Ned Glass

Ned Glass
Credits
Role	Milkman
Biographical Information
Birth Name	Nusyn Glass
Birthdate	April 1, 1906
Birthplace	Radom, Mazowieckie, Poland
Death Date	June 15, 1984 (age 78)
Death Place	Encino, Los Angeles, California, United States

Ned Glass played the milkman in the third season episode, "Oedipus Hex" (1966).

Biography

Ned Glass was a character actor. He was born Nusyn Glass on April 1, 1906 in Radom, Congress Poland, Russian Empire (now Radom, Mazowieckie, Poland).

The son of a Jewish family, he emigrated to the United States at a young age and grew up in New York City. He attended City College.

He started his show business career in vaudeville, then appeared on Broadway in the Elmer Rice's play Counsellor-at-Law in 1931. He continued to play small roles on Broadway, and occasionally direct, and gained additional experience as a theatrical production supervisor, until 1936, when he signed an acting contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and moved to Hollywood.

Ned Glass made his first film appearance in 1937, in an uncredited role in Wesley Ruggles's screwball comedyTrue Confession. His first credited role as Kid Stark came in two episodes of the serial Dick Tracy Returns (1938). He was a frequent member of Columbia Pictures' short subjects department roster, notably in Jules White's 1940 Nutty but Nice, alongside the American slapstick comedy team The Three Stooges. Ned Glass did not appear in any films released between 1942 and 1947, possibly because of military service. Until the mid-1950s, he was seen mainly in small supporting roles, such as clerk, reporter, bank teller, and small-time managers. His career was again briefly interrupted after he was blacklisted during the McCarthy era. He found work as a carpenter and, with the help of friends like John Houseman and Moe Howard (of The Three Stooges), managed to land enough occasional uncredited film or television roles to make ends meet.

His acting career took off again very well in the 1960s. After a small uncredited role in Alfred Hitchcock's 1959 North by Northwest, he played drugstore owner Doc in Robert Wise's 1961 musical West Side Story, Popcorn in Blake Edwards's 1962 thriller Experiment in Terror, and the villainous Leopold W. Gideon in Stanley Donen's 1963 spy comedy Charade. Other film appearances include Phil Karlson's 1962 Kid Galahad, Daniel Mann's 1962 Who's Got the Action?, George Marshall's 1963 Papa's Delicate Condition, Philip Dunne's 1966 Blindfold, Fielder Cook's 1966 A Big Hand for the Little Lady, Billy Wilder's 1966 The Fortune Cookie, alongside Helen Kleeb, Harry Holcombe and Noam Pitlik, Robert Stevenson's 1968 Blackbeard's Ghost, Jerry Paris's 1968 Never a Dull Moment, Robert Stevenson's 1969 The Love Bug, Sidney J. Furie's 1972 Lady Sings the Blues, John G. Avildsen's 1973 Save the Tiger, and Charles Eastman's 1973 The All-American Boy. His final film appearance was in Jenny Bowen's 1981 low-budget comedy Street Music.

Alongside his acting career in film, he has also appeared on television in over one hundred television series, including Gunsmoke, Have Gun - Will Travel, Peter Gunn, Bonanza, Mike Hammer, Perry Mason, U.S. Marshall, Wanted: Dead or Alive, Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse, The Twilight Zone, The Untouchables, Ben Casey, Fair Exchange, Glynis, The Dick Van Dyke Show, Dr. Kildare, Many Happy Returns, My Three Sons, The Patty Duke Show, Please Don't Eat the Daisies, The Fugitive, The Monkees, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Occasional Wife, Mr. Terrific, Adam-12, I Dream of Jeannie, Medical Center, Here Come the Brides, Get Smart, Mod Squad, The Partridge Family, Cannon, Night Gallery, Mannix, Ironside, The Rookies, Kolchak: The Night Stalker, Police Woman, Kojak, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Baretta, Chico and the Man, CHiPs, Insight, Barney Miller, Vega$, Trapper John, M.D., and Cagney & Lacey.

He was best known for his recurring roles as Sol Cooper on the television series Julia (1968-1971), for which he was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Performance by a Supporting Actor, and for his recurring role as Uncle 'Moe' Plotnick on Bridget Loves Bernie (1972-1973), a series created by Bernard Slade.

Ned Glass married actress Kitty McHugh. She died on September 3, 1954. He married actress Jhean Burton on June 8, 1965. They divorced on September 30, 1980.

Ned Glass died after a long illness on June 15, 1984 in Encino Hospital in Encino, California. He was 78.

Sources

• Ned Glass on the Internet Movie Database. Retrieved on February 4, 2025. Updated on June 23, 2025.
• Ned Glass on Wikipedia. Retrieved on June 23, 2025.