Personal Info
Birth date
1906-05-07 (119 Years)
Day of death
1986-03-19
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Canton, Ohio, USA
Also known as
-Jon Lormer
Biography
Jon Lormer (May 7, 1906 – March 19, 1986) was an American actor, known for his guest and supporting roles in television series, such as the 1960s' Star Trek, The Twilight Zone, Perry Mason, Peyton Place, and mega movie performance in Creepshow as Nathan Grantham.
Filmography
The Andy Griffith Show
7.6
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.Lassie
6.1
Overview:
Lassie is the pet of Jeff Miller, an 11-year-old farm boy. The two become best friends and enjoy family adventures in the American countryside, teaching each other about love, nature and commitment.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.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.Quincy, M.E.
7.5
Overview:
Los Angeles County medical examiner Quincy routinely engages in police investigations.Have Gun, Will Travel
7.4
Overview:
Have Gun – Will Travel is an American Western television series that aired on CBS from 1957 through 1963. It was rated number three or number four in the Nielsen ratings every year of its first four seasons. It was one of the few television shows to spawn a successful radio version. The radio series debuted November 23, 1958. The television show is presently shown on the Encore-Western channel. Have Gun – Will Travel was created by Sam Rolfe and Herb Meadow and produced by Frank Pierson, Don Ingalls, Robert Sparks, and Julian Claman. There were 225 episodes of the TV series, 24 written by Gene Roddenberry. Other contributors included Bruce Geller, Harry Julian Fink, Don Brinkley and Irving Wallace. Andrew McLaglen directed 101 episodes and 19 were directed by series star Richard Boone.Columbo
8.088
Overview:
Columbo is a friendly, verbose, disheveled-looking police detective who is consistently underestimated by his suspects. Despite his unprepossessing appearance and apparent absentmindedness, he shrewdly solves all of his cases and secures all evidence needed for indictment. His formidable eye for detail and meticulously dedicated approach often become clear to the killer only late in the storyline.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.Magnum, P.I.
7.275
Overview:
A private investigator who works when he wants, lives in a beachfront estate in Hawaii, drives a posh Ferrari, runs up an unlimited tab at a swank bar, and charms attractive women in peril - that's the lifestyle of Thomas Magnum, aka Magnum, P.I.The Waltons
7.1
Overview:
The Waltons live their life in a rural Virginia community during the Great Depression and World War II.Star Trek
8.015
Overview:
Space. The Final Frontier. The U.S.S. Enterprise embarks on a five year mission to explore the galaxy. The Enterprise is under the command of Captain James T. Kirk with First Officer Mr. Spock, from the planet Vulcan. With a determined crew, the Enterprise encounters Klingons, Romulans, time paradoxes, tribbles and genetic supermen led by Khan Noonian Singh. Their mission is to explore strange new worlds, to seek new life and new civilizations, and to boldly go where no man has gone before.Dr. Kildare
5.5
Overview:
The story of a young intern in a large metropolitan hospital trying to learn his profession, deal with the problems of his patients, and win the respect of the senior doctor in his specialty, internal medicine.Little House on the Prairie
7.939
Overview:
Little House on the Prairie is an American Western drama television series, starring Michael Landon, Melissa Gilbert, and Karen Grassle, about a family living on a farm in Walnut Grove, Minnesota, in the 1870s and 1880s.Lou Grant
7.25
Overview:
The trials of a former television station manager turned newspaper city editor, and his journalist staff.The Big Valley
6.1
Overview:
The Big Valley is an American western television series which ran on ABC from September 15, 1965, to May 19, 1969. The show stars Barbara Stanwyck, as the widow of a wealthy nineteenth century California rancher. It was created by A.I. Bezzerides and Louis F. Edelman, and produced by Levy-Gardner-Laven for Four Star Television.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.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.Wanted: Dead or Alive
6.894
Overview:
Wanted: Dead or Alive is an American Western television series starring Steve McQueen as the bounty hunter Josh Randall. It aired on CBS for three seasons from 1958–61. The black-and-white program was a spin-off of a March 1958 episode of Trackdown, a 1957–59 western series starring Robert Culp. Both series were produced by Four Star Television in association with CBS Television. The series launched McQueen into becoming the first television star to cross over into comparable status on the big screen.The Real McCoys
5.6
Overview:
The Real McCoys is an American situation comedy co-produced by Danny Thomas' "Marterto Productions", in association with Walter Brennan and Irving Pincus' "Westgate" company. The series aired for five seasons on the ABC-TV network from 1957 through 1962 and then for its final year on CBS from 1962 to 1963. The series, set in the San Fernando Valley of California, was filmed in Hollywood at Desilu studios.Route 66
6.3
Overview:
After discovering that his late father has gone through most of the family fortune, Tod Stiles hits the title trans-America highway in his Corvette in search of adventure with friend Buz Murdock, a survivor of New York's mean streets. The two work odd jobs as they meet and interact with colorful characters and find themselves plunged into one situation after another, some of them romantic, some of them very dangerous. Later, Linc Case, a Vietnam war hero trying to find himself, takes over as Tod's travel companion.The Twilight Zone
8.449
Overview:
A series of unrelated stories containing drama, psychological thriller, fantasy, science fiction, suspense, and/or horror, often concluding with a macabre or unexpected twist.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.Peter Gunn
6.5
Overview:
Peter Gunn is an American private eye television series. Filmed in a film noir atmosphere and featuring Henry Mancini music that could tell you the action with your eyes closed, Peter Gunn worked in style. Known as Pete to his friends and simply as Gunn to his enemies, he did his job in a calm cool way.Barney Miller
7.3
Overview:
Barney Miller is an American situation comedy television series set in a New York City police station in Greenwich Village. The series originally was broadcast from January 23, 1975 to May 20, 1982 on ABC. It was created by Danny Arnold and Theodore J. Flicker. Noam Pitlik directed the majority of the episodes.Ironside
6.8
Overview:
When an assassin's bullet confines him to a wheelchair for life ending his career as Chief of Detectives, Robert T. Ironside becomes a consultant to the police department. Detective Sergeant Ed Brown and policewoman Eve Whitfield join with him to crack varied and fascinating cases. Ex-con Mark Sanger is employed by the chief as home help but eventually becomes a fully fledged member of the team also. Officer Whitfield leaves after 4 years service, and is replaced by Officer Fran Belding.Thriller
6.417
Overview:
Thriller is an American anthology television series that aired during the 1960–61 and 1961–62 seasons on NBC. The show featured host Boris Karloff introducing a mix of self-contained, macabre weird-horror and morbid, hitchockian crime stories, in some of which he also starred.Dennis the Menace
6.5
Overview:
This 1959-1963 television situation comedy series follows the lives of the Mitchell family, Henry, Alice, and their only child Dennis, an energetic, trouble-prone, mischievous, but well-meaning boy, who often tangles with his peace-and-quiet-loving neighbor George Wilson, a retired salesman, or, later, with George's brother John, a writer. Dennis is basically a good, well-intentioned boy who always tries to help people, but who winds up making situations worse – often at Mr. Wilson's expense.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."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.Acting
1984Highway to Heaven (1 Episode) as Unknown
1982Creepshow as Nathan Grantham (segment "Father's Day")
1981Nero Wolfe (1 Episode) as The Butler
1981The Boogens as Greenwalt, the old man
1981Beyond the Next Mountain as Unknown
1980Magnum, P.I. (1 Episode) as Barker
1980The Forgotten City of the Planet of the Apes as Scientist
1979The Golden Gate Murders as Archbishop
1978With This Ring as Reverend
1978Loose Change as Mike
1977The Incredible Hulk (1 Episode) as Dr. Rawlins
1977Lou Grant (1 Episode) as Unknown
1976Quincy, M.E. (1 Episode) as Unknown
1975Conspiracy of Terror as Mr. Slate
1975Rooster Cogburn as Rev. Goodnight
1975The Legend of Lizzie Borden as Bailiff
1975Barney Miller (1 Episode) as Mr. Fuller
1974Planet of the Apes (1 Episode) as Unknown
1974Harry O (2 Episodes) as Unknown
1974Paper Moon (1 Episode) as Unknown
1974Little House on the Prairie (2 Episodes) as Unknown
1974Rhoda (1 Episode) as Unknown
1974The Gun and the Pulpit as Luther
1973Frankenstein as Charles de Lacey
1972The Waltons (1 Episode) as Unknown
1972Lassie: Joyous Sound as Man With Yorkshire Terrier (uncredited)
1971Columbo (1 Episode) as Hearing Officer
1971Doctors' Wives as Elderly M.D.
1971Alias Smith and Jones (5 Episodes) as Unknown
1970Getting Straight as Vandenburg
1969The Young Lawyers as Judge
1969The Learning Tree as McCormack
1968If He Hollers, Let Him Go! as Chaplain
1968Lancer (1 Episode) as Unknown
1968Adam-12 (1 Episode) as George Sawyer
1967Mannix (3 Episodes) as Unknown
1967The Guns of Will Sonnett (1 Episode) as Unknown
1967Doctor, You've Got to Be Kidding! as Doctor
1967Ironside (2 Episodes) as Unknown
1967The Invaders (1 Episode) as Minister
1966Dimension 5 as Professor
1966Mission: Impossible (1, 1 Episode) as Charles Gant, Minister
1966Star Trek (1, 1 Episode) as Old Man, Tamar
1966Batman (1 Episode) as Professor Dactyl
1965The Further Adventures of Gallegher as Pete
1965Hank (1 Episode) as Unknown
1965The F.B.I. (1 Episode) as Earl Page
1965The Wild Wild West (1 Episode) as Boatman
1965Laredo (1 Episode) as Unknown
1965The Big Valley (1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 Episode) as Wilson, Doc Saxton, Dr. Thomas J. Merar, Dr. Merar, Senator Roberts, Dr. Russell
1965Run for Your Life (1 Episode) as Judge Wallace Barnes
1965Zebra in the Kitchen as Judge
1965Star Trek: The Cage as Dr. Theodore Haskins
1965Branded (3 Episodes) as Unknown
1965Two on a Guillotine as Minister at Funeral (uncredited)
1964Youngblood Hawke as Dr. Eversill (uncredited)
1964Daniel Boone (1, 1 Episode) as Eli Jimson, Yellow Knife
1964Wendy and Me (1 Episode) as Unknown
1964Kisses for My President as Chief Justice (uncredited)
1964A Tiger Walks as Mr. Wilson
1964One Man's Way as John Hellman
1964Dead Ringer as Alonzo (uncredited)
1963The Fugitive (1, 2 Episode) as Conductor, Pastor
1962The Virginian (1 Episode) as Tom the Blacksmith
1962Saints and Sinners (1 Episode) as Templar
1962The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm as The Doctor
1961The Comancheros as White-Haired Man on Riverboat (uncredited)
1961Gunfight at Black Horses Canyon as The Clerk
1961Ben Casey (2 Episodes) as Unknown
1961Dr. Kildare (1 Episode) as Mr. Teale
1960Where the Boys Are as Elderly Man Outside Motel (uncredited)
1960Route 66 (2 Episodes) as Unknown
1960The Andy Griffith Show (2, 1 Episode) as Fletch Dilbeck, Parnell Rigsby
1960My Three Sons (2 Episodes) as Unknown
1960Thriller (1 Episode) as Undetermined Role (credit only)
1960The Tall Man (1 Episode) as Unknown
1960Tate (1 Episode) as Unknown
1960Pollyanna as Mr. Geary (Uncredited)
1960The Gazebo as Dr. Weiner
1959Bourbon Street Beat (1 Episode) as Unknown
1959Dennis the Menace (1 Episode) as Unknown
1959The Rebel (1, 1 Episode) as Doctor, Judge Adam Ricker
1959The Twilight Zone (3, 1 Episode) as Minister, Strauss
1959Riverboat (1 Episode) as Dr. Landers
1959One Step Beyond (1 Episode) as Realtor Leach
1959Rawhide as Unknown
1959Destination Space as Prof. Logan
1958Rally 'Round the Flag, Boys! as Town Official
195877 Sunset Strip (1 Episode) as Unknown
1958Lawman (5 Episodes) as Unknown
1958Naked City (1 Episode) as Minister
1958Bronco (1 Episode) as Unknown
1958Peter Gunn (2 Episodes) as Unknown
1958Wanted: Dead or Alive (1, 1 Episode) as Mark Crow (uncredited), Jack the Stableman (uncredited)
1958Girls on the Loose as Doctor
1957The Real McCoys (2 Episodes) as Unknown
1957The Walter Winchell File (1 Episode) as Unknown
1957Maverick (1, 1, 1 Episode) as Unknown, Somers, Newspaperman
1957Perry Mason (1, 7, 1, 2 Episode) as Coroner, Autopsy Surgeon, Dr. Oberon, Medical Examiner
1957Sugarfoot (1, 1 Episode) as Sam McClain, Doc Basher
1957Have Gun, Will Travel (1 Episode) as Unknown
1957Richard Diamond, Private Detective (1 Episode) as Gerald Wilkerson
1956Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre (1 Episode) as Doc
1955Cheyenne (1 Episode) as Dan Slater
1955Gunsmoke (1, 1, 1, 1, 1 Episode) as Jesse Wheat, Clerk, Judge Clairborne, Cody Sims, Judge Clayborne
1955The Millionaire (1 Episode) as Job Foreman
1954Lassie (4 Episodes) as Unknown
1953Letter to Loretta (1, 1 Episode) as Dr. Gibbs, Doctor