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This is a list
of character actors whose last name ending in the letter B has appeared
on The Rifleman — One Time Only. Whether they have appeared one time
only or 168 times, they are just as important as the main characters
and/or anyone else involved in The Rifleman. This is just a small
tribute to those great many characters actors.
This section
of character actors is dedicated to each & everyone one of the
character
actors that appeared on
The Rifleman.
They're among the most popular and recognizable actors. They may not
be A-list stars, but they do something many actors don't. They
worked all the time.
William Bishop played
Dave Stafford in Outlaw's Inheritance.
He's the guy who was to representative North Fork at the
railroad commission.
He
went to West Virginia University where he wanted to
study law but left to enter theater. While he was at
WVU, Bishop "won laurels as a football player and in
other athletics."
Bishop served in
the South Pacific with the Signal Battalion of the United States
Army during World War II.
William Bishop
made appearances in the theater on Broadway in New York City, New
York in plays such as Victoria Regina and Tobacco Road
before going to Hollywood in 1941 for roles in motion pictures. He
would go on to appear in over thirty films, with roles in A Guy
Named Joe (1943), Song of the Thin Man (1947), The Walking Hills
(1949), The Texas Rangers (1951), The Raiders (1952), Short Cut to
Hell (1957) and The Oregon Trail (1959). In 1954 he co-starred
in the television series It`s a Great Life.
Frances Farmer Presents (1960)
Riverboat (1959)
The Rifleman (1959)
General Electric Theater (1959)
Behind Closed Doors (1959)
The Millionaire (1958)
The Gale Storm Show: Oh! Susanna (1957)
The Ford Television Theatre (1954-1957)
The 20th Century-Fox Hour (1957)
Schlitz Playhouse (1952-1957)
.His
uncle was playwright Charles MacArthur, making him the
nephew of stage and screen legend Helen Hayes and the
cousin of actor James MacArthur.
He died of cancer
in October of 1959. This episode was shot in June of 1959. Who would
have ever have known, he looked so good in The Rifleman.
Born: July 16,
1918, Oak Park, Illinois
Died: October 3, 1959, Malibu, California of cancer, at age 41.
Oscar Blank as a
Townsman in
Honest Abe.
He was an actor,
known for The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951),
The Man Who Shot
Liberty Valance (1962) and The War of the Worlds (1953).
Born: March 11,
1898 in Romania.
Died: January 10, 1965 in Los Angeles, California
*Thanks to Phillip Arnold for giving this cowboy his credit due!
William Boyett as Joe
a card player in The Tin Horn.
William Boyett was a well respected actor played a
Captain at 39’s and Battalion Chief McConnike in the TV series Emergency!
He majored in radio and TV at USC and served in the US Navy.
One of his earliest acting breaks was in a recurring role in the TV
series Highway Patrol. He was a favorite of Jack Webb's and was known
as part of Webb's stock company of actors in his many TV shows. He's one
of the last (members) of the Jack Webb stock company. You name it, this Cowboy did it!
Born: January 3,
1927, Akron, Ohio
Died: December 29, 2004, Mission Hills, California
*Thanks to Phillip Arnold for giving this cowboy his credit due!
Best known on screen in the Bradford appeared in the
"B" western movies for playing western bad men.
He appeared in many
of The Lone Ranger episodes. I don't think there's anything he did not
play in during the 40's ~ 50's ~ and 60's. He played in The
Untouchables. He appeared with Chuck in
Branded in
Barbed Wire.
Lane Bradford was born on August 29, 1922 in Yonkers, New York, USA
as John Myrtland Le Varre Jr. He is known for his work on Zombies
of the Stratosphere (1952), The Invisible Monster (1950) and
The Slender Thread (1965).
Lane Bradford retired to Hawaii after his last film appearance in
1968 and learned to play the guitar and ukulele.
Born: August 29,
1922, Yonkers, New York
Died: June 7, 1973, Honolulu, Hawii
Lovyss Bradley as a customer in The General Store in
The Boarding House.
Lovyss Bradley took up an offer to go to Hollywood for scene
tests in the 1940s. In 1950, she made her first film debut in I'm from Arkansas (1944) as a Audience Member. She went
on to make over twenty movies ― Duel in the Sun (1946) ― They
Won't Believe Me (1947) ― Dear Wife (1949) ― Whirlpool (1950) ―
Cheaper by the Dozen (1950) ― Outrage (1950) ― Call Me Mister Tibbs
(1951) ― Meet Me After the Show (1951) ― The Blue Veil (1951) ―
Golden Girl (1951) ― Return of the Texan (1952) ― Canadian Mounties
vs. Atomic Invaders (1953) ― The Caddy (1953) ― Man of
Conflict (1953) ― Sabrina (1954) ― Trial (1955) ― Come Next Spring
(1956) ― The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956) ― The First Traveling
Saleslady (1956) ― Bigger Than Life (1956)― These Wilder
Years (1956) ― The Unholy Wife (1957) ― My Man Godfrey (1957) ― This
Rebel Breed (1957) ― Please Don't Eat the Daisies (1960) ― The
Ghost and Mr. Chicken (1966) ― I Love You, Alice B. Toklas! (1968) ―
Uptight (1968).
Her Television
Series Include ― Mayberry R.F.D. (1968) ― Family Affair (1967) ―
The Andy Griffith Show (1965 - 1966) ― Gunsmoke (1957 - 1966) ― The
Big Valley (1966) ― Batman (1966) ― The Rogues (1964 -
1965) ― Petticoat Junction (1964) ― Rawhide (1961 - 1964) ― Burke's
Law (1964) ― My Three Sons (1963 - 1964) ― Temple Houston (1963) ―
Perry Mason (1961) ― The Untouchables (1959 - 1961) ― The
Millionaire (1960) ―
Have Gun - Will Travel (1958 - 1959) ― Johnny Staccato (1959) ―
Wagon Train (1957 - 1959) ― Lawman (1959) ― The Rifleman (1959) ―
The Texan (1958) ― State Trooper (1957) ― Schlitz Playhouse (1955) ―
Four Star Playhouse (1955).
She also
appeared with Chuck Connors in
Branded (1965)
in Very Few Heroes
as a Courtroom Spectator and Ride Beyond Vengeance (1966) as
a Townswoman.
Birth: March 2,
1906 in Fayette, Iowa
Death: June 21, 1969 in Woodland Hills, California
*Thanks to Phillip Arnold for giving this cowboy his credit due!
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