Andrew Prine

Andrew Prine
Andrew Prine attending the "Night of 100 Stars" for the 82nd Academy Awards viewing party at the Beverly Hills Hotel, Beverly Hills, CA on March 7, 2010
Born	Andrew Lewis Prine February 14, 1936 (1936-02-14) Jennings, Hamilton County, Florida, U.S.
Years active	1957-present
Spouse	Sharon Farrell (1962–1962; divorced) Brenda Scott (1965–1966; 1966–19??; divorce) Heather Lowe (1986–present)

Andrew Lewis Prine (born February 14, 1936) is an American film, stage, and television actor.

Biography

Early life and career

Prine was born in Jennings, Florida. After graduation from Andrew Jackson High School in Miami, Prine made his acting debut three years later in an episode of CBS U.S. Steel Hour. His next role was in the 1959 Broadway production of Thomas Wolfe's Look Homeward, Angel. In 1962, Prine was cast in Academy Award-nominated film,The Miracle Worker as Helen Keller's older brother, James.

In 1962, Prine landed a lead role with Earl Holliman in the 28-episode NBC series, The Wide Country, a drama about two brothers who are rodeo performers.

After Wide Country, Prine continued to work throughout the 1960s and 1970s, appearing in films with John Wayne, Jimmy Stewart, William Holden, and Dean Martin and on television series such as Gunsmoke, Bonanza, The Virginian, Wagon Train, Dr. Kildare, Baretta, Hawaii Five-O, Twelve O'Clock High, and The Bionic Woman. During the 1980s and 1990s, Prine continued to work in film and television. In the 1983–84 season, he appeared on W.E.B., Dallas, Weird Science, Boone, and as Steven in the science fiction mini-series V and its sequel V: The Final Battle.

Most recently, Prine has worked with director Quentin Tarantino on an Emmy-winning episode of CSI and in Saving Grace with Holly Hunter, Boston Legal and Six Feet Under in addition to feature films with Johnny Knoxville. The Encore Western Channel has featured him on Conversations with Andrew Prine interviewing Hollywood actors like Eli Wallach, Harry Carey, Jr., Patrick Wayne, and film makers such as Mark Rydell with behind-the-scenes anecdotes.

Prine's stage work includes Long Day's Journey into Night with Charlton Heston and Deborah Kerr, The Caine Mutiny, directed by Henry Fonda, and A Distant Bell on Broadway. He has received the Golden Boot Award for his body of work in Westerns and two Best Actor Dramalogue awards.

Personal life

In 1962, Prine married actress Sharon Farrell, but the marriage ended a few months later. In 1965, Prine married actress Brenda Scott (born 1943), but that union ended after one month. Prine and Scott remarried in 1966; that union also resulted in divorce. While divorced, Prine and Scott co-starred as brother and sister, along with Barry Sullivan, Kathryn Hays, Kelly Corcoran, and Glenn Corbett in the NBC western series The Road West (1966–1967), which featured stories of a pioneer family in Kansas. Hays played Prine's stepmother in the series, though she is only three years his senior. Prine is currently married to actress Heather Lowe, whom he wed in 1986.^{[citation needed]}

Filmography

• Kiss Her Goodbye (1959)
• The Miracle Worker (1962)
• Advance to the Rear (1964)
• Texas Across the River (1966)
• The Devil's Brigade (1968)
• Bandolero! (1968)
• Lost Flight (1969)
• This Savage Land (1969)
• Generation aka A Time for Caring, A Time for Giving (1969)
• Along Came a Spider (1970)
• Chisum (1970)
• Night Slaves (1970)
• Simon, King of the Witches (1971)
• Another Part of the Forest (1972)
• Squares aka Honky Tonk Cowboy, Riding Tall (1972)
• One Little Indian (1973)
• Crypt of the Living Dead aka La tumba de la isla maldita, Vampire Women (1973)
• Wonder Woman (1974)
• Centerfold Girls (1974)
• Nightmare Circus (1974)
• Rooster Cogburn (Uncredited, 1975)
• The Town That Dreaded Sundown (1976)
• The Deputies aka The Law of the Land (1976)
• Grizzly (1976)
• The Winds of Autumn (1976)
• The Evil (1978)
• Amityville II: The Possession (1982)
• Eliminators (1986)
• Chill Factor (1990)
• Life on the Edge (1992)
• Deadly Exposure (1992)
• Gettysburg (1993)
• Without Evidence (1995)
• The Dark Dancer (1995)
• Serial Killer (1995)
• The Shadow Men (1998)
• Possums (1998)
• The Boy with the X-Ray Eyes aka X-Ray Boy, X-treme Teens (1999)
• Critical Mass (2000)
• Witchouse 2: Blood Coven (2000)
• Sweet Home Alabama (Uncredited, 2002)
• Gods and Generals (Uncredited, 2003)
• The Dukes of Hazzard (2005)
• Glass Trap (2005)
• Hell to Pay (2005)
• Daltry Calhoun (2005)

Television

• U.S. Steel Hour (1 episode, 1957)
• Playhouse 90 (1 episode, 1960)
• Alcoa Presents: One Step Beyond (1 episode, 1960)
• Overland Trail (1 episode, "Sour Annie", 1960)
• Peter Gunn (1 episode, 1960)
• The DuPont Show of the Month (1 episode, 1961)
• Have Gun — Will Travel (2 episodes, 1960–1961)
• Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1 episode, 1962)
• The Defenders (1 episode, 1962)
• Alcoa Premiere (2 episodes, 1961–1962)
• The New Breed (1 episode, 1962)
• Ben Casey (1 episode, 1962)
• The Wide Country (28 episodes, 1962–1963)
• Vacation Playhouse (1 episode, 1963)
• Gunsmoke (3 episodes, 1962–1963)
• The Lieutenant (1 episode, 1963)
• The Great Adventure (1 episode, 1963)
• Advance to the Rear (1964)
• Profiles in Courage (1 episode, 1964)
• Wagon Train aka Major Adams, Trail Master (2 episodes, 1964–1965)
• Combat! (1 episode, 1965)
• Kraft Suspense Theatre (1 episode, 1965)
• Bonanza (1 episode, 1965)
• Dr. Kildare (7 episodes, 1963–1965)
• Convoy (1 episode, 1965)
• Twelve O'Clock High (2 episodes, 1964–1965)
• The Fugitive (2 episodes, 1964–1965)
• The Road West (Unknown episodes, 1966)
• Tarzan (1 episode, 1966)
• The Invaders (1 episode, 1967)
• Daniel Boone (1 episode, 1968)
• Felony Squad (1 episode, 1968)
• Ironside (2 episodes, 1968)
• The Virginian (5 episodes, 1965–1969)
• Love, American Style (1 episode, 1969)
• Insight (1 episode, 1970)
• Lancer (2 episodes, 1968–1970)
• The Name of the Game (2 episodes, 1968–1970)
• Matt Lincoln (1 episode, 1970)
• The Most Deadly Game (1 episode, 1970)
• Dan August (1 episode, 1970)
• The Courtship of Eddie's Father (1 episode, 1971)
• Dr. Simon Locke aka Police Surgeon (1 episode, 1971)
• The F.B.I. (3 episodes, 1968–1973)
• The Delphi Bureau (1 episode, 1973)
• Kung Fu (1 episode, 1974)
• Banacek (1 episode, 1974)
• Hawkins (1 episode, 1974)
• Barnaby Jones (2 episodes, 1973–1974)
• Cannon (2 episodes, 1971–1974)
• Amy Prentiss (1 episode, 1974)
• Kolchak: The Night Stalker (1 episode, 1975)
• Barbary Coast (1 episode, 1975)
• Hawaii Five-O (1 episode, 1975)
• The Family Holvak (2 episodes, 1975)
• Riding With Death (1 episode, 1976)
• Baretta (2 episodes, 1975–1976)
• Quincy, M.E. (1 episode, 1977)
• Tail Gunner Joe (1977)
• Hunter (1 episode, 1977)
• The Bionic Woman (1 episode, 1977)
• The Last of the Mohicans (1977)
• Christmas Miracle in Caufield, U.S.A. aka The Christmas Coal Mine Miracle (1977)
• Abe Lincoln: Freedom Fighter (1978)
• W.E.B. (5 episodes, 1978)
• Donner Pass: The Road to Survival (1978)
• Flying High (1 episode, 1979)
• Mind Over Murder (1979)
• The Littlest Hobo (2 episodes, 1979)
• M Station: Hawaii (1980)
• Callie & Son aka Callie and Son aka Rags to Riches (1981)
• A Small Killing (1981)
• Darkroom (1 episode, Undated)
• Hart to Hart (1 episode, 1982)
• The Fall Guy (1 episode, 1983)
• V aka V: The Original Miniseries (1983)
• Boone (1 episode, 1983)
• Trapper John, M.D. (1 episode, 1984)
• No Earthly Reason (1984)
• They're Playing with Fire (1984)
• V: The Final Battle (1984)
• Matt Houston (2 episodes, 1984)
• Cover Up (1 episode, 1984)
• And the Children Shall Lead aka Wonderworks: And the Children Shall Lead (1985)
• Danger Bay (2 episodes, 1986)
• Paradise aka Guns of Paradise (1 episode, 1988)
• Dallas (1 episode, 1989)
• Freddy's Nightmares aka Freddy's Nightmares: A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Series (2 episode, 1989)
• In the Heat of the Night (1 episode, 1990)
• Murder, She Wrote (4 episodes, 1984–1991)
• Parker Lewis Can't Lose (1 episode, 1991)
• Mission of the Shark: The Saga of the U.S.S. Indianapolis (1991)
• Matlock (1 episode, 1991)
• FBI: The Untold Stories (1 episode, 1992)
• Room for Two (26 episodes, 1992)
• Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman (1 episode, 1993)
• Star Trek: The Next Generation (1 episode, 1993)
• Scattered Dreams aka Scattered Dreams: The Kathryn Messenger Story (1993)
• Married... with Children (1 episode, 1994)
• Weird Science (Unknown episodes, 1994–1996)
• Night Stand with Dick Dietrick (1 episode, 1995)
• The Avenging Angel (1995)
• Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1 episode, 1995)
• University Hospital (1 episode, 1995)
• Pointman (1 episode, 1995)
• Baywatch Nights (1 episode, 1996)
• Melrose Place (1 episode, 1996)
• Walker, Texas Ranger aka Walker (1 episode, 1997)
• Silk Stalkings (1 episode, 1997)
• JAG (1 episode, 1999)
• The Miracle Worker (2000)
• James Dean (2001)
• Six Feet Under (2 episodes, 2004)
• CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2005)
• Boston Legal (1 episode, 2006)
• Saving Grace (1 episode, 2008)

External links

• Andrew Prine at the Internet Movie Database
• Andrew Prine at Memory Alpha (a Star Trek wiki)