William Bramley

William Bramley
Bramley in Laredo (1967)
Born(1928-04-18)April 18, 1928
New York City, U.S.
DiedOctober 28, 1985(1985-10-28) (aged 57)
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Alma materBucknell University
OccupationActor
Years active1958–1984

William Bramley (April 18, 1928 – October 28, 1985) was an American actor.

Biography

Born in New York, New York, Bramley graduated from Bucknell University in 1953. While there, he was involved with the Cap and Dagger Club theatrical organization.[1]

Bramley made his film debut in the Academy Award-winning 1961 movie musical West Side Story,[2] co-directed by Robert Wise and co-starring Richard Beymer. Bramley played the role of policeman Officer Krupke. He also appeared in the 1968 film Madigan. Other film credits include Gunpoint (1966), I Love You, Alice B. Toklas (1968), Getting Straight (1970), Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came? (1970), Doctors' Wives (1971), Bless the Beasts & Children (1971), Hangup (1974), Revenge of the Cheerleaders (1976), and The Wild Life (1984).

He appeared in TV movies including Ready for the People (1964), Trial Run (1969), Michael O'Hara the Fourth (1972), The Last Day (1975), Tough Girl (1981).

Bramley played a number of characters in various TV series including the lead policeman in the second-season episode of the TV series Star Trek entitled "Bread and Circuses". Bramley made guest appearances on such TV series as Gunsmoke, Bonanza, Combat!, Straightaway, Kentucky Jones, Lassie (1969 episode "Patsy"),The Virginian, Bewitched, I Dream of Jeannie (as a policeman), Emergency!, McCloud, Gomer Pyle, and Barnaby Jones. His final television appearance was in an episode of St. Elsewhere.

Bramley died on October 28, 1985, in the Tarzana Medical Center in Tarzana, California, at the age of 57.[1]

Filmography

Film

Year Title Role Notes
1961 West Side Story Krupke
1963 The Thrill of It All Angry Driver
1968 Madigan O'Brien Uncredited
1968 I Love You, Alice B. Toklas! 1st Patrolman
1970 Getting Straight Wade Linden
1970 Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came Deputy Henry
1971 Doctors' Wives Dr. Hagstrom
1971 Bless the Beasts & Children Mr. Goodenow
1974 Hangup Simpson
1974 Freebie and the Bean Mr. Franklin Uncredited
1976 Revenge of the Cheerleaders Walter Hartlander
1984 The Wild Life Security Officer Final film role

Television

Year Title Role Notes
1955 Pond's Theater Season 2 Episode 20: "Prologue to Glory"
1958 The Phil Silvers Show Private Pete Masters Season 4 Episode 3: "Bilko's Deluxe Tours" (uncredited)
1959 The Phil Silvers Show Private Pete Masters Season 4 Episode 22: "Bilko's Sharpshooter"
1960 Diagnosis: Unknown Detective McClutchey Season 1 Episode 1: "The Case of the Radiant Wine" (uncredited)
1961 The Aquanauts Mr. Wesson Season 1 Episode 19: "The Defective Tank Adventure"
1961 The Detectives Range Manager Season 2 Episode 32: "Other Cheek"
1961 Checkmate Burke Season 2 Episode 2: "The Button Down Break"
1962 Straightaway Season 1 Episode 19: "Escape from Darkness"
1962 Alfred Hitchcock Presents Dr. Hagerty Season 7 Episode 20: "The Test"
1962 Alcoa Premiere Bosun Ward Gallagher Season 1 Episode 20: "Seven Against the Sea"
1962 The Tall Man Bart Tugwell Season 2 Episode 34: "The Runaway Groom"
1962 The Untouchables Stephen Millerick Season 4 Episode 8: "Elegy"
1962 Laramie Hanson Season 4 Episode 1: "Among the Missing"
1962 The Alfred Hitchcock Hour Lieutenant McDonald Season 1 Episode 14: "The Tender Poisoner"
1962 Bonanza Townsend Season 3 Episode 32: "The Long Night"
1962 Gunsmoke Browder Season 7 Episode 20: "Half Straight"
1962 Gunsmoke Davis Henry Season 8 Episode 6: "Collie's Free"
1963 Laramie Sheriff Tulman Season 4 Episode 21: "The Renegade Brand"
1963 The Dakotas Jellicoe Season 1 Episode 3: "Mutiny at Fort Mercy"
1963 G.E. True Frank Joseph Season 1 Episode 17: "Firebug"
1963 Wide Country Mike Knudsen Season 1 Episode 28: "The Care and Handling of Tigers"
1963 Empire Marty Albee Season 1 Episode 32: "The Convention"
1963 Breaking Point Lloyd Season 1 Episode 6: "The Bull Roarer"
1963 Temple Houston Ford Conley Season 1 Episode 8: "Jubilee"
1963 Kraft Suspense Theatre District Attorney Season 1 Episode 4: "A Hero for Our Times"
1963 The Virginian Charlie Tressider Season 2 Episode 2: "To Make This Place Remember"
1964 Kraft Suspense Theatre Roy David 'Biff' Mueller Season 2 Episode 6: "The Jack Is High"
1964 Temple Houston Gus Finney Season 1 Episode 24: "Do Unto Others, Then Gallop"
1964 The Alfred Hitchcock Hour Fred Starcher Season 3 Episode 1: "The Return of Verge Likens"
1964 77 Sunset Strip Bridges Season 6 Episode 19: "Dead as in 'Dude'"
1964 The Farmer's Daughter Desk Sergeant Season 1 Episode 25: "Katy Gets Arrested"
1964 The Donna Reed Show Harvey Jay Season 6 Episode 31: "My Son the Catcher"
1964 Destry Red Brady Season 1 Episode 11: "Red Brady's Kid"
1964 The Bing Crosby Show 1st Officer Season 1 Episode 4: "The Green Couch"
1964 Ready for the People Nick Williams TV movie
1964 Tom, Dick, and Mary Sergeant Season 1 Episode 10: "And Baby Makes Four"
1964 Wendy and Me Policeman Season 1 Episode 15: "Wendy, the Woman in the Gray Flannel Suit"
1964 Lassie Chet McCabe Season 11 Episode 8: "Lassie and the Loner"
1965 The Virginian John Ferguson Season 3 Episode 25: "Timberland"
1965 The Outer Limits 'Baldy' Baldwin Season 2 Episode 16: "The Premonition"
1965 Hazel Mr. Camden Season 4 Episode 21: "Stop Rockin' Our Reception"
1965 Death Valley Days McCartney Season 13 Episode 20: "The Battle of San Francisco Bay"
1965 Kentucky Jones Cal Dryer Season 1 Episode 23: "Most Precious Gold"
1965 Slattery's People Beecher Season 2 Episode 1: "A Sitting Duck Named Slattery"
1965 Honey West George Mortimer Season 1 Episode 2: "The Owl and the Eye"
1965 Dr. Kildare Dr. Bernard Krantz Season 5 Episode 7: "Some Doors Are Slamming"
1965 Dr. Kildare Dr. Bernard Krantz Season 5 Episode 8: "Enough La Boheme for Everybody"
1965 Lost in Space Mr. Nobody Season 1 Episode 7: "My Friend, Mr. Nobody" (uncredited)
1966 Lost in Space Robotoid (voice) Season 1 Episode 20: "War of the Robots" (uncredited)
1966 Gunsmoke Jed Woodard Season 11 Episode 21: "My Father's Guitar"
1966 Gunsmoke Jake Struck Season 12 Episode 2: "The Goldtakers"
1966 The Wackiest Ship in the Army Season 1 Episode 26: "Chinese Checkers"
1966 Perry Mason Leon Vandenberg Season 9 Episode 29: "The Case of the Crafty Kidnapper"
1966 The Fugitive Tim Oates Season 3 Episode 27: "The 2130" (credited as Bill Bramley)
1966 The Fugitive Lynch Season 4 Episode 3: "A Clean and Quiet Town" (credited as Bill Bramley)
1966 The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. Ingo Season 1 Episode 7: "The Danish Blue Affair"
1966 Gomer Pyle: USMC Cop #2 Season 3 Episode 12: "Follow That Car"
1966 Combat! Desk Sergeant Season 5 Episode 12: "Gulliver"
1966 12 O'Clock High Colonel Farnum Season 3 Episode 14: "The Duel at Mont Sainte Marie"
1966 Bewitched Mr. Mills Season 3 Episode 16: "Soapbox Derby"
1966 Iron Horse Ferris Season 1 Episode 15: "A Dozen Ways to Kill a Man"
1966 The F.B.I. Ray Scott Season 1 Episode 19: "Special Delivery"
1966 The F.B.I. Steve Drake Season 2 Episode 2: "The Escape"
1967 Gunsmoke Adam Haley Season 12 Episode 25: "The Favor"
1967 Gunsmoke Turner Season 13 Episode 9: "The Pillagers"
1967 The Virginian Del Hobart Season 5 Episode 15: "Vengeance Trail"
1967 Iron Horse Sheriff Stevenson Season 2 Episode 15: "Death Has Two Faces"
1967 Laredo Luke Bergstrom Season 2 Episode 15: "The Seventh Day"
1967 The Invaders Constable Gabbard Season 1 Episode 6: "Nightmare"
1967 The Monkees Larry Season 1 Episode 27: "Monkee Mother"
1967 The Road West Anderson Season 1 Episode 26: "The Eighty-Seven Dollar Bride"
1967 Cimarron Strip Whiskey Jack Season 1 Episode 1: "Journey to a Hanging"
1967 That Girl Tim Season 2 Episode 15: "'Twas the Night Before Christmas, You're Under Arrest" (credited as Bill Bramley)
1967 The Magical World of Disney Oscar Gruber Season 13 Episode 22: "Atta Girl, Kelly! Dog of Destiny"
1968 Gunsmoke Miller Season 14 Episode 10: "The Miracle Man"
1968 The Virginian Arnold Bowden Season 6 Episode 24: "The Handy Man"
1968 The Virginian Karnes Season 7 Episode 13: "Big Tiny"
1968 Cimarron Strip Fargo Jones Season 1 Episode 16: "Fool's Gold"
1968 Lassie Police Officer Season 15 Episode 3: "The Holocaust: Part 1"
1968 Lassie Police Officer Season 15 Episode 4: "The Holocaust: Part 2"
1968 Star Trek: The Original Series Policeman Season 2 Episode 25: "Bread and Circuses"
1968 The Ugliest Girl in Town Car Salesman Season 1 Episode 1: "The Ugliest Girl in Town"
1968 Land of the Giants 1st Giant Season 1 Episode 6: "The Flight Plan"
1968 Adam-12 Mr. Cullen Season 1 Episode 4: "Log 131: Reed, the Dicks Have Their Jobs, and We Have Theirs"
1968 Lassie Mr. Munson Season 16 Episode 3: "Patsy"
1969 Gunsmoke Cane Season 14 Episode 26: "Exodus 21.22"
1969 The F.B.I. Howard Spain Season 5 Episode 12: "The Inside Man"
1969 Land of the Giants P.G. Hanley Season 2 Episode 6: "Giants and All That Jazz"
1969 That Girl Bert Weevle Season 3 Episode 24: "It's So Nice to Have a Mouse Around the House" (credited as Bill Bramley)
1969 The Outcasts Stretter Season 1 Episode 12: "They Shall Rise Up"
1969 Trial Run Karlson TV movie
1969 I Dream of Jeannie Policeman Season 4 Episode 21: "Jeannie for the Defense"
1969 Love, American Style Policeman Season 1 Episode 3: "Love and the Phone Booth"
1969 My World and Welcome to It Beeman Season 1 Episode 14: "Rally Round the Flag"
1969 The Last of the Powerseekers Sergeant Grady TV movie
1969 Ironside Joe Lorca Season 2 Episode 18: "The Prophecy"
1970 Ironside Ken Hansen Season 3 Episode 25: "Tom Dayton Is Loose Among Us"
1970 Julia Stanley Maguire Season 2 Episode 15: "The Prisoner of Brenda"
1970 Nanny and the Professor Deliveryman #1 Season 1 Episode 6: "Spring, Sweet Spring"
1970 Room 222 Coach Windish Season 2 Episode 4: "Adam's Lib"
1971 Room 222 Mr. Windisch Season 2 Episode 23: "You Can Take the Boy Out of the Country, But ..."
1971 Gunsmoke Anderson Season 17 Episode 8: "Lynott"
1971 The F.B.I. Foreman Season 7 Episode 9: "The Game of Terror"
1971 The Name of the Game Paul / Deputy Season 3 Episode 24: "The Showdown"
1971 Bearcats! Mr. Overton Season 1 Episode 4: "The Feathered Serpent"
1971 Nichols Hemmings Season 1 Episode 6: "Deer Crossing"
1971 Mod Squad Artie Ralston Season 4 Episode 12: "Real Loser" (uncredited)
1971 Cannon Lieutenant Egan Season 1 Episode 12: "Death Is a Double-Cross"
1971 McMillan & Wife Sergeant Warthheimer Season 1 Episode 1: "Murder by the Barrel"
1971 Bonanza Gifford Owens Season 12 Episode 14: "For a Young Lady"
1972 Bonanza Dan Fowler Season 13 Episode 26: "One Ace Too Many"
1972 Bonanza Harlan Moeller Season 14 Episode 3: "The Initiation"
1972 McMillan & Wife Whitey Season 2 Episode 3: "Cop of the Year"
1972 The Magical World of Disney Police Commissioner Season 18 Episode 17: "Michael O'Hara the Fourth: Part 1"
1972 The Magical World of Disney Police Commissioner Season 18 Episode 18: "Michael O'Hara the Fourth: Part 2"
1972 O'Hara, U.S. Treasury Grover Potter Season 1 Episode 18: "Operation: Dorias"
1972 Longstreet Leonard Ames Season 1 Episode 22: "Through Shattering Glass"
1972 Michael O'Hara the Fourth Police Commissioner TV movie
1972 Emergency! Sam Season 1 Episode 11: "Crash"
1972 The Delphi Bureau Dr. Kantor Season 1 Episode 3: "The White Plague Project"
1973 Gunsmoke Loomis Season 18 Episode 20: "Whelan's Men"
1973 Ironside Bert Martin Season 6 Episode 14: "Ollinger's Last Case"
1973 The F.B.I. Kurt Milkey Season 8 Episode 20: "The Double Play"
1973 The Waltons Matt Beckwith Season 1 Episode 19: "The Gypsies"
1973 McCloud Detective Sergeant Reese Season 4 Episode 2: "The Solid Gold Swingers"
1973 The Streets of San Francisco Officer Pete Morgan Season 1 Episode 25: "The Unicorn"
1973 Barnaby Jones Mike Season 2 Episode 2: "Death Leap"
1974 Ironside Brooks Season 7 Episode 15: "Once More for Joey"
1974 The Streets of San Francisco Parole Board Chief Season 2 Episode 19: "A String of Puppets"
1974 The Streets of San Francisco John Condon Season 3 Episode 3: "Target: Red"
1974 Adam-12 Fred Culligan Season 7 Episode 3: "Teamwork"
1974 Get Christie Love! Bartender Season 1 Episode 4: "Pawn Ticket for Murder"
1974 Petrocelli Milt Daniels Season 1 Episode 8: "Mirror, Mirror on the Wall ..."
1975 Petrocelli Cyrus Mitchell Season 1 Episode 18: "The Outsiders"
1975 Ironside Paul Pacheco Season 8 Episode 18: "The Rolling Y"
1975 The Streets of San Francisco Condon Season 3 Episode 23: "Solitaire"
1975 Barnaby Jones Sheriff Lunceford Season 3 Episode 24: "Bond of Fear"
1975 The Last Day Oates TV movie
1975 Barbary Coast Hatch Season 1 Episode 1: "Funny Money"
1976 Barnaby Jones Sheriff Martin Perry Season 5 Episode 7: "Voice in the Night"
1979 How the West Was Won Ferryman Season 3 Episode 5: "Hillary"
1981 Little House on the Prairie Jed Finley Season 7 Episode 19: "Blind Justice"
1981 ABC Afterschool Specials Judge M.A. Dibella Season 10 Episode 3: "Tough Girl"
1982 The Dukes of Hazzard Boss Bowman Season 5 Episode 5: "The Hazzardgate Tape"
1983 St. Elsewhere Mr. Czeski Season 2 Episode 4: "Qui Transtulit Sustinet"

References

  1. ^ a b "William Bramley, 57, actor". The Daily Item. Pennsylvania, Sunbury. November 14, 1985. p. 8. Retrieved 16 January 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
  2. ^ Williams, Whitney (27 September 1961). "Review: 'West Side Story'". Variety. ISSN 0042-2738.