Bing Russell

Born: 1926-05-05

Although best known as the deputy on Bonanza (1959) and Robert in The Magnificent Seven (1960), Russell's was also well known on a national level as the owner of the Portland Mavericks Baseball Club. Helming the only independent team in the class A Northwest League, Russell was an innovator. Before Bull Durham (1988), there were the Mavericks. Russell kept a 30 man roster because he believed that some of the players deserved to have one last season. His motto was simply one three lettered word - not WIN - although the Mavericks did just that - no, the word was FUN. He created a park that kept all corporate sponsorship outside the gates, hired the first female general manager in professional baseball, and the following year hired the first Asian American GM/Manager. That same season his team set a record for the highest attendance in Minor league history, and went on to win the pennant. Ex-major leaguers and never-weres who couldn't stop playing the game flocked to his June tryouts, which were always open to anyone that showed up. From as far away as Capetown, and France, players would head to Portland for a chance with Russell's Mavericks.


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The Magnificent Seven

as Robert
Released: 1960-10-12

An oppressed Mexican peasant village hires seven gunfighters to help defend their homes.

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Rio Bravo

as Cowboy Murdered in Saloon (uncredited)
Released: 1959-03-18

A small-town sheriff in the American West enlists the help of a disabled man, a drunk, and a...

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Tango & Cash

as Van Driver
Released: 1989-12-22

Ray Tango and Gabriel Cash are two successful narcotics detectives who can't stand each other....

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How the West Was Won

as Man (uncredited)
Released: 1962-11-02

The epic tale of the development of the American West from the 1830s through the Civil War to...

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The Horse Soldiers

as Dunker, Yankee Soldier Amputee
Released: 1959-06-11

A Union Cavalry outfit is sent behind confederate lines in strength to destroy a rail supply...

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Overboard

as Elk Cove: Sheriff Earl
Released: 1987-12-16

Heiress Joanna Stayton hires carpenter Dean Proffitt to build a closet on her yacht—and refuses...

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The Apple Dumpling Gang

as Herm Dally
Released: 1975-07-01

A roving bachelor gets saddled with three children and a wealth of trouble when the youngsters...

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as Club Ritz Patron
Released: 1990-04-05

The comic strip detective finds his life vastly complicated when Breathless Mahoney makes...

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Satan's School for Girls

as Sheriff
Released: 1973-09-19

Satan's School for Girls is set within the grim walls of Fallbridge College for Girls. Hoping to...

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Blackbeard's Ghost

as Second Track Meet Official
Released: 1968-02-08

The eponymous wraith returns to Earth to aid his descendant, elderly Emily Stowecroft. The...

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Elvis

as Vernon Presley
Released: 1979-02-10

This biopic traces Elvis Presley’s life from his impoverished childhood to his meteoric rise to...

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Last Train from Gun Hill

as Skag, Belden Hand
Released: 1959-07-29

A marshal tries to bring the son of an old friend, an autocratic cattle baron, to justice for...

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The Battered Bastards of Baseball

as Himself (Archive Footage)
Released: 2014-01-20

Hollywood veteran Bing Russell creates the only independent baseball team in the...

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Cheyenne Autumn

as Braden's Telegraph Operator (uncredited)
Released: 1964-10-15

A reluctant cavalry Captain must track a defiant tribe of migrating Cheyenne.

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Sunset

as Studio Guard
Released: 1988-04-29

Tom Mix and Wyatt Earp team up to solve a murder at the Academy Awards in 1929 Hollywood.

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The Deadly Mantis

as State Trooper
Released: 1957-05-01

A giant prehistoric praying mantis, recently freed from the Arctic ice, voraciously preys on...

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The Hallelujah Trail

as Horner
Released: 1965-06-23

A wagon train heads for Denver with a cargo of whisky for the miners. Chaos ensues as the...

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Good Day for a Hanging

as George Fletcher
Released: 1959-01-01

As a youth, Eddie came into the town with his gang to rob the bank, but was caught and...

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The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes

as Angelo
Released: 1969-12-29

Some college students manage to persuade the town's big businessman, A. J. Arno, to donate a...

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Now You See Him, Now You Don't

as Alfred
Released: 1972-07-12

Dexter Riley is a science student at Medfield College who inadvertently invents a liquid capable...

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A Life at Stake

as Bartender (uncredited)
Released: 1955-03-01

An out-of-work architect meets a married woman who has a business proposition for him. The...

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The Million Dollar Duck

as Mr. Smith
Released: 1971-06-30

Professor Dooley takes home a duck from his research laboratory as a toy for his son, but soon...

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The Land Unknown

as Radio Operator (uncredited)
Released: 1957-10-15

Navy Commander Alan Roberts is assigned to lead an expedition to Little America in Antarctica to...

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A Taste of Evil

as Sheriff
Released: 1971-10-11

On her way home from a stay at a mental institution after a traumatic rape, a woman realizes...

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The Loneliest Runner

as Fred Dawkins
Released: 1976-12-20

A young boy who still wets the bed finds escapism from his abusive mother and his own...

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Madame X

as Sergeant Riley
Released: 1966-03-03

A woman married to a wealthy socialite, is compromised by the accidental death of a man who had...

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Attack

as Medic
Released: 1956-09-19

Battle of the Bulge, World War II, 1944. Lieutenant Costa, an infantry company officer who must...

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The New Daughters of Joshua Cabe

as uncredited
Released: 1976-05-29

Three young women who posed as the daughters of an elderly homesteader find out that he has been...

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Cult of the Cobra

as uncredited
Released: 1955-03-30

While stationed in Asia, six American G.I.'s witness the secret ritual of Lamians (worshipers of...

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The Stripper

as Mr. Mulvaney
Released: 1963-06-19

An aging former movie starlet whose Hollywood career went nowhere, now reduced to dancing with a...

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Bombers B-52

as Operator (uncredited)
Released: 1957-11-22

Sgt. Chuch Brennan always disliked playboy and hotshot, Col. Jim Herlihy. Now Chuck has even...

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The Sex Symbol

as Public Relations Man
Released: 1974-09-17

A thinly-disguised version of the life of Marilyn Monroe, detailing her ups and downs in life...

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Big Leaguer

as uncredited
Released: 1953-08-19

John Lobert runs a training camp in Florida for the New York Giants. Every year, he evaluates...

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Journey to Shiloh

as Greybeard
Released: 1968-05-10

At the beginning of the Civil War, seven friends embark on a cross-country journey in order to...

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Death Sentence

as Trooper
Released: 1974-10-02

A juror on a murder trial begins to believe that the man charged with the crime is innocent —...

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One Man's Way

as Tom Rayburn
Released: 1964-02-26

Reverend Norman Vincent Peale fights to bring his message to the nation.

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A Gathering of Eagles

as uncredited
Released: 1963-06-21

Rock Hudson plays an Air Force Colonel who has just been re-assigned as a cold war B-52...

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Cattle Empire

as Douglas Hamilton
Released: 1958-04-01

After serving a five year prison sentence for allowing his men to destroy a town in a drunken...

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Drango

as Lieutenant with Supply Wagon
Released: 1957-01-01

A few months after the end of the civil war, Major Drango is sent as military governor in a...

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Runaway!

as Fireman
Released: 1973-09-29

A group of skiers are trapped inside a runaway train hurtling down a mountainside.

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Teenage Thunder

as Used-Car Salesman
Released: 1957-01-01

Teenagers rebel and race cars.

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A Cry in the Wilderness

as Mr. Griffey
Released: 1974-03-26

The father of a wilderness family gets bitten by a skunk, and fearing rabies, chains himself to...

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Yuma

as Rol King (as Neil Russell)
Released: 1971-03-02

A down-and-dirty town is forced to shape up when a new marshal (Clint Walker) comes to town....

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Ride a Violent Mile

as Corporal Norman
Released: 1957-11-24

A cowboy stampedes a Rebel plot with a Union spy posing as a dance-hall girl.

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Stakeout!

as Joe
Released: 1962-10-01

After serving three years in prison for a bank robbery, Joe Dasco is released and reunited with...

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Suicide Battalion

as Lt. Chet Hall
Released: 1958-02-28

Second World War drama, set in the Philippines about a group of men recruited for the dangerous...

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Bonanza

as Sheriff Clem Foster
First aired: 1959-09-12

The High-Sierra adventures of Ben Cartwright and his sons as they run and defend their ranch...

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Bonanza

as Deputy Clem Foster
First aired: 1959-09-12

The High-Sierra adventures of Ben Cartwright and his sons as they run and defend their ranch...

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Bonanza

as Major Reynolds
First aired: 1959-09-12

The High-Sierra adventures of Ben Cartwright and his sons as they run and defend their ranch...

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Bonanza

as Poindexter
First aired: 1959-09-12

The High-Sierra adventures of Ben Cartwright and his sons as they run and defend their ranch...

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The Andy Griffith Show

as Mr. Burton
First aired: 1960-10-03

The Andy Griffith Show is an American sitcom first televised on CBS between October 3, 1960 and...

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Lassie

as uncredited
First aired: 1954-09-12

Lassie is the pet of Jeff Miller, an 11-year-old farm boy. The two become best friends and enjoy...

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The Rifleman

as uncredited
First aired: 1958-09-30

The Rifleman is an American Western television program starring Chuck Connors as rancher Lucas...

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Ironside

as uncredited
First aired: 1967-03-28

When an assassin's bullet confines him to a wheelchair for life ending his career as Chief of...

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I Dream of Jeannie

as Amos Lincoln
First aired: 1965-09-18

While on a mission, American astronaut Captain Tony Nelson is forced to make an emergency...

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The Fugitive

as Sgt. Eggins
First aired: 1963-09-17

Richard Kimble is falsely convicted of his wife's murder and given the death penalty. En route...

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The Fugitive

as Officer
First aired: 1963-09-17

Richard Kimble is falsely convicted of his wife's murder and given the death penalty. En route...

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The Fugitive

as Matt Davis
First aired: 1963-09-17

Richard Kimble is falsely convicted of his wife's murder and given the death penalty. En route...

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The Fugitive

as Officer Westphal
First aired: 1963-09-17

Richard Kimble is falsely convicted of his wife's murder and given the death penalty. En route...

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The Twilight Zone

as George Cousins
First aired: 1959-10-02

A series of unrelated stories containing drama, psychological thriller, fantasy, science...

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The Twilight Zone

as Ben Braden
First aired: 1959-10-02

A series of unrelated stories containing drama, psychological thriller, fantasy, science...

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Maverick

as uncredited
First aired: 1957-09-22

The Maverick boys - Bret, Bart, Beau and Brent - are a clan of well-dressed dandies, gamblers...

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Maverick

as Tyler Brink
First aired: 1957-09-22

The Maverick boys - Bret, Bart, Beau and Brent - are a clan of well-dressed dandies, gamblers...

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Maverick

as Russ Aikens
First aired: 1957-09-22

The Maverick boys - Bret, Bart, Beau and Brent - are a clan of well-dressed dandies, gamblers...

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The Virginian

as Sgt. Eads
First aired: 1962-09-19

The Shiloh Ranch in Wyoming Territory of the 1890s is owned in sequence by Judge Henry Garth,...

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The Virginian

as John Rudd
First aired: 1962-09-19

The Shiloh Ranch in Wyoming Territory of the 1890s is owned in sequence by Judge Henry Garth,...

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The Virginian

as Donovan
First aired: 1962-09-19

The Shiloh Ranch in Wyoming Territory of the 1890s is owned in sequence by Judge Henry Garth,...

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The Virginian

as Sam Fuller
First aired: 1962-09-19

The Shiloh Ranch in Wyoming Territory of the 1890s is owned in sequence by Judge Henry Garth,...

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The Virginian

as Gabe Sloan
First aired: 1962-09-19

The Shiloh Ranch in Wyoming Territory of the 1890s is owned in sequence by Judge Henry Garth,...

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The Virginian

as Ned Smith
First aired: 1962-09-19

The Shiloh Ranch in Wyoming Territory of the 1890s is owned in sequence by Judge Henry Garth,...

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Mannix

as uncredited
First aired: 1967-09-16

Mannix is an American television detective series that ran from 1967 through 1975 on CBS....

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The Rockford Files

as Lieutenant
First aired: 1974-09-13

Cranky but likable L.A. PI Jim Rockford pulls no punches (but takes plenty of them). An ex-con...

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Emergency!

as uncredited
First aired: 1972-01-22

The crew of Los Angeles County Fire Department Station 51, particularly the paramedic team, and...

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Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

as Sam - Henchman
First aired: 1956-10-05

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre, sometimes simply called Zane Grey Theatre, is an American...

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Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

as Deputy Stover
First aired: 1956-10-05

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre, sometimes simply called Zane Grey Theatre, is an American...

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Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

as Cole
First aired: 1956-10-05

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre, sometimes simply called Zane Grey Theatre, is an American...

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The Big Valley

as Jack Tolliver
First aired: 1965-09-15

The Big Valley is an American western television series which ran on ABC from September 15,...

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The Big Valley

as Clint
First aired: 1965-09-15

The Big Valley is an American western television series which ran on ABC from September 15,...

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The Big Valley

as Rancher
First aired: 1965-09-15

The Big Valley is an American western television series which ran on ABC from September 15,...

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The Big Valley

as Joe Garrett
First aired: 1965-09-15

The Big Valley is an American western television series which ran on ABC from September 15,...

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The Big Valley

as Mac
First aired: 1965-09-15

The Big Valley is an American western television series which ran on ABC from September 15,...

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The Big Valley

as Dan Kelsey
First aired: 1965-09-15

The Big Valley is an American western television series which ran on ABC from September 15,...

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The Big Valley

as Sheriff
First aired: 1965-09-15

The Big Valley is an American western television series which ran on ABC from September 15,...

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The Big Valley

as Slade
First aired: 1965-09-15

The Big Valley is an American western television series which ran on ABC from September 15,...

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The Big Valley

as Sheriff Jim Dolan
First aired: 1965-09-15

The Big Valley is an American western television series which ran on ABC from September 15,...

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The Munsters

as uncredited
First aired: 1964-09-24

A family of friendly monsters that have misadventures all while never quite understanding why...

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Have Gun, Will Travel

as uncredited
First aired: 1957-09-14

Have Gun – Will Travel is an American Western television series that aired on CBS from 1957...

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Route 66

as uncredited
First aired: 1960-10-07

Route 66 is an American TV series in which two young men traveled across America in a Chevrolet...

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Wanted: Dead or Alive

as Clay
First aired: 1958-09-06

Wanted: Dead or Alive is an American Western television series starring Steve McQueen as the...

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Wanted: Dead or Alive

as Billy Hemp
First aired: 1958-09-06

Wanted: Dead or Alive is an American Western television series starring Steve McQueen as the...

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Ben Casey

as uncredited
First aired: 1961-10-02

Ben Casey is an American medical drama series which ran on ABC from 1961 to 1966. The show was...

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Rawhide

as Jack Harris
First aired: 1959-01-09

The tale of trail boss Gil Favor and his trusty foreman Rowdy Yates as they drives cattle across...

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Laramie

as uncredited
First aired: 1959-09-15

Laramie is an American Western television series that aired on NBC from 1959 to 1963. A Revue...

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The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp

as uncredited
First aired: 1955-09-06

The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp is a television western series loosely based on the life of...

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The Donna Reed Show

as uncredited
First aired: 1958-09-24

Revolves around typical family problems, such as firing a clumsy housekeeper, throwing a...

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Gunsmoke

as Simon Fletcher
First aired: 1955-09-10

Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman...

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Gunsmoke

as Ed Shelby
First aired: 1955-09-10

Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman...

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Gunsmoke

as Tabor
First aired: 1955-09-10

Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman...

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Gunsmoke

as Head
First aired: 1955-09-10

Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman...

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Gunsmoke

as Walsh
First aired: 1955-09-10

Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman...

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Gunsmoke

as Arnold Rolfing
First aired: 1955-09-10

Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman...

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The Monkees

as uncredited
First aired: 1966-09-12

Micky, Mike, Peter, and Davy are four young men in mid-1960s LA, members of a struggling...

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Surfside 6

as uncredited
First aired: 1960-10-06

Surfside 6 was an ABC television series which aired from 1960 to 1962. The show centered on a...

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The Texan

as uncredited
First aired: 1958-09-29

The Texan was a Western television series starring popular B movie actor Rory Calhoun, which...

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Branded

as uncredited
First aired: 1965-01-24

Branded is an American Western series which aired on NBC from 1965 through 1966, sponsored by...

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Sugarfoot

as Sergeant McKinnock
First aired: 1957-09-17

Sugarfoot is an American western television series that aired on ABC from 1957 to 1961. The...

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Sugarfoot

as Hank Gibson
First aired: 1957-09-17

Sugarfoot is an American western television series that aired on ABC from 1957 to 1961. The...

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Alias Smith and Jones

as uncredited
First aired: 1971-01-05

Alias Smith and Jones is an American Western series that originally aired on ABC from 1971 to...

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The Streets of San Francisco

as uncredited
First aired: 1972-09-23

Two police officers, the older Lt. Stone and the young upstart Inspector Keller, investigate...

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Petrocelli

as uncredited
First aired: 1974-09-11

Petrocelli is an American legal drama which ran for two seasons on NBC from September 11, 1974...

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Bronco

as uncredited
First aired: 1958-09-23

Bronco is a Western series on ABC from 1958 through 1962. It was shown by the BBC in the United...

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The Mod Squad

as uncredited
First aired: 1968-09-24

The Mod Squad was the enormously successful groundbreaking "hippie" undercover cop show that ran...

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The Guns of Will Sonnett

as uncredited
First aired: 1967-09-08

The Guns of Will Sonnett is a Western television series

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Stoney Burke

as uncredited
First aired: 1962-10-01

Stoney Burke is an American western television series broadcast on ABC from October 1, 1962...

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Johnny Ringo

as Dick Walsh
First aired: 1959-10-02

Johnny Ringo is an American Western television series starring Don Durant that aired on CBS from...

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Hondo

as uncredited
First aired: 1967-09-08

Hondo is a 17-episode Western television series starring Ralph Taeger that aired in the United...

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Black Saddle

as Lee Curry
First aired: 1959-01-10

Black Saddle is an American Western television series starring Peter Breck that aired 44...

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Black Saddle

as Ken Wilson
First aired: 1959-01-10

Black Saddle is an American Western television series starring Peter Breck that aired 44...

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Sam Benedict

as Len George (uncredited)
First aired: 1962-09-15

Sam Benedict is an American legal drama that aired on NBC from September 1962 to March 1963. The...

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Stagecoach West

as uncredited
First aired: 1960-10-04

Stagecoach West is an American Western drama television series which ran for thirty-eight...

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The Alaskans

as uncredited
First aired: 1959-10-04

The Alaskans is a 1959-1960 ABC/Warner Brothers western television series set during the late...

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The Man Called X

as uncredited
First aired: 1956-01-27

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The Monroes

as uncredited
First aired: 1966-09-07

The Monroes is a 26-segment Western television series which originally aired on ABC during the...

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The Outcasts

as uncredited
First aired: 1968-09-23

The Outcasts is an American Western genre television series, appearing on ABC in the 1968-69...

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The Living Christ

as Lazarus
First aired: 1951-01-07

The first ever made for TV miniseries documents the story of Jesus Christ from birth to...

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Harbor Command

as uncredited
First aired: 1957-10-11

Harbor Command is an American action series that aired in syndicated from October 11, 1957, to...

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Tate

as uncredited
First aired: 1960-06-08

Tate is an American Western television series that aired on NBC from June 8 until September 14,...

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Dundee and the Culhane

as uncredited
First aired: 1967-09-06

Dundee and the Culhane is an American Western television series starring John Mills and Sean...

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Letter to Loretta

as Convict
First aired: 1953-09-20

Letter to Loretta is an American anthology drama series telecast on NBC from September 1953 to...

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Letter to Loretta

as Jim Murphy
First aired: 1953-09-20

Letter to Loretta is an American anthology drama series telecast on NBC from September 1953 to...

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Letter to Loretta

as Newsman
First aired: 1953-09-20

Letter to Loretta is an American anthology drama series telecast on NBC from September 1953 to...

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Letter to Loretta

as Sergeant
First aired: 1953-09-20

Letter to Loretta is an American anthology drama series telecast on NBC from September 1953 to...

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