Rand Brooks

Born: 1918-09-21

Arlington Rand Brooks Jr. (September 21, 1918 – September 1, 2003) was an American film and television actor. Brooks was born in Wright City, Missouri. He was the son of Arlington Rand Brooks, a farmer. His mother and he moved to Los Angeles when he was four, though he continued to spend summers in Wright City. Brooks continued to make visits to his hometown of Wright City into the 1950s, up to and following the death of his father in 1950. His mother and his grandfather were actors. After leaving school, Brooks got a screen test at MGM and was given a bit part in Love Finds Andy Hardy (1938). His big fame came with his part as Charles Hamilton in Gone with the Wind (1939), a role which he later admitted he despised; he wanted to play more macho parts. He made $100 per week under contract at MGM, but when he was on loan to Selznick International Pictures for Gone with the Wind, he made $500 per week. After Gone With the Wind, he had relatively small parts in other movies including Babes in Arms, then a regular role as Lucky in the Hopalong Cassidy series of Westerns in the mid-1940s; Brooks succeeded Russell Hayden in the role. Among the films, which starred William Boyd as Hopalong, were Hoppy's Holiday, The Dead Don't Dream, and Borrowed Trouble. He received positive notice for his work in Fool's Gold, with Variety reporting that he did "an excellent job." In edited, half-hour versions of some of the films, he appeared in 12 of the 52 episodes of the Hopalong Cassidy television series. In 1948, he co-starred with Adele Jergens and Marilyn Monroe in the low-budget, black-and-white Columbia Pictures film, Ladies of the Chorus. Brooks became the first actor to share an on-screen kiss with Monroe, who in a few years was one of the world's biggest movie stars. Filmed in just 10 days, the film was released soon after its completion. Variety called his performance in the 1952 film The Steel Fist "capable." Television brought new opportunities, again often in Westerns. He played Cpl. Randy Boone in the 1950s television series, The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin. Brooks had guest roles in 1950s Western series, including Mackenzie's Raiders, The Lone Ranger, Maverick, Gunsmoke, and Bonanza. He appeared twice on the syndicated adventure series, Rescue 8, as well as on CBS's Perry Mason courtroom drama series. In 1962, he directed and produced a movie about brave dogs, Bearheart, but the film was entangled in legal troubles due to his business manager's involvement in crimes such as forgery and graft. The film was finally released in 1978, under the title Legend of the Northwest. After he left show business, Brooks ran a private ambulance company in Glendale, California. He commented that he "died in more pictures than almost anyone" and that though he was never very big in show business, he was willing to return to it. Brooks sold the ambulance company in 1994, and retired to his ranch in the Santa Ynez Valley, where he bred champion Andalusian horses. He attended a Gone with the Wind reunion for Clark Gable's birthday, along with Ann Rutherford and Fred Crane, in Cadiz, Ohio, in 1992. On September 1, 2003, Brooks died in Santa Ynez, California.


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Gone with the Wind

as Charles Hamilton
Released: 1939-03-12

The spoiled daughter of a Georgia plantation owner conducts a tumultuous romance with a cynical...

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Comanche Station

as Station Man
Released: 1960-03-01

A white man trades with the Comanche for the release of a female stranger and the pair cross...

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The Son of Monte Cristo

as Hans Mirbach
Released: 1940-12-05

Rightful owner of the kingdom, the Duchess of Zona, is engaged in a power struggle with the evil...

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Joan of Arc

as Jean d'Arc, Joan's older brother
Released: 1948-12-22

In the 15th Century, France is a defeated and ruined nation after the One Hundred Years War...

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The Last Hurrah

as Votes Tallyman (uncredited)
Released: 1958-12-31

In a changing world where television has become the main source of information, Adam Caulfield,...

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Northwest Passage

as Eben Towne
Released: 1940-02-23

Based on the Kenneth Roberts novel of the same name, this film tells the story of two friends...

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In Like Flint

as Missle Control Officer (uncredited)
Released: 1967-03-15

Flint is again called out of retirement when his old boss finds that he seems to have missed 3...

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Air Force

as Co-Pilot (uncredited)
Released: 1943-03-20

The crew of an Air Force bomber arrives in Pearl Harbor in the aftermath of the Japanese attack...

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Ladies of the Chorus

as Randy Carroll
Released: 1948-12-30

Former burlesque star May and her daughter Peggy dance in the chorus. When May has a fight with...

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Behind Southern Lines

as Captain Loomis
Released: 1952-11-02

Two episodes of the TV series "Wild Bill Hickok" edited together and released as a feature.

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The Old Maid

as Jim
Released: 1939-08-16

The lives of two cousins are complicated by the return of an ex-boyfriend and an illegitimate child.

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Lady Scarface

as James 'Jimmy' Powell
Released: 1941-09-26

A Chicago gang led by Slade carries out an audacious brokerage robbery. Lieutenant Bill Mason...

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Love Finds Andy Hardy

as Young Man on Bandstand (uncredited)
Released: 1938-07-22

Andy Hardy becomes entangled with three different girls all at the same time.

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Babes in Arms

as Jeff Steele
Released: 1939-10-10

Mickey Moran, son of two vaudeville veterans, decides to put up his own vaudeville show with his...

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Born to the Saddle

as John Grant
Released: 1953-03-15

A naïve, recently-orphaned young man discovers he's being used as a pawn in a crooked gambler's...

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Balalaika

as Crying Soldier (uncredited)
Released: 1939-12-15

A Russian prince disguised as a worker and a cafe singer secretly involved in revolutionary...

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Riding High

as Henry Early
Released: 1950-04-12

A horse trainer who has fallen on hard times looks to his horse, Broadway Bill, to finally win...

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Niagara Falls

as Honeymooner
Released: 1941-10-17

The nosy antics of a honeymooner puts an unwed couple in the same room.

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Stagecoach to Dancers' Rock

as Quint Rucker
Released: 1962-10-01

Five passengers in a stagecoach are abandoned by their driver in the desert. Trying to survive,...

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And One Was Beautiful

as Joe Havens
Released: 1940-04-05

A teenager falls hard for an irresponsible playboy.

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Laddie

as Peter Dover
Released: 1940-01-18

Handsome Laddie Stanton courts neighbor Pamela Pryor, meeting opposition from her stern military...

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Bunco Squad

as Robert (uncredited)
Released: 1950-09-01

Police sergeants Johnson and McManus take on Los Angeles confidence tricksters. Con man Tony...

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Kilroy Was Here

as Rodney Meadows
Released: 1947-07-19

"Kilroy Was Here" was a popular expression during World War II, but it's not much fun to John J....

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The Gunman

as Jud Calvert
Released: 1952-01-01

Terrorized citizens send for a Texas lawman to rid their town of bandits.

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Crash of Moons

as Andrews
Released: 1954-07-10

A three-part episode from the TV series Rocky Jones, Space Ranger edited together and released...

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The Wyoming Bandit

as Jimmy Howard
Released: 1949-07-15

Wyoming Dan (Trevor Bardette) returns home after 20 years evading the law for a crime he didn't...

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The Maverick

as Trooper Barnham
Released: 1952-12-14

Wild Bill Elliott must escort a gang of killer cattleman who have been terrorizing homesteaders.

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The Affairs of Jimmy Valentine

as uncredited
Released: 1942-03-27

A New York radio personality travels to the small town of Fernville to oversee a contest to...

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Resisting Enemy Interrogation

as Pilot
Released: 1944-08-01

A downed American bomber crew quickly falls prey to the clever interrogation techniques of the...

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Waco

as Al
Released: 1952-02-24

After killing a man in self defense over a poker game, Wild Bill Elliott turns outlaw in order...

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Heart of the Rockies

as Jim Corley
Released: 1951-03-29

Roy is put in charge of a highway construction project. A rancher tries to stop Roy from putting...

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The Devil's Playground

as Lucky Jenkins
Released: 1946-11-15

Hoppy finds a wounded girl and later finds Judge Morton who claims the girl is his daughter and...

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Dancing Co-Ed

as Steve (uncredited)
Released: 1939-09-29

After discovering his star dancer is expecting and can't perform, film producer H.W. Workman and...

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Cowboy Serenade

as Jim Agnew
Released: 1942-01-30

Gene Autry heads a cattlemen's association and calls on the inexperienced Jim Agnew to negotiate...

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Rin-Tin-Tin: Hero of the West

as Cpl. Boone
Released: 1991-04-11

Rin-Tin-Tin and his master Rusty as heroes in the old west. Cut from 1950s TV series.

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Silver Needle in the Sky

as Ranger Andrews
Released: 1954-05-29

Rocky Jones tries to free the hostages and thwart the plans of the evil Queen Cleolantha.

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The Dead Don't Dream

as Lucky Jenkins
Released: 1948-04-30

Hoppy, California and Lucky arrive at a remote inn, where Lucky expects to be married - but...

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The Girl from Avenue A

as Steve
Released: 1940-08-09

A tough girl raised in the streets finds that her dialect and manners are helpful as source...

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Yukon Manhunt

as Len Kaufman
Released: 1951-07-12

In this North Woods adventure, the Mounties investigate a series of payroll robberies and...

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The Sex Symbol

as Edward Kelly (voice)
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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The Marauders

as Lucky Jenkins
Released: 1947-07-01

Hoppy, California and Lucky take refuge from a storm inside a supposedly abandoned church...

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Unexpected Guest

as Lucky Jenkins
Released: 1947-03-28

At the reading of his late cousin's will, California learns the estate will be divied among...

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Dramatic School

as Pasquel Jr.
Released: 1938-12-09

Aspiring actress Louise Muban attends the prestigious Paris School of Drama during the day and...

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High Explosive

as Jimmy Baker
Released: 1943-03-27

Mike Douglas (Barry Sullivan), owner of a nitroglycerin concern hires his old friend "Buzz"...

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The Challenge of Rin Tin Tin

as uncredited
Released: 1958-08-01

The 101st Cavalry discover the survivors of an Apache raid on a wagon train. Feature film from...

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Lady in the Dark

as Ben
Released: 1944-02-10

A neurotic editor sees a psychoanalyst about the advertising man, movie star and other man in...

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Dangerous Venture

as Lucky Jenkins
Released: 1947-05-23

Sue Morgan gets Hoppy and his friends to join their expedition looking for Indian artifacts....

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Man from the Black Hills

as Fake Jimmy Fallon
Released: 1952-03-29

As other "B"-western series kept dropping like flies in 1952, Johnny Mack Brown kept grinding...

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Sundown in Santa Fe

as Tom Wyatt
Released: 1948-11-05

Sundown in Santa Fe is an adventure film directed by R.G. Springsteen in 60. A dagger has been...

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Thunder Afloat

as Listener (uncredited)
Released: 1939-09-15

A tugboat captain serves under his rival as a U-boat chaser in World War I.

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Black Midnight

as Daniel Jordan
Released: 1949-10-01

A young man with a love of horses, Scott Jordan (Roddy McDowall) lives on the family ranch with...

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The Steel Fist

as Captain Giorg Nicholoff
Released: 1952-01-06

In an Iron Curtain country an idealistic student goes on the run from the Communist authorities.

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Borrowed Trouble

as Lucky Jenkins
Released: 1948-07-23

Finishing a trail drive, Hoppy and the boys head to town and immediately get caught up in the...

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The Vanishing Westerner

as Sanderson's First Victim
Released: 1950-03-31

Posing as wanted men, Chris and Waldorf get hired by Sanderson. He sends them to kill the...

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Montana Incident

as Dave Connors
Released: 1952-08-10

Whip is surveying land for a railroad but a land baron and one of his daughters stands in the way.

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Fool's Gold

as Lucky Jenkins
Released: 1946-10-09

The son of an Army friend is about the join an outlaw gang. Hoppy prevents this and brings the...

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Stump Run

as uncredited
Released: 1959-12-12

Two Moonshiners find love and laughs in the Oregon outskirts. Featuring a medley of comic...

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Sinister Journey

as Lucky Jenkins
Released: 1948-06-11

Lee Garvin has eloped with the daughter of a railroad man who didn't approve of the marriage....

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Fingers at the Window

as Young Reporter (uncredited)
Released: 1942-04-22

In Chicago, an unemployed actor aims to solve the mystery concerning a string of ax murders,...

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Silent Conflict

as Lucky Jenkins
Released: 1948-03-19

One of Hoppy's Bar 20 ranch hands is tricked into participating in nefarious activities after...

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False Paradise

as Lucky Jenkins
Released: 1948-09-10

A banker is trying to cheat people out of their silver-rich land. Hoppy learns that the banker...

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The Great Morgan

as Film Character (uncredited)
Released: 1945-01-01

Frank Morgan is hired to put together a movie using odds and ends from the MGM vaults. He does...

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Florian

as Victor
Released: 1940-06-05

Set against the backdrop of WWI Europe, a man and woman of different classes are brought...

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Life with Henry

as Daniel Gordon (uncredited)
Released: 1941-01-23

Henry Aldrich wants to win a trip to Alaska.

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The Sombrero Kid

as Philip Martin
Released: 1942-07-31

A well-acted, well-paced entry in the Don "Red" Barry Western series from Republic Pictures, The...

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Strange Gamble

as Lucky Jenkins
Released: 1948-10-08

Hoppy and his pals arrive in a remote town to investigate the counterfeiting of both U.S. and...

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Hoppy's Holiday

as Lucky Jenkins
Released: 1947-07-18

Hoppy, California, and Lucky travel to Mesa City for a short vacation. California buys new...

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Columbo

as Jerry - Wine Lab Assistant (uncredited)
First aired: 1971-09-15

Columbo is a friendly, verbose, disheveled-looking police detective who is consistently...

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Perry Mason

as Trainer
First aired: 1957-09-21

The cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most...

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Adam-12

as Mr. Edwards
First aired: 1968-09-21

Adam-12 is a television police drama that followed two police officers of the Los Angeles Police...

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Adam-12

as Bus Driver
First aired: 1968-09-21

Adam-12 is a television police drama that followed two police officers of the Los Angeles Police...

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Adam-12

as Mr. Marshall
First aired: 1968-09-21

Adam-12 is a television police drama that followed two police officers of the Los Angeles Police...

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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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Bonanza

as Cowboy
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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Wagon Train

as Thomas Pope
First aired: 1957-09-18

The series initially starred veteran movie supporting actor Ward Bond as the wagon master, later...

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Maverick

as Second at Duel (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 Jack Blair
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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Petticoat Junction

as Ernest Belden
First aired: 1963-09-24

The Bradley family are proud owners of the Shady Rest Hotel. Kate and her three young daughters...

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The Virginian

as Henry
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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Combat!

as G.I. Lieutenant
First aired: 1962-10-02

Combat! is an American television program that originally aired on ABC from 1962 until 1967. The...

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My Three Sons

as uncredited
First aired: 1960-09-29

A widower and aeronautical engineer named Steven Douglas raises three sons with the help of his...

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The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp

as Sheriff Del Mathey
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 Munsters

as The Man
First aired: 1964-09-24

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

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Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

as Banker Wilson
First aired: 1956-10-05

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

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Hawaiian Eye

as uncredited
First aired: 1959-10-07

Private Eyes Tom Lopaka and Tracy Steele are based out of Hawaiian Village Resort where they...

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The Real McCoys

as uncredited
First aired: 1957-10-03

The Real McCoys is an American situation comedy co-produced by Danny Thomas' "Marterto...

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Peter Gunn

as uncredited
First aired: 1958-09-22

Peter Gunn is an American private eye television series. Filmed in a film noir atmosphere and...

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Bat Masterson

as Willard Wynant
First aired: 1958-10-08

Bat Masterson is an American Western television series which showed a fictionalized account of...

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The Millionaire

as Allan Carter
First aired: 1955-01-19

An anthology series that explored the ways sudden and unexpected wealth changed life for better...

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The Lone Ranger

as Dick Larrabee
First aired: 1949-09-15

The Lone Ranger is an American western television series that ran from 1949 to 1957, starring...

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The Lone Ranger

as Deputy Jim Tyler
First aired: 1949-09-15

The Lone Ranger is an American western television series that ran from 1949 to 1957, starring...

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The Lone Ranger

as Marshal Roy Bell
First aired: 1949-09-15

The Lone Ranger is an American western television series that ran from 1949 to 1957, starring...

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The Lone Ranger

as Private Phillips
First aired: 1949-09-15

The Lone Ranger is an American western television series that ran from 1949 to 1957, starring...

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The Lone Ranger

as Private Jack Carey
First aired: 1949-09-15

The Lone Ranger is an American western television series that ran from 1949 to 1957, starring...

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The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok

as uncredited
First aired: 1951-04-15

The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok is an American Western television series which ran for eight...

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M Squad

as Purser
First aired: 1957-09-20

Lt. Frank Ballinger is a no-nonsense plain clothes cop in the elite M Squad Division. The...

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Studio 57

as uncredited
First aired: 1954-09-21

Studio 57 is an American anthology series that was broadcast on the now-defunct DuMont...

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Gunsmoke

as Rand
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 Man
First aired: 1955-09-10

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

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The Green Hornet

as Conway
First aired: 1966-09-09

The Green Hornet is a television series on the ABC US television network that aired for the...

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City Detective

as uncredited
First aired: 1953-09-07

Crime drama starring Rod Cameron as 43-year-old Bart Grant, a tough 1950s New York City police...

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The Gene Autry Show

as Jeff Elwood
First aired: 1950-07-23

The Gene Autry Show is an American western/cowboy television series which aired for 91 episodes...

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The Gene Autry Show

as Young Deputy
First aired: 1950-07-23

The Gene Autry Show is an American western/cowboy television series which aired for 91 episodes...

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Tightrope

as Young Man
First aired: 1959-09-08

Tightrope is an American crime drama series that aired on CBS from September 1959 to September...

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The Cisco Kid

as Clint Riley
First aired: 1950-09-05

The Cisco Kid is a half-hour American Western television series starring Duncan Renaldo in the...

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The Adventures of Kit Carson

as uncredited
First aired: 1951-08-11

The Adventures of Kit Carson is an American Western series that aired in syndication from August...

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Sergeant Preston of the Yukon

as uncredited
First aired: 1955-09-29

Canadian Mountie Sgt. Preston patrols the wilds of the Yukon with his horse Rex and his faithful...

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The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin

as uncredited
First aired: 1954-10-15

The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin is an American children's television program. Beginning in October...

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The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin

as Cpl. Boone
First aired: 1954-10-15

The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin is an American children's television program. Beginning in October...

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The Wonderful World of Disney

as Baseball Coach (uncredited)
First aired: 1954-10-27

Walt Disney Productions has produced an anthology television series under several different...

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The Roy Rogers Show

as uncredited
First aired: 1951-12-30

Roy Rogers is the owner of the RR Ranch in the Mineral City area, which he runs with the help of...

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The Man Called X

as uncredited
First aired: 1956-01-27

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