Back in the 50’s and 60’s, there were a ton of Western TV shows with a cast of actors that often appeared in various series, most of them employed by Universal TV. Here are some of the actors who appeared many times. Great actors. Wonderful characters.
Some key movie actors were among the actors featured in the TV shows, including Clint Eastwood as ramrod Rowdy Yates on Rawhide, Steve McQueen as bounty hunter Josh Randall in Wanted: Dead or Alive, and Burt Reynolds as roustabout Ben Frazer on Riverboat.
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Rudolfo Acosta
Claude Akins
Chris Alcaide
Fred Aldrich
John Anderson
Robert Anderson
Morris Ankrum
John Archer
Roscoe Ates
Phyllis Avery
Richard Avonde
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Frank Baker
Jim Bannon
Roy Barcroft
Trevor Bardette
Rayford Barnes
Jeanne Bates
Gregg Barton
Hugh Beaumont
Don Beddoe
Russ Bender
Bruce Bennett
Lyle Bettger
Robert Bice
Paul Birch
Whit Bissell
Larry J. Blake
Monte Blue
Ward Bond
Willis Bouchey
Lane Bradford
Neville Brand
X Brands
Robert Bray
Walter Brennan
Diane Brewster
Edgar Buchanan
Walter Burke
Forest Burns
Robert Burton
Owen Bush
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King Calder
William Campbell
Harry Carey, Jr.
Philip Carey
Timothy Carey
Paul Carr
Robert Carricart
Fred Carson
Anthony Caruso
John Cason
Bill Catching
Lane Chandler
Lon Chaney, Jr.
Noble Chissell
Linden Chiles
Virginia Christine
Bill Clark
Gary Clarke
Stanley Clements
John Cliff
Andy Clyde
Cecil Combs
Robert Comthwaite
Pat Conway
Russ Conway
Elisha Cook Jr.
Bill Coontz
Ben Cooper
Charles Cooper
Ellen Corby
Mara Corday
Chuck Courtney
Walter Coy
Dennis Cross
Kathleen Crowley
Richard H. Cutting
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Royal Dano
Tony Dante
Edgar Daring
Christopher Dark
Steve Darrell
Richard Deacon
Jeff DeBenning
Ted de Corsia
John Dehner
Frank DeKova
Bruce Dern
Joe De Santis
Richard Devon
Kem Dibbs
King Donovan
John Doucette
Charles Drake
James Drury
Craig Duncan
Pete Dunn
Larry Duran
Dan Duryea
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Stewart East
Penny Edwards
Jack Elam
Ross Elliott
Michael Emmet
Roy Engel
Gene Evans
Jess Evans
Richard Farnsworth
William Fawcett
Art Felix
Frank Fenton
Frank Ferguson
Darlene Fields
Paul Fix
Harry Fleer
Jay C. Flippen
Bob Folkerson
Wallace Ford
Dianne Foster
Byron Foulger
Robert Foulk
Eduard Franz
John Frederick
Charles Fredericks
Terry Frost
Clem Fuller
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Joe Garcio
Nancy Gates
Bennye Gatteys
Lisa Gaye
Leonard P. Geer
James Gleason
John Goddard
Thomas Gomez
Leo Gordon
Pedro Gonzalez Gonzalez
Fred Graham
Herschel Graham
Tim Graham
Dabs Greer
James Griffith
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Herman Hack
Kevin Hagen
Ron Hagerthy
Don Haggerty
Nancy Hale
Richard Hale
John Hamilton
Chick Hannan
John Harmon
Don C. Harvey
Harry Harvey
Joe Haworth
Chester Hayes
Ron Hayes
Myron Healey
Carol Henry
Thomas Browne Henry
William Henry
Michael Hinn
Earle Hodgins
Skip Homeier
Charles Horvath
Mauritz Hugo
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Jack Ingram
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Vivi Janiss
Eilene Janssen
Ben Johnson
Brad Johnson
Chubby Johnson
Jason Johnson
Stanford Jolley
Henry Jones
L.Q. Jones
Katy Jurado
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Robert Karnes
Robert Keith
Barry Kelley
John Kellogg
Don Kelly
Ed Kemmer
Douglas Kennedy
George Keymas
Brett King
Jess Kirkpatrick
Fuzzy Knight
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Ethan Laidlaw
Jack Lambert
Allan Lane
Paul Langton
John Larch
Walt La Rue
Wesley Lau
Harry Lauter
Norman Leavitt
Arnold Leno
Sheldon Leonard
Forrest Lewis
John Litel
Jack Lomas
Britt Lomond
Tom London
Jon Lormer
Robert Lowery
Pierce Lyden
Ken Lynch
Herbert Lytton
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Barton MacLane
Ted Mapes
Gregg Martell
Charles Maxwell
Ken Mayer
Kermit Maynard
Mike Mazurki
Dennis McCarthy
Sean McClory
Mathew McCue
Joe McGuinn
John McIntire
Tom McKee
David McMahon
Tyler McVey
Joyce Meadows
Don Megowan
Troy Melton
Jan Merlin
Emile Meyer
Patricia Michon
Robert Middleton
John Milford
Frank Mills
Mort Mills
Carlyle Mitchell
Millard Mitchell
John Mitchum
Gerald Mohr
Ralph Moody
Dennis Moore
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Anna Navarro
Hal Needham
Ed Nelson
Lori Nelson
Jimmy Noel
Jeanette Nolan
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Hugh O’Brian
William H. O’Brien
Bud Osborne
Frank Overton
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Nestor Paiva
Gregg Palmer
Regis Parton
Michael Pate
Lory Patrick
Hank Patterson
John Pickard
Slim Pickens
Edward Platt
Joe Ploski
Judson Pratt
Ed Prentiss
Ainslie Pryor
Denver Pyle
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Mike Ragan
Tommy Rall
Stuart Randall
Gilman Rankin
Ralph Reed
Richard Reeves
Dick Rich
Addison Richards
Grant Richards
Keith Richards
Paul Richards
Dan Riss
Steven Ritch
Lee Roberts
Roy Roberts
Stephen Roberts
Bartlett Robinson
Ric Roman
Buddy Roosevelt
Gene Roth
Henry Rowland
John Roy
Herbert Rudley
Joseph Ruskin
Bing Russell
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Willard Sage
Walter Sande
Frank J. Scannell
William Schallert
James Seay
Charles Seel
Harry Shannon
Richard Shannon
Dan Sheridan
Robert F. Simon
Ted Smile
K.L. Smith
Ron Soble
Charles Soldani
Olan Soule
George Sowards
Arthur Space
Bert Spencer
Douglas Spencer
Bob Steele
Charles Stevens
Robert Stevenson
Boyd Stockman
Howard J. Stone
Harry Strang
Glenn Strange
Frank Sully
Robert Swan
Karl Swenson
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Lyle Talbot
Gloria Talbott
William Tannen
Charles Tannon
Ray Teal
Steven Terrell
Tex Terry
Kelly Thordsen
Regis Toomey
Jack Tornek
Tom Tully
Archie Twitchell
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Lee Van Cleef
Joseph Vitale
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Charles Wagenheim
Gregory Walcott
George Wallace
Eddy Waller
Frank Watkins
Alan Wells
Brad Weston
James Westerfield
Dan White
Peter Whitney
Don Wilbanks
Frank Wilcox
Robert J. Wilke
Guy Wilkerson
Jean Willes
Rhys Williams
Rush Williams
Henry Wills
Marie Windsor
Bob Woodward
Sheb Wooley
Hank Worden
Will Wright
Al Wyatt Sr.
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Tony Young
