List of The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series) guest stars explained
The following is a list of guest stars that appeared on the 1959 anthology television series The Twilight Zone.
Rod Serling himself provided the opening and closing commentary for all episodes and appeared on-screen for the first time at the end of the final episode of the first season, with the episodes featuring some of Hollywood's most familiar faces, including:
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- Mary Badham ("The Bewitchin' Pool")
- Raymond Bailey ("Escape Clause", "Back There" and "From Agnes—With Love")
- Martin Balsam ("The Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine" and "The New Exhibit")
- Trevor Bardette ("One More Pallbearer")
- Rayford Barnes ("A Quality of Mercy")
- Leslie Barrett ("I Shot an Arrow Into the Air")
- Barbara Barrie ("Miniature")
- Patricia Barry ("The Chaser" and "I Dream of Genie")
- Harry Bartell ("I Shot an Arrow Into the Air")
- Eddie Barth ("The New Exhibit") (credited as Ed Barth)
- Martine Bartlett ("Night Call")
- Anne Barton ("The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street" and "Shadow Play")
- Richard Basehart ("Probe 7, Over and Out")
- Arthur Batanides ("Mr. Denton on Doomsday" and "The Mirror")
- Jeanne Bates ("It's a Good Life")
- Barbara Baxley ("Mute")
- Orson Bean ("Mr. Bevis")
- Billy Beck ("The New Exhibit")
- Terry Becker ("I Am the Night—Color Me Black")
- Henry Beckman ("Valley of the Shadow" and "A Thing About Machines")
- Fred Beir ("Death Ship"
- Leon Belasco ("A Kind of a Stopwatch")
- Russ Bender ("The Fugitive", "On Thursday We Leave for Home", "The Hitch-Hiker")
- William Benedict ("Sounds and Silences")
- Marjorie Bennett ("The Chaser", "Kick the Can", and "No Time Like the Past")
- Oscar Beregi, Jr. ("The Rip Van Winkle Caper", "Deaths-Head Revisited," and "Mute")
- Shelley Berman ("The Mind and the Matter")
- Joseph Bernard (actor) ("The Shelter")
- James Best ("The Grave", "The Last Rites of Jeff Myrtlebank" and "Jess-Belle")
- Clem Bevans ("Hocus-Pocus and Frisby")
- Philippa Bevans ("The Changing of the Guard")
- Theodore Bikel ("Four O'Clock")
- Edward Binns ("I Shot an Arrow Into the Air" and "The Long Morrow")
- Bill Bixby ("The Thirty-Fathom Grave")
- Larry J. Blake ("The Trouble With Templeton")
- Lela Bliss ("Time Enough at Last")
- Joan Blondell ("What's in the Box")
- Larry Blyden ("A Nice Place to Visit" and "Showdown with Rance McGrew")
- Ann Blyth ("Queen of the Nile")
- Lloyd Bochner ("To Serve Man")
- Robert Boon ("Deaths-Head Revisited" and "Mute")
- Randy Boone ("The 7th Is Made Up of Phantoms")
- Billy Booth ("A Stop at Willoughby")
- Willis Bouchey ("The Masks")
- Antoinette Bower ("Probe 7, Over and Out")
- Rudy Bowman ("The Bard") (uncredited)
- Leslie Bradley ("Judgment Night")
- John Brahm ("Probe 7, Over and Out")
- Neville Brand ("The Encounter")
- Robert Bray ("The 7th Is Made Up of Phantoms")
- Patricia Breslin ("Nick of Time" and "No Time Like the Past")
- Morgan Brittany ("Nightmare as a Child" (uncredited), "Valley of the Shadow" [billed as [[Suzanne Cupito]]] and "Caesar and Me" [billed as [[Suzanne Cupito]]])
- Peter Brocco ("The Four of Us Are Dying" and "Hocus-Pocus and Frisby")
- James Broderick ("On Thursday We Leave for Home")
- Charles Bronson ("Two")
- Walter Brooke ("The Jungle" and "A Short Drink From a Certain Fountain")
- Robert Brubaker ("The Arrival")
- Claudia Bryar ("Mute")
- Edgar Buchanan ("The Last Rites of Jeff Myrtlebank")
- Walter Burke ("The Big Tall Wish")
- Carol Burnett ("Cavender Is Coming")
- Bart Burns ("Valley of the Shadow")
- Michael Burns ("The Shelter")
- Jeffrey Byron ("The Bewitchin' Pool") (as Tim Stafford)
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- Moyna Macgill ("Four O'Clock")
- David Macklin ("Ring-a-Ding Girl")
- Patrick Macnee ("Judgment Night")
- George Macready ("The Long Morrow")
- Maggie Mahoney (Margaret Field) ("The New Exhibit")
- Nancy Malone ("Stopover in a Quiet Town")
- Joe Mantell ("Nervous Man in a Four Dollar Room" and "Steel")
- Ralph Manza ("The Dummy")
- Lori March ("Third from the Sun")
- Theodore Marcuse ("To Serve Man" and "The Trade-Ins")
- John Marley ("Kick the Can" and "The Old Man in the Cave")
- Nora Marlowe ("Night Call" and "Back There")
- Joe Maross ("Third from the Sun" and "The Little People")
- Florence Marly ("Dead Man's Shoes")
- Jean Marsh ("The Lonely")
- Joan Marshall ("Dead Man's Shoes")
- Sarah Marshall ("Little Girl Lost")
- Arlene Martel ("Twenty Two) (credited as Arline Sax)
- Dewey Martin ("I Shot an Arrow Into the Air")
- Nan Martin ("The Incredible World of Horace Ford")
- Ross Martin ("The Four of Us Are Dying" and "Death Ship")
- Strother Martin ("The Grave")
- Lee Marvin ("The Grave" and "Steel")
- Ron Masak ("The Purple Testament")
- Murray Matheson ("Five Characters in Search of an Exit")
- Jenny Maxwell ("Long Distance Call")
- Paul Mazursky ("The Purple Testament", "The Gift" and "He's Alive")
- Mitzi McCall ("The Hitch-Hiker") (uncredited)
- Kevin McCarthy ("Long Live Walter Jameson")
- Doug McClure ("Mr. Denton on Doomsday")
- Robert McCord: may have made as many as 67 appearances,[1] many uncredited; IMDB confirmed appearances are: "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street" (uncredited), "The Odyssey of Flight 33" (uncredited), "Long Distance Call" (uncredited), "A Hundred Yards Over the Rim" (as Robert L. McCord III), "The Mirror" (uncredited), "To Serve Man" (uncredited), "Person or Persons Unknown" (uncredited), "The New Exhibit" (as Robert L. McCord), "What's in the Box" (uncredited), "Mr. Denton on Doomsday" (uncredited), "Escape Clause" (uncredited), "Judgment Night" (uncredited), "A World of Difference" (uncredited), "A Nice Place to Visit" (uncredited), "Showdown with Rance McGrew" (uncredited), "Nick of Time" (uncredited), "No Time Like the Past" (uncredited), "Dead Man's Shoes" (uncredited), "The Silence" (uncredited), "The Rip Van Winkle Caper" (stunt double, uncredited), "Dust" (uncredited), "Mr. Dingle, the Strong" (uncredited), "I Dream of Genie" (uncredited), "You Drive" (uncredited), "Mr. Garrity and the Graves" (uncredited), "A Kind of a Stopwatch" (uncredited), "Caesar and Me" (uncredited), "I Am the Night—Color Me Black" (uncredited), "Cavender Is Coming" (uncredited), "The Mind and the Matter" (uncredited), "Long Live Walter Jameson" (uncredited), and "The Purple Testament" (uncredited)
- Roddy McDowall ("People Are Alike All Over")
- John McGiver ("The Bard" and "Sounds and Silences")
- John McIntire ("The Chaser")
- Emily McLaughlin ("The Jungle")
- John McLiam ("Miniature", "Uncle Simon") (uncredited), "The Midnight Sun" (uncredited), "The Shelter")
- Horace McMahon ("Mr. Bevis")
- Jenna McMahon ("King Nine Will Not Return")
- Maggie McNamara ("Ring-a-Ding Girl")
- Howard McNear ("Hocus-Pocus and Frisby" and "The Bard")
- Eve McVeagh ("Kick the Can" (uncredited) and "I Am the Night—Color Me Black")
- Doro Merande ("The Bard")
- Burgess Meredith ("Time Enough at Last", "Mr. Dingle, the Strong", "The Obsolete Man" and "Printer's Devil")
- Gary Merrill ("Still Valley")
- Burt Metcalfe ("The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street")
- Vera Miles ("Mirror Image")
- Mark Miller ("I Dream of Genie")
- Martin Milner ("Mirror Image")
- Nico Minardos ("The Gift")
- George Mitchell ("Ring-a-Ding Girl, "Jess-Belle", "Execution", "The Hitch-Hiker")
- John Mitchum ("The Rip Van Winkle Caper" and "Mr. Garrity and the Graves")
- Elizabeth Montgomery ("Two")
- Ralph Moody ("The Last Rites of Jeff Myrtlebank")
- Alvy Moore ("Showdown with Rance McGrew") (uncredited)
- Agnes Moorehead ("The Invaders")
- Read Morgan ("What You Need")[2]
- Greg Morris ("The 7th Is Made Up of Phantoms")
- Howard Morris ("I Dream of Genie")
- Jeff Morris ("The 7th Is Made Up of Phantoms")
- Byron Morrow ("People Are Alike All Over")
- Jeff Morrow ("Elegy")
- Barry Morse ("A Piano in the House")
- Billy Mumy ("Long Distance Call", "It's a Good Life" and "In Praise of Pip")
- George Murdock ("The Dummy")
- Kate Murtagh ("Mr. Garrity and the Graves") (uncredited)
- Burt Mustin ("The Night of the Meek" and "Kick the Can")
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Notes and References
- Web site: A Tribute to Robert L. McCord III. www.twilightzonemuseum.com . 2 January 2015.
- Book: Parisi, Nicholas. Rod Serling: His Life, Work, and Imagination. 211. University Press of Mississippi. October 24, 2018. 9781496819451. Google Books.
- Book: Rubin, Steve. Twilight Zone Encyclopedia. 155. November 1, 2017. Chicago Review Press. 9781613738917. Google Books.