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Kenneth Tobey (Born March 23, 1917 — December 22, 2002) was an American television and film actor.

Born in Oakland, California, Kenneth Tobey was headed for a law career when he first dabbled in acting at the University of Callifornia Little Theater. That experience led to a year and a half of study at New York's Neighborhood Playhouse, where his classmates included Gregory Peck, Eli Wallach and Tony Randall. Throughout the 1940s, Tobey acted on Broadway and in stock; he made his film debut in a 1943 short, The Man of the Ferry. He made his Hollywood film bow in a Hopalong Cassidy Western, and went on to appear in scores of features and on numerous television series. In 1951, Mr. Tobey was cast in Howard Hawks' production of the science fiction classic The Thing From Another World, playing Captain Hendry, a USAF pilot and leader of the arctic polar station's dogged defense against the movie's title character, as portrayed by James Arness. That role led to other sci-fi film roles in the 1950's, usually cast in the role of a military man. In 1957, he co-starred with John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara in John Ford's Wings of Angels. That same year, he even had his own TV series Whirlybirds, in which he played a helicopter pilot. Mr. Tobey continued to work in films and television through the 1970's and 1980's, appearing in such movies as Walking Tall
and Airplane. In 2002, he died of natural causes in Rancho Mirage, California at age 85.

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