Ned Glass

Actor

About

Read More

Birth Place

Poland

Born

April 01, 1906

Died

June 15, 1984

Biography

Read More

Ned Glass was a character actor most known for playing nebbishy, neurotic, or mischievous characters with a thick New York accent. In the 1930s, Glass worked mostly in vaudeville and on Broadway as both an actor and a director, until 1937 when his next-door neighbor Moe Howard of the Three Stooges offered him a small and uncredited role in a Three Stooges short film, "Nutty But Nice." Gl...

Filmography

Read More

Street Music (1981)

Goldie and the Boxer (1979)

Crossfire (1975)

The All-American Boy (1973)

Save the Tiger (1973)

Photos & Videos

View All

Bad And The Beautiful, The (1953) -- (Movie Clip) Doom Of The Cat Men

Never A Dull Moment (1968) -- (Movie Clip) You're Very High Strung

Biography

Ned Glass was a character actor most known for playing nebbishy, neurotic, or mischievous characters with a thick New York accent. In the 1930s, Glass worked mostly in vaudeville and on Broadway as both an actor and a director, until 1937 when his next-door neighbor Moe Howard of the Three Stooges offered him a small and uncredited role in a Three Stooges short film, "Nutty But Nice." Glass went on to take three more uncredited roles in three other Three Stooges films. He made his mark in 1950s television, mostly in variety shows and sitcoms, such as his many roles on "The Jackie Gleason Show," above all in the program's "The Honeymooners" sketches (precursors to Gleason's sitcom "The Honeymooners"), and on "The Phil Silvers Show," with a recurring role as quartermaster Sergeant Pendleton. One of Glass's most notable film roles came in the Academy Award-winning musical "West Side Story," an updated New York City version of Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet." His character, Doc, an archetypical old-guard New Yorker who runs the local drugstore, served as a mentor and conscience to main character Tony; Glass delivered a memorably poignant and pivotal performance. In 1969, Glass was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for his recurring supporting role as Sol Cooper, the widowed landlord to the title character on the sitcom "Julia," one of the first television series to feature an African American woman, Diahann Carroll, in a leading role.

Filmography

Cast (Feature Film)

Street Music (1981)

Goldie and the Boxer (1979)

Crossfire (1975)

The All-American Boy (1973)

Save the Tiger (1973)

Lady Sings the Blues (1972)

The Adventures of Nick Carter (1972)

Mongo's Back in Town (1971)

The Love Bug (1969)

Never a Dull Moment (1968)

Blackbeard's Ghost (1968)

The Fortune Cookie (1966)

Blindfold (1966)

A Big Hand for the Little Lady (1966)

Papa's Delicate Condition (1963)

"Sparrow" Wildman

Kid Galahad (1962)

Experiment in Terror (1962)

Who's Got the Action? (1962)

West Side Story (1961)

The Last Angry Man (1959)

The Jayhawkers! (1959)

The Five Pennies (1959)

North by Northwest (1959)

The Rebel Set (1959)

King Creole (1958)

The Joker Is Wild (1957)

Back from the Dead (1957)

Hear Me Good (1957)

Hot Rod Rumble (1957)

Four Boys and a Gun (1957)

Black Patch (1957)

Geraldine (1954)

The Steel Cage (1954)

Pete, the guard

The Yellow Tomahawk (1954)

Julius Caesar (1953)

The War of the Worlds (1953)

Well-dressed man

The Caddy (1953)

I Love Melvin (1953)

Mister Scoutmaster (1953)

Stop, You're Killing Me (1953)

Sad Sam Callahan

Come Back, Little Sheba (1953)

Parent of child

The Clown (1953)

Trouble Along the Way (1953)

Jennifer (1953)

The Bad and the Beautiful (1953)

The Girl in White (1952)

Anatomy instructor

It's a Big Country: An American Anthology (1952)

You For Me (1952)

Just This Once (1952)

The People Against O'Hara (1951)

Lightning Strikes Twice (1951)

Storm Warning (1951)

Callaway Went Thataway (1951)

The Great Jewel Robber (1950)

He's a Cockeyed Wonder (1950)

The Damned Don't Cry (1950)

Perfect Strangers (1950)

Mystery Street (1950)

Knock on Any Door (1949)

Joe Palooka in the Big Fight (1949)

Richest Man in Town (1941)

King of Dodge City (1941)

Go West, Young Lady (1941)

Glamour for Sale (1940)

Prairie Schooners (1940)

I'm from Missouri (1939)

Coast Guard (1939)

Give Me a Sailor (1938)

Dick Tracy Returns (1938)

True Confession (1937)

Second photographer

Cast (Special)

Rosenthal and Jones (1975)

Ready and Willing (1974)

Three on an Island (1965)

Macreedy's Woman (1958)

Life Events

Videos

Bad And The Beautiful, The (1953) -- (Movie Clip) Doom Of The Cat Men Barry Sullivan narrating as young director Fred, about his rise along with producer Jonathan Shields (Kirk Douglas) through the Hollywood ranks, echoes of the career of producer Val Lewton included, in Vincente Minnelli's The Bad And The Beautiful, 1953.

Never A Dull Moment (1968) -- (Movie Clip) You're Very High Strung Bit part actor Jack (Dick Van Dyke), whom gangster Joe (Edward G. Robinson) has mistaken for a hit-man named Ace, is forced to improvise when he turns up on TV, as he meets the mob, Joanna Moore as Melanie, with Ned Glass, Richard Bakalyan, Slim Pickens, Philip Coolidge and Henry Silva (as Rimsy, Bobby, Cowboy, Fingers and Frank), in the Walt Disney comedy Never A Dull Moment 1968.

Girl In White, The (1952) -- (Movie Clip) Gosh You're Stunning Composer David Raksin tips his hat to Cornell and Alma Mater, establishing young Emily Dunning (June Allyson) matriculated to the medical school, meeting there Ben Barringer (Arthur Kennedy) who has an unabashed crush, launching the love story in the MGM bio-pic The Girl In White, 1952.

West Side Story (1961) -- (Movie Clip) Gee, Officer Krupke! Russ Tamblyn as Riff, leader of the Polish-American "Jets," entertains his buddies with the popular novelty number by Stephen Sondheim and Leonard Bernstein, William Bramley his subject, Jerome Robbins choregoraphy in West Side Story, 1961.

North By Northwest (1959) -- (Movie Clip) 20th Century Limited Thornhill (Cary Grant), at Grand Central, wanted for the murder he didn’t commit at the United Nations, figuring he must pursue the mysterious Kaplan to Chicago, evades ticket agent Ned Glass, then gets an assist on the train from Eva Marie Saint, in Alfred Hitchcock’s North By Northwest, 1959.

Charade (1963) -- (Movie Clip) He Must Have Known Charles At the funeral of the murdered husband she planned to divorce, “Reggie” (Audrey Hepburn), with pal Sylvie (Dominique Minot), notes three odd mourners (Ned Glass, James Coburn, George Kennedy), Jacques Marin the Paris cop, in Stanley Donen’s Charade, 1963, co-starring Cary Grant.

Storm Warning (1951) -- (Movie Clip) I Just Saw A Man Murdered Traveling model Marsha (Ginger Rogers), arrived in a small Southern town to visit her newly married sister Lucy (Doris Day), has just witnessed a Klan killing, undetected, early in Storm Warning, 1951.

Storm Warning (1951) -- (Movie Clip) They Blame The Klan Still on the night of the Klan killing of a nosey reporter, small town prosecutor Rainey (Ronald Reagan) visits local big shots at the bowling alley, Barr (Hugh Sanders) suspected, Faulkner (Raymond Greenleaf) thinking P-R, in Storm Warning, 1951.

Bibliography

By using this site, you agree to our updated Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use