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Post by sepiatone on Jan 6, 2023 17:19:06 GMT
That's what I call a night of watching old TV shows and spot familiar faces that would later move on to bigger things. Like last night while watching TALES OF WELLS FARGO on Inspiration channel, the first episode had... DENVER PYLE, who'd become familiar as Briscoe Darling on The Andy Griffith Show; The Texas ranger who was humiliated by BONNIE AND CLYDE and eventually shot them to pieces in the 1967 movie, and then became popular as Uncle Jesse on The Dukes Of Hazzard, with plenty of character appearances on several TV shows in between. And the following episode had DAN BLOCKER, who later became the well loved Cartwright brother HOSS on BONANZA for many years. and.... PAUL BRINEGAR who would later be the favored irascible WISHBONE on the long running RAWHIDE TV series.The second episode had... RUSSELL JOHNSON, who later did a few TWILIGHT ZONE episodes and then became better known as The Professor on Gilligan's Island. And in a following GUNSMOKE episode there was.... A very Young LEIF GARRETT who did some acting as a child and by the '70's had a brief fling with teen pop music fame. And...... HARRISON FORD, who was a cattle rancher's henchman and had a few brief appearances before being shot by one of the good guys. Probably went straight from this 1972 episode to the set of 1973's AMERICAN GRAFFITI.  On most nights I catch a lot of the usual character actor appearances, but not always those who move on to bigger and(possibly) better things. Sepiatone |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 6, 2023 17:44:05 GMT
I use to watch INSP. The cable company moved it to the section of 4 digit channels. The 3 digit channel, which is easy to remember, is standard definition. It isn't easy to teach this old dog new tricks. One of my San Francisco TV channels dropped everything and has programming from GRIT. They also have Tales Of The Wells Fargo. Just for giggles, while looking up GRIT, I found GRIT EXTRA: |
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Post by jamesjazzguitar on Jan 6, 2023 19:05:16 GMT
That's what I call a night of watching old TV shows and spot familiar faces that would later move on to bigger things. Like last night while watching TALES OF WELLS FARGO on Inspiration channel, the first episode had... DENVER PYLE, who'd become familiar as Briscoe Darling on The Andy Griffith Show; The Texas ranger who was humiliated by BONNIE AND CLYDE and eventually shot them to pieces in the 1967 movie, and then became popular as Uncle Jesse on The Dukes Of Hazzard, with plenty of character appearances on several TV shows in between. And the following episode had DAN BLOCKER, who later became the well loved Cartwright brother HOSS on BONANZA for many years. and.... PAUL BRINEGAR who would later be the favored irascible WISHBONE on the long running RAWHIDE TV series.The second episode had... RUSSELL JOHNSON, who later did a few TWILIGHT ZONE episodes and then became better known as The Professor on Gilligan's Island. And in a following GUNSMOKE episode there was.... A very Young LEIF GARRETT who did some acting as a child and by the '70's had a brief fling with teen pop music fame. And...... HARRISON FORD, who was a cattle rancher's henchman and had a few brief appearances before being shot by one of the good guys. Probably went straight from this 1972 episode to the set of 1973's AMERICAN GRAFFITI. On most nights I catch a lot of the usual character actor appearances, but not always those who move on to bigger and(possibly) better things. Sepiatone I watched that episode of Well Fargo, and I yea, I also was familiar with all of the supporting actors. As for Denver Pyle: Right before the Well Fargo episode Pyle he was on Cheyenne. |
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Post by sepiatone on Jan 7, 2023 17:36:05 GMT
I watched that episode of Well Fargo, and I yea, I also was familiar with all of the supporting actors. As for Denver Pyle: Right before the Well Fargo episode Pyle he was on Cheyenne. I do remember some years back, when my cable service first had COZI channel and showed old CISCO KID episodes that Pyle was in one of them. I hardly recognized him as he was much slimmer and had a full head of very dark hair. And I've had that happen too. Seeing a familiar character actor in one show and seeing him show up in the following show. Sometimes it's two different episodes of the same show, and sometimes two different shows. I do recall that more often than not when that happens it's usually DABS GREER or ROYAL DANO. Sepiatone |
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Post by jamesjazzguitar on Jan 7, 2023 20:07:29 GMT
I watched that episode of Well Fargo, and I yea, I also was familiar with all of the supporting actors. As for Denver Pyle: Right before the Well Fargo episode Pyle he was on Cheyenne. I do remember some years back, when my cable service first had COZI channel and showed old CISCO KID episodes that Pyle was in one of them. I hardly recognized him as he was much slimmer and had a full head of very dark hair. And I've had that happen too. Seeing a familiar character actor in one show and seeing him show up in the following show. Sometimes it's two different episodes of the same show, and sometimes two different shows. I do recall that more often than not when that happens it's usually DABS GREER or ROYAL DANO. Sepiatone One can see Dabs Greer and Royal Dano in different shows on may days on INSP. I would add John Dehner and Jack Elam. I assume one of these 4 can be found in a 50s \ 60s western TV episode each day on INSP (likely more than once). |
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Post by sepiatone on Jan 8, 2023 16:52:57 GMT
Another addition to frequent '60's Western TV show and TWILIGHT ZONE appearances.... JOHN ANDERSON  Sepiatone |
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Post by sepiatone on Jan 10, 2023 17:46:53 GMT
And while on the subject, two more who also show up in a lot of those classic TV westerns are...... PETER WHITNEY  CHUBBY JOHNSON  Sepiatone |
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Post by jamesjazzguitar on Jan 11, 2023 0:50:01 GMT
And while on the subject, two more who also show up in a lot of those classic TV westerns are...... PETER WHITNEY CHUBBY JOHNSON Sepiatone With regards to Peter Whitney: Yea, he is in a lot of westerns and the directors would make good use of his size. I.e. the character would be a big bear like guy that was one not to mess with. But the other day I was watching the film Murder He Says (1945) with Fred MacMurray and Helen Walker and I see a normal sized Whitney (playing twin brothers). Right after that I see him on one of those westerns made around 10 years latter, and it made me think: I wonder if fame and fortune caused Whitney to over indulge. Sadly he died at the age of 55 of a heart attack. |
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Post by Hold the Mayo on Jan 11, 2023 6:30:47 GMT
For all your irascible, proud, immigrant, unspecified Eastern European country, unspecified accent, Jew or Gentile needs, contact Theodore Bikel and/or Nehemiah Persoff.
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Post by sepiatone on Jan 11, 2023 16:28:05 GMT
For all your irascible, proud, immigrant, unspecified Eastern European country, unspecified accent, Jew or Gentile needs, contact Theodore Bikel and/or Nehemiah Persoff.
WHOA! Where is THAT coming from? Sepiatone |
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Post by Hold the Mayo on Jan 11, 2023 22:01:22 GMT
WHOA! Where is THAT coming from?
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From out of the West. Two rode seperately to earn their meal tickets by playing stereotypical 19th European immigrants, often from an unnamed country.
They'd arrive in town and face prejudice due to their language, customs, dress, religion, etc. Bikel and Persoff often played these types in Western TV shows.
John Anderson often played a guy with some kind of chip on his shoulder and sometimes a religious fanatic who took the Bible literally, which usually didn't
work out too well for him.
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Post by sepiatone on Jan 12, 2023 19:00:43 GMT
OK. But too, I've seen a Gunsmoke episode in which GEORGE KENNEDY also played a European immigrant who had to deal with the same prejudices.
And actor JOHN DEHNER also had a couple of turns as a religious fanatic in TV westerns.
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Post by jamesjazzguitar on Jan 12, 2023 19:32:44 GMT
OK. But too, I've seen a Gunsmoke episode in which GEORGE KENNEDY also played a European immigrant who had to deal with the same prejudices. And actor JOHN DEHNER also had a couple of turns as a religious fanatic in TV westerns. Sepiatone It isn't that other actors didn't play European immigrants but that a majority of the roles played by actors like Bikel and/or Persoff were such. I also recently viewed that episode of Kennedy as a Euro immigrant, but, unless I'm mistaken, that is a unique role for George and he had to fake his accent. |
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Post by Hold the Mayo on Jan 12, 2023 22:05:46 GMT
OK. But too, I've seen a Gunsmoke episode in which GEORGE KENNEDY also played a European immigrant who had to deal with the same prejudices. And actor JOHN DEHNER also had a couple of turns as a religious fanatic in TV westerns. Sepiatone
mention to Jack Kruschen who also did these roles fairly often. I remember an episode of Bonanza where he played a laughably stereotypical excitable
Italian who had problems with Ben Cartwright. He just want to grow a the grapes to make a the wine. He also had trouble understanding the Constitution
didn't apply to local land issues. The whole thing was pretty comical. |
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Post by jamesjazzguitar on Jan 13, 2023 2:08:13 GMT
OK. But too, I've seen a Gunsmoke episode in which GEORGE KENNEDY also played a European immigrant who had to deal with the same prejudices. And actor JOHN DEHNER also had a couple of turns as a religious fanatic in TV westerns. Sepiatone
mention to Jack Kruschen who also did these roles fairly often. I remember an episode of Bonanza where he played a laughably stereotypical excitable
Italian who had problems with Ben Cartwright. He just want to grow a the grapes to make a the wine. He also had trouble understanding the Constitution
didn't apply to local land issues. The whole thing was pretty comical.My in-laws are Italian and I remember when I saw that episode, I said to my wife that the Kruschen character reminded me of them. |
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