Carl Benton Reid
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Carl Benton Reid (August 14, 1893 – March 16, 1973) was an American actor. He achieved fame on the Broadway stage in 1939 as Oscar Hubbard, one of Regina Giddens's (Tallulah Bankhead) greedy, devious brothers in the play The Little Foxes, and made his film debut reprising his role opposite Bette Davis in the 1941 film version. He also appeared in several Shakespeare plays on Broadway, and in the original production of Eugene O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh, as Harry Slade.
His stern, cold demeanor quickly stereotyped him in villainous, and/or unpleasant characters, although he could play a sympathetic role, as he did occasionally in such films as the 1957 TV-movie version of The Pied Piper of Hamelin. Here he played the Mayor of Hamelout, who unsuccessfully requests help from the Mayor of Hamelin (Claude Rains), when Hamelout is the victim of a flood. The flood leads to the famous plague of rats which invade Hamelin, and set the main plot in motion. He played the American Admiral, who is leading the peace talks between the Americans and Chinese during the Korean War in MGM's Pork Chop Hill. Reid made four guest appearances on Perry Mason during the show's nine-year run between 1957-66. His last two roles came in 1966; as the judge in the film version of Madame X and as Claude Townsend in the TV series The F.B.I.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 2.973 |
| Birthday | 1893-08-13 |
| Place of Birth | Lansing, Michigan, USA |
| Also Known As |
1950
The Killer That Stalked New York
6.1/27
In New York, Sheila Bennet and her spouse, Matt Krane, are trying to unload a trove of rare jewels they smuggled into America from Cuba, but the polic...
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The Killer That Stalked New York
1953
Main Street to Broadway
6.5/2
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Main Street to Broadway
1962
Pressure Point
6.6/37
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Pressure Point
1950
Convicted
6.3/24
A prison warden fights to prove one of his inmates was wrongly convicted.
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Convicted
1954
Broken Lance
6.3/71
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Broken Lance
1959
Pork Chop Hill
6.503/66
Korean War, April 1953. Lieutenant Clemons, leader of the King company of the United States Infantry, is ordered to recapture Pork Chop Hill, occupied...
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Pork Chop Hill
1941
The Little Foxes
7.485/172
In 1900, a clan attempts to strike a deal with a Chicago industrialist to get him to build cotton mills in their Deep South town.
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The Little Foxes
1951
Criminal Lawyer
6.7/3
A drunken attorney tries to sober up in order to defend a friend in murder case.
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Criminal Lawyer
1956
The Last Wagon
6.5/79
When a handful of settlers survive an Apache attack on their wagon train they must put their lives into the hands of Comanche Todd, a white man who ha...
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The Last Wagon
1955
The Left Hand of God
6.3/37
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The Left Hand of God
1950
In a Lonely Place
7.6/585
A screenwriter with a violent temper is a murder suspect until his lovely neighbor clears him. However, she soon starts to have her doubts.
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In a Lonely Place
1959
The Trap
6.8/16
Lawyer Ralph Anderson arrives in Tula, an amazingly remote town in the desert, as reluctant emissary of mob chief Victor Massonetti, who wants the air...
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The Trap
1950
The Fuller Brush Girl
6/10
A daffy door-to-door saleswoman blunders into a murder investigation.
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The Fuller Brush Girl
1956
The First Texan
6.1/8
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The First Texan
1951
The Great Caruso
5.7/18
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The Great Caruso
1952
The Story of Will Rogers
6/3
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1954
The Command
6.2/16
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The Command
1957
The Pied Piper of Hamelin
5.6/14
The singing, rhyming citizens of Hamelin hope to win a competition with rival towns for royal recognition. To this end, the mayor outlaws play (which...
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The Pied Piper of Hamelin
1956
Strange Intruder
5.6/5
A Korean War veteran must find his buddy's widow and children to keep a bizarre promise.
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Strange Intruder
1962
The Underwater City
4.833/6
An engineer, a psychologist and several other disparate types take part in an experiment to see if people can live for extended periods of time in a c...
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The Underwater City
1955
One Desire
5.8/10
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One Desire
1956
A Day of Fury
5.5/12
Town marshal Alan Burnett life is saved by a stranger he meets on the trail. His rescuer turns out to be Jagade, a gunslinger just returned after year...
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A Day of Fury
1958
The Last of the Fast Guns
5.2/15
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The Last of the Fast Guns
1952
Boots Malone
7.5/3
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Boots Malone
1952
The Brigand
5.5/6
Carlos Delargo, the banished son of a royal princess of Mandorra, is returned to the kingdom to be tried for a murder change. However, he is freed by...
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The Brigand
1950
Stage to Tucson
5.7/3
A group of outlaws posing as Southern sympathizers and led secretly by freight-line owner Jim Maroon are raiding stagecoaches, and this is a threat to...
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Stage to Tucson
1951
Lorna Doone
4.6/6
An English farmer leads a village uprising against their corrupt landlords.
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Lorna Doone
1952
The First Time
6.5/1
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The First Time
1950
The Flying Missile
5.4/5
A Navy commander experiments with launching missiles from submarines.
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The Flying Missile
1951
The Family Secret
5.7/11
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The Family Secret
1951
Smuggler's Gold
6/1
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Smuggler's Gold
1952
Indian Uprising
6.2/8
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1953
Escape from Fort Bravo
6.2/72
A Southern belle frees a Rebel officer and his men from a Union captain's Arizona fort.
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Escape from Fort Bravo
1943
The North Star
6.1/23
A Ukrainian village must suddenly contend with the Nazi invasion of June 1941. Later re-edited and released as "Armored Attack."
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The North Star
1954
The Egyptian
6.4/89
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The Egyptian
1957
Spoilers of the Forest
0/0
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Spoilers of the Forest
1960
The Gallant Hours
6.722/18
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The Gallant Hours
1952
The Sniper
6.6/70
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The Sniper
1960
The Bramble Bush
5.5/4
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The Bramble Bush
1958
Tarzan's Fight for Life
4.6/10
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Tarzan's Fight for Life
1957
Battle Hymn
6.5/20
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Battle Hymn
1955
The Spoilers
4.8/6
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The Spoilers
1955
Wichita
6.2/51
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Wichita
1958
Nightmare at Ground Zero
0/0
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Nightmare at Ground Zero
1963
The Ugly American
6.6/31
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The Ugly American
1966
Madame X
6.577/39
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Madame X
1955
Atomic Energy as a Force for Good
0/0
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Atomic Energy as a Force for Good
1954
Athena
5.6/7
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Athena
1942
Tennessee Johnson
6.2/7
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Tennessee Johnson
1957
Time Limit
7.024/21
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Time Limit
1952
Carbine Williams
6.4/17
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