
John Russell
Acting
🎂 1921-01-03
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. John Lawrence Russell was an American actor, and World War II veteran, most noted for playing Marshal Dan Troop in the successful ABC western television series Lawman from 1958 to 1962, and his lead role as international adventurer Tim Kelly in the syndicated TV series Soldiers of Fortune from 1955 to 1957. Russell signed a contract with 20th Century Fox in 1945 and made his first film appearance as a guard in A Royal Scandal. He played several supporting parts while at Fox, acting the role of a junior law partner in the Clifton Webb comedy Sitting Pretty, as well as a navy pilot in Slattery's Hurricane. Later, however, he signed with Republic Pictures where he was cast in a starring role. In 1955, Russell landed the lead role in a television drama series called Soldiers of Fortune. In 1958, Russell was cast in his best-known role: the stolid, taciturn Marshal Dan Troop, the lead character in Lawman, an ABC/Warners hit western series that ran for four years. Co-starring alongside Peter Brown, who played Deputy Johnny McKay, and Peggie Castle as Birdcage Saloon owner Lily Merrill, Russell portrayed a US frontier peace officer mentoring his younger compatriot. At the same time that Lawman premiered, Russell played an outlaw, along with Edd Byrnes and Rodolfo Hoyos Jr., in the 1958 season premiere episode of Sugarfoot, another ABC/WB hit western, with Will Hutchins in the title role. Russell also appeared in other motion pictures for Warner Bros., notably as a Sioux chieftain in Yellowstone Kelly, as well as a rich corrupt cattle-rancher, Nathan Burdette, in the highly successful Howard Hawks western Rio Bravo, starring John Wayne. Throughout the remainder of his movie career, he played secondary roles in more than 20 films, including several A.C. Lyles westerns and three films directed by his friend Clint Eastwood, most notably as Marshal Stockburn, the chief villain in Eastwood's 1985 film, Pale Rider. Russell also appeared in the second season of the Filmation children's science-fiction series Jason of Star Command. He played Commander Stone, a blue-skinned alien from Alpha Centauri. He replaced James Doohan, who had played the commander in the previous season, but left to start working on Star Trek: The Motion Picture Description above from the Wikipedia article John Russell (actor), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.​
Cast credits(70)

Oldtimer #2 - in Saloon
1981

1957

John Grimes
1957

Edgar Maxwell
1957

Amos McAleer
1964

1973

1955

1954

William Dover
1968

Peter Vale
1968

1972

Mechanical Cowboy (voice) (uncredited)
1958

Harry Hague
1970

Jeff Seward
1957

The Commander
1978

Marshal Dan Troop
1958

Carl Ryker
1955

Tim Kelly
1955

1971

Bloody Bill Anderson
1976

Nathan Burdette
1959

Stockburn
1985

Hopper Boy
1939

Lengthy
1948

Policeman at Tony's Apartment (uncredited)
1946

Gall, Sioux Chief
1959

Black Jack Mallard
1947

Lance Cole
1950

Guard (uncredited)
1945

General Pershing
1970

Hugh Clagg
1951

1982

Travis
1958

Dan Fraser
1952

Rocky
1950

Vance Buckner
1965

Capt. Solis
1977

Lt. Dickinson
1955

Bill Philby
1948

Cash Brady
1949

Marine Captain (uncredited)
1946

Ashby Corwin
1953

Sheriff
1968

Jordan
1957

Gene Gordon
1951

Rogers
1945

Police Officer
2002

Patch
1968

Aaron Pleasant
1967

Simon Stone
1988
Self
1979

Russ Tropp
1957

Capt. Anderson (uncredited)
1945

Self
1959

Grant O'Hara
1949

Danny Morgan
1949

Theron
1951

Ben Hodes
1954

Frank Mantee
1971

Lt. F.A. 'Hobbie' Hobson
1949

Flint
1953

Eli Jonas
1967

Oliver Hale
1954

Joe Gray
1952

Barney Walker
1951

W.T. "Illinois" Grey
1957

Darmody
1970

Cagle Mondier
1975

1981

Nero Solitarius
1968