1. Nusyn "Ned" Glass was a Polish-born American character actor who appeared in more than eighty films and on television more than one hundred times, frequently playing nervous, cowardly, or deceitful characters.
19 Facts About Ned Glass
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Ned Glass emigrated to the United States at an early age and grew up in New York City.
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Ned Glass worked in vaudeville, and appeared on Broadway in 1931 in the Elmer Rice play Counsellor-at-Law.
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Ned Glass continued to act and direct on Broadway until 1936, when he was signed as a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer contract player.
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Ned Glass was a frequent member of Columbia Pictures' short subjects department roster, and a favorite of directors Jules White and Del Lord.
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Ned Glass 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, Three Hams on Rye and Flagpole Jitters.
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Ned Glass was reportedly briefly blacklisted, during which time he found work as a carpenter.
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Ned 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.
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Ned Glass played a railroad ticket agent in Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest.
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Ned Glass began showing up on television in 1952, when he was cast on an episode of The Red Skelton Show.
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Ned Glass later was frequently seen on CBS in Jackie Gleason's The Honeymooners sketches.
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Ned Glass was in an early episode of Gunsmoke, "The Photographer", as "Old Grubby", a scruffy little prospector who is brutally murdered and scalped to obtain a cheaply thrilling photograph of Western violence.
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Ned Glass appeared in the syndicated crime drama Sheriff of Cochise and the ABC western series The Rebel, starring Nick Adams.
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Ned Glass appeared in David Janssen's crime drama Richard Diamond, Private Detective.
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Ned Glass played Sol Cooper on the Diahann Carroll vehicle Julia from 1968 to 1971, and was nominated in 1969 for an Emmy Award for his performance in the "A Little Chicken Soup Never Hurt Anybody" episode.
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Ned Glass played Uncle Moe Plotnick on the short-lived series Bridget Loves Bernie.
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Ned Glass was married to actress Kitty McHugh, sister of character actor Frank McHugh and bit player Matt McHugh.
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Ned Glass later married actress Jean Burton, but that marriage ended in divorce.
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Ned Glass died in Encino Hospital in Encino, California, on 15 June 1984 at the age of 78, after a long illness.