KENNETH TOBEY BIOGRAPHY & FILMOGRAPHY:
 
Kenneth Tobey was born on March 23rd, 1917 in Oakland, California with the first name Jesse.  After high school he enrolled at the University of California with the intentions of pursuing a career in law.  While in college he began showing an interest in acting and participated in a number of school productions.
 
Soon he went on to study at the New York's Neighborhood Playhouse and began his acting career as a stage actor doing off-Broadway as well as Broadway productions throughout the 1940's.
 
In 1943 he debuted in his first short film, "The Man on the Ferry" which soon followed with one of his most well known roles in Hollywood on a, "Hopalong Cassidy" western.  Soon he added such film credits to his resume in, "The Stratton Story" (1949) starring James Stewart, "The Thing from Another World" (1951), "The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms" (1953), "Rage at Dawn" (1955) starring Randolph Scott and "It Came from Beneath the Sea" (1956)".
 
Adding to his film credits were numerous television appearances on such shows as, "The Public Defender", "Lassie", "The Lone Ranger", "Bat Masterson", "Sheriff of Cochise", "Bonanza", "The Virginian", "Laramie", "Frontier", "Climax!", "The Loretta Young Show", "Telephone Time", "77 Sunset Strip", "Perry Mason", "I Spy", "Gunsmoke", "Ironside", "Gibbsville", "The Rockford Files", "Emergency!", "Night Court", "The Lone Wolf" and "L.A. Law".  He also at one point had his own television series called, "The Whirlybirds" in 1957 which was highly successful.
 
He returned back to the stage in 1964 to appear in a production of, "Golden Boy" which also had a very successful run.    
 
Kenneth Tobey has married twice throughout his lifetime, first to Violet M. Coglan in 1951 but after one child this marriage ended in divorce.  He then married, June Hutton whom he remained with until she passed away in 1973. 
 
Tobey did not re-marry and on December 22nd, 2002 he passed away at the age of eighty five, in Rancho Mirage, California from natural causes and his remains were cremated.
 

Filmography

1997   The Angry Beavers 

1994   Body Shot 

1994   Star Trek: Deep Space Nine 

1992   Single White Female 

1992   Honey I Blew Up the Kid 

1991   Desire and Hell at Sunset Motel

1991   L.A. Law 

1990   Gremlins 2: The New Batch

1989   Ghost Writer 

1988   Freeway

1988   Big Top Pee-wee

1985-1988  Night Court

1987   Hunter 

1987   Innerspace

1986   Starman 

1986   The Twilight Zone 

1985   The Lost Empire 

1984   Gremlins

1984   Falcon Crest 

1983   Strange Invaders
 
1981   The Howling 

1980   Airplane! 

1980   Galactica 1980

1980   Battles: The Murder That Wouldn't Die

1980   Hero at Large

1979   Vega$

1975-1979  Barnaby Jones

1978   Goodbye, Franklin High

1973-1978  Emergency!

1978   Wild and Wooly

1977-1978  The Rockford Files 

1978   Nowhere to Run

1977   Don't Push, I'll Charge When I'm Ready

1977   The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries

1977   MacArthur 

1977   Most Wanted 

1976-1977  Gibbsville

1974-1976  The Streets of San Francisco 

1976   Gus 

1976   Baby Blue Marine 

1976   W.C. Fields and Me 

1976   Little House on the Prairie 

1975   Starsky and Hutch 

1975   Columbo 

1975   The Family Holvak 

1975   The Wild McCullochs 

1975   S.W.A.T. 

1974-1975  Get Christie Love! 

1975   Movin' On

1974   The Missiles of October 

1973-1974  Police Story 

1974   McMillan & Wife

1974   The ABC Afternoon Playbreak

1972-1974  The Rookies

1974   Homebodies

1970-1974  Ironside

1974   Dirty Mary Crazy Larry 

1974   Chopper One 

1974   Firehouse 

1970-1974  Adam-12 

1974   The Death Squad 

1973   The New Perry Mason

1970-1973  Mannix 

1973   The Alpha Caper 

1973   Coffee, Tea or Me?

1973   Kung Fu

1973   Walking Tall

1971-1972  Alias Smith and Jones

1972   Rod Serling's Night Gallery

1972   Rage

1960-1972  Gunsmoke 

1972   The Crooked Hearts 

1972   Cannon 

1972   The Candidate 

1972   Ben 

1972   Cade's County 

1972   Fireball Forward

1972   Longstreet 

1968-1972  Bonanza 

1971   O'Hara, U.S. Treasury

1971   The F.B.I. 

1971   Terror in the Sky 

1971   Billy Jack 

1970   Breakout 

1967-1970  The Virginian 

1970   Men at Law 

1970   The Andersonville Trial 

1970   It Takes a Thief 

1970   Lassie: Peace Is Our Profession 

1960-1969  Lassie 

1969   Marlowe

1969   The Outsider

1969   Family Affair

1968   The Outcasts 

1968   Judd for the Defense

1967-1968  I Spy

1967   Iron Horse

1967   A Time for Killing 

1967   40 Guns to Apache Pass 

1967   Daniel Boone 

1966   A Man Called Adam 

1965   Our Private World

1965   The Defenders

1964   Temple Houston

1964   Grindl 

1963   The Lieutenant

1963   Arrest and Trial

1963   The Dick Powell Theatre

1963   Stoney Burke 

1962   Stark Fear 

1960-1962  Perry Mason 

1962   Frontier Circus

1962   Target: The Corruptors

1962   Ripcord

1960-1961  Lawman 

1961   X-15

1961   Sea Hunt 

1961   Have Gun - Will Travel 

1961   The Danny Thomas Show

1961   The Americans 

1960   Bronco

1960   Seven Ways from Sundown 

1960   77 Sunset Strip

1960   Overland Trail

1960   The Rebel

1960   Bat Masterson

1957-1960  Whirlybirds 

1959   Alfred Hitchcock Presents 

1959   Laramie 

1959   Wanted: Dead or Alive 

1955-1959  Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color

1958   Jefferson Drum

1958   Behind Closed Doors 

1958   Cry Terror! 

1958   Navy Log

1957   Jet Pilot

1957   The Vampire 

1957   Gunfight at the O.K. Corral 

1957   Code 3 

1957   Panic! 

1957   Crossroads

1957   Sheriff of Cochise

1957   The Wings of Eagles 

1956   The Search for Bridey Murphy 

1956   Conflict 

1955-1956  Frontier 

1953-1956  Schlitz Playhouse

1956   Telephone Time 

1956   The Great Locomotive Chase 

1956   Celebrity Playhouse

1956   Father Knows Best

1955-1956  Science Fiction Theatre

1956   The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit

1956   The Steel Jungle

1954-1955  The Loretta Young Show

1955   It Came from Beneath the Sea

1952-1955  Fireside Theatre

1955   TV Reader's Digest 

1955   Climax! 

1955   Rage at Dawn 

1954-1955  The Public Defender 

1955   The Eddie Cantor Comedy Theater

1955   Captain Fathom

1954   The Steel Cage 

1954   Treasury Men in Action 

1954   Down Three Dark Streets

1954   Ring of Fear

1954   Cavalcade of America

1954   The Lone Wolf

1954   Mayor of the Town 

1953   The Bigamist 

1953   Fighter Attack 

1953   The Courtship of Miles Standish

1953   Lux Video Theatre 

1953   The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms 

1953   Dragnet 

1953   Your Favorite Story

1952   Biff Baker, U.S.A.

1952   Angel Face 

1952   The Unexpected 

1952   Hopalong Cassidy

1951   The Thing from Another World 

1951   Rawhide 

1951   Up Front 

1951   The Company She Keeps 

1950   The Flying Missile

1950   Three Secrets 

1950   Right Cross

1950   Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye 

1950   My Friend Irma Goes West 

1950   The Gunfighter 

1950   The Lone Ranger

1950   Love That Brute

1950   One Way Street 

1950   The File on Thelma Jordon

1949   Twelve O'Clock High

1949   Free for All 

1949   The Doctor and the Girl 

1949   Task Force

1949   I Was a Male War Bride 

1949   The Great Sinner 

1949   Illegal Entry 

1949   The Stratton Story 

1948   He Walked by Night 

1948   Beyond Glory

1947   This Time for Keeps

1947   Dangerous Venture

1945   The Front Page