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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
July 27, 1937
Died
January 8, 2009
Place of Birth
Augusta, Kentucky, USA
Also Known As
- Donald Poe Galloway
Don Galloway
0.6 Popularity
Biography
Donald Poe Galloway (July 27, 1937 – January 8, 2009, Height: 6 feet 2 inches) was an American stage, film, and television actor, best known for his role as Detective Sergeant Ed Brown in the long-running series Ironside (1967–1975). He reprised the role for a TV film in 1993. He was also a politically active Libertarian and columnist. Galloway was born in Augusta, Kentucky. His parents moved to the county in Bracken County after the Great Flood of 1937 along the Ohio River the same year he was born. Galloway was a 1955 graduate of Bracken County High School, where he played varsity basketball, and a 1959 graduate of the University of Kentucky, where he studied drama. After graduating from college, Galloway moved to New York City to pursue a career in acting. He studied with renowned acting coach Herbert Berghof and appeared in several off-Broadway productions. In 1963, he made his Broadway debut in the play Bring Me a Warm Body. Galloway's big break came in 1967 when he was cast as Detective Sergeant Ed Brown in the NBC crime drama series Ironside. The show starred Raymond Burr as Robert Ironside, a wheelchair-bound police chief who solves crimes with the help of his team of detectives, including Brown. Ironside was a critical and commercial success, and Galloway remained with the show for its entire run. After Ironside ended, Galloway continued to act in television and film. He made guest appearances on popular shows such as Mork & Mindy, The A-Team, and Murder, She Wrote. He also appeared in the films The Poseidon Adventure (1972) and Death Wish II (1982). In addition to his acting career, Galloway was also a politically active Libertarian and columnist. He wrote a weekly column for the Manchester Union Leader newspaper in New Hampshire, in which he espoused his libertarian views. Galloway died in 2009 at the age of 71 from complications of a stroke. He is survived by his wife, Linda, and four children.
Known For
6.5
FBI Guy
The Doom Generation
1995
5.1
Captain
Clifford
1994
4.8
Ed Brown
The Return of Ironside
1993
3.5
Newscaster
Original Intent
1992
7.0
Sgt. Hollenbeck
Perry Mason: The Case of the Defiant Daughter
1990
7.7
The Outsiders
1990
4.0
John Frankenheimer
Rock Hudson
1990
5.3
Listen to Me
1989
6.0
Senator Delongpre
Two Moon Junction
1988
7.1
General Hobart
Perry Mason: The Case of the Avenging Ace
1988
Credits
The Doom Generation
as FBI Guy
1995
6.5
Clifford
as Captain
1994
5.1
The Return of Ironside
as Ed Brown
1993
4.8
Original Intent
as Newscaster
1992
3.5
Perry Mason: The Case of the Defiant Daughter
as Sgt. Hollenbeck
1990
7.0
The Outsiders
1990
7.7
Rock Hudson
as John Frankenheimer
1990
4.0
Listen to Me
1989
5.3
Two Moon Junction
as Senator Delongpre
1988
6.0
Perry Mason: The Case of the Avenging Ace
as General Hobart
1988
7.1
High Mountain Rangers
1988
8.0
Matlock
as Phillip Slayton
1986
7.1
MacGyver
as Bob Stryke
1985
7.7
MacGyver
as John Collins
1985
7.7
Crazy like a Fox
as Derek
1984
7.1
Murder, She Wrote
as Elton Summers
1984
7.5
Murder, She Wrote
as Andrew Hudson
1984
7.5
E/R
1984
4.6
Automan
as Martin Willis
1983
7.8
Scarecrow and Mrs. King
as Larry Credle
1983
6.4
The Big Chill
as Richard Bowens
1983
6.8
Knight Rider
as Gilbert Cole
1982
7.5
Knight Rider
as Harley Freeman
1982
7.5
Hotel
as Ron Bowman
1982
6.8
Satan's Mistress
as Carl
1982
3.0
Condominium
as Jack Messenkott
1980
3.0
Hart to Hart
1979
6.9
🎬
Hizzonner
1979
5.0
🎬
Once Upon a Starry Night
as Sam
1978
0.0
Vega$
1978
7.0
Mork & Mindy
1978
7.0
Dallas
as Patrick Knelman
1978
6.8
Ski Lift to Death
as Ron Corley
1978
0.0
CHiPs
as Steve Marshall
1977
6.8
Cover Girls
as James Andrews
1977
5.0
Grizzly Adams
as Pinkerton
1977
7.1
Grizzly Adams
as Sam
1977
7.1
Charlie's Angels
as John Gorman
1976
6.7
Riding with Death
as John Hiller
1976
2.6
Medical Story
1975
3.0
You Lie So Deep, My Love
as Neal Collins
1975
1.0
Dinah!
as Self
1974
6.7
Police Woman
1974
6.2
Police Woman
as Lieutenant Buckles
1974
6.2
Movin' On
1974
6.4
Portrait: A Man Whose Name Was John
as Monsignor Thomas Ryan
1973
0.0
The ABC Afternoon Playbreak
as Martin Thatcher
1972
0.0
Lieutenant Schuster's Wife
as Lt. Danny Reilly
1972
0.0
The Priest Killer
as Det. Sgt. Ed Brown
1971
0.0
Love, American Style
1969
6.1
Medical Center
1969
6.1
Marcus Welby, M.D.
as Bill Hull
1969
6.5
Split Second to an Epitaph
as Det. Sgt. Ed Brown
1968
0.0
Rough Night in Jericho
as Jace
1967
6.6
The Ride to Hangman's Tree
as Nevada
1967
4.5
Ironside
as Ed Brown
1967
6.8
Ironside
as Det. Sgt. Ed Brown
1967
5.0
Gunfight in Abilene
as Ward Kent
1967
6.5
The Rare Breed
as Jamie Bowen
1966
6.1
Run for Your Life
as Gordon Von Rhine
1965
7.2
🎬
The John Forsythe Show
as Col. Charles Craig
1965
5.0
🎬
Tom, Dick and Mary
as Tom Gentry
1964
5.0
12 O'Clock High
as Capt. Bruce Cowley
1964
7.2
Arrest and Trial
as Mitchell Harris
1963
7.7
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
as Al Aguilar
1962
7.8
The Virginian
as Jack Henderson
1962
6.4
The Virginian
as Jim Tyson
1962
6.4
🎬
The Secret Storm
1954
3.7