Kenneth Tobey's Main TV Roles Show Character(s) I Spy Russ Conway The Family Holvak McGrath Our Private World Dick Robinson Whirlybirds Chuck Martin

Main Movie Roles 2005 - The Naked Monster 1992 - Single White Female 1991 - Desire and Hell at Sunset Motel 1990 - Gremlins 2: The New Batch 1988 - Big Top Pee-wee 1987 - InnerSpace 1984 - Gremlins 1983 - Strange Invaders 1981 - The Howling 1980 - Hero at Large 1980 - Airplane! 1977 - MacArthur 1976 - Gus 1974 - Dirty Mary Crazy Larry 1973 - Walking Tall 1972 - The Candidate 1972 - Ben 1971 - Billy Jack 1969 - Marlowe 1967 - A Time for Killing 1961 - X-15 1958 - Cry Terror! 1957 - The Wings of Eagles 1957 - Gunfight at the O.K. Corral 1956 - The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit 1955 - Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier 1955 - It Came from Beneath the Sea 1955 - Rage at Dawn 1954 - Down Three Dark Streets 1953 - The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms 1952 - Angel Face 1951 - Rawhide 1951 - The Thing from Another World 1950 - Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye 1950 - Three Secrets 1950 - The Gunfighter 1950 - The File on Thelma Jordon 1949 - I Was a Male War Bride 1949 - Illegal Entry 1949 - Twelve O'Clock High 1949 - The Stratton Story 1948 - He Walked by Night 1947 - This Time for Keeps

BIOGRAPHY:

Born in Oakland, California, Kenneth Tobey was headed for a law career when he first dabbled in acting at the University of California Little Theater. That experience led to a year and a half of study at New York's Neighborhood Playhouse, where his classmates included Gregory Peck, Eli Wallach and Tony Randall (I). Throughout the 1940s Tobey acted on Broadway and in stock; he made his film debut in a 1943 short, "The Man on the Ferry." He made his Hollywood film bow in a Hopalong Cassidy Western, and has since appeared in scores of features and on numerous TV series. He even had his own series, "Whirlybirds" (1957), in which he played an adventurous helicopter pilot.


TRIVIA:

• Had one daughter, Tina, by his first wife Penny.
• Interviewed in Tom Weaver's book "Attack of the Monster Movie Makers" (McFarland & Co., 1994).