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Bruce Cowling
American actor (1919–1986) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Bruce Cowling (October 30, 1919 – August 22, 1986[citation needed] ) was a film and television actor in the 1940s and 1950s.
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Biography
Cowling was born in Coweta, Oklahoma,[1] the son of Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Cowling. His father was a telegrapher.[2] He grew up in Coweta and graduated from Porter High School. Later he and his parents moved to Eufaula.[1] Cowling attended the University of Arkansas and played football there. During his summers in college he was a telegrapher, and in World War II he was a radio operator in the United States Army Signal Corps.[2]
Cowling appeared in twenty films including Song of the Thin Man (1947), Battleground (1949), Ambush (1950), The Painted Hills (1951), Gun Belt (1953) as Virgil Earp and To Hell and Back (1955).
He voiced several characters on the Lone Ranger radio show [3] and also made several appearances in different roles on The Loretta Young Show. He played Brady on "Have Gun Will Travel" S1 E31 "Hey Boy's Revenge" which aired 4/11/1958.
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