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Gordon Armitage

Gordon Armitage appeared in six episodes of The Rifleman as a townsman ― The Hangman ― Baranca ― Dead Cold Cash ― The Illustrator ― The Lonesome Bride ― The Tinhorn as Joe, a card player.

He appeared with Chuck in Death and Small Doses as a Diner Patron.

His first acting appearance was in 1939, Golden Boy as a fighter. He went on to appear in Thirteen other movies - High Conquest (1947) ― Call Me Mister (1951) ― Canadian Mounties vs. Atomic Invaders (1953) ― Outpost in Morocco (1949) ― Death and Small Doses (1957) ― Hell Bound Les Girls (1957) ― Shoot Out A Big Sag (1962) ― It's A Mad Mad World (1963) ― The Ghost & Mr. Chicken (1966) ― The Love God (1969) ― How to Frame A Figg (1971).

Besides The Rifleman he appeared in the TV Series Zane Grey Theater (1960) ― Johnny Ringo (1959-60) ― The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp (1958-59) ― The Californians (1957-58) ― Yancy Derringer (1959) ― Wanted Dead or Alive (1959) ― Overland Trail (1960) ― Tales of Wells Fargo (1960) ― The Westerner (1960) ― Thriller (1961) ― The Untouchables (1961) ― Stagecoach West (1961) ― Gunsmoke (1963) ― The Loner (1965) ― My Living Doll (1964) ― The Virginian (1961) ― Laredo (1965) It Takes A Thief (1968) and two made for TV Movies ― Crossroads (1966) ― Counterspy (1958).

Born: October 1, 1909 in Pennsylvania
Died: January 11, 1989

*Thanks to Phillip Arnold for giving this Cowboy his credit due!

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