John Russell
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- January 3, 1921
- Died
- January 19, 1991 (aged 70)
- Birthplace
- Los Angeles, California, USA
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. John Lawrence Russell was an American actor, and World War II veteran, most noted for playing Marshal Dan Troop in the successful ABC western television series Lawman from 1958 to 1962, and his lead role as international adventurer Tim Kelly in the syndicated TV series Soldiers of Fortune from 1955 to 1957. Russell signed a contract with 20th Century Fox in 1945 and made his first film appearance as a guard in A Royal Scandal. He played several supporting parts while at Fox, acting the role of a junior law partner in the Clifton Webb comedy Sitting Pretty, as well as a navy pilot in Slattery's Hurricane. Later, however, he signed with Republic Pictures where he was cast in a starring role. In 1955, Russell landed the lead role in a television drama series called Soldiers of Fortune. In 1958, Russell was cast in his best-known role: the stolid, taciturn Marshal Dan Troop, the lead character in Lawman, an ABC/Warners hit western series that ran for four years. Co-starring alongside Peter Brown, who played Deputy Johnny McKay, and Peggie Castle as Birdcage Saloon owner Lily Merrill, Russell portrayed a US frontier peace officer mentoring his younger compatriot. At the same time that Lawman premiered, Russell played an outlaw, along with Edd Byrnes and Rodolfo Hoyos Jr., in the 1958 season premiere episode of Sugarfoot, another ABC/WB hit western, with Will Hutchins in the title role. Russell also appeared in other motion pictures for Warner Bros., notably as a Sioux chieftain in Yellowstone Kelly, as well as a rich corrupt cattle-rancher, Nathan Burdette, in the highly successful Howard Hawks western Rio Bravo, starring John Wayne. Throughout the remainder of his movie career, he played secondary roles in more than 20 films, including several A.C. Lyles westerns and three films directed by his friend Clint Eastwood, most notably as Marshal Stockburn, the chief villain in Eastwood's 1985 film, Pale Rider. Russell also appeared in the second season of the Filmation children's science-fiction series Jason of Star Command. He played Commander Stone, a blue-skinned alien from Alpha Centauri. He replaced James Doohan, who had played the commander in the previous season, but left to start working on Star Trek: The Motion Picture Description above from the Wikipedia article John Russell (actor), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Filmography
American Nightmare
Movie · as Police Officer
Under the Gun
Movie · as Simon Stone
Your First Gun - A Family Guide To Shooting
Movie · as Grandpa
Pale Rider
Movie · as Stockburn
Honkytonk Man
Movie
Six Tickets to Hell
Movie
Simon & Simon
TV · as Oldtimer #2 - in Saloon · 1 ep
When the West Was Fun: A Western Reunion
Movie · as Self
Jason of Star Command
TV · as The Commander · 16 eps
Mission to Glory: A True Story
Movie · as Solis
The Outlaw Josey Wales
Movie · as Bloody Bill Anderson
Smoke In The Wind
Movie · as Cagle Mondier
Fugitive Lovers
Movie · as Harris Alexander
Police Story
TV · 1 ep
Emergency!
TV · as Sam Jeffers · 1 ep
Blood Legacy
Movie · as Frank Mantee
Alias Smith and Jones
TV · as Marshall · 3 eps
Cannon for Cordoba
Movie · as General Pershing
Noon Sunday
Movie · as Darmody
McCloud
TV · as Harry Hague · 1 ep
Buckskin
Movie · as Patch
If He Hollers, Let Him Go!
Movie · as Sheriff
Fireball Jungle
Movie · as Nero Solitarius
It Takes a Thief
TV · as William Dover, Peter Vale · 1 ep
Hostile Guns
Movie · as Aaron Pleasant
Fort Utah
Movie · as Eli Jonas
Apache Uprising
Movie · as Vance Buckner
Daniel Boone
TV · as Amos McAleer · 1 ep
Rio Bravo
Movie · as Nathan Burdette
Yellowstone Kelly
Movie · as Gall, Sioux Chief
Disneyland '59
Movie · as Self
Fort Massacre
Movie · as Travis
Lawman
TV · as Marshal Dan Troop · 156 eps
77 Sunset Strip
TV · as Mechanical Cowboy (voice) (uncredited) · 1 ep
Hell Bound
Movie · as Jordan
Untamed Youth
Movie · as Russ Tropp
The Dalton Girls
Movie · as W.T. "Illinois" Grey
Sugarfoot
TV · as Jeff Seward · 1 ep
Maverick
TV · as John Grimes, Edgar Maxwell, Marshal Dan Troop · 1 ep
The Last Command
Movie · as Lt. Dickinson
Cheyenne
TV · 2 eps
Gunsmoke
TV · as Carl Ryker · 1 ep
Soldiers of Fortune
TV · as Tim Kelly · 52 eps
Jubilee Trail
Movie · as Oliver Hale
Hell's Outpost
Movie · as Ben Hodes
Studio 57
TV · 1 ep
The Sun Shines Bright
Movie · as Ashby Corwin
Fair Wind to Java
Movie · as Flint
Hoodlum Empire
Movie · as Joe Gray
Oklahoma Annie
Movie · as Dan Fraser
Man in the Saddle
Movie · as Hugh Clagg
The Fat Man
Movie · as Gene Gordon
The Barefoot Mailman
Movie · as Theron
Fighting Coast Guard
Movie · as Barney Walker
Saddle Tramp
Movie · as Rocky
Frenchie
Movie · as Lance Cole
Slattery's Hurricane
Movie · as Lt. F.A. 'Hobbie' Hobson
The Gal Who Took the West
Movie · as Grant O'Hara
The Story of Molly X
Movie · as Cash Brady
Undertow
Movie · as Danny Morgan
Yellow Sky
Movie · as Lengthy
Sitting Pretty
Movie · as Bill Philby
Forever Amber
Movie · as Black Jack Mallard
Somewhere in the Night
Movie · as Marine Captain (uncredited)
The Dark Corner
Movie · as Policeman at Tony's Apartment (uncredited)
Within These Walls
Movie · as Rogers
A Bell for Adano
Movie · as Anderson (uncredited)
A Royal Scandal
Movie · as Guard (uncredited)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Movie · as Hopper Boy