McCarthy showed
up in episodes of every detective show from Mannix to Cannon , worked alongside Marilyn Monroe in The Misfits and received a nomination for best supporting actor for his part as Biff in Death of a Salesman in 1951 .Five years and four forgettable films later Mr. McCarthy was cast in a low-budget B movie about a small California town where the residents are gradually replaced by pods from outer space. The pods, resembling giant cucumbers, bubble and foam as they slowly turn into creepy, emotionless duplicates of the townspeople.
Miles Bennell (Mr. McCarthy), a handsome bachelor doctor, and Becky Driscoll (Dana Wynter), a beautiful local divorcée, spend the movie trying to escape podification (mostly just by staying awake; the transformation takes place while people are sleeping) and warn others.
The movie, selected for the National Film Registry in 1994 and named one of the Top 10 science fiction films of all time by the American Film Institute in 2008, came to be regarded as a metaphor for the paranoia of the era’s Communist witch hunts.
Over the decades Mr. McCarthy came to embrace the cult immortality he achieved with " Invasion of the Body Snatchers " .
McCarthy's graceful aging almost mirrored a part he played decades ago --- a role that etched the actor's handsome, good-looks into the memories of many people. He was the never-aging professor cursed with immortality in the Twilight Zone episode "Long Live Walter Jameson."
Jameson's life is ended by an elderly woman, a wife from an earlier time whom he abandoned after she lost her youth. The old woman shoots the professor to prevent him from ruining another young life. Mortally wounded, Jameson quickly ages and turns to dust.
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