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Douglas Spencer (February 10, 1910 – October 6, 1960) was an American film actor. Starting in the mid 1930's and going through the 40's, he appeared in dozens of films as an extra, then cameo roles and uncredited roles. He worked as a Stand-In and in Production Departments. An early featured film appearance of Spencer was in 1945's The Lost Weekend where he portrayed a delusional patient in the alcoholic ward at Bellevue Hospital, tormented by visions of beetles crawling over him in a fit of delerium tremens. He also appeared in The Big Clock (1948), Monkey Business with Marilyn Monroe, Ginger Rogers and Cary Grant (1952). Also in the western classic Shane with Alan Ladd (1953) as "Swede" and in the thriller The Glass Wall (1953). The balding, lanky actor usually appeared in films as a doctor or wise-cracking reporter, as he did in Houdini (1953) and Them! (1954). He appeared in a number of science fiction and fantasy themed movies, including reporter Ned Scott in the horror classic The Thing from Another World (1951), in which he uttered the film's final line: "Keep watching the skies!". Spencer also had a memorable role as 2 headed Martian in The Twilight Zone episode, "Mr. Dingle, the Strong", and played the role of Mr. Kraler, a protector of Anne Frank, in the 1959 movie The Diary of Anne Frank, for a total of 83 films and TV shows. Other notable appearances (often uncredited): The Rebel (1960), Bonanza (1960), The Rifleman (1959), War of The Planets (Film Short, 1958), The Three Faces of Eve (1957), Shortcut To Hell (1957), This Island Earth (1955), The Kentuckian (1955), A Place in the Sun (1951), Father of the Bride (1950), Double Indemnity (1944), The Mayor of 44th Street (1942), Lady Scarface (1941), The Day The Bookies Wept (1939) (uncredited).