One timers on "The Rifleman"

 This is a list of character actors who have appeared on
"The Rifleman—one time only" 
Whether they have appeared one time only or 168 times, they are just as important
as the main characters and/or anyone else involved in "The Rifleman"
This is just a small tribute to those great many characters actors.
I still have a long way to go until I'm finished with this, but I'm a working on it!  updated 9/5/08

 A

     John Abbott

     ‘The Vision’ as Doc Henniken

     Julie Adams

     ‘Nora’ as Nora

     Stanley Adams

     ‘Outlaws Shoes’ as Dr. Jay Carter

     Norman Alden

     ‘The Anvil Chorus’ as Duff

     Virginia Aldridge

     ‘The Sharpshooter’ as the waitress
     Melvin F. Allen     ‘Miss Bertie’ as a wrangler
     Henry Allin     ‘The Assailants’  as Tom Burroughs
     Jean Allison

     ‘Flowers by the Door’ the lady killed in the
     opening scene by Jason Gowdy  

     John Alvin     ‘Skull’ as Applegate
     Henry Amargo     ‘Baranca’ as Juan
     Ed Ames     ‘Quiet Night, Deadly Night’ as Lee Coyle
     Robert Anacher     'The Babysitter' as Fancy

     Luana Anders

     'Shivaree' as Lisabeth Bishop
     Keith Andes

     ‘The Debt’ as Reynolds

     James Anderson     ‘The Grasshopper’ as Johnny Denver
     Herb Armstrong     ‘The Actress’ as the hotel clerk
     Charles Arnt     'The Sharpshooter' as Wes Tippert
     Larry Asmus     Three-Legged Terror was a boy at the picnic
     Phyllis Avery     'The Baby Sitter' as Leona Pickford Bartell

 B
     Alice Backes     'The Mail Order Groom' as Isabel Dent
     Raymond Bailey

     ‘The Photographer” as Colonel Jess Whiteside

     Roy Barcroft 

     ‘Outlaw Shoes’ as Mr. Stevens

     Katherine Bard       ‘The Trade’ as Elizabeth Landis
     James Barton       ‘The Legacy’ as Matt 'Pop' Simmons

     Arthur Batanides 

     ‘Old Man Running’ as Littleboy Sherman
     Alex Baxter     ‘The Boarding House’ as Sid Fallon
     Hal Baylor     ‘Short Rope for a Tall Man’ as Charlie Crown
     Stephen Bekassy      'The Princess' as Count Brissara  

     William ‘Billy’ Benedict  

     'Smoke Screen' as Dave Prentice
     James Best        'The Day the Town Slept’ as Bob Barrett
     Helen Beverly       'Seven' as Sweeney's wife, May
     Edward Binns       'The Apprentice Sheriff' as Kealy
     William Bishop        'Outlaw's Inheritance' as Dave Stafford
     Dan Blocker       'The Sister' as Peter Snipe

     Lane Bradford   

     'Woman from Hog Ridge'
     Jim Brenaman 

     ‘A Case of Identity’ as Dollar Ten

     George Brenlin       ‘The Blowout’ as The Kid
     Patricia Breslin       ‘Flowers by the Door’ as Cora Severs
     Diane Brewster       'The Jealous Man’ as Fay Owens
     Joe Brown       'The Mescalero Curse' as Jake
     Thomas Brown       'Skull' as the Sheriff
     Argentina Brunnetti        'Guilty Conscience' as Mrs. Ramirez
     Robert Burton     'The Princess' as Doc Burrage

C

     King Calder        'Assault' as King Croxton
     Olive Carey      'Shivaree' as Ma Wilson
     Philip Carey       'Death Trap' as Simon Battle
     Benny Carle      'The Assailant' as Amos Blaine
     Thom Carney     'Lou Mallory' as Moss Jackman
     Carleton Carpenter       'The Coward' as George Collins
     John Carpenter       'Nora' as the stagecoach driver
     Jimmy Carter      'Gun Shy' as Charlie
    Penelope Sue Carver      'The Pet' little girl who died from anthrax
     Allen Case      'The Young Englishman' as Jeremy Ashford
     Malcolm Cassell      'The Spoiler' as Joey Merrick
     William (Bill) Catching       'The Second Witness" as Tom Williamson
     Lincoln Cemyan       'The Lonesome Bride' as Kelly Banner
     Bill Cerone      'Guilty Conscience' as Mortimer the one who
     frisk Micah in the saloon

     Robert Chadwick

     'The Indian' as Eskaminzan
     Larry Chance       'The Mescalero Curse' as Lobo
     John Davis Chandler      'The Executioner' as Brooks
     Lon Chaney Jr.      'Gunfire' as Charlie Gordo
     Kim Charney      'The Angry Man' as Carey MacDonald
     Alden ‘Stephen’ Chase      'The Sheridan Story' as Medical Col. Stroud
     Pat Close       'The Queue' as Noah Fergus

     Pamela Cole

     'The Schoolmaster' as Sally

     John Collier

     'Smoke Screen' as Howie

     Booth Coleman  

     'The High Country' as Jeremiah

     Al Collins

     'Sporting Chance' - Millie calls him Al Collins -
     that is his real name - take a look at the credits
     - his name was suppose to be Pete
     Kevin Connors      'The Schoolmaster'
     Steve Connors      'The Schoolmaster'

     Charles Conrad

     'The Spiked Rifle' as Mallory

     Steve Conte  

     'Lariat' as Doyle Black

     Roberto Contreras  

     'The Vaqueros' as Angelo

     Tommy Cook  

     'Sheer Terror' as Andy Carr

     Ben Cooper   

     'Face of Yesterday' as Simon Lee
     Clancy Cooper      'The Raid' as Caleich
     Robert Cornthwaite      'The Deserter' as Major Dammler 
     Jerome Courtland      'The Brother-in-law' as Johnny Gibbs

     Kay Cousins (Johnson)

     'The Boarding House' as Flo
     Carolyn Craig      'End of a Young Gun' as Ann Bard
     John Craig      'Which Way Did They Go?' as Bo Jackman

D

     Abby Dalton  

     'The Marshal' as Nancy Moore
     Jeff Daly       'Eddie's Daughter' as the Sam -1st Cowhand
     Linda Dangcil      'Baranca' as Mrs. Sanchez
     Christopher Dark       'Bloodlines' as Ben Malakie
     Hal K. Dawson      'Six Year and a Day' as Hannaberry
     Maureen Dawson       'Quiet Night, Deadly Night'
     as Molly Carpenter
     Edgar Dearing       'Shivaree' as Justice of the peace
     Richard Deacon       'The Hangman' as Colonel Simms
     Ted de Corsia     'The Young Englishman'  as Waggoner
     Gloria DeHaven        'Eddie’s Daughter' as Lillian Halstead

     Galvan DeLeon  

     'New Orleans Menace' as Guitar Player
     David Leland     'The Woman' as Cousin Healey
      Lincoln Demyan      'The Lonesome Bride' as Kelly Banner

     Robert Dix

     'The Raid' as Davy Clay
     Molly Dodd      'The Jailbird' as Bessie Steel Weaver
     Don Drysdale      'Skull' as Warren
     Don Dubbins      'The Martinet' as Ben Perry

E

     Chana Eden      'The Gaucho' as Nita Argentez
     Barbara Eiler       'Tin Horn' as Mary Phillips
     Robert Ellenstein      'The Photographer' as Bart Jamieson  
     Dick Elliott       'Day of the Hunter' as Hardiman the apple guy
     Ross Elliott     'Gunfire' as Ben Johnson
     Leif Erickson       'The Sharpshooter' as Big Jim Lewis
     Bill Erwin      'The Pet' as Joe Flecker

F
     Hampton Fancher       'The Decision' as Corey Hazlitt

     Annie Farge

     'The Princess' as Jennifer/The Princess
     Fats      'Tin Horn' as the piano man

     Frank Ferguson

     'The Hero' as Sam Bedford
     Jimmy Fields      'The Schoolmaster' as Billy Davis
     Harry Finley      'End of the Hunt' as Harvey
     Mickey Finn      'The Lost Treasure of Canyon Town'
     as James Newman
     Billy Paul Fix      'Guilty Conscience'
     James Flavin       'Lariat' as Morody
     Michael Forest     'The Raid' as Chaqua 
     James Franciscus      'Legacy' as Phillip Simmons
     Charles Fredricks       'The Boarding House' as Steve
     Lance Fuller      'The Sister' as Earl Battle  

G
     Gary Gadson      'Tin Horn' as Henry the card player
     Jim Galante      'Outlaw Shoes' as The Handyman
     Steven Gardner      'The Apprentice Sheriff' as a schoolboy 
     Richard Garland      'The Jealous Man' as Travis
     James Gavin

     'Six Years and a Day' as Lee Marston

     Lenny Geer      'The Indian' as Todd Ullman 

     Betty Lou Gerson 

     'The Hangman' as Ellie Aikens
     John Gilbert      'End of the Hunt' as messenger boy
     Sid Gilman      'Heller' as the bartender
     Tom Gilson      'Outlaw Shoes' as Frank Weiden
     Johnny Ginger      'Two Ounces of Tin' as Ted

     Regina Gleason

     'Six Years and a Day' as Sarah Marston
     Mark Goddard     'Mark’s Rifle' as Marty Blair
     Pat Goldin      'Gun Shy' as Fitch the dress salesman

     Thomas Gomez 

     'Stranger at Night'  as Artemus Quarles

     Elyse Gordon      'The Apprentice Sheriff' as a schoolgirl

     Michael Greene

     'Outlaw Shoes' as George Vale
     Jack Grinnage      'The Legacy' as Kirby Mitchell

     Raymond Guth  

     'Incident at Line Shack Six' as Charley Breen    

H
     Eileen Harley     'The Retired Gun' as Claire Wheatley Carney
     Robert Hagerthy       'The Deserter' as Ben Haskell
     Bob Hall aka Bob Hull       'Gun Shy' as the minister
     Claude Hall       'Incident at Line Shack Six' as Jeb Croton
     Charles Harrison      'Quiet Night, Deadly Night' as Stagecoach
     Driver
     Harry Harvey Sr.     'The Legacy' as Toomey
     Ron Hayes       'Six Years and a Day' as Bruce
     Bruce Haywood      'Sheer Terror' as Oliver - Stagecoach Driver
     Jim Hayward       'Tin Horn' as Tucker
     Pat Henry       'The Most Amazing Man' as Hardware Store
      Merchant
     Harry Hickox       'The Angry Gun' as Stagecoach Driver
     Michael Hinn       'A Matter of Faith' as Jeff Borden
     Earl Hodgins

     'The Money Gun' as the Auctioneer

     Pat Hogan      'The Raid' as Artak

     Cheryl Holdridge 

     'A Young Man's Fancy' as Sally Walker
     Skip Homeier         'The Spoiler' as Brud Evans
     Dick Kay Hong      'The Queue' as Wang Lee

     Clegg Hoyt  

     'The Horse Traders' as Lester Chard
     Arthur Hunnicutt       'The Grasshopper' as Nathaniel Cameron
     Jim Hurst     'Woman From Hog Ridge' as Sylvester
     Josephine Hutchinson      'The Prodigal' as Christine St. John

I—J
     Rex Ingram      'Closer than a Brother' as Thaddeus
     Sherry Jackson       'The Sister' as Rebecca Snipe

     Paul Jasmin

     'The Legacy' as Allison Mitchell
     Dal Jenkins       'Requiem at Mission Springs' as Smiley
     Harvey Johnson       'Trail of Hate' as Nooley Stark

I. Stanford Jolley

 

     'Hostage to Fortune'  as Joe Fugnar/Bulgutch-
     according to the credits at the end of this
     episode his name is Joe Fugnar—according to
     IMDB/TV Tome his name is Joe Bulgutch—In
     the beginning of this episode Sylvester/Paul
     Mazursky calls him brother Joe.  Sylvester's
     last name is Bulgutch.  I would say they are
     brothers.  But in this episode Mr. Bullock calls
     him Mr. Fugnar?????
     L.Q. Jones      ‘Day of Reckoning as Charley Breen
     Warner Jones      'Smoke Screen' as Fred Tate
     Bill Joyce        'Panic' as Clay Barker 
     Katy Jurado       'The Boarding House' as Julia/Big Anna

K

     Beatrice Kay

     'Which Way Did They Go?' as Goldie Drain
     Richard Keene      'The Hero' as Mr. Jethroe

     Mike Kellin  

     'The Surveyors' as Len Sommers

     Ray Kellogg 

     'Incident at Line Shack 6' as Vale Cronton
     Bill Kendis     'Death Trap' as Stark
     Don Kennedy       ‘Home Ranch’ as Clyde
     Douglas Kennedy     'Smoke Screen' as Pete Crandell
     Sandy Kenyon     'Mail Order Groom' as Jim Profit
     Richard Kiel     'The Decision' as Cousin Carl Hazlett

     Kip King

     'The Dead-eye Kid' as Don Mahoney
     Lee Kinsolving     'Boomerang' as Tim Elder
     James Kirkwood      'The Horse Traders' as the Colonel
     Robert Knapp     'A Time for Singing' as Dan Hewitt

     Martin Kosleck    

     'Old Tony' as Joe Stanic

     Berry Kroeger     'Closer than a Brother' as Ansel Bain

L
     Charlie LaFranchise      ‘Lou Mallory' as Eddie Halstead
     Jack Lambert     'The Spiked Rifle' as John Lance
     Arlyne Varden (Lampshire)        'The Decision' as Angie the waitress

     Martin Landau

     'Vaqueros' as Miguel, the patrőn
     John Larch     'Six Years and a Day' as Jack Cooke

     Harry Lauter

     'The Bullet' as the hired gun
     Linda Lawson     'Assault' as Vashti Croxton
     Jenifer Lea     'Smoke Screen' as Marge Crandell

    Howard Ledig 

     'The Blowout' as Jake Porter
     Carol Leigh     'Quiet Night, Deadly Night' as Betty Lind
     David Leland     'The Woman' as Cousin Healey
     Bethel Leslie     'Stopover' as Teresa Miller
     Jack Lester     'The Promoter' as Black Hat Murphy

    George Lindsey

      'Requiem at Mission Springs' as Dove   
     Morris Lippert     'The Gaucho' as Danny
     Perry Lopez     'The Gaucho' as Manolo Argentez
     James Luisi     'Sporting Chance' as Chuley Carr
     Karl Lukas     'The Brother-in-law' as Oliver

     Ken Lynch

     'Letter of the Law' as Karl Galt

M
     Henry Madden     'Squeeze Play' as Hal Spencer

     Charles Macaulay

     'Sheer Terror' as Sloan
     Arthur Malet     'Sporting Chance' as Jeremy Pennebroke
     Peggy Maley     'The Boarding House' as Liz
     John Mamo     'The Sixteenth Cousin' as Check DVD credits

     Mickey Manners

     'Which Way Did They Go?' as Moss Jackman
     Andy Martin     'Hostages to a Fortune' as a towns folk

     Eugene Martin 

     'Sins of the Father' as Bobby Moon
     George Matthews     'The Angry Man' as Abel MacDonald

     Charles Maxwell

     The Sixteenth Cousin' as Gus Torpin
     John Maxwell     'The Challenge' as Sam Weltz

     Asa Maynor

     'The Bullet' as Molly

    
     Paul Mazursky

     'Hostages to Fortune' as Sylvester Bulgutch
    One of the writers of 'The Tinhorn'
     Lin McCarthy     'The Surveyors' as Charley Burn

     Renny McEvoy 

     'The Grasshopper' as Burke

     Don Megowan 

     'Seven' as Dorf
     Joe Mell     'The Retired Gun' as Sam Moody
     Diana Millay     'The Actress' as Elizabeth Garrett Black

     Denny Miller

     'The Promoter' as Reuben Miles
     Irving Mitchell      'Eight Hours to Die' as Judge Martin Harlow
     Gerald Mohr     'Squeeze Play' as Willard Prescott
     Alberto Monte     'Baranca'  as Poco
     Alex Montoya     'Waste' 1 & 2 as Ear Digger
     Joanna Moore     'The Obituary' as Eleanor Claremont
     Agnes Moorehead     'Miss Bertie' as Miss Bertie

     Michael Morgan

     'The Sister' as Injun Adams
     Rex Morgan     'Honest Abe' as McKeever
     Gloria Morland      'Deadly Image' as the saloon girl

     Jeff Morrow

     'End of the Hunt' as Reef Jackson.   

     Arnold Moss

     'The Schoolmaster' as Stevan Griswald

N
     George N. Neise     'Smoke Screen' as Rodney Quentin
     Jay Nelson     'Gun Shy' as the stage owner/driver

     Tommy Nolan 

     'Guilty Conscience' as Hab Carraway

     Valora Noland

     'The High Country' as Clare
     Henry Norell      'The Decision' as C. Henry Whitmore

O

     Jerry Oddo

      'New Orleans Menace' as Schuette

     Cliff Osmond

     'None so Blind' as Lafayette Blye
     Robert Osterloh     'A Time for Singing' as Walt Durkins
     Ted Otis     'The Surveyors' as Elliot Hodgins

     Ollie O’Toole 

     'The Promoter' as John Crabtree

P

     James Parnell 

     'The Blowout' as the drunk
     Reg Parton      'The Bullet' as the victim buried in the ground
     with his head out
     Hank Patterson     'The Debt'  as Abe Merar
     Lee Patrick     'Guilty Conscience' as Leota Carraway
     Steve Pendleton

     'Death Trap' as Deputy Marshal Ben Johnson

     Ron Penfound  

     'The Princess' as Mr. Smith
     Joseph Perry     'The Illustrator' as Tanner
     Michel Petit     'The Princess' as Charles - the young Prince

     Marilee Phelps  

     'Eight Hours to Die' as  Miss Adams
     William Phipps     'The Money Gun' as Asa Manning
     Jack Pickard     'Death Trap' as Stacey

     Noam Pitlik 

     'The Assailants' as Trooper Daft
     Edward Platt     'The Assailants' as Senator Borden

Q—R
     Rhodes Reason     'Conflict' as *Ben Todd/Ben Kendrick Lou
     called him Ben Todd and the credits say Ben
     Kendrick
     Dick Rich     'Young Englishman' as Line Boss
     Darryl Richard     'Gun Shy' as Fred
     Steve Ritch     'The Mind Reader' as Joe Hyatt
     Bartlett Robinson     'Outlaw's Inheritance' as Samuel Britton

     Ziva Rodann

     'Vaqueros' as Maria
     David M. Rodman     'First Wages' as Merar
     Teddy Rooney      'The Long Goodbye' as Woody
     Henry Rowland     The Baby Sitter' as Nels
     Herman Rudin     'The Retired Gun' as Morgan Bailey

     Richard Rust

     'The Quiet Fear' as Brice

     Glenn Ryle

     'First Wages' as Ed/Townsman

S
     Hugh Sanders     'The Blowout' as Ben Waller
     Walter Sande      'The Guest' as Ralph Haven

     Stefan Schnabel

     'Old Tony' as Old Tony
     Sydna Scott      'Tension' as Mary Halpern
     Alexander Scourby     'The Obituary' as Byron Claremont
     Jack Searl     'The Mescalero Curse' as Tom

     Sarah Selby

     'The Boarding House' as Agnes Hamilton
     Marian Seldes     'The Vision' as Margaret McCain/Hazel
     Victor Sen Yung     'The Queue' as Wang Chi

     Joan Shawlee

     'Lonesome Bride' as Mary Woodson
     Dan Sheridan     'The Trade' as Sheriff McVey
     Fred Sherman     'The Man from Salinas' as Tom
     Pat Smith     'Honest Abe' as Susan
     Duke Snider      'The Retired Gun' as Wallace

     Tom Snyder (III)

     'A Friend in Need' as Pete
     Vladmir Sokoloff      'The Vaqueros' as Grandfather

     Olan Soule 

     'The Anvil Chorus' as the hardware clerk
     Arthur Space      'The Grasshopper' as the conductor
     Douglas Spencer     'The Dead-eye Kid' as Jackson

     Ted Stanhope 

     'Tension' as the grave digger

     Harry Dean Stanton 

     'Tension' as Clemmie

     Michael Stefani

     'Nora' as Chad Morgan
     Rusty Stevens        'Hostage to Fortune' as Melvin 

     Frank Sully

     'The Wrong Man' as the second spieler
     Hope Summers     Hope Summers as Hattie Denton

T
     Akim Tamiroff     'New Orleans Menace' as
     Joan Taylor     Joan Taylor as Miss Millie
     Ray Teal     'Eddie’s Daughter' as Albie

     Dee J. Thompson

     'Woman from Hog Ridge' as Ma Boyle
     Larry Thor     'Tin Horn' as Jessie Phillips
     Mary Jo Tierney

     'The Shattered Idol' 

     Les Tremayne     'The Challenge' as the Professor
     Karen Sue Trent     'Old Tony' as Lorrie
     Gene Tyburn     'The Bullet' as Deputy Ben

     David Tyrell

     'The Sister' as Roy Thursby

V
     Natividad Vacio     'The Vision' as Pedro
     Arlyne Varden (Lampshire)     'The Decision' as Angie
     Robert Vaughn     'The Apprentice Sheriff' as Dan Willard
     June Vincent     'The Visitor' as Jenny Morgan

     Murvyn Vye

     'Nora' as Jude Nichols

W
     Max Wagner     'Blood Brothers' as John Stoddard

     George Wallace

     'Sins of the Father' as Andy Moon
     Midge Ware     'The Illustrator' as Hanna Shaw
     Steve Warren     'Honest Abe' as Joe
     Robert Webber     'The Retired Gun' as Wes Carney
     Jack Wells      'Closer than a Brother' as the carpenter

     Adam West 

     'Stopover' as Christopher Rolf/Ryan
     Brad Weston     'The Silent Knife' as big Mark
     Christine White      'The Visitor' Ann Dodd
     Daniel White       'Hostage to Fortune' as Mr. Russell
     Grace Lee Whitney      'Tin Horn' as Rose
     Richard Whorf      'The Illustrator' as Jeremiah Crowley

     Frank Wilcox

     'The Sheridan Story' as Colonel Cass
     George Willeford     'Skull' as Mallery
     Rhys Williams     Rhys Williams as Doc Burrage
     Robert B. Williams

     'The Silent Knife' as Harrison

     Dick Wilson     'Sins of the Father' as the guy on Doc's table
     getting buckshot taken out of his butt
     Jeanne Wood     'The Vision' as Mrs. Swenson
     William Woodson     'Outlaw Shoes' as the sheriff of Red Creek

     Stephen Wootton

     'Tin Horn' as Willie
     Dale Wright     'Incident at Line Shack 6' as Davey Croton

     Than Wyenn

     'The Vaqueros' as Ramos

X & Y

     X. Brands

     'The Clarence Bibs Story'
     as Pretty Man Longden
     Jeff York     'None So Blind' as John J. Mack
     Bill Zuckert      'The Long Goodbye' as Debo Lee

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