Rex Reason

Rex Reason

Rex Reason was an American actor born on November 30, 1928, in Berlin, Germany, to American parents. He grew up in Los Angeles and initially had no acting aspirations, but his mother encouraged both him and his brother Rhodes Reason to pursue acting careers. Reason's acting journey began when he played the lead in "Seventh Heaven" at Glendale's Hoover High School. He then enlisted in the U.S. Army at 17, serving from 1946 to 1948. After his discharge, he enrolled at the Pasadena Playhouse and became involved in little theater. His film career started with a leading role in "Storm Over Tibet" (1952). Reason then signed with Universal-International in 1953, where he appeared in several notable films. He is perhaps best known for his role as Dr. Cal Meacham in the science fiction classic "This Island Earth" (1955). Reason's career also included television work. He starred in two series: the syndicated western "Man Without a Gun" (1957-1959) and the ABC/Warner Bros. drama "The Roaring Twenties" (1960-1962). Known for his tall stature (6'2"), handsome looks, and distinctive baritone voice, Reason left the entertainment industry in the early 1960s to pursue a career in real estate. He was married three times and had two children from his first marriage. Rex Reason passed away on November 19, 2015, in Walnut, California, at the age of 86 due to bladder cancer.

  • Title: Rex Reason
  • Popularity: 0.6638
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1928-11-30
  • Place of Birth: Berlin, Germany
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Rex Reason Movies

  • 1955
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    This Island Earth

    This Island Earth

    6 1955 HD

    Aliens have landed and are hiding on Earth, but need Earth’s scientists to help them fight an inter-planetary war.

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  • 1955
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    Allen in Movieland

    Allen in Movieland

    4.5 1955 HD

    TV goes Hollywood when Steve Allen visits Universal-International to prepare for his upcoming title role in "The Benny Goodman Story."

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  • 2006
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    Witch's Dungeon: 40 Years of Chills

    Witch's Dungeon: 40 Years of Chills

    8.2 2006 HD

    A look behind the scenes at Cortlandt Hull's "The Witch's Dungeon," a movie-themed Halloween attraction in Bristol, Connecticut -- now the longest-running show of its type in the United States.

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  • 1957
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    Band of Angels

    Band of Angels

    6.2 1957 HD

    Living in Kentucky prior to the Civil War, Amantha Starr is a privileged young woman. Her widowed father, a wealthy plantation owner, dotes on her and sends her to the best schools. When he dies suddenly Amantha's world is turned upside down. She learns that her father had been living on borrowed money and that her mother was actually a slave and her father's mistress.

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  • 1956
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    The Creature Walks Among Us

    The Creature Walks Among Us

    5.4 1956 HD

    Scientists surgically transform the Creature into an air-breather, but being able to live on land is not enough to make him comfortable with humans. Enraged, he turns his wrath on anyone who comes near as he desperately tries to return to the deep-water world where he truly belongs.

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  • 1954
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    Taza, Son of Cochise

    Taza, Son of Cochise

    5.5 1954 HD

    Three years after the end of the Apache wars, peacemaking chief Cochise dies. His elder son Taza shares his ideas, but brother Naiche yearns for war...and for Taza's betrothed, Oona. Naiche loses no time in starting trouble which, thanks to a bigoted cavalry officer, ends with the proud Chiricahua Apaches on a reservation, where they are soon joined by the captured renegade Geronimo, who is all it takes to light the firecracker's fuse...

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  • 1956
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    Raw Edge

    Raw Edge

    6 1956 HD

    A Texan arrives in Oregon and seeks justice for his innocently-hanged brother.

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  • 1955
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    Lady Godiva of Coventry

    Lady Godiva of Coventry

    5.25 1955 HD

    Fictionalized account of events leading up the famous nude ride (alas, her hair covers everything) of the militant Saxon lady.

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  • 1955
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    Smoke Signal

    Smoke Signal

    6.8 1955 HD

    Capt. Harper's cavalry patrol returns to the fort to find it besieged by Ute Indians. The apparent cause is the recapture of Army traitor Brett Halliday, who deserted to the Utes in a previous war; but Brett has a different story. With capture imminent, the only chance for the surviving men (and one woman) is to boat down a wild, uncharted river, where Harper and Halliday must pull together, like it or not.

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  • 1955
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    Kiss of Fire

    Kiss of Fire

    3 1955 HD

    In 1700, a Spanish princess travels from New Mexico to California with ruthless outlaw El Tigre as guide.

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  • 1957
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    Badlands of Montana

    Badlands of Montana

    4 1957 HD

    Wanting to follow in his late father's footsteps, eager reformer Steve Brewster runs for mayor of a small Montana town but is forced to flee and join a gang of notorious outlaws after he's provoked into killing two corrupt officials in self-defense. Gang leader Hammer takes Steve in, and Steve falls for his daughter, Susan, but his loyalties are divided when he's appointed marshal of his hometown.

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  • 1952
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    Scaramouche

    Scaramouche

    7 1952 HD

    In 18th-century France, a young man masquerades as an actor to avenge his friend's murder.

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  • 1959
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    The Sad Horse

    The Sad Horse

    1 1959 HD

    A lonely boy finds companionship with a horse.

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  • 1953
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    Salome

    Salome

    5.7 1953 HD

    In the reign of emperor Tiberius, Gallilean prophet John the Baptist preaches against King Herod and Queen Herodias. The latter wants John dead, but Herod fears to harm him due to a prophecy. Enter beautiful Princess Salome, Herod's long-absent stepdaughter. Herodias sees the king's dawning lust for Salome as her means of bending the king to her will. But Salome and her lover Claudius are (contrary to Scripture) nearing conversion to the new religion. And the famous climactic dance turns out to have unexpected implications...

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  • 2014
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    Monster Madness: Mutants, Space Invaders, and Drive-Ins

    Monster Madness: Mutants, Space Invaders, and Drive-Ins

    6 2014 HD

    From THINGS to BODY SNATCHERS to CREATURES FROM THE BLACK LAGOON, sci-fi monsters dominated 1950s horror. Take a ride to an era of drive-ins, Red Scares, low budgets and big bugs with SPACE INVADERS AND DRIVE INS.

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  • 1958
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    The Rawhide Trail

    The Rawhide Trail

    1 1958 HD

    In this western two wagon masters are wrongfully accused of driving their wagon train in to a Comanche raid and are sentenced to hang. Now they must work hard and fast to prove their innocence.

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  • 1959
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    The Miracle of the Hills

    The Miracle of the Hills

    1 1959 HD

    A minister arrives at a run-down mining town to take over the church there. He finds he has his work cut out for him, especially when an earthquake causes a flood in the mineshaft and traps some of the local children.

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  • 1958
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    Thundering Jets

    Thundering Jets

    1 1958 HD

    An Air Force captain teaches pilots to fly jets but doesn't like it.

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  • 1952
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    Storm Over Tibet

    Storm Over Tibet

    6 1952 HD

    During World War II, David Simms pilots supplies between India and China over the Himalaya Mountains.

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  • 1957
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    Under Fire

    Under Fire

    6 1957 HD

    An Army lawyer defends a World War II hero and his men accused of desertion.

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  • 1954
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    Yankee Pasha

    Yankee Pasha

    4 1954 HD

    Tale of an adventurer trying to rescue a damsel kidnapped by pirates.

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  • 1958
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    77 Sunset Strip

    77 Sunset Strip

    6.7 1958 HD

    Stu Bailey and Jeff Spencer are the wisecracking, womanizing private-detective heroes of this Warner Brothers drama. They work out of an office located at 77 Sunset Strip in Los Angeles, California, right next door to a snazzy restaurant where Kookie works as a valet. The finger-snapping, slang-talking Kookie occasionally helps Stu and Jeff with their cases, and eventually becomes a full-fledged member of the detective agency. Rex Randolph and J.R. Hale also join the firm, and Suzanne is their leggy secretary.

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  • 1957
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    Trackdown

    Trackdown

    6.4 1957 HD

    Trackdown is an American Western television series starring Robert Culp that aired on CBS between 1957 and 1959. More than seventy episodes of this series were produced by Dick Powell's Four Star Television and filmed at the Desilu-Culver Studio. The series was itself a spin-off of Powell's anthology series, Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theater.

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  • 1959
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    Bourbon Street Beat

    Bourbon Street Beat

    5 1959 HD

    "Bourbon Street Beat" is a private detective series produced by Warner Brothers Television which aired on the ABC network from October 5, 1959, to July 4, 1960. It featured Richard Long as Rex Randolph, Andrew Duggan as Cal Calhoun, Van Williams as Kenny Madison, and Arlene Howell as Melody Lee Mercer, the secretary at the New Orleans detective agency in which they worked. The show is set in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA and revolves around the lives of Rex Randolph (Long) and Cal Calhoun (Duggan), who run a detective agency called Randolph and Calhoun — Special Services. The agency is based in the Absinthe House, a French Quarter nightclub on Bourbon Street.

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  • 1957
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    Perry Mason

    Perry Mason

    7.708 1957 HD

    The cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most difficult of cases in the aid of the innocent.

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  • 1955
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    The Millionaire

    The Millionaire

    5 1955 HD

    An anthology series that explored the ways sudden and unexpected wealth changed life for better or for worse. It told the stories of people who were given one million dollars from a benefactor who insisted they never know him, with one exception.

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  • 1950
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    Lux Video Theatre

    Lux Video Theatre

    6.3 1950 HD

    Lux Video Theatre is an American anthology series that was produced from 1950 until 1959. The series presented both comedy and drama in original teleplays, as well as abridged adaptations of films and plays.

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  • 1958
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    Bronco

    Bronco

    5.857 1958 HD

    Bronco is a Western series on ABC from 1958 through 1962. It was shown by the BBC in the United Kingdom. The program starred Ty Hardin as Bronco Layne, a former Confederate officer who wandered the Old West, meeting such well-known individuals as Wild Bill Hickok, Billy the Kid, Jesse James, Theodore Roosevelt, Belle Starr, Cole Younger, and John Wesley Hardin.

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  • 1955
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    Matinee Theater

    Matinee Theater

    5 1955 HD

    Matinee Theater is an American anthology series that aired on NBC during the Golden Age of Television, from 1955 to 1958. The series, which ran daily in the afternoon, was frequently live. It was produced by Albert McCleery, Darrell Ross, George Cahan and Frank Price with executive producer George Lowther. McCleery had previously produced the live series Cameo Theatre which introduced to television the concept of theater-in-the-round, TV plays staged with minimal sets. Jim Buckley of the Pewter Plough Playhouse recalled: When Al McCleery got back to the States, he originated a most ambitious theatrical TV series for NBC called Matinee Theater: to televise five different stage plays per week live, airing around noon in order to promote color TV to the American housewife as she labored over her ironing. Al was the producer. He hired five directors and five art directors. Richard Bennett, one of our first early presidents of the Pewter Plough Corporation, was one of the directors and I was one of the art directors and, as soon as we were through televising one play, we had lunch and then met to plan next week’s show. That was over 50 years ago, and I’m trying to think; I believe the TV art director is his own set decorator —yes, of course! It had to be, since one of McCleery’s chief claims to favor with the producers was his elimination of the setting per se and simply decorating the scene with a minimum of props. It took a bit of ingenuity.

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  • 1957
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    Man Without a Gun

    Man Without a Gun

    7.5 1957 HD

    Man Without a Gun, is an American western television series produced by 20th Century Fox television and presented in first-run syndication in the United States from 1957 to 1959. Set in the town of Yellowstone near Yellowstone National Park in the then Dakota Territory during the 1870s, the program starred Rex Reason as newspaper editor Adam MacLean, who brought miscreants to justice without the use of violence or gunplay but through his Yellowstone Sentinel. The co-star was Mort Mills, as Marshal Frank Tallman, who intervened when the "pen" proved not to be "mightier than the sword".Harry Harvey, Sr., was cast in twenty-one episodes as Yellowstone Mayor George Dixon. The program is considered to have been unique because it showcased MacLean's moral ethics and common sense to bring outlaws to justice. The show was also used as a schoolroom to teach the youngsters of the 1950s about decency and the differences between right and wrong.

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  • 1959
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    The Alaskans

    The Alaskans

    5.5 1959 HD

    The Alaskans is a 1959-1960 ABC/Warner Brothers western television series set during the late 1890s in the port of Skagway, Alaska. The show features Roger Moore as "Silky Harris" and Jeff York as "Reno McKee", a pair of adventurers intent on swindling travelers bound for the Yukon Territories during the height of the Klondike Gold Rush. Their plans are inevitably complicated by the presence of singer "Rocky Shaw", "an entertainer with a taste for the finer things in life". The show was the first regular work on American television for the British actor Roger Moore.

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  • 1957
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    Sugarfoot

    Sugarfoot

    4.8 1957 HD

    Sugarfoot is an American western television series that aired on ABC from 1957 to 1961. The series stars Will Hutchins as Tom Brewster, an Easterner who comes to the Oklahoma Territory to become a lawyer. Jack Elam is cast in occasional episodes as sidekick Toothy Thompson. Brewster was a correspondence-school student whose apparent lack of cowboy skills earned him the nickname "Sugarfoot", a designation even below that of a tenderfoot.

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  • 1956
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    Tales of the 77th Bengal Lancers

    Tales of the 77th Bengal Lancers

    5 1956 HD

    Tales of the 77th Bengal Lancers is a television series broadcast in the United States by NBC during its 1956-57 season. In a period in which much of the programming on U.S. television consisted of Westerns, Tales of the 77th Bengal Lancers could best be described as an "Eastern". It consisted of the adventures of a fictional regiment of the famed real-life cavalry of the British Indian Army. The leading characters were the 77th's officers: the commander, Colonel Standish and two of his lieutenants, William Storm and Michael Rhodes. Rhodes was portrayed as a Canadian, purportedly because the actor portraying him, a native of New Jersey, could not be coached to produce a credible British accent.

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  • 1962
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    General Electric True

    General Electric True

    1 1962 HD

    Anthology series based on stories from "True" magazine, hosted by Jack Webb.

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  • 1960
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    The Roaring 20's

    The Roaring 20's

    1 1960 HD

    The adventures of a newspaper reporter covering the world of cops and gangsters in 1920s Chicago.

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