Paul Kelly
2 credits on HibingeTV
American actor, born in 1899. A child actor who became a busy character lead in the studio era. He served a prison term for manslaughter in the late 1920s and rebuilt his career afterward. He plays the skeptical cop in Fear in the Night (1947).
Acted In
Crime, Noir
A bank teller wakes from a vivid nightmare in which he murders a man in a strange mirrored room, and finds physical evidence in his apartment that suggests it may not have been a dream at all. His brother-in-law, a police detective, does not believe him, until a family picnic strands them near an abandoned mansion that turns out to contain the very room from the dream. The film is based on a Cornell Woolrich story, and it works the Woolrich territory of ordinary people trapped in impossible situations. DeForest Kelley, years before he was Dr. McCoy on Star Trek, makes his film debut as the tormented teller, and Paul Kelly is the skeptical cop. Director Maxwell Shane later remade the film as Nightmare (1956) with Edward G. Robinson. The film entered the public domain due to non-renewal of its copyright.
Crime · Noir · Mystery
Fear in the Night
1947 - as Cliff Herlihy
Family, Adventure
A faithful collie named Shep treks across the wilderness to find the man who framed her master for murder in a gold-mining camp. The last of MGM's Lassie feature films, sometimes retitled Lassie's Adventures in the Gold Rush. The film entered the public domain through non-renewal.
Family · Adventure · Western
The Painted Hills
1951 - as Jonathan Harvey