Ainslie Pryor

Ainslie Pryor was an American actor who worked in radio, on the stage, in films and on television. Born in Memphis, Tennessee, he started in radio, announcing at stations in New York City and New Haven, Connecticut, and serving as program director at WJPR in Greenville, Mississippi, where he helped establish a school and community theater. He then ran and directed a small theater company in Raleigh, North Carolina, and spent three years with the Manteo, North Carolina production of The Lost Colony, where Charles Laughton and producer Paul Gregory noticed him and brought him to Broadway, where he played the prosecutor in The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial. His films included Ransom! (1956), The Shadow on the Window (1957), The Left Handed Gun (1958) and The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing. On television he played the sidekick to Wally Cox in the sitcom The Adventures of Hiram Holliday and appeared in Gunsmoke, Studio One and Playhouse 90.