Person Details

Birthday: 1928-06-28 23:09:32

Death: 1991-08-17 23:09:32

Aliases: No known aliases

Gender: Male

Place of birth: Brooklyn, New York City, U.S.

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Movie Involvements: 13

TV Involvements: 36


Most Famous Work

Biography

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.   Don Dubbins (June 28, 1928 - August 17, 1991), originally Donald Dubbins, was an American actor of film and television who in his early career usually played younger military roles, particularly in such classic pictures as From Here to Eternity (1953) and The Caine Mutiny (1954). Screen giant James Cagney took a liking to Dubbins and procured roles for him in two 1956 films, These Wilder Years and Tribute to a Bad Man. In the former, Dubbins played Cagney's long-lost adopted son; in the latter, he was in a romantic triangle with cattle boss Cagney for the affections of a senorita. In 1957, Dubbins played a callow young United States Marines private in Jack Webb's The D.I. In 1958, Dubbins was cast in From the Earth to the Moon, a science fiction picture based on Jules Verne's novel of the same title. As Dubbins matured, he appeared in such films as The Prize in 1963, The Illustrated Man (based on a Ray Bradbury novel) in 1969, and Death Wish II in 1982. Dubbins appeared in many television roles, including four episodes each of CBS's Gunsmoke, Perry Mason and Rawhide in Season 1/14 Incident of the Dog Days. In 1960, Dubbins appeared in the episode "Elegy" of CBS's The Twilight Zone. That same year he guest starred with Mel Torme in NBC's crime drama Dan Raven starring Skip Homeier. In 1961, he played a deputy who inadvertently killed his outlaw-brother in an episode of Stagecoach West, a Four Star Television series on ABC. He later appeared on the CBS anthology The Lloyd Bridges Show, and with Walter Brennan in ABC's The Guns of Will Sonnett. He appeared in the 1965 pilot episode of I Dream of Jeannie, and returned for one of the series' final episodes (as a different character) in 1970. In 1966, Dubbins appeared with Robert F. Simon as guest stars in the episode "Long Journey to Leavenworth" in the NBC series The Road West, starring Barry Sullivan, Andrew Prine, and Glenn Corbett. Dubbins appeared twice on NBC's Little House on the Prairie with Michael Landon and five times on CBS's Barnaby Jones crime drama with Buddy Ebsen. Dubbins appeared in several episodes of Jack Webb's Dragnet 1967 series on NBC. Dubbins played the part of Billy Carter in "The Incident of the Dog Days" on Rawhide. Dubbins' last TV roles were in episodes of CBS's Knots Landing (1979), ABC's Dynasty (1981), and NBC's Highway to Heaven (1984). The Brooklyn-born Dubbins retired to Greenville, South Carolina, where his last acting was at the Warehouse Theater as Willy Loman in Death of a Salesman. He succumbed to cancer at the age of sixty-three. Description above from the Wikipedia article Don Dubbins, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Most Famous Work

Perry Mason
Average
8

Perry Mason

(1957) Asst. D.A. Bill Vincent
The Twilight Zone
Average
8

The Twilight Zone

(1959) Peter Kirby
The Virginian
Average
6

The Virginian

(1962) Albi
The Fugitive
Average
7

The Fugitive

(1963) Horton
Gunsmoke
Average
7

Gunsmoke

(1955) Wendt
Murder, She Wrote
Average
8

Murder, She Wrote

(1984) Dr. Charmichael
Wanted: Dead or Alive
Average
7

Wanted: Dead or Alive

(1958) Randy Holleran
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Average
8

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

(1955) Philip Pryor

Acting

Year Character Movie/Tv
1984 Dr. Charmichael
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John
1981 N/A
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1979 N/A
1977 N/A
1974 N/A
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1973 Mr. Werner
1972 N/A
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Sheriff Jessup
N/A
Sergeant O'Roherty
1971 N/A
1970 Freddy Tomb
1969 N/A
Pickard
1968 N/A
1967 N/A
N/A
Rod Sprague
Wesley J. Sanders
1965 Joel Polk
McKinney
Al, the Gas Station Owner
Pete Conway
Jay Russell
Grady Shanks
1963 Ivar Cramer, Light Henchman
Corporal Shale
Jason Chiles
N/A
McCaffrey
Horton
1962 N/A
Albi
1960 N/A
1959 N/A
Big Ed Brody
N/A
Harley Crale
Peter Kirby
Mite Rankin
N/A
N/A
First Mate Walter Blake
1958 Ben Sharpe
Tom
N/A
N/A
Randy Holleran
1957 Hartley Elliott
Deputy D.A. Vincent
Kenneth Dalgran
Ned Bertell
Burt Blair
Deputy D.A. Bill Vincent
Asst. D.A. Bill Vincent
Stick Wilson
Vic Bradley
Sid Garnin
Pvt. Owens
1956 Mark
Steve Miller
1955 Philip Pryor
Lootie
Potts
Orkey
Wendt
1954 Chris Barker
Seaman 1st Class Urban (uncredited)
1953 Pvt. Friday Clark (uncredited)
1950 Luke
Year Character Movie/Tv

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