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This is a list of character actors whose last name ending in the letter T 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.

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Larry Thor ― Les Tremayne
Karen Sue Trent ― David Tyrell
Akim Tamiroff ― Dee J. Thompson
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Larry Thor as Jessie Phillips in Tin Horn.
He was the man who almost lost his farm to Keeler.

 Larry decided on a radio career when he had trouble getting work at a local mine, and worked at various stations in The Great White North beginning in 1937 until he decided to try his luck in Los Angeles in 1946.

In addition to his radio, TV, and his movie work, Larry Thor wrote and recorded a twelve song album of children’s songs.

His film and television spanned over twenty years with eighty-three credits. He was Tock the talking watch dog in The Phantom Tollbooth ― Detective Sergeant in the Fast and Furious. He was the lone voice of concern in Tora Tora Tora, and supporting role in The Pride of St. Louis as an accredited baseball announcer, and in the cult sci-fi classic, The Amazing Colossal Man as the army doctor. Other notable movie appearances include Zero Hour! ― Portland Expose ― The Hunters ― Where the Boys Are and Machine Gun Kelly.

In television, Larry appeared in many TV series, like Gilligan's Island as the announcer on the radio, I Spy ― Perry Mason ―  Mr. Novak ― Hazel ― The Lieutenant  ― The Munsters and he appeared in Wagon Train, 'The Sally Potter Story' with Johnny Crawford, before The Rifleman.
He was one the writers for the animated TV Series, Skyhawks (1969).

During the last few years of his life, Larry was on the staff of the University of California in Los Angeles, providing very popular courses in Theatre Arts.

Arnleifur Lawrence Thorsteinson
Born: August 27, 1916, Lundar, Manitoba, Canada
Died: March 15, 1976, Santa Monica, California

 Mary Jo Tierney as Holly, the waitress in the hotel in The Shattered Idol.



Les Tremayne as the Professor in The Challenge. .

In a six-decade career that began on radio in Chicago in 1930s and '40s who starred in The Thin Man and The Falcon but is best remembered as the longtime leading man on The First Nighter. Tremayne once estimated that he had worked on more than 30,000 broadcasts, with as many as 45 radio shows a week in the 1930s.

Tremayne was so familiar to radio audiences that in one poll in the early 1940s, he was cited as one of the three most famous voices in America. The other two were President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Bing Crosby.

Tremayne made numerous guest appearances on television and was a regular on One Man's Family (1950) ― Ellery Queen (1958 - 1959) as Inspector Richard Queen and played Mr. Mentor on the children's series Shazam! (1974).

Among his movie roles, Tremayne played the auctioneer in Alfred Hitchcock's ― North by Northwest and the no-nonsense Major General Mann in The War of the Worlds.

Educated at Northwestern University, Chicago Art Institute, Columbia University, and UCLA.

Born: April 16, 1913 in Balham, London, England, UK
Died: December 19, 2003 (age 90) in Santa Monica, California

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