Birthday: 19 January 1925, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Birth Name: Frederick Glendinning Eisley
Height: 183 cm
The future stage, screen and TV star (real name: Fred Eisley) was born in Philadelphia. His father was general sales manager and "troubleshooter" for a large company, and his work kept the family on the move (up and down the East Coast) throughout Eisley's young life. As early as the days of school plays Eisley knew that he wanted to...
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The future stage, screen and TV star (real name: Fred Eisley) was born in Philadelphia. His father was general sales manager and "troubleshooter" for a large company, and his work kept the family on the move (up and down the East Coast) throughout Eisley's young life. As early as the days of school plays Eisley knew that he wanted to be an actor, but because he lacked show-business contacts he felt nothing would come of his aspiration. He later took drama courses at the University of Miami, "not because I thought I could really be an actor, but because I was taking the easy way out to get a degree". Finally following up on his longtime ambition, Eisley landed a job with a stock company in Pennsylvania, where he worked opposite James Dunn in a stage production of "A Slight Case of Murder." Later roles in long-running plays like "Mister Roberts", "Picnic" and "The Desperate Hours" ensued, along with some early movie (Operation Pacific (1951), Fearless Fagan (1952)) and television (Racket Squad (1950)) work. Eisley later went on to TV and exploitation movie stardom. Show less «
[on working with Al Adamson] I had never gotten that close personally to Al. I never disliked him, b...Show more »
[on working with Al Adamson] I had never gotten that close personally to Al. I never disliked him, but I kept an emotional distance from him because I felt that he had excruciatingly bad taste. I wanted to reserve the right to say, "No, thanks, Al. I won't do that". So I never warmed up to him too much. Show less «
[on working with Mamie Van Doren on The Navy vs. the Night Monsters (1966)] Her nose was out of join...Show more »
[on working with Mamie Van Doren on The Navy vs. the Night Monsters (1966)] Her nose was out of joint about everything in the world at the time. I have no idea why, but she wouldn't even say hello! You'd play a scene with her and it was like she was in another world, and she was offended at people talking to her even when you were just doing dialog! It was just incredible; I don't know what her problem was, but she couldn't wait to leave. That was very uncomfortable. Show less «
[about making Monster (1980)] . . . That was a disaster. The producer [Kenneth Hartford] raised enou...Show more »
[about making Monster (1980)] . . . That was a disaster. The producer [Kenneth Hartford] raised enough money to get us on location and buy ten feet of film, I guess, to start out . . . that was a terrible experience. Show less «
