I Led Three Lives
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I Led Three Lives is a US television show which was syndicated by Ziv Television Programs from 1953-56. It was loosely based on the life of Herbert Philbrick, a Boston advertising executive who infiltrated the US Communist Party on behalf of the FBI in the 1940s and wrote a bestselling book on the topic, I Led Three Lives: Citizen, 'Communist', Counterspy (1952). Philbrick narrated each episode and served as a technical consultant and all scripts were approved by J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI. Despite this, the episodes often had very little to do with the actual events of Philbrick's life and gradually became more and more outlandish, with Philbrick journeying to Europe and South America and featuring such Communist plots as an attempt to convert vacuum cleaners into bomb launchers.
Philbrick was played by Richard Carlson. I Led Three Lives lasted 117 episodes. Interestingly, the show was a favorite of presidential assassin Lee Harvey Oswald when he was a teenager. [1]
Episode Cast (in alphabetical order) Virginia Chapman ... Betty (as Virginia Arness) Johnny Crawford ... Jimmy Margaret Hayes ... Margaret Tydings Anna Karen ... Doctor Irene Glenn
DeForest Kelley ... Alan Brecker
Peggy McCay Donald Murphy ... Jim Tydings
Maidie Norman ... Rose Virginia Stefan ... Edith Martin
Episode Crew Produced by George Lowther .... executive producer
Series Crew These people are regular crew members. Were they in this episode? Directed by John Drew Barrymore (as John Barrymore Jr.) Arthur Hiller Lamont Johnson (episode "But When She Was Bad") (episode "Threat That Runs True") Lawrence Menkin Pace Woods Walter Grauman (80 episodes)
[edit] Writing credits
(in alphabetical order) Marjorie Duhan Adler writer (episode "But When She Was Bad") (episode "The Story of Marcia Gordon")
George Sumner Albee writer (episode "Mysterious Mr. Todd")
Theodore Apstein adaptation (episode "The Quiet Street")
Theodore Apstein writer (episode "The Century Plant")
Newt Arnold play (episode "The 65th Floor")
Kay Arthur adaptation (episode "Big-Hearted Herbert")
Kay Arthur writer (episode "Big Hearted Herbert")
Nicholas E. Baehr adaptation (episode "The 65th Floor")
Nicholas E. Baehr writer (episode"The Road to Recovery")
Philip Barry Jr. writer (episode "Black Chiffon")
Peter Barry writer (episode "Voyage to Mandok")
Stephen Vincent Benet story (episode "A Gentleman of Fortune")
George Bradshaw story (episode "The Phony Venus")
George Bruce writer (episode "Red Sanders Story The")
Elizabeth Cadell story (episode "The Lark Shall Sing")
Joseph Caldwell (episode "Giant Killer") (as Joseph K. Caldwell)
Joseph Caldwell writer (episode "The Bridge")
Stephen R. Callahan writer (episode "The Declaration")
Harold Callen writer (episode "The Last Battlefield")
Dorothy Canfield novel (episode "Seasoned Timber") (as Dorothy Canfield Fisher)
Burnham Carter short story (episode "Town in Turmoil")
Rosemary Casey story (episode "Velvet Glove")
Alan Cooke adaptation (episode"Much Ado About Nothing - Part I") (episode"Much Ado About Nothing - Part II")
Alan Cooke writer (episode "Dandy Dick")
Jim Davis play (episode "A Light in the Sky")
Honoré de Balzac story (episode "Eugenie Grandet") (as Honore de Balzac)
Guy de Vry writer (episode "On Approval")
Charles Dickens story (episode "The Mating of Watkins Tottle")
Michael Dyne adaptation (episode "Queen of Spades")
Michael Dyne writer (episode "The Green Shores") (episode "Temptation for a King")
Robert Esson writer (episode "The Alleyway")
Roger Garis writer (episode "High Places")
Harold Gast adaptation (episode "A Light in the Sky")
Harold Gast writer (episode "Design for Glory") (episode "The Gift and the Giver")
(episode "Threat That Runs True")
Nikolai Gogol story (episode "The Inspector General")
Herman Goldberg writer (episode "Cadenza")
Jess Gregg writer (episode "In Dread of Winter")
Arthur Hailey writer (episode "Course for Collison")
Sam Hall writer (episode "The 10th Muse")
Helene Hanff adaptation (episode "The Brass Ring") (as Herman Knight)
Helene Hanff adaptation (episode "The Remarkable Mr. Jerome")
Roy Hargrave writer (episode "The Brat's House")
Elizabeth Hart adaptation (episode "Dispossessed")
Elizabeth Hart writer (episode "Summer Cannot Last")
H.R. Hays adaptation (episode "Roman Fever")
H.R. Hays writer (episode "Without Fear or Favor")
Greer Johnson writer (episode "Eden End")
Edmond Kelso (episode "Progress and Minnie Sweeney") (as Ed Kellso)
Sophie Kerr story (episode "Big-Hearted Herbert")
Bruce Kimes writer (episode "The Hollow Man")
Mary George Kochos story (episode "Thursday's Child")
William Kozlenko adaptation (episode "The Mating of Watkins Tottle")
David Lamson writer (episode "Anxious Night")
Warner Law adaptation (episode "The 19th Hole") (episode "The Inspector General")
Anita Leslie story (episode "The Remarkable Mr. Jerome")
Jack Lewis writer (episode "Son of 37 Different Fathers")
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow story (episode "The Courtship of Miles Standish")
Frederick Lonsdale story (episode "On Approval")
George Lowther story (episode "Anxious Night")
George Lowther writer (episode "The Gentleman Caller") (episode "Town in Turmoil") (episode "Webster and the Sea Serpent")
Ellen McCracken adaptation (episode "The Courtship of Miles Standish") (episode "The Shuttered Heart") (episode "Thursday's Child")
Richard McCracken adaptation (episode "The Courtship of Miles Standish")
Richard McCracken writer (episode "September Tide")
Henry Misrock writer (episode "The First Captain")
N. Richard Nash writer (episode"The Young and the Fair")
Peggy Phillips adaptation (episode "The Lark Shall Sing")
Peggy Phillips writer (episode "Her Son's Wife") (episode "The Shining Palace")
Arthur Wing Pinero story (episode "Dandy Dick") (as Sir Arthur Pinero)
Zelda Popkin novel (episode "The Quiet Street")
J.B. Priestley play (episode "Eden End")
Alexander Pushkin short story "Pikovaya dama" (episode "Queen of Spades")
Samson Raphaelson story (episode "Stopover")
Jacqueline Rhodes story (episode "The Brass Ring")
A.J. Richardson story (episode "Big-Hearted Herbert")
Anna Steese Richardson story (episode "Big Hearted Herbert")
Meade Roberts story (episode "The Hickory Limb")
Jerome Ross writer (episode "A Case of Pure Fiction")
Will Schneider writer (episode "Cadenza")
Gertrude Schweitzer adaptation (episode "The Charmer")
Gertrude Schweitzer novel (episode "The Charmer")
Robert J. Shaw writer (episode "The Catbird Seat") (episode "The Tender Leaves")
A.B. Shiffrin writer (episode "Prominent Citizens")
Mac Shoub writer (episode "Hush, Mahala, Hush")
Dodie Smith writer (episode "Call It a Day")
Anthony Spinner writer (episode "Barricade at the Big Black") (episode "The Day Before the Wedding")
Sheldon Stark writer (episode"Day of Discoveries")
Lesley Storm play (episode "Black Chiffon")
Helen Taini adaptation (episode "Velvet Glove")
Betty Ulius adaptation (episode "Eugenie Grandet")
John Van Druten adaptation (episode "The Hickory Limb")
John Van Druten writer (episode "There's Always Juliet")
John Vlahos writer (episode "The Declaration")
Mary Jane Waldo story (episode "The Shuttered Heart")
Claire Wallis writer (episode "Her Son's Wife")
Robert Wallstens adaptation (episode "The Phony Venus") (as Robert Wallsten)
Robert Wallstens (episode "The Silver Spider") (as Robert Wallsten)
Dale Wasserman writer (episode "Fiddlin' Man") (episode "The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg") (episode "The Milwaukee Rocket")
H.G. Wells novel (episode "The Invisible Man")
Richard Wendley adaptation (episode "Stopover")
Edith Wharton story (episode "Roman Fever")
Elihu Winer adaptation (episode "Seasoned Timber")
Produced by
George Cahan .... producer (as George M. Cahan)
Albert McCleery .... executive producer
Frank Price .... producer
Darrell Ross .... producer
Casting by Lynn Stalmaster (1956-1957)
Other crew
Frank Price .... story editor
