- Ben Murphy
Benjamin E. Murphy (born March 6, 1942 in Jonesboro, Arkansas) is an American actor. He is best known for his role in the television series "Alias Smith and Jones", co-starring first with Pete Duel and later with Roger Davis. He also appeared in a supporting role in "The Name of the Game", a series featuring a rotating leading cast including Tony Franciosa, Gene Barry, and Robert Stack. - Pete Duel
Pete Duel was an American actor, best known for his role in the television series, "Alias Smith and Jones". - Roger Davis
Roger Davis (born 5 April, 1939) is an American actor, best known for his roles in "Dark Shadows. Davis was born in Bowling Green, Kentucky, and first appeared on television in 1962. He first gained attention playing multiple characters on the daytime gothic soap TV series "Dark Shadows". In 1971, Davis narrated the title sequence voice-over for the comedy western TV series "Alias Smith and Jones, … - Glen A. Larson
Glen A. Larson (born 1937) is a television writer and producer with many of his creations becoming cult hits, with some of them remaining in syndication or have been revived. He is sometimes compared to Gene Roddenberry by fans of genre television. - Roy Huggins
Roy Huggins (July 18, 1914 - April 3, 2002) was a novelist and an influential writer and producer of humorous, character-driven US television series. Shows he was involved in typically featured misfits and rascals rather than conventional heroes. Huggins' novels include "The Double Take" (1946), "Too Late For Tears" (1947) and "Lovely Lady, Pity Me" (1949). He is best known as the creator of long-running shows such as "Maverick", … - Earl Holliman
Earl Holliman (born Anthony Earl Numkena on September 11, 1928, in Delhi, Louisiana) is an American film and television actor. He first appeared in film in 1953 and three years later won the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor - Motion Picture for his performance in the 1956 film, "The Rainmaker". Amongst his other notable film appearances were in "Giant", "Gunfight at the O.K. Corral", "Forbidden Planet", … - James Drury
James Child Drury (born 18 April, 1934) is an American actor who played the title role in the 90 minute long weekly television series "The Virginian" from 1962 to 1971. Drury was born in New York, New York; his father was a New York University professor of marketing. After a series of bit parts and playing second-lead for Disney, Drury landed the top-billed leading role of a ranch hand on "The Virginian", … - Cesar Romero
Cesar Julio Romero, Jr. (February 15, 1907 - January 1, 1994) was a Cuban-American film and television actor, known for his portrayal of the Joker in the television series Batman. - J. D. Cannon
J.D. Cannon (born April 24, 1922 in Salmon, Idaho; died May 20 2005 in Hudson, New York), was an American actor. Also known as John Donovan Cannon, he attended the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and is probably best known for his costarring role of Chief Clifford in the television series "McCloud", and for his role in "Cool Hand Luke". Cannon also played General Hampton on "Call to Glory" (1984). - Dennis Fimple
Dennis Fimple (born November 11, 1940, in Taft, California; died August 23, 2002, in Frazier Park, California) was an American character actor. Throughout his career, he made guest appearances in a variety of TV shows, including "Here Come the Brides", "Petticoat Junction", "M*A*S*H", "Simon & Simon", "Sledge Hammer!", "Quantum Leap", and "ER". He also had small roles in feature films such as "King Kong" (1976), … - Bill McKinney
Bill McKinney (born September 12, 1931 in Chattanooga, Tennessee) is an American character actor whose most famous role was Don Job, the mountain man who abused and then sodomized Bobby Trippe (Ned Beatty) in the movie "Deliverance". He had an unsettled life as a child, moving twelve times. Once when his family moved from Tennessee to Georgia, he was beaten by a gang and thrown into a creek. At the age of 19, he joined the Navy during the Korean War. - Gene Levitt
Eugene Levitt (May 28 1920, New York City - November 15 1999, Los Angeles) was an American television writer, producer and director. Levitt's parents were Charles and Teresa Levitt. He had an older sister, Betty Ruth. His mother died when Gene was about 12 years old. His father subsequently married Ida. Gene's first great adventure was traveling to the West to attend the University of Wyoming. - Geoffrey Lewis
Geoffrey Lewis (born July 31, 1935 in San Diego, California) is an American character actor who has been popular since the early 1970s, often featured in offbeat roles. He is also a member of the musical group Celestial Navigations, with Geoff Levin, known for their storytelling abilities, producing eloquent, unforgettable narratives accompanied by haunting, stirring music. Lewis is the father of ten children, including actress Juliette Lewis. - Jeffrey Hayden
Jeffrey Hayden (born in New York City, New York, 1926) is an American television director and producer. His career as a director began in the late 1950s, when he directed the only feature film to his credit, "The Vintage" (1957), starring Pier Angeli and Mel Ferrer. He then turned to television, beginning with episodes of "Leave It to Beaver" and "77 Sunset Strip". Hayden went on to direct a wide variety of shows throughout the 1960s, '70s, and '80s, … - Jack Arnold
Jack Arnold (October 14 1916 - March 17, 1992) was an American television and film director. He was born in New Haven, Connecticut. He directed a number of movies starting in 1950. The best known of these, the science fiction films "It Came from Outer Space", "Tarantula", "Creature from the Black Lagoon" and "The Incredible Shrinking Man", are noted for their atmospheric black-and-white cinematography and unusually sophisticated scripts. - Sam Jaffe
Sam Jaffe (March 8, 1891 - March 24, 1984) was an American actor, teacher and engineer. In 1951, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in "The Asphalt Jungle" (1950) and appeared in other classic films such as "Ben-Hur" (1959) and "The Day the Earth Stood Still" (1951). He may be best remembered for the playing the title role in "Gunga Din" (1939), … - Peter Breck
Peter Breck (b. March 13 1929, Haverhill, Massachusetts) is an American actor who has played roles on television and in movies. One early role was as Doc Holliday on the TV series "Maverick", a part that had been played twice earlier in the series by Gerald Mohr. Prior to that, he had guest-starring roles on a number of popular series, such as "Sea Hunt", several episodes of "Zane Grey Theatre", "Wagon Train", "Have Gun, Will Travel", … - Alexander Singer
Alexander Singer (born 1932, in New York City, New York) is an American director. He began his career behind the camera in 1951 as a cinematographer on the short documentary "Day of the Fight", directed by his high school friend, Stanley Kubrick. Singer himself turned to directing a decade later with the film, "A Cold Wind in August". Although he would direct other feature films, such as the Lee Van Cleef western, "Captain Apache" (1971), … - Jo Swerling
Jo Swerling (April 8, 1897 - October 23, 1964) was an American theatre writer and lyricist and a screenwriter. Born in Bardichov, Russia, Swerling was a refugee of the Czarist regime who grew up on New York City's lower East Side, where he sold newspapers to help support his family. He worked as a newspaper and magazine writer in the early 1920s, then launched a playwriting career, including "Street Cinderella," an early comedy for the Marx Brothers. - Geoffrey Deuel
Geoffrey Jacob Deuel (born January 17, 1943) is an American actor. Deuel is best-known for playing Billy the Kid in the movie "Chisum" (1970). He has been in several movie and television productions through the years including "The Mod Squad", "Ironside", and "The Name of the Game". He was the brother of Pete Duel, who starred in "Love on a Rooftop" and "Alias Smith and Jones". - Monte Markham
Monte Markham (born June 21, 1935) is an American actor. Born in Manatee County, Florida, Markham made his Broadway debut in 1973 in "Irene", for which he won the Theatre World Award. He also appeared on stage in "Same Time, Next Year". Markham's many television credits include "Mission: Impossible", "The Mod Squad", "The Virginian", "Hogan's Heroes", "The High Chaparral", "The Mary Tyler Moore Show", … - Nico Minardos
Nico Minardos (born February 15, 1930 in Athens, Greece), is an American actor. He made his first appearance in front of the Hollywood cameras as an extra in the 1952 film "Monkey Business", starring Cary Grant, Ginger Rogers, and Marilyn Monroe. Also listed among his film credits are "Twelve Hours to Kill", in which he starred opposite Barbara Eden; "It Happened in Athens", starring blonde bombshell Jayne Mansfield; and "Cannon for Cordoba", … - Liam Dunn
Liam Dunn (November 12, 1916 - April 11, 1976) was an American character actor. The New Jersey native's early career was spent toiling in television in series such as "Bonanza", "Room 222", "Alias Smith and Jones", "Mannix", and "Gunsmoke". Dunn's breakout role was as the judge (and Barbra Streisand's father) in the 1972 film "What's Up, Doc?", in which he was noticed by Mel Brooks, … - Hal Mooney
Hal Mooney was an American composer and arranger, born Harold Mooney (under which name he was occasionally credited professionally) on 4 February 1911, in Brooklyn, New York. He died on 23 March 1995, in Los Angeles, California. - Ned Austin
Ned Payne Austin (29 April, 1925- 10 February, 2007) was a character actor and a member of the Screen Actors Guild and AFTRA. Austin was in several films, including Annie Hall and The Happy Ending, and some regional movies and industrial films, and he played the bridgemaster in Stephen King's directorial debut, "Maximum Overdrive", where he introduced the phrase, "Can't you see we've got a situation here?!". After two seasons of summer stock in Surrey, Maine, … - Richard L. van Enger
Editor Richard van Enger (1914 - 1984) made his debut as an assistant on "Gone with the Wind" in 1939. Up until his retirement in 1976, he worked on a myriad of projects - mainly B movies - before moving to television in the 50s where he worked on such shows as "Bonanza", "The High Chaparral" and "Alias Smith and Jones". He received an Academy Award nomination for his work on the John Wayne flagwaver "Sands of Iwo Jima" in 1949. - John Francis O'Hara
Children from first marriage: Katherine Crawford and Bret children from second marriage: John, Thomas and James. His writing pseudonym, John Thomas James, is a composite of the names of his three sons with second wife Adele Mara. He graduated summa cum laude from UCLA. He wrote about 350 scripts for television and film. Brother-in-law of Luis Delgado. The short stories and one novel that Huggins published in the 1940s provided the source material for three of the television series he... - Glen A Larson
Glen A. Larson is the man behind some of the world's best known primetime shows. His highly succesful productions (successful both financially and popularly, less often critically!) include "Knight Rider" (1982), "The Fall Guy" (1981), "Battlestar Galactica" (1978)and "Buck Rogers in the 25th Century" (1979). The hallmark of Larson's style is family entertainment. Always humorous with the tongue firmly in cheek, his shows are textbook examples of the genre... - William Leon Goldenberg
Composer, conductor, arranger, pianist and songwriter, the son of Morris Goldenberg. Educated at Columbia College (BA), where he composed and arranged the Columbia Varsity Shows, and also Camp Tamiment. He took private music studies with Hall Overton. He wrote incidental music for the Broadway revue "An Evening With Mike Nichols & Elaine May", and arranged dance music for "Greenwillow", "110 in the Shade", and "High Spirits". His chief musical collaborator was songwriter (and author)... - Jo Jr
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He replaced Pete Duel as Hannibal Heyes on the TV series "Alias Smith and Jones" (1971) following Duel's suicide in December 1971. George Peppard was also in the running for the part of Hannibal Heyes. In July 2006, he and his Alias Smith and Jones co-star, Ben Murphy, were guests at the Western Film Fair in Charlotte, North Carolina along with Marjorie Lord, Mark Goddard, Steve Kanaly, Ronnie Schell, Coleen Gray, Russ Tamblyn, Tom Reese and Cheryl Rogers. - Ben Murphy
Born in Arkansas but raised in Memphis and Chicago. Attended eight different colleges, including the University of Illinois to the University of the Americas in Mexico. Apprenticed at the Pasadena Playhouse for a time. Starred with the late Pete Duel in Alias Smith and Jones (1971) (TV) and "Alias Smith and Jones" (1971), an ABC western series derived from the movie Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969). Rumor has it that Murphy ended up a frontrunner for the series because... - William H Cronjager
He is the son of Henry Cronjager, Jr. He is the great-nephew of Jules Cronjager. He is the grandson of Henry Cronjager. He is the nephew of Edward Cronjager. - Ralph Story
He is well known in the Los Angeles area as a local TV personality for at least the last fifty years. He was host of the very popular "Ralph Story's Los Angeles" a local program on KNXT, the Los Angeles CBS station (now KCBS-TV) from 1963 until the late 1970s. He also hosted (preceding Regis Philbin) the morning program "A.M. Los Angeles" on KABC-TV for several years during the 1970s and 80s. The Father of Bradley Snyder - Robert E Smith
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