"" received critical acclaim for its tightly-woven plot and acting performance, particularly Li Yifeng's. It became the highest rated spy drama to date with a peak rating of 2.46, and also the first spy drama to surpass 10 billion views. Sparrow (TV series) Sparrow (Chinese: 麻雀) is a 2016 Chinese television series based on the novel of the same name by Hai Fei, starring Li Yifeng as the title character. It aired on Hunan TV from 5 September to 20 October 2016. Set in the 1940s during Shanghai's revolutionary times, communist agent Chen Shen infiltrates the Japanese' base and"
"the spy-spoof television series, did a parody of the show in the 1968 episode titled ""Die Spy"". In this, agent Maxwell Smart (Don Adams) pretends to be an international table-tennis champion. The episode faithfully recreates the theme music, montage graphics, and back-and-forth banter between Robinson and Scott—with actor/comedian Stu Gilliam imitating Cosby. Robert Culp makes an uncredited cameo appearance as an inebriated Turkish waiter. A number of original novels based upon the series were published, most written in the mid-to-late 1960s by Walter Wager under the pseudonym ""John Tiger."" The ""I Spy"" novels were published by Popular Library: The following"
"episode as ""[a]n intelligent television crime series that concentrates on the character of the criminal instead of the almost invariably successful process of detection is overdue."" ""The Lodger"" (transmitted 19 June 1966) <br>Writer: Hugh Leonard <br>Director: James Ferman <br>Principal Cast: Zia Mohyeddin, Gwendolyn Watts, Gemma Jones, Nicolas Chagrin, Clive Cazes, Neil Wilson <br>Based on the Simenon story ""Le Locataire"" (1934) <br> <br>""Trapped"" (transmitted 26 June 1966) <br>Writer: Julia Jones <br>Director: George Spenton-Foster <br>Principal Cast: Ronald Lewis, Keith Buckley, Sylvia Coleridge, Tenniel Evans, John Barrard, Donald Eccles, Geoffrey Cheshire, Derek Martin <br>Based on ""Cours d’Assises"" (1941) <br> <br>""The Traveller"" (transmitted 3"
"secondary outlets, although at this time it still was allocated the odd decent booking. Five Fingers (TV series) Five Fingers is an NBC adventure/drama series set in Europe during the Cold War loosely based on the 1952 film ""5 Fingers"", starring James Mason and Danielle Darrieux. It ran from October 3, 1959, to January 9, 1960. David Hedison starred as Victor Sebastian, an American counterintelligence officer with the code name ""Five Fingers"". Luciana Paluzzi played Simone Genet, Sebastian's singer client and romantic interest. Paul Burke played Robertson, Sebastian's contact man. ""Five Fingers"" itself was based on the book ""Operation Cicero"""
"2010, ""TV Guide"" ranked ""Get Smart""s opening title sequence at No. 2 on its list of TV's Top 10 Credits Sequences as selected by readers. After switching networks in 1969, to CBS, the show ended its five-season run on May 15, 1970, with a production roster at both networks of 138 episodes. The Museum of Broadcast Communications finds the show notable for ""broadening the parameters for the presentation of comedy on television."" The series centers on bumbling secret agent Maxwell ""Max"" Smart (Don Adams), also known as Agent 86, and his more sensible female partner, Agent 99 (Barbara Feldon). Agents"
"Five Fingers (TV series) Five Fingers is an NBC adventure/drama series set in Europe during the Cold War loosely based on the 1952 film ""5 Fingers"", starring James Mason and Danielle Darrieux. It ran from October 3, 1959, to January 9, 1960. David Hedison starred as Victor Sebastian, an American counterintelligence officer with the code name ""Five Fingers"". Luciana Paluzzi played Simone Genet, Sebastian's singer client and romantic interest. Paul Burke played Robertson, Sebastian's contact man. ""Five Fingers"" itself was based on the book ""Operation Cicero"" (1950) by Ludwig Carl Moyzisch and on the memoirs of Elyesa Bazna (""I Was"
"Headley). Gideon Oliver Gideon Oliver is a prime time television series that ran on the ABC television network between February 1989 and May 1989 as part of the ""ABC Mystery Movie"" rotation, along with ""B.L. Stryker"", ""Kojak"" and ""Columbo"". On the air for only five episodes, the series starred Louis Gossett, Jr., and was created by Dick Wolf. The title character first appeared in the novel series by mystery writer Aaron Elkins. Oliver is a Columbia University anthropology professor, utilizing his knowledge of past cultures to solve crimes throughout the Western Hemisphere. He is assisted by his adult daughter Zina"
"The Sandbaggers The Sandbaggers is a British television drama series about men and women on the front lines of the Cold War. Set contemporaneously with its original broadcast on ITV in 1978 and 1980, ""The Sandbaggers"" examines the effect of the espionage game on the personal and professional lives of British and American intelligence specialists. The series was produced by Yorkshire Television, based in Leeds. The protagonist is Neil D. Burnside (played by Roy Marsden), Director of Operations in Britain's Secret Intelligence Service (abbreviated 'SIS'—the organisation is also known as 'MI6', although that name is never uttered in the series)."