Jim Boles

Jim Boles (February 28, 1914 – May 26, 1977) was an American actor. He appeared in the films The Tattooed Stranger, The Man with My Face, Naked in the Sun, Fluffy, The Ghost and Mr. Chicken, The Trouble with Angels, A Big Hand for the Little Lady, Waterhole No. 3, With Six You Get Eggroll, Angel in My Pocket, The Love God?, Ace Eli and Rodger of the Skies, Doctor Death: Seeker of Souls, Nightmare Honeymoon, Jacqueline Susann's Once Is Not Enough, and The Great Texas Dynamite Chase, among others.^[1]

Jim Boles
Jim Boles in The Monkees 1966
Born	(1914-02-28)February 28, 1914 Lubbock, Texas, U.S.
Died	May 26, 1977(1977-05-26) (aged 63) Sherman Oaks, California, U.S.
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1949–1977

Boles also appeared in a number of television shows, including nine episodes of the televised version of the radio series One Man's Family. Other appearances occurred on notable programs such as The Phil Silvers Show, The United States Steel Hour, Robert Montgomery Presents, Rocky King Detective, Have Gun – Will Travel, Naked City, Cheyenne, The Twilight Zone, The Lucy Show, The Dick Powell Theatre, McHale's Navy, Profiles in Courage, Daniel Boone, Rawhide, The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, Perry Mason, Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre, Lost in Space, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Bonanza, The Big Valley, The Monkees, Get Smart, The Virginian, The Guns of Will Sonnett, Mod Squad, Marcus Welby, M.D., The F.B.I., Gunsmoke, Love, American Style, Night Gallery, Adam-12, Barnaby Jones, Cannon, Mannix, Days of Our Lives, The Odd Couple, Kung Fu, The Streets of San Francisco, Quincy, M.E., The Name of the Game, A Man Called Shenandoah, The Eleventh Hour, Hawaiian Eye, Bronco, Adventures in Paradise, Temple Houston, The Defenders, The Jackie Gleason Show, Little House on the Prairie, and numerous others.

He died of a heart attack on May 26, 1977, in Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles, California at age 63.^[2]

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1950	The Tattooed Stranger	Fisher
1950-1951	One Man's Family	Joe	9 episodes
1950-1954	Rocky King Detective		(1) Season 1 Episode 2 (1950) (2) Season 2 Episode 48: "All Tied Up" (1951) (3) Season 5 Episode 35: "Murder Will Out (1954)
1951	The Man with My Face	Meadows
1952-1954	Armstrong Circle Theatre	(2) Vic	(1) Season 2 Episode 30: "Troubled Sands" (1952) (2) Season 4 Episode 38: "The Use of Dignity" (1954)
1952-1956	Robert Montgomery Presents	(2) Ed Marley (3) Fred Hansen	(1) Season 3 Episode 17: "Storm" (1952) (2) Season 5 Episode 34: "Big Boy" (1954) (3) Season 7 Episode 17: "Three Men from Tomorrow" (1956)
1954	Inner Sanctum	(1) Lorbie (2) Postal Clerk (3) Gunner	(1) Season 1 Episode 1: "The Stranger" (2) Season 1 Episode 21: "Handle With Care" (3) Season 1 Episode 30: "Reward for Janie"
1954-1955	The Jackie Gleason Show	(1) Bullets Durgom (2) Joe the Thug (3) Marty	(1) Season 3 Episode 5: "The People's Choice" (1954) (2) Season 3 Episode 21: "The Honeymooners: The Great Jewel Robbery" (1955) (3) Season 3 Episode 32: "Stand-In for Murder: Part II" (1955)
1957	Naked in the Sun	Arthur Gillis
1958-1960	The United States Steel Hour	(1) Matty Coombs (2) Tim Parker	(1) Season 5 Episode 11: "Never Know the End" (1958) (2) Season 7 Episode 23: "Shadow of a Pale Horse" (1960)
1959	The Phil Silvers Show	Lieutenant Fletcher	Season 4 Episode 27: "Guinea Pig Bilko"
1960	Have Gun – Will Travel	Billy the Hat	Season 4 Episode 9: "The Poker Fiend"
1960	The Pusher	Newspaper Vendor
1961	The Defenders	Court Clerk	Season 1 Episode 8: "The Accident"
1961-1962	Naked City	(1) Sorin (2) Turnkey	(1) Season 2 Episode 12: "Landscape with Dead Figures" (1961) (2) Season 3 Episode 14: "Portrait of a Painter" (1962)
1961-1962	Cheyenne	(1) Dalton (2) Perly Wilkens	(1) Season 6 Episode 5: "Day's Pay" (1961) (2) Season 7 Episode 13: "Showdown at Oxbend" (1962)
1961-1963	The Twilight Zone	(1) Dispatcher (2) Obed Miller	(1) Season 3 Episode 2: "The Arrival" (1961) (2) Season 4 Episode 7: "Jess-Belle" (1963)
1961-1963	Hawaiian Eye	(1) George Cross (2) Curtis Childs	(1) Season 2 Episode 33: "Father, Dear Father" (1961) (2) Season 4 Episode 22: "Gift of Love" (1963)
1962	Bronco	Jonathan Hawley	Season 4 Episode 18: "Then the Mountains"
1962-1963	The Lucy Show	(1) Delivery Man (2) Mr. Harris	(1) Season 1 Episode 11: "Lucy Builds a Rumpus Room" (1962) (2) Season 1 Episode 29: "Lucy and the Runaway Butterfly" (1963)
1963	Temple Houston		Season 1 Episode 1: "The Twisted Rope"
1963	The Eleventh Hour	George Wilbur	Season 1 Episode 28: "I Feel Like a Rutabaga"
1963	The Dick Powell Theatre	Frank Beasley	Season 2 Episode 29: "The Old Man and the City"
1963-1965	The Alfred Hitchcock Hour	(1) Grocer (2) Sheriff Reynolds (3) Reverend Gilfoyle	(1) Season 2 Episode 3: "Terror at Northfield" (1963) (2) Season 3 Episode 1: "The Return of Verge Likens" (1964) (3) Season 3 Episode 27: "The Second Wife" (1965)
1963-1965	Perry Mason	(1) Night Man (2) Estate Guard	(1) Season 7 Episode 2: "The Case of the Shifty Shoebox" (1963) (2) Season 8 Episode 28: "The Case of the Grinning Gorilla" (1965)
1963-1967	Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre	(1) Platt (2) Stagecoach Driver	(1) Season 1 Episode 1: "A Killing at Sundial" (1963) (2) Season 4 Episode 16: "The Lady is My Wife" (1967)
1963-1968	The Virginian	(1) Mr. Goren (2) Henry Wirtz (3) Farmer	(1) Season 2 Episode 4: "A Killer in Town" (1963) (2) Season 4 Episode 15: "Blaze of Glory" (1965) (3) Season 6 Episode 20: "The Good-Hearted Badman" (1968)
1964	McHale's Navy	Senator Block	Season 2 Episode 20: "Evil-Eye Parker"
1964	He Rides Tall	Cowhand	Uncredited
1964	Fate Is the Hunter	Airline Passenger	Uncredited
1964-1965	Profiles in Courage	(1) President of US Senate (2) Millard Fillmore	(1) Season 1 Episode 3: "Thomas Hart Benton" (1964) (2) Season 1 Episode 13: "Daniel Webster" (1965)
1964-1967	Bonanza	(1) Pete Burnside (2) Fred Aldrich, Banker	(1) Season 5 Episode 31: "The Dark Past" (1964) (2) Season 9 Episode 3: "The Conquistadores" (1967)
1965	A Man Called Shenandoah	Clay	Season 1 Episode 14: "The Bell"
1965	Rawhide	Ephraim Kurtz	Season 7 Episode 21: "The Winter Soldier"
1965	Daniel Boone	Parson	Season 1 Episode 18: "The Sound of Fear"
1965	John Goldfarb, Please Come Home!	Air Force Colonel	Uncredited
1965	Fluffy	Pete
1965-1967	The Big Valley	(1) Barber (2) Storekeeper (3) Red	(1) Season 1 Episode 10: "The Murdered Party" (1965) (2) Season 1 Episode 23: "The Fallen Hawk" (1966) (3) Season 3 Episode 6: "Ladykiller" (1967)
1966	The Ghost and Mr. Chicken	Billy Ray Fox
1966	The Trouble with Angels	Mr. Gottschalk
1966	A Big Hand for the Little Lady	Pete
1966-1967	Get Smart	Dr. Ratton	(1) Season 1 Episode 19: "Back to the Old Drawing Board" (1966) (2) Season 3 Episode 8: "When Good Fellows Get Together" (1967)
1966-1967	The Monkees	(1) Farmer Fisher (2) Preacher	(1) Season 1 Episode 8: "Don't Look a Gift Horse in the Mouth" (1966) (2) Season 2 Episode 7: "Hillbilly Honeymoon" (1967)
1966-1967	The Man from U.N.C.L.E.	(1) Dr. Lazarus (2) Scientist (3) Dr. Simon True	(1) Season 2 Episode 19: "The Waverly Ring Affair" (1966) (2) Season 3 Episode 4: "The Super-Colossal Affair" (1966) (3) Season 3 Episode 28: "The Five Daughters Affair: Part I" (1967)
1967	Lost in Space	Smeek	Season 2 Episode 23: "Treasure of the Lost Planet"
1967	The Reluctant Astronaut	Bartender	Uncredited
1967	Waterhole No. 3	Corporal Blyth
1967-1968	The Guns of Will Sonnett	(1) Preacher (2) Janney	(1) Season 1 Episode 14: "Find a Sonnett, Kill a Sonnett" (1967) (2) Season 2 Episode 12: "Where There's Hope" (1968)
1968	P.J.	Landlord's Agent
1968	The Shakiest Gun in the West	Big Spring Townsman	Uncredited
1968	With Six You Get Eggroll	Pete	Uncredited
1968-1974	Mannix	(1) Emil, Theatrical Mask Maker (2) Peters	(1) Season 2 Episode 7: "Edge of the Knife" (1968) (2) Season 8 Episode 3: "A Fine Day for Dying" (1974)
1969	Angel in My Pocket	Corby Gresham
1969	The Love God?	Amos Peacock
1969	Mod Squad	Dr. Reston	Season 1 Episode 22: "Child of Sorrow, Child of Light"
1970	The Name of the Game	(1) Larkin (2) Tim Tim	(1) Season 2 Episode 20: "The King of Denmark" (2) Season 3 Episode 4: "Battle at Gannon's Bridge"
1970	WUSA	Hot Dog Vendor	Uncredited
1970-1971	Marcus Welby, M.D.	(1) Mr. Householder (2) Buck Jensen	(1) Season 2 Episode 12: "All the Golden Dandelions Are Gone" (1970) (2) Season 3 Episode 14: "Of Magic Shadow Shapes" (1971)
1971	Skin Game	Auction Clerk
1971-1972	Gunsmoke	(1) Sutro (2) Kesting	(1) Season 16 Episode 23: "Pike: Part 1" (1971) (2) Season 18 Episode 11: "The Sodbusters" (1972)
1972	The F.B.I.	News Vendor	Season 8 Episode 6: "End of a Nightmare"
1972-1973	Night Gallery	(1) Bennett (2) Father	(1) Season 2 Episode 16 (Segment: "Lindemann's Catch") (1972) (2) Season 3 Episode 12: "Death on a Barge" (1973)
1972-1974	The Odd Couple	(1) Minister (2) Sam	(1) Season 3 Episode 9: "The First Baby" (1972) (2) Season 5 Episode 6: "Strike Up the Band or Else" (1974)
1973	Love, American Style	Minister	Season 4 Episode 20 (Segment: "Love and the Baby Derby")
1973	Adam-12	Harold Tanner	Season 6 Episode 2: "Rampart Division: The Senior Citizens"
1973	Barnaby Jones	Man	Season 2 Episode 7: "Divorce - Murderer's Style"
1973	Cannon	Sam Justin	Season 3 Episode 8: "Perfect Alibi"
1973	Ace Eli and Rodger of the Skies	Abraham
1973	Doctor Death: Seeker of Souls	Caretaker Franz
1973	When the Line Goes Through
1973-1975	The Streets of San Francisco	(1) Ed Davis, Pool Hall Operator (2) Maddox	(1) Season 1 Episode 20: "Trail of the Serpent" (1973) (2) Season 3 Episode 16: "Letters from the Grave" (1975)
1974	Kung Fu	Mooney	Season 3 Episode 7: "Cry of the Night Beast"
1974	Days of Our Lives	Ralph Dennis	Episode 2170
1974	Nightmare Honeymoon	Uncle Everett
1975	Jacqueline Susann's Once Is Not Enough	Scotty
1975	The Apple Dumpling Gang	Easy Archie
1975-1976	Little House on the Prairie	(1) Eldred Miller (2) Garvey (3) (4) Brewster	(1) Season 1 Episode 23: "To See the World" (1975) (2) Season 2 Episode 18: "The Long Road Home" (1976) (3) Season 3 Episode 6: "Journey in the Spring: Part I" (1976) (4) Season 3 Episode 7: "Journey in the Spring: Part II" (1976)
1976	Quincy, M.E.	Gus	Season 1 Episode 2: "Who's Who in Neverland"
1976	The Great Texas Dynamite Chase	Mr. Ralston