Richard Carlson Overview:

Actor, Richard Carlson, was born on Apr 29, 1912 in Albert Lea, MN. Carlson died at the age of 65 on Nov 24, 1977 in Encino, CA and was laid to rest in Los Angeles National Cemetery in Los Angeles, CA.

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He was honored with one star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in the category of Television.

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It Came from Outer Space (1953) with

By Greg Orypeck on Dec 3, 2015 From Classic Film Freak

Share This! Terror in 3-D . . . Reaching out from the screen to seize you in its grasp! Look out! Living in the 1950s, at least inside a movie theater, was a dangerous venture at the time. Anything could threaten life and limb. Especially dangerous were the ferocious?and always gigantic?insects, oft... Read full article


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Richard Carlson Quotes:

David Hewitt: I'll tell you what you could do if you went away, Zan: if you could find some place where they pay wages for talkin' silly, you could make a fortune.


[last lines]
Sheriff Matt Warren: [three-shot, characters gazing toward sky into which meteor-spaceship has rocketed] Well, they've gone.
Ellen Fields: For good, John?
John Putnam: No. Just for now. It wasn't the right time for us to meet. But there'll be other nights, other stars for us to watch. They'll be back.


Patroling Beach Cleaner: If you folks ain't got nothin' to do, maybe you'd like to fish. I got a lot of tackle.
Jeff Sommerfield: Thanks, but we're just trying to talk.
Patroling Beach Cleaner: Well, all right, but I got a hunch they're bitin'. Sure you won't change your mind? cuz after you get old, you got a lot of time to talk.
Jeff Sommerfield: Let's get out of here.


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Richard Carlson Facts
Although best known to movie fans as an icon of '50 sci-fi/horror, Carlson actually appeared in only four--The Magnetic Monster (1953), Riders to the Stars (1954), It Came from Outer Space (1953), Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954), all of which were made in only a two-year period, 1953-1954.

Served in WWII. After the war, it was hard for him to find a job.

High School Valedictorian-Washburn High School, Minneapolis. Minnesota class of 1929. Summa Cum Laude, Phi Beta kapa M.A. English Literature-University of Minnesota. Wrote short-stories and human interest articles which were published in various magazines.

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