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William Bryant
Actor | Voice Actor

William Bryant appeared
in four episodes of The Rifleman ― The Apprentice Sheriff
as Sandy Dixon, the cowboy who Dan shot
and killed ― Jerry in
Shivaree
one of the rowdy cowboys.

Gun Fire
as Karl Hollis one of Gordo's gang pretending to be a
cattle buyer ― The Assailants
as Trooper Coley,
he was the trooper who had his eye on Lou.
He appeared in
Branded eight times as President Ulysses S. Grant.
He also appeared with Chuck in Ride Beyond Vengeance (1966) as the Bartender
― Arrest and Trial
(1963).
Loved him in
Hardcastle & McCormick (1983) the pilot - 2 parter called
Rolling
Thunder as Flip Johnson. Old Hardcastle knew the code of the west....."hunt 'em, hear 'em and hang 'em!" Loved
Hardcastle and McCormick! To me this was a modern day western. Hardcastle's favorite Cowboy was the
Duke and he read The Lone Ranger
comics. 
Bryant worked most of
his career in television with He is one of the more
recognizable television character actors of the 1960s
and 1970s.
He appeared in many of
the same TV Series over and over again ― Simon & Simon
(1981 - 1989) ―
The Fall Guy (1983 -1983) ― CBS Afternoon Playhouse
(1980) ― Switch (1976 - 1978) ― Emergency!
(1972 -1978) ― Gunsmoke (1957 -(1974) ― McCloud
(1970 - 1973) ― Bonanza (1967 - 1972) ― Lancer
(1968 - 1969) ― Hondo (1967) ― Combat (1962 -
1967) ―
Laramie (1959 - 1963) ― The Rebel (1959 -1961) The list goes on and on. I
tip my Cowgirl hat to you Cowboy!
William Bryant was born January
31, 1924 in Detroit, Michigan
He died June 26, 2001 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California of
cancer
Birth Name: William Robert Klein
*Thanks to Phillip Arnold for giving this
Cowboy his credit due!
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