John Russell
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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
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Fotos
Películas (55)
American Nightmare
2002 · Police Officer
Under the Gun
1988 · Simon Stone
Your First Gun - A Family Guide To Shooting
1987 · Grandpa
Pale Rider
1985 · Stockburn
Honkytonk Man
1982
Six Tickets to Hell
1981
When the West Was Fun: A Western Reunion
1979 · Self
Mission to Glory: A True Story
1977 · Solis
The Outlaw Josey Wales
1976 · Bloody Bill Anderson
Fugitive Lovers
1975 · Harris Alexander
Smoke In The Wind
1975 · Cagle Mondier
Blood Legacy
1971 · Frank Mantee
Cannon for Cordoba
1970 · General Pershing
Noon Sunday
1970 · Darmody
If He Hollers, Let Him Go!
1968 · Sheriff
Fireball Jungle
1968 · Nero Solitarius
Buckskin
1968 · Patch
Fort Utah
1967 · Eli Jonas
Hostile Guns
1967 · Aaron Pleasant
Apache Uprising
1965 · Vance Buckner
Yellowstone Kelly
1959 · Gall, Sioux Chief
Disneyland '59
1959 · Self
Rio Bravo
1959 · Nathan Burdette
Fort Massacre
1958 · Travis
The Dalton Girls
1957 · W.T. "Illinois" Grey
Hell Bound
1957 · Jordan
Untamed Youth
1957 · Russ Tropp
The Last Command
1955 · Lt. Dickinson
Hell's Outpost
1954 · Ben Hodes
Jubilee Trail
1954 · Oliver Hale
The Sun Shines Bright
1953 · Ashby Corwin
Fair Wind to Java
1953 · Flint
Hoodlum Empire
1952 · Joe Gray
Oklahoma Annie
1952 · Dan Fraser
The Barefoot Mailman
1951 · Theron
Man in the Saddle
1951 · Hugh Clagg
Fighting Coast Guard
1951 · Barney Walker
The Fat Man
1951 · Gene Gordon
Frenchie
1950 · Lance Cole
Saddle Tramp
1950 · Rocky
Undertow
1949 · Danny Morgan
The Story of Molly X
1949 · Cash Brady
The Gal Who Took the West
1949 · Grant O'Hara
Slattery's Hurricane
1949 · Lt. F.A. 'Hobbie' Hobson
Yellow Sky
1948 · Lengthy
Sitting Pretty
1948 · Bill Philby
Forever Amber
1947 · Black Jack Mallard
Somewhere in the Night
1946 · Marine Captain (uncredited)
The Dark Corner
1946 · Policeman at Tony's Apartment (uncredited)
Within These Walls
1945 · Rogers
A Bell for Adano
1945 · Anderson (uncredited)
A Royal Scandal
1945 · Guard (uncredited)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
1939 · Hopper Boy
Side Street
1929 · Adaptation
Dangerous Money
1924 · Screenplay
Series (16)
Simon & Simon
1981 · Oldtimer #2 - in Saloon
Jason of Star Command
1978 · The Commander
Police Story
1973
Emergency!
1972 · Sam Jeffers
Alias Smith and Jones
1971 · Marshall
McCloud
1970 · Harry Hague
It Takes a Thief
1968 · William Dover, Peter Vale
Daniel Boone
1964 · Amos McAleer
77 Sunset Strip
1958 · Mechanical Cowboy (voice) (uncredited)
Lawman
1958 · Marshal Dan Troop
Maverick
1957 · John Grimes, Edgar Maxwell, Marshal Dan Troop
Sugarfoot
1957 · Jeff Seward
Cheyenne
1955
Gunsmoke
1955 · Carl Ryker
Soldiers of Fortune
1955 · Tim Kelly
Studio 57
1954