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The Long Goodbye (The Rifleman)
'' The Rifleman'' is an American Western television series that starred Chuck Connors as homesteader Lucas McCain and Johnny Crawford as his son, Mark McCain. The series was set in the 1880s in the town of North Fork, New Mexico Territory The Territory of New Mexico was an organized incorporated territory of the United States from September 9, 1850, until January 6, 1912. It was created from the U.S. provisional government of New Mexico, as a result of ''Santa Fe de Nuevo México ... and was filmed in black-and-white with a half hour running time. ''The Rifleman'' aired on ABC from September 30, 1958 to April 8, 1963 as a production of Four Star Television. There were 168 episodes in the series. Series overview Episodes Season 1 (1958–59) Season 2 (1959–60) Season 3 (1960–61) Season 4 (1961–62) Season 5 (1962–63) References * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Rifleman episodes Lists of American Western (genre) television series episodes ...
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The Rifleman
''The Rifleman'' is an American Western television program starring Chuck Connors as rancher Lucas McCain and Johnny Crawford as his son Mark McCain. It was set in the 1880s in the fictional town of North Fork, New Mexico Territory. The show was filmed in black and white, in half-hour episodes. ''The Rifleman'' aired on ABC from September 30, 1958, to April 8, 1963, as a production of Four Star Television. It was one of the first primetime series on US television to show a single parent raising a child. The program was titled to reflect McCain's use of a Winchester Model 1892 rifle, a historical anachronism, as the show was set in the 1880s, and customized to allow repeated firing by cycling its lever action. He demonstrated this technique in the opening credits, as well as a second modification that allowed him to cycle the action with one hand using a technique known as "spin-cocking". Overview The series centers on Lucas McCain, a Union veteran of the American Civil War an ...
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Paul Fix
Peter Paul Fix (March 13, 1901 – October 14, 1983) was an American film and television character actor who was best known for his work in Westerns. Fix appeared in more than 100 movies and dozens of television shows over a 56-year career between 1925 and 1981. Fix was best known for portraying Marshal Micah Torrance, opposite Chuck Connors's character in ''The Rifleman'' from 1958 to 1963. He later appeared with Connors in the 1966 Western film ''Ride Beyond Vengeance'' and ''The Time Tunnel'' episode, ""End of the World". Early life and military service Paul Fix was born in Dobbs Ferry, New York, to Wilhelm Fix, a brewmaster, and the former Louise C. Walz, though some sources say he was born Paul Fix Morrison. His mother and father were German immigrants who had left their Black Forest home and arrived in New York City in the 1870s. Following the United States' entry into World War I in April 1917, Fix joined the National Guard, initially serving at Peekskill, New York. Af ...
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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) ...
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Warren Oates
Warren Mercer Oates (July 5, 1928 – April 3, 1982) was an American actor best known for his performances in several films directed by Sam Peckinpah, including ''The Wild Bunch'' (1969) and ''Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia'' (1974). Another of his most acclaimed performances was as officer Sam Wood in '' In the Heat of the Night'' (1967). Oates starred in numerous films during the early 1970s that have since achieved cult status, such as ''The Hired Hand'' (1971), ''Two-Lane Blacktop'' (1971), and ''Race with the Devil'' (1975). Oates also portrayed John Dillinger in the biopic ''Dillinger'' (1973) and as the supporting character U.S. Army Sergeant Hulka in the military comedy ''Stripes'' (1981). Another notable appearance was in the classic New Zealand film '' Sleeping Dogs'' (1977), in which he played the commander of the American forces in the country. Early life Warren Oates was born and reared in Depoy, a tiny rural community in Muhlenberg County, Kentucky, loca ...
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Robert J
The name Robert is an ancient Germanic given name, from Proto-Germanic "fame" and "bright" (''Hrōþiberhtaz''). Compare Old Dutch ''Robrecht'' and Old High German ''Hrodebert'' (a compound of '' Hruod'' ( non, Hróðr) "fame, glory, honour, praise, renown" and ''berht'' "bright, light, shining"). It is the second most frequently used given name of ancient Germanic origin. It is also in use as a surname. Another commonly used form of the name is Rupert. After becoming widely used in Continental Europe it entered England in its Old French form ''Robert'', where an Old English cognate form (''Hrēodbēorht'', ''Hrodberht'', ''Hrēodbēorð'', ''Hrœdbœrð'', ''Hrœdberð'', ''Hrōðberχtŕ'') had existed before the Norman Conquest. The feminine version is Roberta. The Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish form is Roberto. Robert is also a common name in many Germanic languages, including English, German, Dutch, Norwegian, Swedish, Scots, Danish, and Icelandic. It can be use ...
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Carolyn Craig
Carolyn Craig (born Adele Ruth Crago, October 27, 1934 – December 12, 1970) was an American actress who was best known for her performance as Nora Manning in William Castle's 1959 shocker ''House on Haunted Hill''. Career Craig gained early acting experience at the Community Playhouse in Santa Barbara, California. She made her film debut in ''Giant'' (1956) as Lacey Lynnton and had a lead role in the 1957 film noir ''Portland Exposé'' as Ruth Madison. She was also the second female lead in the 1958 Western ''Apache Territory''. Sometimes billed as Caroline Craig, she also made numerous guest appearances on television, including a recurring role on the soap opera ''General Hospital''. Craig made a guest appearance on the fourth episode of the television series ''Perry Mason''; she played Helen Waters in "The Case of the Drowning Duck". Craig also made a guest appearance on season 1 episode 3 "End of a Young Gun" of ''The Rifleman'' in October 1958, playing Ann Bard, a young w ...
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Charles Cooper (actor)
Charles Darwin Cooper (August 11, 1926 – November 29, 2013) was an American actor who played a wide variety of television and film roles from 1950 to 2001. On Broadway, Cooper appeared in ''The Winner'' (1954) and ''All You Need Is One Good Break'' (1950). In 1958 he played outlaw Cando in Season 3 Episode 36 of "Gunsmoke" titled "Chester's Hanging." Also in 1958, Cooper played the outlaw Tate Masters in the episode "Twelve Guns" of NBC's Western television series ''Cimarron City'' with George Montgomery and John Smith. In 1959, he played a gunfighter, Jack Rollins, in the episode "The Visitor" of '' Lawman,'' an ABC/Warner Bros. Television Western series. He was cast as Matt Yordy in the 1961 episode "Honest Abe" of Chuck Connors' ''The Rifleman''. Cooper made four guest appearances on ''Perry Mason'', including the role of murderer Philip Strague in the 1958 episode, "The Case of the Buried Clock". His final appearance in 1962 was as Ben Willoughby in "The Case of ...
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Michael Landon
Michael Landon (born Eugene Maurice Orowitz; October 31, 1936 – July 1, 1991) was an American actor and filmmaker. He is known for his roles as Little Joe Cartwright in ''Bonanza'' (1959–1973), Charles Ingalls in ''Little House on the Prairie'' (1974–1983), and Jonathan Smith in ''Highway to Heaven'' (1984–1989). Landon appeared on the cover of ''TV Guide'' 22 times, second only to Lucille Ball. Early life Landon was born Eugene Maurice Orowitz on October 31, 1936, in Forest Hills, a neighborhood of Queens, New York. His parents were Peggy (née O'Neill; a dancer and comedian) and Eli Maurice Orowitz. His father was Jewish, and his mother was Roman Catholic. Eugene was the Orowitz family's second child; their daughter, Evelyn, was born three years earlier, in 1933. In 1941, when Landon was four years old, he and his family moved to the borough of Collingswood, New Jersey. He attended, and celebrated his bar mitzvah at Temple Beth Sholom. His family recalls that L ...
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Frank D
Frank or Franks may refer to: People * Frank (given name) * Frank (surname) * Franks (surname) * Franks, a medieval Germanic people * Frank, a term in the Muslim world for all western Europeans, particularly during the Crusades - see Farang Currency * Liechtenstein franc or frank, the currency of Liechtenstein since 1920 * Swiss franc or frank, the currency of Switzerland since 1850 * Westphalian frank, currency of the Kingdom of Westphalia between 1808 and 1813 * The currencies of the German-speaking cantons of Switzerland (1803–1814): ** Appenzell frank ** Argovia frank ** Basel frank ** Berne frank ** Fribourg frank ** Glarus frank ** Graubünden frank ** Luzern frank ** Schaffhausen frank ** Schwyz frank ** Solothurn frank ** St. Gallen frank ** Thurgau frank ** Unterwalden frank ** Uri frank ** Zürich frank Places * Frank, Alberta, Canada, an urban community, formerly a village * Franks, Illinois, United States, an unincorporated community * Franks, Missouri, United ...
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Jerry Hopper
Harold Hankins Hopper (July 29, 1907 – December 17, 1988), known professionally as Jerry Hopper, was an American film and television director, active from the mid-1940s through the early 1970s. Early life Jerry Hopper was born in Guthrie, Oklahoma. Career He was an editor at Paramount Pictures before moving to the directors' chair for several installments of their Musical Parade series (1946–48). Hopper went on to direct feature films, such as, ''The Atomic City'' (1952), ''Pony Express'' (1953), ''Secret of the Incas'' (1954), and ''The Private War of Major Benson'' (1955), the latter three with actor Charlton Heston. In 1958 he directed Brandon De Wilde and Lee Marvin in ''The Missouri Traveler''. He then moved primarily into episodic television, having appeared in '' Colt .45'', '' Bachelor Father'', ''Wagon Train'', ''Gunsmoke'', ''The Addams Family'', '' Burke's Law'', ''Perry Mason'', '' The Fugitive'', ''Gilligan's Island'', and ''Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea' ...
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Don Kennedy
Donald J. Kennedy (born March 2, 1930) is an American radio and television personality and voice talent, whose career began in the late 1940s with a radio announcer spot on Pennsylvania station WPIC. In the mid-1950s, Kennedy was a contributor to the NBC Radio Network weekend show "Monitor," where he developed several features, including one about a local character known as the Goat Man. Kennedy is remembered as Officer Don, the host of the long-running Atlanta children's TV show ''The Popeye Club''. It was seen on Channel 2 WSB-TV from 1956 to 1970. During his time at the Popeye Club, Kennedy established 96.1 WKLS (now WWPW), an Atlanta FM radio station, serving as station President and General Manager. The "K" in the call sign was for his last name. Kennedy later did movie voicework, playing Tansit in ''Space Ghost Coast to Coast'', and several characters on ''The Brak Show'' and ''Aqua Teen Hunger Force''. In 1986, he began hosting "Big Band Jump," an internationally sy ...
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Rodolfo Hoyos Jr
Rodolfo is a given name. Notable people with the name include: * Rodolfo (footballer, born 1992), Brazilian footballer Rodolfo José da Silva Bardella *Rodolfo Albano III, Filipino politician * Rodolfo Vera Quizon Sr. (1928-2012), Filipino actor and comedian better known as Dolphy. *Rodolfo Bodipo (born 1977), naturalized Equatoguinean football striker * Rodolfo Dantas Bispo (born 1982), Brazilian footballer *Rodolfo Camacho (born 1975), Colombian road cyclist *Rodolfo Escalera (born 1929), Mexican American Oil Painter who specialized in realism *Rodolfo Fariñas (born 1951), Filipino politician *Rudy Fernández (basketball) (born 1985), Spanish basketball player *Rodolfo Graziani (born 1882), Italian military officer *Rodolfo Jiménez (born 1972), Mexican actor and television host *Rodolfo Landeros Gallegos Rodolfo Landeros Gallegos (born 1931) is a former Mexican politician and member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party. He served as governor of Aguascalientes from 1980 ...
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