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The Life of Riley

Original title: The Life of Riley

Year

1949

Rating

★ 8.0/10

Runtime

30 min

Seasons

1

Genres

Commedia

Riley worked in an aircraft plant in California, but viewers usually saw him at home, cheerfully disrupting life with his malapropisms and ill timed intervention into minor problems. His stock answer to every turn of fate became a catch phrase: 'What a revoltin' development this is!"

Cast: Jackie Gleason, Rosemary DeCamp, Lanny Rees, Gloria Winters, Bob Jellison