Mort Mills was an American

United States

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 film

Film

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 and television

Television

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 actor

Actor

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 who had roles in over 200 movies and television episodes. He was often the town lawman or the local bad guy in many popular westerns of the 1950s and 1960s. From 1957-1959 he had a recurring co-starring role as Marshal Frank Tallman in Man Without a Gun

Man Without a Gun

Man Without a Gun is a western television series produced by 20th Century Fox television and presented in first-run syndication in the United States from 1957 to 1959...

. Other recurring roles were as Sergeant Ben Landro in the Perry Mason

Perry Mason (TV series)

Perry Mason is an American legal drama produced by Paisano Productions that ran from September 1957 to May 1966 on CBS. The title character, portrayed by Raymond Burr, is a fictional Los Angeles defense attorney who originally appeared in detective fiction by Erle Stanley Gardner...

 series and Sheriff Fred Madden in The Big Valley

The Big Valley

The Big Valley is an American television Western which ran on ABC from September 15, 1965, to May 19, 1969, which starred Barbara Stanwyck, as a California widowed mother. It was created by A.I. Bezzerides and Louis F. Edelman...

. In 1958, he guest starred as a particularly greedy bounty hunter who clashes with Steve McQueen

Steve McQueen

Terrence Steven "Steve" McQueen was an American movie actor. He was nicknamed "The King of Cool." His "anti-hero" persona, which he developed at the height of the Vietnam counterculture, made him one of the top box-office draws of the 1960s and 1970s. McQueen received an Academy Award nomination...

's character of Josh Randall in the CBS

CBS

CBS Broadcasting Inc. is a major US commercial broadcasting television network, which started as a radio network. The name is derived from the initials of the network's former name, Columbia Broadcasting System. The network is sometimes referred to as the "Eye Network" in reference to the shape of...

 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, Wanted: Dead or Alive.

Biography

Though Mills did an enormous amount of television work, he also found consistent work in motion pictures. He played the highway patrolman who pursues Marion Crane (Janet Leigh

Janet Leigh

Janet Leigh , born Jeanette Helen Morrison, was an American actress. She was the wife of actor Tony Curtis from June 1951 to September 1962 and the mother of Kelly Curtis and Jamie Lee Curtis....

) in Alfred Hitchcock

Alfred Hitchcock

Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, KBE was a British film director and producer. He pioneered many techniques in the suspense and psychological thriller genres. After a successful career in British cinema in both silent films and early talkies, Hitchcock moved to Hollywood...

's classic thriller Psycho (1960). Shortly thereafter he worked again with Hitchcock, playing a farmer in Torn Curtain

Torn Curtain

Torn Curtain is a 1966 American political thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Paul Newman and Julie Andrews.-Plot:On a cruise ship en route to Copenhagen, Michael Armstrong , an esteemed American physicist and rocket scientist, is to attend a scientific conference...

 (1966). Mills also appeared opposite Charlton Heston

Charlton Heston

Charlton Heston was an American actor of film, theatre and television. Heston is known for heroic roles in films such as The Ten Commandments, Ben-Hur for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor, El Cid, and Planet of the Apes...

 in Orson Welles

Orson Welles

George Orson Welles , best known as Orson Welles, was an American film director, actor, theatre director, screenwriter, and producer, who worked extensively in film, theatre, television and radio...

's Touch of Evil

Touch of Evil

Touch of Evil is a 1958 American crime thriller film, written, directed by, and co-starring Orson Welles. The screenplay was loosely based on the novel Badge of Evil by Whit Masterson...

 (1958).

In 1955, he appeared as Samuel Mason

Samuel Mason

Samuel Mason or Meason was a Revolutionary War militia captain on the frontier, who following the war, became the leader of a gang of river pirates and highwaymen on the lower Ohio River and the Mississippi River in the late 18th and early 19th centuries...

 on ABC

American Broadcasting Company

The American Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue radio network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group. Its first broadcast on television was in 1948...

's Disneyland miniseries Davy Crockett

Davy Crockett (TV miniseries)

Davy Crockett is a five part serial which aired on ABC in one-hour episodes on the Disneyland series. The series stars Fess Parker as real-life frontiersman Davy Crockett and Buddy Ebsen as his fictional best friend, George Russel....

, starring Fess Parker

Fess Parker

Fess Elisha Parker, Jr. was an American film and television actor best known for his portrayals of Davy Crockett in the Walt Disney 1955-56 TV mini-series and as TV's Daniel Boone from 1964-70...

. From 1957-1959, Mills co-starred with Rex Reason

Rex Reason

Rex Reason is an American actor.He is the brother of actor Rhodes Reason, who is two years younger...

 (born 1928) in the syndicated

Television syndication

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 western series Man Without a Gun

Man Without a Gun

Man Without a Gun is a western television series produced by 20th Century Fox television and presented in first-run syndication in the United States from 1957 to 1959...

. He portrayed Marshal

Marshal

Marshal , is a word used in several official titles of various branches of society. The word is an ancient loan word from Old French, cf...

 Frank Tillman. Reason played his friend, Adam MacLean, editor of the Yellowstone Sentinel newspaper

Newspaper

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. In the 1965 Three Stooges

Three Stooges

The Three Stooges were an American vaudeville and comedy act of the early to mid–20th century best known for their numerous short subject films. Their hallmark was physical farce and extreme slapstick. In films, the Stooges were commonly known by their first names: "Moe, Larry, and Curly" and "Moe,...

 film The Outlaws Is Coming

The Outlaws Is Coming

The Outlaws IS Coming! is the sixth and last theatrical feature film to star the Three Stooges after their 1959 resurgence in popularity. By this time, the trio consisted of Moe Howard, Larry Fine, and Joe DeRita . Like its predecessor, The Three Stooges Go Around the World in a Daze...

 he played Trigger Mortis.

Mills was a regular as police

Police

The police is a personification of the state designated to put in practice the enforced law, protect property and reduce civil disorder in civilian matters. Their powers include the legitimized use of force...

 Lieutenant

Lieutenant

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 Bob Malone in Howard Duff

Howard Duff

Howard Green Duff was an American actor of film, television, stage, and radio.Duff was born in Charleston, Washington, now a part of Bremerton. He graduated from Roosevelt High School in Seattle in 1932 where he began acting in school plays only after he was cut from the basketball team...

's NBC

NBC

The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago...

-Four Star Television

Four Star Television

Four Star Television, also called Four Star International, was an American television production company. Founded in 1952 as Four Star Productions by prominent Hollywood actors Dick Powell, David Niven, Ida Lupino, and Charles Boyer, the company produced many well-known shows of the early days of...

 series, Dante

Dante (TV series)

Dante is a short-lived NBC adventure/drama television series starring Howard Duff as Willie Dante, a former gambler who operates Dante's Inferno, a San Francisco, California, nightclub. Alan Mowbray co-starred as Stewart Styles, the Maitre d'; Tom D'Andrea as Biff, Dante's "man Friday", and Mort...

 (1960–1961), set at a San Francisco

San Francisco, California

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, California

California

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, nightclub

Nightclub

A nightclub is an entertainment venue which usually operates late into the night...

 called "Dante's Inferno".

His cousin, Mary Treen, was a film actress.

Starring in his own TV series

• Man Without a Gun
  Man Without a Gun
  Man Without a Gun is a western television series produced by 20th Century Fox television and presented in first-run syndication in the United States from 1957 to 1959...
  
    (23 episodes, 1957–1959) Marshal Frank Tallman

Recurring role in a series

• Perry Mason
  Perry Mason (TV series)
  Perry Mason is an American legal drama produced by Paisano Productions that ran from September 1957 to May 1966 on CBS. The title character, portrayed by Raymond Burr, is a fictional Los Angeles defense attorney who originally appeared in detective fiction by Erle Stanley Gardner...
  
   – Sgt. Ben Landro

The Case of the Difficult Detour (1961)

The Case of the Pathetic Patient (1961)

The Case of the Brazen Bequest (1961)

The Case of the Crippled Cougar (1962)

The Case of the Playboy Pugilist (1962)

The Case of the Fickle Filly (1962)

The Case of the Golden Venom (1965)

also The Case of the Slandered Submarine (1960) Barry Scott

• The Big Valley
  The Big Valley
  The Big Valley is an American television Western which ran on ABC from September 15, 1965, to May 19, 1969, which starred Barbara Stanwyck, as a California widowed mother. It was created by A.I. Bezzerides and Louis F. Edelman...
  
   - Sheriff Fred Madden

The Murdered Party (1965)

Earthquake! (1965)

My Son, My Son (1965)

The Odyssey of Jubal Tanner (1965)

The Young Marauders (1965)

Hazard (1966)

Multiple appearances on a television series

• The Ford Television Theatre

Crossed and Double Crossed (1952) Barfly

Sudden Silence (1956) The Deputy

• The Cisco Kid
  The Cisco Kid (TV series)
  The Cisco Kid is a half-hour American Western television series starring Duncan Renaldo in the title role, The Cisco Kid, and Leo Carrillo as the jovial sidekick, Pancho...
  
  

Sky Sign (1954) Carver

Marriage by Mail (1954) Professor

Arroyo Millionaire's Castle (1955) Sheriff Tom Roscoe

Cisco and the Tappers (1955) Bart Stevens

• Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color

Davy Crockett and the River Pirates (1955) Samuel Mason

Davy Crockett's Keelboat Race (1955) Samuel Mason

Texas John Slaughter

Texas John Slaughter (TV series)

Texas John Slaughter was a television series run from 1958 to 1961 as part of the Wonderful World of Disney, starring Tom Tryon in the title role. The character was based upon an actual historical figure, Texas Ranger John Slaughter. Tryon memorably wore an enormous white cowboy hat with the brim...

: Ambush in Laredo (1958)

• Cheyenne

Star in the Dust (1956) Mike

Johnny Bravo (1956) Ben Taggart

Incident at Dawson Flats (1961) Sherriff Graves

• The Hardy Boys: The Mystery of the Applegate Treasure

Never Say Die (1956) Policeman

The Tower's Secret (1956) Policeman

The Final Search (1956) Policeman

• The 20th Century-Fox Hour

Gun in His Hand (1956) Joe Kirby

End of a Gun (1957) 1st Brother

• Gunsmoke
  Gunsmoke
  Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman MacDonnell and writer John Meston. The stories take place in and around Dodge City, Kansas, during the settlement of the American West....
  
  

No Handcuffs (1956) August Brake

How to Die for Nothing (1956) Howard Bulow

Born to Hang (1957) Robie

Murder Warrant (1959) Jake Harbin

Take Her, She's Cheap (1964) Loren Billings

Death Train (1967) Jack Maple

• Broken Arrow
  Broken Arrow (TV series)
  Broken Arrow is a Western series which ran on ABC-TV in prime time from 1956 through 1958 on Tuesdays at 9 p.m. Eastern time. Repeat episodes were shown by ABC on Sunday afternoons during the 1959–60 season...
  
  

Black Moment (1957) Halley

Legacy of a Hero (1957) Connell

• Zane Grey Theater

Time of Decision (1957) Bart Miller

Man on the Run (1957) Pete Bostwick

The Scar (1961) Foreman

• Trackdown
  Trackdown
  Trackdown is an American Western television series starring Robert Culp that aired on CBS between 1957 and 1959. The series offered more than seventy episodes and was produced by Dick Powell's Four Star Television and filmed at the Desilu-Culver Studio...
  
  

The San Saba Incident (1957) Ike Collins

Bad Judgment (1959) Rafe Borden

• The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
  The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
  The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp is a Western television series loosely based on the adventures of frontier marshal Wyatt Earp. The half-hour black and white series ran on ABC-TV from 1955 to 1961 and featured Hugh O'Brian as Earp. An off-camera barbershop quartet sang the theme song and hummed...
  
  

The Vultures (1957) Sam Watts

The Fanatic (1960) Odie Cairns

• Wanted: Dead or Alive

The Bounty (1958) Clark Daimler

Eight Cent Reward (1958) Harmon Stone

Railroaded (1959) Ed Bruner

The Healing Woman (1959) Tom Summers

Most Beautiful Woman (1960) Frank

• Wagon Train
  Wagon Train
  Wagon Train is an American Western series that ran on NBC from 1957–62 and then on ABC from 1962–65...
  
  

The Jesse Cowan Story (1958) Bob Cowan

The Clay Shelby Story (1964) Sgt. Bragan

The Jarbo Pierce Story (1965) Grant

• The Rifleman
  The Rifleman
  The Rifleman is an American Western television program that starred Chuck Connors as homesteader Lucas McCain and Johnny Crawford as his son, Mark McCain. It was set in the 1880s in the town of North Fork, New Mexico Territory. The show, filmed in black-and-white with a half hour running time, ran...
  
  

The Sister (1958) Joshua Snipe

Jealous Man (1962) Owens

• Maverick
  Maverick (TV series)
  Maverick is a western television series with comedic overtones created by Roy Huggins. The show ran from September 22, 1957 to July 8, 1962 on ABC and stars James Garner as Bret Maverick, a cagey, articulate cardsharp. Eight episodes into the first season, he was joined by Jack Kelly as his brother...
  
  

Day of Reckoning (1958) Red Scanlon

Benefit of the Doubt (1961) McGaven

• Bronco
  Bronco (TV series)
  Bronco is a Western series on ABC from 1958 through 1962. It was shown by the BBC in the United Kingdom. The program starred Ty Hardin as Bronco Layne, a former Confederate officer who wandered the Old West, meeting such well-known individuals as Wild Bill Hickok, Billy the Kid, Jesse James,...
  
  

The Long Ride Back (1958) Jacob Stint

Apache Treasure (1960) Hickins

• Sugarfoot
  Sugarfoot
  Sugarfoot is the title of a TV western that aired from 1957 to 1961. The series featured Will Hutchins as fledgling frontier lawyer Tom Brewster and Jack Elam as sidekick Toothy Thompson...
  
  

Man Wanted (1958) Smiley

Journey to Provision (1960) Sheriff Len Gogarty

• Bonanza
  Bonanza
  Bonanza is an American western television series that both ran on and was a production of NBC from September 12, 1959 to January 16, 1973. Lasting 14 seasons and 430 episodes, it ranks as the second longest running western series and still continues to air in syndication. It centers on the...
  
  

Vendetta (1959) Carl Morgan

Day of the Dragon (1961) Gordon

The Miracle Maker (1962) Thorne

Song in the Dark (1963) Deputy Sheriff Jeff Sykes

Joe Cartwright, Detective (1967) Perkins

• The Untouchables
  The Untouchables (1959 TV series)
  The Untouchables is an American crime drama that ran from 1959 to 1963 on ABC. Based on the memoir of the same name by Eliot Ness and Oscar Fraley, it fictionalized the experiences of Eliot Ness, a real-life Prohibition agent, as he fought crime in Chicago during the 1930s with the help of a...
  
  

The Dutch Schultz Story (1959) Lulu Rosenkrantz

Takeover (1962) Woody O'Mara

• Tales of Wells Fargo
  Tales of Wells Fargo
  Tales of Wells Fargo is an American Western television series that ran from March 18, 1957 to June 2, 1962 on NBC. Produced by Revue Productions, the series aired in a half-hour format until its final season when it expanded to an hour.-Synopsis:...
  
  

The Bounty Hunter (1959) Jeff Briscoe

The Trading Post (1960) Robson

• 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...
  
  

Men of Defiance (1960)

Rimrock (1961) Rink Banners

The Last Journey (1961) Damon Johntry

War Hero (1962) Obie Loomis

• Stagecoach West
  Stagecoach West (TV series)
  Stagecoach West is a highly-acclaimed Western drama television series which ran for thirty-eight episodes on the ABC network from October 4, 1960, until June 27, 1961. Characters Luke Perry and Simon Kane operate the Timberland Stage Line from Missouri to San Francisco...
  
  

By the Deep Six (1960) Martin

The Remounts (1961) Griz

The Marker (1961) Mingo

• Kraft Suspense Theatre
  Kraft Suspense Theatre
  Kraft Suspense Theatre, an anthology series, was telecast from 1963 to 1965 on NBC. Sponsored by Kraft Foods, it was seen three weeks out of every four and was pre-empted for Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall specials once monthly...
  
  

In Darkness, Waiting: Pt 1 and Pt 2 (1965) Victor Prelling

• The Fugitive
  The Fugitive (TV series)
  The Fugitive is an American drama series produced by QM Productions and United Artists Television that aired on ABC from 1963 to 1967. David Janssen stars as Richard Kimble, a doctor from the fictional town of Stafford, Indiana, who is falsely convicted of his wife's murder and given the death...
  
  

Smoke Screen (1963) Ranger Ritter

Moon Child (1965) George Mangus

Conspiracy of Silence (1965) Murchison

• The Virginian
  The Virginian (TV series)
  The Virginian is an American Western television series starring James Drury and Doug McClure, which aired on NBC from 1962 to 1971 for a total of 249 episodes. Filmed in color, The Virginian became television's first 90-minute western series...
  
  

Duel at Shiloh (1963) Deputy Bender

Another's Footsteps (1964) Garrett

Show Me a Hero (1965) Bert Devlin

• Daniel Boone
  Daniel Boone (TV series)
  Daniel Boone is an American action/adventure television series starring Fess Parker as Daniel Boone that aired from September 24, 1964 to September 10, 1970 on NBC for 165 episodes, and was made by 20th Century Fox Television. Ed Ames co-starred as Mingo, Boone's Native American friend, for the...
  
  

The King's Shilling (1967) Andrew Hubbard

Flag of Truce (1968) General Grosscup

• 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...
  
  

The Frame (1967) Al Souchek

The Seal (1967) William Conway

Two Thousand (1972) Marshall

• Ironside
  Ironside (TV series)
  Ironside is a Universal television series which ran on NBC from September 14, 1967 to January 16, 1975. The show starred Raymond Burr as the wheelchair-using Chief of Detectives, Robert T. Ironside. The character's debut was in a TV-movie on March 28, 1967. The original title of the show in the...
  
  

Girl in the Night (1967) Mike Hennessey

The Machismo Bag (1969) Lieutenant Rambau

• The Guns of Will Sonnett
  The Guns of Will Sonnett
  The Guns of Will Sonnett is a Western television series set in the 1870s which ran on the ABC television network from 1967 to 1969. The series was the first production collaboration between Aaron Spelling and Danny Thomas, who would later go on to produce one of ABC's most-memorable hits, The Mod...
  
  

A Town in Terror: Pt 1 & Pt 2 (1969) Ben Adams

• Mannix
  Mannix
  Mannix is an American television detective series that ran from 1967 through 1975 on CBS. Created by Richard Levinson and William Link and developed by executive producer Bruce Geller, the title character, Joe Mannix, is a private investigator. He is played by Mike Connors...
  
  

You Can Get Killed Out There (1968) Al

War of Nerves (1970) Hijacker

Single episode television appearances

• Biff Baker, U.S.A.
  Biff Baker, U.S.A.
  Biff Baker, U.S.A. is an American crime drama television series that aired on CBS from November 6, 1952, to March 26, 1953 starring Alan Hale, Jr. as Cold War spy Biff Baker.-Synopsis:...
  
   - Crash Landing (1952)
• Gruen Guild Theater - Girl from Kansas (1952) Boxcar Johnson
• Family Theatre
  Family Theater
  Family Theater was a dramatic anthology radio show which aired on the Mutual Broadcasting System in the United States from February 13, 1947 to September 11, 1957.-Production background:...
  
    - A Star Shall Rise (1952)
• I Led Three Lives
  I Led Three Lives
  I Led Three Lives is an American drama series which was syndicated by Ziv Television Programs from October 1, 1953 to January 1, 1956. The series stars Richard Carlson...
  
    - The Spy (1953) Comrade Straight
• The Adventures of Kit Carson
  The Adventures of Kit Carson
  The Adventures of Kit Carson is an American Western series that aired in syndication from August 1951 to November 1955, originally sponsored by Coca-Cola. It stars Bill Williams in the title role as frontier scout Christopher "Kit" Carson...
  
   - Badman's Escape (1953)
• Hopalong Cassidy
  Hopalong Cassidy
  Hopalong Cassidy is a fictional cowboy hero created in 1904 by the author Clarence E. Mulford, who wrote a series of popular short stories and twenty-eight novels based on the character....
  
   - Arizona Troubleshooters (1953) George Byers
• Rocky Jones, Space Ranger
  Rocky Jones, Space Ranger
  Rocky Jones, Space Ranger is a syndicated science fiction television serial originally broadcast in 1954. The show lasted for only two seasons and, though syndicated sporadically, dropped into obscurity. But because it was recorded on film rather than being broadcast live as were most other TV...
  
   - Beyond the Curtain of Space (1954) Ophician Soldier
• Waterfront - Captain for a Day (1955) Darby
• Crusader
  Crusader (TV series)
  Crusader is a half-hour black-and-white American adventure/drama series that aired on CBS for two seasons from October 7, 1955 to December 28, 1956.-Synopsis:...
  
    - The Farm (1956) Heinrich
• The Man Behind the Badge
  The Man Behind the Badge
  The Man Behind the Badge is the title of a half-hour American television police drama series which aired on the CBS from 1953-1955 starring and hosted by character actor Charles Bickford. Years later, Bickford appeared as one of the owners of Shiloh Ranch in the NBC western series, The Vrginian.In...
  
   - The Case of the Unwelcome Stranger (1955) Lloyd
• Treasury Men in Action
  Treasury Men in Action
  Treasury Men in Action, a.k.a. Federal Men, is the title of a TV crime drama series broadcast live and which aired from 1950 through 1955 on ABC and starred Walter Greaza, Ross Martin, and Tom McKee. It was directed by William Beaudine, Leigh Jason, and Will Jason among others.The series centers on...
  
   - The Case of the Ready Guns (1955) Ben Adams
• Big Town
  Big Town
  Big Town is a popular long-running radio drama series which was later adapted to both film and television and a comic book published by DC Comics.-Radio:...
  
    - Shield of a Killer (1955)
• The Lone Ranger
  The Lone Ranger (TV Series)
  The Lone Ranger is an American western television series starring Clayton Moore and Jay Silverheels as Tonto. The live-action series initially featured Gerald Mohr as the episode narrator...
  
    - Six-Gun Artist (1955) Lafe, Second Thug
• Cavalcade of America
  Cavalcade of America
  Cavalcade of America is an anthology drama series that was sponsored by the DuPont Company, although it occasionally presented a musical, such as an adaptation of Show Boat, and condensed biographies of popular composers. It was initially broadcast on radio from 1935 to 1953, and later on...
  
   - The Doll Who Found a Mother (1956)
• You Are There - Decatur's Raid at Tripoli (February 16, 1804) (1956)
• Sheriff of Cochise
  Sheriff of Cochise
  Sheriff of Cochise , renamed U.S. Marshal , is a 58-episode syndicated western-themed crime drama set in Arizona and starring John Bromfield as law enforcement officer Frank Morgan. In the first two seasons, Morgan was sheriff of Cochise County...
  
    - Fire on Chiricahua Mountains (1956) Barlett
• Crossroads
  Crossroads (1955 TV series)
  Crossroads is the title of a 30-minute American television religion drama series which aired from 1955–1957, the first season on ABC and the second via syndication....
  
    - Boom Town Padre (1957) Luke Cassidy
• Panic! - The Subway (1957) Detective
• Casey Jones
  Casey Jones (TV series)
  Casey Jones is an American children's Western series that ran during the '58-'59 television season, based around the pioneering western railroads. The series aired in syndication in the United States...
  
   - Night Mail (1957) Mike Nelson
• Zorro - Garcia Stands Accused (1958) Lancer
• Have Gun–Will Travel  - The Man Who Lost (1959) Ben Coey
• The Alaskans
  The Alaskans
  The Alaskans is a 1959 television series set in the port of Skagway, Alaska during the 1890s. The show features Roger Moore as "Silky Harris" and Jeff York as "Reno McKee", a pair of adventurers intent on swindling travelers bound for the Yukon Territories during the height of the Klondike Gold...
  
   - Million Dollar Kid (1960) Wilkes
• Law of the Plainsman
  Law of the Plainsman
  Law of The Plainsman is a Western television series starring Michael Ansara that aired on the NBC television network from October 1, 1959, until May 5, 1960. The character of Native American U.S...
  
    - The Gibbet (1959) Zeb Derkson
• The Man From Blackhawk
  The Man From Blackhawk
  The Man From Blackhawk is a Western television series starring Robert Rockwell that aired on the ABC television network from October 9, 1959, until September 9, 1960. The Man From Blackhawk was created by Academy Award winning screenwriter Stirling Silliphant.In The Man From Blackhawk, Rockwell...
  
   - Station Six (1959)
• Bat Masterson
  Bat Masterson (TV series)
  Bat Masterson is an American Western television series which showed a fictionalized account of the life of real-life marshal/gambler/dandy Bat Masterson. The title character was played by Gene Barry and the half-hour black and white shows ran on NBC from 1958 to 1961...
  
    - Who'll Bury My Violence? (1959) Barney Kaster
• 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....
  
    - Man on the Hill (1959) Pete Bennett
• The David Niven Show - Sticks and Stones (1959) Police Lieutenant O'Brien
• The Detectives Starring Robert Taylor
  The Detectives Starring Robert Taylor
  The Detectives Starring Robert Taylor is an American crime drama series which ran on ABC during its first two seasons, and on NBC during its third and final season...
  
    - The Scalpel (1960) Dr. Bruce
• The Aquanauts
  The Aquanauts (TV series)
  The Aquanauts is an American adventure/drama series that aired on CBS in the 1960-1961 season. The series stars Keith Larsen, Jeremy Slate and Ron Ely .-Synopsis:...
  
   - Deep Escape (1960)
• Dante
  Dante (TV series)
  Dante is a short-lived NBC adventure/drama television series starring Howard Duff as Willie Dante, a former gambler who operates Dante's Inferno, a San Francisco, California, nightclub. Alan Mowbray co-starred as Stewart Styles, the Maitre d'; Tom D'Andrea as Biff, Dante's "man Friday", and Mort...
  
    - Opening Night (1960) Lt. Robert Malone
• Markham  - 13 Avenida Muerte (1960) Cal
• 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...
  
   - The Mary Hardin Story (1960) Tetlow
• The Texan
  The Texan (TV series)
  The Texan is a Western television series starring popular B movie star Rory Calhoun. It aired on the CBS television network from 1958-1960.-Production notes:...
  
    - Thirty Hours to Kill (1960) Ben Dawson/Blackie Dawson
• Shotgun Slade
  Shotgun Slade
  Shotgun Slade is an American western television series starring Scott Brady that aired in syndication from October 24, 1959, until 1961. Created by Frank Gruber, the stories were written by John Berardino, Charissa Hughes, and Martin Berkeley...
  
    - The Deadly Key (1960) Ben Wesley
• Men into Space
  Men Into Space
  Men Into Space is an American sci-fi television series broadcast from September 30, 1959 to September 7, 1960 by CBS which depicted future efforts by the United States Air Force to explore and develop outer space. The black-and-white filmed show starred William Lundigan as Col...
  
   - Shadows on the Moon (1960) Dr. George Coldwell
• Pony Express
  Pony Express (TV series)
  Pony Express is a half-hour syndicated western television series which ended its 39-episode schedule in 1960, the centennial of the launching of the Pony Express, a short-lived venture promoted by William Hepburn Russell of the freight company Russell, Majors and Waddell...
  
    - Special Delivery (1960) Strobridge
• Johnny Ringo
  Johnny Ringo (TV series)
  Johnny Ringo is a Western television series starring Don Durant that aired on CBS from October 1, 1959, until June 30, 1960. It was loosely based on the life of the notorious gunfighter Johnny Ringo, who tangled with Wyatt Earp, John "Doc" Holliday, and "Buckskin" Franklin Leslie.This fictional...
  
   - Killer, Choose a Card (1960) Jed Matthews
• Lawman
  Lawman (tv series)
  Lawman is an American Western television series originally telecast from 1958 to 1962 starring John Russell as Marshal Dan Troop and featuring Peter Brown as Deputy Marshal Johnny McKay on the ABC Television Network. The series was set in Laramie, Wyoming during the mid to late 1870s. Warner Bros....
  
    - Owny O'Reilly, Esq. (1961) Jack Saunders
• General Electric Theater
  General Electric Theater
  General Electric Theater is an American anthology series hosted by Ronald W. Reagan that was broadcast on CBS radio and television. The series was sponsored by General Electric's Department of Public Relations.-Radio:...
  
    - The Black-Robed Ghost (1963) Det. John Duncan
• The Wild Wild West
  The Wild Wild West
  The Wild Wild West is an American television series that ran on CBS for four seasons from September 17, 1965 to April 4, 1969....
  
    - Night of the Casual Killer (1965) Chuck Harper
• My Favorite Martian
  My Favorite Martian
  My Favorite Martian is an American television sitcom that aired on CBS from September 29, 1963 to May 1, 1966 for 107 episodes...
  
    - The Time Machine Is Waking Up That Old Gang of Mine (1965) Jesse James
• A Man Called Shenandoah
  A Man Called Shenandoah
  A Man Called Shenandoah is a Western series that aired on ABC-TV from 1965 to 1966 by MGM Television.-Synopsis:The series starred Robert Horton as a man who was found shot and left for dead on the trail and is revived...
  
    - The Locket (1965) Sheriff
• Bewitched
  Bewitched
  Bewitched is an American situation comedy originally broadcast for eight seasons on ABC from 1964 to 1972, starring Elizabeth Montgomery, Dick York and Dick Sargent , Agnes Moorehead, and David White. The show is about a witch who marries a mortal and tries to lead the life of a typical suburban...
  
    - Speak the Truth (1965) Traffic Policeman
• Death Valley Days
  Death Valley Days
  Death Valley Days is an American radio and television anthology series featuring true stories of the old American West, particularly the Death Valley area. Created in 1930 by Ruth Woodman, the program was broadcast on radio until 1945. It continued from 1952 to 1975 as a syndicated television series...
  
    - No Gun Behind His Badge (1965)
• The Green Hornet
  The Green Hornet (TV series)
  The Green Hornet is a television show on the ABC US television network. It aired for the 1966–1967 TV season, and starred Van Williams as the Green Hornet/Britt Reid and Bruce Lee as Kato.- Episodes:...
  
   - Give 'Em Enough Rope (1966) Alex Colony
• Laredo
  Laredo (TV series)
  Laredo is an NBC Western television series starring Neville Brand, William Smith, Peter Brown, and Philip Carey as Texas Rangers. The program premiered on September 16, 1965, and the final new episode was broadcast on April 7, 1967. The series was produced by Universal Television.-Synopsis:Laredo...
  
    - Finnegan (1966) Muldoon
• The Iron Horse  - Explosion at Waycrossing (1966) Sheriff Harkness
• The Invaders
  The Invaders
  The Invaders, a Quinn Martin Production , is an ABC science fiction television program created by Larry Cohen that ran in the United States for two seasons, from January 10, 1967 to March 26, 1968...
  
    - Condition: Red (1967) Mr. Arius
• Felony Squad
  Felony Squad
  Felony Squad is a half-hour television crime drama originally broadcast on the ABC network from September 12, 1966 to January 31, 1969, a span encompassing seventy-three episodes.-Overview:...
  
    - The Death Bag (1967) Louie Antonides
• Maya - The Legend of Whitney Markham (1968) Frank Sanders
• The Outcasts
  The Outcasts (TV series)
  The Outcasts is a short-lived Western genre television series, appearing on ABC in the 1968-69 season. The series co-starred Don Murray and Otis Young, and is probably most notable for being the first television Western with a Black co-star and the first bi-racial Western action...
  
    - They Shall Rise Up (1969) Tauber
• The Name of the Game
  The Name of the Game (TV series)
  The Name of the Game is an American television series starring Tony Franciosa, Gene Barry, and Robert Stack that ran from 1968 to 1971 on NBC, totaling 76 episodes of 90 minutes. It was a pioneering wheel series, setting the stage for the likes of The Bold Ones and the NBC Mystery Movie in the 1970s...
  
   - A Wrath of Angels (1969) Berg Jannsen
• Land of the Giants
  Land of the Giants
  Land of the Giants was an hour-long American science fiction television program lasting two seasons beginning on September 22, 1968 and ending on March 22, 1970. The show was created and produced by Irwin Allen. Land of the Giants was the fourth of Allen's science fiction TV series. The show was...
  
    - Home Sweet Home (1969) Constable
• Lancer
  Lancer (TV series)
  Lancer is a 1968-1970 Western television series on CBS, which starred Andrew Duggan, James Stacy, and Wayne Maunder as a father with two half-brother sons, an arrangement similar to the more successful Bonanza on NBC....
  
   - The Rivals (1970) Kling
• Adam-12
  Adam-12
  Adam-12 was a television police drama which followed two police officers of the Los Angeles Police Department, Pete Malloy and Jim Reed, as they patrolled the streets of Los Angeles in their patrol unit, 1-Adam-12. Created by Jack Webb who is known for creating Dragnet, the series captured a...
  
    (1971) Luke Nathan
• Alias Smith and Jones
  Alias Smith and Jones
  Alias Smith and Jones is an American Western series that originally aired on ABC from 1971 to 1973. It stars Pete Duel as Hannibal Heyes and Ben Murphy as Jedediah "Kid" Curry, a pair of Western cousin outlaws trying to reform...
  
   - McGuffin (1972) First Man
• The Mod Squad
  The Mod Squad
  The Mod Squad is a television series that ran on ABC from September 24, 1968, until August 23, 1973. This series starred Michael Cole, Peggy Lipton, Clarence Williams III, and Tige Andrews...
  
    - Kill Gently, Sweet Jessie (1972)
• The Streets of San Francisco
  The Streets of San Francisco
  The Streets of San Francisco is a 1970s television police drama filmed on location in San Francisco, California, and produced by Quinn Martin Productions, with the first season produced in association with Warner Bros...
  
   - Deathwatch (1973) Victor W. Snyder

Theatrical film

• Affair in Trinidad
  Affair in Trinidad
  Affair in Trinidad is a film produced by Hayworth's Beckworth Corporation, released by Columbia Pictures, and starring Rita Hayworth and Glenn Ford. It is notable as Hayworth's "comeback" film after four years away from Columbia, as a re-teaming of the Gilda co-stars, and for a fiery opening...
  
   (1952) Martin, Wittol's Henchman
• No Holds Barred
  No Holds Barred (1952 film)
  No Holds barred is a 1952 comedy film starring The Bowery Boys. The film was released on November 23, 1952 by Monogram Pictures and is the twenty-eighth film in the series.-Plot:...
  
   (1952) Second Mug
• The Wild One
  The Wild One
  The Wild One is a 1953 outlaw biker film directed by László Benedek and produced by Stanley Kramer. It is famed for Marlon Brando's iconic portrayal of the gang leader Johnny Strabler.-Basis:...
  
   (1953) Deputy
• The Juggler
  The Juggler (film)
  The Juggler is a drama film about a survivor of the Holocaust, played by Kirk Douglas. The screenplay was adapted by Michael Blankfort from his novel of the same name.-Plot:...
  
   (1953) Policeman
• The Farmer Takes a Wife
  The Farmer Takes a Wife (1953 film)
  The Farmer Takes a Wife is a 1953 musical comedy film starring Betty Grable. It is a remake of the 1935 film of the same name which starred Janet Gaynor and Henry Fonda.-Cast:*Betty Grable as Molly Larkins*Dale Robertson as Dan Harrow...
  
   (1953) Floyd
• Hannah Lee: An American Primitive (1953) Doctor
• Texas Bad Man (1953) Bartender
• Drive a Crooked Road
  Drive a Crooked Road
  Drive a Crooked Road is an American crime film noir directed by Richard Quine and featuring Mickey Rooney, Dianne Foster, Kevin McCarthy, and Jack Kelly...
  
   (1954) Garage Foreman
• It Should Happen to You
  It Should Happen to You
  It Should Happen to You is a romantic comedy film starring Judy Holliday, notable as the first screen appearance of Jack Lemmon, who was then an aspiring young actor. The film was directed by George Cukor and filmed on location in New York City...
  
   (1954) Photographer
• Cry Vengeance (1954) Johnny Blue-Eyes
• A Star Is Born
  A Star Is Born (1954 film)
  A Star Is Born is a 1954 American musical film directed by George Cukor. The screenplay written by Moss Hart was an adaptation of the original 1937 film, which was based on the original screenplay by Robert Carson, Dorothy Parker, and Alan Campbell...
  
   (1954) Makeup Man
• Pushover (film)
  Pushover (film)
  Pushover is a film noir notable for being the first film to feature Kim Novak in a starring role. Directed by Richard Quine, the Columbia Pictures film also stars Fred MacMurray. It was adapted from two novels, The Night Watch by Thomas Walsh and Rafferty by William S...
  
   (1954) Second Bartender
• Dial Red O (1955) Newspaper Photographer
• Jupiter's Darling (1955) Hannibal's Guard
• Desert Sands (1955) Woloack, Radio Man
• Trial (1955) Reporter
• The Marauders (1955) Carmack
• The Naked Street (1955) Finney
• To Hell and Back
  To Hell and Back (film)
  To Hell and Back is a CinemaScope war film released in 1955. It was directed by Jesse Hibbs and starred Audie Murphy as himself and Kyle Sanville. It is based on the 1949 autobiography of the same name and is an account of Murphy's World War II experiences as a soldier in the U.S. Army...
  
   (1955) Soldier in Bunk
• Ransom!
  Ransom!
  Ransom! is a 1956 crime drama examining the reactions of parents, police, and the public to a kidnapping. Written by Richard Maibaum and Cyril Hume, the film was based on a popular episode of "The United States Steel Hour" titled "Fearful Decision," which aired in 1954...
  
   (1956) Service Man

• The Harder They Fall
  The Harder They Fall
  The Harder They Fall is a film noir directed by Mark Robson, featuring Humphrey Bogart in his last film before his death in 1957. The film was written by Philip Yordan and based on the 1947 novel by Budd Schulberg....
  
   (1956) Reporter in Hospital
• Crashing Las Vegas
  Crashing Las Vegas
  Crashing Las Vegas is a 1956 film starring the comedy team of The Bowery Boys. The film was released on April 22, 1956 by Allied Artists and is the forty-first film in the series. It was the last film in the series to star Leo Gorcey.-Plot:...
  
   (1956) Oggy
• Tension at Table Rock
  Tension at Table Rock
  Tension at Table Rock is a 1956 Technicolor Drama directed by Charles Marquis Warren, starring Richard Egan and Dorothy Malone. Wes Tancred is publicly vilified after killing a famous gunslinger who was a public hero.-Cast:...
  
   (1956) Deputy Sheriff
• The Shadow on the Window
  The Shadow on the Window
  The Shadow on the Window is a 1957 film directed by William Asher. It stars Philip Carey and Betty Garrett.-Cast:*Philip Carey as Tony Atlas*Betty Garrett as Linda Atlas*John Drew Barrymore as Jess Reber*Corey Allen as Gil Ramsey...
  
   (1957) Myra's Husband
• The Iron Sheriff (1957) Range Detective Sutherland
• Man in the Shadow
  Man in the Shadow
  Man in the Shadow is a 1957 crime film starring Jeff Chandler, Orson Welles, Colleen Miller, Ben Alexander, and John Larch.-Plot summary:...
  
   (1957) Empire Ranch Gateman
• Bombers B-52 (1957) Sergeant addressing Flyers
• Ride a Crooked Trail
  Ride a Crooked Trail
  Ride a Crooked Trail is a 1958 American western film, with former World War II hero Audie Murphy and future Academy Award winning actor Walter Matthau heading a strong if not well-known cast.-Plot:...
  
   (1958) Pecos
• Touch of Evil
  Touch of Evil
  Touch of Evil is a 1958 American crime thriller film, written, directed by, and co-starring Orson Welles. The screenplay was loosely based on the novel Badge of Evil by Whit Masterson...
  
   (1958) Al Schwartz, District Attorney's Assistant
• Psycho
  Psycho (1960 film)
  Psycho is a 1960 American suspense/psychological horror film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Janet Leigh and Anthony Perkins. The film is based on the screenplay by Joseph Stefano, who adapted it from the 1959 novel of the same name by Robert Bloch...
  
   (1960) Highway Patrol Officer
• Twenty Plus Two (1961) Harbin
• Gunfight at Comanche Creek (1963) Jack Mason aka Jack Springer
• Where Love Has Gone
  Where Love Has Gone (film)
  Where Love Has Gone is a 1964 drama film made by Embassy Pictures , Joseph E. Levine Productions and Paramount Pictures. It was directed by Edward Dmytryk and produced by Joseph E. Levine from a screenplay by John Michael Hayes based on the novel of the same name by Harold Robbins...
  
   (1964) Petey Peterson
• Bullet for a Badman (1964)
• The Quick Gun (1964) Cagle
• The Outlaws Is Coming
  The Outlaws Is Coming
  The Outlaws IS Coming! is the sixth and last theatrical feature film to star the Three Stooges after their 1959 resurgence in popularity. By this time, the trio consisted of Moe Howard, Larry Fine, and Joe DeRita . Like its predecessor, The Three Stooges Go Around the World in a Daze...
  
   (1965) Trigger Mortis
• Blindfold
  Blindfold (film)
  Blindfold is an American movie from 1965, by Universal Pictures, starring Rock Hudson and Claudia Cardinale that was based on Lucille Fletcher's 1960 novel of the same name....
  
   (1965) Homburg
• Torn Curtain
  Torn Curtain
  Torn Curtain is a 1966 American political thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Paul Newman and Julie Andrews.-Plot:On a cruise ship en route to Copenhagen, Michael Armstrong , an esteemed American physicist and rocket scientist, is to attend a scientific conference...
  
   (1966) Farmer
• Return of the Gunfighter
  Return of the Gunfighter (1967 film)
  Return of the Gunfighter is a Western/Movie, starring Robert Taylor and directed by James Neilson.- Plot :An old gunslinger Wyatt and Ben Lee Sutton injured boy in love with a Mexican girl, Wyatt will teach you to use the gun, the young man now knows how to defend himself, he wants to avenge the...
  
   (1967) Will Parker
• Strategy of Terror
  Strategy of Terror
  Strategy of Terror is a 1969 film directed by Jack Smight....
  
   (1969) Victor Pelling
• The Name of the Game Is Kill (1968) Sheriff Fred Kendall
• Breakout (1970) (TV) Middleton
• Soldier Blue
  Soldier Blue
  Soldier Blue is a 1970 American Revisionist Western movie directed by Ralph Nelson and inspired by events of the 1864 Sand Creek massacre in the Colorado Territory....
  
   (1970) Sgt. O'Hearn

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