Don Haggerty

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This article is about the actor. For the wrestler and sometimes actor see Hard Boiled Haggerty, also known as Don Haggerty. Also not to be confused with the actor with a similar name, Dan Haggerty.

Don Haggerty
Cause for Alarm! (1951) 3.jpg
Haggerty in Cause for Alarm! (1951)
Born(1914-07-03)July 3, 1914
Poughkeepsie, New York, U.S.
DiedAugust 19, 1988(1988-08-19) (aged 74)
Cocoa Beach, Florida, U.S.
Alma materBrown University
OccupationActor of film and television
Years active1952–1981

Don Haggerty (July 3, 1914 – August 19, 1988) was an American actor of film and television. Before he began appearing in films in 1947, Haggerty was a Brown University athlete and served in the United States military.

Career[]

Usually cast as tough policemen or cowboys, Haggerty appeared in films including Sands of Iwo Jima (1949), The Asphalt Jungle (1951), Angels in the Outfield (1951) and The Narrow Margin. The B-movie actor continued to appear in films until the early 1980s.

Between 1949 and 1955, Haggerty made four guest appearances in The Lone Ranger television series – twice as outlaws, once as a crooked sheriff and once as a genuine sheriff. From 1954 to 1955, he starred in the syndicated private eye series The Files of Jeffrey Jones. in the 1955–1956 season, Haggerty appeared as the outlaw Sam Bass in an episode of Jim Davis's syndicated . About this time, he also appeared on CBS in the Reed Hadley legal drama, . He played the lead role in the DuMont series The Cases of Eddie Drake (filmed 1949, aired 1952).

In 1956–1957, Haggerty appeared as Sheriff Elder in nine episodes of the syndicated western-themed crime drama, State Trooper. He appeared in three episodes of the syndicated western 26 Men. In 1959, he guest starred in Bruce Gordon's NBC docudrama about the Cold War, Behind Closed Doors.

Haggerty appeared twenty-one times, including nineteen in 1955 and 1956 as newspaperman Marsh Murdock, on the ABC/Desilu western series, The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp. In 1960, he appeared as Marshal Bill Thompson in the episode "Alibi" on the ABC/Warner Brothers western series, Colt .45.

In 1959, Haggerty portrayed Harry Moxton in the episode "No Laughing Matter" of the NBC crime drama, Richard Diamond, Private Detective. Also in 1959 he guest starred on the TV western series Bat Masterson as crooked casino owner Jess Porter.

In 1960 Haggerty appeared as Joe Haynes on the TV western Tales of Wells Fargo in the episode "Doc Dawson". Haggerty guest starred in 1960 on the NBC crime drama, Dan Raven and the CBS Rawhide episode "Incident of the Silent Web" in the role of Chaney. He appeared too the NBC western series, The Californians and Riverboat.

Haggerty was cast as the United States Attorney W. H. H. Clayton in the 1961 episode, "A Bullet for the D.A." of the anthology series, Death Valley Days. In 1967, Haggerty played Horace Tabor in another Death Valley Days episode, "Chicken Bill". Earlier, Haggerty played Sheriff Wheeler in the 1966 Death Valley Days episode "The Fastest Nun in the West". In another 1966 episode of the same series, "Water Bringer", Haggerty was cast as the embittered Captain Hayworth of the ship Orion. In the 1969 Death Valley Days episode, "Old Stape", Haggerty played an eccentric thief who outwits lawmen from his rundown shack along the border of the United States and the Republic of Texas.

Haggerty was cast as Joe Wine in the 1961 episode "Alien Entry" of another syndicated series, . About this time, he guest starred in the episode "The Green Gamblers" of the syndicated crime drama, The Brothers Brannagan. He was also cast in 1963 in an episode of the NBC modern western series, Redigo. Don Haggerty appeared as a guest star in My Favorite Martian as Detective Sgt. Heeley in 1964's episode called 'Uncle Martin's Broadcast' and as a bank guard in 1965's 'Hate Me A Little'.

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