Word: actor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dillon, is probably the biggest thing ever seen in blue jeans. (One director had to stand him in a hole in order to get his head in the picture.) What horse, short of a Percheron, could carry him for more than a couple of miles? But at his best, Actor Arness manages to behave with a sort of unheroic, splatter-dabs-and-huckydummy homeliness that makes the customers imagine themselves in the West as it really was; and the illusion is further fostered by Heroine Amanda Blake as Kitty, who is "obviously not selling chocolate bars." Arness can shake hands...
...veteran of more than 150 Hollywood films, is the trail boss of Wagon Train, one of the biggest (60 min.) and costliest ($90,000-$120,000) of TV's saddle-soap operas. Bond shares the billing with a new guest star every week, and with a capable young actor named Robert Horton, who plays a tough scout. On the show, Actor Bond is fatherly one minute, the next he is roaring like a mule with the colic. An extravert's extravert, he has a grin like a Texas river, a mile wide and an inch deep...
Richard Boone (6 ft. 2 in., 200 lbs., 44-34-38) is perhaps the only television gunslicker who is worth his whisky as an all-round actor (he is currently playing Lincoln in the Broadway production of The Rivalry). The name of his TV character, Paladin, is meant to suggest a knight errant. But the hero of Have Gun, Witt Travel is actually just a hard-boiled egghead, western style, who spouts Shakespeare while the lead flies, smokes 58? cigars, advises the public to "try marinating venison in whisky." He is a private eye in peewees, and though he always...
...Wyatt Earp, which is perhaps best described in O'Brian's own words: "It's a relaxing show. You can walk away from our program and come back five, ten minutes later, and you haven't really missed anything." At 32, dark-haired, fine-boned Actor O'Brian (real name: Hugh Krampe) looks like an Oklahoma Olivier. In his flowered vest, ruffled shirt, string tie and sideburns, and with two 16-in. Buntline Specials strapped to his thighs, he really cuts the mustard with the teen-age cow bunnies. An exmarine, he is easily...
...everyday, bowlegged western called Wells Fargo, is probably the richest ranahan now riding the airwaves. He owns almost 50% of his show, makes about a million a year out of TV alone, not to mention oil wells, motels, ranches and the use of his name on merchandise. As an actor, Robertson can hardly say heck with his hands tied, but he is probably the best horseman in television, and his shy. Sunday-go-to-meetin' smile provokes what an agent describes as "the sexiest mail in Hollywood." Gimmick: he draws his .38 with his left hand ("That...