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This is a list of character actors whose last name
ending in the letter R has 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.
This section of character actors is dedicated to each & everyone one of
the
character actors that
appeared on
The Rifleman.
They're among the most popular and
recognizable actors. They may not be A-list stars, but they do something
many actors don't. They worked all the time.
Steve Ritch as Joe Hyatt
in The Mind Reader.
He was the one who killed John Hallager.
Steve served in World War II on Guadalcanal, fighting in
some of the worst battles. He planned on being a lawyer after
the war, but got into acting instead. Steve Rich was a writer
and an actor.
His first screenplay in Hell on Devil's Island and Plunder
Road in (1957) City of Fear with Patricia Blair
(1959) and later in 1962, Safe at Home. He wrote and
appeared in many of the TV Series:
Wagon Train Combat! Adventures in Paradise Frontier
Circus Combat Tightrope 77 Sunset Strip and Hawaiian Eye.
Born: December 26, 1921 in Providence, Rhode Island
Died: July 20, 1995 in Rogue River, Oregon
Bartlett Robinson as Samuel Britton
in Outlaw's Inheritance.
He's the guy who hired Stafford to make sure
Lucas didn't get to go to Yuma to represent
North Fork.
Bartlett began his
career in 1933, performing on stage in New York and on radio and
film in California, when he and friends formed the ''Sunday
Players'' and landed a job on the Los Angeles radio station KFI. For
the next few years he alternated between stage work in New York and
radio and films in Los Angeles.
He portrayed Perry Mason, the criminal lawyer created by Erle
Stanley Gardner, on radio in 1943. He also played the noble but
crazed and suffering husband on Portia Faces Life and was a
regular on Yours Truly Johnny Dollar, which was the last
major dramatic radio network show when it went off the air in 1962.
He also had supporting roles in the films: Toward the Unknown
The Spirit of St. Louis No Time for Sergeants I Want to Live!
and The Fortune Cookie.
On television, he guest starred on TV Series like: Telephone Time
Jane Wyman Presents The Fireside Theatre Cheyenne Peter Gunn
The Third Man Johnny Ringo Gunsmoke The Life and Legend of
Wyatt Earp The Untouchables Maverick Alfred Hitchcock Presents
The Twilight Zone Leave It to Beaver The Dick Powell Theatre
Kraft Suspense Theatre The Andy Griffith Show The Alfred
Hitchcock Hour The Munsters Bewitched The Smothers Brothers
Show F Troop Burke's Law Perry Mason The Wild Wild West
Gilligan's Island The Lucy Show The Invaders Hawaii Five-O
It Takes A Thief The Bill Cosby Show The Virginian Kung Fu and
The Odd Couple.
Born: December 9, 1912 in New York City, New York
Died: March 26, 1986 in Fallbrook, California
George Robotham doubled for Sean McClory
in I Take this Woman.
George doubled for Sean McClory
He appeared in
99 and 44/100% Dead (stunts -1974) with Chuck Connors.
As an actor he has
sixty-three credits to his name and ninety credits as a stuntman.
George Robotham was an American stuntman, actor and director.
Robotham played American football at UCLA, where he was awarded a
degree in business administration. He started his acting career as a
stuntman and actor in Batman as a Henchmen. Following his
role in Batman, he usually appeared as an uncredited role in
many movies where he was also doing stunts.
He specializes in scenes involving underwater activities, and also
fight and combat sequences. His most famous distinctive film
sequence involves the "human sacrifice episode" in the 1955 MGM Lana
Turner film The Prodigal, in which he was the guest of honor.
Born: January 10, 1921, Sacramento, CA
Died: February 1, 2007, Bonn, Germany
Ziva Rodann as Maria in Vaqueros.
She is the Seρorita who helped Lucas.
She first
moved to the United States in 1947, when she was sent to
live with her aunt and uncle in St. Louis, Missouri, where
she attended and graduated from Kirkwood High School. When
she returned to Israel, she was accepted at the Habima
Theatre and later joined the Chamber Theatre, where she
played leading roles.
Her acting career spanned sixteen years in film and
television and has appeared in more than 40 films and
television productions.
Rodann made her American film debut in
Pharaoh's Curse
(1957), a United Artists release. Her first notable film was
Last Train from Gun Hill (1958) ― The Story of
Ruth (1960) and she played Nefertiti in two Batman
episodes (1966).
Ziva appeared in The Courage of Black Beauty with Johnny Crawford in 1957,
before The Rifleman.
She once appeared as a contestant on You Bet Your Life (1950)
with Groucho Marx.
In 1957
Ziva was named Miss Israel of 1957.
Ziva Blechman
Born: March 2, 1933 in Haifa, Israel
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