Illustration of Blair General Hospital

Physicians on duty included:

• Richard Chamberlain as Dr. James Kildare (intern/resident specializing in Internal Medicine)
• Raymond Massey as Dr. Leonard Gillespie (Kildare's mentor)
• Eddie Ryder as Dr. Simon Agurski
• Jud Taylor as Dr. Thomas Gerson
• Steve Bell as Dr. Quint Lowry
• Ken Berry as Dr. Kapish
• Robert Paget as Dr. John Ross
• Martin Balsam as Dr. Milton Orliff
• Andrew Prine as Dr. Roger Helvick
• William Shatner as Dr. Carl Noyes
• Philip Bourneuf as Dr. Wickens
• James T. Callahan as Dr. Yates Atkinson MD
• Dean Stockwell as Dr. Rudy Devereux
• Dan O'Herlihy as Dr. Phillip Downey
• Barry Atwater as Dr. Demerest
• James Mason as Dr. Maxwell Becker
• Mart Hulswit as Dr. Vincent Brill
• Bruce Hyde as Dr. Jeff Brenner
• James Earl Jones as Dr. Lou Rush
• Lew Gallo as Dr. Philip Leland
• Susan Oliver as Dr. Jessie Martel
• William Sargent as Dr. Steve Bardeman
• Donald Harron as Dr. Ian MacDuff
• Paul Stewart as Dr. Guiseppe Muretelli
• James Edwards as Dr. Lench
• Paulene Myers as Dr. Sackley
• Noah Keen as Dr. Bellaman
• Gail Kobe as Dr. Anne Warner
• Ford Rainey as Andy Meadows MD
• Carol Eve Rossen as Dr. Lois Bower
• Charles McGraw as Dr. Kenneth Hasker
• Laurence Haddon as Dr. Galmeir
• Sandy Kenyon as Dr. Galdi
• Frank Killmond as Dr. Brown
• Sammy Reese as Dr. Dan Shanks
• Sidney Blackmer as Dr. Andrew Bennett
• Charles Alvin Bell as Dr. William Coombs
• Robert Brubaker as Dr. John Connor
• Rip Torn as Dr. Nicholas Keefe
• Theodore Bikel as Dr. Mahmel Homatka
• Robert Culp as Jesse Hartwood MD
• Diana Hyland as Dr. Lilith McGraw
• Kevin McCarthy as Harvey Gruboldt MD
• Brendan Dillon as Dr. Gault
• Wilton Graff as Dr. Cassidy
• Mary Webster as Dr. Pauline Stewart
• Robert Cornthwaite as Dr. Max Gunther
• Jan Arvan as Dr. Friedkin
• Whit Bissell as Dr. Kenneth Kline
• William Bramley as Dr. Bernard Krantz
• Robert F. Simon as Dr. Brantell

Dr. Gillespie and Dr. Kildare

Other support personnel included:

• Lee Meriwether as Nurse Bonnie Mynes
• Carol Anderson as Millie McLean RN
• Ann Loos as Nurse Whitman
• Lory Patrick as Nurse Betty Taylor
• Della Sharman as Betty Johnson RN
• Patience Cleveland as Jackie Barnett RN
• Helen Wallace as Lucy Webber RN
• Jean Inness as Nurse Fain
• Lee Kurty as Nurse Zoe Lawton
• Jo Helton as Nurse Conant
• Christopher Riordan as Dr. Halliman's Orderly
• Joan Patrick as Susan Deigh, the Receptionist
• Audrey Larkins as Receptionist
• Bert Freed as Director

TRIVIA NOTE: The Dr. Kildare character was created by author Max Brand (under the pen name for Frederick Schiller Faust) in a series of short stories. Between 1938 and 1947, several movies were made starring   Lew Ayres as Kildare and Lionel Barrymore as Gillespie (these actors continued their roles in a late 1940s radio network series).

In the early 1970s, the Dr. Kildare franchise was revived as YOUNG DR. KILDARE/SYN/1972 starring Mark Jenkins as Dr. James Kildare and Gary Merrill as Dr. Leonard Gillespie with Claiborne Cary as Nurse; Norma Crane as Nurse Connors; Joyce Van Patten as Nurse Marvin; and Marsha Mason as Nurse Marsha Lord.

External Links

• Dr. Kildare (IMDb)
• Young Dr. Kildare (IMDb)

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