The Phantom Planet: Dean Fredericks, Coleen Gray, Francis X. Bushman, Richard Kiel (1961 Movie)

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The Phantom Planet (1961) is a science fiction film directed by William Marshall.

Footage from the film was used in a 2010 advertising campaign for La Quinta Inns and Suites, an American hotel chain. The film was also riffed in a 1998 episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000.

The lead character, astronaut Frank Chapman, played by Dean Fredericks, while traveling through space encounters a race of tiny people on a distant planet. Due to the planet's unusual atmosphere, he is shrunk to six inches in size. Before he finds the remedy to this situation, he is lured by two beautiful women and decides to help the inhabitants of the planet battle an invading race of monsters known as the Solarites.

Cast Dean Fredericks as Capt. Frank Chapman Coleen Gray as Liara Anthony Dexter as Herron Francis X. Bushman as Sessom Richard Weber as Lt. Ray Makonnen Al Jarvis as Judge Eden Dick Haynes as Col. Lansfield Earl McDaniels as Capt. Leonard Mike Marshall as Lt. White Richard Kiel as The Solarite Dolores Faith as Zetha Merissa Mathes as Juro

Dean Fredericks (January 21, 1924--June 30, 1999) was an American actor best known for his portrayal of the comic strip character Steve Canyon in a 34-episode television series of the same name which aired from 1958-1959 on NBC. He was born Frederick Joseph Foote in Los Angeles, California. On October 31, 1942, he enlisted as a private in the cavalry of the United States Army and served during World War II. He received a Purple Heart medal.

Coleen Gray (born October 23, 1922) is an American movie and television actress born in Staplehurst, Nebraska. She is known for her roles in the films Nightmare Alley (1947), Red River (1948), in which she played John Wayne's fiancée, and Stanley Kubrick's The Killing (1956).

Gray appeared in two 1947 film noirs: Kiss of Death, as ex-con Victor Mature's wife and Richard Widmark's target and Nightmare Alley, as "Electra", Tyrone Power's carnival performer wife. In 1948, she appeared as John Wayne's love interest in the opening sequences of Red River, but she was overshadowed by the men in Howard Hawks' western and from there, her career suffered, Fox ending her contract in 1950.

Gray worked steadily in the 1950s. She played a crooked nurse in The Sleeping City (1950) and appeared in Kansas City Confidential (1952), and the Stanley Kubrick film noir The Killing (1956), in which she plays a lonely woman desperate for love. Other films included Father Is a Bachelor (1950), the cult horror film The Leech Woman (1960), The Phantom Planet (1961), and P.J. (1968).

She made only one film in the 70s, The Late Liz (1971). She also appeared in one in the 80s, the religious flick Cry From the Mountain (1986), produced by Billy Graham. She filmed Forgotten Lady (1977) in Houston, Texas and Mother (1978) with Patsy Ruth Miller. Mother had a premiere at Museum of Modern Art in New York City.

In 1964, along with actors Victor Jory and Susan Seaforth, Gray testified before the United States Congress as part of "Project Prayer", arguing in favor of Constitutional amendment allowing school prayer.

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