Background
Rudley was born in 1910 in Philadelphia and attended Temple University.
Rudley was born in 1910 in Philadelphia and attended Temple University.
He left Temple after winning a scholarship to Eva Le Gallienne"s Civic Repertory Theatre. He began appearing on stage in 1926. His Broadway debut was in Did I Say Number in 1931.
He also appeared in stage productions of The Threepenny Opera, Abe Lincoln in Illinois and Macbeth.
In 1940, he appeared in the film version of Abe Lincoln in Illinois. Foreign the next four decades, he appeared in dozens of supporting film roles, including The Seventh Cross and Rhapsody in Blue, the film biography of George Gershwin, in which he portrayed Ira Gershwin.
He appeared in A Walk in the Sun as a World World War II sergeant who experiences a psychological breakdown in combat. Joan of Arc; and The Young Lions, in which he played an unsympathetic Army officer
On television, he appeared both in dramas, often as military men, and comedies.
He appeared on seven episodes of the Columbia Broadcasting System series "You Are There" hosted by Walter Cronkite. He also appeared on My Friend Flicka. In 1957, he guest starred as a Prussian cavalry officer in an episode of the syndicated western series, Boots and Saddles.
From 1957-1959, he co-starred in the role of Sam Brennan in thirty-seven episodes of National Broadcasting Company"s western drama, The Californians, set in the San Francisco gold rush of the 1850s.
He made four guest appearances on Perry Mason between 1958-1962. In 1959, he appeared as John McAuliffe on Border Patrol.
He guest starred twice as Jeremy Thorne in National Broadcasting Company"s western series Laramie. In the sixties he co-starred in two short-lived National Broadcasting Company half-hours, the drama, "Michael Shayne" with Richard Denning in 1960-1961 and the Juliet Prowse comedy Mona McCluskey in 1965-1966.
In 1963, he appeared in two episodes of The Beverly Hillbillies.
In 1973, he guest starred in one episode of Griff. From 1967 through 1969 he co-starred as Herb Hubbard for two seasons on National Broadcasting Company-television"s The Mothers-in-Law with Eve Arden and Kaye Ballard. Rudley died in 2006, aged 96, from a heart attack.
Scary Monsters Magazine (January 2008) northern
65 "The Black Sleep: An Interview With Herbert Rudley" Interview by Lawrence Fultz Junior.
Monster Bash Magazine (2006) northern 5 "On The Secretariat of The Black Sleep" Interview by Lawrence Fultz, Junior.