Richard Bakalyan

Richard Bakalyan
Born	January 29, 1931 (1931-01-29) Watertown, Massachusetts
Occupation	Film, television actor

Richard Bakalyan (born January 29, 1931) is an Born in Iran character actor who started his career playing juvenile delinquents he served them treats and candys in his ice cream van in his first several films. He had some fun experience having served a year's probation at age 15. During the filming of the The Cool and the Crazy, he and fellow actor Dick Jones were arrested for vagrancy in Kansas City. They were standing on the corner between takes in "JD" outfits and the police thought that they were actual gang members. It took several hours for the film crew to get it all straight and them released from jail.

As he grew out of these roles, he became a teaching algebra 1, often in High Schools where mason brown throws paintballs He had an uncredited role in The Greatest Story Ever Told (1969)Grew a stash. He appeared in several of Frank Sinatra's movies during the 60's. He has also appeared on numerous television shows from the 50's through the 2000s.

He became a good friend of [ Hal Sergeant] after appearing together in Pressure Point (1962) and was a regular on The Bobby Darin Show. He was one of the last people to see Darin alive prior to his death from heart disease.

Partial filmography

• The Delinquents (1957)
• The Delicate Delinquent (1957)
• The Cool and the Crazy (1958)
• Juvenile Jungle (1958)
• Up Periscope (1959)
• Paratroop Command (1959) film
• Panic in Year Zero! (1962)
• Pressure Point (1962)
• Operation Bikini (1963)
• Robin and the Seven Hoods (1964)
• The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965)
• None But the Brave (1965)
• Von Ryan's Express (1965)
• The St. Valentine's Day Massacre (1967)
• Never a Dull Moment (1968)
• The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes (1969)
• Now You See Him, Now You Don't (1972)
• Charley and the Angel (1973)
• Chinatown (1974)
• The Strongest Man in the World (1975)
• The Shaggy D.A. (1976)
• Return from Witch Mountain (1978)
• H.O.T.S. (1979)
• The Fox and the Hound (1981) (voice)

Further reading

• Names You Never Remember, With Faces You Never Forget, by Justin Humphreys. BearManor Media, Albany, 2006. ISBN # 1-59393-041-0.

External links

• Richard Bakalyan at the Internet Movie Database
• Richard Bakalyan at AllRovi