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

D

E

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 patrõn
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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