Themes and plot devices in Hitchcock films Clift at a dinner party around the filming of "I Confess" (1953) to swallow a carafe of brandy, which caused the actor to pass out almost immediately. In "Torn Curtain" and "Topaz", brandy is defined more closely as cognac. Melanie Daniels (Tippi Hedren) is offered a brandy by Annie Hayworth (Suzanne Pleshette), and after being attacked by the birds, drinks the brandy offered by Mitch (Rod Taylor). In "Rear Window", Lisa Fremont (Grace Kelly) is "just warming some brandy". In "Frenzy", Richard Blaney is sacked for supposedly stealing brandy, and can be seen in several sequences to be drinking brandy.
Don Taylor (American actor and director) television series including "Cannon", Rod Serling's "Night Gallery", "Mod Squad", "It Takes a Thief", "The Big Valley", "The Flying Nun", "Vacation Playhouse", "The Tammy Grimes Show", "The Wild Wild West", "Burke's Law", "The Rogues", "The Farmer's Daughter", "The Lloyd Bridges Show", "The Dick Powell Theatre", "Dr. Kildare", "Checkmate", "87th Precinct", "Zane Grey Theater", "The Rifleman", "Alfred Hitchcock Presents", "Honky Tonk", and others. Don Taylor (American actor and director) Donald Richie Taylor (December 13, 1920 – December 29, 1998) was an American actor and film director. He co-starred in 1940s and 1950s classics, including the 1948 film noir "The Naked City",