Ed Kemmer (October 29, 1921 – November 9, 2004) was an American motion picture and television actor.

In 1964 he played a major part in ”The Impostor”, a tense Sutton Roley-directed episode of Combat!

Kemmer starred for two years as an American astronaut in the soap opera The Clear Horizon,[3] leading to the later phase of his career as a leading player in various daytime drama series, including The Edge of Night (on which he met his wife, actress Fran Sharon) as Malcolm Thomas, The Secret Storm as Paul Britton #2, As the World Turns as attorney Dick Martin, and Somerset as attorney Ben Grant.

In 1962, Kemmer was cast as the historical investigative journalist Henry Morton Stanley in the episode, "The Truth Teller," on the syndicated television Anthology series, Death Valley Days, hosted by Stanley Andrews.

Stanley arrives at Fort Larned, Kansas, to assess Hancock's effort to avoid war on the frontier.