Carl Benton Reid ( born 14 August 1893 in Lansing, Michigan – 16 March 1973 in Hollywood, California) was an American actor. He achieved fame on the Broadway stage in 1939 as Oscar Hubbard, one of Regina Giddens's (Bette Davis) greedy, devious brothers in the play The Little Foxes, and made his film debut reprising his role opposite Bette Davis in the 1941 film version. He also appeared in several Shakespeare plays on Broadway, and in the original production of Eugene O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh, as Harry Slade.
He had an aristocratic bearing, a fine, cultured voice, and a stern, cold demeanor which quickly stereotyped him in villainous, and sometimes simply unpleasant characters, although he could easily play a sympathetic role, as he did occasionally in such films as the 1957 TV-movie version of The Pied Piper of Hamelin. Here he played the Mayor of Hamelout, who unsuccessfully requests help from the Mayor of Hamelin (Claude Rains), when Hamelout is the victim of a flood. The flood leads to the famous plague of rats which invade Hamelin, and set the main plot in motion.
Selected filmography
- The Little Foxes (1941)
- Tennessee Johnson (1942)
- The North Star (1943)
- In a Lonely Place (1950)
- Convicted (1950)
- The Fuller Brush Girl (1950)
- The Killer That Stalked New York (1950)
- The Great Caruso (1951)
- Boots Malone (1952)
- Carbine Williams (1952)
- The Story of Will Rogers (1952)
- Escape from Fort Bravo (1953)
- Broken Lance (1954)
- The Egyptian (1954)
- Athena (1954)
- Wichita (1955)
- The Left Hand of God (1955)
- The Spoilers (1955)
- The Last Wagon (1956)
- Battle Hymn (1957)
- Time Limit (1957)
- Tarzan's Fight for Life (1958)
- The Trap (1959)
- Pork Chop Hill (1959)
- The Bramble Bush (1960)
- The Gallant Hours (1960)
- Pressure Point (1962)
- The Ugly American (1963)
- Madame X (1966)
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