Allen Case was an American

United States

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 television actor most noted for the lead role of Deputy Clay McCord in NBC

NBC

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's The Deputy

The Deputy (TV series)

The Deputy is a 1959-1961 half-hour NBC western series featuring Henry Fonda as Chief Marshal Simon Fry of the Arizona Territory and Allen Case as Deputy Clay McCord, a storekeeper who tried to avoid using a gun.-Production:...

(1959–1961) opposite series regular Henry Fonda

Henry Fonda

Henry Jaynes Fonda was an American film and stage actor.Fonda made his mark early as a Broadway actor. He also appeared in 1938 in plays performed in White Plains, New York, with Joan Tompkins...

 (who received top billing but appeared far less frequently). In the second season, The Deputy introduced Read Morgan

Read Morgan

Read Morgan is a former American actor whose longest-running role was as a United States Army cavalry officer in the 1960-1961 season of The Deputy, a western television series on NBC created by Norman Lear. Morgan appeared in thirty episodes as the one-eyed Sergeant Hapgood Tasker, recognized by...

 to the cast in the role of the one-eyed Sergeant

Sergeant

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 Hapgood Tasker of the United States Army

United States Army

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 cavalry

Cavalry

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Case made more than thirty television appearances between 1958 and 1982, often in cowboy roles. On December 3, 1959, he appeared on NBC's The Ford Show, Starring Tennessee Ernie Ford

The Ford Show

The Ford Show is a half-hour comedy/variety program, starring singer and folk humorist Tennessee Ernie Ford, which aired in color on NBC television on Thursday evenings from October 4, 1956 to June 29, 1961....

, a variety program

Variety show

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 with a Country

Country music

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 and western theme.

In the 1965-1966 season, Case co-starred as Frank James

Frank James

Alexander Franklin "Frank" James was a famous American outlaw. He was the older brother of outlaw Jesse James.-Childhood:...

 with Christopher Jones

Christopher Jones (actor)

William "Billy" Frank Jones, better known as Christopher Jones, is an American character actor, born August 18, 1941 in Jackson, Tennessee....

 in the title role of the ABC

American Broadcasting Company

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 western series The Legend of Jesse James

The Legend of Jesse James (TV series)

The Legend of Jesse James is a 34-episode western television series starring Christopher Jones in the tile role of notorious outlaw Jesse James which aired on ABC from September 13, 1965, to May 9, 1966...

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Case was reared in Dallas

Dallas, Texas

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, Texas

Texas

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. He briefly attended Southern Methodist University

Southern Methodist University

Southern Methodist University is a private university in Dallas, Texas, United States. Founded in 1911 by the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, SMU operates campuses in Dallas, Plano, and Taos, New Mexico. SMU is owned by the South Central Jurisdiction of the United Methodist Church...

 in Dallas. He died in Truckee

Truckee, California

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, California

California

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