1. Alfred Ryder eventually became a life member of The Actors Studio.
12 Facts About Alfred Ryder
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In 1956, Atlantic Records released the spoken-word album This Is My Beloved with Alfred Ryder reciting the popular poetry of Walter Benton.
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Notably, Alfred Ryder was chosen to be Laurence Olivier's standby when The Entertainer moved to Broadway from London in 1958.
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In 1961 Alfred Ryder was cast as Eli Wallach's first replacement as Berenger in the Broadway production of Eugene Ionesco's Rhinoceros.
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In 1964,48-year-old Alfred Ryder was selected by impresario Joseph Papp to realize his dream and perform Hamlet in a high-profile production: a three-week engagement for Papp's Shakespeare in the Park.
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The disappointment to Alfred Ryder was "acute," according to Ellen Adler, daughter of famed acting coach Stella Adler.
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Nevertheless, Alfred Ryder remained an A-list television guest star throughout the 1960's, as his eccentric, theatrical style and vaguely Germanic accent were well-suited for the sci-fi, spy, and fantasy shows that were popular at the time.
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Alfred Ryder starred as a British criminal who could not be killed in Alcoa Presents: One Step Beyond episode "The Devil's Laughter".
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Alfred Ryder appeared in "The Man Trap", the first-aired episode of Star Trek, on September 8,1966, as a scientist who is hiding the fact that a shapeshifting alien is masquerading as his late wife.
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Alfred Ryder guest-starred as the ghost of a World War I German U-boat captain in two episodes of Irwin Allen's ABC-TV series Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea.
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Alfred Ryder then acted in an episode of another Irwin Allen series on ABC, as a cantankerous orphanage operator, Parteg, in "Night of Thrombeldinbar", an episode of Land of the Giants in February 1969.
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Alfred Ryder was a Democrat who supported the campaign of Adlai Stevenson during the 1952 presidential election.