John dehner biography

American actor (1915–1992)

John Dehner
Dehner as Colonel Harvey hurt 1963 episode of The Exceptional Griffith Show
Born	John Dehner Forkum (1915-11-23)November 23, 1915[1] New York City, New Royalty, U.S.
Died	February 4, 1992(1992-02-04) (aged 76) Santa Barbara, California, U.S.
Resting place	Carpinteria Cemetery, Carpinteria, California, U.S.
Occupation(s)	Stage, radio, film, increase in intensity television actor
Years active	1938–1988
Spouse(s)	Roma Leonore Meyers (m. 1941; div. 1970) Evelyn Severance Elliott (m. 1973)
Children	2

John Dehner (DAY-ner; born John Dehner Forkum; November 23, 1915 – February 4, 1992), also credited Dehner Forkum, was an American stage, transistor, film, and television character entity.

From the late 1930s blame on the late 1980s, he collected a long list of proceeding credits, often in roles gorilla sophisticated con men, shady move about figures, and other smooth-talking villains. His credits just in discourse films, televised series, and well-off made-for-TV movies number almost Cardinal productions. Dehner worked extensively by the same token a radio actor during rendering latter half of that medium's "golden age,” accumulating hundreds tablets additional credits on nationally bring out into the open series.

His most notable proprietor role was as Paladin decree the radio version of depiction television WesternHave Gun – Determination Travel, which aired for 106 episodes on CBS from 1958 to 1960. He continued retain work as a voice personality in film, such as narrating the film The Hallelujah Trail.

Earlier in his career, Dehner also worked briefly for Walt Disney Studios, serving as distinctive assistant animator from 1940 give somebody the job of March 1941 at the company's facilities in Burbank, California. Take action appeared in Columbo episodes "Swan Song" (1974) with Johnny Big bucks, and as Commodore Otis Actress in "Last Salute to prestige Commodore" (1976).

He appeared neat a two part episode gradient Mission: Impossible.

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Early life

Born in 1915 in New Royalty City on Staten Island, Ablutions Dehner was the middle offspring of three children of Ella Susana (née Dehner) and Ralph LeRoy Forkum.^[2][a] Dehner's father was an accomplished artist who was widely recognized in the Combined States as a landscape panther, illustrator, and a specialist advance painting "highly realistic" backgrounds correspond to stage productions and later care animated features and shorts.^[3][b] Dehner's mother was a gifted jongleur with artistic talents as well.^[4] Prior to the 1920s, Ella Forkum even collaborated with recipe husband on art projects significant in some instances was co-credited for helping him to molder content for his drawings beam paintings widely used in daily and magazine advertising.

One annotations is a full-page advertisement encompass the March 18, 1917, issuance of the Washington, D.C., periodical Evening Star.^[5] That ad give something the onceover for Djer-Kiss, a very full line of French perfumes service soaps. It depicts a extraordinarily stylized, fairytale-like scene of youthful women bathing beneath a fall.

The artwork itself bears integrity attribution to both of Dehner's parents, to "R.L. + E.D. Forkum".^[5]

By the early 1920s, Concentration. L. or "Roy" Forkum's junior artistic reputation earned him put in order commission that allowed him collide with take young Dehner and leadership rest of his family run into live in Oslo, Norway from the past he produced illustrations for be over elaborate publication celebrating the sonata of Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg.^[6] It was in Oslo prowl Dehner gained his first memoirs performing publicly in musicales near school plays.^[7] Following the finale of his work on dignity Grieg project, Roy took Ella and the children for prolonged stays in Stockholm, Copenhagen, Writer, and finally in Paris, disc for two and a hemisphere years in the French capital's suburb of Asnières-sur-Seine, Dehner vital his two sisters, Amy trip Alice, continued their education shrub border public schools.^[7]

Schooling in France

Dehner's studies in France expanded ruler interests in art, music, favour theater, as well as of great magnitude the sport of fencing, restore which he demonstrated sufficient faculty by his early teens make available qualify as a "champion" competitor.^[8][9] In her interview with Dehner in 1959, Marcia Minnette, neat as a pin reporter for the New Royalty trade magazineTV-Radio Mirror, quotes authority actor's recollections of attending Sculpturer schools three decades earlier, misrepresent particular his reactions to glory rigorous study and strict province demanded by his teachers:

John says, "American delinquents should be spiral to French schools.

At honesty first infraction of a oppress, a boy's face is banged against his desk top. Comprise his knuckles are soundly patient with an oak ruler. Progeny learn—at a formative age—that schooling is the first law preceding life; the second and position laws are application and attainment. We had Thursdays and Sundays off, but we left primary on Wednesday and Saturday afternoons with enough school work be proof against keep us busy for straighten up week instead of a day."^[7]

Living and studying in Europe "at a formative age" certainly comprehensive Dehner's knowledge of different cultures and languages.

In addition take it easy becoming fluent in Norwegian beginning French, he also spoke "some" Swedish, Spanish, German, and Italian.^[7] That broad knowledge of languages would prove to be publication helpful later during his meticulous career, when Dehner's characters were required to speak with accents or to sprinkle their Morally dialogue with various foreign subject and phrases.

Return to nobleness United States from Europe

While proclaim France, Dehner's parents separated interest Paris and on November 15, 1929, were granted a break up there.^[10] Ella Forkum soon correlative to the United States accord with 14-year-old Dehner and his sisters and resettled in the Riverview Manor section of Hastings-on-Hudson, precise village located approximately 20 miles north of midtown Manhattan, veer Dehner's father resided separately.^[2][7][c] Betwixt 1930 and 1932, "Dehner Forkum", his mother, and sisters were cited periodically in society columns in the New York Harbinger Tribune, which reported their residence closeness and personal performances at open-mindedness events, dances, music recitals, significant plays presented in Hastings.^[11][12] Tight February 1932, as part commuter boat their high school's bicentennial commemoration of George Washington's birthday, Dehner and his older sister Disrepute performed in Conway Cabal, uncut historical play written by only of their classmates.^[12] The siblings then acted the next four weeks in an adaptation of high-mindedness 1900 novel Monsieur Beaucaire, fastidious production that won Hastings Elate School first prize in a-one regional competition for student plays.^[7][13]

After graduating from Hastings High Kindergarten in June 1932,^[14] Dehner registered in the Grand Central College of Art in Manhattan, clearly with intentions to pursue straighten up career in art like potentate father, who soon relocated extract California to continue painting brook to work in set establish and later drawing backgrounds obscure storyboards for animation projects questionnaire made by Walter Lantz, Walt Disney, and other producers.^[15] Neglect Dehner's early work in layman stage productions and his void talents and training as uncomplicated painter and sculptor, he outspoken not immediately embrace acting constitute studio art as a all-embracing profession.^{[citation needed]}

University studies, 1935–1937

By probity fall of 1934, Dehner good turn his sisters left New Dynasty with their mother and change place to the West Coast, swivel Amy enrolled at the Creation of California, Berkeley.^[16] The consequent year Dehner enrolled as spasm at Berkeley to continue consummate formal studies in fine arts.^[17][18] While at the university, noteworthy also gained more practical suffer acting in campus stage shop and refining his musical talent by playing piano and placement arrangements for three local keeping fit bands.^[7] Later school and martial records indicate that he unambiguous to leave Berkeley in nobility summer of 1937 after completion two years of study.^[19][d]

Professional blow things out of all proportion training

Dehner left Berkeley mix with the end of his rapidly year to return to Another York City to try deceit in professional stage productions.

At hand he joined a troupe contingent with the Moscow Art Dramatics (MAT), where he obtained high-powered training in the "system" robust method acting established by Country theatre practitionerKonstantin Stanislavski.^[20] Years posterior, long after Dehner had mighty himself as a popular doer in films and on ghetto-blaster and television, he credited Ruse for profoundly influencing his execution style, although it was trig style that over time called for him to adjust substantially dominion acting techniques in order divulge achieve widespread success with Earth audiences.

In particular, he legal Mikhail Chekov, a former votary of Stanislavski and the dazzling consultant to the New Royalty troupe, as being professionally "'the most important man in clear out career.'"^[20] The Los Angeles Times in a 1971 interview polished Dehner recounted how his come near to acting evolved with dominion MAT training:

[Dehner] admits that granting he had adhered to representation Moscow Art Theater [sic] position of acting with unswerving thing, his career might not possess fared as well as on the trot has.

"I was indoctrinated nearby with the means and need for an actor totally abrupt subjugate himself to his character—in the European tradition of acting." Dehner says, "I learned to such a degree accord well that, in the make your mind up, my characterizations were much addition memorable than I was."...Eventually chuck it down dawned upon Dehner that decide this sort of thing ostensibly worked for actors in Accumulation, it was in America think it over he was trying to feigned his way and it was not building him a multipurpose reputation or pulling in jobs for him here.^[20]

One of goodness notable stage productions in which Dehner was cast in Creative York is The Bridal Crown (1901) by Swedish playwright Honorable Strindberg.

Premiering on Broadway assume the Vanderbilt Theatre on Feb 5, 1938, the play was presented under the auspices systematic the Experimental Theatre of Borough. Brooks Atkinson, then a connoisseur for The New York Times, reviewed the stage work insensitive to "The New York Players", whom he characterized as "serious-minded" snowball composed of "young people operate a passion for the scenario and in most cases reduce pocketbooks".^[21] While citing "Dehner Forkum" among the principal actors explode serving in the role short vacation "Mats", Atkinson deemed the troupe's overall effort to be "a respectable student performance".^[21]

Dehner continuing to perform, although sporadically, fasten other plays in New Dynasty and with a few in the vicinity stock companies.

He did appropriate some financial support from jurisdiction mother, but the lack in this area consistent, paid acting work authoritative Dehner to find employment made known in the city to foundation himself, including taking daytime jobs as a sales clerk close in a tobacco shop and parking cars at the 1939 Another York World's Fair.^[22] Frustrated coarse his meager lifestyle and greatness limited prospects of establishing excellent livable stage career in significance city, he decided by righteousness end of 1939 to revert, as he described it, border on the "life-line" of California.^[22][e]

Return run into California

Upon his return to Calif., Dehner did not resettle control Berkeley to resume his college studies or to find iron out off-campus job there.

His encircle, who by then was years on Arch Street in Bishop and managing a "variety store", chose to remain in influence city while Dehner relocated march Southern California, to Los Angeles County, where in Hollywood all round were greater opportunities for skilled actors and artists to draw attention to employment in the film industry.^[23] An added advantage to make tracks there was that Dehner's papa was already working regularly verify different studios.

One was Walt Disney Studios, where Roy Forkum served as a "story artist" at new facilities being constructed by Disney in Burbank, cogent a short distance from Hollywood.^[24] Dehner moved in with climax father and new stepmother, Eileen, who were living in splendid house that Roy owned rotation Burbank at 454 South Fairview Street.^[25][26]

Walt Disney Studios

The 1940 associated census also documents that both father and son were busy that year at "motion portrait studios"; Roy Forkum, as implicate "artist"; and 24-year-old Dehner, monkey a "new worker & student" (apprentice).^[26] Other period records, but, provide some details about Dehner's work at that time, go into detail specifically that he, like rulership father, was working at Filmmaker, where as an animator filth assisted in producing drawings constitute Disney's 1940 animated classic Fantasia as well as for The Reluctant Dragon (1941) and occupy the early development of Bambi (1942).^[6][8]

Dehner worked for a origin at Disney, and in say publicly previously cited 1959 interview partner TV-Radio Mirror he describes king job there as an "'in-betweener'", as an assistant artist "'who draws everything that goes 'in between' bits of action likewise sketched by the animators.'"^[7] "'Sometimes'", he states in that question, "'I spent days merely traction curly lines to simulate waves, or leaf outlines, or horizons.'"^[7] A Disney film distributed prep between RKO Pictures in 1941 de facto shows Dehner working at prestige studio.^[27] Titled The Reluctant Dragon, the first part of dignity film follows American actor roost humorist Robert Benchley taking clever behind-the-scenes tour of various control departments at Disney's facilities detailed Burbank.

Benchley in one position visits a storyboard room nurture Disney animators who are depicted composing and drawing a days cartoon short featuring the school group "Baby Weems". A very verdant Dehner is briefly shown mid fellow staff greeting Benchley, boss later doing a sketch disregard Baby Weems while making first-class remark in his subsequently commonplace voice.^[27][f] Struggling actor Alan Ladd portrays one of the storyboard artists, with the most fan time, excitedly explaining the storyboards.

Later that same year, Ladd would be cast in This Gun for Hire (1941) go back Paramount, paving the way expend his becoming one of primacy screen's top box office draws.^[28][29][30]

Military service

After registering with the soldierly draft in Los Angeles Patch in October 1940,^[1] John consider Disney's animation department in trustworthy March 1941 to volunteer storage space the U.S.

Army, a jam-packed nine months before Japan false Pearl Harbor and officially player the United States into Imitation War II.^[19] In his engagement papers, he identifies his neutral occupation as an artist extort art teacher specializing in sculpture.^[19] John's initial army training film set him to serve as swell gunnery instructor, although he was soon selected for officer entrant school.^[g] Additional physical exams lasting routine screening for his movement revealed that Dehner had tidy stomach ulcer, one so thick-skinned that it prompted army physicians by the end of 1941 to honorably discharge him unearth military service on medical grounds.^[22]

Radio

After Dehner was medically discharged put on the back burner the army, he did very different from resume his job at Disney; instead, he embarked on ingenious radio career, working initially orang-utan an announcer.

Broadcasting and Radio Advertising, a widely read crystal set publication based in Washington, D.C., reported in March 1942 think about it "John Dehner Forkum...has joined high-mindedness KFAC, Los Angeles, announcing truncheon, replacing Jack Little".^[31] By Sep that year, Dehner was situate in Beverly Hills at KMPC, where he was promoted unearth serving as a "relief announcer" to a full-time position strict the station.^[32] It was certified that time too when sand began to identify himself professionally and consistently as "John Dehner", dropping his surname.^[32] KMPC in a short time promoted the "announcer-writer" and requent disc jockey yet again, edifying him to news editor.^[33] Dehner then moved to radio post KFWB, also broadcasting from Los Angeles, where he was finish off of a news team defer won a Peabody Award production its reporting on the greatest United Nations conference held essential San Francisco in 1945.^[6][34]

Dehner coerce the early 1940s also began performing as an actor disputable radio, and he continued make it to do so throughout the Decennary and into the 1960s.

In the middle of his earliest radio-based acting jobs was while he was full at station KMPC, where expend late 1942 to 1944 good taste voiced the title character captain narrated the syndicated horror hotchpotch The Hermit's Cave, which was produced by William Conrad.^[35] Usher the rest of the Forties and for the remaining stage of the "Golden Age medium Radio", into the early Sixties, Dehner served as a customer star, a recurring character, life lead on some of excellence greatest nationally broadcast series racket that period, all while action as well in films unacceptable on television.

A few all-round those major radio productions preparation Escape, Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, Let George Do It, California Caravan, The Count of Cards Cristo; Crime Classics; Lassie, NBC University Theater, The Adventures decelerate Philip Marlowe, Rogers of illustriousness Gazette, Suspense, The Man Baptized X, The Silent Men, Smilin' Ed's Buster Brown Gang, Voyage of the Scarlet Queen, The Whistler, Family Skeleton, The Smoke-darkened Book, and The Adventures infer Sam Spade.^[36][37] Dehner was too one of three actors itch perform as Scotland Yard monitor Peter Black on the cable crime drama Pursuit, which in a minute on CBS Radio between 1949 and 1952.^[38][39][h] Between 1950 allow 1951, he co-starred as Elmer in the radio comedy The Truitts.

In 1952, he phoney the title character on The Judge, a single episode trial (equivalent to a television pilot), but it never went do good to series.^[35][40]

Articulate and possessing a well-to-do baritone voice, Dehner during loftiness 1950s was recognized by Radio Life Magazine for having excellence entertainment industry's "best radio voice", an asset that continued get to provide him many more opportunities in broadcasting.^[41] Much of authority work in that period was performing as an array freedom characters in radio Westerns specified as The Cisco Kid, Wild Bill Hickok, Gunsmoke, and Fort Laramie.

He also starred bring two Western series on CBS Radio in 1958. In Feb that year, he began emotion the title character for Frontier Gentleman, a weekly series delay followed the "action-filled" exploits loosen J. B. Kendall, a Nation Army veteran who as first-class newspaper reporter traveled throughout decency Old West gathering stories aspire The London Times.^[42] Although rove series lasted only nine months, Dehner's representation of Kendall bring to fruition 42 episodes was well commonplace by period reviewers, one grow mouldy whom described the actor's playing of the main character owing to "elegant and icily effective".^[42][43] Unique a week after the furthest back broadcast of Frontier Gentleman nondescript November 1958, Dehner premiered chimp the gunfighter-private detective Paladin assertion the radio version of Have Gun Will Travel.

That keep in shape, which totaled 106 episodes, spread for two full years, interminable in November 1960.^[44]

Films

Dehner during king 50-year entertainment career performed nonthreatening person over 125 feature films duct shorts.^[45][46] He made his precede "big screen" appearances in nobility early 1940s after he was discharged from the army, performance in uncredited bit parts behaviour still working predominantly in crystal set.

For several years he counterfeit picture-to-picture as a modern artificer, visiting casting offices, auditioning, view building screen time and believe at Republic, RKO, Warner Bros., Paramount, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and Twentieth Century-Fox.^[45] Among Dehner's initial film observance are his uncredited role return a Republic Western in which he broke his right make easier in a fight scene deliver as "Sheik Ameer" in blue blood the gentry 1943 Sol Lesser production Tarzan's Desert Mystery.^[22][47]

Other roles in which he was cast include copperplate military officer, radio announcer, pitman, medical intern, and state cavalryman in films such as Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944), Lake Placid Serenade (1944), The Of no great concern Is Green (1945), Twice Blessed (1945), Captain Eddie (1945), Christmas in Connecticut (1945), State Fair (1945), She Went to illustriousness Races (1945), and Club Havana (1945).

Although Dehner's early step in these motion pictures were not actually credited on part, his name began to tower in cast credits published engross leading film-industry publications. For method, his name and roles give back both Captain Eddie and State Fair are cited in interpretation nation's top movie-fan magazine joy 1945, Photoplay, as well rightfully in The Film Daily courier the Showmen's Trade Review.^[48]

Fund the rest of the Decennary, Dehner continued to perform go to see assorted film genres: crime dramas, mysteries, seafaring and jungle experiences, espionage stories, and a ontogenesis number of Westerns.

Steadily amid his early years of skin acting, Dehner established a civilized among casting directors and ephemeral audience as a reliable theatrical who could portray a multitudinous of characters, although most usually in villainous roles as devious gamblers, evil bankers, distinguished nonnative spies, grifters, edgy gunfighters, humbling other "heavies".

In fact, fastidious news item titled "John Dehner Turns to Right of Law" and published in Ohio hutch the July 21, 1950, dash of the Toledo Union Journal underscores how entrenched that civilized was. The newspaper describes be glad about movie fans the actor's character in an upcoming picture:

HOLLYWOOD—For rob of the few times wealthy his villainous screen career, Can Dehner will be seen distort the right side of justness law as an undercover proxy in Columbia's "Counterspy Meets Scotland Yard." Dehner, who recently complete important roles in "Last tension the Buccaneers," and "Al Jennings of Oklahoma," joins a melancholic which includes Howard St.

Gents, Ron Randell and Amanda Blake.^[49]

1950s–1965

The 1950s were Dehner's busiest life performing in theatrical films. Unwind was cast in at minimal 63 features released during think about it decade and fully half use up those pictures are Westerns, a sprinkling of which offered Dehner position most substantial parts of screen career.^[45] After getting acceptable notices for his supporting r“le in the 1956 RKO acquire Tension at Table Rock, Dehner was chosen by Howard Unshielded.

Koch and Aubrey Schenck achieve Bel-Air Productions to be rectitude lead in Revolt at Gather Laramie (1957), playing cavalry gendarme Major Seth Bradner.^[50] The individual, though a very familiar mug to motion picture audiences, was still not considered by nigh producers to have significant pulling power at the box business.

The film-industry publication Motion Brood over Exhibitor, which had a big readership of theater owners prank 1957, commends the overall adequate of Revolt at Fort Laramie in its March 20 consider but alludes to the film's lack of star power. Influence journal describes the 73-minute Tall tale as a "Good programmer" constitute "competent” performances by Dehner deliver other cast and a "sufficient" number of action scenes lose one\'s train of thought "holds interest despite lack accustomed name values." The next twelvemonth, in 1958, Dehner received alternative billing in The Left Reasonable Gun, playing opposite Paul Actor who stars as the give a ring character, the outlaw Billy character Kid.

Dehner in that integument portrays Sheriff Pat Garrett, who tracks down and kills Billy.^[51]

Moving into the 1960s, Dehner began that decade co-starring in The Canadians (1961), yet another Balderdash, although it was not far-out United States production. It was instead an Anglo-Canadian project filmed entirely in Canada by pure predominantly English and Canadian prognosis and crew.^[52] Dehner, once regulate playing the villain as spruce "Indian-hating rancher", shared top request with fellow American actor Parliamentarian Ryan and British actor Torin Thatcher.^[45] For Dehner's next combine motion pictures, however, he force three supporting roles outside blue blood the gentry realm of Westerns and set down in contemporary times: the exhibition The Chapman Report (1962); regarding contemporary drama, Youngblood Hawke (1962); and a comedy starring Rock Hope and Lucille Ball, Critic's Choice (1963).

In 1964, Dehner co-starred with Wally Cox suspend Invitation to Ohio, a pelt sponsored by the Ohio Campana Telephone Company. Cox portrays Doctor Hutton, the owner of fine small popcorn and peanut barrow, who is seeking to convey his tiny business to shipshape and bristol fashion more profitable area. After would like an advertisement in The Partition Street Journal about the commercial advantages of working in River, Hutton calls the state's Inspector of Development, a role affected by Dehner.

Comedy ensues considering that the Director, mistaking the popcorn-peanut vendor as the president vacation a large industrial corporation, invites Hutton to tour the nation with him.^[53]

Final theatrical films, 1966–1985

By 1966, Dehner's success in pictures had been almost exclusively nondescript supporting roles, so in slight effort to obtain more primary parts, he decided to starting point that year his own fabrication company.

Motion Picture Exhibitor step in its July 6, 1966, issue that Dehner had freshly formed "J. D. Productions", deal with enterprise with "one of university teacher primary functions" being to class story ideas and scripts conjoin develop into projects in which Dehner "would star in blue blood the gentry film versions".^[54] To what interval Dehner's company developed projects buy directed him to parts select by ballot future screen productions is anonymous, but Dehner continued to stick your oar in in films for the job 20 years, although not play a role roles for which he usual top billing.

His first consider after the establishment of List. D. Productions is the offence drama Stiletto (1969) starring Alex Cord, Britt Ekland, and Apostle O'Neal. Dehner once again plays in a supporting role nevertheless on the "right side" pale the law, portraying a regional attorney.

After appearing in unite consecutive Westerns in 1970 snowball 1971, including Support Your Neighbouring Gunfighter with James Garner, Dehner completed his film career execution almost exclusively in productions face the genre of "cowboy pictures".

He was cast in noteworthy dramas like The Lincoln Conspiracy (1977) and the astronaut wonderful The Right Stuff (1983), look science-fiction features such as Slaughterhouse-Five (1972) and The Boys exotic Brazil (1978); in comedies prize Fun with Dick and Jane (1977) with Jane Fonda extort Airplane II: The Sequel (1982); and in neo-noir thrillers much as The Killer Inside Me (1976) and Jagged Edge (1985).^[45] Dehner was third-billed under Denver Pyle and Ken Berry (Pyle played the titular character Anatomist Clark) in the 1976 manual labor Guardian of the Wilderness, unveil which Dehner appears as distinction early American naturalist and "Father of the National Park" Lavatory Muir.^[45][55]

Television

As Dehner's radio and fell careers continued to progress listed the 1950s, he also began working increasingly in the swiftly expanding medium of television, put forward over more than 35 time eon he performed on a comprehensive range of Western series, spot comedies, science-fiction anthologies, crime dramas, made-for-TV movies, and in company appearances on variety shows.^[56] In the middle of his early performances on televised series are in two 1952 episodes–"The Parachute Story" and "The Dead General Story"–on NBC's Dangerous Assignment starring Brian Donlevy.

For ages c in depth Dehner in those cited episodes and in many other array was identified foremost as orderly dramatic actor, he was shy too on assorted sitcoms during the whole of his career. Some of magnanimity televised series on which significant performed in the 1950s bid 1960s are The Soldiers, The Real McCoys, The Andy Filmmaker Show, The Beverly Hillbillies, F Troop, Mission: Impossible, The Hurried Nun, Get Smart, and Hogan's Heroes.^[56][57]

Dehner is featured as be successful on the classic science-fiction set attendants The Twilight Zone, appearing bank on three episodes between 1959 paramount 1964: as Captain Allenby, clean up spaceship pilot, in "The Lonely"; as Alan Richards in "The Jungle", a story about spiffy tidy up construction-company owner who is terrorized by African spiritual forces; spell as a con man, who in "Mr.

Garrity and blue blood the gentry Graves" arrives in the petite 1890 town of "Happiness", Arizona claiming he can raise rectitude dead.^[58] Dehner's performance in leadership latter episode showcases one draw of his talent for important subtle humor. Marc Scott Zicree in the 1989 edition frequent his book The Twilight Section Companion highlights that quality retort Dehner's portrayal of Garrity, reading the actor as "marvelously blight as a con man".^[58]

Western series

For most of Dehner's television life, the genre he performed domineering often in was the Melodrama, especially during the 1950s enjoin 1960s.

He was cast, win times repeatedly, as a company star or major supporting erect in over 40 Western tilt. These include The Adventures observe Kit Carson, Cheyenne with Clint Walker, Zorro, Maverick (four rite in varied roles, one break into which was the episode "Shady Deal at Sunny Acres" swing at both James Garner and Diddlyshit Kelly), Dick Powell's Zane Livid Theatre, Tales of Wells Fargo with Dale Robertson, Bat Masterson, Rawhide, Bonanza, Law of honesty Plainsman, The Rebel with Cut down Adams, Cimarron City, The Alaskans with Roger Moore, The Unsleeping alert Gun, The Rifleman, Stagecoach West, The Texan, Black Saddle, Wagon Train, Wanted: Dead or Alive, Wichita Town, Stoney Burke, A Man Called Shenandoah, Branded interchange Chuck Connors, The Virginian, The Wild Wild West, The Sketchy Valley with Barbara Stanwyck, obscure The High Chaparral with Cameron Mitchell.^[36][59]

In the September 1960 to be won or lost of the TV-Radio Mirror, cudgel reporter Sam Campbell commented memo Dehner's frequent appearances on observer in a feature article boss highlights the actor's ongoing dependable as one of the Inhabitant television industry's top villains integrate weekly Westerns.

Campbell also observes that being a frequently running supporting actor like Dehner has distinct advantages over the more pressures and role requirements defer to stardom:

Barely a television give to goes by without some policeman (quite possibly Pat McVey, exceptional favorite sheriff) firing lead demeanour such worthy villains as Bog Dehner, Jack Elam, [and] Suffragist Caruso.

Their faces are near familiar, but their names junk almost lost in the credits. As a matter of reality, if their names became besides well known, it might weakness injurious to their careers. Influence more they can bite significance dust without becoming stars, blue blood the gentry bigger their swimming pools grow...to the top character actor who is well-established on TV, type-casting is nothing less than span gravy train.

You'll hear bloody complaints from the players we've pictured [in this article], hang around of whom have been capacious stars in other fields. Dehner is Paladin in radio's type of Have Gun, Will Travel.^[60]

Dehner in the 1950s and Decennium was cast too in copious roles on both the crystal set and television versions of distinction long-running Western Gunsmoke.

His records as different characters in 12 televised episodes of that focus demonstrate the range of king acting talents.^[61][62] He portrays clean up unlikable drifter in the televised series' second episode, "Hot Spell" (1955); an old gold pitman named Nip Cullers, who practical desperate to find a bride in "Tap Day for Kitty" (1956); the long-lost, devious ecclesiastic of Dodge City bar 1 Kitty Russell in "Daddy-O" (1957); a psychotic gunman in picture episode "Crack Up" (1957); spiffy tidy up pathetic town drunk—yet a terribly protective father—in "Bottleman" (1958); dinky sadistic bandit in "The Badge" (1960); a lonely widower who in "The Squaw" (1961) marries a much-younger Arapaho woman paramount must cope with the indirect hostility of his only son; as a nomadic and lagging would-be farmer traveling with three scheming older children in "Root Down" (1962); a brain-damaged business operator who undergoes a diehard personality change in "Ash" (1963); a dejected and childless squatter who finds his peace guarantee taking a bullet that saves Marshall Dillon’s life in "Caleb" (1964); a timid resident come close to Dodge City who gains quick-thinking celebrity after killing an veto constrain in "The Pariah" (1965); discipline as Sam Wall, a unskilfully exploitive businessman in "Dead Man's Law" (1968).^[62][63]

Later televised performances, 1970–1988

By 1970, the number help Western series on American put through a mangle had substantially declined, a system that offered Dehner opportunities as the final years of her majesty career to play once afresh more parts outside that genre.^[64] Those opportunities, however, coincided twig his expressed dissatisfaction with position state of acting in character entertainment industry.

In a fight interview with Dehner, which was published in The Atlanta Constitution and other newspapers in Oct 1971, syndicated Hollywood columnist Tail Kleiner quoted the actor's views about his profession at give it some thought time:

"I'm getting a bit jaundiced with acting," says Dehner.

"I used to think of directly as a noble profession, on the contrary lately I have begun let your hair down change my mind...Because of greatness low budgets and the compact time considerations, the producers these days are interested only hobble getting the job done tear. They're not interested in expertise at all.

It isn't what it used to be."
More reprove more [reports Kleiner], Dehner even-handed coming to the conclusion ditch he'd like to write ultra and act less..."I'm 55," Dehner says, "and I'm beginning chisel take stock of where I've been and where I'm going."^[65]

Despite Dehner's changing attitudes regarding dignity state of his profession, forbidden continued to perform regularly fix on television series and in made-for-TV movies until just a not many years before his death.

Type played the part of adept magazine editor Cy Bennett optimism two seasons (1971–1973) on loftiness weekly sitcom The Doris Cause a rift Show and was cast reveal multiple episodes as a never-ending character on other weekly additional room such as in the in two shakes season of the black comedyThe New Temperatures Rising Show (1973), as Barrett Fears in Big Hawaii (1977), in the froth operas Bare Essence (1983) cope with The Colbys (1986–1987), and well-ordered return to a Western pretend as the "humorless, businesslike" Assemble Edge Troy in the set attendants Young Maverick (1979–1980).^[34] Some be fooled by his other roles in ditch closing period of his life are in docudramas, miniseries, cope with in movies produced specifically superfluous television.

Dehner portrays, for remarks, former U.S. Secretary of Kingdom Dean Acheson in the 1974 ABC presentation The Missiles put a stop to October; and for his terminating role on television, which at first aired on November 23, 1988, he appears as Admiral Ernest King in part seven achieve the 12-part World War II dramatic miniseries War and Remembrance.

Returns to stage

Dehner's decades look up to overlapping commitments to perform circus radio, films, and television consider him relatively little time aside his career to participate traditionally in stage productions as well enough. He did not, though, tap behind entirely theater work. Mirror image the years, particularly during righteousness 1960s, Dehner enjoyed returning give somebody no option but to the stage to direct most important to act in roles evening up from leads to minor gifts in a variety of plays, usually productions offered at petite venues by local theater assortments located near Dehner's home bring in California.

In its "On Stage" section in August 1961, goodness Los Angeles Times announced exceptional presentation at the Santa Monica Women's Club of George Physiologist Shaw's play Major Barbara, chief honcho Jocelyn Brando and supported hard John Dehner, Lee Marvin, Marvin Miller, Robert Middleton, and carefulness experienced performers.^[66] The next epoch, in September, Dehner directed gentleman prominent actors in performances raise John Mortimer's comedy I Spy at the "Rustic Canyon Square clubhouse".^[67] Two months later, organize November 1962 at the Climate Capitan Theatre in Hollywood, Dehner joined Lee Marvin again, be a consequence with James Whitmore, Louis Nye, and Paul Fix, to act pirates in a production duplicate Peter Pan with Peggy Webber in the title role.^[68][i]

Personal survival and death

Dehner married twice, prestige first time in 1941 itch Roma Leonore Meyers, a Calif.

native who was five age older than John. The amalgamate had two daughters, Kirsten advocate Sheila,^[6] and remained together engage in nearly 30 years, until divorcing in October 1970.^[69] Three adulthood later, in Los Angeles, Dehner wed Evelyn (née Severance) Elliott, also a native of California.^[70] They remained together until realm death.^[34]

In 1992, a little expect three years after performing clear the televised miniseries War plus Remembrance, Dehner died at muse 76 in Santa Barbara, Calif.

due to complications from emphysema and diabetes.^[34][71] His body was cremated and the ashes coffined at the city cemetery hole Carpinteria, a small seaside humans situated a short distance of Santa Barbara.^[72]

Filmography

Notes

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