Ted de Corsia (1903-73), one of the most familiar supporting players in crime and noir films, made his movie debut in Orson Welles' THE LADY FROM SHANGHAI. In the '40s and '50s he made a career playing movie villains and gangsters in ‘such films as THE NAKED CITY, THE BIG COMBO, THE KILLING, and SLIGHTLY SCARLET, but he's perhaps best remembered for his role as a gangster turning state's evidence in THE ENFORCER. On radio he voiced roles on many shows including “The March of Time” and “The Shadow,” and later in his career he turned up often on TV.
Many of these actors achieved stardom because of their start in film noir; others, despite it. In any case, at one time or another, sometimes many times, they played cops and robbers, hoodlums and toadies, doomed anti-heroes and femme fatales in one of filmdom’s richest genres. And all of us fans of film noir are richer for that. A tip of the fedora to them all.
TED DE CORSIA
Ted de Corsia (1903-73), one of the most familiar supporting players in crime and noir films, made his movie debut in Orson Welles' THE LADY FROM SHANGHAI. In the '40s and '50s he made a career playing movie villains and gangsters in ‘such films as THE NAKED CITY, THE BIG COMBO, THE KILLING, and SLIGHTLY SCARLET, but he's perhaps best remembered for his role as a gangster turning state's evidence in THE ENFORCER. On radio he voiced roles on many shows including “The March of Time” and “The Shadow,” and later in his career he turned up often on TV.
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