Gene Lyons

Known for

Acting

Born

February 9, 1921

Birthplace

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

Died

July 8, 1974 (aged 53)

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Gene Lyons (February 9, 1921 – July 8, 1974) was an American television actor from Pittsburgh, best known for his role as police commissioner Dennis Randall on the NBC detective series Ironside starring Raymond Burr.

A life member of The Actors Studio, Lyons was in the Broadway production of Witness for the Prosecution for two years. His other Broadway credits include Masquerade (1958), The Trip to Bountiful (1953), Harriet (1942), and This Rock (1942).

In 1953, Lyons played a police detective on the CBS drama series Pentagon U.S.A.. He appeared in 1954 as Steve Rockwell on the CBS daytime drama Woman with a Past. Before joining Raymond Burr as a regu...

Best known work

Star Trek

1966

The People vs. Larry Flynt

1996

The Twilight Zone

1959

Perry Mason

1957

The Dick Van Dyke Show

1961

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

1962

Ironside

1967

The Fugitive

1963

The Invaders

1967

I Spy

1965

Filmography

1996
The People vs. Larry Flynt
as DC Reporter
1969
Daddy's Gone A-Hunting
as Dr. Blanker
1967
Ironside
as Police Commissioner Dennis Randall
1967
IronsideTV
as Commissioner Dennis Randall (4 episodes), as The Commissioner (4 episodes)
1967
The InvadersTV
as Sawyer (1 episode), as John Corwin (1 episode)
1966
Star TrekTV
as Ambassador Fox (1 episode)
1965
I SpyTV
as Tom Keith (1 episode)
1965
Sylvia
as Gavin Cullen
1963
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler TheatreTV
as Paul Lepson (1 episode), as Walter Griggs (1 episode)
1963
The FugitiveTV
as Art McNeil (1 episode), as Paul Vale (1 episode)
1962
The Alfred Hitchcock HourTV
as Max Wilding (1 episode), as Howard Raydon (1 episode), as Robert McBain (1 episode)
1961
The Dick Van Dyke ShowTV
as Ray Murdock (1 episode)
1959
The Twilight ZoneTV
as Psychiatrist (1 episode)
1959
One Step BeyondTV
as Sam Blake (1 episode)
1959
Kiss Her Goodbye
as Corey Sherman
1957
Perry MasonTV
as Ralph Balfour (1 episode)
1957
The Young Don't Cry
as Max Cole
1953
Sentence of Death
as Paul Cochran
1953
The Trip to Bountiful
1953
You Are ThereTV
as Francis Rotch (1 episode)
1948
Studio OneTV
as Paul Cochran (1 episode)