Carl Benton Reid Net Worth is
$1.6 Million

Mini Biography

Carl Benton Reid was a episode graduate from Carnegie Technology who had many years of stage knowledge performing on the Cleveland PLayhouse in the 1920’s, where he met his potential wife, stage celebrity Hazel Harrison. After shifting to NY, he became a observed actor for the Broadway stage with some amazing credits to his name. Between 1929 and 1949, he made an appearance in such illustrious has as “Lifestyle with Dad” (in the name function), Anton Chekhov’s “The Cherry Orchard” (with Eva Le Gallienne) and Eugene O’Neill’s Theater Guild Creation of “The Iceman Cometh”. Concerning Reid’s Harry Slade in “Iceman”, the observed critic Brooks Atkinson commented for the brand new York Moments (10/10/1946): “as the barroom’s (sic) get better at of cosmic considering, Carl Benton Reid can be vigorously incisive and lends element to the complete efficiency”. Reid’s stern demeanor lent itself to playing a variety of hard characters, particularly large fathers, which he do ably (and frequently) such as “Unusual Bedfellows” (1947). In the past in 1942, Atkinson got remarked on his lively efficiency in the name role from the humor “Papa can be All”: “Reid takes on Papa having a snarl and ferocity that produce the wreck in the railroad crossing a celebration of civic betterment” (NY Occasions, March 21, 1973). In 1941, Reid remaining for Hollywood to recreate his stage part of Oscar Hubbard in the exceptional film adaptation of Lillian Hellman’s play “THE TINY Foxes”. Shot at RKO studios, it had been brilliantly aimed by William Wyler. Along with his customary scowl and icy delivery, Reid was best as you of two avaricious brothers (the additional was performed by Charles Dingle) of similarly venomous turn-of-the hundred years Southern aristocrat Regina Giddens (whose component was performed on stage by Tallulah Bankhead and in the film by Bette Davis). Reid’s effective performance ensured a lot more many years of regular work in movies, though non-e of his following roles ever emerged close to duplicating his earlier achievement. However, Reid discovered a new rent of lifestyle on the tiny display screen, invariably as mature armed forces brass (Yancy Derringer (1958), 12 O’Clock Great (1964)) or elder statesmen (Focus on: The Corruptors (1961)), also sometimes as murder victims (Perry Mason (1957)) or spy experts (Burke’s Rules (1963)).

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