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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia John Regis Toomey (August 13, 1898 – October 12, 1991) was an American film and television actor. Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, he was one of four children of Francis X. and Mary Ellen Toomey and attended Peabody High School. He initially pondered a law career, but acting won out and he established himself as a musical stage performer. Educated in dramatics at the University of Pittsburgh, where he became a brother of Sigma Chi, Toomey began as a stock actor and eventually made it to Broadway. Toomey was a singer on stage until throat problems (acute laryngitis) while touring in Europe stopped that aspect of his career. In 1929, Toomey first began appearing in films. He initially started out as a leading man, but found more success as a character actor (sans his toupee). Toomey appeared in over 180 films, including classics such as The Big Sleep with Humphrey Bogart. In 1956, he appeared as a judge, with Chuck Connors as "Andy", in the third episode, "The Nevada Nightingale", of the NBC anthology series The Joseph Cotten Show. Toomey thereafter appeared in another anthology series too as the character "Harry" in the 1960 episode "The Doctor and the Redhead", with Dick Powell and Felicia Farr, of CBS's The DuPont Show with June Allyson. In the 1961–1962 television season, he appeared in a supporting role with George Nader in the syndicated crime drama Shannon about insurance investigators. From 1963–1966, Toomey was one of the stars of the ABC crime drama, Burke's Law, starring Gene Barry. He played Sergeant Les Hart, one of the detectives assisting the murder investigations of the millionaire police captain Amos Burke. He also guest-starred on dozens of television programs, including the "Shady Deal at Sunny Acres" episode of Maverick. In 1941, Toomey appeared in You're in the Army Now, in which he and Jane Wyman had the longest screen kiss in cinema history: 3 minutes and 5 seconds.

Evil Town
as Doc Hooper

Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood
as Burlesque Stagehand

Dr. Shagetz
as Doc Hooper

The Phantom of Hollywood
as Joe

Ghost Story
as Sam Streeter

The Carey Treatment
as Sanderson the Pathologist

Cover Me Babe
as Michael Atterbury

Change of Habit
as Father Gibbons

Adam-12
as Billy Heckman

Gunn
as The Bishop

The Time Tunnel
as Dr. Ben Berkhart

The Night of the Grizzly
as Cotton Benson

Johnny Shiloh
as Mr. Clem

The F.B.I.
as Calvin Betts

Green Acres

The Legend of Jesse James
as Defense Attorney Reed

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
as George Penfield

Man's Favorite Sport?
as Bagley

Petticoat Junction
as Doc Stuart

Burke's Law
as Detective Lester Hart

Going My Way

The Virginian
as Joseph Denton

The Errand Boy
as Studio Exec with the Baron
Shannon
as Bill Cochran

Dr. Kildare
as Arthur Wheeler

Cain's Hundred
as Judge Thomas Otto

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
as Dr. Jamieson

King of the Roaring 20's – The Story of Arnold Rothstein
as Bill Baird

The Last Sunset
as Milton Wing

Route 66

The Tall Man

Guns of the Timberland
as Sheriff Taylor

The DuPont Show with June Allyson
as Dr. Harry Randolph

Tightrope

The Hangman
as Soldier at Fort

Warlock
as Skinner

Rawhide

Joy Ride
as Miles Renny

Bronco
as Judge Claymore

Peter Gunn

Wanted: Dead or Alive
as Lenny the Bartender

Sing Boy Sing
as Rev. Easton

No Time at All
as Joe Donaldson

Trackdown

Maverick
as Ben Granville

Perry Mason
as Sam Crane

Wagon Train
as Mr. Hunter

Sugarfoot
as John Peel

Richard Diamond, Private Detective
as Lt. Dennis McGough

Curfew Breakers
as Coach Bettger

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
as Will Jenkins

Playhouse 90
as Regis Toomey

The Adventures of Jim Bowie

Dakota Incident
as Minstrel

Three for Jamie Dawn
as Murph

Great Day in the Morning
as Father Murphy

Guys and Dolls
as Arvide Abernathy

Top Gun
as Jim O'Hara

Matinee Theater

The 20th Century Fox Hour