
John Russell
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.
Personal Info
Gender
Male
Birthday
1921-01-03
Place of Birth
Los Angeles, California, USA
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Cast
Rio Bravo
19597.8 / 10
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
19397.9 / 10
Yellow Sky
19486.9 / 10
Hoodlum Empire
19526.1 / 10
Slattery's Hurricane
19495.4 / 10
Mission to Glory: A True Story
19775.0 / 10
The Gal Who Took the West
19495.6 / 10
Man in the Saddle
19516.5 / 10
American Nightmare
20025.0 / 10
Hell Bound
19575.9 / 10
The Fat Man
19515.6 / 10
The Story of Molly X
19494.6 / 10
When the West Was Fun: A Western Reunion
19790.0 / 10
Undertow
19496.1 / 10
Cannon for Cordoba
19705.6 / 10
Untamed Youth
19574.0 / 10
Forever Amber
19476.1 / 10
The Sun Shines Bright
19536.5 / 10
Saddle Tramp
19506.3 / 10
Jubilee Trail
19544.8 / 10
Buckskin
19685.3 / 10
Apache Uprising
19656.3 / 10
Within These Walls
19455.0 / 10
The Dalton Girls
19575.3 / 10
Hostile Guns
19675.1 / 10
Frenchie
19505.7 / 10
Oklahoma Annie
19528.0 / 10
Somewhere in the Night
19466.7 / 10
Six Tickets to Hell
19810.0 / 10
Noon Sunday
19703.5 / 10
Fort Massacre
19586.0 / 10
Yellowstone Kelly
19596.0 / 10
If He Hollers, Let Him Go!
19685.4 / 10
The Barefoot Mailman
19514.0 / 10
Fair Wind to Java
19534.9 / 10
Pale Rider
19857.2 / 10
Fighting Coast Guard
19516.5 / 10
Under the Gun
19885.5 / 10
Sitting Pretty
19487.2 / 10
The Outlaw Josey Wales
19767.4 / 10
Blood Legacy
19713.5 / 10
The Last Command
19556.4 / 10
Hell's Outpost
19545.0 / 10
Fort Utah
19673.6 / 10
Fireball Jungle
19686.0 / 10
A Bell for Adano
19455.7 / 10
A Royal Scandal
19456.9 / 10
Smoke In The Wind
19756.0 / 10
Disneyland '59
19596.5 / 10
The Dark Corner
19466.6 / 10
Crew
Side Street
19295.0 / 10
Dangerous Money
19240.0 / 10