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The Colonel recruits former cavalry soldiers turned frontier scouts Jim Bridger (Dennis Morgan) and "Dakota Jack" Gaines (Richard Denning), now running a Wild West show, to head the fort building. Bridger and Gaines are friendly with Sioux chief Red Cloud ( Robert Bice ) but have reservations about the chief's 2nd in command, Afraid of Horses ...
When television became popular in the late 1940s and 1950s, TV Westerns quickly became an audience favorite, with 30 such shows airing at prime time by 1959. Traditional Westerns faded in popularity in the late 1960s, while new shows fused Western elements with other types of shows, such as family drama, mystery thrillers, and crime drama.
Two TV episodes of the 1957 TV series Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans: Apache Warrior: Elmo Williams: Keith Larson, Jim Davis: Traditional Western The Badge of Marshal Brennan: Albert C. Gannaway: Jim Davis, Arleen Whelan: Badlands of Montana: Daniel B. Ullman: Rex Reason, Margia Dean, Emile Meyer: The Big Land: Gordon Douglas
The crumbling and eventual death of the old DuMont Network meant the 1955–56 television season would be the first year in which the three major remaining U.S. television networks would be the only full-time commercial participants in prime time, a situation that was to remain for the next 31 years, until Fox entered prime time on Sunday ...
How the West Was Won is an American Western television series that starred James Arness, Eva Marie Saint, Fionnula Flanagan, Bruce Boxleitner, and Richard Kiley.Loosely based on the 1962 Cinerama film of the same name, it began with a two-hour television film, The Macahans, in 1976, followed by a mini-series in 1977, and a regular series in 1978 and 1979.
Dennis Morgan (born Earl Stanley Morner; December 20, 1908 – September 7, 1994) was an American actor-singer.He used the acting pseudonym Richard Stanley before adopting the name under which he gained his greatest fame.
Denver Pyle ("Shadow of a Gun") Victor Rodman ("Devil's Acre") Robert F. Simon - as Hamish Sr. in the "Aftermath" episode; Olan Soule - as Henry Holbrook in the "Daughter of the Dragon" episode; Ray Teal ("The Day The West Went Wild") Marie Tsien - as Chi Ying in the "Daughter of the Dragon" episode; Robert J. Wilke - as Hackett in the "Buried ...
The Gunfighter is a 1950 American Western film directed by Henry King and starring Gregory Peck, Helen Westcott, Millard Mitchell and Karl Malden.It was written by screenwriters William Bowers and William Sellers, with an uncredited rewrite by writer and producer Nunnally Johnson, from a story by Bowers, Roger Corman, and screenwriter and director Andre de Toth.