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The Texan is a Western television series starring film and television actor Rory Calhoun, which aired on the CBS television network from 1958 to 1960. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Calhoun as Bill Longley ( circa 1960)
The Texan could have filmed a third year, but Calhoun wanted to concentrate on films. [20] On March 26, 1959, he appeared as himself in the episode "Rory Calhoun, The Texan" on the sitcom December Bride , starring Spring Byington .
In Rory Calhoun's Western series The Texan, Wills appeared in the lead role in the 1960 episode titled "The Eyes of Captain Wylie". [5] Wills starred in the series Frontier Circus, which aired for only one season (1961–62) on CBS.
Rorvic Productions was a movie production company formed in 1956 by Rory Calhoun and Victor Orsatti. [1] The name derives from the combination of the founders names, Rory and Victor. Rorvic Productions produced the television series The Texan, three feature films, and two television films, all starring Calhoun. [2]
The Texan may refer to: The Texan (fictional character), a character in Catch-22; The Texan, starring Rory Calhoun; The Texan, an American film directed by Lynn Reynolds; The Texan, an American film starring Gary Cooper and Fay Wray; The Texan, American western film directed by Clifford S. Smith
The film was initially set to star Rory Calhoun, but Calhoun came down with pneumonia the night before the production was set to start filming. Dale Robertson, star of the television series, Tales of Wells Fargo, stepped in at six hours' notice. [14]
Appropriately enough, cinematographer Matthew Wise gives the movie a distinctly classical look, further enhancing the impression that “Accidental Texan” is, if not a genuine oldie-but-goodie ...
Steele appeared in six different episodes of the Walt Disney's Western television series Texas John Slaughter with Tom Tryon. On January 25, 1960, Steele was cast as the frontier gunfighter Luke Short in an episode of the CBS Western series, The Texan, starring Rory Calhoun.