Ken Harvey (Actor)

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(12-25-1918 - 06-06-1979) Age 61

Ken Harvey appeared in TV anthology programs in the 1950s. His movie career is largely uncredited.

 

 

 

He appeared in the following 31 episodes of Radio Mystery Theater
Date Episode Title Plot
07/31/1974 0125 The Only Blood After refusing to pay blood money to the local mafia, an immigrant shoe-maker becomes the target of their ire. Angered by their misdeeds, the man hatches a plot for revenge. Meanwhile, the mob leader is torn between business and his daughter's love.
08/15/1974 0134 The Final Vow Sister Pamela owns a priceless figurine that is stolen from her. So she quits the church and dedicates all her time to find the missing statue in order to return it to a dying nun. Help comes from a source that she never would have imagined.
10/23/1974 0164 See Naples and Die A Senator finds out that his daughter is living with a known felon in Europe who is already on the watch list of his commission. He fears this could ruin his political aspirations.
12/05/1974 0183 The Body Snatchers A doctor meets a drunkard friend in a bar. They reminisce the times they defiled graves in order to sell the corpses to a medical school.
01/13/1975 0204 The Witness Is Death A young man witnesses an assassination by a gang and is fatally wounded in the process. Though he survives, he is now too scared to testify. The police need information but can't get anything out of him. They finally resort to an inventive method with the help of a hospital to get him to speak.
01/23/1975 0210 Sleepy Village A college professor and his wife retire to Sleepy Village to find some peace and quiet so he can finish his book. But before they can settle down, the village inhabitants will test if they are in the 'right state of mind'.
01/30/1975 0215 The Night of the Wolf A very old Indian garment stirs great violence among the patrons of a museum. An investigator delves deeper into the situation, making himself a vulnerable target to the curse.
02/24/1975 0228 Hell Hath No Fury An actor conspires to kill his rich wife, but her sister, being a modern witch, is keeping abreast and schemes against him.
03/13/1975 0238 Death Pays No Dividend A group of failed Wall Street financiers try to arrange their own deaths at the hands of a professional assassin so their families can collect on their life insurances. But an unexpected stroke of good fortune comes to them, though their appointment with death is still on!
03/31/1975 0248 Killer of the Year A promising CEO meets the new town librarian. He knows her to be a former murder convict he had previously had a crush on. But that can't stop him from falling for her again.
04/17/1975 0258 Through the Looking Glass A mysterious couple move into a flat next door to Kathy and Doug Sellars. Problems start when the husband, who turns out to be a scientist and inventor offers Doug a solar energy machine that can revolutionize the entire planet.
05/01/1975 0266 Mad Monkton A Gothic family tradition of insanity can be ended by the last heir Stephen Monkton - if he can just find his unce's corpse in Naples and bury it in their family vault.
05/16/1975 0275 The Rise and Fall of the Fourth Reich A Nazi fantasy? In this weird tale, two scientists discover an aged and sickly Adolf Hitler in 1970's Mexico City. They begin to try and restore his health and youth through their experiments.
05/29/1975 0282 Just One More Day On his last day on the beat, an old cop has premonitions of his own death in a shoot-out. On the very last day of duty, an aged police officer has the foreboding of his own death in a shooting match.
06/20/1975 0295 Can You Trust Your Husband? In an attempt to disprove the drug trafficking charges against her husband, a wife investigates on her own. She soon becomes tormented with misgivings upon learning that she did not know husband as well as she previously believed.
07/21/1975 0312 Fateful Reunion After successfully developing a highly advanced computer that can predict future events, a scientist and his fiance use it for entertainment at a party. The fun stops when the machine foretells the death of one of their fathers.
08/11/1975 0324 Age Cannot Wither Her An elderly man returns to shore alone after taking his young wife on a sailing trip. He spins a fantastic tale about a fountain of youth when the local sheriff questions his wife's disappearance.
10/01/1975 0356 Primrose Path A modern take on the infamous abduction of Patty Hearst. The heir of a multi-media news conglomerate is taken hostage by a terrorist group. The kidnapped Mellon soon becomes a willing member of the very group that took him captive.
11/21/1975 0383 The Hanging Judgement A husband and wife exchange gunfire after a heated altercation. When the woman ends up dead from a shot in the back, the man and his servant are tried for murder.
02/23/1976 0436 The Patient Visitor After being paid a visit by a past love, Judge Justin Travers vows to help Muriel Parks as a lawyer. Despite her father donating huge amounts of money and real estate to the old folk's home, Mrs. Parks is being refused admittance due to the fact that she cannot raise the $500 fee. Troubled by an ailing heart, Judge Travers is determined to win this last case.
04/06/1976 0463 The Boy Wonder On a quest to find a missing child named Buchanan, his team slowly disappears one after another. It's no coincidence that the boy and his friends possess amazing talents, and only too late does the man learn the futility of his search.
06/24/1976 0494 Child of Fate Threatened by the entrance of new and real-life companions, a child's imaginary friend manifests and attacks them in a battle to exist beyond their make-believe world.
10/12/1976 0534 The God Killer A typist is accused of murdering the author for whom she works. She insists that the murderer was a character from a novel fighting for his survival.
11/26/1976 0555 Blood Will Tell His mother who is keeping a terrible secret from him; a 40-year old man discovers the truth on how his dad died at work.
12/21/1976 0569 The Lone Survivor The lone survivor of a plane crash at sea cannot remember who he is. A police detective, an airline executive, and a doctor work to find out.
01/16/1977 0586 Jimmy Valentine's Gamble
A professional thief goes on the straight and narrow after finally tiring of a life on the run. However, an unexpected crisis surfaces in his life and he must exercise his old skills to perform one last heist.
01/21/1977 0589 Happy Death Day
An overweight woman suffers from recurring nightmares of her death at the hands of a faceless man. Distraught over her horrific dreams, she visits a renowned psychologist to help her discover the meaning behind her disturbing nightly terrors.
04/15/1977 0635 Borderline Case A young girl, whose father is the town sheriff, becomes clairvoyant while gazing into a smoky-gray pearl worn by an old woman. She learns the terrible history of the valuable pearl and foresees the murder of the famous jewel's owner. Then she helps her father solve the crime.
07/22/1977 0687 The Secret of the Aztecs A man's car breaks down in the desert and he encounters the ghost of an old man named Quetzal who shows him to the long lost Aztec Gold and instructs him to guard the Aztec's treasure from a being known as 'The Savage.' He can't convince anyone that he saw the ghost of the old man and everybody thinks he's insane.
01/27/1978 0772 The Defectors A married senator is blackmailed by a spy who managed to take a photograph of the senator in an embarrassing position with another woman. The spy forces him to propose a legislation that might hurt the interests of the U.S. But the senator decides to fight back as he only lacks in moral, but not patriotic fervor.
04/18/1978 0818 Uncle Louis A young police investigator attempts to gather proof against a known mobster and falls for a lady witness during it. The irate mobster discovers a secret from his past.

4 Responses to Harvey Ken

Love this guy. He's got an interesting character voice. Usually plays a smart country character.

Greg

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Kenneth Harvey was born on December 25, 1918 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He was an actor and writer, known for All My Children (1970), Coronet Blue (1967) and Search for Tomorrow (1951). He appeard in the follow TV Series Armchair Detective ,Search for Tomorrow , Fireside Theatre, Guiding Light , The Goldbergs [1955], The Investigator, Coronet Blue, The Doctors [1975] He appeared in the following movies Bright Victory ,Mothra vs. Godzilla , Godzilla vs. Hedorah . A large body of his movie career is largely uncredited.

Fanny

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Ken Harvey started in radio in the 1940s on such programs as Life of Riley, the Whistler and the Adventures of Philip Marlowe. He appeared on Broadway and in film and television and is best remembered for his appearances on the daytime TV soap operas, the Doctors, Guiding Light and his 7 year reoccurring role on Search for Tomorrow. He was also a writer for All My Children. He served as president of AFTRA and was married to actress Rita Morley.

Charlie

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Ii ran into obstacles my acting carreer and though still at it mannn did I lose ground. And will probably never get close to the heights I had my sights on so lonnng ago. I'm envious of Ken. That's what it takes. Gotta stay with it stick to it ...hell or high water. I'm sad but not broken. Not yet

Gerald Cantor

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