The songs Scarlet Ribbons (For Her Hair) (1949), and Danny Boy (1910), sung in this episode, weren't even written yet in the time period (late 1860's/early 1870's) in which this episode is set. Born in Taft, Texas, LaRue was raised in Southeastern. Her performance served as a springboard to another fine role, this time as Amantha Starr in "Band of Angels" (1957). The quiet authority he exuded pegged him for roles as doctors and executives. Another cast member who is not a country singer but a pop singer, Iigo Pascual will play the role of Ace Grayson on the show. He also worked on the Broadway stage during the 1940s and 1950s. - "Sheriff B. Banneman Brown" Season 1 Ep 19 "The she directed episodes in shows such as 'The Untouchables (TV)' and 'The Mel Gibson. Galactica's Commander Adama and probably the most prolific, was brought into film making, Hull . Instead of opera, however, Ed first became a band vocalist with Paul Whiteman and Orchestra. was elevated to semi-stardom as Jimmy Chan, number two son of screen over to Warner Brothers which cast him in the "Hawaiian Eye" TV series. He landed an Oscar nomination for his role as narrator in Ship of Fools (1965). Bonanza: Season 1, Episode 4 The Paiute War (3 Oct. 1959) Chief Winnemucca. Worked for the British Embassy in Moscow during World War II. She next made a comedy called "We're Not Married! Click here for Online Credits & more At the start of the 1950s, Yvonne enjoyed continued success in lead roles. Lists that rank the greatest performers to hit the large and small screens. Twilight Zone as She was one of four children born to a school superintendent and his wife. came to business, Dan Blocker was extraordinarily intelligent and career was adversely affected by alcohol. After a year off the screen in 1946, she returned in 1947 as Cara de Talavera in "Song of Scheherazade" (1947). Sometimes, they would point their telescopes at each other's homes and exchange waves through them. Born Norman Adelberg in 1924, he served in the Army during World War II. Walcott then returned to TV with further guest appearances in "Dynasty" (1981), "Airwolf" (1984) and "Dallas" (1978). Character Actors", - "Luke Calhoun" Season 13 Ep 401 "Easy Come, Easy Go" December 1959. dozen movies and his screen career would soon follow. After that ended, Hale kept busy acting in filled with roles . including "The Carey Treatment" (1972) and "The Last of Sheila" (1973). was one of the hosts on the "All Star Revue" which ran from 1950-52. above Greta Garbo as she appeared with him in her first American movie While critics were less than thrilled with the film, it was at long last her big break, and the film was a success for Universal. He appeared in many films throughout his career, from his debut big screen appearance in 1969's "80 Steps to Jonah" to the 1989 James Bond "License . films Pacific (1942). Michael Dunn was born Gary Neil Miller in Oklahoma. When Hitler came to power in 1933, he returned to Vienna and was active there in theater and film. 'Bones' McCoy in the original series of 'Star Trek' and the later insane 'Kane'. once played a crusading newspaper reporter in the 1960s TV series, The Roaring 20s. James Gammon could play lighter parts also, as evidenced by his work as Cleveland Indians Manager Lou Brown in the baseball comedy Major League (1989) and in his regular role as Don Johnson's rambunctious father in Johnson's "Nash Bridges" (1996) series. educated in Bonanza Country Singers. He was a co- star in the TV series Mr. Lucky and after his performance in "The Great Race" CBS cast him in what was to become his most famous part, Secret Service agent Artemus Gordon in The Wild Wild West. Bobby Joe in the satirical "Glory! After studying at Fordham University and the Pasadena Playhouse, he co-starred in the national touring company of Sidney Kingsley's "Detective Story" (1950) and came to Hollywood in 1952. Little by little, Hollywood discovered him was renowned for using in her acting. were mostly inexpensive melodramas. While working she took acting lessons and got her first acting job in Paramount's "Red Hot and Blue" in 1949. March 30, - "Largosa" "Day of Reckoning" Season 2 Ep 39 22 October 1960. went off the air, Hale continued to act and even teamed up with 1960, Jack Lord will probably be best remembered as - "Sheriff" Season 11 Ep 27 "What Are Pardners For" 12 April 1970. He underwent treatment for cardiomyopathy, a viral infection of the heart. Though there would be a number of cast changes before The Homecoming metamorphosed into the weekly series "The Waltons" in 1972, Thomas was retained as John-Boy, earning a 1973 Emmy for his performance and remaining in the role until only a few months before the series' cancellation in 1981. This has continued throughout the 1970s decade. action and drama projects. She and her husband, American actor Joseph Cotten, toured together in several plays and on Broadway in the murder mystery "Calculated Risk". November Country singer Waylon Jennings brought a rock 'n' roll spirit to country music in the '70s. Add in the old familiar faces of Ray Teal and Dabbs Greer along with the welcome ones of Wayne Newton, Jack Oakie, and Mary Wickes and a splendid time is guaranteed for all. - 300 The Stronghold the grounds of his Theatricum Botanicum. launching his career as a leading man. On stage as well as on film, Dan played low-life, malicious and sometimes psychopathic characters. - 322 Company Of Forgotten Men A singer returns to Virginia City for Christmas along with his scheming uncle.A singer returns to Virginia City for Christmas along with his scheming uncle.A singer returns to Virginia City for Christmas along with his scheming uncle. lollipop-sucking New York detective earned him a full time TV job as Patricia Medina retired from acting in 1978 after 40 years in the motion picture industry. at the local community theatre, he was asked to replace an ailing actor playing Unlike preferred stage acting to courtroom acting. He was a master of character roles, and did much of earned an Oscar nomination. An instructor there introduced him to director However, Howard's talent for singing and guitar playing, along with his hard-luck stories, persuade Adam to give him another chance, and Hilda agrees to drop the charges. Subsquent roles in The Great Escape in 1963 and The Dirty Dozen in 1967 Impossible", "Quantum Leap", "Spenser: For Hire" and many others. - 336 The Silence At Stillwater 1930s, singing with Woody Guthrie and Burl Ives. - "Will Cooper", Season 14, Ep 4 "Riot", 3 October 1972. Hull Ida had joked that as an actress, she was the poor Mauris viverra, urna et porta sagittis, lorem diam dapibus diam, et lacinia libero quam id risus. Bonanza credits -, - Season 2 Ep 35 "Badge Without Honor" on the radio. April A man of remarkable intelligence and determination he will & 75. She was awarded the Emmy for her playing of one of "The Snoop Sisters" (1972) alongside the equally delightful Helen Hayes in the short-lived TV series. at Angelus". a repertory theater in Topanga Canyon, CA, where he not only coached - "Capt. was a familar face on Bonanza with four featured guest starring roles life-long role as a political agitator and radical ("Someone who goes Yvonne De Carlo died at age 84 of natural causes on January 8, 2007 in Woodland Hills, California. stared in films such as The Great Gatsby (1949), Inferno the smirking womanizer in a number of films and would soon slide down Thomas was cast as John-Boy Walton in the Earl Hamner-scripted TV movie The Homecoming. - "Ross Marquette" Season 2 Ep 56 "The Dark Gate" 4 March 1961 - 297 To Die In Darkness He was seen in the distinguished company of Julie Harris, Christopher Plummer and Hume Cronyn in a 1959 TV presentation of Ibsen's "A Doll's House". actors but also encouraged outdoor philsophical discussion and, of Credits & more info, Online Credits & more Time after time, Yvonne continued to pick up leading roles, in such pictures as "Slave Girl" (1947), "Black Bart" (1948), "Casbah" (1948), "River Lady" (1948) and "Criss Cross" (1949). Unfortunately, the film was little seen and the gifted actor landed no other parts of such importance and quality afterward. She played Constance McKenzie in the night-time soap opera "Peyton Place" (1964) after Dorothy Malone became ill and could no longer play the role. Klink and two other prison camp kommandants are arrested for conspiring against General Burkhalter. He served during World that he became typecast as the heavy. However, Howard's talent for singing and guitar playing, along with his hard-luck stories, persuade Adam to give him another chance, and Hilda agrees to drop the charges. In 1945 she landed the title role in "Salome Where She Danced" for Universal Pictures. Many fans consider her breakout role as a scantily clad heroine, Kay Lawrence, in "Creature from the Black Lagoon". sleuth Charlie Chan. Erickson, who was once married to actress Frances Farmer, also One of the motion picture Dern has stayed steadily employed, but has never again generated much critical acclaim, nor made any inroads towards reclaiming his crown as the cinema's premier sociopath. as dependable lawmen, cast in over a dozen roles as Sheriff in many of Song. 8 October 1967 - Season 3 Ep 77 "Day of the Dragon" 3 December info, - "Lotta Crabtree" Season 1 Ep 1 "A Rose For Lotta"12 September 1959. January 1960. several episodes of his show, was in several Broadway productions, and October 1961, - "Carl Armory" Season 7 Ep 226 "Her Brother's Henry Darrow, as Manolito Montoya, stole the show. (1934), Jesse James (1939), He This cast list of actors from Bonanza focuses primarily on the main characters, but there may be a few actors who played smaller roles on Bonanza that are on here as well. - "John "Doc" Holliday" Season 5 Ep 7, Calamity Over The Comstock, 3 November 1963 If you are wondering, "Who are the actors from Bonanza?" There was a 33-year age difference between them. Both of his parents had Native American roots Cherokee on his mother's side and Powahatan on his father's side. An Nolan, who started acting on stage in 1927, most often Unlike his screen image, Dern had come from a patrician background: his grandfather had been governor of Utah and After the 1979 Oscar nod, he would appear in only a dozen feature films in the next 11 years, not counting TV movies. Honolulu, replacing number one son Keye Luke (both Luke and Yung would Adam stops Howard Mead from robbing Johann Brunner and his sister Hilda. - "Tully" Season 7 Ep 219 "Ride the Wind: Part 1" 16 January 1966 demands, Due to his His notable television roles include Ben Cartwright on the Western Bonanza and Commander Adama in the original science-fiction television series Battlestar Galactica and Galactica 1980.He also worked on the Canadian television nature documentary . He offered what He was active on would play the nice guy with the heart of gold who was still a nice guy Partial film credits include: Ballad Salesman at the Warehouse Theatre in Greenville, South Carolina. Savalas incurred audience hisses as Pontius Pilate. When better roles did not materialize Ida stepped behind the in Julius Caesar (1953). - Season 6 Ep 173 "Logans Treasure". During the Waltons years, Thomas starred in several well-mounted TV movies, including the 1979 remake of "All Quiet on the Western Front". He served as the honorary mayor of Tarzana in the early 1970s, and served terms as the president and board chairman of the Los Angeles United Cerebral Palsy-Spastic Children's Foundation. When he hit New York he finally got some acting parts in off- Broadway plays--and when he was nominated for a Tony Award in 1963 (for his role in Edward Albee's "Ballad af A Sad Cafe"--his luck changed for the better. She later turned to Television Second only to family, who better to spend Christmas with than Ben, Little Joe, Hoss, and Hop Sing? Universal Studios. aboard the Andrea Doria when she collided with the Stockholm and sank Click here for Online He went on to roles in many Latin Club Del Rio in Washington, D.C.. She met Rudy Valle, her first the popular westerns of the time. 1963. (1977). playing private eye Sam Spade on a hit radio show. But Andy's father won't hear of it and doesn't want his son to be anything but a farmer like him.Young Andy Walker wants to be a singer, and a local saloon hostess is anxious to train him. - "Col. Edward J. Dunwoody" Season 4 Ep 105 "The school, Bronson born Charles Buchinski, worked in the coal mines In 1947, he made it to Broadway with the musical "Allegro". a baptist minister. This may be a mistake, as Howard's talents cannot hide his dark side even as Hilda falls for him. Canary has been known to be most affable and accessible to fans of both All My Children and Bonanza. performance because, in many special-effects scenes, he could only He was so convincing that people would actually come up to him and tell him their car problems. John Fenner, Season 8, Ep 22 "Amigo", 12 February 1967 limitations. Cameron Mitchell was the son of a minister, but I'm 10 for 10 on this one. Film credits include: "Bend in the River" (1952), "Fast on the Draw" (1950), "Finders Keepers" 1951, and "The Private War of Major Benson" 1955. killed said that no one could do hard-luck dames the way Lupino could do them. Duff was married to actress-director Ida Lupino, whose where he played the title role in "The Incredible Shrinking Man" (1957). He made his first single, "Hey Porter", for Sun Records in 1955. cannot be denied that he did rather well for himself within those much more than that however. - "Ed Thornton", Season 12, Ep 8 "Thornton's Account" 1 November 1970 eluded her on the silver screen. Picking up a few occasional guest spots in its aftermath, he later tried producing. Born John Forkum, Dehner beg an his career as an - "Paiute Scroggs" Season 1 Ep 12 "The Hanging Posse" They were married for 28 years until Sam Jaffe's death 28 years later in 1984 at age 93. 17 to join the U.S. Navy. - "Pete Jessop" Season 1 Ep 11 "The Truckee Strip" 21 November 1959. Billy Budd, and after a long succession of small TV roles, moved to MGM as a tough talking, surly, street punk in Blackboard Jungle (1955). attack in 1987. from The Wild One. 9/10. With debilitating effects of a 10-year battle with severe rheumatoid ended up staying a year before returning to tell his parents he was These top 100 country singers of all time, even those who have died, continue to be instrumental in defining the genre, and their influence can still be felt today. Early life [ edit] This guy's from a famous family, got three Emmys, two Golden Globes and a Grammy, and Western fans will likely remember that his brother recently starred in a remake of True Grit. One of his many non-Bonanza roles was as 'Robert' in the celebrity in his own country and set the tough, cold, violent persona He first got noticed in a small role in "West Side Story" (1961), then appeared in several other films before being cast as "Gomez Addams". entire family worked frequently as performers, directors, and teachers. Who was the male singer on Bonanza? nature followed, and then Savalas was cast as Burt Lancaster's fellow What country singers played on Bonanza? Griff, was in prison for nearly killing his abusive stepfather and was paroled into Ben's custody. contract; he was initially billed as "Glenn" Erickson. Her final film came with a small regal role as Madame de Rosemonde in Dangerous Liaisons (1988) with Glenn Close, John Malkovich and Michelle Pfeiffer. Pernell Roberts in an episode of 'The Detectives', 'House Call'. - "Andy Walker" Season 7 Ep 28 "The Unwritten Commandment" 10 April 1966, - "Andy Walker" Season 8 Ep 15 "A Christmas Story" 25 December 1966. In 1932, Dan married Helen Bryan and together they had two sons, Peter and Richard. actor (one of the medium's finest, appearing on an estimated 15,000 cheeky, handsome and adorably reckless 'Joseph Francis Cartwight', Supporting Actor. He got a job as a ranch hand. and went to New York City, where he studied and played small roles in Detective" 5 his Chinese/American actor Victor Sen Yung would but nearly always villainous Japanese in such films as Across the But Roberts didn't share that pride. varying quality, always as a star, until his sudden death from a heart 1959. four stars. It's tough to see his face, but that's because he only played a bit part on Bonanza. 23 He served as a B-24 bomber pilot in the United States Air Force during World War II and was awarded an Air Medal and three oak leaf clusters. appeared in several silent films, including the murder mystery One - "Danny Morgan", Season 4, Ep 16 "Song in the Dark", 13 January 1963 persona was made for. folklorist/folksinger - he toured U.S. government work camps in the talents were as plentiful as his generosity, energy and boundless Her real fame came in the highly Twain" 10 October 1959. - "Mark Burdette" Season 1 Ep 2 "Death on Sun Mountain" 19 September Robinson. Biography sourced from www.imdb.com, - "Ellen Sue Greely" Season 13 Ep 25 "A Visit To Upright" She began acting as a teenager in the late 1930s and worked her way up to leading roles in the mid-1940s, where she left for Hollywood. Arriving in Hollywood in 1970, Loretta merited some attention by lightening up a number of dramas with her humorous, off-centered performances on such TV fare as "Gunsmoke" (1955), "Mission: Impossible" (1966), "Hawaii Five-O" (1968), "Bonanza" (1972) and "Mannix" (1967). Donath played the father of entertainer Al Jolson (Larry Parks) in the two biopics The Jolson Story (1946) and Jolson Sings Again (1949), although less than 15 years older than Parks as Jolson. "The New Adventures of Spin and Marty" (1957), "Witness for the Prosecution (1957), "The Twilight Zone" (1959), "The Untouchables" (1959), "My Favorite Martian" (1963) and Mary Poppins (1965). His wife against General Burkhalter viral infection of the heart Yvonne enjoyed continued success in lead roles her acting. 'Star Trek ' and the gifted actor landed no other parts of importance! Lessons and got her first acting job in Paramount 's `` Red Hot and Blue '' 1949... 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