Don Dubbins
Don Dubbins (June 28, 1928 - August 17, 1991), originally Donald Dubbins, was an American actor of film and television who in his early career usually played younger military roles, particularly in such classic pictures as From Here to Eternity (1953) and The Caine Mutiny (1954). Screen giant James Cagney took a liking to Dubbins and procured roles for him in two 1956 films, These Wilder Years and Tribute to a Bad Man. In the former, Dubbins played Cagney's long-lost adopted son; in the latter, he was in a romantic triangle with cattle boss Cagney for the affections of a senorita. In 1957, Dubbins played a callow young United States Marines private in Jack Webb's The D.I. In 1958, Dubbins was cast in From the Earth to the Moon, a science fiction picture based on Jules Verne's novel of the same title. As Dubbins matured, he appeared in such films as The Prize in 1963, The Illustrated Man (based on a Ray Bradbury novel) in 1969, and Death Wish II in 1982. Dubbins appeared in many television roles, including four episodes each of CBS's Gunsmoke, Perry Mason and Rawhide in Season 1/14 Incident of the Dog Days. In 1960, Dubbins appeared in the episode "Elegy" of CBS's The Twilight Zone. That same year he guest starred with Mel Torme in NBC's crime drama Dan Raven starring Skip Homeier. In 1961, he played a deputy who inadvertently killed his outlaw-brother in an episode of Stagecoach West, a Four Star Television series on ABC. He later appeared on the CBS anthology The Lloyd Bridges Show, and with Walter Brennan in ABC's The Guns of Will Sonnett. He appeared in the 1965 pilot episode of I Dream of Jeannie, and returned for one of the series' final episodes (as a different character) in 1970. In 1966, Dubbins appeared with Robert F. Simon as guest stars in the episode "Long Journey to Leavenworth" in the NBC series The Road West, starring Barry Sullivan, Andrew Prine, and Glenn Corbett. Dubbins appeared twice on NBC's Little House on the Prairie with Michael Landon and five times on CBS's Barnaby Jones crime drama with Buddy Ebsen. Dubbins appeared in several episodes of Jack Webb's Dragnet 1967 series on NBC. Dubbins played the part of Billy Carter in "The Incident of the Dog Days" on Rawhide. Dubbins' last TV roles were in episodes of CBS's Knots Landing (1979), ABC's Dynasty (1981), and NBC's Highway to Heaven (1984). The Brooklyn-born Dubbins retired to Greenville, South Carolina, where his last acting was at the Warehouse Theater as Willy Loman in Death of a Salesman. He succumbed to cancer at the age of sixty-three. Description above from the Wikipedia article Don Dubbins, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Credits
- 1984 · Murder, She Wrote as Dr. Charmichael
- 1984 · Highway to Heaven as
- 1984 · Hunter as John
- 1981 · Simon & Simon as
- 1981 · Dynasty as
- 1979 · Knots Landing as Doctor
- 1977 · The Incredible Hulk as Sgt. Murkland
- 1974 · Little House on the Prairie as
- 1974 · Petrocelli as Joseph Bear
- 1974 · The Manhunter as
- 1974 · Run, Joe, Run as
- 1974 · Nightmare at 43 Hillcrest as
- 1974 · Movin' On as
- 1974 · Firehouse as
- 1974 · The Six Million Dollar Man as Zack Meesham
- 1973 · Outrage as Mr. Werner
- 1973 · Barnaby Jones as John Riley
- 1973 · Barnaby Jones as Sheriff Mason
- 1973 · Barnaby Jones as Frank Auburn
- 1972 · Kung Fu as
- 1972 · Banacek as Sheriff Jessup
- 1972 · Search as
- 1972 · The Rookies as
- 1972 · The Hoax as Sergeant O'Roherty
- 1971 · Cannon as
- 1970 · Run, Simon, Run as Freddie Tomb
- 1969 · Then Came Bronson as
- 1969 · The Illustrated Man as Pickard
- 1968 · The Mod Squad as Leonard Gault
- 1968 · The Mod Squad as Teddy Capp
- 1968 · Adam-12 as Officer Tyson
- 1967 · Mannix as
- 1967 · The Guns of Will Sonnett as
- 1967 · Gunfight in Abilene as Rod Sprague
- 1967 · Dragnet as Steve Deal
- 1967 · The Invaders as Wesley J. Sanders
- 1965 · The F.B.I. as Joel Polk
- 1965 · The F.B.I. as McKinney
- 1965 · The F.B.I. as Al, the Gas Station Owner
- 1965 · I Dream of Jeannie as Pete Conway
- 1965 · I Dream of Jeannie as Jay Russell
- 1965 · The Big Valley as Grady Shanks
- 1963 · The Prize as Ivar Cramer, Light Henchman
- 1963 · Kraft Suspense Theatre as Corporal Shale
- 1963 · The Great Adventure as Jason Chiles
- 1963 · Petticoat Junction as Smokey Harner
- 1963 · The Fugitive as McCaffrey
- 1963 · The Fugitive as Horton
- 1962 · General Electric True as
- 1962 · The Virginian as Albi
- 1960 · Route 66 as
- 1959 · Hawaiian Eye as
- 1959 · Adventures in Paradise as Big Ed Brody
- 1959 · The Alaskans as
- 1959 · The Twilight Zone as Peter Kirby
- 1959 · Johnny Ringo as Harley Crale
- 1959 · Law of the Plainsman as Mite Rankin
- 1959 · Men into Space as
- 1959 · Wichita Town as
- 1959 · One Step Beyond as First Mate Walter Blake
- 1958 · From the Earth to the Moon as Ben Sharpe
- 1958 · Enchanted Island as Tom
- 1958 · 77 Sunset Strip as
- 1958 · The Rifleman as
- 1958 · Wanted: Dead or Alive as Randy Holleran
- 1957 · Perry Mason as Hartley Elliott
- 1957 · Perry Mason as Deputy D.A. Vincent
- 1957 · Perry Mason as Kenneth Dalgran
- 1957 · Perry Mason as Ned Bertell
- 1957 · Perry Mason as Burt Blair
- 1957 · Perry Mason as Deputy D.A. Bill Vincent
- 1957 · Perry Mason as Bill Vincent
- 1957 · M Squad as Stick Wilson
- 1957 · Sugarfoot as Vic Bradley
- 1957 · Sugarfoot as Sid Garnin
- 1957 · The D.I. as Pvt. Owens
- 1956 · These Wilder Years as Mark
- 1956 · Tribute to a Bad Man as Steve Miller
- 1955 · Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Philip Pryor
- 1955 · Gunsmoke as Lootie
- 1955 · Gunsmoke as Potts
- 1955 · Gunsmoke as Orkey
- 1955 · Gunsmoke as Wendt
- 1954 · Climax! as Chris Barker
- 1954 · The Caine Mutiny as Seaman 1st Class Urban (uncredited)
- 1953 · From Here to Eternity as Pvt. Friday Clark - Bugler (uncredited)
- 1953 · From Here to Eternity as Pvt. Friday Clark (uncredited)
- 1950 · Robert Montgomery Presents as Luke