Birth Place: on 1921-04-10
Known For: Acting
TOP FIVE ROLES YOU MAY HAVE MISSED
Country Boy
Singer Link Byrd, Jr. wants to join the Grand Ole Opry, and hooks up with a slippery-slick agent named “Fats” Jackson. Jackson makes him a star but ruins his reputation along the way.
Release Date: 1966-01-01
Role:
Hoosiers
High school basketball is king in small-town Indiana, and the 1954 Hickory Huskers are all hope and no talent. But their new coach — abrasive, unlikable Norman Dale — whips the team into shape … while also inciting controversy.
Release Date: 1986-11-14
Role: Cletus
Texas Bad Man
Wayne Morris’ B-western series was the last of its kind to be produced in Hollywood. Texas Bad Man casts Morris as a sheriff who happens to be the son of inveterate thief Frank Ferguson. Knowing full well that Ferguson’s gang intends to steal a shipment of gold, Morris must stay up nights trying to second-guess his crafty dad. While there’s no shortage of action, the resolution to the story relies more on brawn than brain. Western “regulars” Sheb Wooley, Myron Healey and Denver Pyle do their usual in secondary roles, as does Elaine Riley as the requisite (but hardly crucial) heroine.
Release Date: 1953-12-20
Role: Mack
Hootenanny Hoot
The marriage of television director Ted Glover and television producer A.G. Bannister has gone on the rocks because she has permitted her career to take precedence over romance.
Release Date: 1963-08-01
Role: Himself
Cattle Town
Director Noel M. Smith’s 1952 western stars Dennis Morgan, Philip Carey, Amanda Blake and Rita Moreno.
Release Date: 1952-09-06
Role: Miller
