James Griffith
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James Griffith was an American
character actor
, musician
and screenwriter
.
, Griffith aspired to be a musician rather than an actor. Instead, he managed to find work in little theatres around Los Angeles, where the budding musician eased into a dual career of acting. He found success in the production They Can't Get You Down in 1939, but put his career on hold during World War II
to serve with the U.S. military. Following the war, Griffith switched from the stage to films when he appeared in the 1948 film noir
picture Blonde Ice
. From then on, he enjoyed a lengthy career of supporting
and bit roles
(sometimes uncredited) in westerns
and detective films.
Though Griffith was generally cast as the outlaw in Western
pictures, he managed to garner a few memorable "good guy" roles over his many years in Hollywood – Abraham Lincoln
in both 1950's Stage to Tucson and 1955's Apache Ambush, sheriff Pat Garrett
in 1954's The Law vs. Billy the Kid, John Wesley Hardin
in a 1959 television episode of Maverick
entitled "Duel at Sundown" featuring Clint Eastwood
, and Davy Crockett
in 1956's The First Texan. Griffith also made more than 70 guest appearances on television shows like The Lone Ranger
, Gunsmoke
, Perry Mason
, Dragnet and Little House on the Prairie
. He also had recurring roles in two 1950's T.V. series; Robert Culp
's Trackdown
and Sheriff of Cochise
starring John Bromfield
. As a somewhat "extra" activity, Griffith played the Reverend in Black and the opening, closing, and a few in the middle scenes in the 1964 Russ Meyer film Lorna, starring Lorna Maitland in one of Russ's bigger black & white 'skin' movies before the height of his career with Beyond the Valley of the Dolls in 1968.
Throughout his acting career, Griffith continued to practice his original love of music, performing in Spike Jones
' band and composing music for the 1958 film Bullwhip and the 1964 film Lorna
(in which he also had a role and served as screenwriter). Griffith made his last onscreen appearance in a 1982 episode of Dallas
.
United States
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character actor
Character actor
A character actor is one who predominantly plays unusual or eccentric characters. The Oxford English Dictionary defines a character actor as "an actor who specializes in character parts", defining character part in turn as "an acting role displaying pronounced or unusual characteristics or...
, musician
Musician
A musician is an artist who plays a musical instrument. It may or may not be the person's profession. Musicians can be classified by their roles in performing music and writing music.Also....* A person who makes music a profession....
and screenwriter
Screenwriter
Screenwriters or scriptwriters or scenario writers are people who write/create the short or feature-length screenplays from which mass media such as films, television programs, Comics or video games are based.-Profession:...
.
Career
Born in Los AngelesLos Ángeles
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, Griffith aspired to be a musician rather than an actor. Instead, he managed to find work in little theatres around Los Angeles, where the budding musician eased into a dual career of acting. He found success in the production They Can't Get You Down in 1939, but put his career on hold during World War II
World War II
World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
to serve with the U.S. military. Following the war, Griffith switched from the stage to films when he appeared in the 1948 film noir
Film noir
Film noir is a cinematic term used primarily to describe stylish Hollywood crime dramas, particularly those that emphasize cynical attitudes and sexual motivations. Hollywood's classic film noir period is generally regarded as extending from the early 1940s to the late 1950s...
picture Blonde Ice
Blonde Ice
- Cast :*Robert Paige as Les Burns*Leslie Brooks as Claire Cummings Hanneman*Russ Vincent as Blackie Talon, the Pilot*Michael Whalen as Stanley Mason, Attorney*James Griffith as Al Herrick*Emory Parnell as Police Capt. Bill Murdock*Walter Sande as Hack Doyle...
. From then on, he enjoyed a lengthy career of supporting
Supporting actor
A supporting actor is an actor who performs roles in a play or film other than that of the leads.These roles range from bit parts to secondary leads. They are sometimes but not necessarily character roles. A supporting actor must also use restraint not to upstage the main actor/actress in the...
and bit roles
Bit part
A bit part is a supporting acting role with at least one line of dialogue . In British television, bit parts are referred to as under sixes...
(sometimes uncredited) in westerns
Western (genre)
The Western is a genre of various visual arts, such as film, television, radio, literature, painting and others. Westerns are devoted to telling stories set primarily in the latter half of the 19th century in the American Old West, hence the name. Some Westerns are set as early as the Battle of...
and detective films.
Though Griffith was generally cast as the outlaw in Western
Western (genre)
The Western is a genre of various visual arts, such as film, television, radio, literature, painting and others. Westerns are devoted to telling stories set primarily in the latter half of the 19th century in the American Old West, hence the name. Some Westerns are set as early as the Battle of...
pictures, he managed to garner a few memorable "good guy" roles over his many years in Hollywood – Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln was the 16th President of the United States, serving from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. He successfully led his country through a great constitutional, military and moral crisis – the American Civil War – preserving the Union, while ending slavery, and...
in both 1950's Stage to Tucson and 1955's Apache Ambush, sheriff Pat Garrett
Pat Garrett
Patrick Floyd "Pat" Garrett was an American Old West lawman, bartender, and customs agent who was best known for killing Billy the Kid...
in 1954's The Law vs. Billy the Kid, John Wesley Hardin
John Wesley Hardin
John Wesley Hardin was an American outlaw, gunfighter, and controversial folk hero of the Old West. He was born in Bonham, Texas. Hardin found himself in trouble with the law at an early age, and spent the majority of his life being pursued by both local lawmen and federal troops of the...
in a 1959 television episode of Maverick
Maverick (TV series)
Maverick is a western television series with comedic overtones created by Roy Huggins. The show ran from September 22, 1957 to July 8, 1962 on ABC and stars James Garner as Bret Maverick, a cagey, articulate cardsharp. Eight episodes into the first season, he was joined by Jack Kelly as his brother...
entitled "Duel at Sundown" featuring Clint Eastwood
Clint Eastwood
Clinton "Clint" Eastwood, Jr. is an American film actor, director, producer, composer and politician. Eastwood first came to prominence as a supporting cast member in the TV series Rawhide...
, and Davy Crockett
Davy Crockett
David "Davy" Crockett was a celebrated 19th century American folk hero, frontiersman, soldier and politician. He is commonly referred to in popular culture by the epithet "King of the Wild Frontier". He represented Tennessee in the U.S...
in 1956's The First Texan. Griffith also made more than 70 guest appearances on television shows like The Lone Ranger
The Lone Ranger
The Lone Ranger is a fictional masked Texas Ranger who, with his Native American companion Tonto, fights injustice in the American Old West. The character has become an enduring icon of American culture....
, Gunsmoke
Gunsmoke
Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman MacDonnell and writer John Meston. The stories take place in and around Dodge City, Kansas, during the settlement of the American West....
, Perry Mason
Perry Mason (TV series)
Perry Mason is an American legal drama produced by Paisano Productions that ran from September 1957 to May 1966 on CBS. The title character, portrayed by Raymond Burr, is a fictional Los Angeles defense attorney who originally appeared in detective fiction by Erle Stanley Gardner...
, Dragnet and Little House on the Prairie
Little House on the Prairie (TV series)
Little House on the Prairie is an American Western drama television series, starring Michael Landon and Melissa Gilbert, about a family living on a farm in Walnut Grove, Minnesota, in the 1870s and 1880s. The show was an adaptation of Laura Ingalls Wilder's best-selling series of Little House books...
. He also had recurring roles in two 1950's T.V. series; Robert Culp
Robert Culp
Robert Martin Culp was an American actor, scriptwriter, voice actor and director, widely known for his work in television. Culp first earned an international reputation for his role as Kelly Robinson on I Spy , the espionage series in which he and co-star Bill Cosby played a pair of secret agents...
's Trackdown
Trackdown
Trackdown is an American Western television series starring Robert Culp that aired on CBS between 1957 and 1959. The series offered more than seventy episodes and was produced by Dick Powell's Four Star Television and filmed at the Desilu-Culver Studio...
and Sheriff of Cochise
Sheriff of Cochise
Sheriff of Cochise , renamed U.S. Marshal , is a 58-episode syndicated western-themed crime drama set in Arizona and starring John Bromfield as law enforcement officer Frank Morgan. In the first two seasons, Morgan was sheriff of Cochise County...
starring John Bromfield
John Bromfield
John Bromfield was an American film and television actor.Bromfield was born in South Bend, Indiana. He played football and was a boxing champion in college. He served in the United States Navy. In 1948, he twice harpooned a whale in the documentary film Harpoon...
. As a somewhat "extra" activity, Griffith played the Reverend in Black and the opening, closing, and a few in the middle scenes in the 1964 Russ Meyer film Lorna, starring Lorna Maitland in one of Russ's bigger black & white 'skin' movies before the height of his career with Beyond the Valley of the Dolls in 1968.
Throughout his acting career, Griffith continued to practice his original love of music, performing in Spike Jones
Spike Jones
Mel Blanc, the voice of Bugs Bunny and other Warner Brothers cartoon characters, performed a drunken, hiccuping verse for 1942's "Clink! Clink! Another Drink"...
' band and composing music for the 1958 film Bullwhip and the 1964 film Lorna
Lorna (film)
Lorna is a 1964 film by Russ Meyer. Shot mainly on the small main street that runs through the town of Locke, California in September 1963, this was Meyer's first film in 35 mm. It was Meyer's first film to employ a dramatic storyline, the most expensive film he had filmed to date, and the first of...
(in which he also had a role and served as screenwriter). Griffith made his last onscreen appearance in a 1982 episode of Dallas
Dallas (TV series)
Dallas is an American serial drama/prime time soap opera that revolves around the Ewings, a wealthy Texas family in the oil and cattle-ranching industries. Throughout the series, Larry Hagman stars as greedy, scheming oil baron J. R. Ewing...
.
Selected filmography
| Film | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Film | Role | Notes |
| 1948 | Every Girl Should Be Married Every Girl Should Be Married Every Girl Should Be Married is a 1948 romantic comedy film starring Cary Grant and Betsy Drake. -Plot summary:... |
Insurance salesman | Uncredited |
| 1949 | Holiday Affair Holiday Affair Holiday Affair is a black-and-white 1949 light romantic comedy film starring Robert Mitchum and Janet Leigh. This modest film, directed and produced by Don Hartman, saw Mitchum expand from his typical roles in film noir and war films.... |
Crowley's floorwalker | Uncredited |
| Fighting Man of the Plains Fighting Man of the Plains Fighting Man of the Plains is a 1949 film directed by Edwin L. Marin. It stars Randolph Scott and Bill Williams.-Cast:*Randolph Scott as Jim Dancer*Bill Williams as Marshal Johnny Tancred*Victor Jory as Dave Oldham*Jane Nigh as Florence Peel... |
a Quantrill raider | uncredited | |
| 1950 | Young Man with a Horn Young Man with a Horn (film) Young Man with a Horn is a 1950 drama film based on a biographical novel of the same name aboutBix Beiderbecke, the legendary jazz cornetist... |
Walt | Uncredited |
| 1951 | As Young as You Feel As Young as You Feel As Young as You Feel is a comedy film starring Monty Woolley, Thelma Ritter, and David Wayne, with Marilyn Monroe in a small role.-Plot:... |
Cashier | Uncredited |
| 1952 | Red Skies of Montana Red Skies of Montana Red Skies of Montana is a 1952 adventure drama in which smoke jumper Cliff Mason, Richard Widmark, attempts to save his crew while being over-run by a forest fire, not only to save his men, but to redeem himself after his last fire when he was the only survivor.The film was very loosely based on... |
Boise Peterson | Alternative title: Smoke Jumpers |
| 1953 | Kansas Pacific Kansas Pacific (film) Kansas Pacific is a 1953 U.S. Cinecolor western film released by Allied Artists Pictures and directed by Ray Nazarro. It stars Sterling Hayden and Eve Miller. The movie offers a fictionalized account of the struggle to build the Kansas Pacific Railway in the 1860s during the American Civil War... |
Joe Farley, Railroad guard | |
| 1954 | The Boy from Oklahoma The Boy from Oklahoma The Boy from Oklahoma is a 1954 Western movie directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Will Rogers, Jr. The film became the basis for the 1957 Warner Bros. television series Sugarfoot, in which Will Hutchins replaced Rogers as lead character Tom Brewster. The movie features Lon Chaney, Jr. and... |
Joe Downey, Alderman | |
| The Law vs. Billy the Kid | Pat Garrett, Sheriff | ||
| 1955 | Count Three and Pray Count Three and Pray (film) Count Three and Pray is a 1955 CinemaScope western film starring Van Heflin, Joanne Woodward and Raymond Burr. It was based on the story Calico Pony Count Three and Pray is a 1955 CinemaScope western film starring Van Heflin, Joanne Woodward (in her film debut) and Raymond Burr. It was based on... |
Swallow | Alternative title: The Calico Pony |
| Apache Ambush Apache Ambush Apache Ambush is a 1955 western film, released by Columbia Pictures, directed by Fred F. Sears and starring Bill Williams and Richard Jaeckel.-Plot:... |
President Abraham Lincoln | ||
| 1956 | Tribute to a Bad Man Tribute to a Bad Man Tribute to a Bad Man is a 1956 western film starring James Cagney about a rancher whose harsh enforcement of frontier justice alienates the woman he loves. It was directed by Robert Wise and based on the short story "Hanging's for the Lucky" by Jack Schaefer.-Plot:Rustlers rob horses belonging to... |
Barjak | |
| 1957 | Raintree County Raintree County (film) Raintree County is a 1957 Technicolor film drama about the American Civil War. It was directed by Edward Dmytryk. The film stars Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, Eva Marie Saint, and Lee Marvin.... |
Mr. Gray's searching companion | Uncredited |
| 1958 | Seven Guns to Mesa Seven Guns to Mesa Seven Guns to Mesa is a 1958 Western, directed by Edward Dein.-Cast:*Charles Quinlivan .... John Trey*Lola Albright ... Julie Westcott*James Griffith ... Papa Clellan*Jay Adler ... Ben Avery*Jack Carr ... Sam Denton*Dan Sheridan ... Simmons... |
Papa Clellan | |
| 1959 | The Big Fisherman The Big Fisherman The Big Fisherman is a 1959 American film directed by Frank Borzage about the later life of Peter, one of the closest disciples of Jesus.The film is adapted from a novel written by Lloyd C. Douglas... |
Beggar | |
| 1960 | The Amazing Transparent Man The Amazing Transparent Man The Amazing Transparent Man is a 1960 science fiction film starring Marguerite Chapman. It is an American B-movie which follows the story of an insane ex-U. S. Army major who uses an escaped criminal to steal materials to improve the invisibility machine his scientist prisoner made. It was one of... |
Maj. Paul Krenner | |
| 1961 | Pocketful of Miracles Pocketful of Miracles Pocketful of Miracles is a 1961 American comedy film that stars Bette Davis and Glenn Ford, directed by Frank Capra. The screenplay by Hal Kanter and Harry Tugend is based on the screenplay Lady for a Day by Robert Riskin, which was adapted from the Damon Runyon short story "Madame La Gimp".The... |
Briscoe | Uncredited |
| 1962 | How the West Was Won How the West Was Won (film) How the West Was Won is a 1962 American epic Western film. The picture was one of the last "old-fashioned" epic films made by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer to enjoy great success. It follows four generations of a family as they move ever westward, from western New York state to the Pacific Ocean... |
Poker player with Cleve | Uncredited |
| 1964 | Advance to the Rear Advance to the Rear Advance to the Rear is a light-hearted 1964 western comedy film set in the American Civil War. It stars Glenn Ford, Stella Stevens and Melvyn Douglas and is directed by George Marshall. The film is based on the 1957 novel Company of Cowards by Jack Schaefer, with the film having that title in... |
Hugo Zattig | Alternative title: Company of Cowards? |
| 1968 | Day of the Evil Gun Day of the Evil Gun Day of the Evil Gun is a 1968 American traditional western starring Glenn Ford, Arthur Kennedy and Dean Jagger. It was directed by Jerry Thorpe.-Plot:... |
Storekeeper - Hazenville | |
| 1969 | Heaven with a Gun Heaven with a Gun Heaven with a Gun is a 1969 western film starring Glenn Ford as Jim Killian, a preacher who arrives in a town divided between cattlemen and sheep herders. But Killian isn't just any preacher. He is a former fast gun who has set upon a different path... |
Abraham Murdock (sheepherder) | |
| Television | |||
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1952 | Hopalog Cassidy | Roscoe Hicks | 1 episode |
| 1953 | Cavalcade of America Cavalcade of America Cavalcade of America is an anthology drama series that was sponsored by the DuPont Company, although it occasionally presented a musical, such as an adaptation of Show Boat, and condensed biographies of popular composers. It was initially broadcast on radio from 1935 to 1953, and later on... |
Abraham Lincoln | 1 episode |
| 1954 | City Detective City Detective (TV series) City Detective is a half-hour syndicated crime drama starring Rod Cameron as 43-year-old Bart Grant, a tough 1950s New York City police lieutenant. The first of three consecutive Rod Cameron series, City Detective aired between January 1, 1953 and May 10, 1955... |
Harry | 1 episode |
| Schlitz Playhouse of Stars Schlitz Playhouse of Stars Schlitz Playhouse of Stars, is a weekly CBS anthology television series, was telecast on Friday nights from 1951 until 1959. Offering both comedies and drama, the series was sponsored by Schlitz beer... |
Raymond Andrews | 1 episode | |
| 1957 | The Gray Ghost The Gray Ghost (TV series) The Gray Ghost is an American historical series which aired in syndication from October 10, 1957, to July 3, 1958. It depicts the true story of Major John Singleton Mosby, a Virginia officer in the Confederate Army, whose cunning and stealth earned him the nickname "Gray Ghost".-Synopsis:The Gray... |
Buddy | 1 episode |
| The Adventures of Jim Bowie The Adventures of Jim Bowie In September of 1956 a TV series named "The Adventures of Jim Bowie" was aired on ABC. The show was only on the air for two years from 1956 to 1958. The series' music was unique in that is was primarily vocal, provided by Ken Darby and The King's Men .-Synopsis:The series stars Scott Forbes as the... |
Jud Cameron | 1 episode | |
| 1958 | Frontier Justice Frontier Justice (TV series) For the NBC western anthology, see Frontier .Frontier Justice is a CBS television Western anthology series which had thirty-one telecasts over the summers of 1958, 1959, and 1961. It was a repackaging of episodes from CBS's Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theater, and was hosted by Lew Ayres, Melvyn... |
Taggert | 1 episode |
| Jefferson Drum Jefferson Drum Jefferson Drum is an American Western television series starring Jeff Richards and Eugene Martin on the NBC network that aired from April 25 to December 11, 1958.-Overview:... |
Troy Bendick | 1 episode | |
| 1959 | Rescue 8 Rescue 8 Rescue 8 is a syndicated American action drama series about Los Angeles County Fire Department Rescue Squad Number 8. It premiered in 1958, and originally ran for two seasons with syndicated reruns continuing for almost a decade after. It starred Jim Davis as fireman Wes Cameron, and Lang Jeffries... |
Ramases | 1 episode |
| Wichita Town Wichita Town Wichita Town is a half-hour western television series starring Joel McCrea, Jody McCrea, Carlos Romero, and George Neise that aired on NBC from September 30, 1959, until April 6, 1960.... |
Vic Parker | 1 episode | |
| Sheriff of Cochise Sheriff of Cochise Sheriff of Cochise , renamed U.S. Marshal , is a 58-episode syndicated western-themed crime drama set in Arizona and starring John Bromfield as law enforcement officer Frank Morgan. In the first two seasons, Morgan was sheriff of Cochise County... |
Deputy Tom Ferguson | series regular 1959-1960 | |
| 1961 | Two Faces West Two Faces West Two Faces West is a 39-episode half-hour syndicated television western series set in Gunnison in southwestern Colorado, which aired from October 17, 1960, to July 31, 1961. It stars Scottish native Charles Bateman in the dual roles of twin brothers, Rick January, M.D., and Marshal Ben January... |
Les Hardy | 1 episode |
| The Lawless Years The Lawless Years The Lawless Years is the first television crime drama set during the Roaring 20s, having predated ABC's far more successful The Untouchables with Robert Stack by six months. The 47-episode half-hour series aired nonconsecutively on NBC from April 16 to August 27, 1959, from October 1, 1959, to... |
Jonathan Willis | 1 episode | |
| 1962 | Tales of Wells Fargo Tales of Wells Fargo Tales of Wells Fargo is an American Western television series that ran from March 18, 1957 to June 2, 1962 on NBC. Produced by Revue Productions, the series aired in a half-hour format until its final season when it expanded to an hour.-Synopsis:... |
Roland Jensen | 1 episode |
| Lawman Lawman (tv series) Lawman is an American Western television series originally telecast from 1958 to 1962 starring John Russell as Marshal Dan Troop and featuring Peter Brown as Deputy Marshal Johnny McKay on the ABC Television Network. The series was set in Laramie, Wyoming during the mid to late 1870s. Warner Bros.... |
Heracles Snead | 1 episode | |
| 1963 | Ben Casey Ben Casey Ben Casey is an American medical drama series which ran on ABC from 1961 to 1966. The show was known for its opening titles, which consisted of a hand drawing the symbols "♂, ♀, *, †, ∞" on a chalkboard, as cast member Sam Jaffe intoned, "Man, woman, birth, death, infinity." Neurosurgeon Joseph... |
John Randall | 1 episode |
| The Untouchables The Untouchables (1959 TV series) The Untouchables is an American crime drama that ran from 1959 to 1963 on ABC. Based on the memoir of the same name by Eliot Ness and Oscar Fraley, it fictionalized the experiences of Eliot Ness, a real-life Prohibition agent, as he fought crime in Chicago during the 1930s with the help of a... |
Monk Lyselle | 1 episode | |
| 1964 | The Great Adventure The Great Adventure (TV series) The Great Adventure is a historical anthology series that appeared on CBS for the 1963-1964 television season. The series, hosted each week by Van Heflin, and featuring theme music by Richard Rodgers, presented each week a one-hour dramatization of the lives of famous Americans and important... |
Harry Young | 1 episode |
| Slattery's People Slattery's People Slattery's People is a 1964-1965 American television series about local politics starring Richard Crenna as title character James Slattery, a state legislator, co-starring Ed Asner and Tol Avery, and featuring Carroll O'Connor and Warren Oates in a couple of episodes each. James E. Moser was... |
Emmett Logan | 1 episode | |
| 1965 | The Rouges The Rogues (TV series) The Rogues is an American television series that appeared on NBC from September 13, 1964 to April 18, 1965, starring David Niven, Charles Boyer, and Gig Young as a related trio of former conmen who could, for the right price, be persuaded to trick a very wealthy and very unscrupulous mark... |
Bert | 1 episode |
| Laredo Laredo (TV series) Laredo is an NBC Western television series starring Neville Brand, William Smith, Peter Brown, and Philip Carey as Texas Rangers. The program premiered on September 16, 1965, and the final new episode was broadcast on April 7, 1967. The series was produced by Universal Television.-Synopsis:Laredo... |
Deke Pryor | 1 episode | |
| 1966 | F Troop F Troop F Troop is a satirical American television sitcom that originally aired for two seasons on ABC-TV. It debuted in the United States on September 14, 1965 and concluded its run on April 6, 1967 with a total of 65 episodes. The first season of 34 episodes was filmed in black-and-white, but the show... |
Sergeant Crawford | 1 episode |
| The Monroes The Monroes (1966 TV series) The Monroes is a 26-segment Western television series which ran on ABC during the 1966-1967 season – the story of five orphans trying to survive as a family on the frontier in the area about what is now Grand Teton National Park near Jackson in northwestern Wyoming.Michael Anderson, Jr., then 24,... |
Henri "Fox" Bonnard | 1 episode | |
| 1967 | The Iron Horse | Howley | 1 episode |
| The Monkees The Monkees (TV series) The Monkees is an American situation comedy that aired on NBC from September 1966 to March 1968. The series follows the adventures of four young men trying to make a name for themselves as rock 'n roll singers. The show introduced a number of innovative new-wave film techniques to series... |
Marshall | 1 episode | |
| 1969 | The Guns of Will Sonnett The Guns of Will Sonnett The Guns of Will Sonnett is a Western television series set in the 1870s which ran on the ABC television network from 1967 to 1969. The series was the first production collaboration between Aaron Spelling and Danny Thomas, who would later go on to produce one of ABC's most-memorable hits, The Mod... |
Major Cross | 1 episode |
| The Mod Squad The Mod Squad The Mod Squad is a television series that ran on ABC from September 24, 1968, until August 23, 1973. This series starred Michael Cole, Peggy Lipton, Clarence Williams III, and Tige Andrews... |
Bubba Johnson | 1 episode | |
| 1971 | The Bold Ones: The Senator The Bold Ones: The Senator The Bold Ones: The Senator is an American political television drama series that aired on NBC from 1970 through 1971, lasting for nine episodes . The series stars Hal Holbrook as Senator Hays Stowe.The Senator was part of The Bold Ones, a rotating series of dramas that also included The New... |
Channing | 1 episode |
| 1972 | Kung Fu Kung Fu (TV series) Kung Fu is an American television series that starred David Carradine. It was created by Ed Spielman, directed and produced by Jerry Thorpe, and developed by Herman Miller, who was also a writer for, and co-producer of, the series... |
Purdy | 1 episode |
| 1974 | Kolchak: The Night Stalker Kolchak: The Night Stalker Kolchak: The Night Stalker is an American television series that aired on ABC during the 1974-1975 season. It featured a fictional Chicago newspaper reporter — Carl Kolchak, played by Darren McGavin — who investigates mysterious crimes with unlikely causes, particularly ones law... |
George M. Schwartz | 1 episode |
| 1975 | The Six Million Dollar Man The Six Million Dollar Man The Six Million Dollar Man is an American television series about a former astronaut with bionic implants working for the OSI... |
Will Long | 1 episode |
| Barbary Coast | Eikel | 1 episode | |
| 1976 | The Quest The Quest (TV series) The Quest, a 15-episode Western television series which aired on NBC beginning September 22, 1976, starring Kurt Russell and Tim Matheson.-Overview:... |
Donkin | 1 episode |
| 1977 | Police Story | Travis Caulder | 1 episode |
| 1978 | Fantasy Island Fantasy Island Fantasy Island is the title of two separate but related American fantasy television series, both originally airing on the ABC television network.-Original series:... |
Hezekiah Pugh | 1 episode |
| 1979 | B. J. and the Bear | Uncle Moss | 2 episodes |
| 1981 | Hart to Hart Hart to Hart Hart to Hart is an American television series, starring Robert Wagner and Stefanie Powers as Jonathan and Jennifer Hart, a wealthy couple who also moonlighted as amateur detectives. The series was created by writer Sidney Sheldon and produced by Aaron Spelling and Leonard Goldberg... |
Prospector | 1 episode |
| 1982 | Dallas Dallas (TV series) Dallas is an American serial drama/prime time soap opera that revolves around the Ewings, a wealthy Texas family in the oil and cattle-ranching industries. Throughout the series, Larry Hagman stars as greedy, scheming oil baron J. R. Ewing... "Goodbye, Cliff Barnes" |
(Griffith's final role) | 1 episode |