Philip Bourneuf

Philip Bourneuf was an American character actor who built a long stage career before he began making films. Born in Somerville, Massachusetts, and raised in Melrose, he did vaudeville turns and worked with stock theater companies in the area while he was still in high school. During the 1930s he acted with the Federal Theatre Project, and he was a founding member of the Actors Studio. The New York Times noted in his obituary that he belonged to a small circle of distinguished actors who had joined the American Repertory Theater's original casts. One of his better remembered screen parts was the district attorney in Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (1956). He appeared three times on Perry Mason and also turned up on Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Dr. Kildare and Gunsmoke, and his last screen role came in the 1976 miniseries Captains and the Kings.