Son of a Gunfighter

Russ Tamblyn (Actor) .. Johnny

Born: December 30, 1934
Birthplace: Los Angeles, California, United States

Trivia: Tousle-haired juvenile actor Russ Tamblyn began taking up dancing and acrobatics at the age of six. Needing very little prodding from his parents, the eager Tamblyn embarked on his professional career in the late '40s, performing in radio and Los Angeles musical revues. His first "straight" acting assignment was opposite Lloyd Bridges in the 1947 play Stone Jungle. He entered films in 1948, then was given an "introducing" screen credit for his first starring role in The Kid From Cleveland (1949). Signed by MGM, the young actor changed his billing from Rusty to Russ when cast as an army trainee in 1953's Take the High Ground. Beginning with Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Tamblyn became a popular musical star, playing the title role in Tom Thumb (1958) and co-starring as gang leader Riff in the Oscar-winning West Side Story (1961). He was nominated for an Academy Award for his performance as the teenaged swain of Allison McKenzie (Diane Varsi) in 1958's Peyton Place. By the late '60s, Tamblyn's career had waned, and he was accepting roles in such cheapjack exploitation flicks as Satan's Sadists (1970) and Dracula vs. Frankenstein (1971). Russ Tamblyn stuck it out long enough to make a healthy comeback in the late '80s, notably in the role of psychiatrist Lawrence Jacoby on the cult-TV favorite Twin Peaks (1990).

James Philbrook (Actor) .. Ketchum

Born: January 01, 1924
Died: October 24, 1982

Trivia: Handsome, leading actor James Philbrook began his film career with important roles in two Susan Hayward vehicles, I Want to Live (1958) and A Woman Obsessed (1959). He went on to co-star in the weekly TVers The Islanders (1960, as pilot Zack Malloy) and The New Loretta Young Show (1962, as magazine editor Paul Belzer, who married Ms. Loretta Young's character in the final episode). Relocating to Europe in the mid-1960s, James Philbrook enjoyed considerable success as a spaghetti- western star.

Kieron Moore (Actor) .. Deputy Fenton

Born: October 05, 1924
Died: July 15, 2007

Trivia: "Handsome in a slightly eccentric fashion" was how film historian Bill Warren described Irish leading man Kieron Moore. On stage in his native country from 1941, Moore made his first British film in 1944. Though there was nothing archaic about his acting style, Moore seemed best suited to period roles: Vronsky in Anna Karenina (1948), Uriah in David and Bathsheba (1951). Moore's honest intensity enhanced the credibility of many otherwise hard-to-swallow plotlines in such "fantastic" films as Satellite in the Sky (1958) Dr. Blood's Coffin (1961), Day of the Triffids (1962) and Crack in the World (1965); his honest intensity enhanced the credibility factor of the otherwise hard-to-swallow plotlines. After his retirement from acting in 1967, Moore directed and narrated two Third World documentaries, 1975's The Progress of Peoples and 1979's The Parched Land, and also served as associate editor of the Roman Catholic periodical The Universe. He died on July 15, 2007, at the age of 82.

Fernando Rey (Actor) .. Don Fortuna

Born: September 20, 1917
Died: March 09, 1994
Birthplace: A Coruña, Galicia, Spain

Trivia: An architecture student, Fernando Rey interrupted his studies to fight in the Spanish Civil War against the Frangiste. He entered films as an extra in 1940. Resembling a Goya painting come to life, the cadaverous Rey is best remembered internationally for his appearances in such Luis Bunuel projects as Viridiana (1961), The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972), That Obscure Object of Desire (1977), and for his work in such costume epics as The Last Days of Pompeii (1960), The Castillians (1961), and the made-for-TV Jesus of Nazareth. In 1977, he won a Cannes Film Festival award for his work in Elisa Vida Mia. Often cast as a world-weary, cosmopolitan villain, Fernando Rey's most celebrated performance within this character range was as drug lord Alain Charnier in the two French Connection pictures of the 1970s.

Aldo Sambrell (Actor) .. Morales

Born: February 23, 1931

Trivia: Spanish supporting and occasional leading actor Aldo Sambrell is primarily associated with spaghetti Westerns of the '60s. In those films, he generally played a gunslinger. He was born Alfredo Sanchez Brell but over the course of his career he used the following names: Aldo Brell, Alfred S. Brell, Aldo San Brell, Aldo Sanbrel, and Aldo Sanbrell. He made his directorial debut as Alfred S. Brell with La Ultima Jugada (1974). Sambrell produced his first film, Hammam, in 1997.

Antonio Casas (Actor) .. Pecos

Born: January 01, 1910
Died: January 01, 1982

Barta Barri (Actor) .. Esteban

Renato Polselli (Actor) .. Sheriff

Born: February 26, 1922

Andy Anza (Actor) .. Fuentes

Fernando Hilbeck (Actor) .. Joaquin

Hector Quiroga (Actor) .. Stagecoach Guard

Carmen Tarrazo (Actor) .. Maria

Maria Jose Collado (Actor) .. Sarita

Julio Perez Tabernero (Actor)

María Granada (Actor) .. Pilar Fortuna, Don Pedro's Daughter

Héctor Quiroga (Actor) .. Jim, Stagecoach Guard

Joe Sawyer (Actor) .. Pecos

Born: January 01, 1905
Died: April 21, 1982

Trivia: Beefy, puffy-faced Canadian actor Joseph Sawyer spent his first years in films (the early- to mid-'30s) acting under his family name of Sauer. Before he developed his comic skills, Sawyer was often seen in roles calling for casual menace, such as the grinning gunman who introduces "Duke Mantee, the well-known killer" in The Petrified Forest (1936). While under contract to Hal Roach studios in the 1940s, Sawyer starred in several of Roach's "streamliners," films that ran approximately 45 minutes each. He co-starred with William Tracy in a series of films about a GI with a photographic memory and his bewildered topkick: Titles included Tanks a Million (1941), Fall In (1942), and Yanks Ahoy (1943) (he later reprised this role in a brace of B-pictures produced by Hal Roach Jr. for Lippert Films in 1951). A second "streamliner" series, concerning the misadventures of a pair of nouveau riche cabdrivers, teamed Sawyer with another Roach contractee, William Bendix. Baby boomers will remember Joe Sawyer for his 164-episode stint as tough but soft-hearted cavalry sergeant Biff O'Hara on the '50s TV series Rin Tin Tin.

01:15 am - 03:30 am, Saturday, November 1 on WRNN Outlaw (48.4)