![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Kennedy's commanding officer in the 1962 movie "PT-109," was Dean Martin's superior officer in his Matt Helm detective movies and played an unrecognizable ape general on the 1970 movie "Beneath the Planet of the Apes." A real-life Navy sailor and Marine during World War II, He made his Broadway debut as a deputy sheriff in "Key Largo" in 1939 and played an Air Force general in the pilot episode in television's groundbreaking "The Twilight Zone" in 1959. It's whatever's in vogue."īut it was a vogue that seemed to surround Mr. Gregory, in the heyday of the "Barney Miller" series in 1979, shrugged off any suggestion that he specialized in portraying law enforcement and military officers, saying: "Most every actor has played a lot of policemen. At his retirement in his early 70s, he was still playing 50-something characters. Gregory enjoyed a half-century career with some two dozen Broadway plays, 50 motion pictures and countless television programs. Slender with a craggy face, dark wavy hair and commanding sneer, Mr. ![]()
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