Ted de Corsia

Ted de Corsia Biography

Ted de Corsia (September 29, 1903 – April 11, 1973) was an American radio, film, and television actor best remembered for his role as a gangster turned state's evidence in the 1951 film, The Enforcer (1951). In radio, he voiced roles on The March of Time, The Shadow, and Mike Hammer.

De Corsia was born in Brooklyn, New York. He made his movie debut in Orson Welles' The Lady from Shanghai and went on to make a career playing villains and gangsters in 1940s and 1950s films including The Naked City (1948),The Big Combo (1955), The Killing (1956), Baby Face Nelson, and Slightly Scarlet (1956).

In the late 1950s and 1960s, he appeared in a number of television series, mostly westerns. He was featured on three episodes of the CBS courtroom drama series Perry Mason, including the 1964 episode "The Case of the Drifting Dropout" when he played murder victim Mort Lynch, and "The Case of the Positive Negative" in 1966 when he played murder victim George Emory. Other television appearances included The Californians, Jefferson Drum, Richard Diamond, Private Detective, Frontier Doctor, Riverboat, Tate, The Twilight Zone, Lawman, Stoney Burke, Rawhide, Daniel Boone, Gunsmoke, The Dakotas, I Dream of Jeannie and Get Smart.

In his last film, The Outside Man with Ann-Margret and Angie Dickinson, his character, the mobster Victor, is killed off early in the film, but he later appears as his embalmed corpse, posed in a chair, holding a cigar.

He died at the age of 69 in Encino, California, from a heart attack. His body was donated to medical science upon his death.

Selected filmography

Year	Title	Role
1948	The Naked City	Willie Garzah
1949	The Life of Riley
1949	It Happens Every Spring
1951	Crazy Over Horses
1951	A Place In The Sun
1954	20,000 Leagues under the Sea
1954	Crime Wave
1955	The Big Combo
1956	Slightly Scarlet
	The Conqueror
	The Killing
1957	Gunfight at the O.K. Corral	Shanghai Pierce
1964	The Quick Gun	Jud Spangler
1966	Nevada Smith

He was also credited as Ted DeCorsia and Ted De Corsia.

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