‘Hold on’, he said to Wayne over the telephone. It fell to Terry to inform John Wayne of Bond’s sudden death in 1960. It was the original wagon master Ward Bond who insisted on Warner Bros signing on both Terry and Frank for the show. In fact he was a life-long friend of Frank McGrath and the two men performed together on the rodeo circuit and at prison rodeos before finding their way into the movies. He was a former US Marine who served in the Second World War, a football star and a stunt man/rodeo rider. Terry Wilson (1923-99) 267 episodes (1957-65)Ĭalifornian Terry Wilson played trail hand Bill Hawks in 267 episodes.
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Two years after the Wagon Train series ended, Frank succumbed to a heart attack at 64. He is right there alongside or just nearby the Duke in almost every scene. The next time you watch either Fort Apache (1948) or She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949), you might notice Frank as the bugler in both of these John Ford/ John Wayne westerns. A former stunt man and rodeo performer, he was notoriously fond of a drink, a weakness that often gave him the Dutch courage to pick fights which he invariably lost. Missouri-born Frank played the series’ comic relief character Charlie Wooster, the wagon train’s irascible cook, and would grace all but 13 of the 284 episodes shot over eight seasons.
The other survivor is Robert Fuller, but more of them both later.įrank McGrath (1903-67) 271 episodes (1957-65) I actually watched that episode yesterday, unaware until today’s research that he must have struck a chord with the producers, for he would continue in the series for another 50 episodes. One of these survivors is Michael Burns who ‘evolved’ into a regular after appearing in an early episode as a boy stricken speechless by the murder of his father. I shall look at them in ‘episode total’ order, highest to lowest. There were eight actors who were more or less ‘regulars’ in Wagon Train. In short, she was one of those hundreds of bit players who made a living on both big and small screen, but whose careers never amounted to much. Kay was an uncredited telephone operator in the Bob Hope Hit The Ghost Breakers (1940) and a slave girl (also uncredited) in Spartacus in 1960.
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Her career would span 40 years and 99 screen credits, mostly TV spots. A minor actress named Kay Stewart popped up in eleven episodes from 1958 to 1964, playing eleven different women. Throughout those eight seasons only eight actors (no actresses) appeared in fifty or more episodes. Coon, Budd Arthur, Turnley Walker, Jack Curtis, Kermit Shelby, A.O.From 1957 until 1965 the prairie schooners of TV’s Wagon Train series rolled over 284 episodes. Marcus, Halsted Welles, Lester Dent, Alford Van Ronkel, Earl Hamner Jr., Lee Karson, Leo Lieberman, Palmer Thompson, Halsey Melone, Doris Hursley, Frank Hursley, Paul David, Walter Wagner, Theodore Ferro, Mathilde Ferro, Pat Fielder, Howard R. Moss, Dale Eunson, Ken Trevey, Meyer Dolinsky, Burt Arthur, Charles Dickens, Adrian Spies, Donald S. Cox, Sutton Roley, Nat Tanchuck, Winston Miller, Stanley Dyrector, Frank L. Fresco, Sheldon Stark, Frank Phares, Berne Giler, Louis S. Berke, Paul Savage, Bob Barbash, Jane Austen, Martin Berkeley, Oliver Crawford, Stanley Kallis, Eric Norden, Katherine Albert, Robert M. Johnson, John Dunkel, Joseph Stone, Hendrik Vollaerts, Warren Wilson, Jane Klove, Philip MacDonald, Arthur Browne Jr., Ken Kolb, Richard Maibaum, Richard Collins, Dick Nelson, Boris Ingster, Terry Wilson, Gilbert Roland, Robert Florey, Frank Chase, Clarke Reynolds, Dana Wynter, William F. Marshall, Paul King, David Swift, Jeffrey Shorling, Betty Andrews, Peter Barry, Dorothy M. Vogel, Richard Bartlett, Lou Shaw, Leo Townsend, Kathleen Hite, Milton Krims, Robert E. Parker, Ted Sherdeman, Harry von Zell, Aaron Spelling, Virgil W. Miner, John McGreevey, Harold Swanton, Peter Germano, Steven Ritch, Thomas Thompson, Gerry Day, Calvin Clements Sr., Robert Libott, Howard Christie, John Kneubuhl, Myles Wilder, Sloan Nibley, William Raynor, Dwight Newton, William Jerome Fay, Floyd Burton, James A. McLaglen, Arthur Hiller, Richard Donner, Sydney Pollack, John Ford, Arnold Laven, Don Weis, Richard Whorf, John English, James H. Springsteen, Sidney Lanfield, Christian Nyby, Bretaigne Windust, James Neilson, Tay Garnett, Jesse Hibbs, David Lowell Rich, Sutton Roley, Bernard Girard, Frank Arrigo, John Brahm, Robert Florey, Mitchell Leisen, Earl Bellamy, Abner Biberman, George Waggner, Aaron Spelling, Jack Arnold, Don Taylor, Andrew V. Miner, Herschel Daugherty, David Butler, Dick Moder, Richard Bartlett, Mark Stevens, Ted Post, William Witney, R.G. Vogel, Jerry Hopper, Joseph Pevney, Allen H.
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