Carl Reindel

Career overview

Carl Warren Reindel was an American actor born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on January 1935, who passed away in September 2009 at the age of seventy-four. Throughout his acting career, he built a recognizable screen presence through a variety of film and television roles. On the big screen, he portrayed Lieutenant Kenneth M. Taylor in the war film Tora! Tora! Tora!, played Stanton in Steve McQueen's film Bullitt in 1968, and appeared as Lieutenant Comroe in the science fiction film The Andromeda Strain in 1971.

In addition to his film work, Reindel made several appearances on popular television series. He appeared on Perry Mason in two different roles, first in 1964 as the defendant and title character Barry Davis in the episode The Case of the Drifting Dropout, and later in 1966 as the golf caddy and murderer Danny Bright in The Case of the Golfer's Gambit. That same year, in 1966, he appeared on the television series Gidget in episode twenty-five, playing Scott Baker, who served as a paid watchful eye to keep track of Gidget. Across his career, Reindel accumulated twenty known acting credits in film and television before his death in September 2009.