Robert Cornthwaite
Robert Cornthwaite appeared in episode # 35 Shoot a Crooked Arrow and # 36 Walk the Straight and Narrow as Alan A Dale, a crooked employee of the Wayne Foundation. He conspired with the archer to rob an armored car and escape with The Archer and his merry men to Switzerland.
He
was born in 1917 and began acting at the age of 13 when he was
forced to act in his eighth grade play.He did his first work with
professionals five years 
later,
in a 1935 production of "Twelfth Night" on the Reed
College campus in Portland. He worked in radio in Southern California
before he was inducted into the Air Force during World War II (a four-year
hitch). When he returned, he was frequently called upon to play
scientific and learned types in such films as The Thing, (1951), War
of the Worlds (1953) and The Forbin Project (1971). He was 
also
busy on TV, portraying lawyers, officials and the like on such
series as The Andy Griffith Show, The Twilight Zone, Dragnet,
Gidget, Laverne and Shirley and The Munsters. Cornwaithe earned his
niche in the Science Fiction Film Hall of Fame for his performance in
The Thing (1951); grayed up, bearded, and looking 
suspiciously
Russian, the actor played the foolhardy Professor Carrington, whose
insipidly idealistic efforts to communicate with the extraterrestrial
"Thing" nearly gets him killed. In honor of this
performance, Robert Cornwaithe was cast as a similar well-meaning
scientist in "Mant," the giant-insect film within a film in
Joe Dante's Matinee (1993), wherein Cornwaithe shared screen time
with two equally uncredited horror-film icons, William Schallert and
Kevin McCarthy. -- Hal Erickson,
All-Movie Guide (Parts Edited By D Sutton)
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