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Man Without A Gun
''Man Without a Gun'' is an American Western television series produced by 20th Century Fox Television and presented on the NTA Film Network and in first-run syndication in the United States from 1957 to 1959. Set in the town of Yellowstone near Yellowstone National Park in the then Dakota Territory during the 1870s, the program starred Rex Reason as newspaper editor Adam MacLean, who brought miscreants to justice without the use of violence or gunplay but through his ''Yellowstone Sentinel''. The co-star was Mort Mills, as Marshal Frank Tallman, who intervened when the "pen" proved not to be "mightier than the sword". Harry Harvey Sr., was cast in twenty-one episodes as Yellowstone Mayor George Dixon. The program is considered to have been unique because it showcased MacLean's moral ethics and common sense to bring outlaws to justice. The show was also used as a schoolroom to teach the youngsters of the 1950s about decency and the differences between right and wrong. Guest st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rex Reason
Rex George Reason Jr. (November 30, 1928 – November 19, 2015) was an American actor best known for his role in '' This Island Earth'' (1955). He was the elder brother of actor Rhodes Reason. Life and career Reason was born in Berlin, Germany to an American family that returned to Los Angeles shortly thereafter, where Rex was raised. Rex Reason attended Herbert Hoover High School in Glendale, California and enlisted in the United States Army at the age of seventeen, serving from 1946 to 1948. He began his stage career in 1948 at the Pasadena Playhouse, performing there for three years before coming to the notice of Hollywood. In 1951 he was given a screen test at Columbia Pictures and was cast as the lead in a starring role in his first picture, a low-budget adventure drama '' Storm Over Tibet'' (1952) initially produced for MGM but acquired by Columbia Pictures. Reason was under contract for two more years at Columbia until moving to Universal-International in mid-1953, aft ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Whit Bissell
Whitner Nutting Bissell (October 25, 1909 – March 5, 1996) was an American character actor. Early life Born in New York City, Bissell was the son of surgeon Dr. J. Dougal Bissell and Helen Nutting Bissell. He was educated at the Allen-Stevenson School and the Dalton School in New York City. He was related to Daniel Bissell, who was awarded the Badge of Military Merit, the predecessor of the Purple Heart, by George Washington. He trained with the Carolina Playmakers, a theatrical organization associated with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he majored in drama and English. Career Bissell had a number of roles in Broadway theatre, including the Air Force show ''Winged Victory'', when he was an airman serving in the United States Army Air Forces. In a film career that began with '' Holy Matrimony'' (1943), Bissell appeared in hundreds of films and television episodes as a prominent character actor. Regularly cast in low-budget science fiction and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Karnes
Robert Anthony Karnes (June 19, 1917 – December 4, 1979) was an American film, stage and television actor. Life and career Karnes was born in Kentucky. He served in World War II, during which he toured the Pacific with the Maurice Evans Troupe's production of '' Hamlet''. His first screen appearance was in the 1946 film '' The Bamboo Blonde'' in the uncredited role of a Nightclub Patron. His film career stalled when he was blacklisted because of his earlier political associations. Karnes later appeared in numerous television programs including '' Gunsmoke'', ''Bonanza'', '' Cheyenne'', '' The Twilight Zone'', '' The Waltons'', '' The Rockford Files'', '' M*A*S*H'', '' The Streets of San Francisco'', ''Alfred Hitchcock Presents'', '' Emergency!'', '' Perry Mason'', '' The Andy Griffith Show'', '' The Fugitive'', '' The Untouchables'', '' Mission: Impossible'', and '' Ironside'', among others. He also starred, co-starred and appeared in films such as '' Miracle on 34th Stre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diane Jergens
Diane Jergens (born Dianne Irgens; March 31, 1935 – October 9, 2018) was an American film and television actress. Early years Jergens was the daughter of Norman C. Irgens, an alderman in Minneapolis, and his wife. In 1944, at age 8, she auditioned for two film studios in Hollywood and was asked to return to make a film. In 1950, the family moved to Hollywood. When Jergens was 16, she was a member of the Heidt Steppers dancing troupe, which was part of the Horace Heidt Show. Soon after Jergens graduated from Hollywood High School, she performed as a singer on tour with composer Jimmy McHugh. Career She made her screen debut in the 1946 film ''Ginger''. She was featured in such 1950s films as '' The FBI Story'' with James Stewart and ''Desk Set'' starring Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn. Her other films included leading roles in '' High School Confidential'' and '' Island of Lost Women''. On television, she portrayed Francine Williams on ''The Bob Cummings Show'' in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Myron Healey
Myron Daniel Healey (June 8, 1923 – December 21, 2005) was an American actor. He began his career in Hollywood, California during the early 1940s and eventually made hundreds of appearances in movies and on television during a career spanning more than half a century. Early years Healey was born in Petaluma in Sonoma County, California, the son of Dr. and Mrs. Robert D. Healey. He served in World War II as an Air Corps navigator and bombardier, flying in B-26 Martin Marauders in the European Theatre. After the war he continued military duties, retiring in the early 1960s as a captain in the United States Air Force Reserve. Acting career Healey's film debut came in 1943 with '' Young Ideas.'' Returning to film work after WWII, he played villains and henchmen in low-budget Western films. He also did some screenwriting. In the post-war period he was frequently seen in Westerns from Monogram Pictures, often starring Johnny Mack Brown, Jimmy Wakely and Whip Wilson. I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ron Hagerthy
Ronald F. Hagerthy (born March 9, 1932) is an American actor on television and in films. Early years Hagerthy was born in Aberdeen, South Dakota, but moved to Glendale, California, before he started school. He attended Glendale City College and once worked as an ambulance driver. His acting career was interrupted by two years' service in the Army. Career On television, in the 1950s, Hagerthy portrayed Clipper King (nephew of the title character) in the modern Western series, '' Sky King''. He also appeared on '' Matinee Theater'', ''Bonanza'', ''Gunsmoke'' (as "Blackie" in S1E38's "Unknown Grave" – 1956), '' Navy Log'', ''Tales of Wells Fargo'', and '' New Comedy Showcase''. He also appeared in an episode of The Rifleman, "The Deserter" (March 15, 1960, S2E25). On film, Hagerthy portrayed Dick Cvetic in '' I Was a Communist for the FBI'' (1951) and Cpl. Rich Williams in '' Starlift'' (1951). He also appeared in '' Make Haste to Live'', '' Eighteen and Anxious'', ''Charge at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dabbs Greer
Robert William "Dabbs" Greer (April 2, 1917 – April 28, 2007) was an American character actor in film and television for over 60 years. Greer appeared in nearly 100 film roles and in nearly 600 television episodes of various series. He played Mr. Jonas in ''Gunsmoke'', Coach Ossie Weiss in the sitcom '' Hank'', and Reverend Robert Alden in ''Little House on the Prairie''. Greer's final film role was as the 108-year-old Paul Edgecomb, the character played by Tom Hanks in 1999's '' The Green Mile''. Early life Greer was born in Fairview, Missouri, the son of Bernice Irene (née Dabbs), a speech teacher, and Randall Alexander Greer, a druggist. When Greer was an infant, the family moved to the larger Anderson, Missouri, southwest. At the age of eight, he began acting in children's theater productions. He attended Drury University in Springfield, Missouri, where he was a member of Theta Kappa Nu. Career Early career (1930s and 1940s) Greer's film debut was as an extr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Don Gordon (actor)
Don Gordon (born Donald Walter Guadagno; November 13, 1926 – April 24, 2017) was an American film and television actor. His most notable film roles were those in which he appeared alongside his friend Steve McQueen: ''Bullitt'' (1968), '' Papillon'' (1973) and ''The Towering Inferno'' (1974). Between the first and the last of those films he appeared in '' The Gamblers'' (1970), '' WUSA'' (1970), '' Cannon for Cordoba'' (1970), ''The Last Movie'' (1971), '' Z.P.G.'' (1972), '' Fuzz'' (1972), '' Slaughter'' (1972), ''The Mack'' (1973), ''The Education of Sonny Carson'' (1974) and '' Omen III: The Final Conflict'' (1981) as the ill-fated assistant to protagonist Damien Thorn. Early life Gordon was born Donald Walter Guadagno in Los Angeles on November 13, 1926. He sold newspapers at the age of eight to help support his family during the Great Depression. He enlisted in the Navy at the age of fifteen after the attack on Pearl Harbor, convincing his mother to say he was eighte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bruce Gordon (American Actor)
Bruce Gordon (February 1, 1916January 20, 2011) was an American actor best known for playing gangster Frank Nitti in the ABC television series ''The Untouchables''. His acting career ranged over a half century and included stage, movies, and a varied number of roles on the small screen. Early life Gordon was born in Fitchburg, Massachusetts. His first appearance on Broadway was in 1937 in the musical drama ''The Fireman's Flame''. From 1941 to 1945, he played the role of Officer Klein alongside Boris Karloff in the original cast of '' Arsenic and Old Lace'' on Broadway. He had an "Introducing" credit in the 1949 Marx Brothers film ''Love Happy''. Television On television, he appeared in numerous episodes of such early programs as '' The Goldbergs'', '' The Nash Airflyte Theater'', '' Studio One'', ''Justice'', ''Kraft Television Theatre'', ''Robert Montgomery Presents'', '' The Californians'', ''Whirlybirds'', '' Colgate Theatre'', and the premiere episode of ''Decoy''. In 1958, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stanley Farrar
Stanley Wendell Farrar"Rites for Actor Farrar" ''The Berkeley Gazette''. April 9, 1974. p. 3."California, World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1940-1945", FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QGXB-NYNY : Wed Mar 06 08:13:50 UTC 2024), Entry for Stanley Wendell Farrar and Margaret Mary Farrar, 16 October 1940. (October 4, 1910 – April 5, 1974) was an American in radio, film and television, perhaps best known as Mayor Terwilliger in the |
Stanley Fafara
Stanley Albert Fafara (September 20, 1949 – September 20, 2003) was an American child actor, best known for his role as Hubert "Whitey" Whitney in the original ''Leave It to Beaver'' television series. His older brother, Tiger, played "Tooey W. Brown" in the series. Early life and career Fafara was born in San Francisco, California, in September 1949. In 1957, at the age of 7, his mother took him to an open casting call for a new family television series titled ''Leave It to Beaver''. He had been working in commercials and television westerns since the age of 4. Fafara earned the part of Hubert "Whitey" Whitney, one of the Beaver Cleaver's best friends. Fafara remained with ''Leave It to Beaver'' for six years. After the show's cancellation in 1963, he attended North Hollywood High School. He became friendly with the pop-rock band Paul Revere & the Raiders and reportedly moved in with the band for a time. He developed an alcohol habit and began to use drugs. At his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Drury
James Child Drury Jr. (April 18, 1934 – April 6, 2020) was an American actor. He is best known for having played the title role in the 90-minute weekly Western television series '' The Virginian'', which was broadcast on NBC from 1962 to 1971. Early years Drury was born in New York City, the son of James Child Drury and Beatrice Crawford Drury. His father was a New York University professor of marketing. He grew up between New York City and Salem, Oregon, where his mother owned a farm. Drury contracted polio at the age of 10. He studied drama at New York University and took additional classes at UCLA to complete his degree after he began acting in films at MGM. Career Drury's professional acting career began when he was 12 years old, when he performed in a road company's production of '' Life with Father''. He signed a film contract with MGM in 1954 and appeared in bit parts in films. After he went to 20th Century Fox, he appeared in '' Love Me Tender'' (1956 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
