Myron Healey
1923-06-08 ( 101 years old ) in Petaluma, California, USA

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.

Movies

Pulse 1988-03-04
Ghost Fever 1987-03-27
Claws 1977-01-01
True Grit 1969-06-11
Convicts 4 1962-09-15
Rio Bravo 1959-03-18
The Hard Man 1957-12-01
Undersea Girl 1957-10-12
The Unearthly 1957-06-28
Running Target 1956-11-01
The Young Guns 1956-09-12
Gang Busters 1955-06-17
Rage at Dawn 1955-03-26
Silver Lode 1954-07-23
Texas Bad Man 1953-12-20
Hot News 1953-10-11
Combat Squad 1953-10-01
Saginaw Trail 1953-09-20
Kansas Pacific 1953-02-22
The Maverick 1952-12-14
Monsoon 1952-11-01
Fargo 1952-09-07
Rodeo 1952-03-09
Fort Osage 1952-02-10
The Big Night 1951-12-07
Silver City 1951-12-01
The Longhorn 1951-11-25
Bonanza Town 1951-07-26
Short Grass 1950-12-24
Outlaw Gold 1950-11-26
Hot Rod 1950-10-22
Hi-Jacked 1950-07-07
Federal Man 1950-06-21
Fence Riders 1950-01-19
Lawless Code 1949-12-04
Air Hostess 1949-08-25
Haunted Trails 1949-08-21
South of Rio 1949-07-29
Mr. Soft Touch 1949-07-28
Range Justice 1949-07-16
Brand of Fear 1949-07-10
Laramie 1949-05-19
Trails End 1949-04-02
Hidden Danger 1948-12-12
I, Jane Doe 1948-05-25