Don Dubbins
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- June 28, 1928
- Died
- August 17, 1991 (aged 63)
- Birthplace
- Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Biography
Don Dubbins (June 28, 1928 - August 17, 1991), originally Donald Dubbins, was an American actor of film and television who in his early career usually played younger military roles, particularly in such classic pictures as From Here to Eternity (1953) and The Caine Mutiny (1954). Screen giant James Cagney took a liking to Dubbins and procured roles for him in two 1956 films, These Wilder Years and Tribute to a Bad Man. In the former, Dubbins played Cagney's long-lost adopted son; in the latter, he was in a romantic triangle with cattle boss Cagney for the affections of a senorita. In 1957, Dubbins played a callow young United States Marines private in Jack Webb's The D.I. In 1958, Dubbins was cast in From the Earth to the Moon, a science fiction picture based on Jules Verne's novel of the same title. As Dubbins matured, he appeared in such films as The Prize in 1963, The Illustrated Man (based on a Ray Bradbury novel) in 1969, and Death Wish II in 1982. Dubbins appeared in many television roles, including four episodes each of CBS's Gunsmoke, Perry Mason and Rawhide in Season 1/14 Incident of the Dog Days. In 1960, Dubbins appeared in the episode "Elegy" of CBS's The Twilight Zone. That same year he guest starred with Mel Torme in NBC's crime drama Dan Raven starring Skip Homeier. In 1961, he played a deputy who inadvertently killed his outlaw-brother in an episode of Stagecoach West, a Four Star Television series on ABC. He later appeared on the CBS anthology The Lloyd Bridges Show, and with Walter Brennan in ABC's The Guns of Will Sonnett. He appeared in the 1965 pilot episode of I Dream of Jeannie, and returned for one of the series' final episodes (as a different character) in 1970. In 1966, Dubbins appeared with Robert F. Simon as guest stars in the episode "Long Journey to Leavenworth" in the NBC series The Road West, starring Barry Sullivan, Andrew Prine, and Glenn Corbett. Dubbins appeared twice on NBC's Little House on the Prairie with Michael Landon and five times on CBS's Barnaby Jones crime drama with Buddy Ebsen. Dubbins appeared in several episodes of Jack Webb's Dragnet 1967 series on NBC. Dubbins played the part of Billy Carter in "The Incident of the Dog Days" on Rawhide. Dubbins' last TV roles were in episodes of CBS's Knots Landing (1979), ABC's Dynasty (1981), and NBC's Highway to Heaven (1984). The Brooklyn-born Dubbins retired to Greenville, South Carolina, where his last acting was at the Warehouse Theater as Willy Loman in Death of a Salesman. He succumbed to cancer at the age of sixty-three. Description above from the Wikipedia article Don Dubbins, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Filmography
Separate but Equal
Movie · as Professor Al Kelly
Separate but Equal
TV · as Professor Al Kelly · 2 eps
The Fix
Movie · as Sheriff Bower
Highway to Heaven
TV · as Don Weston · 1 ep
Hunter
TV · as John · 1 ep
Murder, She Wrote
TV · as Dr. Charmichael · 1 ep
Death Wish II
Movie · as Mike
Hotel
TV · as Jim Mitchell · 1 ep
Dynasty
TV · 2 eps
Simon & Simon
TV · as Philip Bloom · 1 ep
Knots Landing
TV · as Doctor · 1 ep
Fantasy Island
TV · as Dr. Sidney Block · 1 ep
The Incredible Hulk
TV · as Sgt. Murkland · 1 ep
Nightmare at 43 Hillcrest
Movie · as Sanford Bates
Movin' On
TV · 1 ep
Little House on the Prairie
TV · as Jim Bowers · 2 eps
Run, Joe, Run
TV · 1 ep
The Manhunter
TV · 1 ep
Petrocelli
TV · as Joseph Bear · 1 ep
The Six Million Dollar Man
TV · as Zack Meesham · 1 ep
Outrage!
Movie · as Mr. Werner
Barnaby Jones
TV · as John Riley, Sheriff Mason, Frank Auburn · 1 ep
The Hoax
Movie · as Sergeant O'Roherty
The Rookies
TV · 1 ep
Kung Fu
TV · as Meador · 1 ep
Search
TV · 1 ep
Cannon
TV · 1 ep
Run, Simon, Run
Movie · as Freddie Tomb
Dan August
TV · as Arnold Cane · 1 ep
The Illustrated Man
Movie · as Pickard
The Learning Tree
Movie · as Harley Davis, Defense Attorney
Then Came Bronson
TV · as Al · 1 ep
Adam-12
TV · as Officer Tyson · 1 ep
The Mod Squad
TV · as Leonard Gault, Teddy Capp · 1 ep
Gunfight in Abilene
Movie · as Rod Sprague
Mannix
TV · 1 ep
The Guns of Will Sonnett
TV · 1 ep
Dragnet
TV · as Steve Deal, Billy Catcher, Donald L. Chapman · 1 ep
The Invaders
TV · as Wesley J. Sanders · 1 ep
The F.B.I.
TV · as Joel Polk, McKinney, Al, the Gas Station Owner · 1 ep
I Dream of Jeannie
TV · as Pete Conway, Jay Russell · 1 ep
The Big Valley
TV · as Grady Shanks · 1 ep
The Prize
Movie · as Ivar Cramer, Light Henchman
The Great Adventure
TV · as Jason Chiles · 1 ep
Kraft Suspense Theatre
TV · as Corporal Shale · 1 ep
Petticoat Junction
TV · as Smokey Harner · 1 ep
The Fugitive
TV · as McCaffrey, Horton · 1 ep
The Virginian
TV · as Albi · 1 ep
General Electric True
TV · 1 ep
Route 66
TV · 1 ep
Hawaiian Eye
TV · 1 ep
The Twilight Zone
TV · as Peter Kirby · 1 ep
One Step Beyond
TV · as First Mate Walter Blake · 1 ep
Men Into Space
TV · 1 ep
Adventures in Paradise
TV · as Big Ed Brody · 1 ep
The Alaskans
TV · 1 ep
Law of the Plainsman
TV · as Mite Rankin · 1 ep
Wichita Town
TV · 1 ep
Johnny Ringo
TV · as Harley Crale · 1 ep
Bonanza
TV · as Todd McCarren · 1 ep
From the Earth to the Moon
Movie · as Ben Sharpe
Enchanted Island
Movie · as Tom
77 Sunset Strip
TV · 1 ep
Wanted: Dead or Alive
TV · as Randy Holleran · 1 ep
The Rifleman
TV · 1 ep
Shirley Temple's Storybook
TV · as Prince Peter · 1 ep
The D.I.
Movie · as Pvt. Owens
Perry Mason
TV · as Hartley Elliott, Deputy D.A. Vincent, Kenneth Dalgran, Ned Bertell, Burt Blair, Deputy D.A. Bill Vincent · 1 ep
M Squad
TV · as Stick Wilson · 1 ep
Sugarfoot
TV · as Vic Bradley, Sid Garnin · 1 ep
These Wilder Years
Movie · as Mark
Tribute to a Bad Man
Movie · as Steve Miller
Gunsmoke
TV · as Lootie, Potts, Orkey, Wendt · 1 ep
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
TV · as Philip Pryor · 1 ep
The Caine Mutiny
Movie · as Seaman 1st Class Urban (uncredited)
Climax!
TV · as Chris Barker · 1 ep
From Here to Eternity
Movie · as Pvt. Friday Clark - Bugler (uncredited), Pvt. Friday Clark (uncredited)
Robert Montgomery Presents
TV · as Luke · 1 ep
Kraft Television Theatre
TV · 1 ep