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Known For
Acting
Birthday
January 3, 1921
Died
January 19, 1991
Place of Birth
Los Angeles, California, USA
Also Known As
- John Lawrence Russell
- جان راسل
John Russell
1.4 Popularity
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. John Lawrence Russell was an American actor, and World War II veteran, most noted for playing Marshal Dan Troop in the successful ABC western television series Lawman from 1958 to 1962, and his lead role as international adventurer Tim Kelly in the syndicated TV series Soldiers of Fortune from 1955 to 1957. Russell signed a contract with 20th Century Fox in 1945 and made his first film appearance as a guard in A Royal Scandal. He played several supporting parts while at Fox, acting the role of a junior law partner in the Clifton Webb comedy Sitting Pretty, as well as a navy pilot in Slattery's Hurricane. Later, however, he signed with Republic Pictures where he was cast in a starring role. In 1955, Russell landed the lead role in a television drama series called Soldiers of Fortune. In 1958, Russell was cast in his best-known role: the stolid, taciturn Marshal Dan Troop, the lead character in Lawman, an ABC/Warners hit western series that ran for four years. Co-starring alongside Peter Brown, who played Deputy Johnny McKay, and Peggie Castle as Birdcage Saloon owner Lily Merrill, Russell portrayed a US frontier peace officer mentoring his younger compatriot. At the same time that Lawman premiered, Russell played an outlaw, along with Edd Byrnes and Rodolfo Hoyos Jr., in the 1958 season premiere episode of Sugarfoot, another ABC/WB hit western, with Will Hutchins in the title role. Russell also appeared in other motion pictures for Warner Bros., notably as a Sioux chieftain in Yellowstone Kelly, as well as a rich corrupt cattle-rancher, Nathan Burdette, in the highly successful Howard Hawks western Rio Bravo, starring John Wayne. Throughout the remainder of his movie career, he played secondary roles in more than 20 films, including several A.C. Lyles westerns and three films directed by his friend Clint Eastwood, most notably as Marshal Stockburn, the chief villain in Eastwood's 1985 film, Pale Rider. Russell also appeared in the second season of the Filmation children's science-fiction series Jason of Star Command. He played Commander Stone, a blue-skinned alien from Alpha Centauri. He replaced James Doohan, who had played the commander in the previous season, but left to start working on Star Trek: The Motion Picture Description above from the Wikipedia article John Russell (actor), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
4.9
Police Officer
American Nightmare
2002
6.6
Simon Stone
Under the Gun
1988
7.2
Stockburn
Pale Rider
1985
6.4
Honkytonk Man
1982
6.7
Oldtimer #2 - in Saloon
Simon & Simon
1981
0.0
Six Tickets to Hell
1981
0.0
Self
When the West Was Fun: A Western Reunion
1979
5.7
The Commander
Jason of Star Command
1978
5.0
Solis
Mission to Glory: A True Story
1977
7.4
Bloody Bill Anderson
The Outlaw Josey Wales
1976
Credits
American Nightmare
as Police Officer
2002
4.9
Under the Gun
as Simon Stone
1988
6.6
Pale Rider
as Stockburn
1985
7.2
Honkytonk Man
1982
6.4
Simon & Simon
as Oldtimer #2 - in Saloon
1981
6.7
Six Tickets to Hell
1981
0.0
When the West Was Fun: A Western Reunion
as Self
1979
0.0
Jason of Star Command
as The Commander
1978
5.7
Mission to Glory: A True Story
as Solis
1977
5.0
The Outlaw Josey Wales
as Bloody Bill Anderson
1976
7.4
Fugitive Lovers
as Harris Alexander
1975
3.3
Smoke In The Wind
as Cagle Mondier
1975
6.0
Police Story
1973
6.9
Emergency!
1972
7.8
Blood Legacy
as Frank Mantee
1971
3.4
Alias Smith and Jones
1971
7.0
Cannon for Cordoba
as General Pershing
1970
5.6
McCloud
as Harry Hague
1970
7.1
Noon Sunday
as Darmody
1970
3.2
If He Hollers, Let Him Go!
as Sheriff
1968
5.3
Fireball Jungle
as Nero Solitarius
1968
6.0
Buckskin
as Patch
1968
5.4
It Takes a Thief
as William Dover
1968
7.2
It Takes a Thief
as Peter Vale
1968
7.2
Fort Utah
as Eli Jonas
1967
3.6
Hostile Guns
as Aaron Pleasant
1967
5.1
Apache Uprising
as Vance Buckner
1965
6.2
Daniel Boone
as Amos McAleer
1964
7.0
Yellowstone Kelly
as Gall, Sioux Chief
1959
6.1
Disneyland '59
as Self
1959
6.5
Rio Bravo
as Nathan Burdette
1959
7.8
77 Sunset Strip
as Mechanical Cowboy (voice) (uncredited)
1958
6.7
Lawman
as Marshal Dan Troop
1958
5.6
Fort Massacre
as Travis
1958
6.1
The Dalton Girls
as W.T. "Illinois" Grey
1957
5.3
Hell Bound
as Jordan
1957
5.5
Maverick
1957
6.9
Maverick
as John Grimes
1957
6.9
Maverick
as Edgar Maxwell
1957
6.9
Sugarfoot
as Jeff Seward
1957
4.8
Untamed Youth
as Russ Tropp
1957
4.0
Cheyenne
1955
6.0
Gunsmoke
as Carl Ryker
1955
6.6
The Last Command
as Lt. Dickinson
1955
6.4
Soldiers of Fortune
as Tim Kelly
1955
5.0
Hell's Outpost
as Ben Hodes
1954
5.0
Studio 57
1954
0.0
Jubilee Trail
as Oliver Hale
1954
4.8
The Sun Shines Bright
as Ashby Corwin
1953
6.4
Fair Wind to Java
as Flint
1953
5.1
Hoodlum Empire
as Joe Gray
1952
6.1
Oklahoma Annie
as Dan Fraser
1952
8.0
The Barefoot Mailman
as Theron
1951
4.0
Man in the Saddle
as Hugh Clagg
1951
6.4
Fighting Coast Guard
as Barney Walker
1951
6.5
The Fat Man
as Gene Gordon
1951
5.6
Frenchie
as Lance Cole
1950
5.7
Saddle Tramp
as Rocky
1950
6.3
Undertow
as Danny Morgan
1949
6.1
The Story of Molly X
as Cash Brady
1949
4.6
The Gal Who Took the West
as Grant O'Hara
1949
5.6
Slattery's Hurricane
as Lt. F.A. 'Hobbie' Hobson
1949
5.0
Yellow Sky
as Lengthy
1948
6.9
Sitting Pretty
as Bill Philby
1948
7.0
Forever Amber
as Black Jack Mallard
1947
6.0
Somewhere in the Night
as Marine Captain (uncredited)
1946
6.7
The Dark Corner
as Policeman at Tony's Apartment (uncredited)
1946
6.5
Within These Walls
as Rogers
1945
5.0
A Bell for Adano
as Capt. Anderson (uncredited)
1945
5.7
A Royal Scandal
as Guard (uncredited)
1945
6.9
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
as Hopper Boy
1939
7.8