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Byron Foulger

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Actor
Born:
1900
Death:
April 4, 1970 in Hollywood, CA
Biography:In the 1959 "Twilight Zone" episode "Walking Distance," "Gig Young" comments that he thinks he's seen drugstore counterman "Byron Foulger" before. "I've got that kind of face" was the counterman's reply. Indeed, Foulger's mustachioed, bespectacled, tremble-chinned, moon-shaped countenance was one of the most familiar faces ever to grace the screen. A graduate of the University of Utah, Foulger developed a taste for performing in community theatre, making his Broadway debut in the '20s. Foulger then toured with Moroni Olsen's stock company, which led him to the famed Pasadena Playhouse as both actor and director. In films from 1936, Foulger usually played whining milksops, weak-willed sycophants, sanctimonious sales clerks, shifty political appointees, and the occasional unsuspected murderer. In real life, the seemingly timorous actor was not very easily cowed; according to his friend "Victor Jory", ... Full Biography
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