Francis DeSales

Francis DeSales was an American actor known for playing Harold Faller in The Big Story, Sheriff Maddox in Two Faces West, and Ralph Dobson in The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet.

Biography

Born in Philadelphia, DeSales was survived by his wife Doris when he died of cancer at his home in Van Nuys at the age of 76. DeSales is interred in Queen of Heaven Cemetery in Rowland Heights, California.

Film roles

Mr. and Mrs. North - Lieutenant Bill Weigan
Headline Hunters - Tribune Reporter
Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Card Player
Terror at Midnight - Police Lieutenant Conway
The Girl He Left Behind - Army Psychiatrist
Leave It To Beaver - Mr. Anderson
All Mine to Give - Mr. Stephens
The Unholy Wife - John Hayward, Defense Attorney
Portland Exposé - Alfred Grey
The Wayward Girl - Investigator Butler
Jailhouse Rock - Surgeon
The Hard Man - Captain Peters
Return to Warbow - Sheriff
Darby's Rangers - Captain
Too Much, Too Soon - Imperial Pictures Executive
The Lineup - Chester McPhee
The High Cost of Loving - Charles Blake
No Time for Sergeants - Sergeant T.C. Payne
Apache Territory - Sergeant Sheehan
Senior Prom - Carter Breed
Revolt in the Big House - Chief of Detectives
Perry Mason - George Fairbanks
Up Periscope - Captain Quinn
Face of a Fugitive - Deputy Sheriff George Allison
It Started with a Kiss - Car Company Representative
Operation Petticoat - Captain Kress
Psycho - Deputy District Attorney Alan Deats
Sunrise at Campobello - Riley
Let No Man Write My Epitaph - Night Court Magistrate
A Fever in the Blood - Conventioneer
The [Police Dog Story] - Captain Dietrich
When the Clock Strikes - Warden
The Honeymoon Machine - U.S. Senator
The Flight that Disappeared - George Manson
A Majority of One - American Embassy Representative
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour - Lieutenant Farrell
A Global Affair - U.S. Delegate
Kisses for My President - Reporter
The Third Day - Sanford - Board Member
The Plainsman - Gambler
Sweet November - Armstrong
The Arrangement - Presentation Executive
Tora! Tora! Tora! - Captain Arthur H. McCollum - Wilkinson's Subordinate with Stark
Conquest of the Planet of the Apes - Auction Attendee
The Outfit - Jim
The Strongest Man in the World - Regent
Moving Violation - Lawyer
Rabbit Test - Cardinal