Phillip Pine

Phillip Pine
Philip_Pine.jpg Pine c. 1950
Born	(1920-07-16)July 16, 1920 Hanford, California, U.S.
Died	December 22, 2006(2006-12-22) (aged 86) Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S.
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1945–2005

Phillip Pine (July 16, 1920 – December 22, 2006) was an American film and television actor, writer, film director, and producer. Despite incorrect biographical information repeated on many entertainment sites, he was not related to Robert Pine or Chris Pine.

In a 1957 episode of the same series, Pine again played Hardin. Later that year, he appeared on Gunsmoke, as “Vint” - a cheating card dealer turned murderer in the episode “Moon”.

Pine appeared in two episodes of Adventures of Superman titled "The Mystery of the Broken Statues" and "The Case of the Talkative Dummy". In the latter, he played a theater usher who was part of a robbery gang (see picture in infobox). He appeared in two episodes of Wagon Train titled "The Ben Courtney Story" and "The Esteban Zamora Story" in 1959. Pine was in the second episode of The Outer Limits entitled "The Hundred Days of the Dragon". He also appeared in two episodes of The Twilight Zone, "The Four of Us Are Dying", and "The Incredible World of Horace Ford". Pine appeared as mobster Jack Zuta in the third episode of The Untouchables titled "The Jake Lingle Killing" and in 1962 he co-starred in the episode "The Whitey Steele Story". He also appeared in The Fugitive. He made a 1964 appearance as Phillip Stewart in the Perry Mason episode, "The Case of the Wednesday Woman". In 1964 Pine guest starred on Combat! as Pvt. Steve Cantrell in the third season episode "Birthday Cake". He played a World War II submarine captain marooned inside an underwater cave with four other survivors in the 1965 Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea episode "And Five of Us Are Left".

Pine played a confessed bank robber in the ninth episode of the television series Peter Gunn entitled "Image of Sally", first aired November 17, 1958.

Phillip Pine played Kid Curry in the episode "Kid Curry" on the TV series Tales of Wells Fargo (1959).

In 1967, Pine appeared in an episode of The Invaders entitled "Genesis". Pine also appeared in an episode of Rawhide entitled "Incident at Dangerfield Dip". He also played a gangster known only as "Mark" in Irving Lerner's film noir classic, Murder by Contract.

He appeared in an episode of Kojak (season 5) called "Cry for the Children" as "Eddie Creagan", in an episode of Ironside (season 3) called "Alias Mrs Braithwaite?" and in Hawaii Five-O (season 1) called "Full Fathom 5". Notably, he played a Japanese man in a later Hawaii Five-O episode called "Which Way Did They Go?"

In 1969, Pine appeared in a Star Trek episode of season 3, "The Savage Curtain", as the genocidal Earth warlord Colonel Green. Pine also appeared in the first season of Barnaby Jones in the episode titled "Murder in the Doll's House" (03/25/1973).

Partial filmography

• The Sailor Takes a Wife (1945) - Aide (uncredited)
• The Street with No Name (1948) - Monk (uncredited)
• I Shot Jesse James (1949) - Man in Saloon
• The Set-Up (1949) - Souza
• Red Light (1949) - Pablo Cabrillo
• Battleground (1949) - G.I. Non-Com (uncredited)
• D.O.A. (1949) - Angelo (uncredited)
• My Foolish Heart (1949) - Sgt. Lucey
• The Flame and the Arrow (1950) - One of Dardo's Band (uncredited)
• Insurance Investigator (1951) - 2nd Hood
• The Wild Blue Yonder (1951) - Sgt. Tony
• Hoodlum Empire (1952) - Louis Barretti
• Black Tuesday (1954) - Fiaschetti (uncredited)
• The Phantom from 10,000 Leagues (1955) - George Thomas
• The Price of Fear (1956) - Vince Burton
• Men in War (1957) - Sgt. Riordan
• Gunsmoke (1957) - Vin
• Desert Hell (1958) - Cpl. Carlo Parini
• Murder by Contract (1958) - Marc
• The Lost Missile (1958) - Dr. Joe Freed
• The Big Fisherman (1959) - Lucius
• Combat!, "Birthday Cake" (1964) - Pvt. Steve Cantrell
• Brainstorm (1965) - Dr. Ames
• Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round (1966) - George Logan
• Project X (1968) - Dr. Lee Craig
• Hook, Line & Sinker (1969) - Head Surgeon
• The Cat Ate the Parakeet (1972) - Earl
• Glass Houses (1972) - Ted
• Money to Burn (1983) - Dean Hayden
• Run If You Can (1988) - Kudelski

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1958	Alfred Hitchcock Presents	Victor Manett	Season 3 Episode 36: "The Safe Place"
1959	Wanted Dead or Alive (TV series)	Tom Dunn	season2 episode 4 : "Breakout"
1969	Star Trek: The Original Series	Col. Green	S3:E22, "The Savage Curtain"

External links

• Phillip Pine at IMDb
• Phillip Pine at the Internet Broadway Database
• Phillip Pine at the Internet Off-Broadway Database
• Phillip Pine at Memory Alpha
• Superman episode with Phil Pine