Wednesday, 3 October 2012

Robert Foulk

Born: 5 May 1908, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Died: 25 February 1989, Los Angeles, California, USA

A veteran of over 250 films and TV shows.  His 6'5" frame and simple face usually provided Foulk with supporting parts as passive giants in westerns or as a tough guy.

Wanted: Dead or Alive: Eight Cent Reward (1958) (Season 1, Episode 16) as Harkrader

















Lloyd Corrigan

Born: 16 October 1900, San Francisco, California, USA
Died: 5 November 1969, Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA

Mexican Spitfire's Baby (1941) as Chumley

Lloyd Corrigan is on the right, with Leon Errol and Lydia Bilbrook.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 


London Blackout Murders (1943) as Inspector Harris

















 
 
Captive Wild Woman (1943) as John Whipple
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Left to right: Milburn Stone, Lloyd Corrigan and John Carradine.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Passport to Destiny (1944) as Prof. Frederick Walthers




















Wanted: Dead or Alive: Eight Cent Reward (1958) (Season 1, Episode 16) as Ben Hatch




















The Manchurian Candidate (1962) as Holborn Gaines














Tuesday, 2 October 2012

Sam Buffington

Born: 12 October 1931, Massachusetts, USA
Died: 15 May 1960, Los Angeles, California, USA

Sam Buffington was a TV actor who appeared in occasional films.  He was a supporting player and crammed over 40 appearances into his short career, which was cut short by his suicide at the age of 28. His balding appearance were that of a much older man, which got him parts as doctors, professors and sheriffs as well as bartenders. He was appearing in the Audie Murphy TV western series 'Whispering Smith' when he killed himself aged 28.

Wanted: Dead or Alive: Eight Cent Reward (1958) (Season 1, Episode 16) as Hap Haefer, the bartender



















Wanted: Dead or Alive: Six-Up to Bannach (1959) (Season 1, Episode 19) as Abb Crawford

Sam is on the right, with James Best.









John Cliff

Born: 26 November 1918, Swainsboro, Georgia, USA
Died: 12 May 2001, Hayward, California, USA

John Cliff was born on a carnival. His father owned Clifford's Carolina Minstrels. For a time he worked on a soda pop stall and briefly trained as a prize fighter. At the end of the carnival era the family moved to California and John got a job as a labourer at a movie studio. John then learned to fly and intended to start his own flight instruction company, but the bombing of Pearl Harbour happened and the United States were dragged into the war. He joined up and flew missions, coming out of the war as a Captain. After the war John Cliff unsuccessfully tried to become an airline pilot and then turned his attentions to acting. His agent Mitch Hamilburg got him work on TV series like The Lone Ranger, Range Rider and Rin Tin Tin, usually as a heavy.  Eventually John got small roles in films. His film career was going well until it was interrupted by the Korean War. John was still in the reserves and was called up to fight. When he returned in 1953 he continued where he left off, playing heavies in westerns.

Wanted: Dead or Alive: Eight Cent Reward (1958) (Season 1, Episode 16) as Sheriff Howard Klate














Virginia Gregg

Born: 6 March 1916, Harrisburg, Illinois, USA
Died: 15 September 1986, Encino, California, USA

Virginia Gregg was a radio, television and film actress. She appeared in over 200 productions. She is noted for providing the voice of Mrs Bates in Pyscho (with Jeanette Nolan and Paul Jasmin), Psycho II and Psycho III.

Wanted: Dead or Alive: Eight Cent Reward (1958) (Season 1, Episode 16) as Hilda Stone

With Steve McQueen.


















Operation Petticoat (1959) as Maj. Edna Heywood RN

With Dick Sargent.












Mort Mills

Born: 11 January 1919, New York City, New York, USA
Died: 6 June 1993, Ventura, California, USA

Mort was a prolific film and television actor. He had recurring roles in Man Without a Gun, Perry Mason and Big Valley TV series and was featured in major films for Alfred Hitchcock and Orson Welles amongst others.

Hannah Lee: An American Primitive (1953) as Doctor (uncredited)



















With Ruth Whitney and Peter Ireland.

















Wanted: Dead or Alive: Eight Cent Reward (1958) (Season 1, Episode 16) as Harmon Stone
















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