Personal Info
Birth date
1915-08-28 (109 Years)
Day of death
1973-08-27
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Fort Worth, Texas, USA
Also known as
-Tol Avery
Biography
Tol Avery (August 28, 1915 - August 27, 1973) was an American actor.
Filmography
The Andy Griffith Show
7.622
Overview:
The Andy Griffith Show is an American sitcom first televised on CBS between October 3, 1960 and April 1, 1968. Andy Griffith portrays the widowed sheriff of the fictional small community of Mayberry, North Carolina. His life is complicated by an inept, but well-meaning deputy, Barney Fife, a spinster aunt and housekeeper, Aunt Bee, and a precocious young son, Opie. Local ne'er-do-wells, bumbling pals, and temperamental girlfriends further complicate his life. Andy Griffith stated in a Today Show interview, with respect to the time period of the show: "Well, though we never said it, and though it was shot in the '60s, it had a feeling of the '30s. It was when we were doing it, of a time gone by." The series never placed lower than seventh in the Nielsen ratings and ended its final season at number one. It has been ranked by TV Guide as the 9th-best show in American television history. Though neither Griffith nor the show won awards during its eight-season run, series co-stars Knotts and Bavier accumulated a combined total of six Emmy Awards. The show, a semi-spin-off from an episode of The Danny Thomas Show titled "Danny Meets Andy Griffith", spawned its own spin-off series, Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C., a sequel series, Mayberry R.F.D., and a reunion telemovie, Return to Mayberry. The show's enduring popularity has generated a good deal of show-related merchandise. Reruns currently air on TV Land, and the complete series is available on DVD. All eight seasons are also now available by streaming video services such as Netflix.My Three Sons
6.5
Overview:
A widower and aeronautical engineer named Steven Douglas raises three sons with the help of his father-in-law, and later the boys' great-uncle. An adopted son, a stepdaughter, wives, and another generation of sons join the loving family in later seasons.Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
5.5
Overview:
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre, sometimes simply called Zane Grey Theatre, is an American Western anthology series which ran on CBS from 1956 to 1961.Ben Casey
5.6
Overview:
Ben Casey is an American medical drama series which ran on ABC from 1961 to 1966. The show was known for its opening titles, which consisted of a hand drawing the symbols "♂, ♀, ✳, †, ∞" on a chalkboard, as cast member Sam Jaffe intoned, "Man, woman, birth, death, infinity." Neurosurgeon Joseph Ransohoff was a medical consultant for the show and may have influenced the personality of the title character.Dragnet
6.4
Overview:
Follows the cases of a dedicated Los Angeles police detective, Sergeant Joe Friday, and his partners. The show takes its name from the police term "dragnet", meaning a system of coordinated measures for apprehending criminals or suspects.Hawaiian Eye
5.2
Overview:
Private Eyes Tom Lopaka and Tracy Steele are based out of Hawaiian Village Resort where they work both hotel security and are hired by others to look into various matters. They're helped by their trusty right-hand man Kazuo Kim who runs a taxi company and is always eager to help them.Mannix
6.7
Overview:
Mannix is an American television detective series that ran from 1967 through 1975 on CBS. Created by Richard Levinson and William Link and developed by executive producer Bruce Geller, the title character, Joe Mannix, is a private investigator. He is played by Mike Connors. Mannix was the last series produced by Desilu Productions.Bonanza
7.5
Overview:
The High-Sierra adventures of Ben Cartwright and his sons as they run and defend their ranch while helping the surrounding community.Perry Mason
7.7
Overview:
The cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most difficult of cases in the aid of the innocent.Maverick
6.8
Overview:
The Maverick boys - Bret, Bart, Beau and Brent - are a clan of well-dressed dandies, gamblers who'd much rather make their money playing cards than messing up their fine clothing with actual work. Sly and clever, none of the Mavericks are much for acts of derring do, but they can be courageous when the situation calls for it. Most often, however, they live by their wits and considerable charm.Love, American Style
6.056
Overview:
An anthology comedy series featuring a line up of different celebrity guest stars appearing in anywhere from one, two, three, and four short stories or vignettes within an hour about versions of love and romance.Get Smart
7.925
Overview:
Get Smart is an American comedy television series that satirizes the secret agent genre. Created by Mel Brooks with Buck Henry, the show stars Don Adams, Barbara Feldon, and Edward Platt. Henry said they created the show by request of Daniel Melnick, who was a partner, along with Leonard Stern and David Susskind, of the show's production company, Talent Associates, to capitalize on "the two biggest things in the entertainment world today"—James Bond and Inspector Clouseau. Brooks said: "It's an insane combination of James Bond and Mel Brooks comedy." This is the only Mel Brooks production to feature a laugh track. The success of the show eventually spawned the follow-up films The Nude Bomb and Get Smart, Again!, as well as a 1995 revival series and a 2008 film remake. In 2010, TV Guide ranked Get Smart's opening title sequence at No. 2 on its list of TV's Top 10 Credits Sequences, as selected by readers.The F.B.I.
5.5
Overview:
The F.B.I. is an American television series that was broadcast on ABC from 1965 to 1974. It was sponsored by the Ford Motor Company, and the characters almost always drove Ford vehicles in the series. Alcoa was co-sponsor of Season One only.The Millionaire
5
Overview:
An anthology series that explored the ways sudden and unexpected wealth changed life for better or for worse. It told the stories of people who were given one million dollars from a benefactor who insisted they never know him, with one exception.The Lucy Show
7
Overview:
The Lucy Show is an American sitcom that aired on CBS from 1962–68. It was Lucille Ball's follow-up to I Love Lucy. A significant change in cast and premise for the 1965–66 season divides the program into two distinct eras; aside from Ball, only Gale Gordon, who joined the program for its second season, remained. For the first three seasons, Vivian Vance was the co-star. The earliest scripts were entitled The Lucille Ball Show, but when this title was declined, producers thought of calling the show This Is Lucy or The New Adventures of Lucy, before deciding on the title The Lucy Show. Ball won consecutive Emmy Awards as Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series for the series' final two seasons, 1966–67 and 1967–68.Land of the Giants
6.756
Overview:
Set fifteen years in the then-future year 1983, the series tells the tale of the crew and passengers of a sub-orbital transport ship named Spindrift. In the pilot episode, the Spindrift is en route from Los Angeles to London, on an ultra-fast sub-orbital flight. Just beyond Earth's boundary with space, the Spindrift encounters a magnetic space storm, and is dragged through a space warp to a mysterious planet where everything is twelve times larger than on Earth, whose inhabitants the Earthlings nickname "the Giants". The Spindrift crash-lands, and the damage renders it inoperable.Kraft Suspense Theatre
5.3
Overview:
Kraft Suspense Theatre is an American anthology series that was telecast from 1963 to 1965 on NBC. Sponsored by Kraft Foods, it was seen three weeks out of every four and was pre-empted for Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall specials once monthly. Como's production company, Roncom Films, also produced Kraft Suspense Theatre. Writer, editor, critic and radio playwright Anthony Boucher served as consultant on the series. Later syndicated under the title Crisis, it was one of the few suspense series telecast in color at the time. While most of NBC's shows were in color then, all-color network line-ups did not become the norm until the 1966-67 season.The Adventures of Kit Carson
5.3
Overview:
The Adventures of Kit Carson is an American Western series that aired in syndication from August 1951 to November 1955, originally sponsored by Coca-Cola. It stars Bill Williams in the title role as frontier scout Christopher "Kit" Carson. Don Diamond co-starred as "El Toro", Carson's Mexican companion.Surfside 6
5
Overview:
Surfside 6 was an ABC television series which aired from 1960 to 1962. The show centered on a Miami Beach detective agency set on a houseboat and featured Troy Donahue as Sandy Winfield II; Van Williams as Kenny Madison; and Lee Patterson as Dave Thorne. Diane McBain co-starred as socialite Daphne Dutton, whose yacht was berthed next to their houseboat. Margarita Sierra also had a supporting role as Cha Cha O'Brien, an entertainer who worked at The Boom Boom Room, a popular Miami Beach hangout at the Fontainebleau Hotel, directly across the street from Surfside 6. Surfside 6 was in fact a real address in Miami Beach, where an unrelated houseboat was moored at the time; it can also be seen in the sweeping aerial establishing shot of the Fontainebleu in 1964's Goldfinger.Death Valley Days
6.4
Overview:
Death Valley Days is an American radio and television anthology series featuring true stories of the old American West, particularly the Death Valley area. Created in 1930 by Ruth Woodman, the program was broadcast on radio until 1945 and continued from 1952 to 1970 as a syndicated television series, with reruns continuing through August 1, 1975. The series was sponsored by the Pacific Coast Borax Company and hosted by Stanley Andrews, Ronald Reagan, Robert Taylor, and Dale Robertson. With the passing of Dale Robertson in 2013, all the former Death Valley Days hosts are now deceased.Cheyenne
5.8
Overview:
Cheyenne Bodie was a big man, a former army scout who went west after the American Civil War and drifted from job to job, here a cowboy, there a lawman, and always a larger-than-life hero. CHEYENNE is an American western television series of 108 black-and-white episodes broadcast on ABC from 1955 to 1963. The show was the first hour-long western, and in fact the first hour-long dramatic series of any kind, with continuing characters, to last more than one season. It was also the first series to be made by a major Hollywood film studio which did not derive from its established film properties, and the first of a long chain of Warner Brothers original series produced by William T. Orr.Batman
7.306
Overview:
Wealthy entrepreneur Bruce Wayne and his ward Dick Grayson lead a double life: they are actually crime fighting duo Batman and Robin. A secret Batpole in the Wayne mansion leads to the Batcave, where Police Commissioner Gordon often calls with the latest emergency threatening Gotham City. Racing to the scene of the crime in the Batmobile, Batman and Robin must (with the help of their trusty Bat-utility-belt) thwart the efforts of a variety of master criminals, including The Riddler, The Joker, Catwoman, and The Penguin.State Trooper
5
Overview:
State Trooper is an American crime drama set in the 1950s American West, starring Rod Cameron as Rod Blake, an officer of the Nevada Department of Public Safety. The series aired 104 episodes in syndication from September 25, 1956, to June 25, 1959.Mission: Impossible
7.6
Overview:
Mission: Impossible is an American television series that was created and initially produced by Bruce Geller. It chronicles the missions of a team of secret government agents known as the Impossible Missions Force. In the first season, the team is led by Dan Briggs, played by Steven Hill; Jim Phelps, played by Peter Graves, takes charge for the remaining seasons. A hallmark of the series shows Briggs or Phelps receiving his instructions on a recording that then self-destructs, followed by the theme music composed by Lalo Schifrin. The series aired on the CBS network from September 1966 to March 1973, then returned to television for two seasons on ABC, from 1988 to 1990, retaining only Graves in the cast. It later inspired a popular series of theatrical motion pictures starring Tom Cruise, beginning in 1996.Adam-12
7
Overview:
Adam-12 is a television police drama that followed two police officers of the Los Angeles Police Department, Pete Malloy and Jim Reed, as they patrolled the streets of Los Angeles in their patrol unit, 1-Adam-12.The Wild Wild West
7.5
Overview:
The Wild Wild West is an American television series. Developed at a time when the television western was losing ground to the spy genre, this show was conceived by its creator, Michael Garrison, as "James Bond on horseback." Set during the administration of President Ulysses Grant, the series followed Secret Service agents James West and Artemus Gordon as they solved crimes, protected the President, and foiled the plans of megalomaniacal villains to take over all or part of the United States. The show also featured a number of fantasy elements, such as the technologically advanced devices used by the agents and their adversaries. The combination of the Victorian era time-frame and the use of Verne-esque style technology have inspired some to give the show credit for the origins of the steam punk subculture.The Walter Winchell File
5
Overview:
The Walter Winchell File is the title of a television crime drama series that initially aired from 1957 to 1958, dramatizing cases from the New York City Police Department that were covered in the New York Daily Mirror. The series featured columnist and announcer Walter Winchell, John Larch, George Cisar, Robert Anderson, Robert Brubaker, Dolores Donlon, and Gene Barry, a year before he was cast in the lead of NBC's Bat Masterson. Thirty-nine episodes were produced; the first twenty-six aired on ABC during the 1957-1958 season, and the final thirteen were seen in syndication in 1959. Among the guest stars was the child actor Dennis Holmes, who played 7-year-old Allie Marisch in the 1957 episode "Thou Shalt Not Kill."Acting
1973The Marcus-Nelson Murders as Justice Redding
1973Set This Town on Fire as Chief Murdoch
1972The Sandy Duncan Show (1 Episode) as Unknown
1970R.P.M. as Parent at Police Station
1970WUSA as Senator
1969A Dream of Kings as Herman (uncredited)
1969Love, American Style (1 Episode) as Unknown
1968Here's Lucy (1 Episode) as Auctioneer
1968Land of the Giants (1 Episode) as Mr. Derg
1968Adam-12 (1 Episode) as Arch B. Warren
1967Mannix (3 Episodes) as Slade
1967He & She (1 Episode) as Mr. McCready
1967Hotel as Kilbrick
1967Rango (1 Episode) as Unknown
1966Mission: Impossible (1, 1 Episode) as Samuels, Stone
1966That Girl (1 Episode) as Unknown
1966Batman (2, 1 Episode) as Prescott Belmont, Deputy Mayor Zorty
1965The F.B.I. (1, 1 Episode) as Lloyd Talbot, Dr. Louis Naples
1965Get Smart (1 Episode) as Unknown
1965The Wild Wild West (2 Episodes) as Asa Dempster
1965Laredo (1 Episode) as Unknown
1965Lost in Space (1 Episode) as Warden
1965F Troop (1 Episode) as Unknown
1965The Satan Bug as Detective Captain at Baseball Stadium
1964Profiles in Courage (1 Episode) as William Jennings Bryan
1964Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. (2 Episodes) as Mr. Gibbons
1964Slattery's People (36 Episodes) as Bert Metcalf
1964The Rogues (1 Episode) as Chief
1963Kraft Suspense Theatre (1, 1 Episode) as 3rd Judge, Publisher
1963Grindl (1 Episode) as Unknown
1963A Ticklish Affair as Charlie (uncredited)
1962Period of Adjustment as Santa Claus (uncredited)
1962The Lucy Show (1 Episode) as Mr. Grantland
1962General Electric True (1 Episode) as Unknown
1962The Virginian (1, 1, 1, 1, 1 Episode) as Coroner, General Pierpont J. Caswell, John Fix, Willard Arlington Rutledge, Prosecuting Attorney
1961Twist Around The Clock as Joe Marshall
1961Ben Casey (1 Episode) as Unknown
1961Man-Trap as Lt. Heisen
1961Mister Ed (1 Episode) as Unknown
1960Surfside 6 (1 Episode) as Unknown
1960The Andy Griffith Show (1, 1, 1 Episode) as Ben Weaver, Driver, Jury foreman
1960My Three Sons (1 Episode) as Unknown
1960Pete and Gladys (1 Episode) as Unknown
1960This Rebel Breed as Dr. Drake
1960Johnny Midnight (1 Episode) as Unknown
1959Hawaiian Eye (2 Episodes) as Unknown
1959Bourbon Street Beat (2 Episodes) as Unknown
1959The Third Man (1 Episode) as Unknown
1959Bonanza (1, 1, 1 Episode) as Almont, Philip Bradley, Troutman
1959North by Northwest as State Police Detective (uncredited)
195877 Sunset Strip (2 Episodes) as Unknown
1958Bronco (2 Episodes) as Unknown
1958Buchanan Rides Alone as Judge Simon Agry
1958The Case Against Brooklyn as Dist. Atty. Michael W. Norris
1957The Walter Winchell File (1 Episode) as Unknown
1957Maverick (6, 1 Episode) as George Cross, John Sloan
1957Perry Mason (1 Episode) as Charles L. Welsh
1957The Thin Man (2 Episodes) as Unknown
1957M Squad (1 Episode) as Eddie Constantine
1957Sugarfoot (1 Episode) as Jim Case
1957The Unholy Wife as Carl Kramer
1957Tales of Wells Fargo (1 Episode) as Kellems
1956Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre (1, 1 Episode) as Saloonkeeper Lawson, Henry Jackson
1956State Trooper (1 Episode) as Unknown
1955I'll Cry Tomorrow as Fat Man
1955All That Heaven Allows as Tom Allenby
1955Cheyenne (1 Episode) as Unknown
1955The Millionaire (1 Episode) as Vince - Trucking Co. Asst.
1954Naked Alibi as Irish
1954Studio 57 (1 Episode) as Unknown
1954Public Defender (1 Episode) as Hans
1954She Couldn't Say No as Big Guy
1953City Detective (3 Episodes) as Unknown
1952Death Valley Days (1 Episode) as Mayor George Hubble
1952Scarlet Angel as Phineas Calhoun
1952Gang Busters (1 Episode) as Unknown
1951Dragnet (2 Episodes) as Unknown
1951His Kind of Woman as Fat Hoodlum (uncredited)
1951The Adventures of Kit Carson (3 Episodes) as Unknown
1950Gambling House as Adams (uncredited)
1950Where Danger Lives as Honest Ha (uncredited)
1950Bunco Squad as Police Captain Edwards (uncredited)