The following is a list of guest stars that appeared on the 1959 anthology television series The Twilight Zone.
Rod Serling himself provided the opening and closing commentary for all episodes and appeared on-screen for the first time at the end of the final episode of the first season, with the episodes featuring some of Hollywood's most familiar faces, including:
__NOTOC__ A Philip Abbott ("Long Distance Call" and "The Parallel") Casey Adams ("It's a Good Life") Dorothy Adams ("Dust") Stanley Adams ("Once Upon a Time" and "Mr. Garrity and the Graves") Jay Adler ("The Jungle") Luther Adler ("The Man in the Bottle") Brian Aherne ("The Trouble with Templeton") Charles Aidman ("And When the Sky Was Opened" and "Little Girl Lost") Claude Akins ("The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street" and "The Little People") Jack Albertson ("The Shelter" and "I Dream of Genie") Hardie Albright ("To Serve Man") Frank Aletter ("The Parallel") Denise Alexander ("Third from the Sun") Elizabeth Allen ("The After Hours") Sheldon Allman ("The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street") John Anderson ("A Passage for Trumpet", "The Odyssey of Flight 33", "Of Late I Think of Cliffordville" and "The Old Man in the Cave") Dana Andrews ("No Time Like the Past") Edward Andrews ("Third from the Sun" and "You Drive") Tod Andrews ("The Bewitchin' Pool") John Archer ("Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?") R. G. Armstrong ("Nothing in the Dark") Phil Arnold ("Mr. Dingle, the Strong") John Astin ("A Hundred Yards Over the Rim") Malcolm Atterbury ("Mr. Denton on Doomsday" and "No Time Like the Past") Barry Atwater ("The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street") Jacques Aubuchon ("Valley of the Shadow") Eleanor Audley (voice only) ("The Hitch-Hiker") Pamela Austin ("Number 12 Looks Just Like You") Val Avery ("The Night of the Meek")
B Mary Badham ("The Bewitchin' Pool") Raymond Bailey ("Escape Clause", "Back There" and "From Agnes—With Love") Martin Balsam ("The Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine" and "The New Exhibit") Trevor Bardette ("One More Pallbearer") Rayford Barnes ("A Quality of Mercy") Leslie Barrett ("I Shot an Arrow Into the Air") Barbara Barrie ("Miniature") Patricia Barry ("The Chaser" and "I Dream of Genie") Harry Bartell ("I Shot an Arrow Into the Air") Eddie Barth ("The New Exhibit") (credited as Ed Barth) Martine Bartlett ("Night Call") Anne Barton ("The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street" and "Shadow Play") Richard Basehart ("Probe 7, Over and Out") Arthur Batanides ("Mr. Denton on Doomsday" and "The Mirror") Jeanne Bates ("It's a Good Life") Barbara Baxley ("Mute") Orson Bean ("Mr. Bevis") Billy Beck ("The New Exhibit") Terry Becker ("I Am the Night—Color Me Black") Henry Beckman ("Valley of the Shadow" and "A Thing About Machines") Fred Beir ("Death Ship" Leon Belasco ("A Kind of a Stopwatch") Russ Bender ("The Fugitive", "On Thursday We Leave for Home", "The Hitch-Hiker") William Benedict ("Sounds and Silences") Marjorie Bennett ("The Chaser", "Kick the Can", and "No Time Like the Past") Oscar Beregi, Jr. ("The Rip Van Winkle Caper", "Deaths-Head Revisited," and "Mute") Shelley Berman ("The Mind and the Matter") Joseph Bernard (actor) ("The Shelter") James Best ("The Grave", "The Last Rites of Jeff Myrtlebank" and "Jess-Belle") Clem Bevans ("Hocus-Pocus and Frisby") Philippa Bevans ("The Changing of the Guard") Theodore Bikel ("Four O'Clock") Edward Binns ("I Shot an Arrow Into the Air" and "The Long Morrow") Bill Bixby ("The Thirty-Fathom Grave") Larry J. Blake ("The Trouble With Templeton") Lela Bliss ("Time Enough at Last") Joan Blondell ("What's in the Box") Larry Blyden ("A Nice Place to Visit" and "Showdown with Rance McGrew") Ann Blyth ("Queen of the Nile") Lloyd Bochner ("To Serve Man") Robert Boon ("Deaths-Head Revisited" and "Mute") Randy Boone ("The 7th Is Made Up of Phantoms") Billy Booth ("A Stop at Willoughby") Willis Bouchey ("The Masks") Antoinette Bower ("Probe 7, Over and Out") Rudy Bowman ("The Bard") (uncredited) Leslie Bradley ("Judgment Night") John Brahm ("Probe 7, Over and Out") Neville Brand ("The Encounter") Robert Bray ("The 7th Is Made Up of Phantoms") Patricia Breslin ("Nick of Time" and "No Time Like the Past") Morgan Brittany ("Nightmare as a Child" (uncredited), "Valley of the Shadow" [billed as Suzanne Cupito] and "Caesar and Me" [billed as Suzanne Cupito]) Peter Brocco ("The Four of Us Are Dying" and "Hocus-Pocus and Frisby") James Broderick ("On Thursday We Leave for Home") Charles Bronson ("Two") Walter Brooke ("The Jungle" and "A Short Drink From a Certain Fountain") Robert Brubaker ("The Arrival") Claudia Bryar ("Mute") Edgar Buchanan ("The Last Rites of Jeff Myrtlebank") Walter Burke ("The Big Tall Wish") Carol Burnett ("Cavender Is Coming") Bart Burns ("Valley of the Shadow") Michael Burns ("The Shelter") Jeffrey Byron ("The Bewitchin' Pool") (as Tim Stafford)
C Sebastian Cabot ("A Nice Place to Visit") James T. Callahan ("Ninety Years Without Slumbering") Antony Carbone ("The Mirror") Art Carney ("The Night of the Meek") John Carradine ("The Howling Man")
Jack Carson ("The Whole Truth") Jen Carson ("A Most Unusual Camera") Veronica Cartwright ("I Sing the Body Electric") Mary Carver ("The Incredible World of Horace Ford") Seymour Cassel ("The Self-Improvement of Salvadore Ross") Phil Chambers ("The New Exhibit") George Chandler ("The Whole Truth") Linden Chiles ("Four O'Clock") Virginia Christine ("Escape Clause") Dane Clark ("The Prime Mover") Fred Clark ("A Most Unusual Camera") Gage Clarke ("One More Pallbearer") Pat Close ("The Changing of the Guard") James Coburn ("The Old Man in the Cave") Steve Cochran ("What You Need") Russell Collins ("Kick the Can") Paul Comi ("People Are Alike All Over", "The Odyssey of Flight 33" and "The Parallel") Forrest Compton ("The Thirty-Fathom Grave") Michael Conrad ("Black Leather Jackets") John Considine ("The Thirty-Fathom Grave") Michael Constantine ("I Am the Night—Color Me Black") Richard Conte ("Perchance to Dream") Curt Conway ("He's Alive") Ben Cooper ("Still Valley") Gladys Cooper ("Nothing in the Dark", "Passage on the Lady Anne" and "Night Call") Jackie Cooper ("Caesar and Me") Jeanne Cooper ("Mr. Denton on Doomsday") Henry Corden ("The Gift") Margarita Cordova ("A Thing About Machines") Robert Cornthwaite ("Showdown with Rance McGrew" and "No Time Like the Past") Ted de Corsia ("The Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine" and "The Brain Center at Whipple's") Hazel Court ("The Fear") Jerome Cowan ("The Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine") Wally Cox ("From Agnes—With Love") Bob Crane ("Static") (uncredited voice) Fred Crane ("The Parallel") Nick Cravat ("Nightmare at 20,000 Feet") John Craven ("The Old Man in the Cave") John Crawford ("A Hundred Yards Over the Rim") Gary Crosby ("Come Wander With Me") Patricia Crowley ("Printer's Devil") Howard Culver ("Shadow Play") Robert Cummings ("King Nine Will Not Return") Susan Cummings ("To Serve Man")
D Irene Dailey ("Mute") Maurice Dallimore ("Cavender Is Coming") James Daly ("A Stop at Willoughby") Lili Darvas ("Long Distance Call") Roger Davis ("Spur of the Moment") June Dayton ("A Penny for Your Thoughts") Richard Deacon ("The Brain Center at Whipple's") Edgar Dearing ("Mr. Garrity and the Graves") John Dehner ("The Lonely", "The Jungle" and "Mr. Garrity and the Graves") Cyril Delevanti ("A Penny for Your Thoughts", "The Silence", "A Piano in the House" and "Passage on the Lady Anne") William Demarest ("What's in the Box") Terence De Marney ("The Trade-Ins") Andy Devine ("Hocus-Pocus and Frisby") Laura Devon ("Jess-Belle") Richard Devon ("Dead Man's Shoes") Jacqueline deWit ("Time Enough at Last") Ivan Dixon ("The Big Tall Wish" and "I Am the Night—Color Me Black") Molly Dodd ("I Dream of Genie") Patricia Donahue ("A Stop at Willoughby") Ludwig Donath ("He's Alive") James Doohan ("Valley of the Shadow") Donna Douglas ("Eye of the Beholder" and "Cavender Is Coming") Ken Drake ("A Hundred Yards Over the Rim" and "A Kind of a Stopwatch") Don Dubbins ("Elegy") Howard Duff ("A World of Difference") Douglass Dumbrille ("The Self-Improvement of Salvadore Ross") Don Durant ("A Piano in the House") Dan Duryea ("Mr. Denton on Doomsday") Robert Duvall ("Miniature")
E Buddy Ebsen ("The Prime Mover") Jack Elam ("Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?") John Eldredge ("Back There") Josip Elic ("One More Pallbearer" and "The Obsolete Man" [as Josep Elic]) Ross Elliot ("Death Ship" and "In Praise of Pip") Robert Emhardt ("Static") Richard Erdman ("A Kind of a Stopwatch") Bill Erwin ("Mr. Denton on Doomsday", Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?", "Walking Distance", and "Mute") Evans Evans ("A Hundred Yards Over the Rim")
F Shelley Fabares ("Black Leather Jackets") Peter Falk ("The Mirror") Franklyn Farnum ("A Most Unusual Camera") (uncredited) Herbie Faye ("A Kind of a Stopwatch") Frank Ferguson ("Queen of the Nile") John Fiedler ("The Night of the Meek" and "Cavender Is Coming") Margaret Field ("The New Exhibit" [credited as Maggie Mahoney]) Paul Fix ("I Am the Night—Color Me Black") James Flavin ("A Passage for Trumpet" and "Once Upon a Time") Gertrude Flynn ("Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?") Joe Flynn ("Escape Clause") June Foray ("Living Doll" and "The Bewitchin' Pool" - both voice only and both uncredited) Constance Ford ("Uncle Simon") Michael Forest ("Black Leather Jackets") Steve Forrest ("The Parallel") Donald Foster ("The Jungle") Ron Foster ("The 7th Is Made Up of Phantoms") Byron Foulger ("Walking Distance") Robert Foulk ("The Hunt") (credited as Robert Faulk) Michael Fox ("Nightmare as a Child", "Mr. Dingle, the Strong" and "Sounds and Silences") Anne Francis ("The After Hours" and "Jess-Belle") James Franciscus ("Judgment Night") Milton Frome ("The Four of Us Are Dying") Alice Frost ("The Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine" and "It's a Good Life") Jerry Fujikawa ("A Quality of Mercy" and "To Serve Man" [as J.H. Fujikawa]) Lance Fuller ("The Last Rites of Jeff Myrtlebank")
G Lew Gallo ("The Rip Van Winkle Caper", "On Thursday We Leave for Home" and "The Hitch-Hiker") Betty Garde ("The Odyssey of Flight 33" and "The Midnight Sun") Beverly Garland ("The Four of Us Are Dying") Susie Garrett ("Dead Man's Shoes") Kelton Garwood ("Five Characters in Search of an Exit") Larry Gates ("The Shelter") Paul Genge ("Dust") Betty Lou Gerson ("Ring-a-Ding Girl") Connie Gilchrist ("In Praise of Pip") Jack Ging ("The Whole Truth") Everett Glass ("The Silence") Ned Glass ("A Passage for Trumpet" and "The Midnight Sun") Maxine Cooper ("And When the Sky Was Opened") Thomas Gomez ("Escape Clause" and "Dust") Don Gordon ("The Four of Us Are Dying" and "The Self-Improvement of Salvadore Ross") Susan Gordon ("The Fugitive") William D. Gordon ("Nervous Man in a Four Dollar Room" and "Eye of the Beholder") Harold Gould ("Probe 7, Over and Out") Sandra Gould ("Cavender Is Coming" and "What's in the Box") Raymond Greenleaf ("Back There") Dabbs Greer ("Hocus-Pocus and Frisby" and "Valley of the Shadow") Virginia Gregg ("Jess-Belle" and "The Masks") James Gregory ("Where Is Everybody?" and "The Passersby") George Grizzard ("The Chaser" and "In His Image")
H Joan Hackett ("A Piano in the House") Kevin Hagen ("Elegy" and "You Drive") Ron Hagerthy ("Dead Man's Shoes") Kenneth Haigh ("The Last Flight") Bernie Hamilton ("Shadow Play") Kim Hamilton ("The Big Tall Wish") Murray Hamilton ("One for the Angels") Cedric Hardwicke ("Uncle Simon") Betty Harford ("Person or Persons Unknown") John Harmon ("The Dummy" and "Of Late I Think of Cliffordville") Jonathan Harris ("Twenty Two" and "The Silence") Susan Harrison ("Five Characters in Search of an Exit") Elizabeth Harrower ("I Am the Night—Color Me Black") Buddy Hart ("The Changing of the Guard") Dee Hartford ("The Bewitchin' Pool")