Ned Glass

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Ned Glass
Encino, California
, U.S.
OccupationActor
Years active1931–1982
Spouses
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(m. 1935; died 1954)​
Jean (or Jhean) Burton
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(m. 1965; div. 1975)​

Nusyn "Ned" Glass (April 1, 1906 – June 15, 1984) was a Polish-born American

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Early life

Glass was born in

Jewish family.[1] He emigrated to the United States at an early age and grew up in New York City.[2] He attended City College.[3]

Career

Glass worked in vaudeville,[2] and appeared on Broadway in 1931 in the Elmer Rice play Counsellor-at-Law.[4] He continued to act and direct on Broadway until 1936,[5] when he was signed as a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer contract player.[6]

He made his first film appearance in 1937 with an uncredited role in

Nutty But Nice and costarred him with Buster Keaton in the 1939 short Mooching Through Georgia. A Toluca Lake neighbor friend of Moe Howard of The Three Stooges, which inspired the myth that Moe arranged for Glass to have parts in Stooges' films; actually, Howard had little to no input into casting.[2] Glass also appeared in other Three Stooges shorts Three Little Sew and Sews (1939), From Nurse to Worse (1940), You Nazty Spy! (1940) and I'll Never Heil Again (1941). He did not appear in any films released between 1942 and 1947, possibly because of military service, but he generally worked in a handful of films almost every year thereafter, playing small roles and bit parts, including additional Three Stooges shorts Hokus Pokus (1949), Three Hams on Rye (1950) and Flagpole Jitters (1956). He was reportedly briefly blacklisted, during which time he found work as a carpenter.[citation needed] Glass appeared uncredited in the 1952 film The Bad and the Beautiful as the costumer for The Doom of the Cat Men, a film within a film. He played a railroad ticket agent in Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest (1959). Highlights of Glass's film career include playing Doc, the drugstore owner, in West Side Story (1961), Popcorn in Blake Edwards's thriller Experiment in Terror (1962), and bad guy Leopold W. Gideon in Stanley Donen's Charade (1963). Other film appearances included the Elvis Presley film Kid Galahad (1962), Who's Got the Action? (1962), Papa's Delicate Condition (1963), Blindfold (1965), A Big Hand for the Little Lady (1966), The Fortune Cookie (1966), Blackbeard's Ghost (1968), Never a Dull Moment (1968), The Love Bug (1969), Lady Sings the Blues (1972), Save the Tiger (1973), The All-American Boy (1973), and the TV movie Goldie and the Boxer
(1979). His final film appearance was in the low-budget comedy Street Music (1981).

Glass began showing up on television in 1952, when he was cast on an episode of

Emmy Award for his performance in the "A Little Chicken Soup Never Hurt Anybody" episode.[citation needed] Glass also played Uncle Moe Plotnick on the short-lived series Bridget Loves Bernie (1972–1973). In 1981 he appeared on Barney Miller, as Stanley Golden, in the episode "Field Associate" and also in 1975, in the episode "You Dirty Rat", as Mr. Sam Becker, the exterminator, from Becker & Sons. His final TV appearance was as a pickpocket on Cagney & Lacey
in 1982.

Personal life

Glass was married to actress Kitty McHugh, sister of character actor Frank McHugh and bit player Matt McHugh.[citation needed] Kitty committed suicide on 3 September 1954. Glass later married actress Jean (also known as Jhean) Burton, but that marriage ended in divorce.[6]

Death

Glass died in Encino Hospital in Encino, California, on 15 June 1984 at the age of 78, after a long illness.[8]

Filmography

References

  1. ^ Blog, Movie Movie Blog (November 12, 2015). "Ned Glass (1906-1984) – More than just an actor". Retrieved August 19, 2019.
  2. ^ a b c d Ned Glass at AllMovie
  3. TCM Movie Database
  4. ^ "Counsellor-at-Law". IBDB.com. Internet Broadway Database.
  5. ^ Ned Glass at the Internet Broadway Database
  6. ^ a b "Ned Glass". Archived from the original on February 8, 2002. Retrieved August 17, 2013.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) at Great Character Actors
  7. ^ "Monkees". sinatraguide.com. Archived from the original on July 9, 2008. Retrieved August 19, 2019.
  8. ^ "Ned Glass, an Actor, Dies". The New York Times. United Press International. June 25, 1984.

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