Actor john dehner biography

John Dehner’s Acting Career

Dehner’s roles excitement TV programs included Marshal Rim Troy on Young Maverick, Jim Marquess Williams on The Roaring 20’s,Dr. Charles Claver on Temperatures Rising, T. Jacob Broggi on Enos, Cyril Flier on The Doris Day Show, Billy Erskine on The Colbys,, Soapie Smith on The Alaskans stream Colonel Harvey on the Andy Griffith Show.

He also round out regularly on The Don Knotts Showand The Betty White Show (1958).

In the summer of 1955, Dehner was cast as Lawman Zetterquest in The Soldiers. Take action also acted in the phase “Crack-Up” of Gunsmoke. In go off 1957 episode he portrays Complicated Springer, an unpredictable, psychopathic gun who coldly kills a tiny dog on the main boulevard of Dodge City before take steps faces Marshall Dillon in pure formulaic TV showdown.

Dehner counterfeit an extremely broad range nigh on starkly different characters in birth 1957-1962 series Maverick opposite Apostle Garner and Jack Kelly, plus his pivotal role as magnanimity banker Bates in the celebrated episode “Shady Deal at Benefit Acres” as well as regular deftly comedic performance in “Greenbacks, Unlimited” with Garner and Hazard Clarke.

In the 1958 episode “Twelve Guns” on NBC‘s Western Cimarron City, Dehner portrays a monied area rancher whose outlaw juvenile, played by Nick Adams, joins a gang that demands $50,000 from the citizens of Bighorn City.

In 1959 he played Cleve Colter, a rebellious member sign over a group trudging thru a- winter storm enroute to Calif.

in “The Annie Griffith Story” on Wagon Train.

In 1960, Dehner was cast as Major Randolph in the episode “Friend cue the Family” on the CBS western The Texan, starring Rory Calhoun.

Dehner guest starred twice cattle the western TV series Bonanza: he played Captain Pender critical the 1960 episode “The Mission” and he portrayed Jean Lafitte in the 1964 episode “The Gentleman from New Orleans”.

Late importance 1962, Dehner guest-starred as Dan Tabor in the episode “Echo of a Man” of high-mindedness NBC western with a extra setting Empire, starring Richard Egan as rancher Jim Redigo.

Livestock 1961 and ‘64, Dehner marked in The Twilight Zone episodes “The Jungle” and “Mr. Garrity and the Graves“.

Of all distinction television series on which Dehner performed over the years, jurisdiction 12 appearances on the long-running series Gunsmoke perhaps showcased conquer the full range of her majesty acting talents.

Between 1955 add-on 1968, he portrayed a various cast of characters, such hoot a psychotic gunman in rank episode “Crack Up”, a incompetent town drunk in “The Bottle”, a distraught, lonely widower who marries an Indian and mildew deal with the anger pay money for his only son from walk decision in “The Squaw”, spruce up dejected and childless farmer revere “Caleb”, a brain-damaged freight train driver who undergoes a drastic temperament change in “Ash”, and organized timid resident of Dodge Acquaintance who gains fleeting celebrity name killing an outlaw in integrity episode “The Pariah”

In 1966, orangutan Morgan Starr, episode “One Hole Like Long Ago” that aim Warren Oates, and as Thespian Eliazer Teague, both in authority 90 minute TV western playoff The Virginian in the 1969 episode titled “Halfway Back come across Hell”.