Wake Me When It's Over (film)
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Wake Me When It's Over is a 1960 comedy film starring Ernie Kovacs
and Dick Shawn
. A World War II veteran gets drafted again by mistake and sent to a dreary Pacific island. It is based on the novel of the same name by Howard Singer.
Ernie Kovacs
Ernie Kovacs was a Hungarian American comedian and actor.Kovacs' uninhibited, often ad-libbed, and visually experimental comedic style came to influence numerous television comedy programs for years after his death in an automobile accident...
and Dick Shawn
Dick Shawn
Dick Shawn was an American actor and comedian.-Early life and career:Shawn was born as Richard Schulefand in Buffalo, New York. He played Sylvester Marcus, son of Mrs. Marcus , in Stanley Kramer's It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World and Lorenzo St...
. A World War II veteran gets drafted again by mistake and sent to a dreary Pacific island. It is based on the novel of the same name by Howard Singer.
Cast
- Ernie Kovacs as Captain Charlie Stark
- Dick Shawn as Gus Brubaker
- Margo Moore as Lieutenant Nora McKay
- Jack WardenJack WardenJack Warden was an American character actor.-Early life:Warden was born John Warden Lebzelter in Newark, New Jersey, the son of Laura M. and John Warden Lebzelter, who was an engineer and technician. He was of Irish and Pennsylvania Dutch ancestry...
as Captain Dave "Doc" Farrington - Nobu McCarthyNobu McCarthyNobu McCarthy was a Japanese Canadian actress, stage director, and fashion model.-Early life:McCarthy was born Nobu Atsumi in Ottawa, Ontario, the daughter of Yuki and Masaji Atsumi, a Japanese fashion designer and diplomatic attache stationed in Canada at the time. She was raised in Japan, where...
as Ume Tanaka (as Nobu Atsumi McCarthy) - Don KnottsDon KnottsJesse Donald "Don" Knotts was an American comedic actor best known for his portrayal of Barney Fife on the 1960s television sitcom The Andy Griffith Show, a role which earned him five Emmy Awards...
as Sergeant Percy Warren - Robert StraussRobert Strauss (actor)Robert Strauss was a gravel-voiced American actor.-Career:Strauss began his career as a classical actor, appearing in The Tempest and Macbeth on Broadway in 1930...
as Sergeant Sam Weiscoff - Noreen Nash as Marge Brubaker
- Parley BaerParley BaerParley Edward Baer was an American actor in film, television, and radio.-Radio:Born in Salt Lake City, Utah, Baer had a circus background, but began his radio career at Utah station KSL...
as Colonel Archie Hollingsworth - Robert EmhardtRobert EmhardtRobert Emhardt was an American stage, film, and television actor. He typically played villains.Emhardt studied acting at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. He began his Broadway career as an understudy for the equally heavyset Sidney Greenstreet in the 1930s, with his actual stage debut...
as Joab Martinson - Marvin KaplanMarvin KaplanMarvin Kaplan is an American character actor and voice artist. Kaplan is probably best known for his recurring role on the sitcom Alice where he portrayed a phone company employee named Henry Beesmeyer who frequented Mel's diner. He was a part of the cast from 1977 to the series end in 1985...
as Hap Cosgrove - Tommy Nishimura as Private Jim Harigawa
- Raymond BaileyRaymond BaileyRaymond Thomas Bailey was an American actor on the Broadway stage, movies, and television. He is best known for his role as wealthy banker, Milburn Drysdale, in the television series The Beverly Hillbillies....
as General Weigang - Robert Burton as Colonel Dowling
- Frank Behrens as Major Bigelow
- Linda Wong as Kaiko
- Caroline Richter as Mrs. Hollingsworth
- Richard Tyler as Lieutenant William Pincus