Louis Burton Lindley Jr.,better known by his stage name Slim Pickens,was an American actor and rodeo performer. Starting off in the rodeo,Pickens transitioned to acting,and appeared in dozens of movies and TV shows. For much of his career,Pickens played mainly cowboy roles. He is perhaps best remembered today for his comic roles in Dr. Strangelove,Blazing Saddles,1941,and his villainous turn in One-Eyed Jacks with Marlon Brando.
Cimarron City is a town in Logan County,Oklahoma,United States. The population was 150 at the 2010 census,a 39.4 percent gain over the figure of 110 in 2000. It is part of the Oklahoma City Metropolitan Statistical Area. Cimarron City is a combination bedroom and retirement community.
Stuart Maxwell Whitman was an American actor,known for his lengthy career in film and television. Whitman was born in San Francisco and raised in New York until the age of 12,when his family relocated to Los Angeles. In 1948,Whitman was discharged from the Corps of Engineers in the U.S. Army and started to study acting and appear in plays. From 1951 to 1957,Whitman had a streak working in mostly bit parts in films,including When Worlds Collide (1951),The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951),Barbed Wire (1952) and The Man from the Alamo (1952). On television,Whitman guest-starred in series such as Dr. Christian,The Roy Rogers Show,and Death Valley Days,and also had a recurring role on Highway Patrol. Whitman's first lead role was in John H. Auer's Johnny Trouble (1957).
Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman Macdonnell and writer John Meston. It centered on Dodge City,Kansas in the 1870s,during the settlement of the American West. The central character is lawman Marshal Matt Dillon,played by William Conrad on radio and James Arness on television.
George Glenn Strange was an American actor who appeared in hundreds of Western films. He played Sam Noonan,the bartender on CBS's Gunsmoke television series,and Frankenstein's monster in three Universal films during the 1940s.
James Arness was an American actor,best known for portraying Marshal Matt Dillon for 20 years in the series Gunsmoke. He has the distinction of having played the role of Dillon in five decades:1955 to 1975 in the weekly series,then in Gunsmoke:Return to Dodge (1987) and four more made-for-television Gunsmoke films in the 1990s. In Europe,Arness reached cult status for his role as Zeb Macahan in the Western series How the West Was Won. He was the older brother of actor Peter Graves.
Jim Davis was an American actor,best known for his roles in television Westerns. In his later career,he became famous as Jock Ewing in the CBS primetime soap opera Dallas,a role he continued until he was too ill from multiple myeloma to perform.
Pernell Elven Roberts Jr. was an American stage,film,and television actor,activist,and singer. In addition to guest-starring in over 60 television series,he was best known for his roles as Ben Cartwright's eldest son Adam Cartwright on the Western television series Bonanza (1959–1965),and as chief surgeon Dr. John McIntyre,the title character on Trapper John,M.D. (1979–1986).
John Robert Anderson was an American character actor who performed in hundreds of stage,film,and television productions during a career that spanned over four decades.
Jewel Franklin Guy,known professionally as James Best,was an American television,film,stage,and voice actor,as well as a writer,director,acting coach,artist,college professor,and musician. During a career that spanned more than 60 years,he performed not only in feature films but also in scores of television series,as well as appearing on various country music programs and talk shows. Television audiences,however,perhaps most closely associate Best with his role as the bumbling Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane in the action-comedy series The Dukes of Hazzard,which originally aired on CBS between 1979 and 1985. He reprised the role in 1997 and 2000 for the made-for-television movies The Dukes of Hazzard:Reunion! and The Dukes of Hazzard:Hazzard in Hollywood (2000).
Matt Dillon is a fictional character featured on both the radio and television versions of Gunsmoke. He is the U.S. Marshal of Dodge City,Kansas,who works to preserve law and order in the western frontier of the 1870s. The character was created by writer John Meston. The character evolved considerably during nine years on CBS Radio and twenty years on CBS Television.
John Thomas Lambert was an American character actor who specialized in playing movie tough guys and heavies. He is best known for playing the psychotic cat-loving,iron-hooked Steve "the Claw" Michel in Dick Tracy's Dilemma.
Royal Edward Dano Sr. was an American actor. In a career spanning 46 years,he was perhaps best known for playing cowboys,villains,and Abraham Lincoln. Dano also provided the voice of the Audio-Animatronic Lincoln for Walt Disney's Great Moments with Mr. Lincoln attraction at the 1964 World's Fair,as well as Lincoln's voice at the "Hall of Presidents" attraction at Disney's Magic Kingdom in 1971.
Harold J. Stone was an American stage,radio,film,and television character actor.
Andrew Duggan was an American character actor. His work includes 185 screen credits between 1949 and 1987 for roles in both film and television,as well a number more on stage.
Television Westerns are programs with settings in the later half of the 19th century in the American Old West,Western Canada and Mexico during the period from about 1860 to the end of the so-called "Indian Wars". More recent entries in the Western genre have used the neo-Western subgenre,placing events in the modern day,or the space Western subgenre but still draw inspiration from the outlaw attitudes prevalent in traditional Western productions.
Pierre Lynn de Lappe,also known as Peter Brown,was an American actor. He portrayed Deputy Johnny McKay opposite John Russell as Marshal Dan Troop in the 1958 to 1962 ABC-Warner Brothers western television series Lawman and Texas Ranger Chad Cooper on NBC's Laredo from 1965 to 1967.
Hec Ramsey is an American television series that aired on NBC from 1972 to 1974,starring Richard Boone. The series was created by Jack Webb's production company,Mark VII Limited in association with Universal's television productions. The series was first broadcast in the United States by NBC as part of the NBC Mystery Movie,a wheel series format.
Clyde Randy Boone is an American actor and singer best known for his role in the series The Virginian as Randy Benton,a young ranch hand who played guitar and sang.
Stuart Whitman,born Stuart Maxwell Whitman,was an American actor,known for his lengthy career in film and television. Whitman was born in San Francisco and raised in New York until his family relocated to Los Angeles. In 1948,Whitman was discharged from the Corps of Engineers in the U.S. Army and started to study acting. From 1951 to 1957,Whitman had a streak working in mostly bit parts in films,including When Worlds Collide (1951),The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951),Barbed Wire (1952),and The Man from the Alamo (1952). On television,Whitman guest-starred in series such as Dr. Christian,The Roy Rogers Show,and Death Valley Days,and also had a recurring role on Highway Patrol. Whitman's first lead role was in John H. Auer's Johnny Trouble (1957).
