Appendix V: Who's Who

 Our final entry on this blog is a brief profile of the main cast of Beneath The Planet Of The Apes.

(For cast members who reprised their roles from Planet Of The Apes, see Archives Of The Apes 1968.)

JAMES GROVER FRANCISCUS

(Brent)

31 January 1934 - 8 July 1991

Selected filmography:

Naked City (1958-1959)

The Twilight Zone (1959)

Rawhide (1960)

The Outsider (1961)

The Investigators (1961)

Dr Kildare (1963)

Mr Novak (1963-1965)

The FBI (1967-1968)

The Valley Of Gwangi (1969)

Marooned (1969)

Beneath The Planet Of The Apes (1970)

Kidnapped (1971)

Longstreet (1971-1972)

Jonathan Livingston Seagull (1973)

Doc Elliot (1973-1974)

Hunter (1976-1977)

The Greek Tycoon (1978)

Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy (1981)

Secret Weapons (1985)

JAMES GREGORY

(General Ursus)

23 December 1911 - 16 September 2002

Selected filmography:

The Naked City (1948)

Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1957-1959)

The Twilight Zone (1959-1961)

Laramie (1959-1963)

The Untouchables (1961)

The Virginian (1962)

The Manchurian Candidate (1962)

Rawhide (1963-1965)

Bonanza (1965-1969)

Hogan's Heroes (1966)

Star Trek (1966)

The Mod Squad (1969)

Hawaii Five-0 (1969)
Beneath The Planet Of The Apes (1970)

Ironside (1972)

Columbo (1972)

Mission: Impossible (1972)

M*A*S*H (1974)

The Partridge Family (1974)

Sanford And Son (1976)

The Flight Of Dragons (1982)

Mr Belvedere (1986)

PAUL RICHARDS

(Mendez)

23 November 1924 - 10 December 1974

VICTOR BUONO

(Adiposo / "Fat Man")

3 February 1938 - 1 January 1982

JEFF COREY

(Caspay)

10 August 1914 - 16 August 2002

NATALIE TRUNDY

Natalie Trundy Campagna

(Albina)

5 August 1940 - 5 December 2019

DON PEDRO COLLEY

(Ongaro / "Negro")

30 August 1938 - 11 October 2017

THOMAS GOMEZ

(Minister)

10 July 1905 - 18 June 1971

DAVID WATSON

(Cornelius)

10 March 1940 - 5 October 2014)

TOD ANDREWS

(Skipper)

9 November 1914 - 7 November 1972

GREGORY SIERRA

(Verger)

25 January 1937 - 4 January 2021

Full credits can be found on IMDb.

Appendix IV: Humanzee

Test shots of Tom Doran as the human/chimpanzee hybrid child in the early days of the development of Beneath. The "humanzee"concept was soon shelved amid fears that the concept of inter-species copulation would cost the film a "G" rating, thus decimating its potential audience. Interestingly, in the earlier screen tests, the film is still titled Planet Of The Apes Revisited, whereas in later shots the title has been revised to Beneath The Planet Of The Apes.

Appendix III: Apes On Set

Behind-the-scenes shots from the making of Beneath The Planet Of The Apes.