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Iron Eyes Cody (born Espera Oscar de Corti), was an Italian American actor. He portrayed Native Americans in Hollywood films, famously as Chief Iron Eyes in Bob Hope's The Paleface. He also played a Native American shedding a tear about litter in one of the country's most well-known television public service announcements, "Keep America Beautiful". Cody began acting in the early 1930s. He worked in film and television until his death. Cody claimed his father was Cherokee (and his mother Cree), also naming several different tribes, and frequently changing his claimed place of birth. To those unfamiliar with Indigenous American or First Nations cultures and people, he gave the appearance of living "as if" he were Native American, fulfilling the stereotypical expectations by wearing his film wardrobe as daily clothing—including braided wig, fringed leathers and beaded moccasins—at least when photographers were visiting, and in other ways continuing to play the same Hollywood-scripted roles off-screen as well as on.

He appeared in more than 200 films, including The Big Trail with John Wayne; The Scarlet Letter, with Colleen Moore; Sitting Bull, as Crazy Horse; The Light in the Forest as Cuyloga; The Great Sioux Massacre, with Joseph Cotten; Nevada Smith, with Steve McQueen; A Man Called Horse, with Richard Harris; and Ernest Goes to Camp as Chief St. Cloud, with Jim Varney.

In 1953, he appeared twice in Duncan Renaldo's syndicated television series, The Cisco Kid as Chief Sky Eagle. He guest starred on the NBC western series, The Restless Gun, starring John Payne, and The Tall Man, with Barry Sullivan and Clu Gulager. In 1961, he played the title role in "The Burying of Sammy Hart" on the ABC western series, The Rebel, starring Nick Adams. A close friend of Walt Disney, Cody appeared in a Disney studio serial titled The First Americans, and in episodes of The Mountain Man, Davy Crockett and Daniel Boone. In 1964 Cody appeared as Chief Black Feather on The Virginian in the episode "The Intruders." He also appeared in a 1968 episode of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood featuring Native American dancers.

He is best remembered as the affable dad on the long-running television series "My Three Sons" and for his good-natured characters in a string in Disney films. But Fred MacMurray had a rich and varied career that spanned over half a century.

Frederick Martin MacMurray was born on August 30, 1908, in Kankakee, IL. His father was a concert violinist, and young Fred initially followed his father steps into the music business. He worked as a saxophonist and vocalist to pay his way through college, eventually moving to Los Angeles and joining the California Collegians vocal ensemble. This led him cross-country to Broadway, where he was discovered by a Paramount scout, who brought him back to L.A. and film stardom.

MacMurray is widely considered one of the most underrated actors of the Golden Age of Hollywood. He held his own against some of the industry's most talented actresses, including four films each with Barbara Stanwyck and Carole Lombard and seven with Claudette Colbert, as well as Katharine Hepburn and Joan Crawford. His parts were usually that of the "nice guy;" however, his best roles came when he played against type as a "sleaze" in movies such as "Double Indemnity" and "The Apartment."

In 1959, Walt Disney himself chose MacMurray as the lead in Disney's first live-action comedy, "The Shaggy Dog." The film was an unexpected hit, leading to six more Disney films, one of which resulted in his only major acting award nomination, a Golden Globe nomination for "The Absent-Minded Professor" in 1961. In 1987, MacMurray was the first person honored as a Disney legend.

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Hennesey is an American military comedy-drama television series that aired on CBS from 1959 to 1962, featuring Jackie Cooper as Lt. Charles W. "Chick" Hennesey, a Navy physician, and Abby Dalton as Navy nurse Lt. Martha Hale. The show is set in a hospital at the U.S. Naval Station in San Diego, California, and consists of 96 episodes across three seasons.

Roscoe Lee Browne was an American actor and director. He is perhaps best known for his many guest appearances on TV series from the 1970s and 1980s, as well as movies like The Cowboys with John Wayne, and The World's Greatest Athlete with John Amos and Jan-Michael Vincent, but his biggest roles were as narrator in Babe and Garfield: A Tale of Two Kitties, which grossed $400 million combined. He resisted playing stereotypically black roles, instead performing in several productions with New York City's Shakespeare Festival Theater, Leland Hayward's satirical NBC series That Was the Week That Was, and a poetry performance tour of the United States in addition to his work in television and film.

Forrest Meredith Tucker was an American actor in movies and television who appeared in nearly a hundred films. Tucker worked in vaudeville as a straight man at the age of fifteen. While he was on a trip to California, party hostess Cobina Wright persuaded guest Wesley Ruggles to give Tucker a screen test because of Tucker's photogenic good looks, thick wavy hair and height of six feet, five inches. Tucker was a sight reader who needed only one take. He enlisted in the Army during World War II. After twenty years spent mainly in Westerns and action roles, he returned to his roots, showing versatility as a comedic and stage musical actor

Edmond O'Brien, with his birth name being Eamon Joseph O'Brien, was an American actor of stage, screen, and television, and film director whose career his keen interest in acting led him to Fordham University and then to the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre on a scholarship. He devoted his talents to a range of genres, from noir thrillers to westerns to political dramas. He shifted between lead and supporting roles, winning an Academy Award, two Golden Globe Awards, and earning two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

O'Brien was also known by his last name spelled backward, Neirbo the Great. Losing his father at an early age, he built an impressive array of skills, and despite fluctuations in his weight and transitioning to character roles, he was able to maintain his steady presence on screen. In his film career, O'Brien shone in genre-defining film noirs and managed to evolve with the industry, shifting to television with relative ease. He transitioned from an actor to a director, even launching his production company, O'Brien-Frazen. Despite struggling with Alzheimer's disease in his later years, he left a permanent mark on Hollywood cinema.spanned almost four decades. He was both a leading man and a character actor in American cinema. His notable film appearances include hits like 'The Hunchback of Notre Dame' (1939), 'Seven Days in May' (1964), and 'The Other Side of the Wind' 

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Frontier is an American Western anthology series that aired on NBC from September 1955 to September 1956. The series de-emphasizes gunplay and focuses on the hazards of the settlement of the American West. It was only the second anthology Western series in television history, having been preceded by Death Valley Days.

Frontier aired premiered on September 25, 1955, and ran sporadically in its last five months. Walter Coy narrated the series and starred in occasional episodes, which are dramatizations based on actual events. The program was produced by Worthington Miner.

Victor Harry Morrow was an American actor. He first gained attention for the role of juvenile delinquent Artie West in his debut film Blackboard Jungle. He later came to prominence as one of the leads of the ABC drama series Combat!, which earned him an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Continued Performance by an Actor in a Series. Active on screen for over three decades, his other film roles include King Creole, God's Little Acre, Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry, and The Bad News Bears. Morrow continued acting up to his death during filming of Twilight Zone: The Movie when he and two child actors were killed in a helicopter crash on set.

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Foreign Intrigue is a syndicated espionage drama television series produced in Europe by Sheldon Reynolds. The 30-minute series ran for four seasons from 1951 to 1955, producing 156 episodes. It was the first filmed television series from the United States to be broadcast on Canadian television. The program originally starred Jerome Thor for the first two seasons; in later reruns these episodes were titled Dateline Europe. Thor was succeeded by James Daly for the duration of the third season.

Born and raised in New York City as one of four children, Segal gained prominence for roles in films such as Ship of Fools (1965) and King Rat (1965), earning his reputation in the classic drama Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966). Segal was one of the first American film actors to rise to leading man status with an unchanged Jewish surname, influencing other major actors of his time. Throughout his career, he worked on notable films spanning multiple genres, affirming his reputation as a versatile actor. \n His later career had him assumed supporting roles in films like Carbon Copy (1981), Stick (1985), Look Who's Talking (1989), and Love & Other Drugs (2010). He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and won two Golden Globe Awards. Additionally, he is known for his roles in television sitcoms, particularly playing Jack Gallo on Just Shoot Me! (1997–2003) and Pops Solomon on The Goldbergs (2013–2021). Beyond acting, Segal was an accomplished banjo player, released three albums, and performed with the instrument in several of his acting roles and on late-night television.

John Banner was born on January 28, 1910, to Jewish parents in Stanislau, Austria-Hungary (now Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine). He studied law at the University of Vienna and then became interested in acting.

Early in his career, Banner was a romantic lead in live theatre productions and motion pictures before transitioning to becoming a character actor. He made his stage debut at the Deutsches Volkstheater in Vienna, in Caramba (essentially an operetta without music).

Around 1938, Banner was appearing with an acting company in Switzerland, when Hitler annexed Austria to Nazi Germany. At this point, Banner emigrated to America, where he quickly learned the phonic sounds and words of the English language.

Subsequently, the actor made his Broadway debut in the summer of 1939 when he and several other refugees appeared in the revue From Vienna.

Later that year, he performed in the comedy, Pastoral, which once more allowed him to speak English, again phonetically.

John Banner soon transitioned into TV appearing on sitcoms like Mister Ed, and variety hours such as The Red Skelton Show.

In 1956, Banner appeared with actor Werner Klemperer in the "Safe Conduct" TV episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents.

In 1959, Banner appeared in an episode of The Untouchables, titled, "Takeover." In one sequence, his character is questioned for information, and responds with the line: "I know nothing."

Six years later, he made the line famous with his benchmark role as Sgt. Schultz in Hogan's Heroes.

Meanwhile, too, that unique comedy (set at a Nazi camp in World War II) provided a reunion with Klemperer, who received his big break playing Banner's superior Col. Klink.

Following the cancellation of Hogan's Heroes, Banner starred in the short-lived series, The Chicago Teddy Bears. That regular gig was followed by guest appearances on TV shows like That Girl, The Doris Day Show, and The Partridge Family, and live stage productions.

The late American actor and singer Ken Cutis was born Curtis Wain Gates in Lamar, Colorado USA, on 2 July 1916, meaning that Cancer was his zodiac sign. He had 66 acting credits, and is perhaps still remembered best for playing Festus and various other characters in 306 episodes of the critically acclaimed western series “Gunsmoke”, which starred Milburn Stone and James Arness, and was created by Clyde Ware and Charles Marquis Warren. It follows the life of Marshall Matt Dillon in Dodge City, the series aired its 635 episodes from 1955 through 1975, and won 15 of its 40 award nominations. Ken was raised alongside his twin brother Chester Kurtis and their older brother Carl Gates on a ranch in Lamar, but they moved to Las Animas, Colorado in 1926, so that their father Dan Sullivan Gates could run for Sheriff; their mother Nellie Sneed Gates was a housewife.

Ken was mostly into playing football while growing up, for his Bent County High School team; he was also into music, and played the clarinet in a school band.

Ken matriculated in 1935 and then enrolled at Colorado College to study medicine, however, he eventually dropped out wanting to pursue an acting and music career.

He joined the US Army in 1943 and served for two years during World War II.

Ken died from a heart attack in his sleep aged 74 on 28 April 1991; his remains were cremated, and his ashes scattered in Colorado.

Sidney Parhm Jr. was born in Norfolk, Virginia, to a poor family. His mother died when he was young, and his father moved the family to New York City. His father died when Sidney was 15, and he was placed in foster care. An excellent student, he graduated high school while still 15 years old, then attended City College for two years. He did not complete his college course, leaving in order to pursue a career in theater.

Sidney quickly obtained small parts in New York City theatrical productions. By 1934 he was included in Lena Horne's first stage play. During the 1940s he appeared in Carmen Jones and Othello. He was seen in a photograph taken for a campaign event with US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

During the 1940s, Sidney built a radio career, beginning with his series Experimental Theatre of the Air.

Sidney, by dint of his activism and persistence, landed early roles in television. This newly-emerging medium could have opened new career opportunities for black actors, but such was not the case. A newspaper article from the mid-1950s, headlined "TV'S NEW POLICY FOR NEGROES", depicts Sidney as the lone exception to the dearth of black dramatic actors. The writer noted: "the video floodgates were expected to be thrown open to experienced Negro actors. It never happened".

From 1951 on, Sidney made a living on TV, getting a few notable roles, such as Cato in 1952's The Plot to Kidnap General Washington. He had a two-year run on The Phil Silvers Show (his presence was protested by Southern TV station managers, but their protests were not acted on). He starred in the NBC daytime soap opera The Doctors as Paul Stark in 1968. He appeared on more than 170 shows, while also continuing to provide voice-overs and advertisements. However, he realized that his work was mostly insubstantial appearance. He told an interviewer, "I had a whole goddamned career of 'Yassuh, can I git ya another drink, sir?' But I did what was available. I did not mix feelings with the fact that I needed money to live".

In addition to his role as Private Palmer on The Phil Silvers Show (1957–59), Sidney's four-decade career includes The Joe Louis Story (1953), Brother John (1971), A Gathering of Old Men (1987), A Face in the Crowd (1957), and Trading Places (1983).

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The Adventures of Rin-Tin-Tin is an American children's Western television series that aired 164 episodes from October 1954 to May 1959 on the ABC television network. The show starred Lee Aaker as Rusty, a boy orphaned in an Indian raid, who was being raised by the soldiers at a US Cavalry post known as Fort Apache. Rusty and his German Shepherd dog, Rin Tin Tin, help the soldiers to establish order in the American West. James E. Brown appeared as Lieutenant Ripley "Rip" Masters. Co-stars included Joe Sawyer as Sergeant Biff O'Hara and Rand Brooks as Corporal Randy Boone.

Maureen O'Hara was an Irish and American actress who became successful in Hollywood from the 1940s through to the 1960s. She was a natural redhead who was known for playing passionate but sensible heroines, often in Westerns and adventure films. She worked with director John Ford and long-time friend John Wayne on numerous projects. O'Hara was born into a Catholic family and raised in Dublin, Ireland. She aspired to become an actress from a very young age. She trained with the Rathmines Theatre Company from the age of 10 and at the Abbey Theatre from the age of 14.

Dayle Lymoine Robertson was an American actor best known for his starring roles on television. He played the roving investigator Jim Hardie in the television series Tales of Wells Fargo and railroad owner Ben Calhoun in Iron Horse. He often was presented as a deceptively thoughtful and modest Western hero. From 1968 to 1970, Robertson was the fourth and final host of the anthology series Death Valley Days. Described by Time magazine in 1959 as "probably the best horseman on television", for most of his career, Robertson played in Western films and television shows—well over 60 titles in all.

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Heckle and Jeckle are animated cartoon characters created by Paul Terry, originally produced at his own Terrytoons animation studio and released through 20th Century Fox. The characters are a pair of identical anthropomorphic yellow-billed magpies who usually cause problems to others and for themselves with their bizarre antics. Heckle speaks in a tough New York style manner, while Jeckle has a more polite British accent.