"Citizen Kane Roundup" - Alfred Hitchcock Presents

[Harvey Chartrand]

Just picked up Season One of Alfred Hitchcock Presents on DVD and was surprised to see so many of Orson Welles’ former colleagues in these masterful suspense stories. Here is a list of Mercury Theatre veterans or Welles co-stars who appeared on Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955-1962) and The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1962-1965).

Alfred Hitchcock Presents:

Joseph Cotten & Harry Shannon (Citizen Kane, Touch of Evil): Breakdown (1955)
Everett Sloane (Citizen Kane, Journey into Fear, The Lady from Shanghai, Prince of Foxes) & Elliott Reid (The Patriot – The Campbell Playhouse): Our Cook’s a Treasure (1955)
Alan Napier (Macbeth): Into Thin Air (1955)
Peter van Eyck (Mr. Arkadin) and Konstantin Shayne (The Stranger): Safe Conduct (1956)
Everett Sloane: Place of Shadows (1956)
Ray Collins (The War of the Worlds, Citizen Kane, The Magnificent Ambersons): Conversation Over a Corpse (1956)
Alan Napier: Whodunit (1956)
Alan Napier: I Killed the Count: Part 1 (1957)
Alan Napier: I Killed the Count: Part 2 (1957)
Alan Napier: I Killed the Count: Part 3 (1957)
Norman Lloyd (Julius Caesar): Nightmare in 4-D (1957)
Vincent Price (The Shoemaker’s Holiday): The Perfect Crime (1957)
Herbert Marshall (Kind Lady - The Campbell Playhouse): A Bottle of Wine (1957)
Joseph Cotten: Together (1958)
Joanna Moore (Touch of Evil): Post Mortem (1958)
Herbert Marshall: Little White Frock (1958)
Konstantin Shayne: Flight to the East (1958)
Mary Astor (Royal Regiment - The Campbell Playhouse): Mrs. Herman and Mrs. Fenimore (1958)
Norman Lloyd & Elliott Reid: Design for Loving (1958)
Joan Tetzel (Ah, Wilderness! - The Campbell Playhouse): Guest for Breakfast (1958)
Jeanette Nolan (Macbeth): The Morning After (1958)
Joanna Moore: Invitation to an Accident (1959)
Joanna Moore: No Pain (1959)
Rick Jason (The Fountain of Youth): The Kind Waitress (1959)
Alan Napier: The Avon Emeralds (1959)
Mary Astor: The Impossible Dream (1959)
Everett Sloane: The Waxwork (1959)
Laurence Harvey (The Deep, F for Fake): Arthur (1959)
Bette Davis (This Lonely Heart - The Campbell Playhouse): Out There – Darkness (1959)
Joseph Cotten & Ted de Corsia (The Lady from Shanghai): Dead Weight (1959)
Norman Lloyd: The Day of the Bullet (1960)
Burt Reynolds (The Orson Welles Show): Escape to Sonoita (1960)
Paul Stewart (Citizen Kane): Craig's Will (1960)
Norman Lloyd: The Little Man Who Was There (1960)
Dennis Weaver (Touch of Evil): Insomnia (1960)
Geraldine Fitzgerald (Heartbreak House): A Woman's Help (1961)
Jeanette Nolan: Coming Home (1961)
Norman Lloyd: Maria (1961)
Ted de Corsia: You Can't Be a Little Girl All Your Life (1961)
Richard Long (The Stranger): The Opportunity (1962)
Joanna Moore: Most Likely to Succeed (1962)

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour:

Angie Dickinson (The Orson Welles Show): Captive Audience (1962)
Alan Napier: An Out for Oscar (1963)
Dan O’Herlihy (Macbeth): Forecast: Low Clouds and Coastal Fog (1963)
Joan Fontaine (Jane Eyre): The Paragon (1963)
Anne Baxter (The Magnificent Ambersons): A Nice Touch (1963)
Richard Long: Blood Bargain (1963)
Ted de Corsia: The Magic Shop (1964)
Joanna Moore: Who Needs an Enemy? (1964)
Roddy McDowall (Macbeth): The Gentleman Caller (1964)
Christopher Lee (Moby Dick Rehearsed): The Sign of Satan (1964)
Roddy McDowall and Patricia Medina (Mr. Arkadin): See the Monkey Dance (1964)
Jeanette Nolan: Triumph (1964)
Alan Napier: Thou Still Unravished Bride (1965)
Jane Wyatt (Call It a Day – The Campbell Playhouse): The Monkey’s Paw (1965)
Geraldine Fitzgerald (The Citadel – The Campbell Playhouse): Power of Attorney (1965)
Angie Dickinson: Thanatos Palace Hotel (1965)
Joanna Moore: The Crimson Witness (1965)

Norman Lloyd was the associate producer of ALFRED HITCHCOCK PRESENTS and the executive producer of THE ALFRED HITCHCOCK HOUR.

Composer Bernard Herrman (Citizen Kane, The Magnificent Ambersons) wrote scores for 17 episodes of THE ALFRED HITCHCOCK HOUR: A Home Away from Home (1963), Terror In Northfield (1963), You'll Be the Death of Me (1963), Nothing Ever Happens In Linvale (1963), The Jar (1964), Behind the Locked Door (1964), Body in the Barn (1964), Change of Address (1964), Water's Edge (1964), The McGregor Affair (1964), Misadventure (1964), Consider Her Ways (1964), The Life Work of Juan Diaz (1964), Where the Woodbine Twineth (1965), An Unlocked Window (1965), Wally the Beard (1965), Death Scene (1965).

An extra:

Alfred Hitchcock shot PSYCHO cheaply with the same crew he used on his TV show. Hitchcock wanted to keep PSYCHO under wraps and told reporters it was an expanded episode of ALFRED HITCHCOCK PRESENTS. John Cassavetes met PSYCHO's star Anthony Perkins on the Universal Studios lot and was surprised that a big name like Perkins would stoop to appearing on television, even if it was for Hitchcock. Perkins went on to star in Orson Welles' THE TRIAL. He also costarred with Welles in IS PARIS BURNING?, TEN DAYS WONDER and CATCH-22.

[Store Hadji]

I didn't know Christopher Lee was in MD Rehearsed. Very very cool. I wondered if anyone has interviewed him about OW. He's in his 80s, but he's still around!

[jaime marzol]

Lee's comments on MD were posted here by harvey i think. do a search, it's worth reading