Myron Healey profile
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Myron Healey

8th June 1923 Petaluma, California, USA Acting

Myron Daniel Healey was an American actor. He began his career in Hollywood, California, during the early 1940s in bit parts and minor supporting roles at various studios. Healey's film debut came in 1943 with Young Ideas. Returning to film work after the war, Healey played villains and henchmen in low-budget western films. He also did some screenwriting. In the post-war period he was often seen in westerns from Monogram Pictures, often starring Johnny Mack Brown, Jimmy Wakely and Whip Wilson. In the 1950s Healey moved to more "bad guy" roles in other films, including the Bomba and Jungle Jim series, crime dramas and more westerns. He portrayed the bandit Bob Dalton in an episode of the syndicated television series Stories of the Century, starring and narrated by Jim Davis. In 1955, he played a "good guy" for a change as Phyllis Coates' partner in the 1955 Republic Pictures serial Panther Girl of the Kongo. Healey appeared seven times as Capt. Bandcroft in The Adventures of Kit Carson. Healey played the outlaw Johnny Ringo in the western television series Tombstone Territory, with Pat Conway as Sheriff Clay Hollister, in the episode "Johnny Ringo's Last Ride". He appeared in an episode of the children's western series Buckskin, which aired on NBC from 1958-59. He was a semi-regular on programs produced by Gene Autry's Flying A production company: Annie Oakley, Buffalo Bill, Jr., The Range Rider, and The Gene Autry Show. He also guest-starred on the crime drama with a modern western setting, Sheriff of Cochise, starring John Bromfield, and in the western set in the 1840s, Riverboat, starring Darren McGavin. He also appeared in an episode of the second season of Zorro. Between 1960 and 1963, Healey appeared five times on the NBC western Laramie, starring John Smith and Robert Fuller. He appeared ten times on another NBC western, The Virginian, and four times on Laredo. From 1959 to 1961, he played Maj. Peter Horry, top aide to Leslie Nielsen, in the miniseries Swamp Fox on Walt Disney Presents, based on the American Revolutionary War hero Francis Marion. In 1970, Healey appeared as Wardlow in the TV western "The Men From Shiloh" (the rebranded name of The Virginian) in the episode titled "Jenny." Collectively, Healey appeared in some 140 films, including 81 westerns and three serials. Among his non-western pictures, he appeared in at least two horror films: the Americanized version of the Japanese giant-monster movie Varan the Unbelievable and The Incredible Melting Man.

135 Movies 79 TV Shows 214 Credits
Filmography

Movies & TV Shows

Pulse poster
Pulse 4th March 1988 as Howard
Claws poster
Claws 1st January 1977 as Sheriff
True Grit poster
True Grit 11th June 1969 as Deputy at Prisoner Unloading (uncredited)
Mirage poster
Mirage 29th October 1965 as Bar Patron Discussing Watermelon (voice) (uncredited)
Fargo poster
Fargo 7th September 1952 as Red Olsen
Rodeo poster
Rodeo 9th March 1952 as Richard Durston
Hot Rod poster
Hot Rod 22nd October 1950 as Policeman Joe Langham
Federal Man poster
Federal Man 21st June 1950 as The Tracking Device Specialist (uncredited)
Laramie poster
Laramie 19th May 1949 as Lieutenant Reed (uncredited)
V poster
V 1st May 1983 as Arch Quinton
CHiPs poster
CHiPs 15th September 1977 as Garage Owner
Switch poster
Switch 9th September 1975 as Security Guard
Kung Fu poster
Kung Fu 14th October 1972 as Capt. Malachy
Adam-12 poster
Adam-12 21st September 1968 as Carl Tremain
Laredo poster
Laredo 16th September 1965 as Sam Bolt
Rawhide poster
Rawhide 9th January 1959 as Lou Calvert
M Squad poster
M Squad 20th September 1957 as Hal Sherman