Jock Gaynor was an American actor, producer

Television producer

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, and writer, whose work was confined primarily to television

Television

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. His acting career began at the age of thirty-one, when he was cast in a supporting role as deputy marshal

Marshal

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 Heck Martin during the first season (1960-1961) of the NBC

NBC

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 western

Western (genre)

The Western is a genre of various visual arts, such as film, television, radio, literature, painting and others. Westerns are devoted to telling stories set primarily in the latter half of the 19th century in the American Old West, hence the name. Some Westerns are set as early as the Battle of...

 series Outlaws, starring Barton MacLane

Barton MacLane

Barton MacLane was an American actor, playwright, and screenwriter. Although he has appeared in many classic films from the 1930s through the 1960s, he was known for his role as Gen...

 and Don Collier

Don Collier

Donald Collier is an American radio personality and a former actor, particularly known for his role in television westerns during the 1960s. He played U.S. Marshal Will Foreman in the 1960-1962 NBC series Outlaws, with Barton MacLane , Jock Gaynor , and Bruce Yarnell...

, and in the second season, Collier and Bruce Yarnell

Bruce Yarnell

Bruce Yarnell was an American actor who co-starred in the second season of NBC's Western television series Outlaws, set in the lawless Oklahoma Territory. He was also a noted Broadway and opera baritone.Yarnell played Deputy U.S. Marshal Chalk Breeson, having replaced Jock Gaynor in the role of...

. His character Heck Martin was the on-screen nephew

Nephew

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 to Collier's role of Will Foreman.

Gaynor was a native of New York City who sometimes used the stage names Jack Gaynor or Ward Gaynor. His acting career began when he appeared in 1960 as the character Joe Malone in NBC's Wichita Town

Wichita Town

Wichita Town is a half-hour western television series starring Joel McCrea, Jody McCrea, Carlos Romero, and George Neise that aired on NBC from September 30, 1959, until April 6, 1960....

with Joel McCrea

Joel McCrea

Joel Albert McCrea was an American actor whose career spanned 50 years and appearances in over 90 films.-Early life:...

. The then appeared in three ABC

American Broadcasting Company

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 programs, Bourbon Street Beat

Bourbon Street Beat

Bourbon Street Beat is a private detective series which aired on the ABC network from 1959-1960 and featured Andrew Duggan as Cal Calhoun, Richard Long as Rex Randolph, Van Williams as Kenny Madison, and Arlene Howell as Melody Lee Mercer, the secretary at the New Orleans detective agency in which...

as Mike Cherbourg, Colt .45

Colt .45 (TV series)

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as Gabe Randall, and The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp

The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp

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as Lieutenant Grange. He appeared in David McLean's NBC summer western Tate

Tate (TV series)

Tate was a Western television series that aired on the NBC television network from June 8, 1960 until September 14, 1960. It was created by Harry Julian Fink and produced by Perry Como's company, Roncom Video Films, Inc...

as Tavibo weeks prior to appearing on Outlaws.

Thereafter, Gaynor guest starred on Clint Walker

Clint Walker

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's western Cheyenne

Cheyenne (TV series)

Cheyenne is a western television series of 108 black-and-white episodes broadcast on ABC from 1955 to 1963. The show was the first hour-long western, and in fact the first hour-long dramatic series of any kind, with continuing characters, to last more than one season...

, Hawaiian Eye

Hawaiian Eye

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with Robert Conrad

Robert Conrad

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, and Surfside 6

Surfside 6

Surfside 6 was an ABC television series which aired from 1960 to 1962. The show centered around a Miami Beach detective agency set on a houseboat and featured Troy Donahue as Sandy Winfield, II; Van Williams as Kenny Madison ; and Lee Patterson as Dave Thorne...

with Troy Donahue

Troy Donahue

Troy Donahue was an American actor, who was active between the late 1950s and late 1990s.-Life and career:...

, all on ABC. He appeared twice as "Ogalla" on CBS's Rawhide

Rawhide (TV series)

Rawhide is an American Western series that aired for eight seasons on the CBS network on Friday nights, from January 9, 1959 to September 3, 1965, before moving to Tuesday nights from September 14, 1965 until January 4, 1966, with a total of 217 black-and-white episodes...

with Clint Eastwood

Clint Eastwood

Clinton "Clint" Eastwood, Jr. is an American film actor, director, producer, composer and politician. Eastwood first came to prominence as a supporting cast member in the TV series Rawhide...

. He guest starred in the lead role in the short-lived 1961 CBS western Gunslinger

Gunslinger (TV series)

Gunslinger was a Western television series starring Tony Young that aired on the CBS television network from February 9 until May 18, 1961. The theme song was sung by Frankie Laine....

in one episode entitled "Johnny Sergeant".

Gaynor also guest starred on such series as Laramie

Laramie (TV series)

Laramie is an American Western television series that aired on NBC from 1959 to 1963. Laramie was a Revue Studios production which originally starred John Smith as Slim Sherman, Robert Fuller as Jess Harper, Hoagy Carmichael as Jonesy and Robert Crawford, Jr...

, the NBC western with John Smith

John Smith (actor)

John Smith was an American actor remembered in particular for two NBC western television series.-Early life and career:He was born Robert Errol Van Orden, in Los Angeles, California...

 and Robert Fuller

Robert Fuller

Robert Welch is a professional wrestler and manager better known by his ring names Robert Fuller and Col. Robert Parker. Robert and his brother Ron co-owned Continental Championship Wrestling for a time.-Career:...

, and in two episodes each of ABC's Batman

Batman

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and The Iron Horse with Dale Robertson

Dale Robertson

Dayle Lymoine "Dale" Robertson is an American actor best known for his starring roles on television. He played the role of Jim Hardie in the TV series, Tales of Wells Fargo, and the owner of an incomplete railroad line in ABC's The Iron Horse, often appearing as the deceptively thoughtful but...

 and CBS's Mission: Impossible

Mission: Impossible

Mission: Impossible is an American television series which was created and initially produced by Bruce Geller. It chronicled the missions of a team of secret American government agents known as the Impossible Missions Force . The leader of the team was Jim Phelps, played by Peter Graves, except in...

. From 1963-1964, Gaynor appeared as Dr. William Scott in the soap opera

Soap opera

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 The Doctors (1963-1982), the work of Orin Tovrov, who, according to the book Total Television had also created the old serial Ma Perkins

Ma Perkins

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. After appearances on CBS's Mannix

Mannix

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with Mike Connors

Mike Connors

Mike Connors is an American actor best known for playing detective Joe Mannix in the CBS television series, Mannix. Before that, he had played a crime-fighting investigator, wielding a .38 handgun hidden in his back, in another CBS series, Tightrope.-Early life:Connors was born Krekor Ohanian in...

 and Cannon

Cannon (TV series)

Cannon is a CBS detective television series produced by Quinn Martin which aired from March 26, 1971 to March 3, 1976.The primary protagonist was the title character, Frank Cannon, played by William Conrad....

with William Conrad

William Conrad

William Conrad was an American actor, producer and director whose career spanned five decades in radio, film and television....

, both in 1973, Gaynor rarely acted thereafter.

He appeared in the 1974 thriller film The Deathhead Virgin in the role of Larry Alden. According to the story line, a treasure hunter finds a sunken Spanish

Spain

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 galleon

Galleon

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 off the coast of a Philippine island, only to learn that the ship is influenced by the ghost of an ancient Moro princess. His last appearance was in the role of Paxton in 1986 on NBC's Knight Rider with David Hasselhoff

David Hasselhoff

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.

He produced the film

Film

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 The Invitation in 1984 and twenty episodes from 1979-1980 of Gil Gerard

Gil Gerard

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's series Buck Rogers in the 25th Century

Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (TV series)

Buck Rogers in the 25th Century is an American science fiction adventure television series produced by Universal Studios. The series ran for two seasons between 1979–1981, and the feature-length pilot episode for the series was released as a theatrical film several months before the series aired....

. Gaynor died in Los Angeles

Los Ángeles

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, California

California

California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...

, at the age of sixty-eight.