Phillip Pine (July 16, 1920 – December 22, 2006) was an American film and television actor, writer, film director, and producer.^[1]

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Phillip Pine
Pine in an episode of One Step Beyond (1960)
Born	Phillip Edmund Pine (1920-07-16)July 16, 1920 Hanford, California, U.S.
Died	December 22, 2006(2006-12-22) (aged 86) Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S.
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1945–2005

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Pine was born in Hanford, California, the son of immigrants from Portugal. The family name was Pinheiro, which Pine stated in an interview was changed at Ellis Island. His father Miguel Pine ran a general store and meat market in downtown Hanford. His family moved to Santa Cruz when he was five.^[2]

Pine played John Wesley Hardin in a 1955 episode of The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp (John Wesley Hardin, S1 E9). In a 1957 episode of the same series, Pine again played Hardin (The Time for All Good Men, S2 E39). Later that year, he appeared on Gunsmoke, as “Vint” - a cheating card dealer turned murderer in the episode “Moon”.

Pine appeared in two episodes of Adventures of Superman titled "The Mystery of the Broken Statues" and "The Case of the Talkative Dummy". In the latter, he played a theater usher who was part of a robbery gang. He appeared in three episodes of Wagon Train titled "The Ben Courtney Story", "The Esteban Zamora Story" in 1959 and “The Dr. Swift Cloud Story” in 1960 (as Straight Arrow). Pine was in the second episode of The Outer Limits entitled "The Hundred Days of the Dragon". He also appeared in two episodes of The Twilight Zone, "The Four of Us Are Dying", and "The Incredible World of Horace Ford". Pine appeared as mobster Jack Zuta in the third episode of The Untouchables titled "The Jake Lingle Killing" and in 1962 he co-starred in the episode "The Whitey Steele Story". He also appeared in The Fugitive. He made a 1964 appearance as Phillip Stewart in the Perry Mason episode, "The Case of the Wednesday Woman". In 1964 Pine guest starred on Combat! as Pvt. Steve Cantrell in the third season episode "Birthday Cake". He played a World War II submarine captain marooned inside an underwater cave with four other survivors in the 1965 Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea episode "And Five of Us Are Left".

Pine played a confessed bank robber in the ninth episode of the television series Peter Gunn entitled "Image of Sally", first aired November 17, 1958.

Pine played Kid Curry in the episode "Kid Curry" on the TV series Tales of Wells Fargo (1959).

In 1967, Pine appeared in an episode of The Invaders entitled "Genesis". Pine also appeared in an episode of Rawhide entitled "Incident at Dangerfield Dip". He also played a gangster known only as "Mark" in Irving Lerner's film noir classic, Murder by Contract.^[3]

He appeared in an episode of Kojak (season 5) called "Cry for the Children" as "Eddie Creagan", in an episode of Ironside (season 3) called "Alias Mrs Braithwaite?" and in Hawaii Five-O (season 1) called "Full Fathom 5". Notably, he played a Japanese man in a later Hawaii Five-O episode called "Which Way Did They Go?"

In 1969, Pine appeared in a Star Trek episode of season 3, "The Savage Curtain", as the genocidal Earth warlord Colonel Green. Pine also appeared in the first season of Barnaby Jones in the episode titled "Murder in the Doll's House" (03/25/1973).