Name your 10 favorite performers (male or female) from the original Twilight Zone
It doesn't have to be a single episode, but can encompass all of the actor's Twilight Zone body of work as a whole.


Mine, in no order:

Burgess Meredith (Time Enough at Last, Mr. Dingle, the Strong, The Obsolete Man, Printer's Devil)

James Best (The Grave, The Last Rites of Jeff Myrtlebank, Jess-Belle)

John Dehner (The Lonely, The Jungle, Mr. Garrity and the Graves)

Cliff Robertson (A Hundred Yards Over the Rim, The Dummy)

Jonathan Aherne (The Trouble with Templeton)

Oscar Beregi (The Rip Van Winkle Caper, Deaths-Head Revisited)

Andy Devine (Hocus-Pocus and Frisby)

Gladys Cooper (Nothing in the Dark, Passage on the Lady Anne, Night Call)

Telly Savalas (Living Doll)

Ernest Truex (What You Need, Kick the Can)


Honorable mentions:

Albert Salmi (Execution, Of Late I Think of Cliffordville)
Ed Wynn (One for the Angels, Ninety Years Without Slumbering)
Constance Ford (Uncle Simon)
Robert Duvall (Miniature)

So many great performances, so many great actors

Everett Sloane in "The Fever"
Agnes Moorehead in "The Invaders"
Joan Blondell and William Demerest as a married couple (can't recall the episode name).

Hard to choose just 10. :cool:

Cliff Robertson ("The Dummy", "A Hundred Yards Over the Rim")

William Windom ("Miniature", "Five Characters in Search of an Exit")

George Grizzard ("The Chaser" , "In His Image")

Gail Kobe (" A World of Difference", "In His Image", "The Self-Improvement of Salvadore Ross")

Joe Maross ("Third from the Sun", "The Little People")

George Lindsey ("I Am the Night-Color Me Black")

Jonathan Winters ("A Game of Pool")

Jack Klugman ("A Passage for Trumpet", "A Game of Pool", "Death Ship", "In Praise of Pip")

Kenneth Haigh ("The Last Flight")

Roger Jacquet ("An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge")

Gig Young (Walking distance)

Russell Johnson (Back there, execution)

Lois Nettleton (Midnight sun)

Dennis Weaver (Shadow play)

Lee Marvin (The grave)

Strother Martin (The grave)

William Reynolds (Purple testament)

Dan Duryea (Mr.Denton on doomsday)

Edward Andrews (You drive)

Jack Carson (The whole truth)

Albert Salmi
Elizabeth Montgomery
Ed Wynn
Keenan Wynn
Richard Long
Larry Blyden
Gig Young
Anne Francis
Jonathan Harris
Sebastian Cabot

In my next ten would definitely be young Veronica Cartwright and maybe Billy Mumy.

Richard Long
Ann Francis
Earl Hollliman
Martin Milner
Lois Nettleton
Donna Douglas

Ann Jillian (Mute)
Gladys Cooper (Night Call)
Telly Savalas (Living Doll)
Kevin McCarthy (Long Live Walter Jameson)
Russell Johnson (Back There)
Edward Andrews (You Drive)
Ida Lupino (The Sixteen Millimeter Shrine)
Lois Nettleton (The Midnight Sun)
Robert Duvall (Miniature)
Dennis Hopper (He's Alive...that episode scares me to death but Dennis' performance was unbelievable)

Elizabeth Montgomery on TZ -- very hot!

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Lois Nettleton - also hot - and the heat is on, in this TZ ep...!

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John Carradine ("The Howling Man")

Jack Klugman ("A Passage for Trumpet," "A Game of Pool," "Death Ship")

Inger Stevens ("The Hitch-Hiker," "The Lateness of the Hour")

Earl Holliman ("Where Is Everybody?")

Charles Aidman ("And When the Sky Was Opened")

William Reynolds ("The Purple Testament")

Arline Sax ("Twenty Two," "What You Need")

Edward Andrews ("You Drive," "Third from the Sun")

Vaughn Taylor ("Still Valley," "I Sing the Body Electric," "The Self-Improvement of Salvadore Ross")

Don Keefer ("It's a Good Life," "Passage on the Lady Anne")