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Sat 14
Daniel Boone: Four-Leaf Clover — Dick Wessel
George Gobel appears as Boonesborough's inept new schoolteacher. Saugus: Frank de Kova. Daniel: Fess Parker. Yadkin: Albert Salmi. Cincinnatus: Dallas McKennon. Hennepin: Dick Wessel. Truro: Alvy Moore. Israel: Darby Hinton. Mingo: Ed Ames. Mrs. Wilson: Isa Crino.
Air Time & Details for Dick Wessel, Sat 14, 6:00 am -
Wed 18
Perry Mason: The Case of the Lame Canary — Dick Wessel
Mason's defense of a young woman accused of murdering her husband revolves around an injured canary that witnessed the crime. Prescott: William Kendis. Ruth: Stacy Graham. Mason: Raymond Burr. Harry: James Philbrook. McLain: Biff Elliot. Della: Barbara Hale.
Air Time & Details for Dick Wessel, Wed 18, 9:00 am -
Wed 18
The Charge at Feather River — Dick Wessel
A Civil War veteran leads a troop of prisoners on a dangerous mission to rescue two kidnapped sisters from a Cheyenne village. As they are chased by Cheyenne, they learn one of the sisters is engaged to marry the Chief. Based on an Esquire Magazine story by Heck Allen.
Air Time & Details for Dick Wessel, Wed 18, 9:30 pm
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Biography
About Dick Wessel
American actor Dick Wessel had a face like a Mack Truck bulldog and a screen personality to match. After several years on stage, Wessel began showing up in Hollywood extra roles around 1933; he is fleetingly visible in the Marx Brothers' Duck Soup (1933), Laurel and Hardy's Bonnie Scotland (1935), and the Columbia "screwball" comedy She Couldn't Take It (1935). The size of his roles increased in the '40s; perhaps his best feature-film showing was as the eponymous bald-domed master criminal in Dick Tracy vs.
Cueball (1946). He was a valuable member of Columbia Pictures' short subject stock company, playing a variety of bank robbers, wrestlers, jealous husbands and lazy brother-in-laws. Among his more memorable 2-reel appearances were as lovestruck boxer "Chopper" in The Three Stooges' Fright Night (1947), Andy Clyde's invention-happy brother-in-law in Eight Ball Andy (1948), and Hugh Herbert's overly sensitive strongman neighbor in Hot Heir (1947).
Wessel was shown to good (if unbilled) advantage as a handlebar-mustached railroad engineer in the superspectacular Around the World in 80 Days (1956), and had a regular role as Carney on the 1959 TV adventure series Riverboat. Dick Wessel's farewell screen appearance was as a harried delivery man in Disney's The Ugly Dachshund (1965).