John Russell

Personal Info

Known For Actor

Gender Male

Birthday 1921-01-03

Deathday 1991-01-19 (70 years old)

Place of Birth Los Angeles, California, USA

Also Known As John Lawrence Russell

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.​

Known For

Actor

2002
American Nightmare

as Police Officer

1988
Under the Gun

as Simon Stone

1985
Pale Rider

as Stockburn

1981
Simon & Simon

as Oldtimer #2 - in Saloon

1978
Jason of Star Command

as The Commander

1976
The Outlaw Josey Wales

as Bloody Bill Anderson

1975
Smoke In The Wind

as Cagle Mondier

1971
Blood Legacy

as Frank Mantee

1970
Cannon for Cordoba

as General Pershing

1970
Noon Sunday

as Darmody

1970
McCloud

as Harry Hague

1968
Fireball Jungle

as Nero Solitarius

1968
Buckskin

as Patch

1967
Fort Utah

as Eli Jonas

1967
Hostile Guns

as Aaron Pleasant

1965
Apache Uprising

as Vance Buckner

1964
Daniel Boone

as Amos McAleer

1959
Yellowstone Kelly

as Gall, Sioux Chief

1959
1959
Rio Bravo

as Nathan Burdette

1958
Fort Massacre

as Travis

1958
77 Sunset Strip

as Mechanical Cowboy (voice) (uncredited)

1958
Lawman

as Marshal Dan Troop

1957
The Dalton Girls

as W.T. "Illinois" Grey

1957
Hell Bound

as Jordan

1957
Untamed Youth

as Russ Tropp

1957
Maverick

as John Grimes

1957
Maverick

as Edgar Maxwell

1957
Sugarfoot

as Jeff Seward

1955
The Last Command

as Lt. Dickinson

1955
Gunsmoke

as Carl Ryker

1955
Soldiers of Fortune

as Tim Kelly

1954
Hell's Outpost

as Ben Hodes

1954
Jubilee Trail

as Oliver Hale

1953
The Sun Shines Bright

as Ashby Corwin

1953
1952
Hoodlum Empire

as Joe Gray

1952
Oklahoma Annie

as Dan Fraser

1951
1951
Man in the Saddle

as Hugh Clagg

1951
Fighting Coast Guard

as Barney Walker

1951
The Fat Man

as Gene Gordon

1950
Frenchie

as Lance Cole

1950
Saddle Tramp

as Rocky

1949
Undertow

as Danny Morgan

1949
The Story of Molly X

as Cash Brady

1949
1949
Slattery's Hurricane

as Lt. F.A. 'Hobbie' Hobson

1948
Yellow Sky

as Lengthy

1948
Sitting Pretty

as Bill Philby

1947
Forever Amber

as Black Jack Mallard

1946
Somewhere in the Night

as Marine Captain (uncredited)

1946
The Dark Corner

as Policeman at Tony's Apartment (uncredited)

1945
1945
A Bell for Adano

as Capt. Anderson

1945
Don Juan Quilligan

as Howie Mossrock

1945
A Royal Scandal

as Guard (uncredited)

Writer

1929
Side Street

as Adaptation

1924
Dangerous Money

as Screenplay