John Russell
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Jan 3, 1921
- Died
- Jan 19, 1991 (aged 70)
- Place of birth
- Los Angeles, California, USA
- Credits
- 69
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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
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Known for
Filmography
American Nightmare
2002Movie
Police Officer
Under the Gun
1988Movie
Simon Stone
Your First Gun - A Family Guide To Shooting
1987Movie
Grandpa
Pale Rider
1985Movie
Stockburn
Honkytonk Man
1982Movie
Simon & Simon
1981TV
Oldtimer #2 - in Saloon
Six Tickets to Hell
1981Movie
When the West Was Fun: A Western Reunion
1979Movie
Self
Jason of Star Command
1978TV
The Commander
Mission to Glory: A True Story
1977Movie
Solis
The Outlaw Josey Wales
1976Movie
Bloody Bill Anderson
Fugitive Lovers
1975Movie
Harris Alexander
Smoke In The Wind
1975Movie
Cagle Mondier
Police Story
1973TV
Emergency!
1972TV
Sam Jeffers
Blood Legacy
1971Movie
Frank Mantee
Alias Smith and Jones
1971TV
Marshall
Cannon for Cordoba
1970Movie
General Pershing
McCloud
1970TV
Harry Hague
Noon Sunday
1970Movie
Darmody
If He Hollers, Let Him Go!
1968Movie
Sheriff
Fireball Jungle
1968Movie
Nero Solitarius
Buckskin
1968Movie
Patch
It Takes a Thief
1968TV
William Dover, Peter Vale
Fort Utah
1967Movie
Eli Jonas
Hostile Guns
1967Movie
Aaron Pleasant
Apache Uprising
1965Movie
Vance Buckner
Daniel Boone
1964TV
Amos McAleer
Yellowstone Kelly
1959Movie
Gall, Sioux Chief
Disneyland '59
1959Movie
Self
Rio Bravo
1959Movie
Nathan Burdette
77 Sunset Strip
1958TV
Mechanical Cowboy (voice) (uncredited)
Lawman
1958TV
Marshal Dan Troop
Fort Massacre
1958Movie
Travis
The Dalton Girls
1957Movie
W.T. "Illinois" Grey
Hell Bound
1957Movie
Jordan
Maverick
1957TV
John Grimes, Edgar Maxwell, Marshal Dan Troop
Sugarfoot
1957TV
Jeff Seward
Untamed Youth
1957Movie
Russ Tropp
Cheyenne
1955TV
Gunsmoke
1955TV
Carl Ryker
The Last Command
1955Movie
Lt. Dickinson
Soldiers of Fortune
1955TV
Tim Kelly
Hell's Outpost
1954Movie
Ben Hodes
Studio 57
1954TV
Jubilee Trail
1954Movie
Oliver Hale
The Sun Shines Bright
1953Movie
Ashby Corwin
Fair Wind to Java
1953Movie
Flint
Hoodlum Empire
1952Movie
Joe Gray
Oklahoma Annie
1952Movie
Dan Fraser
The Barefoot Mailman
1951Movie
Theron
Man in the Saddle
1951Movie
Hugh Clagg
Fighting Coast Guard
1951Movie
Barney Walker
The Fat Man
1951Movie
Gene Gordon
Frenchie
1950Movie
Lance Cole
Saddle Tramp
1950Movie
Rocky
Undertow
1949Movie
Danny Morgan
The Story of Molly X
1949Movie
Cash Brady
The Gal Who Took the West
1949Movie
Grant O'Hara
Slattery's Hurricane
1949Movie
Lt. F.A. 'Hobbie' Hobson
Yellow Sky
1948Movie
Lengthy
Sitting Pretty
1948Movie
Bill Philby
Forever Amber
1947Movie
Black Jack Mallard
Somewhere in the Night
1946Movie
Marine Captain (uncredited)
The Dark Corner
1946Movie
Policeman at Tony's Apartment (uncredited)
Within These Walls
1945Movie
Rogers
A Bell for Adano
1945Movie
Anderson (uncredited)
A Royal Scandal
1945Movie
Guard (uncredited)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
1939Movie
Hopper Boy