American actor (1923–2005)
Myron Healey
Born Myron Daniel Healey
(1923-06-08 ) June 8, 1923Died December 21, 2005(2005-12-21) (aged 82) Occupation Actor Years active 1943–1994 Spouses
Dorothy Ann Pemberton
(
m. 1943;
div. 1948)
Leslie Wright Hall
(
m. 1961, divorced)
Elizabeth Mary D'Errico
(
m. 1963;
div. 1968)
Adair Jameson
(
m. 1971;
div. 1972)
Children 2
Myron Daniel Healey [citation needed (June 8, 1923 – December 21, 2005) was an American actor. He began his career in Hollywood , California during the early 1940s and eventually made hundreds of appearances in movies and on television during a career spanning more than half a century.
Early years
Healey was born in Petaluma in Sonoma County , California,[ 1] [ 2] World War II as an Air Corps navigator and bombardier ,[ 3] B-26 Martin Marauders in the European Theatre . After the war he continued military duties, retiring in the early 1960s as a captain in the United States Air Force Reserve .[citation needed
Acting career
Healey's film debut came in 1943 with Young Ideas .[ 3] Western films. He also did some screenwriting. In the post-war period he was frequently seen in Westerns from Monogram Pictures , often starring Johnny Mack Brown , Jimmy Wakely and Whip Wilson .
In the 1950s Healey moved to more "bad guy" roles in other films, including the Bomba Jungle Jim Bob Dalton in an episode of the syndicated television series Stories of the Century Jim Davis . In 1955 he played a "good guy" for a change as Phyllis Coates ' partner in the 1955 Republic Pictures serial Panther Girl of the Kongo
Earlier in 1952, Healey was cast in one of the first episodes of the syndicated television anthology series , Death Valley Days ,Stanley Andrews ).
Healey appeared seven times as Captain Bandcroft in The Adventures of Kit Carson ABC /Warner Brothers western series Colt .45 Wayde Preston , seven times (1950–57) in the long-running The Lone Ranger The Roy Rogers Show
Healey played the outlaw Johnny Ringo in the western television series Tombstone Territory Pat Conway as Sheriff Clay Hollister, in the episode "Johnny Ringo's Last Ride" with a teleplay by Sam Peckinpah . He appeared in an episode of the children's western series Buckskin Gene Autry 's Flying A production company: Annie Oakley Buffalo Bill, Jr. The Range Rider The Gene Autry Show The Sheriff of Cochise John Bromfield , and in the Western set in the 1840s, Riverboat Darren McGavin . He also appeared in an episode of the second season of Zorro .
Between 1960 and 1963, Healey appeared five times on the NBC western Laramie John Smith and Robert Fuller . He appeared ten times on another NBC western, The Virginian Laredo Gunsmoke
From 1959 to 1961, he played Major Peter Horry, top aide to Leslie Nielsen , in the miniseries Swamp Fox Walt Disney Presents American Revolutionary War hero Francis Marion .[ 4]
In 1970 Healey appeared as Wardlow in the TV western "The Men From Shiloh" (the rebranded name of The Virginian
The television role that Healey may be best remembered is that of "Doc Holliday" in The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp Hugh O'Brian . He played that role for one season when Douglas Fowley , the regular Doc Holliday on the series, was away on a movie job.
Collectively, Healey appeared in some 140 films, including 81 westerns and three serials. Among his non-western pictures, he appeared in at least two horror films: the Americanized version of the Japanese giant-monster movie Varan the Unbelievable The Incredible Melting Man
Death
In 2005, Healey broke his hip in a fall and never recovered. He died at the age of 82 at a hospital near his home in Simi Valley, California .[ 3]
Recognition
In 2000, Healey received a Golden Boot Award for his contributions to Western films and television programs.[ 5]
Selected filmography
Feature films include
Young Ideas Salute to the Marines Swing Shift Maisie Thousands Cheer I Dood It The Iron Major See Here, Private Hargrove Meet the People The Time of Their Lives Crime Doctor's Man Hunt That Brennan Girl Blondie's Big Moment Millie's Daughter Buck Privates Come Home The Corpse Came C.O.D. It Had to Be You Tall, Dark and Gruesome (1948, Short) - Partygoer in devil's costumeI, Jane Doe Blondie's Reward Walk a Crooked Mile The Return of October You Gotta Stay Happy Hidden Danger Wake of the Red Witch Ladies of the Chorus The Man from Colorado Slightly French Knock on Any Door Gun Law Justice Trails End Across the Rio Grande Laramie Batman and Robin Air Hostess Brand of Fear The Wyoming Bandit Range Justice South of Rio Mr. Soft Touch Haunted Trails Western Renegades Rusty's Birthday Riders of the Dusk Pioneer Marshal Lawless Code Fence Riders Trail of the Rustlers West of Wyoming Over the Border A Woman of Distinction Kill the Umpire No Sad Songs for Me Salt Lake Raiders In a Lonely Place Timber Fury Federal Man Hi-Jacked I Killed Geronimo The Fuller Brush Girl My Blue Heaven Law of the Panhandle Between Midnight and Dawn Hot Rod Emergency Wedding Experiment Alcatraz Outlaw Gold Short Grass Colorado Ambush Al Jennings of Oklahoma Baby Sitters Jitters Night Riders of Montana I Was an American Spy Roar of the Iron Horse Lorna Doone The Texas Rangers Montana Desperado Bonanza Town Journey Into Light Slaughter Trail Drums in the Deep South Elephant Stampede The Longhorn The Wild Blue Yonder Silver City The Big Night Fort Osage Rodeo Montana Territory Storm Over Tibet The Kid from Broken Gun Fargo Apache War Smoke Desperadoes' Outpost Monsoon The Maverick The Studebaker Story Kansas Pacific White Lightning Son of Belle Starr The Moonlighter Saginaw Trail Fighting Lawman Combat Squad Hot News Vigilante Terror Private Eyes Texas Bad Man Rails Into Laramie Silver Lode They Rode West Cattle Queen of Montana Gang Busters Panther Girl of the Kongo African Manhunt Man Without a Star Rage at Dawn The Man from Bitter Ridge Ma and Pa Kettle at Waikiki Jungle Moon Men Tennessee's Partner Count Three and Pray Dig That Uranium Slightly Scarlet The First Texan Magnificent Roughnecks The Young Guns Calling Homicide The White Squaw Running Target Hell's Crossroads Shoot-Out at Medicine Bend Lure of the Swamp The Restless Breed The Unearthly Undersea Girl The Hard Man Escape from Red Rock Cavalry Command Cole Younger, Gunfighter Quantrill's Raiders Apache Territory Onionhead Rio Bravo Ma Barker's Killer Brood The George Raft Story Convicts 4 Varan the Unbelievable He Rides Tall Mirage Harlow The Swinger Gunfight in Abilene Journey to Shiloh The Shakiest Gun in the West True Grit The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes The Cheyenne Social Club Which Way to the Front? Smoke in the Wind The Incredible Melting Man Claws The Other Side of the Mountain Part 2 Goodbye, Franklin High Forever and Beyond (1983) - NicholasGhost Fever Pulse Little Giants
Other western appearances include
The Cisco Kid (Season 2 Episode 3: "Postal Inspector") (1951) as Drake, Henchman
(Season 2 Episode 9: "Kid Sister Trouble") (1951) as Sloan
(Season 3 Episode 17: "The Devil's Deputy") (1953) as E.B. Johnson
(Season 5 Episode 2: "The Haunted Stage Stop") (1954) as Don White
(Season 5 Episode 9: "Pot of Gold") (1954) as Jim Gault The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin (Season 1 Episode 18: "Babe in the Woods") (1955) as Jesse Harkness
(Season 2 Episode 2: "Rin Tin Tin Meets Shakespeare") (1955) as Odds-On O'Connor
(Season 2 Episode 29: "Rin Tin Tin and the Rainmaker") (1956) as Morrel Cheyenne (Season 1 Episode 4: "Border Showdown") (1955) as Carl Thompson
(Season 2 Episode 1: "The Dark Rider") (1956) as Lew Lattimer
(Season 3 Episode 5: "Devil's Canyon") (1957) as Chip Claney
(Season 5 Episode 8: "The Return of Mr. Grimm") (1961) as Wesley Mason
(Season 5 Episode 10: "The Frightened Town") (1961) as Tully Sheriff of Cochise Judge Roy Bean (Season 1 Episode 17: "Checkmate") as Bert Reno
(Season 1 Episode 19: "The Eyes of Texas") as Jake Winters
(Season 1 Episode 23: "The Katcina Doll") as Hurley
(Season 1 Episode 26: "The Travelers") as John Gorman State Trooper (Season 1 Episode 24: "The Last War Party") (1957) as Red Shawn
(Season 2 Episode 18: "Crisis at Comstock") (1958) as Ed Benson
(Season 2 Episode 44: "Excitement at Milltown") (1959) as Big Nels Maverick (Season 1 Episode 27: "Seed of Deception") (1958) as Jim Mundy
(Season 3 Episode 12: "Trooper Maverick") (1959) as Jed Benedict
(Season 5 Episode 3: "The Golden Fleecing") (1961) as Frank Mercer Wagon Train (Season 1 Episode 35: "The Rex Montana Story") (1958) as Bill Miller
(Season 2 Episode 29: "The Clara Duncan Story") (1959) as Steve Wilson
(Season 5 Episode 11: "The Traitor") (1961) as Sergeant Oakes
(Season 5 Episode 29: "The Levi Hale Story") (1962) as Deputy Sheriff
(Season 6 Episode 31: "The Tom O'Neal Story") (1963) as Mr. O'Neal
(Season 7 Episode 1: "The Molly Kincaid Story") (1963) as Doc Curley
(Season 7 Episode 21: "The Andrew Elliott Story") (1964) as Sergeant Bob Rollins
(Season 7 Episode 32: "The Last Circle Up") (1964) as Wayne Rossen (uncredited) Cimarron City Bat Masterson (Season 1 Episode 28: "Lottery of Death") as Jack Latigo
(Season 2 Episode 1: "To the Manner Born") as Colonel Marc James The Texan (Season 1 Episode 32: "Badlands") (1959) as Sheriff Ed Courtney
(Season 2 Episode 27: "The Governor's Lady") (1960) as Clay Calder
(Season 2 Episode 37: "Johnny Tuvo") (1960) as Gait Gaylor Rawhide (Season 1 Episode 2: "Incident at Alabaster Plain") (1959) as Gun Guard (uncredited)
(Season 1 Episode 15: "Incident of the Calico Gun") (1959) as Jeb
(Season 3 Episode 14: "Incident of the Big Blowout") (1961) as Lou Calvert
(Season 5 Episode 6: "Incident of the Four Horseman") (1962) as Willie Zane Grey Theater (Season 2 Episode 29: "Utopia, Wyoming") as Cliff Merson
(Season 4 Episode 27: "Seed of Evil") as Sam Brady The Alaskans Laramie (American TV series)(Season 2 Episode 3: "Three Rode West") (1960) as Frank Skinner
(Season 3 Episode 10: "Handful of Fire") (1961) as Army Lieutenant Paul Harmon
(Season 3 Episode 22: "The Dynamiters") (1962) as Dan Garnes
(Season 4 Episode 9: "Beyond Justice") (1962) as Ben Chantler
(Season 4 Episode 23: "The Unvanquished") (1963) as Rafe The Rebel Whispering Smith Gunsmoke (Season 7 Episode 29: "The Summons") as Jake Moseley
(Season 8 Episode 3: "Quint Asper Comes Home") as Mike Have Gun – Will Travel The Dakotas The Virginian (Season 1 Episode 30: "The Final Hour") (1963) as Martin Croft
(Season 2 Episode 13: "Siege") (1963) as Yance Cooper
(Season 3 Episode 22: "You Take the High Road") (1965) as Jack Slauson
(Season 4 Episode 1: "The Brothers") (1965) as Sergeant Cohane
(Season 4 Episode 23: "Ride a Cock-Horse to Laramie Cross") (1966) as Lomax
(Season 5 Episode 14: "Girl on the Glass Mountain") (1966) as Blue
(Season 6 Episode 9: "A Bad Place to Die") (1967) as Potts
(Season 7 Episode 14: "Stopover") (1969) as Second Drifter
(Season 8 Episode 9: "The Bugler") (1969) as Lieutenant Mike Buehl
(Season 9 Episode 3: "Jenny") (1970) as Wardlow Bonanza (Season 6 Episode 14: "The Saga of Squaw Charlie") (1964) as Buck
(Season 8 Episode 31: "The Wormwood Cup") (1967) as Sam
(Season 9 Episode 17: "The Thirteenth Man") (1968) as Johannsen
(Season 9 Episode 19: "The Price of Salt") (1968) as Zeb Williams Daniel Boone (Season 2 Episode 12: "The First Beau") (1965) as Mike Kravic
(Season 3 Episode 6: "Run a Crooked Mile") (1966) as Lynch
(Season 5 Episode 24: "For a Few Rifles") (1969) as James Burns The Road West The Guns of Will Sonnett (Season 1 Episode 4: "The Natural Way") (1967) as Lank Turner
(Season 2 Episode 7: "A Difference of Opinion") (1968) as Sheriff Flagg
(Season 2 Episode 24: "Three Stand Together") (1969) as Jack Curson Kung Fu (Season 1 Episode 4: "An Eye for an Eye") as Opening Scene Trooper with bottle shot off his head (uncredited)
(Season 2 Episode 8: "The Soldier) as Captain Malachy
Non-western appearances include
Adventures of Superman (Season 3 Episode 10: "The Bully of Dry Gulch") (1955) as Gunner Flinch
(Season 4 Episode 9: "Dagger Island") (1956) as Paul Craymore
(Season 4 Episode 13: "The Jolly Roger") (1956) as Captain Mud Behind Closed Doors Sea Hunt (Season 1 Episode 34: "Killer Rock") (1958) as Russ Hodges
(Season 3 Episode 12: "The Fearmakers") (1960) as US Coast Guard Commander Jack Carter The Silent Service (Season 1 Episode 1: "USS Jack at Tokyo") (1957) as Captain Thomas Dykers Perry Mason Tightrope Bourbon Street Beat Alfred Hitchcock Presents Dante The Islanders The Alfred Hitchcock Hour The Alfred Hitchcock Hour The Alfred Hitchcock Hour The Alfred Hitchcock Hour Adam-12 (Season 2 Episode 10: "Log 143: Cave") (1969) as Jay Finlay
(Season 2 Episode 18: "Log 124: Airport") (1970) as Walt Cook
(Season 3 Episode 3: "Log 95: Purse Snatcher") (1970) as Carl Tremain
(Season 4 Episode 14: "Citizens All") (1972) as Warren Jarvey
(Season 5 Episode 13: "O'Brien's Stand") (1973) as Nelson
(Season 6 Episode 7: "Van Nuys Division: "Pete's Mustache") (1973) as Donald Whorton Spider-Man: The Dragon's Challenge
References
^ Lentz, Harris M. III (2006). Obituaries in the Performing Arts, 2005: Film, Television, Radio, Theatre, Dance, Music, Cartoons and Pop Culture ISBN 9780786424894 . Retrieved February 28, 2017 . ^ "Myrton D. Healey In Picture At California" . The Petaluma Argus-Courier . Petaluma, California. March 7, 1944. p. 8. Retrieved February 27, 2017 – via Newspapers.com .^ a b c Mayer, Geoff (February 9, 2017). Encyclopedia of American Film Serials 148– 149. ISBN 9780786477623 . Retrieved February 28, 2017 . ^ Terrace, Vincent (2011). Encyclopedia of Television Shows, 1925 through 2010 (2nd ed.). Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers. p. 1043. ISBN 978-0-7864-6477-7 ^ "The Golden Boot Awards" . The Old Corral . Archived from the original on February 28, 2017. Retrieved February 28, 2017 .
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