Richard Webb (actor)
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 Richard Webb with actress Mari Aldon in Florida, for the premiere of Distant Drums |
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| Born | September 15, 1915 Bloomington, Illinois, USA |
| Died | June 10, 1993 (aged 77) Van Nuys, California, USA |
| Years active | 1941–1965 |
| Spouse | Elizabeth Sterns (1942–?) (divorced) 2 children Florence Webb (?–1993) (his death) 2 children |
Richard Webb (September 9, 1915 – June 10, 1993) was a film, television and radio actor. He was born in Bloomington, Illinois.
He appeared in more than fifty films, including many westerns and films noir including Out of the Past (1947), Night Has a Thousand Eyes (1948), I Was a Communist for the FBI (1951) and Carson City (1952). Today, he may be best remembered as the star of the 1950s TV series Captain Midnight, based on a long-running radio program of the same name. In 1958, he guest starred as agent James Foster in Bruce Gordon's short-lived docudrama about the Cold War, Behind Closed Doors.[1]
In 1954, Webb played the notorious gunfighter John Wesley Hardin in an episode of Jim Davis's Stories of the Century western anthology series. The segment shows Hardin shooting two Indians in the back, gunning down a sheriff in a saloon, and finally being outgunned himself by an El Paso officer attempting to arrest Hardin, then a lawyer, on a new murder warrant, possibly his 41st or 45th killing.[2]
In 1959, he appeared as the fictitious Don Jagger, the deputy chief of the United States Border Patrol in the syndicated series Border Patrol and in 1960 played imposter Henry Walker in the Rawhide episode "Incident of the Stargazer".
Webb played Lieutenant Commander Ben Finney on Star Trek: The Original Series — "Court Martial"
In the 1970s, Webb became a writer and published four books on psychic phenomena.
After a long-term respiratory illness, Webb died of a self-inflicted gunshot in Van Nuys, California.[3]
[edit] References
- ^ "Behind Closed Doors’". ctva.biz. http://ctva.biz/UtS/Spy/BehindClosedDoors.htm. Retrieved September 2, 2009.[dead link]
- ^ "Stories of the Century". Classic TV Archive. http://ctva.biz/US/Western/StoriesOfTheCentury.htm. Retrieved July 3, 2009.
- ^ "Richard Webb, Actor And 50's TV Hero, 77". The New York Times. June 13, 1993. http://www.nytimes.com/1993/06/13/obituaries/richard-webb-actor-and-50-s-tv-hero-77.html.
[edit] External links
- Richard Webb (actor) at the Internet Movie Database
- Richard Webb at Memory Alpha (a Star Trek wiki)
- Find-A-Grave profile for Richard Webb
- Richard Webb in Captain Midnight Information and memorabilia illustrations, on the Collecting Books and Magazines website
