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!"


The Life of Riley (1949)
12h 30m
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Gloria Winters
Babs Riley (26 episodes)

Rosemary DeCamp
Peg Riley (26 episodes)

Jackie Gleason
Chester A. Riley (26 episodes)
BJ
Bob Jellison
Waldo Binny (26 episodes)

Lanny Rees
Junior Riley (26 episodes)

Jimmy Lydon
(2 episodes)

Alan Reed
(1 episode)Ferguson (1 episode)

Sid Tomack
Gillis (1 episode)Jim Gillis (1 episode)

Teddy Infuhr
(1 episode)