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Known For
Acting
Birthday
June 28, 1928
Died
August 17, 1991
Place of Birth
Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Also Known As
- Donald Gene Dubbins
Don Dubbins
0.5 Popularity
Biography
Don Dubbins (June 28, 1928 - August 17, 1991), originally Donald Dubbins, was an American actor of film and television who in his early career usually played younger military roles, particularly in such classic pictures as From Here to Eternity (1953) and The Caine Mutiny (1954). Screen giant James Cagney took a liking to Dubbins and procured roles for him in two 1956 films, These Wilder Years and Tribute to a Bad Man. In the former, Dubbins played Cagney's long-lost adopted son; in the latter, he was in a romantic triangle with cattle boss Cagney for the affections of a senorita. In 1957, Dubbins played a callow young United States Marines private in Jack Webb's The D.I. In 1958, Dubbins was cast in From the Earth to the Moon, a science fiction picture based on Jules Verne's novel of the same title. As Dubbins matured, he appeared in such films as The Prize in 1963, The Illustrated Man (based on a Ray Bradbury novel) in 1969, and Death Wish II in 1982. Dubbins appeared in many television roles, including four episodes each of CBS's Gunsmoke, Perry Mason and Rawhide in Season 1/14 Incident of the Dog Days. In 1960, Dubbins appeared in the episode "Elegy" of CBS's The Twilight Zone. That same year he guest starred with Mel Torme in NBC's crime drama Dan Raven starring Skip Homeier. In 1961, he played a deputy who inadvertently killed his outlaw-brother in an episode of Stagecoach West, a Four Star Television series on ABC. He later appeared on the CBS anthology The Lloyd Bridges Show, and with Walter Brennan in ABC's The Guns of Will Sonnett. He appeared in the 1965 pilot episode of I Dream of Jeannie, and returned for one of the series' final episodes (as a different character) in 1970. In 1966, Dubbins appeared with Robert F. Simon as guest stars in the episode "Long Journey to Leavenworth" in the NBC series The Road West, starring Barry Sullivan, Andrew Prine, and Glenn Corbett. Dubbins appeared twice on NBC's Little House on the Prairie with Michael Landon and five times on CBS's Barnaby Jones crime drama with Buddy Ebsen. Dubbins appeared in several episodes of Jack Webb's Dragnet 1967 series on NBC. Dubbins played the part of Billy Carter in "The Incident of the Dog Days" on Rawhide. Dubbins' last TV roles were in episodes of CBS's Knots Landing (1979), ABC's Dynasty (1981), and NBC's Highway to Heaven (1984). The Brooklyn-born Dubbins retired to Greenville, South Carolina, where his last acting was at the Warehouse Theater as Willy Loman in Death of a Salesman. He succumbed to cancer at the age of sixty-three. Description above from the Wikipedia article Don Dubbins, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Credits
Separate But Equal
as Professor Al Kelly
1991
6.5
Separate but Equal
as Professor Al Kelly
1991
6.0
Murder, She Wrote
as Dr. Charmichael
1984
7.5
Highway to Heaven
1984
7.4
Highway to Heaven
as Don Weston
1984
7.4
Hunter
as John
1984
7.1
The Fix
as Sheriff Bower
1984
0.0
Death Wish II
as Mike
1982
6.2
Simon & Simon
1981
6.7
Dynasty
1981
6.4
Knots Landing
as Doctor
1979
6.7
Fantasy Island
as Dr. Sidney Block
1978
6.4
The Incredible Hulk
as Sgt. Murkland
1977
7.2
Movin' On
1974
6.4
Little House on the Prairie
1974
7.9
Petrocelli
as Joseph Bear
1974
7.2
The Manhunter
1974
5.0
Run, Joe, Run
1974
6.3
Nightmare at 43 Hillcrest
as Sanford Bates
1974
0.0
The Six Million Dollar Man
as Zack Meesham
1974
7.3
Outrage!
as Mr. Werner
1973
6.1
Barnaby Jones
as John Riley
1973
6.9
Barnaby Jones
as Sheriff Mason
1973
6.9
Barnaby Jones
as Frank Auburn
1973
6.9
Kung Fu
as Meador
1972
7.7
Search
1972
6.9
The Rookies
1972
6.8
The Hoax
as Sergeant O'Roherty
1972
5.0
Cannon
1971
6.6
Run, Simon, Run
as Freddie Tomb
1970
4.7
Dan August
as Arnold Cane
1970
6.8
Then Came Bronson
as Al
1969
4.8
The Learning Tree
as Harley Davis, Defense Attorney
1969
6.7
The Illustrated Man
as Pickard
1969
5.5
The Mod Squad
as Leonard Gault
1968
6.2
The Mod Squad
as Teddy Capp
1968
6.2
Adam-12
as Officer Tyson
1968
7.0
Mannix
1967
6.7
The Guns of Will Sonnett
1967
6.2
Gunfight in Abilene
as Rod Sprague
1967
6.5
Dragnet
as Steve Deal
1967
6.9
Dragnet
as Billy Catcher
1967
6.9
Dragnet
as Donald L. Chapman
1967
6.9
The Invaders
as Wesley J. Sanders
1967
6.8
The F.B.I.
as Joel Polk
1965
5.4
The F.B.I.
as McKinney
1965
5.4
The F.B.I.
as Al, the Gas Station Owner
1965
5.4
I Dream of Jeannie
as Pete Conway
1965
7.8
I Dream of Jeannie
as Jay Russell
1965
7.8
The Big Valley
as Grady Shanks
1965
6.1
The Prize
as Ivar Cramer, Light Henchman
1963
6.7
Kraft Suspense Theatre
as Corporal Shale
1963
5.3
The Great Adventure
as Jason Chiles
1963
0.0
Petticoat Junction
as Smokey Harner
1963
5.7
The Fugitive
as McCaffrey
1963
7.2
The Fugitive
as Horton
1963
7.2
General Electric True
1962
0.0
The Virginian
as Albi
1962
6.4
Route 66
1960
6.3
Hawaiian Eye
1959
5.2
Adventures in Paradise
as Big Ed Brody
1959
5.7
The Alaskans
1959
5.5
The Twilight Zone
as Peter Kirby
1959
8.5
Johnny Ringo
as Harley Crale
1959
5.7
Law of the Plainsman
as Mite Rankin
1959
6.0
Men Into Space
1959
7.0
Wichita Town
1959
4.2
Bonanza
as Todd McCarren
1959
7.5
One Step Beyond
as First Mate Walter Blake
1959
5.6
From the Earth to the Moon
as Ben Sharpe
1958
5.1
Enchanted Island
as Tom
1958
4.5
77 Sunset Strip
1958
6.7
The Rifleman
1958
7.1
Wanted: Dead or Alive
as Randy Holleran
1958
6.8
Shirley Temple's Storybook
as Prince Peter
1958
6.2
Perry Mason
as Hartley Elliott
1957
7.7
Perry Mason
as Deputy D.A. Vincent
1957
7.7
Perry Mason
as Kenneth Dalgran
1957
7.7
Perry Mason
as Ned Bertell
1957
7.7
Perry Mason
as Burt Blair
1957
7.7
Perry Mason
as Deputy D.A. Bill Vincent
1957
7.7
Perry Mason
as Bill Vincent
1957
7.7
M Squad
as Stick Wilson
1957
5.2
Sugarfoot
as Vic Bradley
1957
4.8
Sugarfoot
as Sid Garnin
1957
4.8
The D.I.
as Pvt. Owens
1957
7.1
These Wilder Years
as Mark
1956
6.3
Tribute to a Bad Man
as Steve Miller
1956
7.0
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Philip Pryor
1955
7.8
Gunsmoke
as Lootie
1955
6.6
Gunsmoke
as Potts
1955
6.6
Gunsmoke
as Orkey
1955
6.6
Gunsmoke
as Wendt
1955
6.6
Climax!
as Chris Barker
1954
3.3
The Caine Mutiny
as Seaman 1st Class Urban (uncredited)
1954
7.2
From Here to Eternity
as Pvt. Friday Clark - Bugler (uncredited)
1953
7.3
From Here to Eternity
as Pvt. Friday Clark (uncredited)
1953
7.3
Robert Montgomery Presents
as Luke
1950
5.6
Kraft Television Theatre
1947
7.5