Myron Healey
| Myron Healey | |
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| Born | June 8, 1923 Petaluma, California, U.S. |
| Died | December 21, 2005 (aged 82) Simi Valley, California, U.S. |
Myron Daniel Healey (June 8, 1923 — December 21, 2005) was an American actor. He began his Hollywood, California, career during the early 1940s in bit parts and minor supporting roles at various studios.
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[edit] Early years
Healey was born in Petaluma, California, and served in World War II as an Air Corps navigator and bombardier, flying in B-26 Martin Marauders in the European Theatre. He continued that military duty, retiring in the early 1960s as a captain in the United States Air Force Reserve.
[edit] Acting career
Returning to film work after the war, Healey played villains and henchmen in low budget western films. In the post-war period, he was often seen in Monogram studio films, which starred 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. Playing a good guy for a change, he was Phyllis Coates's partner in Panther Girl of the Kongo (1955). During the 1950s and 1960s, he was a frequent performer on such television series as The Adventures of Kit Carson (1951–1955), in which he guest starred seven times as Captain Bandcroft.
Healey appeared in a string of TV westerns:
- Stories of the Century (1954) as outlaw Bob Dalton
- Cheyenne
- Judge Roy Bean in four episodes
- Sheriff of Cochise
- The Cisco Kid
- State Trooper
- The Road West
- Whispering Smith
- Gunsmoke
- Wagon Train
- Bonanza
- The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin.
Non-western appearances include:
Feature films include:
- Kansas Pacific (1953)
- Texas Bad Man (1953)
- White Lightning (1953)
- Cattle Queen of Montana (1954)
- The Young Guns (1956)
- Shoot-Out at Medicine Bend (1957)
- The Restless Breed (1957)
- Apache Territory (1958)
- Quantrill's Raiders (1958)
- Cavalry Command (1963)
Healey appeared as Johnny Ringo in the syndicated western series Tombstone Territory, with Pat Conway as Sheriff Clay Hollister, in the episode "Johnny Ringo's Last Ride". He was also a semi-regular on shows produced by Gene Autry's Flying-A production company: Annie Oakley, Buffalo Bill Jr., The Range Rider, and The Gene Autry Show. Collectively, Healey appeared in some 140 films, including 81 westerns and 3 serials. Among his non-western films, he appeared in at least two horror films: the Americanized version of the Japanese giant-monster movie Varan the Unbelievable (1958) and The Incredible Melting Man (1977).
[edit] Death
In 2005, Healey broke his hip in a fall and never recovered. He died at the age of 82 at a hospital near his home in Simi Valley, California.
