Allyn Joslyn
Allyn Joslyn (July 21, 1901 – January 21, 1981) was an American stage, radio, television and film actor, known for his roles playing aristocratic wealthy snobs. Biography. Allyn Joslyn was born in Milford, Pennsylvania, the son of a mining engineer. On stage from age 17, Joslyn scored as a leading man in such Broadway productions as "Boy Meets Girl" (1936) and "Arsenic and Old Lace" (1941), appearing in the latter as beleaguered theatrical critic Mortimer Brewster. Apart from a single appearance in a 1930 Vitaphone movie short, Joslyn confined his work to the stage until moving to Hollywood in  1937. Hollywood didn't see Joslyn as a leading-man type. Thus, he spent most of his film career playing comic character roles: obnoxious reporters, weaklings, and formless "other men" who never got the girl, while stars such as James Cagney and Cary Grant took the roles he originated on Broadway. Among his more notable film appearances were as the tough pilot in "Only Angels Have Wings" (1939); George in "The Great McGinty" (1940); the opportunistic wastrel in "If I Had My Way" (1940); the caustic director in "No Time for Comedy" (1940); the reporter in "My Sister Eileen" (1942 ); Albert Van Cleve, Don Ameche's cousin and snobbish rival for the affections of Gene Tierney in "Heaven Can Wait" (1943); an eccentric poet in "The Shocking Miss Pilgrim"; the flippant crime-fiction author in "Dangerous Blondes" (1943); the wise sheriff in "Moonrise" (1948); the card shark disguised as a woman in "Titanic" (1953), and the star-struck father of a showgirl in "I Love Melvin" (1953). He played the occasional lead on screen, including in "Strange Affair" (1944) opposite Evelyn Keyes, and the sprightly B picture "It Shouldn't Happen to a Dog" (1946), as Carole Landis's love  interest. A prolific radio and television performer, Joslyn was a co-star of the 1953–1954 ABC sitcom "Where's Raymond?", in which he played Jonathan Wallace, brother of the title character Raymond Wallace, the role of Ray Bolger. Betty Lynn played June Wallace, Joslyn's young wife in the series. Joslyn and Lynn left the series in the 1954–1955 series, when it was renamed "The Ray Bolger Show". In 1957, Joslyn co-starred in eight episodes as literary agent George Howell in the short-lived CBS sitcom "The Eve Arden Show". He also guest-starred in the NBC western series  The Californians. In 1959, he was cast as Quag in the episode "Gold Sled" of the ABC/Warner Brothers western series "The Alaskans", starring Roger Moore. In the 1960–1961 season, Joslyn guest-starred on Pat O'Brien's ABC sitcom "Harrigan and Son". He played a pompous colonel in the 1962 TV sitcom "McKeever And The Colonel". That same year, he guest-starred in ABC's crime drama series "" with Stephen McNally and Robert Harland. He was featured as well in some episodes of ABC's "The Addams Family" as the beleaguered Sam L. Hilliard, whose efforts as a school administrator  and politician were continually undone by the Addams family. Personal life. In 1935, he married Dorothy Yockel. They remained married until her death in 1978 and had one daughter. Death. On January 21, 1981, Allyn Joslyn died of heart failure at the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital in Woodland Hills in Los Angeles, California, at the age of 79. He is interred at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in the Hollywood Hills of Los Angeles.