Ronald F. "Ron" Hagerthy (born March 9, 1932) is a former American

United States

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 actor

Actor

An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...

 known primarily for his guest-starring and supporting roles on television

Television

Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...

 westerns

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...

. In 1952, he portrayed Clipper King in the modern western series, Sky King

Sky King

Sky King is a 1940s and 1950s American radio and television adventure series. The title character is Arizona rancher and aircraft pilot Schuyler "Sky" King...

, with Kirby Grant

Kirby Grant

Kirby Grant, , was a long-time B movie and television actor. He is mostly remembered for playing the title role in the television series Sky King....

 in the title role of Clipper's uncle, Schuyler "Sky" King, pilot of the private airplane known as the Songbird. Gloria Winters

Gloria Winters

Gloria Winters was an actress most remembered for having portrayed the well-mannered niece, Penny King, in the 1950s-1960s American television series Sky King.-Early life and career:Gloria Winters grew up in the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles, but later moved to Hollywood...

 also starred as Sky King's niece, Penny King.

Hagerthy's first screen role was as 19-year-old Dick Cvetic in the 1951 Warner Brothers film

Film

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, I Was a Communist for the FBI

I Was a Communist for the FBI

I Was a Communist for the FBI is the name of a series of stories written by Matt Cvetic that appeared in the Saturday Evening Post. The stories were later turned into a best-selling book, an American espionage thriller radio series and motion picture in the early 1950s.The story follows Cvetic, who...

. Frank Lovejoy

Frank Lovejoy

Frank Lovejoy was an American actor in radio, film, and television. He was born Frank Lovejoy Jr. in Bronx, New York, but grew up in New Jersey. His father, Frank Lovejoy Sr., was a furniture salesman from Maine...

 (1912–1962) played the role of Matt Cvetic, a 39-year-old undercover Federal Bureau of Investigation

Federal Bureau of Investigation

The Federal Bureau of Investigation is an agency of the United States Department of Justice that serves as both a federal criminal investigative body and an internal intelligence agency . The FBI has investigative jurisdiction over violations of more than 200 categories of federal crime...

 agent within the Communist Party United States of America

Communist Party USA

The Communist Party USA is a Marxist political party in the United States, established in 1919. It has a long, complex history that is closely related to the histories of similar communist parties worldwide and the U.S. labor movement....

. Philip Carey

Philip Carey

-Biography:He was born as Eugene Joseph Carey in Hackensack, New Jersey. A former U.S. Marine, Carey was wounded as part of the ship's detachment of the USS Franklin during World War II and served again in the Korean War....

 (1925–2009) and Paul Picerni

Paul Picerni

-Life and career:Picerni was born in New York City, New York. He was an Eagle Scout who joined the United States Army Air Forces during World War II, where he served as a B-24 Liberator bombardier in the China-Burma-India Theater. He flew 25 combat missions with the 493rd Bomb Squadron of the 7th...

 (born 1922) were cast in the roles of Mason and Joe Cvetic, respectively. I was a Communist in the FBI subsequently inspired the syndicated

Television syndication

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 television series 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...

. Hagerthy also appeared in small roles in two other 1951 films, as Minto in Force of Arms and as corporal

Corporal

Corporal is a rank in use in some form by most militaries and by some police forces or other uniformed organizations. It is usually equivalent to NATO Rank Code OR-4....

 Rick Williams, who become the romantic interest of a Hollywood starlet, played by Janice Rule

Janice Rule

-Early life and career:Born in Norwood, Ohio, her career included stage, screen and television work. Rule studied ballet and began dancing in Chicago nightclubs in her teens. She soon attracted attention in Hollywood and made her film debut in 1951...

, in Starlift

Starlift

Starlift is an American musical film released by Warner Brothers in 1951, starring Janice Rule, Dick Wesson, Ron Hagerthy and Ruth Roman. The film was directed by Roy Del Ruth and written by Karl Lamb and John D. Klorer...

.

Sky King

Hagerthy appeared in nineteen episodes of Sky King, which in a topsy turvy broadcast history

History

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 aired at one time on all three major television networks as well as in syndication. The series is set on a fictitious Arizona

Arizona

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 ranch

Ranch

A ranch is an area of landscape, including various structures, given primarily to the practice of ranching, the practice of raising grazing livestock such as cattle or sheep for meat or wool. The word most often applies to livestock-raising operations in the western United States and Canada, though...

. Hagerthy's episodes are:

• "Operation Urgent" (5 April 1952)
• "Carrier Pigeon" (19 April 1952)
• "Stage Coach Robbers: (3 May 1952)
• "Deadly Cargo" (17 May 1952)
• "Jim Bell's Triumph" (31 May 1952)
• "Designing Woman" (14 June 1952)
• "One for the Money" (28 June 1952)
• "Danger Point" (12 July 1952)
• "Desperate Character" (26 July 1952)
• "The Man Who Forgot" (9 August 1952)
• "The Threatening Bomb" (23 August 1952)
• "Speak No Evil" (6 September 1952)
• "Two-Gun Penny" (20 September 1952)
• "Formula for Fear" (4 October 1952)
• "The Giant Eagle" (18 October 1952)
• "Blackmail" (8 November 1952)
• "Wings of Justice" (22 November 1952)
• "Destruction from the Sky" (6 December 1952)
• "The Porcelain Lion" (20 December 1952

Transitional roles

After Sky King Hagerthy entered the military. He still appeared in three 1953 films: (1) as Johnny McKeever in The Charge at Feather River, (2) as Stubby Kelly in City That Never Sleeps

City That Never Sleeps

City That Never Sleeps is a film noir produced and directed by John H. Auer with cinematography by John L. Russell.-Plot:Johnny Kelly is a Chicago cop from a long line of police officers. He's grown tired of the job and his married life. He plans on leaving his wife for exotic dancer Sally...

, and (3) as an unnamed college

College

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 student in Titanic

Titanic (1953 film)

Titanic is a 1953 American drama film directed by Jean Negulesco. Its plot centers on an estranged couple sailing on the maiden voyage of the , which took place in April 1912.-Plot:...

. That same year, he guest starred in William Boyd

William Boyd (actor)

William Lawrence Boyd was an American film actor best known for portraying Hopalong Cassidy.-Biography:...

's 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....

, the first western television series, in the role of Johnny Bolton in the episode, "The Devil's Idol".

From 1952-1953, Hagerthy appeared on Fireside Theatre in different roles in three episodes entitled "Honor", "The Alien", and "The Boy Down the Road". In 1956, he appeared with Inger Stevens

Inger Stevens

Inger Stevens was a Swedish-American movie and TV actress.- Early life :Inger Stevens was born Inger Stensland in Stockholm, Sweden. She was an insecure child and was often ill. When she was nine, her parents divorced and she moved with her father to New York City...

 and Everett Sloane

Everett Sloane

Everett Sloane was an American stage, film and television actor, songwriter, and theatre director.-Early life:...

 in the 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...

 anthology series The Joseph Cotten Show

The Joseph Cotten Show

The Joseph Cotten Show is an American anthology series series hosted by and occasionally starring Joseph Cotten. The series, which first aired on NBC, aired 31 episodes from September 14, 1956, to September 13, 1957...

 in the episode "Law is for the Lovers".

Western roles

Hagerthy's long string of appearances in western series began to accelerate in 1956 with two guest-starring roles on the syndicated Annie Oakley

Annie Oakley (TV series)

Annie Oakley is an American Western television series which fictionalized the life of famous sharpshooter Annie Oakley. It ran from January 1954 to February 1957 in syndication. ABC showed reruns on Saturday and Sunday daytime from 1959–1960 and from 1964-1965...

, starring Gail Davis

Gail Davis

Gail Davis was an American actress, best known for her starring role as Annie Oakley in the 1950s television Western series Annie Oakley.-Life and career:...

 as Annie Oakley

Annie Oakley

Annie Oakley , born Phoebe Ann Mosey, was an American sharpshooter and exhibition shooter. Oakley's amazing talent and timely rise to fame led to a starring role in Buffalo Bill's Wild West show, which propelled her to become the first American female superstar.Oakley's most famous trick is perhaps...

. He played the title role of Chuck Hutchins in the episode "The Waco

Waco, Texas

Waco is a city in and the county seat of McLennan County, Texas. Situated along the Brazos River and on the I-35 corridor, halfway between Dallas and Austin, it is the economic, cultural, and academic center of the 'Heart of Texas' region....

 Kid". Elizabeth Slifer (1896–1958) appeared as long-suffering mother, Jenny Hutchins, who yearns for her son to turn away from outlawry. He appeared as Billy Stryker thereafter in "Annie Rings the Bell", which also features Slim Pickens

Slim Pickens

Louis Burton Lindley, Jr. , better known by the stage name Slim Pickens, was an American rodeo performer and film and television actor who epitomized the profane, tough, sardonic cowboy, but who is best remembered for his comic roles, notably in Dr...

 and X Brands

X Brands

X Brands , sometimes credited as Jay X. Brands, was an American actor of German descent known for his roles in television series and some films. His best-known role was "Pahoo-Ka-Ta-Wah" , the shotgun-toting Indian sidekick on the 1958 CBS western series Yancy Derringer, with Jock Mahoney in the...

. Pickens also guest starred in "The Waco Kid" segment.

His other western roles include:

• Tales of the Texas Rangers
  Tales of the Texas Rangers
  Tales of the Texas Rangers, a western adventure old-time radio drama, premiered on July 8, 1950, on the US NBC radio network and remained on the air through September 14, 1952...
  
   as Jim Hartley in "The Devil's Deputy" (1956)
• Gray Ghost
  Gray Ghost (TV series)
  The Gray Ghost is an American historical series which aired in syndication from October 10, 1957, to July 3, 1958. It depicts the true story of Major John Singleton Mosby, a Virginia officer in the Confederate Army, whose cunning and stealth earned him the nickname "Gray Ghost".-Synopsis:The Gray...
  
   in "A Problem of Command" (1957)
• The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin
  The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin
  The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin is an American children's television program which originally aired in 166 episodes on ABC from October 1954 until August 1959. It starred child actor Lee Aaker as Rusty, a boy orphaned in an Indian raid, who was being raised by the soldiers at a US Cavalry post known...
  
   as Tom Mack in "Homer the Great" (1956) and as Corporal
  Corporal
  Corporal is a rank in use in some form by most militaries and by some police forces or other uniformed organizations. It is usually equivalent to NATO Rank Code OR-4....
  
   Tim Crane in "The Silent Witness" (1957)
• The Lone Ranger
  The Lone Ranger
  The Lone Ranger is a fictional masked Texas Ranger who, with his Native American companion Tonto, fights injustice in the American Old West. The character has become an enduring icon of American culture....
  
  , as Buck Webb in "The Sheriff of Smoke Tree", as Deputy 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...
  
   Jim Hannah in "No Handicap" (both 1956), and as Fred Bryan in "The Banker's Son" (1957)
• U.S. Marshal
  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...
  
   as Wally Burke in "The Promise" (1957)
• 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...
  
   as Bob Fitzsimmons in "The Manly Art" (1958)
• 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....
  
   as Rusty or Blackie in "Unmarked Grave" (1956) and as Andy Tennis in "Ma Tennis" (1958)
• State Trooper
  State Trooper (TV series)
  State Trooper is a half-hour television crime drama set in the 1950s American West, starring Rod Cameron as Rod Blake, an officer of the Nevada State Troopers. The series aired 104 episodes in syndication from September 25, 1956, to June 25, 1959...
  
   as Bob Evans in "You Can't Run Forever" (1958)
• Have Gun - Will Travel as Joe Martin in "A Snare for Murder" (1958)
• Jefferson Drum
  Jefferson Drum
  Jefferson Drum is an American Western television series starring Jeff Richards and Eugene Martin on the NBC network that aired from April 25 to December 11, 1958.-Overview:...
  
   as Will Barton in "Thicker Than Water" (1958)
• 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...
  
   as Felix in "Old Gabe" (1958)
• Frontier Doctor
  Frontier Doctor
  For the NBC program similarly named, see Frontier .Frontier Doctor is an American Western television series starring Rex Allen that aired in syndication from September 26, 1958, until June 20, 1959.-Synopsis:...
  
   as Pa Helbrog in "The Homesteaders" (1959)
• Whirlybirds
  Whirlybirds
  Whirlybirds is an American drama television series....
  
   as Steve in "His Brother's Keeper" (1959)
• 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...
  
   as Tod Wilburn in "Witness to Terror" (1959)
• Tombstone Territory
  Tombstone Territory
  Tombstone Territory is an American Western series starring Pat Conway and Richard Eastham. The series' first two seasons aired on ABC from 1957 to 1959...
  
   as Jeff Harper in "The Gunfighter" (1959)
• 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...
  
   as Billy Johnson in "The Hanging Posse" (1959)
• 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....
  
   as Tod in "Biggest Man in Town" (1959)
• The Horse Soldiers
  The Horse Soldiers
  The Horse Soldiers is a 1959 DeLuxe Color war film, set in the American Civil War, directed by John Ford, starring John Wayne, William Holden and Constance Towers...
  
   as a bugler in the John Wayne
  John Wayne
  Marion Mitchell Morrison , better known by his stage name John Wayne, was an American film actor, director and producer. He epitomized rugged masculinity and became an enduring American icon. He is famous for his distinctive calm voice, walk, and height...
  
   and William Holden
  William Holden
  William Holden was an American actor. Holden won the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1954 and the Emmy Award for Best Actor in 1974...
  
   picture filmed near Natchitoches
  Natchitoches, Louisiana
  Natchitoches is a city in and the parish seat of Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana, United States. Established in 1714 by Louis Juchereau de St. Denis as part of French Louisiana, the community was named after the Natchitoches Indian tribe. The City of Natchitoches was first incorporated on February...
  
  , Louisiana
  Louisiana
  Louisiana is a state located in the southern region of the United States of America. Its capital is Baton Rouge and largest city is New Orleans. Louisiana is the only state in the U.S. with political subdivisions termed parishes, which are local governments equivalent to counties...
  
   (1959)
• 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...
  
   in "The Search" (1960)
• Colt .45
  Colt .45 (TV series)
  Colt .45 is an American Western television series shown on ABC between 1957 and 1960. The half-hour show derives from the 1950 Warner Brothers film of the same name starring Randolph Scott and formed part of the William T...
  
   as Deputy Jim Benson in "The Impasse" (1960)
• 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...
  
   as Oliver Jergens in "The Drawing Account" (1960)
• Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theater
  Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theater
  Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre, sometimes simply called Zane Grey Theatre, is an American Western anthology series which ran on CBS from 1956 to 1961.-Overview:Zane Grey Theatre was created by Luke Short and Charles A. Wallace...
  
   as Jack Wilson in "The Sunday Man" (1960)
• 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...
  
   as Ben Haskell in "The Deserter" (1960)
• 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:...
  
   as Neil Pierce in "The First Notch" (1958) and in the title role of "Johnny Tuvo" (1960)
• Riverboat
  Riverboat (TV series)
  Riverboat is a western television series starring Darren McGavin and Burt Reynolds that was broadcast on the NBC television network from September 13, 1959 until January 2, 1961....
  
   as Phelan in "The Quota" (1960)
• Two Faces West
  Two Faces West
  Two Faces West is a 39-episode half-hour syndicated television western series set in Gunnison in southwestern Colorado, which aired from October 17, 1960, to July 31, 1961. It stars Scottish native Charles Bateman in the dual roles of twin brothers, Rick January, M.D., and Marshal Ben January...
  
   as Lucas Garrett in "The Trigger" (1961)
• 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....
  
   as Trooper Gurney in "The Recruit" and as Phil Nevis in "The New Savannah Story" (both 1961)
• 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...
  
   as Jim Hode in "Incident of the Dry Drive" (1959) and as Danny Clayton in "Incident at Cactus Wells" (1962)
• The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters
  The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters (TV series)
  The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters is a 26-episode western television series based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name by Robert Lewis Taylor. The show aired in the 1963-1964 television season and was produced by MGM Television....
  
   as Carey Macklin in "The Day of Reckoning". This role was renewed in the 1964 television movie
  Television movie
  A television film is a feature film that is a television program produced for and originally distributed by a television network, in contrast to...
  
  , Guns of Diablo based on the Jaimie McPheeters series, starring Kurt Russell
  Kurt Russell
  Kurt Vogel Russell is an American television and film actor. His first acting roles were as a child in television series, including a lead role in the Western series The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters...
  
  .
• The High Chaparral
  The High Chaparral
  The High Chaparral is a Western-themed television series starring Leif Erickson and Cameron Mitchell which aired on NBC from 1967 to 1971. The show was created by David Dortort, who had previously created the hit Bonanza for the network...
  
   as Morgan in "Best Man for the Job", his final western appearance at the age of thirty-five (1967)

Drama roles

• Make Haste to Live
  Make Haste to Live
  Make Haste to Live is an American suspense film released by Republic Pictures.- Plot :'Chris' Crystal Benson is a single mother living in a small town in New Mexico. One night she feels a man is stalking. She grabs a gun and makes a series of arrangements anticipating his own death...
  
   as Hack (1954)
• The West Point Story
  The West Point Story (TV series)
  The West Point Story is a dramatic anthology television series shown in the United States by Columbia Broadcasting System during the 1956-57 season and by ABC during the 1957-58 season....
  
   as Daniel Atlas in "The Only Witness" (1957)
• The Silent Service
  The Silent Service (TV series)
  The Silent Service was a 1957–1958 syndicated anthology television series based on actual events in the submarine section of the United States Navy. The Silent Service was narrated by Rear Admiral Thomas M. Dykers, who retired from the Navy in 1949 after twenty-two years of service...
  
   in "Tang v. Truk" (1957)
• The Lineup
  The Lineup (TV series)
  The Lineup is an American police drama which aired on CBS radio from 1950 to 1953 and on CBS television from 1954 to 1960, possibly in response to NBC's hit Dragnet....
  
   in "The Toy Tiger Case" and then as John Oakhurst in "The Security Officer Case" (1957)
• Eighteen And Anxious (film) as Danny Fuller (1957)
• Navy Log
  Navy Log
  Navy Log is an American anthology series that initially aired on CBS. The series featured over 70 regular guests and told about the greatest survival war stories in the history of the United States Navy. This series premiered on September 20, 1955. The following year, it was moved to ABC, where it...
  
   as Johnny Fletcher in "Ninety Day Wonder" (1956), as Jimmy Milano in "The Lady and the Atom" (1957), and as Swenson in "The Draft Dodger" (1958)
• Tightrope
  Tightrope (TV series)
  Tightrope is an American crime drama series that aired on CBS from September 1959 to September 1960. Produced by Russell Rouse and Clarence Greene in association with Screen Gems, the series stars Mike Connors as an undercover agent named "Nick" who was assigned to infiltrate criminal gangs...
  
   as Frank in "First Time Out" (1959)
• Border Patrol
  Border Patrol (US TV series)
  Border Patrol is a 34-episode syndicated half-hour adventure/drama television series which aired in the United States during calendar year 1959, with Richard Webb cast as Don Jagger, the fictitious deputy chief of the Border Patrol...
  
   in "Death in the Desert" (1959)
• This Is the Life
  This is the Life (TV series)
  This Is the Life is an American Christian television dramatic series. This anthology series aired in syndication from the 1950s through 1980s. The series was originally produced by the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod, and distributed by the International Lutheran Laymen's League.-Format:This Is...
  
   as Johnny in "Ring of Fear" (1959)
• 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...
  
   as Handsome Johnny Rollins (uncredited) in "The Big Train, Part II" (1961)
• The Brothers Brannagan
  The Brothers Brannagan
  The Brothers Brannagan is an American crime drama television series that aired in syndication from September 24, 1960, and July 15, 1961.-Synopsis:...
  
   as Bruce Jackman in "Advantage: Death" (1961)
• The Twilight Zone
  The Twilight Zone
  The Twilight Zone is an American television anthology series created by Rod Serling. Each episode is a mixture of self-contained drama, psychological thriller, fantasy, science fiction, suspense, or horror, often concluding with a macabre or unexpected twist...
  
   as Ben in "Dead Man's Shoes
  Dead Man's Shoes (The Twilight Zone)
  "Dead Man's Shoes" is an episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone.This episode was remade in the first revival as "Dead Woman's Shoes" and in the second revival as "Dead Man's Eyes"...
  
  " (1962)
• Saints and Sinners as Phil Barton in "A Taste of Evil" (1962)
• 77 Sunset Strip
  77 Sunset Strip
  77 Sunset Strip is an hour-length American television private detective series created by Roy Huggins and starring Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., Roger Smith, and Edd Byrnes....
  
   as Percy in "To Catch a Mink" (1963)

Last roles

Hagerthy appeared on two CBS sitcoms, The Gale Storm Show

The Gale Storm Show

The Gale Storm Show is an American sitcom starring Gale Storm. The series premiered on September 29, 1956, and ran until 1960 for 143 half-hour black-and-white episodes, initially on CBS and in its last year on ABC...

 as Sergeant

Sergeant

Sergeant is a rank used in some form by most militaries, police forces, and other uniformed organizations around the world. Its origins are the Latin serviens, "one who serves", through the French term Sergent....

 Rickie Hyland in the 1956 episode "Wedding at Sea" and on The Beverly Hillbillies

The Beverly Hillbillies

The Beverly Hillbillies is an American situation comedy originally broadcast for nine seasons on CBS from 1962 to 1971, starring Buddy Ebsen, Irene Ryan, Donna Douglas, and Max Baer, Jr....

 as an unnamed geologist

Geologist

A geologist is a scientist who studies the solid and liquid matter that constitutes the Earth as well as the processes and history that has shaped it. Geologists usually engage in studying geology. Geologists, studying more of an applied science than a theoretical one, must approach Geology using...

 in the groundbreaking 1962 series premiere episode, "The Clampetts Strike Oil". Hagerthy, never identified by name, informs the fictitious Clampetts that oil

Oil

An oil is any substance that is liquid at ambient temperatures and does not mix with water but may mix with other oils and organic solvents. This general definition includes vegetable oils, volatile essential oils, petrochemical oils, and synthetic oils....

 has been discovered on their Arkansas

Arkansas

Arkansas is a state located in the southern region of the United States. Its name is an Algonquian name of the Quapaw Indians. Arkansas shares borders with six states , and its eastern border is largely defined by the Mississippi River...

 farm land. Haggerty also appears via archival footage in the 1963 The Beverly Hillbillies episode, "Jed Pays His Income Tax

Income tax

An income tax is a tax levied on the income of individuals or businesses . Various income tax systems exist, with varying degrees of tax incidence. Income taxation can be progressive, proportional, or regressive. When the tax is levied on the income of companies, it is often called a corporate...

".

Hagerthy appeared four times on CBS's Lassie

Lassie (1954 TV series)

Lassie is an American television series that follows the adventures of a female Rough Collie named Lassie and her companions, human and animal. The show was the creation of producer Robert Maxwell and animal trainer Rudd Weatherwax and was televised from September 12, 1954, to March 24, 1973...

: as Jack in "A Place for Everything" (1956), as a hunter in "The Archers" (1958), as a helicopter pilot in "Temper the Wind" (1965), and as Tom in "The Foundling", his last ever screen role in 1968.

Hagerthy, the son of Ford Hagerthy (1907–1996) and Rita Hagerthy (1911–1998), is a South Dakota

South Dakota

South Dakota is a state located in the Midwestern region of the United States. It is named after the Lakota and Dakota Sioux American Indian tribes. Once a part of Dakota Territory, South Dakota became a state on November 2, 1889. The state has an area of and an estimated population of just over...

 native. He was, however, already living in the Los Angeles

Los Angeles, California

Los Angeles , with a population at the 2010 United States Census of 3,792,621, is the most populous city in California, USA and the second most populous in the United States, after New York City. It has an area of , and is located in Southern California...

, 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...

, area by the latter 1930s. He and his wife, Judith A. Haggerty (born ca. 1940), reside in Corona del Mar, a neighborhood in Newport Beach

Newport Beach, California

Newport Beach, incorporated in 1906, is a city in Orange County, California, south of downtown Santa Ana. The population was 85,186 at the 2010 census.The city's median family income and property values consistently place high in national rankings...

, California. The couple has two children, Kelly Ann Hagerthy (born ca. 1961) and Patrick R. Hagerthy (born ca. 1963). After his acting career ended, Hagerthy entered the real estate

Real estate

In general use, esp. North American, 'real estate' is taken to mean "Property consisting of land and the buildings on it, along with its natural resources such as crops, minerals, or water; immovable property of this nature; an interest vested in this; an item of real property; buildings or...

business in southern California.

With the death of Gloria Winters in 2010, Hagerthy became the last surviving member of the Sky King cast.

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