Audie Murphy -- Memorial Website
Born: June 20, 1925 (as Audie Leon Murphy) (in Kingston, TX)
Died: May 28, 1971
Spouse(s): Wanda Hendrix (married 1949 - 1951, divorced)
Pamela Archer (married 1951 - 1971, his death)
Childen: Terry Michael Murphy (born 1952)
James Shannon "Skipper" Murphy (born 1954)
Parents: Emmett Murphy, Josie Belle Murphy
Movies:
1948
Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven
Beyond Glory
1949
Bad Boy
1950
Kansas Raiders
Sierra
The Kid from Texas
1951
The Red Badge of Courage
1952
The Duel at Silver Creek
The Cimarron Kid
1953
Tumbleweed
Column South
Gunsmoke
1954
Destry
Drums Across the River
Ride Clear of Diablo
1955
To Hell and Back
Allen in Movieland (as himself)
1956
Walk the Proud Land
World in My Corner
1957
Night Passage
Joe Butterfly
The Guns of Fort Petticoat
1958
The Gun Runners
Ride a Crooked Trail
The Quiet American
1959
Cast a Long Shadow
The Wild and the Innocent
No Name on the Bullet
1960
Seven Ways from Sundown
The Unforgiven
Hell Bent for Leather
1961
War Is Hell
Battle at Bloody Beach
Posse from Hell
1962
Six Black Horses
1963
Gunfight at Comanche Creek
Showdown
1964
Apache Rifles
Bullet for a Badman
The Quick Gun
1965
Arizona Raiders
Einer spielt falsch
1966
The Texican
Gunpoint
40 Guns to Apache Pass
1969
A Time for Dying
TV Shows:
The Big Picture
- The Broken Bridge (1960)
The Colgate Comedy Hour
- Episode #5.36 (1955)
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
- Episode #3.52 (1959)
General Electric Theater
- Incident (1958)
Here's Hollywood
- Episode #1.167 (1961)
I've Got a Secret
- Episode dated September 7 (1955)
Lux Video Theatre
- The Bargain (1952)
Startime
- The Man (1960)
Suspicion
- The Flight (1957)
What's My Line?
- Episode dated July 3 (1955)
Whispering Smith (regular, 26 episodes, 1961)
Other Film Work:
1955
Medal of Honor (Documentary short)
1958
Rock 'Em Cowboy (Short)
1961
Audie Murphy in Nuremberg (Documentary short)
1971
Travelin' Light (Documentary)
Regular Shows:
Whispering Smith (May, 1961 - Sept. 1961, 26 episodes)
Whispering Smith feautured Audie Murphy as the title character -- a police detective in Denver, CO.
The show didn't find success with the actors, with viewers, or with the studio censors* and only 20 episodes were broadcast. But despite its unpopularity in the '50s, Whispering Smith is enjoyed by many people today.
Throughout the series, singer Guy Mitchell was also a regular as Smith's co-worker, and Sam Buffington played their superior officer (until Buffington's tragic death, partway through the series).
Whispering Smith on DVD:
Whispering Smith: The Complete TV Series
*One particular episode (The Grudge) contained an amount of violence that disturbed censors. But it's not the actual content that set Whispering Smith apart, so much as the time frame it was allowed; the episodes were half the length of most other dramatic Westerns of that era, but they tried to fit the same amount of drama in.
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Movie/TV credit information is taken from Internet Movie Database, unless otherwise noted, and is updated and corrected if needed.
August 31, 2016
August 25, 2016
Pauline Moore
Pauline Moore
Born: June 17, 1914 (as Pauline Joless Love) (in Harrisburg, PA)
Died: December 7, 2001
Spouse(s): Jefferson Machamer (married 1934 - 1960, his death)
Dodd Watkins (married 1962 - 1971, his death)
Children: Tom
Laurie
Wendy
Movies:
1931
Frankenstein (uncredited)
1934
Wagon Wheels (uncredited)
1937
Heidi
Wild and Woolly
Born Reckless
Charlie Chan at the Olympics
Love Is News
1938
Five of a Kind
Passport Husband
Three Blind Mice
1939
Days of Jesse James
Charlie Chan at Treasure Island
Charlie Chan in Reno
Young Mr. Lincoln
The Three Musketeers
The Arizona Wildcat
1940
The Trail Blazers
Colorado
The Carson City Kid
Young Buffalo Bill
1941
King of the Texas Rangers
Double Cross
Arkansas Judge
1955
The Shrike (uncredited)
1956
Showdown at Abilene (uncredited)
1957
Spoilers of the Forest (uncredited)
1958
The Littlest Hobo
TV Shows:
Cavalcade of America
- A Time for Courage (1955)
Crossroads
- Vivi Shining Bright (1955)
Death Valley Days
- Jimmy Dayton's Treasure (1954)
Medic
- Wall of Silence (1955)
Producers' Showcase
- Peter Pan (1956)
Studio 57
- The Plot Against Miss Pomeroy (1954)
TV Reader's Digest
- Why the Choir Was Late (1956)
Other Film Work:
1937
Comic Artist's Home Life (Short)
Broadway Plays:
1921
The Easiest Way
1924
Man Behind the Masses
1925
The Fountain
1927
The Prisoner
1933
Murder at the Vanities
1934
Dance With Your Gods
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In 1936, Pauline Moore published a volume of poetry. Later, during her years away from acting, she turned her religious devotion toward writing inspirational poetry, short stories, and plays (including "The Seamless Robe" and "Mary's Story").
Her first husband was cartoonist Jefferson Machamer, and her second husband was a minister, the Rev. Mr. Watkins.
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Links
Western Clippings -- An Interview with Pauline Moore
The Old Corral -- Pauline Moore
Obituaries -- L.A Times Obituary
Wikipedia -- Pauline Moore
Newspaper Articles
Pittsburg Post-Gazette, Aug. 6, 1931 -- "Film Facts" (go to page 17 of newspaper)
Prescott Evening Courier, Nov. 27, 1931 -- "Pauline Moore Eager to Be Story Writer"
Prescott Courier, Dec. 1, 1976 -- "Lady of the Theater at Prescott Heights Baptist"
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Movie/TV credit information is taken from Internet Movie Database, unless otherwise noted, and is updated and corrected if needed.
Born: June 17, 1914 (as Pauline Joless Love) (in Harrisburg, PA)
Died: December 7, 2001
Spouse(s): Jefferson Machamer (married 1934 - 1960, his death)
Dodd Watkins (married 1962 - 1971, his death)
Children: Tom
Laurie
Wendy
Movies:
1931
Frankenstein (uncredited)
1934
Wagon Wheels (uncredited)
1937
Heidi
Wild and Woolly
Born Reckless
Charlie Chan at the Olympics
Love Is News
1938
Five of a Kind
Passport Husband
Three Blind Mice
1939
Days of Jesse James
Charlie Chan at Treasure Island
Charlie Chan in Reno
Young Mr. Lincoln
The Three Musketeers
The Arizona Wildcat
1940
The Trail Blazers
Colorado
The Carson City Kid
Young Buffalo Bill
1941
King of the Texas Rangers
Double Cross
Arkansas Judge
1955
The Shrike (uncredited)
1956
Showdown at Abilene (uncredited)
1957
Spoilers of the Forest (uncredited)
1958
The Littlest Hobo
TV Shows:
Cavalcade of America
- A Time for Courage (1955)
Crossroads
- Vivi Shining Bright (1955)
Death Valley Days
- Jimmy Dayton's Treasure (1954)
Medic
- Wall of Silence (1955)
Producers' Showcase
- Peter Pan (1956)
Studio 57
- The Plot Against Miss Pomeroy (1954)
TV Reader's Digest
- Why the Choir Was Late (1956)
Other Film Work:
1937
Comic Artist's Home Life (Short)
Broadway Plays:
1921
The Easiest Way
1924
Man Behind the Masses
1925
The Fountain
1927
The Prisoner
1933
Murder at the Vanities
1934
Dance With Your Gods
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In 1936, Pauline Moore published a volume of poetry. Later, during her years away from acting, she turned her religious devotion toward writing inspirational poetry, short stories, and plays (including "The Seamless Robe" and "Mary's Story").
Her first husband was cartoonist Jefferson Machamer, and her second husband was a minister, the Rev. Mr. Watkins.
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Links
Western Clippings -- An Interview with Pauline Moore
The Old Corral -- Pauline Moore
Obituaries -- L.A Times Obituary
Wikipedia -- Pauline Moore
Newspaper Articles
Pittsburg Post-Gazette, Aug. 6, 1931 -- "Film Facts" (go to page 17 of newspaper)
Prescott Evening Courier, Nov. 27, 1931 -- "Pauline Moore Eager to Be Story Writer"
Prescott Courier, Dec. 1, 1976 -- "Lady of the Theater at Prescott Heights Baptist"
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Movie/TV credit information is taken from Internet Movie Database, unless otherwise noted, and is updated and corrected if needed.
August 23, 2016
Child of Texas
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| Dale Evans -- Queen of the West Pictures courtesy of the Roy and Dale Evans Rogers Children's Trust |
Three long, silent days . . .
Then she woke up and from then on, silence was a thing of the past.
Singing, dancing, and perfoming in whatever way she could, Frances Octavia Smith* was an irrepressible child of Texas who loved fun and demanded attention. That was her personality, but being the first grandchild and having six aunts to admire her didn't do much to discourage it. Betty Sue said of her daughter, "Frances is too impulsive; she means well, but she rushes into things before she thinks them through."
She rushed through school, skipping the first, second, and eighth grades. During seventh grade she had a physical breakdown (any other child might have been called sickly, as Frances dealt with mumps, chicken pox, the flu, diphtheria, a glandular disturbance, and a sprained hip, throughout her young and often too-busy years) and spent most of the time in bed. Then she quit school during her junior year and eloped with nineteen-year-old Thomas Fox.
She was only fourteen.
Marrying so young was not altogether uncommon in that part of the country back then, but it certainly didn't match up with Betty Sue's ideas of what would be good for Francis---or, for that matter, the truth of what would be good for Francis. When the young couple became pregnant, Tom left. He came back only to leave again, and then come back again. Finally, after baby Tommy was born and Tom Sr. had once again deserted Francis, her parents gave her an ultimatum: Tom Sr., or them.
She chose her parents, and regretfully (she had tried so hard!) agreed to cut off communication with Tom Sr. She didn't apply for a divorce for over a year.
During the period of Frances' early teens, her parents were also having marriage problems, and were even divorced for a few years. Walter Hillman Smith had a terrible gambling addiction, and when he and Betty Sue remarried, it was on the grounds that she would be the one to handle their finances.
At the age of sixteen, Francis started rebuilding her life and her dreams, now that she and her baby had some stability in her parents. She enrolled in business school, and after completing that, she and Tom and her parents moved to Memphis, Tennessee, where Francis got a job as a secretary with an insurance firm.
Francis was always fighting for a little ground on which to stand, on which to build her dreams, on which to make a name for herself.
Eventually, she gained a position on a radio show and garnerned popularity in Memphis. Next she tried to achieve fame in Chicago, but fame was elusive, and ill health was not; she came down with pneumonia, along with a severe case of anemia, and she went back to her parents and Tommy in Texas.
Years went by, and Francis ventured many times into show business (to Louisville, to Dallas, and back to Chicago), trying to make it to New York---to Broadway's musical comedies. Sometime during all of this, around 1930, she met and married a man named August Wayne Johns, nicknamed "Candy."
He was, like Francis' father, an obsessive gambler.
That marriage ended in divorce in 1936, and throughout the years, as "Francis/Dale" wrote several autobiographical works, she never talked much about Candy. Probably the most documented about their marriage is in Cheryl Rogers-Barnett's book, Cowboy Princess Rides Again.
In 1937, she married Robert Dale Butts ("R. Dale"), a marriage that would last nine years. R. Dale was a musical arranger. Francis was now known on radio as Dale Evans (for a time both she and her husband went by "Dale"). They moved to Chicago, and then on to Hollywood.
In Hollywood, Dale was living a lie. To get work, her agent had her say she was only twenty-one (she was really twenty-eight), and that Tommy was her brother, not her son. The lies haunted her conscience for years. But she was an actress now, working on the screen as well as the radio.
Texas was for Dale a long, long ways away.
But her dream was coming together---she was heading for musical comedy success when---BOOM!---she found herself firmly, deeply planted in the success of playing damsel in distress (more or less) to Roy Rogers' cowboy hero in B-westerns.
Which was not what she wanted to be doing.
Soon after Dale started down the road to becoming the "Queen of the West," her third marriage disintegrated and R. Dale became her ex-husband, although they were to stay on friendly terms for years.
Now Dale was thowing herself wholly into her work; her work was her life, and playing someone else for the cameras was no more a lie than what she was offscreen. She became obsessed with improving her acting, and once in a while when the question popped up, "Isn't there more to life than this?" she tried to push it back down again.
Her co-star, Roy Rogers, had some of the same questions as Dale, and they found themselves having deep discussions on lunch break and around the set. They were together "most of their waking hours," and they talked about a lot of things---such as religion.
Dale had never doubted God's existence; she just thought that she should be the one in control of her life. . . . God could have 'this piece' and 'this piece' of her life, but 'this piece?' That was too much a part of her to let go.
One day she asked Roy if He believed in God.
"No," he told her firmly. He just couldn't see how a God that was supposed to be so loving could allow innocent children to suffer with diseases and crippling injuries. And also, if religion was such an all-fired good thing, why didn't people who claimed to have it act any different than everybody else? If their God did exist, Roy didn't care to be acquainted with Him.
His answer left Dale unsatisfied.
Roy and Dale got closer and closer over time, and she watched him go through the heartbreak of losing his second wife, Arline, to a blot clot in November of 1946.
Dale was still dreaming of things better than what she was doing, and she got a hiatus from Westerns and starred in a couple of "easterns" (as Fess Parker termed non-Westerns). But those weren't very successful, so she went back to horses and sagebrush---back to Roy.
On New Years Eve, 1947, Roy Rogers and Dale Evans were married.
Louella Parsons made the announcement via radio. She also announced that Dale had a grown son named Tom, but by this time, Dale was only thankful that the secret was out and she didn't have to pretend any longer.
Roy had a family already waiting for Dale when they were married. He had two daughters and a son, for Dale to be mother to. And "replacing" Arline wasn't going to be easy. To top it off, Roy was a busy man and expected Dale to be a full-time mom, which meant not a full-time actress.
Dale was walking on the fringes of sanity when Tom suggested she go to church and let God help her this time, with this marriage. She agreed to the church-going part.
After all, what could one little church service hurt? After all, she was a Christian . . . right? So she went. She listened. The whole message seemed aimed at her. She was convicted. But when the altar call came . . . she didn't go.
Tom asked her why.
She was already a Christian, she answered.
But she wasn't, and Tom knew it. He saw her fighting for peace, and looking for it in all the wrong places. He knew what she needed, and called her bluff.
"Give me until next Sunday; I want to think it over," was all she could promise.
To walk down that aisle---to give everything to God---meant taking the worth away from everything she had claimed to be before.
But that week between Sundays was long. The next Sunday, Dale went down the aisle, and she really meant it. Roy was not so sure about Dale's new ideas, but he was glad to see her new happiness.
Every Sunday, Dale asked Roy to come to church with her and the girls, and every Sunday, he didn't go.
One Saturday night, the Rogers had a party at their house, complete with cigarettes and cocktails---the usual Hollywood kind of party. Dale found no attraction in these sort of things any more, and mentioned that to a friend there. Roy overheard her and mistook her attitude as high-horse conceit.
After the party was over and the guests went home, Roy and Dale engaged in what was probably the biggest argument of their marriage.
Roy didn't understand. . . . What had come over Dale to make her so different?
They went to bed angry that night, but the next morning Roy spoke the words Dale had been waiting to hear: he wanted to go to church.
He went to the altar that day, and both he and his daughter, Cheryl, were baptised that Easter Sunday.
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| Pictures courtesy of the Roy and Dale Evans Rogers Children's Trust |
After that, things were different around the Rogers' place, on many levels. As a family, they grew closer, and for Dale as an individual, having God at the center of her life erased all conflict she had had with her career.
When her agent called to say that Dale could get the part as Annie Oakley, with the London company of Annie Get Your Gun, she turned it down. It was everything she had ever wanted in a role, but it would take her overseas and away from Roy and the kids---and that wouldn't work. She knew she would not care to do any sort of work unless it was with Roy.
During their 50-plus years of marriage, Roy and Dale were to experience some of the greatest highs (they were doing what they loved to do, and doing it with their Lord) and greatest lows (three of their nine children died at young ages) known to man.
Together, Roy and Dale created a legacy that endures strongly to this day.
~Don't stop here!~
Most of the information for this article was taken from Dale's book, The Woman at the Well, and Cheryl Rogers-Barnett's books, Cowboy Princess, and Cowboy Princess Rides Again.
There are many more great books on Roy and Dale. If you are unfamiliar with their story, this Happy Trails autobiography is a good place to start.
Dale wrote more than twenty-five books in all, from Angel Unaware, published in 1953, to Rainbow on a Hard Trail, published 1999.
*Dale's birth certificate lists her name as Lucille Wood Smith (Wood was her mother's maiden name), and the date of her birth as October 30, 1912. But Dale and Betty Sue both swore that Dale's birth name was Francis Octavia Smith, and her birthday was October 31, 1912, and that the other information was without basis.
According to Cheryl Rogers, Francis was named after a grandmother and a great-aunt.
August 22, 2016
Stuart Randall
Stuart Randall
Born: July 24, 1909 (in Indiana, USA) (as Clarence Maxwell*)
Died: June 22, 1988 (in San Bernadino, CA)
Spouse(s): ?
Children: ?
Parents: Walter and Allie Maxwell*
Movies:
1950
Bells of Coronado
Rustlers on Horseback
Rider from Tucson
Dynamite Pass (uncredited)
1951
Fixed Bayonets! (uncredited)
The Bushwhackers
The Lady Pays Off (uncredited)
Arizona Manhunt
Tomorrow Is Another Day
The Hoodlum
Inside the Walls of Folsom Prison (uncredited)
Wells Fargo Gunmaster
Tomahawk
Rough Riders of Durango
Storm Warning
1952
Hiawatha
Pony Soldier
Captive Women
Hurricane Smith
Park Row
O. Henry's Full House (segment "The Clarion Call") (uncredited)
Diplomatic Courier (uncredited)
The Half-Breed (uncredited)
The Pride of St. Louis (uncredited)
Kid Monk Baroni
Carbine Williams
Bugles in the Afternoon
Rancho Notorious (uncredited)
This Woman Is Dangerous (uncredited)
1953
Captain John Smith and Pocahontas
Mexican Manhunt
Vicki (uncredited)
Champ for a Day (uncredited)
The Man from the Alamo (uncredited)
Hannah Lee: An American Primitive
Arena
Pickup on South Street (uncredited)
Pony Express
Destination Gobi (uncredited)
Sword of Venus
1954
This Is My Love
Naked Alibi
The Far Country (uncredited)
Man with the Steel Whip
They Rode West
Southwest Passage
The Great Diamond Robbery (uncredited)
1955
Texas Lady (uncredited)
Headline Hunters
Female on the Beach
Chief Crazy Horse
1956
Miami Exposé
Pardners
Star in the Dust
Indestructible Man
The Ten Commandments (uncredited)
1957
Run of the Arrow
1959
The Big Fisherman
Verboten!
1960
College Confidential (uncredited)
From the Terrace (uncredited)
The Gallant Hours (uncredited)
Home from the Hill (uncredited)
I'll Give My Life
1961
Posse from Hell
Frontier Uprising
1963
Lassie: A Christmas Tail
1964
Taggart
1965
Fluffy
1969
True Grit (uncredited)
TV Shows:
Alias Smith and Jones
- Dreadful Sorry Clementine (1971)
The Big Valley
- Shadow of a Giant (1968)
The Bold Ones: The New Doctors
- To Save a Life (1969)
Bonanza
- The Spanish Grant (1960)
- Breed of Violence (1960)
- The Lila Conrad Story (1964)
- The Real People of Muddy Creek (1968)
- The Wagon (1970)
- Shadow of a Hero (1971)
Border Patrol
- Political Killer (1959)
Broken Arrow
- Old Enemy (1958)
Buckskin
- China Boy (1958)
The Californians
- The Vigilantes Begin (1957)
Cavalcade of America
- The Paper Sword (1954)
Charlie Chan, The New Adventures of
- The Secret of the Sea (1957)
Checkmate
- The Cyanide Touch (1960)
Cheyenne
- Hard Bargain (1957)
- Apache Blood (1960)
Cimarron City (semi-regular as Sheriff Art Simpson/Sampson; see below for
episodes list)
- To Become a Man (1958)
- Medicine Man (1958)
- Kid on a Calico Horse (1958)
- A Respectable Girl (1958)
- Child of Fear (1959)
City Detective
- Handcuffs (1953)
Colt .45
- Gallows at Granite Gap (1957)
- The Golden Gun (1958)
Daniel Boone
- The Courtship of Jericho Jones (1965)
Death Valley Days
- The Courtship of Carrie Huntington (1966)
- The Pieces of the Puzzle (1968)
Destry
- Big Deal at Little River (1964)
Dr. Fu Manchu, The Adventures of
- The Secret of Fu Manchu (1956)
Dundee and the Culhane
- The Thy Brother's Keeper Brief (1967)
the Falcon, Adventures of the
- The Wheel of Fortune (1955)
Frontier
- Cattle Drive to Casper (1955)
The High Chaparral
- The Lieutenant (1970)
Ironside
- In the Line of Duty (1971)
It's a Great Life
- The Vacuum Cleaner Salesman (1954)
Jane Wyman Presents The Fireside Theatre
- The Pendulum (1957)
The Joseph Cotten Show: On Trial
- The Case of the Double Trouble (1957)
Lancer
- The Measure of a Man (1969)
Laramie (regular as Sheriff Mort Corey, 33 episodes, 1960-1963)
- Ride into Darkness (1960)
- The Dark Trail (1960)
Lassie
- Stable Mates (1959)
- Eager Beaver (1962)
- A Specialist for Lassie (1963)
- High Tension (1963)
- Lassie's Gift of Love (Part 1) (1963)
- Lassie's Gift of Love: Part 2 (1963)
- Lassie and the Savage (1964)
- The Old Man in the Forest (1965)
- Cry of the Wild (1967)
- The Guardian (1967)
- Starfire (1967)
Lawman
- The Outcast (1958)
- The Promise (1961)
The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
- Mr. Cousin and Mr. Brother (1956) (uncredited)
- One (1958)
- Two (1958)
- Three (1958)
- Four (1958)
- Horse Race (1959)
- The Ring of Death (1959)
The Lone Ranger
- Masked Deputy (1950)
- The Globe (1954)
- Heritage of Treason (1955)
The Loretta Young Show
- You're Driving Me Crazy (1954)
- Case Book (1955)
- The Little Teacher (1955)
Marcus Welby, M.D.
- Let Ernest Come Over (1969)
Maverick
- The Ghost Soldiers (1959)
The Millionaire
- The Ed Murdock Story (1956)
Mr. & Mrs. North
- Flight 217 (1954)
M Squad
- The Teacher (1959)
National Velvet
- Jeopardy (1962)
Navy Log
- Thach Weaves a Trap (1957)
- Capture of the U-505 (1957)
Northwest Passage
- The Deserter (1959)
Official Detective
- Loan Companies (1957)
Overland Trail
- The Reckoning (1960)
Passport to Danger
- Havana (1956)
Perry Mason
- The Case of the Fifty Millionth Frenchman (1964)
Public Defender
- The Forger (1954)
- Out of the Past (1954)
- When Credit Is Due (1954)
Racket Squad
- Big Trap (1952)
The Restless Gun
- Jenny (1957)
- The Shooting of Jett King (1957)
- Aunt Emma (1958)
- The Way Back (1958)
- The Pawn (1959)
The Rifleman
- The Gaucho (1958)
- The Grasshopper (1960)
Riverboat
- Fort Epitaph (1960) (uncredited)
- Hang the Men High (1960)
- The Quota (1960)
The Rough Riders
- The Promise (1959)
Schlitz Playhouse
- The Devil's Other Name (1953)
- Midnight Haul (1954)
- Too Late to Run (1955)
- The Roustabout (1956)
- A Tale of Wells Fargo (1956)
Shotgun Slade
- The Smell of Money (1960)
Stage 7
- End of the Line (1955)
The Star and the Story
- Ferry to Fox Island (1955)
- The Whizzer (1956)
Steve Donovan, Western Marshal
- Journey Into Danger (1955)
Stories of the Century
- Belle Starr (1954)
Sugarfoot
- The Strange Land (1957)
- The Bullet and the Cross (1958)
- The Canary Kid (1958)
Superman, Adventures of
- Superman on Earth (1952)
Tales of Wells Fargo
- Alder Gulch (1957)
Telephone Time
- Arithmetic Sailor (1957)
The Texan
- The Hemp Tree (1958)
- Letter of the Law (1959)
- No Way Out (1959)
The Thin Man
- Bat McKidderick (1959)
Tightrope
- The Long Odds (1960)
- A Matter of Money (1960)
Thriller
- Late Date (1961)
The 20th Century-Fox Hour
- Gun in His Hand (1956)
Two Faces West
- The Trigger (1961)
The Virginian
- Ride a Dark Trail (1963)
- Lost Yesterday (1965)
- The Brothers (1965)
- That Saunders Woman (1966)
- The Lady from Wichita (1967)
- Fox, Hound and the Widow McCloud (1969)
- The Stranger (1969) (uncredited)
Wagon Train
- The Jean LeBec Story (1957)
- The Estaban Zamora Story (1959)
Wanted: Dead or Alive
- Black Belt (1960)
- Baa-Baa (1961)
Waterfront
- Sunken Treasure (1954)
- Cap'n Long John (1954)
Whirlybirds
- Missing Witness (1957)
Wire Service
- The Blood Rock Mine
- A Matter of Conscience (1957)
Yancy Derringer
- Gone But Not Forgotten (1959)
Zane Grey Theater
- You Only Run Once (1956)
- Until the Man Dies (1957)
Regular and Semi-Regular Shows:
Cimarron City (September, 1958 to April, 1959, 26 episodes)
Randall appeared in Cimarron City as the semi-regular sheriff, Art Sampson (or "Simpson"). He was in five episodes.
George Montgomery starred in Cimarron City as the mayor, Matt Rockford.
John Smith co-starred as Lane Temple, lawman/blacksmith, and Audrey Totter co-starred as Beth Purcell, owner of Cimarron City's hotel. Dan Blocker also appeared regularly as Tiny Budinger.
The show revolved around at least one of the three main characters -- Montgomery, Smith, or Totter -- and was driven by the plot, rather than the action.
Cimarron City on DVD:
Complete Series
Laramie (September, 1959 - May, 1963, 124 episodes)
On Laramie, Stuart Randall played Sheriff Mort Cory for thirty-three episodes, providing level-headed balance for John Smith's "Slim Sherman" and Robert Fuller's "Jess Harper," and helping them out of predicaments, occasionally having to lock them up in jail. Of course, there are several times when Slim and Jess are the ones helping out Mort.
At different points in the series, Mort has a wife ("Sarah") and a nephew ("Johnny"), but neither last long; his father also makes a brief appearance in one episode, "Killer Legend."
In season one, episode "Hour After Dawn," Mort Cory is played by Robert Osterloh, and "Sarah" appears in this episode.
Laramie on DVD:
Season One
Season Two
Season Three
Season Four
Lassie
Stuart Randall had a recurring role on Lassie as "Al Livermore" (5 episodes). He also appeared three different times as "Len Briggs."
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Although Stuart Randall played a variety of roles, from army officer to Indian chief, he most frequently played a lawman of sorts -- a sheriff, a deputy, or a marshal. Here's a rough list of parts he played as a lawman:
Movies:
1950
Bells of Coronado
1952
Carbine Williams
1960
College Confidential
1964
Taggart
1965
Fluffy
TV Shows:
Bonanza (6 episodes)
Broken Arrow (1 episode)
Checkmate (1 episode)
Cheyenne (2 episodes)
Cimarron City (5 episodes)
Colt .45 (1 episode)
Death Valley Days (1 episode)
Destry (1 episode)
Lancer (1 episode)
Laramie (34 episodes)
Overland Trail (1 episode)
Perry Mason (1 episode)
The Restless Gun (4 episodes)
The Rifleman (1 episode)
Schlitz Playhouse (1 episode)
Shotgun Slade (1 episode)
Stories of the Century (1 episode)
Sugarfoot (2 episodes)
The Texan (2 episodes)
The Thin Man (1 episode)
The Virginian (1 episode)
Wagon Train (2 episodes)
Yancy Derringer (1 episode)
And not only did he play the sheriff of Laramie, WY, in the Laramie tv series, he also appeared as sheriff of that same town on Overland Trail and The Virginian.
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Not much is known about Stuart Randall aside from the roles he played, but the May/June 2013 issue of Western Clippings has a piece written about him under the Characters and Heavies column. According to this, he was in the service during WWII, and was married at the time of enlistment.
In 1969, Randall was the grand marshal of the Hesperia Days Parade in Hesperia, CA (The San Bernardino County Sun, May 20, 1969).
The May 27, 1952 issue of The Southeast Missourian newspaper contains an interesting bit of information:
Stuart Randall, a Clark Gable-ish newcomer who played the role of the general in "Fixed Bayonets" will be Gloria Swanson's leading man in Albert Zugsmith's production of "Crosstown."
Crosstown never was made. According to Gloria Swanson: The Ultimate Star, by Stephen Michael Shearer, the picture fell through because of Swanson's demands for more money.
*Randall's birth name and the names of his parents are also credit of Boyd Magers and the May/June 2013 issue of Western Clippings (#113).
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Movie/TV credit information is taken from Internet Movie Database, unless otherwise noted, and is updated and corrected if needed.
Born: July 24, 1909 (in Indiana, USA) (as Clarence Maxwell*)
Died: June 22, 1988 (in San Bernadino, CA)
Spouse(s): ?
Children: ?
Parents: Walter and Allie Maxwell*
Movies:
1950
Bells of Coronado
Rustlers on Horseback
Rider from Tucson
Dynamite Pass (uncredited)
1951
Fixed Bayonets! (uncredited)
The Bushwhackers
The Lady Pays Off (uncredited)
Arizona Manhunt
Tomorrow Is Another Day
The Hoodlum
Inside the Walls of Folsom Prison (uncredited)
Wells Fargo Gunmaster
Tomahawk
Rough Riders of Durango
Storm Warning
1952
Hiawatha
Pony Soldier
Captive Women
Hurricane Smith
Park Row
O. Henry's Full House (segment "The Clarion Call") (uncredited)
Diplomatic Courier (uncredited)
The Half-Breed (uncredited)
The Pride of St. Louis (uncredited)
Kid Monk Baroni
Carbine Williams
Bugles in the Afternoon
Rancho Notorious (uncredited)
This Woman Is Dangerous (uncredited)
1953
Captain John Smith and Pocahontas
Mexican Manhunt
Vicki (uncredited)
Champ for a Day (uncredited)
The Man from the Alamo (uncredited)
Hannah Lee: An American Primitive
Arena
Pickup on South Street (uncredited)
Pony Express
Destination Gobi (uncredited)
Sword of Venus
1954
This Is My Love
Naked Alibi
The Far Country (uncredited)
Man with the Steel Whip
They Rode West
Southwest Passage
The Great Diamond Robbery (uncredited)
1955
Texas Lady (uncredited)
Headline Hunters
Female on the Beach
Chief Crazy Horse
1956
Miami Exposé
Pardners
Star in the Dust
Indestructible Man
The Ten Commandments (uncredited)
1957
Run of the Arrow
1959
The Big Fisherman
Verboten!
1960
College Confidential (uncredited)
From the Terrace (uncredited)
The Gallant Hours (uncredited)
Home from the Hill (uncredited)
I'll Give My Life
1961
Posse from Hell
Frontier Uprising
1963
Lassie: A Christmas Tail
1964
Taggart
1965
Fluffy
1969
True Grit (uncredited)
TV Shows:
Alias Smith and Jones
- Dreadful Sorry Clementine (1971)
The Big Valley
- Shadow of a Giant (1968)
The Bold Ones: The New Doctors
- To Save a Life (1969)
Bonanza
- The Spanish Grant (1960)
- Breed of Violence (1960)
- The Lila Conrad Story (1964)
- The Real People of Muddy Creek (1968)
- The Wagon (1970)
- Shadow of a Hero (1971)
Border Patrol
- Political Killer (1959)
Broken Arrow
- Old Enemy (1958)
Buckskin
- China Boy (1958)
The Californians
- The Vigilantes Begin (1957)
Cavalcade of America
- The Paper Sword (1954)
Charlie Chan, The New Adventures of
- The Secret of the Sea (1957)
Checkmate
- The Cyanide Touch (1960)
Cheyenne
- Hard Bargain (1957)
- Apache Blood (1960)
Cimarron City (semi-regular as Sheriff Art Simpson/Sampson; see below for
episodes list)
- To Become a Man (1958)
- Medicine Man (1958)
- Kid on a Calico Horse (1958)
- A Respectable Girl (1958)
- Child of Fear (1959)
City Detective
- Handcuffs (1953)
Colt .45
- Gallows at Granite Gap (1957)
- The Golden Gun (1958)
Daniel Boone
- The Courtship of Jericho Jones (1965)
Death Valley Days
- The Courtship of Carrie Huntington (1966)
- The Pieces of the Puzzle (1968)
Destry
- Big Deal at Little River (1964)
Dr. Fu Manchu, The Adventures of
- The Secret of Fu Manchu (1956)
Dundee and the Culhane
- The Thy Brother's Keeper Brief (1967)
the Falcon, Adventures of the
- The Wheel of Fortune (1955)
Frontier
- Cattle Drive to Casper (1955)
The High Chaparral
- The Lieutenant (1970)
Ironside
- In the Line of Duty (1971)
It's a Great Life
- The Vacuum Cleaner Salesman (1954)
Jane Wyman Presents The Fireside Theatre
- The Pendulum (1957)
The Joseph Cotten Show: On Trial
- The Case of the Double Trouble (1957)
Lancer
- The Measure of a Man (1969)
Laramie (regular as Sheriff Mort Corey, 33 episodes, 1960-1963)
- Ride into Darkness (1960)
- The Dark Trail (1960)
Lassie
- Stable Mates (1959)
- Eager Beaver (1962)
- A Specialist for Lassie (1963)
- High Tension (1963)
- Lassie's Gift of Love (Part 1) (1963)
- Lassie's Gift of Love: Part 2 (1963)
- Lassie and the Savage (1964)
- The Old Man in the Forest (1965)
- Cry of the Wild (1967)
- The Guardian (1967)
- Starfire (1967)
Lawman
- The Outcast (1958)
- The Promise (1961)
The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
- Mr. Cousin and Mr. Brother (1956) (uncredited)
- One (1958)
- Two (1958)
- Three (1958)
- Four (1958)
- Horse Race (1959)
- The Ring of Death (1959)
The Lone Ranger
- Masked Deputy (1950)
- The Globe (1954)
- Heritage of Treason (1955)
The Loretta Young Show
- You're Driving Me Crazy (1954)
- Case Book (1955)
- The Little Teacher (1955)
Marcus Welby, M.D.
- Let Ernest Come Over (1969)
Maverick
- The Ghost Soldiers (1959)
The Millionaire
- The Ed Murdock Story (1956)
Mr. & Mrs. North
- Flight 217 (1954)
M Squad
- The Teacher (1959)
National Velvet
- Jeopardy (1962)
Navy Log
- Thach Weaves a Trap (1957)
- Capture of the U-505 (1957)
Northwest Passage
- The Deserter (1959)
Official Detective
- Loan Companies (1957)
Overland Trail
- The Reckoning (1960)
Passport to Danger
- Havana (1956)
Perry Mason
- The Case of the Fifty Millionth Frenchman (1964)
Public Defender
- The Forger (1954)
- Out of the Past (1954)
- When Credit Is Due (1954)
Racket Squad
- Big Trap (1952)
The Restless Gun
- Jenny (1957)
- The Shooting of Jett King (1957)
- Aunt Emma (1958)
- The Way Back (1958)
- The Pawn (1959)
The Rifleman
- The Gaucho (1958)
- The Grasshopper (1960)
Riverboat
- Fort Epitaph (1960) (uncredited)
- Hang the Men High (1960)
- The Quota (1960)
The Rough Riders
- The Promise (1959)
Schlitz Playhouse
- The Devil's Other Name (1953)
- Midnight Haul (1954)
- Too Late to Run (1955)
- The Roustabout (1956)
- A Tale of Wells Fargo (1956)
Shotgun Slade
- The Smell of Money (1960)
Stage 7
- End of the Line (1955)
The Star and the Story
- Ferry to Fox Island (1955)
- The Whizzer (1956)
Steve Donovan, Western Marshal
- Journey Into Danger (1955)
Stories of the Century
- Belle Starr (1954)
Sugarfoot
- The Strange Land (1957)
- The Bullet and the Cross (1958)
- The Canary Kid (1958)
Superman, Adventures of
- Superman on Earth (1952)
Tales of Wells Fargo
- Alder Gulch (1957)
Telephone Time
- Arithmetic Sailor (1957)
The Texan
- The Hemp Tree (1958)
- Letter of the Law (1959)
- No Way Out (1959)
The Thin Man
- Bat McKidderick (1959)
Tightrope
- The Long Odds (1960)
- A Matter of Money (1960)
Thriller
- Late Date (1961)
The 20th Century-Fox Hour
- Gun in His Hand (1956)
Two Faces West
- The Trigger (1961)
The Virginian
- Ride a Dark Trail (1963)
- Lost Yesterday (1965)
- The Brothers (1965)
- That Saunders Woman (1966)
- The Lady from Wichita (1967)
- Fox, Hound and the Widow McCloud (1969)
- The Stranger (1969) (uncredited)
Wagon Train
- The Jean LeBec Story (1957)
- The Estaban Zamora Story (1959)
Wanted: Dead or Alive
- Black Belt (1960)
- Baa-Baa (1961)
Waterfront
- Sunken Treasure (1954)
- Cap'n Long John (1954)
Whirlybirds
- Missing Witness (1957)
Wire Service
- The Blood Rock Mine
- A Matter of Conscience (1957)
Yancy Derringer
- Gone But Not Forgotten (1959)
Zane Grey Theater
- You Only Run Once (1956)
- Until the Man Dies (1957)
Regular and Semi-Regular Shows:
Cimarron City (September, 1958 to April, 1959, 26 episodes)
Randall appeared in Cimarron City as the semi-regular sheriff, Art Sampson (or "Simpson"). He was in five episodes.
George Montgomery starred in Cimarron City as the mayor, Matt Rockford.
John Smith co-starred as Lane Temple, lawman/blacksmith, and Audrey Totter co-starred as Beth Purcell, owner of Cimarron City's hotel. Dan Blocker also appeared regularly as Tiny Budinger.
The show revolved around at least one of the three main characters -- Montgomery, Smith, or Totter -- and was driven by the plot, rather than the action.
Cimarron City on DVD:
Complete Series
Laramie (September, 1959 - May, 1963, 124 episodes)
On Laramie, Stuart Randall played Sheriff Mort Cory for thirty-three episodes, providing level-headed balance for John Smith's "Slim Sherman" and Robert Fuller's "Jess Harper," and helping them out of predicaments, occasionally having to lock them up in jail. Of course, there are several times when Slim and Jess are the ones helping out Mort.
At different points in the series, Mort has a wife ("Sarah") and a nephew ("Johnny"), but neither last long; his father also makes a brief appearance in one episode, "Killer Legend."
In season one, episode "Hour After Dawn," Mort Cory is played by Robert Osterloh, and "Sarah" appears in this episode.
Laramie on DVD:
Season One
Season Two
Season Three
Season Four
Lassie
Stuart Randall had a recurring role on Lassie as "Al Livermore" (5 episodes). He also appeared three different times as "Len Briggs."
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Although Stuart Randall played a variety of roles, from army officer to Indian chief, he most frequently played a lawman of sorts -- a sheriff, a deputy, or a marshal. Here's a rough list of parts he played as a lawman:
Movies:
1950
Bells of Coronado
1952
Carbine Williams
1960
College Confidential
1964
Taggart
1965
Fluffy
TV Shows:
Bonanza (6 episodes)
Broken Arrow (1 episode)
Checkmate (1 episode)
Cheyenne (2 episodes)
Cimarron City (5 episodes)
Colt .45 (1 episode)
Death Valley Days (1 episode)
Destry (1 episode)
Lancer (1 episode)
Laramie (34 episodes)
Overland Trail (1 episode)
Perry Mason (1 episode)
The Restless Gun (4 episodes)
The Rifleman (1 episode)
Schlitz Playhouse (1 episode)
Shotgun Slade (1 episode)
Stories of the Century (1 episode)
Sugarfoot (2 episodes)
The Texan (2 episodes)
The Thin Man (1 episode)
The Virginian (1 episode)
Wagon Train (2 episodes)
Yancy Derringer (1 episode)
And not only did he play the sheriff of Laramie, WY, in the Laramie tv series, he also appeared as sheriff of that same town on Overland Trail and The Virginian.
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Not much is known about Stuart Randall aside from the roles he played, but the May/June 2013 issue of Western Clippings has a piece written about him under the Characters and Heavies column. According to this, he was in the service during WWII, and was married at the time of enlistment.
In 1969, Randall was the grand marshal of the Hesperia Days Parade in Hesperia, CA (The San Bernardino County Sun, May 20, 1969).
The May 27, 1952 issue of The Southeast Missourian newspaper contains an interesting bit of information:
Stuart Randall, a Clark Gable-ish newcomer who played the role of the general in "Fixed Bayonets" will be Gloria Swanson's leading man in Albert Zugsmith's production of "Crosstown."
Crosstown never was made. According to Gloria Swanson: The Ultimate Star, by Stephen Michael Shearer, the picture fell through because of Swanson's demands for more money.
*Randall's birth name and the names of his parents are also credit of Boyd Magers and the May/June 2013 issue of Western Clippings (#113).
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Movie/TV credit information is taken from Internet Movie Database, unless otherwise noted, and is updated and corrected if needed.
August 10, 2016
Donna Martell
Donna Martell
Born: December 24, 1927 (as Irene DeMario) (in Los Angeles, CA)
Spouse(s): Gene Corso (married 1953 - 1996, his death)
Children: 3 children
Movies:
1947
Secret Beyond the Door (uncredited)
The Lost Moment (uncredited)
Robin Hood of Monterey (uncredited■)
Twilight on the Rio Grande (uncredited)
Apache Rose
1948
Mexican Hayride (uncredited)
The Saxon Charm (uncredited)
Big Town Scandal
The Woman from Tangier
1949
Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff
Illegal Entry
1950
Kim (uncredited)
Peggy
1951
Elephant Stampede
The Hills of Utah
1952
The Golden Hawk
Last Train from Bombay
1953
Give a Girl a Break
Project Moon Base
1954
The Egyptian (uncredited)
1955
Last of the Desperados
Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing
Ten Wanted Men
1957
House of Numbers (uncredited)
Hell on Devil's Island
1983
Grace Kelly
2016
The Extra (as herself) (coming out Decmeber, 2016)
TV Shows:
Bat Masterson
- One Bullet from Broken Bow (1959)
The Bob Cummings Show
- The Silver Tongued Orator (1955)
Bonanza
- The Toy Soldier (1963)
Broken Arrow
- Apache Girl (1957)
Cavalcade of America
- The Pirate's Choice (1953)
Cheyenne
- Home Is the Brave (1960)
Coronado 9
- Caribbean Chase (1961)
Dangerous Assignment
- Sunflower Seed Story (1952)
Death Valley Days
- She Burns Green (1952)
- The Valencia Cake (1955)
E! Mysteries & Scandals
- Barbara Payton (2002)
Family Theatre
- A Star Shall Rise (1952)
Fireside Theatre
- The Co-Signer (1952)
Frontier
- Ferdinand Meyer's Army (1955)
The Gene Autry Show
- Frontier Guard (1951)
- Killer's Trail (1951)
The Gray Ghost
- The Master Spy (1958)
Hawaiian Eye
- Pursuit of a Lady (1962)
Hopalong Cassidy
- Blind Encounter (1952)
Kit Carson, The Adventures of
- Riders of Capistrano (1951)
- The Hero of Hermosa (1951)
- Snake River Trapper (1952)
- Outlaw Paradise (1952)
- Outlaw Army (1953)
- Army Renegades (1953)
- The Haunted Hacienda (1953)
The Lineup
- Girl Safecrackers (1955)
- The Pawn Ticket Case (1958)
Men Into Space
- Burnout (1959)
The Millionaire
- The Diane Loring Story (1957)
My Little Margie
- Margie and the Shah (1954)
Outlaws
- A Day to Kill (1962)
Passport to Danger
- Mexico City (1954)
- Rome (1955)
Public Defender
- The Hitchhiker (1955)
Racket Squad
- Blessed Expense (1952)
The Range Rider
- The Ghost of Poco Loco (1951)
- Harsh Reckoning (1951)
Rocky Jones, Space Ranger
- Blast-Off: Chapter I (1954)
Schlitz Playhouse
- Blizzard Bound (1954)
77 Sunset Strip
- Hot Tamale Caper: Part I (1961)
- Hot Tamale Caper: Part II (1961)
The Sheriff of Cochise
- The Great Train Robbery (1956)
Shotgun Slade
- Donna Juanita (1960)
Tales of Wells Fargo
- John Jones (1961)
The Tall Man
- The Best Policy (1961)
TV Reader's Digest
- Around the Horn to Matrimony (1955)
West Point
- McKinley's Challenge (1957)
- The Drowning of the Gun (1957)
Your Favorite Story
- What Happened at Three Oaks (1953)
Other film work:
1949
South of Santa Fe (Short)
Coyote Canyon (Short)
The Girl from Gunsight (Short)
Nevada Trail (Short)
1950
Ready to Ride (Short)
Western Courage (Short)
Cactus Caravan (Short)
1952
Ghost Buster (Short)
LINKS
Books that contain interviews with Ms. Martell:
Science Fiction and Fantasy Film Flashbacks
Screen Sirens Scream!
Westerns Women
Western Clippings
Western Clippings Interview
The Old Corral
Donna Martell
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Movie/TV credit information is taken from Internet Movie Database, unless otherwise noted, and is updated and corrected if needed.
Born: December 24, 1927 (as Irene DeMario) (in Los Angeles, CA)
Spouse(s): Gene Corso (married 1953 - 1996, his death)
Children: 3 children
Movies:
1947
Secret Beyond the Door (uncredited)
The Lost Moment (uncredited)
Robin Hood of Monterey (uncredited■)
Twilight on the Rio Grande (uncredited)
Apache Rose
1948
Mexican Hayride (uncredited)
The Saxon Charm (uncredited)
Big Town Scandal
The Woman from Tangier
1949
Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff
Illegal Entry
1950
Kim (uncredited)
Peggy
1951
Elephant Stampede
The Hills of Utah
1952
The Golden Hawk
Last Train from Bombay
1953
Give a Girl a Break
Project Moon Base
1954
The Egyptian (uncredited)
1955
Last of the Desperados
Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing
Ten Wanted Men
1957
House of Numbers (uncredited)
Hell on Devil's Island
1983
Grace Kelly
2016
The Extra (as herself) (coming out Decmeber, 2016)
TV Shows:
Bat Masterson
- One Bullet from Broken Bow (1959)
The Bob Cummings Show
- The Silver Tongued Orator (1955)
Bonanza
- The Toy Soldier (1963)
Broken Arrow
- Apache Girl (1957)
Cavalcade of America
- The Pirate's Choice (1953)
Cheyenne
- Home Is the Brave (1960)
Coronado 9
- Caribbean Chase (1961)
Dangerous Assignment
- Sunflower Seed Story (1952)
Death Valley Days
- She Burns Green (1952)
- The Valencia Cake (1955)
E! Mysteries & Scandals
- Barbara Payton (2002)
Family Theatre
- A Star Shall Rise (1952)
Fireside Theatre
- The Co-Signer (1952)
Frontier
- Ferdinand Meyer's Army (1955)
The Gene Autry Show
- Frontier Guard (1951)
- Killer's Trail (1951)
The Gray Ghost
- The Master Spy (1958)
Hawaiian Eye
- Pursuit of a Lady (1962)
Hopalong Cassidy
- Blind Encounter (1952)
Kit Carson, The Adventures of
- Riders of Capistrano (1951)
- The Hero of Hermosa (1951)
- Snake River Trapper (1952)
- Outlaw Paradise (1952)
- Outlaw Army (1953)
- Army Renegades (1953)
- The Haunted Hacienda (1953)
The Lineup
- Girl Safecrackers (1955)
- The Pawn Ticket Case (1958)
Men Into Space
- Burnout (1959)
The Millionaire
- The Diane Loring Story (1957)
My Little Margie
- Margie and the Shah (1954)
Outlaws
- A Day to Kill (1962)
Passport to Danger
- Mexico City (1954)
- Rome (1955)
Public Defender
- The Hitchhiker (1955)
Racket Squad
- Blessed Expense (1952)
The Range Rider
- The Ghost of Poco Loco (1951)
- Harsh Reckoning (1951)
Rocky Jones, Space Ranger
- Blast-Off: Chapter I (1954)
Schlitz Playhouse
- Blizzard Bound (1954)
77 Sunset Strip
- Hot Tamale Caper: Part I (1961)
- Hot Tamale Caper: Part II (1961)
The Sheriff of Cochise
- The Great Train Robbery (1956)
Shotgun Slade
- Donna Juanita (1960)
Tales of Wells Fargo
- John Jones (1961)
The Tall Man
- The Best Policy (1961)
TV Reader's Digest
- Around the Horn to Matrimony (1955)
West Point
- McKinley's Challenge (1957)
- The Drowning of the Gun (1957)
Your Favorite Story
- What Happened at Three Oaks (1953)
Other film work:
1949
South of Santa Fe (Short)
Coyote Canyon (Short)
The Girl from Gunsight (Short)
Nevada Trail (Short)
1950
Ready to Ride (Short)
Western Courage (Short)
Cactus Caravan (Short)
1952
Ghost Buster (Short)
LINKS
Books that contain interviews with Ms. Martell:
Science Fiction and Fantasy Film Flashbacks
Screen Sirens Scream!
Westerns Women
Western Clippings
Western Clippings Interview
The Old Corral
Donna Martell
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Movie/TV credit information is taken from Internet Movie Database, unless otherwise noted, and is updated and corrected if needed.
August 03, 2016
Ty Hardin Bio/credits
Ty Hardin -- Official webpage
Born: 1930 (as Orison Whipple Hungerford Jr) (in New York City, NY)
Spouse(s):
Nancy (married 1952 - ?, divorced) two children
Andra Martin (married 1958 - 1960, divorced) two children
Marlene Schmidt (married 1962 - 1965, divorced) one child
Francine Nebel (married 1966 - ?, divorced) one child
Jenny Atkins (married 1971 - 1974, divorced)
Lyndell (married 1974 - ?, divorced) one child
Judy D. Hild McNeill (married 1978 - 2007, divorced)
Caroline (married 2007 - present)
Children: 10 children
Height: 6'2"
TV Shows:
Arpad le tzigane
- Der Verrat (1973)
- Das Gesetz der Zigeuner (1973)
- Die Geiseln (1973)
- Ein Maskenball (1973)
- Der Frauentausch (1973)
Bronco (regular)
Cheyenne
- Duel at Judas Basin (1961)
David Cassidy - Man Undercover
- Baby Makes Three (1978)
Flying High
- A Hairy Yak Plays Musical Chairs Eagerly (1978)
Here's Hollywood
- Episode #2.121 (1962)
The Love Boat
- First Voyage, Last Voyage/April the Ninny/The Loan Arranger (1981)
Sugarfoot
- Angel (1961)
- Trial of the Canary Kid (1959)
Maverick
- Hadley's Hunters (cameo)
The Quest
- Prairie Woman (1976)
Riptide, regular (1969, 26 episodes)
77 Sunset Strip
- Strange Bedfellows (1961)
Stump the Stars
- Episode dated 12 August 1963
- P.T. Boat 109 Cast (1963)
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
- Episode dated 30 July 1963
We Are Angels
- Polvere (1997) .
- Finalmente si vola (1997)
Movies:
1958
I Married a Monster from Outer Space
The Space Children
As Young as We Are
The Buccaneer (uncredited)
1959
Last Train from Gun Hill (uncredited)
1962
Merrill's Marauders
The Chapman Report
1963
PT 109
Palm Springs Weekend
Wall of Noise
1964
Man of the Cursed Valley
1965
Battle of the Bulge
1966
Savage Pampas
1967
Death on the Run
Custer of the West
Berserk!
1968
King of Africa
Ragan
1970
The Last Rampage
1971
Acquasanta Joe
The Last Rebel
Day of Judgment
Quel maledetto giorno della resa dei conti
1972
Avanti! (uncredited)
You're Jinxed, Friend You've Met Sacramento
1975
Arpad - Zwei Teufelskerle räumen auf
1977
Fire!
Rooster: Spurs of Death!
1980
Image of the Beast
1985
The Zoo Gang
1988
Red River
1989
Born Killer
1990
Bad Jim
1992
Rescue Me
2011
The Back-up Bride
Other Film Work:
1962
The 34th Annual Academy Awards (TV Special) (Himself - Audience Member)
1963
The 35th Annual Academy Awards (TV Special) (Himself - Audience Member)
1969
The 11th Annual TV Week Logie Awards (TV Special)
1979
When the West Was Fun: A Western Reunion (TV Movie documentary)
1985
All-Star Party for 'Dutch' Reagan (TV Special)
2000
The 27th Annual American Music Awards (TV Special) (Himself - Presenter)
Regular Shows:
Bronco (Sept. 1958 - Apr. 1962, 68 episodes)
When Clint Walker temporarily left Cheyenne, Warner Brothers brought in Ty Hardin as a replacement. Bronco was called Cheyenne for the first season, even though Ty Hardin was starring as "Bronco" Layne, a former Confederate officer. When Clint Walker returned, Bronco was given its own title.
The seasons of Bronco are short because Warner Brothers alternated their Westerns every week; Season One alternated with WB's Sugarfoot; Season Two with Cheyenne; Season Three with both Sugarfoot and Cheyenne; and Season Four with just Cheyenne again. (One week, one show would play, and the next week, a different show would play in the same slot).
Ty Hardin guest-starred as "Bronco" in a number of other WB's Westerns as well.
Bronco on DVD
Season One
Season Two
Season Three
Season Four
Riptide (1969, 26 episodes)
Riptide was an Australian-produced, hour-long television show about a man named Moss Andrews (Hardin). Andrews, an American businessman, takes a trip to Australia after the death of his young wife, who was native to that country. He decides to stay and help his father-in-law (Chris Christensen) run a charter boat business, and after that---well, what else should he do besides stay, where he can solve mysteries and enjoy the company of beach beauties all day?
Regulars and semi-regulars aside from Hardin include:
Sue Costin
Jonathan Sweet
Slim De Gray
Chris Christensen
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Movie/TV credit information is taken from Internet Movie Database, unless otherwise noted, and is updated and corrected if needed.
Born: 1930 (as Orison Whipple Hungerford Jr) (in New York City, NY)
Spouse(s):
Nancy (married 1952 - ?, divorced) two children
Andra Martin (married 1958 - 1960, divorced) two children
Marlene Schmidt (married 1962 - 1965, divorced) one child
Francine Nebel (married 1966 - ?, divorced) one child
Jenny Atkins (married 1971 - 1974, divorced)
Lyndell (married 1974 - ?, divorced) one child
Judy D. Hild McNeill (married 1978 - 2007, divorced)
Caroline (married 2007 - present)
Children: 10 children
Height: 6'2"
TV Shows:
Arpad le tzigane
- Der Verrat (1973)
- Das Gesetz der Zigeuner (1973)
- Die Geiseln (1973)
- Ein Maskenball (1973)
- Der Frauentausch (1973)
Bronco (regular)
Cheyenne
- Duel at Judas Basin (1961)
David Cassidy - Man Undercover
- Baby Makes Three (1978)
Flying High
- A Hairy Yak Plays Musical Chairs Eagerly (1978)
Here's Hollywood
- Episode #2.121 (1962)
The Love Boat
- First Voyage, Last Voyage/April the Ninny/The Loan Arranger (1981)
Sugarfoot
- Angel (1961)
- Trial of the Canary Kid (1959)
Maverick
- Hadley's Hunters (cameo)
The Quest
- Prairie Woman (1976)
Riptide, regular (1969, 26 episodes)
77 Sunset Strip
- Strange Bedfellows (1961)
Stump the Stars
- Episode dated 12 August 1963
- P.T. Boat 109 Cast (1963)
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
- Episode dated 30 July 1963
We Are Angels
- Polvere (1997) .
- Finalmente si vola (1997)
Movies:
1958
I Married a Monster from Outer Space
The Space Children
As Young as We Are
The Buccaneer (uncredited)
1959
Last Train from Gun Hill (uncredited)
1962
Merrill's Marauders
The Chapman Report
1963
PT 109
Palm Springs Weekend
Wall of Noise
1964
Man of the Cursed Valley
1965
Battle of the Bulge
1966
Savage Pampas
1967
Death on the Run
Custer of the West
Berserk!
1968
King of Africa
Ragan
1970
The Last Rampage
1971
Acquasanta Joe
The Last Rebel
Day of Judgment
Quel maledetto giorno della resa dei conti
1972
Avanti! (uncredited)
You're Jinxed, Friend You've Met Sacramento
1975
Arpad - Zwei Teufelskerle räumen auf
1977
Fire!
Rooster: Spurs of Death!
1980
Image of the Beast
1985
The Zoo Gang
1988
Red River
1989
Born Killer
1990
Bad Jim
1992
Rescue Me
2011
The Back-up Bride
Other Film Work:
1962
The 34th Annual Academy Awards (TV Special) (Himself - Audience Member)
1963
The 35th Annual Academy Awards (TV Special) (Himself - Audience Member)
1969
The 11th Annual TV Week Logie Awards (TV Special)
1979
When the West Was Fun: A Western Reunion (TV Movie documentary)
1985
All-Star Party for 'Dutch' Reagan (TV Special)
2000
The 27th Annual American Music Awards (TV Special) (Himself - Presenter)
Regular Shows:
Bronco (Sept. 1958 - Apr. 1962, 68 episodes)
When Clint Walker temporarily left Cheyenne, Warner Brothers brought in Ty Hardin as a replacement. Bronco was called Cheyenne for the first season, even though Ty Hardin was starring as "Bronco" Layne, a former Confederate officer. When Clint Walker returned, Bronco was given its own title.
The seasons of Bronco are short because Warner Brothers alternated their Westerns every week; Season One alternated with WB's Sugarfoot; Season Two with Cheyenne; Season Three with both Sugarfoot and Cheyenne; and Season Four with just Cheyenne again. (One week, one show would play, and the next week, a different show would play in the same slot).
Ty Hardin guest-starred as "Bronco" in a number of other WB's Westerns as well.
Bronco on DVD
Season One
Season Two
Season Three
Season Four
Riptide (1969, 26 episodes)
Riptide was an Australian-produced, hour-long television show about a man named Moss Andrews (Hardin). Andrews, an American businessman, takes a trip to Australia after the death of his young wife, who was native to that country. He decides to stay and help his father-in-law (Chris Christensen) run a charter boat business, and after that---well, what else should he do besides stay, where he can solve mysteries and enjoy the company of beach beauties all day?
Regulars and semi-regulars aside from Hardin include:
Sue Costin
Jonathan Sweet
Slim De Gray
Chris Christensen
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Movie/TV credit information is taken from Internet Movie Database, unless otherwise noted, and is updated and corrected if needed.
August 01, 2016
Guy Madison Bio/credits
Guy Madison -- Official website
Born: January 19, 1922 (as Robert Ozell Mosely) (in Pumpkin Center, CA)
Died: February 6, 1996
Spouse(s): Gail Russel (married 1949 - 1954, divorced)
Sheila Connoly (stage name Kelly Ryan) (married 1954 - 1963, divorced)
Children: Bridget Catherine (born c. 1955)
Erin Patricia (born c. 1956)
Dolly Ann (born c. 1957)
Robert (born c. 1967)
Parents: Benjamin Mosely, Mary J. Holder Mosely
Other Family: brothers Wayne, Harold, David; sister Rosemary
Height: 6'
Movies:
1944
Since You Went Away
1946
Till the End of Time
1947
Honeymoon
1948
Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven
1949
Massacre River
1951
Drums in the Deep South
1952
Red Snow
Smoky Canyon (uncredited)
1953
The Charge at Feather River
1954
The Command
1955
The Last Frontier
5 Against the House
1956
Reprisal!
Beast of Hollow Mountain (bluray available)
Hilda Crane
On the Threshold of Space
1957
The Hard Man
1958
Bullwhip
1959
Jet Over the Atlantic
1961
Sword of the Conqueror
Slave of Rome
1962
Women of Devil's Island
1963
The Executioner of Venice
1964
Il vendicatore mascherato
Kidnapped to Mystery Island
Gunmen of Rio Grande
Return of Sandokan
Sandokan alla riscossa
Old Shatterhand
1965
Legacy of the Incas
L'avventuriero della Tortuga
1966
Five for Revenge
1967
Bang Bang Kid
The Devil's Man
Return of Django
Renegade Riders
LSD Flesh of Devil
1968
Testa di sbarco per otto implacabili
Long Days of Hate
Superargo and the Faceless Giants
1969
I diavoli della guerra
Hell Commandos
Un posto all'inferno
The Battle of the Last Panzer
1970
Reverend's Colt
1974
Il baco da seta
The Pacific Connection
1976
Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood
1978
Where's Willie?
1979
The Rebels (TV Movie) (uncredited)
The Hughes Mystery
1988
Red River (TV Movie)
TV Shows:
About Faces
- Episode dated 5 August (1960)
The Ann Sothern Show
- Katy and the Cowboy (1959)
Climax!
- A Farewell to Arms (1955)
- The Man Who Stole the Bible (1957)
Death Valley Days
- Extra Guns (1960)
Fantasy Island
- Yesterday's Love/Fountain of Youth (1979)
The Ford Television Theatre
- Passage to Yesterday (1955)
- Sometimes It Happens (1956)
General Electric Theater
- Bold Loser (1958)
Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall
- Episode #9.5 (1956)
The Red Skelton Hour
- San Fernando's Treasure Hunt (1959)
Schlitz Playhouse
- You Can't Win 'Em All (1959)
The Smith Family
- Winner Take All (1972)
Wagon Train
- The Riley Gratton Story (1957)
What's My Line?
- Episode dated 24 January (1954)
Wild Bill Hickok, The Adventures of , regular
William Tell
- The Four Horsemen (1987)
- The Citadel (1988)
- The Princess (1988)
Zane Grey Theater
- Jericho (1961)
Other Film Work:
1954
Light's Diamond Jubilee (TV Movie documentary)
1957
Hollywood Glamour on Ice (Short)
1958
Bing Crosby and His Friends (TV Special)
1979
When the West Was Fun: A Western Reunion (TV Movie documentary)
1985
All-Star Party for 'Dutch' Reagan (TV Special)
1987
The 4th Annual American Cinema Awards (TV Special)
1989
The 7th Annual Golden Boot Awards (TV Special)
1990
7th Annual American Cinema Awards (TV Special)
Regular shows:
The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok (April 1951 - May 1958, 113 episodes)
Guy Madison and Andy Devine rode the west for seven years during the '50s, gaining many young (and perhaps not so young) admirers. Madison played Old West character Wild Bill Hickok, although the show of course didn't stay too true to reality. Devine played Jingles, Hickok's sidekick and deputy.
The show still exists although prints can be hard to find.
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Movie/TV credit information is taken from Internet Movie Database, unless otherwise noted, and is updated and corrected if needed.
Born: January 19, 1922 (as Robert Ozell Mosely) (in Pumpkin Center, CA)
Died: February 6, 1996
Spouse(s): Gail Russel (married 1949 - 1954, divorced)
Sheila Connoly (stage name Kelly Ryan) (married 1954 - 1963, divorced)
Children: Bridget Catherine (born c. 1955)
Erin Patricia (born c. 1956)
Dolly Ann (born c. 1957)
Robert (born c. 1967)
Parents: Benjamin Mosely, Mary J. Holder Mosely
Other Family: brothers Wayne, Harold, David; sister Rosemary
Height: 6'
Movies:
1944
Since You Went Away
1946
Till the End of Time
1947
Honeymoon
1948
Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven
1949
Massacre River
1951
Drums in the Deep South
1952
Red Snow
Smoky Canyon (uncredited)
1953
The Charge at Feather River
1954
The Command
1955
The Last Frontier
5 Against the House
1956
Reprisal!
Beast of Hollow Mountain (bluray available)
Hilda Crane
On the Threshold of Space
1957
The Hard Man
1958
Bullwhip
1959
Jet Over the Atlantic
1961
Sword of the Conqueror
Slave of Rome
1962
Women of Devil's Island
1963
The Executioner of Venice
1964
Il vendicatore mascherato
Kidnapped to Mystery Island
Gunmen of Rio Grande
Return of Sandokan
Sandokan alla riscossa
Old Shatterhand
1965
Legacy of the Incas
L'avventuriero della Tortuga
1966
Five for Revenge
1967
Bang Bang Kid
The Devil's Man
Return of Django
Renegade Riders
LSD Flesh of Devil
1968
Testa di sbarco per otto implacabili
Long Days of Hate
Superargo and the Faceless Giants
1969
I diavoli della guerra
Hell Commandos
Un posto all'inferno
The Battle of the Last Panzer
1970
Reverend's Colt
1974
Il baco da seta
The Pacific Connection
1976
Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood
1978
Where's Willie?
1979
The Rebels (TV Movie) (uncredited)
The Hughes Mystery
1988
Red River (TV Movie)
TV Shows:
About Faces
- Episode dated 5 August (1960)
The Ann Sothern Show
- Katy and the Cowboy (1959)
Climax!
- A Farewell to Arms (1955)
- The Man Who Stole the Bible (1957)
Death Valley Days
- Extra Guns (1960)
Fantasy Island
- Yesterday's Love/Fountain of Youth (1979)
The Ford Television Theatre
- Passage to Yesterday (1955)
- Sometimes It Happens (1956)
General Electric Theater
- Bold Loser (1958)
Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall
- Episode #9.5 (1956)
The Red Skelton Hour
- San Fernando's Treasure Hunt (1959)
Schlitz Playhouse
- You Can't Win 'Em All (1959)
The Smith Family
- Winner Take All (1972)
Wagon Train
- The Riley Gratton Story (1957)
What's My Line?
- Episode dated 24 January (1954)
Wild Bill Hickok, The Adventures of , regular
William Tell
- The Four Horsemen (1987)
- The Citadel (1988)
- The Princess (1988)
Zane Grey Theater
- Jericho (1961)
Other Film Work:
1954
Light's Diamond Jubilee (TV Movie documentary)
1957
Hollywood Glamour on Ice (Short)
1958
Bing Crosby and His Friends (TV Special)
1979
When the West Was Fun: A Western Reunion (TV Movie documentary)
1985
All-Star Party for 'Dutch' Reagan (TV Special)
1987
The 4th Annual American Cinema Awards (TV Special)
1989
The 7th Annual Golden Boot Awards (TV Special)
1990
7th Annual American Cinema Awards (TV Special)
Regular shows:
The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok (April 1951 - May 1958, 113 episodes)
Guy Madison and Andy Devine rode the west for seven years during the '50s, gaining many young (and perhaps not so young) admirers. Madison played Old West character Wild Bill Hickok, although the show of course didn't stay too true to reality. Devine played Jingles, Hickok's sidekick and deputy.
The show still exists although prints can be hard to find.
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Movie/TV credit information is taken from Internet Movie Database, unless otherwise noted, and is updated and corrected if needed.
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