Trivia: Robert Fuller spent his first decade in show business trying his best to avoid performing. After his film debut in 1952's Above and Beyond, Fuller studied acting with Sanford Meisner at New York's Neighborhood Playhouse but never exhibited any real dedication. He tried to become a dancer but gave that up as well, determining that dancing was "sissified." Fuller rose to nominal stardom fairly rapidly in the role of Jess Harper on the popular TV western Laramie (1959-63). Once he found his niche in cowboy attire, he stuck at it in another series, Wagon Train, turning down virtually all offers for "contemporary" roles. When westerns began dying out on television in the late 1960s, Fuller worked as a voiceover actor in commercials, earning some $65,000 per year (a tidy sum in 1969). On the strength of his performance in the Burt Topper-directed motorcycle flick The Hard Ride, Fuller was cast by producer Jack Webb as chief paramedic Kelly Brackett on the weekly TVer Emergency, which ran from 1972 through 1977. In 1994, Robert Fuller was one of several former TV western stars who showed up in cameo roles in the Mel Gibson movie vehicle Maverick.

Trivia: Dawn Lyn appeared in a number of films and television shows during the '70s. Her brother, Leif Garrett,is also an actor.

Trivia: American actor Milton Frome made an unlikely film debut as the cowboy star of Grand National's Ride 'Em Cowgirl (1939)--unlikely in that the tall, bald actor spent the rest of his career playing nervous corporate types and "second bananas" for some of show business' greatest clowns. After touring with the USO during World War II, the vaudeville-trained Frome was an early arrival on the television scene: he worked as a straight man and foil on Milton Berle's variety series, and also functioned as the hapless target of the antics of Martin and Lewis on The Colgate Comedy Hour. The actor was also busy in live and filmed detective and action series (he frequently appeared in Superman with his good friend George Reeves) as well as in two-reel comedies with The Three Stooges. After Jerry Lewis broke away from Dean Martin, Frome continued to function as one of Lewis' stock company in such films as The Delicate Delinquent (1957), The Nutty Professor (1963) and Disorderly Orderly (1964). TV sitcom buffs remember Milton Frome best as Lawrence Chapman, the hapless mogul who ran a film studio owned by rustic millionaire Jed Clampett on The Beverly Hillbillies.

Trivia: American character actress Anne Seymour was descended from an Irish theatrical family, active "on the boards" since the early 18th century. On stage from 1928, she went on to become one of the radio industry's busiest leading ladies, starring in such serials as The Story of Mary Marlin, Woman of America, Whispering Streets and (briefly, when actress Lucille Wall fell ill) Portia Faces Life. She appeared with equal frequency on television, accepting innumerable guest-star assignments and co-starring on the weekly series Empire (1962) and The Tim Conway Show (1970). Seymour's first film was the 1949 Oscar-winner All the King's Men, in which she played Lucy Stark, the politically convenient but cruelly neglected wife of Southern demagogue Willie Stark (Broderick Crawford). She went on to appear in such roles as Mrs. Tarbell in Pollyanna (1960) and Aunt Ev in The Miracle Worker (1962). Active up until her death in 1988, Anne Seymour's last film assignment was the small but pivotal role of the Minnesota newspaper editor who puts Kevin Costner on the trail of forgotten baseball player "Moonlight" Graham (Burt Lancaster) in Field of Dreams (1989).

Trivia: Del Monroe has been a busy character actor and sometime secondary leading man in television and films from the early '60s through the beginning of the 21st century -- but he is best known for his four-year stint as crewman Kowalski on Irwin Allen's Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea. Born in Santa Barbara, CA, in 1936, Monroe was bitten by the acting bug while serving in the peacetime army of the late '50s, and on returning to civilian life headed for the Pasadena Playhouse, working in repertory with them. He made his screen debut in 1959 in a pair of low-budget quickies, the Edward D. Wood-authored Western Revenge of the Virgins and the crime drama The Girl in Lover's Lane, playing a teenaged mugger in the opening minutes of the latter film. During the early '60s, he moved into television with roles in Westerns such as The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp and The Dakotas, and the World War II action series The Gallant Men. In between those small-screen efforts, he also got what proved to be a small but very lucrative role in Irwin Allen's feature film Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1961), which put the neophyte actor (billed as Delbert Monroe) into the midst of a cast that included such luminaries as Walter Pidgeon, Joan Fontaine, and Peter Lorre. In the movie, he played a brash (and later potentially mutinous) young seaman named Kowalski, and got to do one good scene with Pidgeon. Monroe went on to other work while the movie went on to become a hit at the box office, and a couple of years later, he was called back and cast in the series Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, being produced by Allen. The series, starring Richard Basehart and David Hedison, ran for four seasons (1964-1968), longer than any non-anthology science-fiction network program until the 1990s. Monroe became a familiar figure to fans as the red-suited crewman Kowalski, his straightforward, unaffected acting style contrasting well with that of the more experienced performers around him. He also squeezed in a few appearances in series such as Gunsmoke and The Time Tunnel (the latter also produced by Allen) during this four years on Voyage. In the late '60s and '70s, he went back to Westerns (Lancer, The Virginian) and, when they disappeared, came to do a lot of supporting roles in crime shows (S.W.A.T., The Rockford Files, Hunter). Monroe also appeared in a few feature films, most notably Phil Karlson's Walking Tall (1973), in which he played a sadistic thug. He left acting for a time in the 1980s, but resumed working occasionally in films and on television, as well as in theater, in the late '90s.