Richard Gilden | |
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![]() Richard Gilden as Jerry Ellsworth in The Black Klansman (1966). | |
General Information: | |
Date of birth: | 30 December 1931 |
Born in: | United States |
Series/character information | |
Appeared on/in: | I Dream of Jeannie |
Number of episodes: |
One: "Russian Roulette" |
Character played/ Appered as: |
Major Posnovsky |
Richard Gilden (born 30 December 1931) appeared as Russian Cosmonaut Major Posnovsky in the I Dream of Jeannie episode, "Russian Roulette".
Richard appeared in numerous bit part roles on film and TV in the 1950s and 1960s, which included such films as The Court Jester (1956), The Ten Commandments (1956), The Unknown Terror (1957), Blood Arrow (1958) and The Corpse Grinders (1971), and series as Playhouse 90, Rawhide, My Favorite Martian, and I Dream Of Jeannie.
Among his film roles, the most notable role is as Jerry Ellsworth, a black man who passes for white and who returns with his white wife to his home state Alabama and infiltrates a KKK group there in an attempt to avenge the death of his sister by the group in The Black Klansman, (1966).
External links[]
- Richard Gilden at the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)