Sam Jaffe

Career timeline

1. 1891 · Born

   Born in New York City, New York, USA

2. 1934 · Screen debut

   The Scarlet Empress (Movie)

3. 1959 · Breakthrough

   Ben-Hur (Movie)

4. 1962 · First production

   Damon and Pythias (Movie)

5. 1984 · Died

   March 24, 1984

6. 2004 · Latest release

   On Location with Gunga Din (Movie)

Career in numbers

4 1930s

5 1940s

13 1950s

15 1960s

18 1970s

6 1980s

1 2000s

• Drama30
• Comedy13
• Crime9
• Action & Adventure7
• Western7
• Thriller7

Highest-rated title Columbo 1971 8.1 Most popular title Columbo 1971 8.1

Frequent collaborators

People who appear most often alongside Sam Jaffe in our catalogue.

Fielder Cook

6 titles together

Buzz Kulik

5 titles together

Stuart Rosenberg

4 titles together

Ted Post

4 titles together

Robert Douglas

3 titles together

Jeff Corey

2 titles together

Ron Ely

2 titles together

John Erman

2 titles together

Richard Conte

2 titles together

Steven Spielberg

2 titles together

1. 2004 On Location with Gunga Din as Gunga Din (archive footage) Movie
2. 1985 George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey as (archive footage) Movie
3. 1984 On the Line as El Gabacho Movie
4. 1984 Nothing Lasts Forever as Father Knickerbocker 6.3 Movie
5. 1981 Foul Play TV
6. 1980 Battle Beyond the Stars as Dr. Hephaestus 5.3 Movie
7. 1980 Gideon's Trumpet as 1st Supreme Court Justice Movie
8. 1979 Buck Rogers in the 25th Century as The Keeper 7.1 TV
9. 1978 Flying High TV
10. 1977 The Love Boat as Professor Roscoe Weber 6.3 TV
11. 1973 The Snoop Sisters as Issac Waldersack TV
12. 1973 Kojak as Papa 7.3 TV
13. 1973 Saga of Sonora as Old Sam Movie
14. 1972 The Streets of San Francisco 7.1 TV
15. 1971 Mooch Goes to Hollywood as Sam Jaffe - Party guest (uncredited) Movie
16. 1971 Enemies as Gittelman Movie
17. 1971 Bedknobs and Broomsticks as Bookman 7.0 Movie
18. 1971 Columbo as Henry Willis 8.1 TV
19. 1971 Who Killed the Mysterious Mr. Foster? as Toby Movie
20. 1971 Alias Smith and Jones 6.9 TV
21. 1971 The Tell-Tale Heart as The Old Man Movie
22. 1970 The Old Man Who Cried Wolf as Abe Stillman Movie
23. 1970 Quarantined as Mr. Berryman Movie
24. 1970 Nanny and the Professor TV
25. 1970 The Dunwich Horror as Old Whateley 5.3 Movie
26. 1969 Night Gallery as Bleum 6.7 Movie
27. 1969 The Great Bank Robbery as Brother Lilac Bailey (art forger) Movie
28. 1967 Tarzan's Jungle Rebellion as Dr. Singleton Movie
29. 1967 A Guide for the Married Man as Technical Adviser 6.0 Movie
30. 1967 Guns for San Sebastian as Père Joseph 7.1 Movie
31. 1966 Tarzan as Dr. Singleton 6.9 TV
32. 1966 Batman as Zoltan Zorba 7.3 TV
33. 1964 Daniel Boone as Jed Tolson 7.0 TV
34. 1961 Ben Casey as David Zorba TV
35. 1961 Cain's Hundred as Louis Speckter TV
36. 1961 The Defenders as Dr. William Graham TV
37. 1960 The Islanders as Papa Mathews TV
38. 1960 The Westerner as Old Man McKeen TV
39. 1960 In the Presence of Mine Enemies as Emmanuel Movie
40. 1959 Ben-Hur as Simonides 7.9 Movie
41. 1958 Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse TV
42. 1958 Naked City as Lazslo Lubasz TV
43. 1958 The Barbarian and the Geisha as Henry Heusken 6.1 Movie
44. 1958 The Donna Reed Show 6.5 TV
45. 1957 The Spies as Sam Cooper 6.6 Movie
46. 1955 Alfred Hitchcock Presents as The Abbot 7.8 TV
47. 1951 Hallmark Hall of Fame as 1st Supreme Court Justice TV
48. 1951 The Day the Earth Stood Still as Prof. Jacob Barnhardt 7.4 Movie
49. 1951 Tales of Tomorrow TV
50. 1951 I Can Get It for You Wholesale as Sam Cooper Movie
51. 1951 Under the Gun as Samuel Gower Movie
52. 1950 The Asphalt Jungle as Doc Erwin Riedenschneider 7.5 Movie
53. 1949 Rope of Sand as Dr. Francis Kittridge Hunter 5.9 Movie
54. 1949 The Accused as Dr. Romley 6.2 Movie
55. 1947 Gentleman's Agreement as Professor Fred Lieberman 7.0 Movie
56. 1947 13 Rue Madeleine as Mayor Galimard 6.2 Movie
57. 1943 Stage Door Canteen as Sam Jaffe 6.3 Movie
58. 1939 Gunga Din as Gunga Din 6.5 Movie
59. 1937 Lost Horizon as High Lama 7.0 Movie
60. 1934 We Live Again as Gregory Simonson Movie
61. 1934 The Scarlet Empress as Grand Duke Peter 6.9 Movie

1. 1962 Damon and Pythias Movie

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