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Aliases: Stacy S. Harris , Stacey Harris

Gender: Male

Place of birth: Big Timber, Quebec, Canada

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Movie Involvements: 28

TV Involvements: 25


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Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Stacy Harris (July 26, 1918 – March 13, 1973) was a Canadian-born actor with hundreds of film and television appearances. His name is often found spelled Stacey Harris. Harris was an Army pilot whose leg was injured in a plane crash less than six months after he enlisted in 1937. That injury prevented him from re-enlisting when World War II began, but he served with the American Volunteer Group as an ambulance driver and with the French Foreign Legion as a dispatch rider. Before becoming an actor, he held a variety of jobs, including newspaper reporter, boxer, sailor, and artist. Harris played varied characters, often villains, on various programs produced by Jack Webb's Mark VII Limited, such as Dragnet, Noah's Ark, GE True, Adam-12, and Emergency!. Harris guest starred in the religion anthology series, Crossroads, and played a gangster in the 1956 time travel television episode of the anthology series Conflict entitled "Man from 1997" opposite James Garner and Charles Ruggles. Thereafter, he appeared as Whit Lassiter in the 1958 episode "The Man Who Waited" of the NBC children's western series, Buckskin. He guest starred as Colonel Nicholson in the 1959 episode "A Night at Trapper's Landing" of the NBC western series, Riverboat, starring Darren McGavin. Harris appeared too in three syndicated series, Whirlybirds, starring Kenneth Tobey, Sheriff of Cochise and U.S. Marshal, both with John Bromfield, and as the character Ed Miller in the episode "Mystery of the Black Stallion" of the western series, Frontier Doctor, starring Rex Allen. He was cast in two episodes of the David Janssen crime drama, Richard Diamond, Private Detective. Harris in 1958 portrayed Max Bowen in "The Hemp Tree" and in 1959 as Abel Crowder in "Rough Track to Payday", episodes of the CBS western series, The Texan, starring Rory Calhoun. In 1960, Harris was cast as a drummer named Cramer in the episode "Fair Game" of the ABC western series, The Rebel, starring Nick Adams. Harris appeared in three episodes of CBS's Perry Mason, playing the role of murder victim Frank Curran in "The Case of the Married Moonlighter" (1958), Perry's client Frank Brooks in "The Case of the Lost Last Act" (1959), and murderer Frank Brigham in "The Case of the Crying Comedian" in 1961. In 1969, Harris played the corrupt and cowardly Mayor Ackerson of the since ghost town of Helena, Texas, in the episode "The Oldest Law" of the syndicated television series, Death Valley Days, hosted by Robert Taylor not long before Taylor's own death. Popular character actor Jim Davis played Colonel William G. Butler (1831-1912), who takes revenge on the town after its citizens refuse to disclose the killer of Butler's son, Emmett, who died from a stray bullet from a saloon brawl. Butler arranges for the San Antonio and Aransas Pass Railway to bypass Helena; instead Karnes City, south of San Antonio, becomes the seat of government of Karnes County. Tom Lowell (born 1941) played Emmett Butler, and Tyler McVey was cast as Parson Blake in this episode. Harris died March 13, 1973, at the age of 54 in Los Angeles, California of an apparent heart attack. CLR

Most Famous Work

Perry Mason
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8

Perry Mason

(1957) Ed Brigham
Wagon Train
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6

Wagon Train

(1957) Sheriff Francher
Bonanza
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8

Bonanza

(1959) Harry Teague
The Virginian
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6

The Virginian

(1962) Harry Clark
Adam-12
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7

Adam-12

(1968) Dr. Edward Lane
Dragnet
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6

Dragnet

(1951) William Tanner
Ironside
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7

Ironside

(1967) Gordon
The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
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7

The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp

(1955) Mayor John Clum

Acting

Year Character Movie/Tv
1972 James Dillon
1971 Agent Ben Hazzard
Dr. Leonard
1970 Psychiatrist
Operations Commander Callan
1968 Phillip Rootes
Jim Ralston
Dr. Edward Lane
1967 Technician (uncredited)
Gordon
Dan Mungol
Michael Cooper Smith
1966 Detective O'Brien
1965 Charlie Kenyon
Josh Reynolds
Mr. Turner
Mr. Leland (uncredited)
1963 Police Radio Unit F-7 (voice) (uncredited)
Cliff Carteret
1962 Lieutenant Victor Beaujac
Prosecutor
Lawyer
Harry Clark
1961 Jake
1960 Buck Lavery
1959 Harry Teague
Eph Brown (as Stacy S. Harris)
George Scales
Ben Loomis
Coley
1958 Col. Monk Moncavage
Detective Vic Beaujac
1957 Ira Black
Vandy Vance
Ed Brigham
Sheriff Francher
Steve Rand
Capt. Brownell
1956 George Barlow
Nicholas Servoz
Art Downey
1955 Detective Vic Beaujac
John P. Clum
Mayor John Clum
Scrappy Durant
1954 Max Edward Troy
1953 Reuben Zadok
Uriah (as Stacy S. Harris)
Chet Jones
1952 Frank Le Beau
Troy
1951 William Tanner
Harry (uncredited)
1950 Paul Ferrar
Year Character Movie/Tv

Directing

Year Role Movie/Tv
1967 Script Supervisor
Year Role Movie/Tv

Writing

Year Role Movie/Tv
1967 Dialogue
Year Role Movie/Tv

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