DeForest Kelley Filmography: Annotated Television and Movie Credits

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1959
01/13/59 26 Men: "Trail of Revenge" - **Ed Lacey
01/15/59 Special Agent 7: "Border Masquerade" - Martin
01/23/59 Northwest Passage: "Death Rides the Wind" - ***David Cooper
02/13/59 Mike Hammer: "I Ain’t Talkin’" - **Eddie Robbins
02/14/59 Wanted: Dead or Alive: "Secret Ballot" - **Steve Pax
02/20/59 Rawhide: "Incident at Barker Springs" - **Slate Prell
03/11/59 Trackdown: "Hard Lines" - **Ed Crow
04/01/59 Movie: Warlock - **Curley Burne
04/20/59 State Trooper: "The Patient Skeleton" - **Graham Jones
05/24/59 Richard Diamond: "The Limping Man" - *Sheriff
09/23/59 Trackdown: "A Quiet Night in Porter" - ***Tom Dooley
10/03/59 Mike Hammer: "Bride and Doom" - **Philip Conroy
10/17/59 Wanted: Dead or Alive: "The Empty Cell" - **Ollie Tate
11/20/59 Black Saddle: "Apache Trail" - ***Sam King
11/20/59 Walt Disney: Elfego Baca: "Mustang Man, Mustang Maid" - **Silas Morgan
12/07/59 Richard Diamond: "The Adjustor" - **Kenneth Porter
[? 1959] Mackenzie’s Raiders: "Son of the Hawk" - ***Charles Barrons

Role: ***Major **Significant *Minor
Death count: 9 of 16 roles

Notes - 1959 Credits:

The Enterprise:
Kelley stated that in 1959 he was cast as one of the regulars in a proposed series called The Enterprise. “It was the story of the famous World War II ship,” he recalls. “Oddly enough, I would have played the ship’s psychiatrist. That one never got off the ground.” (Starlog Yearbook #2, 1987)

1959 26 MEN: “Trail of Revenge”

Role: ** Ed Lacey (Bad-ass outlaw)
Episode: 2.15 (54) Airdate: 1/13/59
Commercial Recording: None known

Series Notes: Syndicated; 30m; b/w; 1957-1959; 78 episodes
Based on true stories of the Arizona Rangers, ca. 1900.
Regulars:
Tristram Coffin (Captain Tom Rynning); Kelo Henderson (Ranger Clint Travis)
Guest Cast:

Jeanne Baird (May Lacey)
Vera Costello (Esther Barraby)

Bill Henry (Joe Wallace)
Arthur Space (Monk Barraby)

Episode Summary:
Convict Ed Lacey has escaped from prison, adding murder to his record in the process, and has sworn to find and kill his wife May, whom he suspects of infidelity. Unable to show his own face in Tucson, he forces rancher Monk Barraby to look for May by kidnapping Monk's wife Esther. May is working at a hotel in Tucson under the name "Martha" and is being courted by the owner, Joe Wallace -- so far, unsuccessfully. Monk finds May, but the Rangers have now rescued Esther, and persuade Monk to help set a trap for Lacey. Lacey realizes it's a trap, but a bit too late. He draws on Monk, May rushes out to stop him and he (lovely fellow) tries to shoot her, setting off a gunfight in which he is killed.

Notes:
Montie Montana has a scene in this; he does a few rope tricks and some really stilted dialogue.
Dead Again: Shot from a rooftop to plummet into the dirt.
For Trekkers:
TV Westerns claims that Leonard Nimoy is in this one. He is neither credited nor visible.

Sources: viewing; Lentz (1997)

1959 SPECIAL AGENT 7: “Border Masquerade”

Role: Martin
Episode: 1.01 Airdate: 1/15/59
Commercial Recording: None known

Series Notes: Syndicated; Revue Productions, Inc.; 30m; b/w; 1958-59; 26 episodes
(Apparently, some episodes of this show carried an incorrect title of Secret Agent.)

Regulars: Lloyd Nolan (Philip Conroy, U.S. Treasury Agent)
Guest Cast:

DeForest Kelley (Martin)
Carol Ohmart (Helen)
Rodolfo Hoyos (Losada)

Episode Summary:
Not viewed. From TV Guide (reported in Classic TV Archive):
"Conroy uses a notorious bandit in an effort to capture a tax evader hiding in Mexico."

Sources: Classic TV Archive

1959 NORTHWEST PASSAGE:
“Death Rides the Wind”
Role: *** David Cooper (Not-so-bad Bad Guy)
Episode: 1.19 Airdate: 1/23/59
Commercial Recording: None known
As David Cooper, Northwest Passage

Series Notes: NBC; 30m; color, 1958-1959
Stories of Rogers' Rangers, seeking the Northwest Passage during the French and Indian War.
Regulars:

Keith Larsen (Major Robert Rogers)
Buddy Ebsen (Sgt. Hunk Marriner) Don Burnett (Ens. Langdon "Harvard" Towne)

Guest Cast:
Murvyn Vye (Matt Stacey)

Episode Summary:
David Cooper (Kelley) and Matt Stacey escape the fort stockade by murdering a guard and head off to Portsmouth, 140 miles away, where they plan to hide with Cooper's "wench" Molly Pruitt [uncredited]. On the way, they pilfer supplies from a trapper lying in a drunken stupor. Hunk and Towne, in pursuit, arrive at the trapper's cabin, discover that the man died of smallpox, and realize that the fugitives are now carrying the disease. When they report this at the fort, Rogers sends Towne to Portsmouth to look for Molly and warn the town, while Rogers and Hunk go after Davy and Matt. The fort physician [uncredited] objects that Rogers has not had smallpox and might catch it from the criminals, so he infects him with a case from a handy smallpox patient in the fort. [And Spock thinks McCoy is an illogical doctor...] In the meantime, the escapees reach a trading post, and when the storekeeper asks too many questions, Matt kills him over Davy's objections. In Portsmouth, Towne tells Molly about the smallpox threat, but Davy's brother Tim [uncredited] dismisses it as a trap. The fugitives begin to have symptoms while on the trail, and are deathly ill by the time they reach the shore across from Portsmouth, with Rogers and Hunk close behind. Towne prevents Davy and Matt from landing their boat and tells them they have smallpox, but Tim conks Towne and urges them to come ashore. Davy redeems himself by shouting that it's true and telling Tim to keep away; he tussles with Matt to keep him from going ashore and Matt throws him overboard. Matt rows off, runs into the Rangers and is shot. Tim is left looking at bubbles where Davy disappeared into the bay.
Notes:
Check out the pony-tail.
Dead Again:
... and doubly so - mortally ill with smallpox, he sinks under the water and nothing comes up but bubbles.
For Trekkers: Star Trek's Bob Justman was the assistant director on this one.

Sources: viewing; Lentz (1997); Brooks & Marsh

1959 MIKE HAMMER:
“I Ain’t Talkin’ ”

Role: ** Eddie Robbins (Gangster)
Episode: 2.3 Airdate: 2/13/59
Commercial Recording: None known

As Eddie Robbins, Mike Hammer: "I Ain't Talkin'"

Series Notes: Syndicated; 30m, b/w; 1957-1959; 78 episodes
aka Mickey Spillaine's Mike Hammer
based on the character from Spillaine's private-eye novels; set in New York.
Regulars:
Darren McGavin (Mike Hammer); Bart Burns (Capt. Pat Chambers)
Guest Cast:
Robert Fuller (Jimmy Nelson), ? (Myra), ? (Al)

Episode Summary:
A group of gangsters makes a hit on a drugstore, killing the owner. Unbeknownst to them, they are seen by young Jimmy Nelson; however, on questioning, Jimmy refuses to give any information. Jimmy lives with his sister Myra, who calls on her old friend Mike Hammer to investigate. Myra is married to Eddie (Kelley), now revealed to the viewer as the killer. Mike can't get Jimmy to talk. Jimmy trails Eddie to a woman's apartment and when Eddie realizes what he knows, he kills the boy. Mike gets the girl to reveal an ambush Eddie and his henchman Al have laid for him. Mike takes Eddie to the rendezvous and forces him to walk into the trap himself, whereupon he is shot by his buddy Al. This gives Mike time to shoot Al. Everybody's dead.
Dead Again: Gunned down in his own ambush.

Sources: viewing; Brooks & Marsh

1959 WANTED: DEAD OR ALIVE:
"Secret Ballot"

Role: ** Steve Pax (Bad Sheriff)
Episode: 1.24 Airdate: 2/14/59
Commercial Recording: Columbia House (?)

As Steve Pax, Wanted: Dead or Alive: "Secret Ballot"

Series Notes: CBS; 30m; b/w; 1958-1961; 94 episodes
Adventures of bounty hunter Josh Randall
The pilot for this series was an episode of Trackdown aired in March 1958.
Regulars: Steve McQueen (Josh Randall)
Guest Cast:

Mary Beth Hughes (Dolly)
Bethel Leslie (Carole Easter)

John Lupton (Ned Easter)
Wayne Morris (Barney Pax)

Episode Summary:
Randall's old war buddy Ned Easter is running for mayor in a town governed by corrupt mayor Barney Pax and his brother Steve (Kelley), whom he has made sheriff. The Pax brothers avoid honest competition by shooting up Ned's rallies and such. Ned's wife Carole has summoned Randall to stand by Ned in case of trouble, but doesn't want Ned to know she did so. It so happens that Randall has a wanted poster on Steve, for "shooting up half of Colorado," which he shows to Dolly (who seems to be the local madame and/or Barney's mistress). Soon afterward, loving brother Barney has Steve shot in the back and frames Randall for the murder -- offering to let him go if Ned pulls out of the race. Randall escapes, but Ned turns in his resignation to keep Josh from becoming a wanted fugitive. Carole objects, telling Ned that Randall is a low-life who only came to try to seduce her away, but Ned won't change his mind. Carole then goes to Barney, pulls a derringer on him and demands the resignation back. Josh, eavesdropping on this scene, moves and the nervous Carole shoots at him. So does Barney. But Josh gets the drop on Barney and tells him "one move and I'll kill ya." Barney moves and Josh kills him. Carole, shocked at having almost killed Josh and at having turned her dream for Ned into a nightmare, tells Josh about her lies to Ned. When Ned confronts him, Josh confirms Carole's story and leaves town.

Notes:
A nice role for Kelley, with some good confrontations, even though he's dead half-way through the episode. I particularly liked his line in the opening scene, stating that if Ned has hired a gun “it’s the greatest mistake since buttermilk.”
Dead Again:
Shot in the back by his brother and stuffed into a closet to topple out onto the hero and do a face-plant on the floor.

Sources: viewing; Brooks & Marsh

1959 RAWHIDE:
“Incident at Barker Springs”

Role: ** Slate Prell (Bad-ass rancher)
Episode: 1.7 Airdate: 2/20/59
Commercial Recording: None known

As Slate Prell, Rawhide: "Incident at Barker Springs"

Series Notes: CBS; 60m; b/w; 1959-1966; 144 episodes
Adventures of trail boss Gil Favor, his cowboys, and the people they meet on their cattle drives.
Regulars:

Clint Eastwood (Rowdy Yates)
Eric Fleming (Gil Favor)

Sheb Wooley (Pete Nolan)
Paul Brinegar (Wishbone)

Guest Cast:

Richard Gilden (Lance)
Bill Hale (marshal)

June Lockhart (Rainy Dawson)
Paul Richards (Brazo)

Episode Summary:
The trail drive is headed for Sedalia from San Antonio. Rowdy becomes suspicious of their new drag rider Lance, because he always keeps his face covered. Lance's brother Brazo has been trailing him and also hires on. We then learn that Lance hides his face because of a burn scar that he believes to be much more disfiguring than it really is, that Brazo is a gunfighter and wants to set up in ranching with his kid brother to keep him from following in his footsteps, and that Lance has a job waiting for him in Barker Springs as a hired gun for the unscrupulous Slate Prell (Kelley). Brazo knew Prell in Texas, but wouldn't work for him because of his evil ways. Lance leaves; Brazo, Gil and Rowdy follow him to Barker Springs where they meet Rainy Dawson, a young widow running a restaurant. She tells them that Slate Prell arrived two years before and has since shot and burned out the competition -- including Rainy's husband -- to become boss of the area. Rainy and Brazo are clearly drawn to one another. After all this buildup, we finally see Slate when he hears that Brazo is in town and comes to confront him but Rainy chases him away. Later, Lance arrives in camp falling off his horse, shot in the back by Prell when the latter decided Lance couldn't be trusted to kill his brother. Brazo heads off to avenge Lance's death, doing what a man's gotta do even if he knows better. Gil and Rowdy tag along shortly after. Brazo and Rainy have a nice little chat, then Prell's men begin coming for him. Slate's pet marshal starts to arrest Brazo but runs off. A general gunfight between Prell's 6 men and the 3 good guys ensues; the good guys kill all the bad guys. Brazo rides off, Gil stating that he'll be forever lonely, but Rainy is confident that he'll be back.

Notes:
Not a large part for Kelley, but a fun one; he positively revels in this slime-ball role, swaggering around and brandishing a switch. His best line in the show is in response to Rainy driving him off at gunpoint: “She is a handy woman to have a-round.”
The name is misspelled in the credits again: "DeForrest Kelley"
Dead Again:
Brazo traps Prell in a room; as he bursts in, Prell turns his back to keep Brazo from shooting him, but then tries to swing around and get in a shot. Brazo blasts him with a rifle from three feet away; Prell does a face-plant among the furniture.

Sources:viewing; Brooks & Marsh

1959 TRACKDOWN: “Hard Lines”

Role: ** Ed Crow (embittered veteran)
Episode: 2.25 (57) Airdate: 3/11/59
Commercial Recording: None known

Series Notes: CBS; 30m; b/w; 1957-1959; 71 episodes
Set in Porter, Texas in the 1870s; many stories were adapted from case files of the Texas Rangers.
Regulars:

Robert Culp (Ranger Hoby Gilman)
Ellen Corby (Henrietta Porter)

Norman Leavitt (Ralph)

Guest Cast:

Jim Coburn (Joker Wells)

Beverly Garland (Dora Crow)

Episode Summary:
Joker Wells, wanted for treason, desertion and cowardice by the Confederacy, has returned to his ranch in Porter now that there is no more Confederacy to prosecute him, tired of running and hoping to make people see him differently if he sticks it out. Local war hero Ed Crow (Kelley), whom Wells abandoned on the battlefield with his arm shot off, bears a grudge which he first displays by putting a burr under Joker’s saddle. The town is on Ed’s side and wants Hoby to drive Joker out of town. Hoby goes looking for Ed to get him to stop making trouble, and instead encounters his fiercely loyal wife Dora, whom Ed rescued from brothel life, and who swears she’ll kill Joker if anything happens to Ed. Later in the saloon, Ed is drunk and Hoby takes his bottle away, an insult exacerbated when Joker comes in and obtains a bottle of whiskey. Hoby and the bartender send Ed staggering off home and Hoby unsuccessfully tries to convince Joker to leave town. When Joker leaves the saloon, Ed draws on him and is killed; Hoby now orders Joker out of town. Hoby tells Dora what happened. The next day, Hoby disperses a mob going after Joker and orders Joker out of town by the time of Ed’s funeral. After the funeral , Dora heads off to kill Ed, Hoby gets there first, to find Joker all beaten up; as Hoby and Dora argue on the porch, Joker shoots himself. Hoby prevents Dora from finishing him off and they take Joker to the doctor. He survives and leaves town, deeding his ranch to Dora on his way out.

Notes:
Small but nice role for Kelley, with a good drunk & disorderly bit.
Dead Again: Draws on the wrong man while drunk.

Sources: viewing; Brooks & Marsh

1959 WARLOCK

Role: ** Curley Burne (Good Bad Guy)
Released: ? (Variety rev. 4/1/59)
Director: Edward Dmytryk
Writer: Robert Alan Arthur
From the novel by Oakley Hall
Producer:Edward Dmytryk
Notes: Fox; 122m; color.
Commercial Recording: Key Video (Fox) 1988; in print

As Curley, Warlock, drawing on Henry Fonda

Cast:

Henry Fonda (Clay Blaisdell)
Anthony Quinn (Tom Morgan)
Richard Widmark (Johnny Gannon)
Frank Gorshin (Billy Gannon)
Dorothy Malone (Lily Dollar)

Dolores Michaels (Jessie Marlow)
Tom Drake (Abe McKuown)
David Garcia (George "Pony" Benner)
Paul Comi (Luke Friendly)
Don Barry (Ed Calhoun)

Plot Summary:
A classic western with a complicated plot, the bare bones of which is:
The hell-raising cowboys of Abe McKuown's San Pablo Ranch have been terrorizing the good citizens of Warlock, driving off a series of sheriffs. The town hires gunslinger Clay Blaisdell (Fonda) who, with his obsessively protective partner Tom Morgan (Quinn), makes his living as an expensive private marshal for such towns, thinning out the outlaw population and then moving on. Blaisdell sets to work, meeting several challenges by the San Pablo cowboys, and incidentally romancing Jessie Marlow (Michaels). San Pablo cowboy Johnny Gannon (Widmark) leaves the gang because of McKuown's habit of backshooting his enemies, and takes on the job of town deputy, leading to confrontations first with his old gang and then with Blaisdell.

Notes:
     Curley Burne is a fun role for Kelley - a politely sarcastic and amiable rogue who generally announces his presence with a whistled tune. His longest scene is when the cowboys first encounter the new marshal in the saloon: watch for him rolling a shiny dollar down his fingers at a cardtable in the background. When Blaisdell lays down his rules, Curley engages him in exaggerated banter and eventually goes for his gun but is outdrawn. He acknowledges defeat with an admiring tip of the hat, retrieves his gun with a fancy flyaway, and swaggers out of the scene, spurs a-jingle. Curley has another nice bit of banter with Blaisdell while he's putting up the wanted posters, which he boasts of having made himself, with fine spelling and writing, and gives Blaisdell one for a keepsake.
      Kelley's best scene occurs when Johnny, now the law, goes to San Pablo to tell Abe to stay out of town. Abe responds by sticking a knife right through Johnny's gun hand and into the table; quick-thinking Curley stops Abe from killing Johnny by pointing out how much more fun it will be to kill him in a proper gunfight in town. Curley gets Johnny safely on the way home and comes into town in the morning to warn him that the cowboys are coming at sundown, and to promise him a fair fight.
      We see him one last time, knocking out one back-shooter and holding another at bay during the big gunfight. Curley's fate is unclear - the San Pablo "Regulators" are arrested, but we don't see whether he's among them after saving Johnny.

For Trekkers:
Paul Comi (Luke Friendly) played Lt. Stiles in "Balance of Terror."
Frank Gorshin (Billy Gannon) played Bele in "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield."
A couple of stories Kelley liked to tell at Star Trek conventions came from this movie:
(1) As the gang came roaring into town and turned to tie up, Kelley accidentally spurred the horse next to his while dismounting; that horse kicked and threw him into the air, where he did a flip and narrowly escaped bashing his head on the tie rail. The director, Dmytryk, sauntered up to where he landed, looked down at him and after ascertaining that he wasn't killed, drawled, "I'm sure glad I hired real cowboys."
(2) Before filming the scene where Kelley draws on Fonda, Dmytryk had told him to be sure he had the scene down well because Princess Sophia of Greece was going to be on the set. Kelley thought he was joking or something, but sure enough, there she was with her retinue on the staircase as he was doing his big scene. But he'd been working hard on getting the revolver flyaway trick down, and forgot about them while he concentrated on the move. The flyaway went perfectly, but as he backed away afterwards, he tripped over a chair and yelped, "Shit!" at having spoiled the scene. Then he remembered the Princess, and without getting up, just crawled off the set under the batwing doors. Dmytryk came and found him and said, "De, I bet you sat up all night last night trying to think of what to say in front of the princess." When he went to the canteen for lunch that day they gave him a standing ovation. Fonda later told him he'd danced with the Princess at a party, and Kelley could stop worrying -- she didn't know that word in English.

Sources: viewing; Internet Movie Database; video notes
Reviews: Variety 4/1/59; NYT 5/1/59; Library Journal 5/15/59; Internet Movie Database.

1959 STATE TROOPER:
“The Patient Skeleton”

Role: ** Graham Jones (Scheming killer)
Episode: (96) Airdate: 4/30/59
Commercial Recording: None known

As Graham Jones, State Trooper: "The Patient Skeleton"

Series Notes: Syndicated; 30m; b/w; 1956-1959; 104 episodes
Based on Nevada police files.
Regulars: Rod Cameron (Trooper Rod Blake)
Guest Cast:
Charles Aidman (Tom); Edith Evanson (Emily); Ian Wolfe (Eli Crater)

Episode Summary:
A truck crashes into a house, exposing a small skeleton that had been sealed up inside the wall. Blake arrives to investigate and finds that there is an absentee owner, and the place is looked after by an elderly caretaker, Eli Crater. His neighbor Emily tells Blake that many years earlier her son Tommy told her that his playmate "Jonesy" had been taken into the house by a lady one day and was never seen again. She thought he was making it up at the time. However, the skeleton proves to be that of a female, done in by a hit on the head. Blake goes to see Tom, who reports having seen Eli doing some repairs on that particular wall. But Eli wasn't the killer, because when they go back to the house, Blake finds Eli hanging dead from the chandelier and someone shoots at Tom, wounding him. Blake traces the child Jonesy to the adult Graham Jones (Kelley), a storekeeper in Reno. He had been adopted by the woman but they didn't get along and she disowned him. Blake gets Jones to show him a secret room Eli had mentioned - a room Jones had spent a lot of time in as punishment in his childhood. Blake finds a cigarette case that had to have been left there earlier and tricks Jones into acknowledging that it is his. Recognizing the mistake, Jones tries to shoot Blake, but Blake disarms and arrests him. Jones states that he killed her for her money, and is unrepentant about it, but is sorry he had to kill old Eli for knowing about the wall needing repair.

For Trekkers:
Ian Wolfe (Eli Crater) appeared as Mr. Atoz the librarian in "All Our Yesterdays" and as Septimus in "Bread and Circuses."

Sources:viewing; Classic TV Archive website; Brooks & Marsh

1959 RICHARD DIAMOND: “The Limping Man”

Role: * Sheriff
Episode: 3.14 Airdate: 5/24/59
Commercial Recording: None known

As skeptical Sheriff, Richard Diamond: "The Limping Man"

Series Notes: CBS; 30m; b/w; 1957-1960; 51 episodes
Adventures of a NYC cop turned private eye. Syndicated as Call Mr. D
Regulars: David Janssen (Richard Diamond); "Sam" - never-seen sexy answering service operator
Guest Cast:

Hillary Brooke (Winifred O'Hara)

Eric Feldary (Arthur)

Bethel Leslie (Faith Dryden)

Episode Summary:
Richard Diamond goes to an appointment with Winifred O’Hara, to find that she has left a message with Sam for him to come to her beach house instead. A man with a limp follows him, and O'Hara tells Diamond that the man is an illegal alien with a lot of black market money, a former friend now out to kill her. She wants Diamond to shake him down for the money; he refuses and tells her to call the cops. As he leaves, they hear a noise she thinks is the limping man; Diamond goes out to check and finds a cat. The sheriff (Kelley) arrives in response to a call about a prowler, finds Diamond there with a gun and O’Hara dead in another room, and arrests Diamond - who gets away, but is shot. Diamond hitches a ride with Faith Dryden. When they pull in for gas, an attendant hears about the murder on the radio; Diamond knocks him out and takes over the car. Faith helps him get past a roadblock and takes him to her home, where he meets her fiancé, Arthur - who is (of course) the limping man. Faith had been keeping watch at the beach house and had followed Diamond. Diamond knocks Arthur out, stops Faith at gunpoint and calls the police.

Notes:
Just one scene for Kelley, but a fun one with him lookin’ good - and smart-ass cynical - in uniform.

Sources: viewing; Brooks & Marsh

1959 TRACKDOWN:
“A Quiet Night in Porter”

Role: *** Tom Dooley (Good son gone bad)
Episode: 2.38 (57) Airdate: 9/23/59
Commercial Recording: None known

Series Notes: CBS; 30m; b/w; 1957-1959; 71 episodes
Set in Porter, Texas in the 1870s; many stories were adapted from case files of the Texas Rangers.
Regulars:

Robert Culp (Ranger Hoby Gilman)
Ellen Corby (Henrietta Porter)

Norman Leavitt (Ralph)

Guest Cast:

Don Durant (Frank Dooley)
Helen Kleeb (Ma Dooley)

Addison Richards (Doc Calhoun)

Episode Summary:
Tom (Kelley) and Frank Dooley have come to town to get medical help for their senile mother; she promptly sets to stealing pretty baubles. They find her just after storekeeper Chad has caught her in the act, and when Chad moves to take her to the jail, Tom shoots him in a fit of overprotective loyalty, the two boys being dead-set that they won’t let anyone lock her away. Startled, Ma drops the Derringer she was about to steal and it fires. When the boys call Doc Calhoun to see to their mother, now catatonic with shock from the incident, he puts 2 and 2 together and gets 5, guessing that the mother accidentally shot Chad. Tom threatens to kill the doctor if he tells Hoby. Meanwhile, Hoby finds that the slug was from a .45, not the Derringer, and now Doc puts the 2 and 2 together to get 4. Frank gets the drop on Doc and Hoby and handcuffs them to the bed after forcing Doc to hire a buckboard for them. But now Ma has gone off on one of her midnight raids and the boys have to go looking for her before they can make their escape. Hoby and Doc, cuffed together, break the bed apart and give chase at daybreak. They all end up in the store and while Tom and Frank try to get their mother out of harm’s way, Hoby gets the upper hand and they surrender.

Notes:
A pretty nice role for Kelley, with variety of motivations to play. At one point, Tom carefully ducks under his brother’s gun so as not to give Hoby a chance to move, but a minute later he walks right between them - Hoby doesn’t seem to notice. Tom also drops his gun at the end before Hoby orders him to, obliging fellow that he is.

Sources: viewing; Brooks & Marsh

1959 MIKE HAMMER: “Bride and Doom”

Role: ** Philip Conroy (Scheming psycho rich guy)
Episode: 2.3 Airdate: 10/3/59
Commercial Recording: None known

As Philip Conroy, Mike Hammer: "Bride & Doom"

Series Notes: Syndicated; 30m, b/w; 1957-1959; 78 episodes
aka Mickey Spillaine's Mike Hammer
based on the character from Spillaine's private-eye novels; set in New York.
Regulars: Darren McGavin (Mike Hammer); Bart Burns (Capt. Pat Chambers)
Guest Cast:

Richard Angaroll (Nick Mann)
Sue Ann Langdon (Ruby Duvall)

Pat O'Malley (Hugo)
Frances Robinson (Joyce Conroy)

Episode Summary:
Showgirl Ruby Duvall comes to Hammer complaining of assault by Joyce Conroy, the domineering sister of her wealthy new boyfriend Philip Conroy (Kelley). Joyce is adamant that the family name and social position not be besmirched with the likes of Ruby. Mike visits the Conroys and warns Joyce to lay off Ruby. Joyce has offered to pay Ruby to leave Philip, but she refuses. Ruby tells her jealous ex-boyfriend Nick Mann that she's marrying Philip for his money and chases him off with a scissors when he gets aggressive. She then seems to change her mind about taking Joyce's money and calls her to arrange the drop-off. Shortly thereafter, Mike finds Ruby dead in her room. Investigation reveals that Joyce and Nick are the likely suspects; Joyce is arrested and Nick comes to Mike to deny guilt and tell him he saw another man come out of Ruby's room. Doorman Hugo denies this, but Mike catches Hugo taking a payoff from a man who then tries to kill him. Mike shoots the man and finds that it is Philip, who demands to be taken to a hospital.

Notes:
Kelley gets a fine scene in the jail at the end, as Philip confronts his sister, circling around Joyce in a wheelchair while he lectures her about how she has patronized and controlled him, and gleefully explains that he used Ruby to trick her into giving them money and then killed the girl. Committing murder was just his little way of getting back at bossy ol' Sis - the family name can't be saved now!

Sources: viewing; Brooks & Marsh

1959 WANTED: DEAD OR ALIVE: "The Empty Cell"

Role: ** Ollie Tate (Outlaw's white-collar henchman)
Episode: 2.7 (43) Airdate: 10/17/59
Commercial Recording:
Columbia House "Re-TV" Collection, Universal Home Video, 1998. Also includes episodes: Die By the Gun, Angels of Vengeance, and The Inheritance.

as Ollie Tate, Wanted: Dead or Alive, "The Empty Cell"

Lon Chaney, Jr. (Sheriff Paulson)
Jack Kruschen (Hunt Willis)

Olan Souli (telegraph operator)
Ed Waller (Pop)

Episode Summary:
Josh arrives in Cottonwood late at night and delivers train robber Hunt Willis to the sheriff (Kelley). In the morning, he finds Hunt gone and a different sheriff - Paulson - who had been sent off on a wild goose chase the day before. Josh realizes that the guy he handed Hunt over to was in cahoots with the outlaw. Paulson suspects Josh of sending the fake message; Josh learns from Pop at the livery stable that Paulson is kin to Hunt. At the bank, Josh finds that his reward money was paid to an imposter, and a telegraph operator traces the faked authorization to Hode railroad station. Trailed by Paulson, Josh heads for Hode, where he recognizes telegraph operator Ollie Tate (despite the presence of glasses and the absence of the moustache), as the fake sheriff. Josh beats Ollie into giving back the reward money and leading him to Hunt's hideout, Paulson still following. Ollie leads Josh right into a trip-wired gun, leaves him for dead and (silly fellow) goes running to tell Hunt that he has disposed of the bounty hunter. Hunt is none too pleased that Josh was able to follow Ollie at all, and even less happy when he learns that Ollie collected reward money on him. He shoots Ollie then goes to finish Josh off, but is shot by Paulson first. Back in Cottonwood, Paulson refuses Josh's offer of a share of the reward money because Hunt was his cousin, Pop apologizes to Paulson for his suspicions, and they all go off for a drink.

Notes:
A well-written show with a good cast. An unusual part for Kelley in that he gets to do a lot of fear - this character looks like he should be a match for Randall, but he is paralyzed by cowardice while Randall trounces him.
Dead Again: Shot by his partner with a rifle at point-blank range while making a last desperate lunge for a gun, then does a slow, glassy-eyed slide down the wall.

Sources: viewing; Brooks & Marsh; video box notes

1959 BLACK SADDLE: “Apache Trail"

Role: *** Sam King (Slime-ball trading post agent)
Episode: 2.8 Airdate: 11/20/59
Commercial Recording: None known

as Sam King, Black Saddle: "Apache Trail"

Series Notes: ABC; 30m; b/w; 1/10/59-9/28/60; 44 episodes
Syndicated as The Westerners in a package with Johnny Ringo (starred Don Durant), Law of the Plainsman (starred Michael Ansara), and The Westerner (starred Brian Keith).
Black Saddle was set in post-Civil War New Mexico Territory, and followed lawyer Clay Culhane trying to encourage the use of the law rather than violence for settling disputes.
Regulars:
Peter Breck (Clay Culhane); Keenan Wynn (Narrator in The Westerners version)
Guest Cast:

Armand Alzamora (Santana)
Connie Buck (Maria)

Roberta Haynes (Chatha)
Mike Kellan (Ulzana)

Anna Lisa (Nora Travis)
Michael Morgan (Nachita)

Episode Summary:
Freight operator Nora Travis has brought Culhane along to the Mescalero trading post to lean on agent Sam King (Kelley) to pay up. They find King absent but "renegade" Apache chief Ulzana and a few followers waiting to settle their own accounts with King. Ulzana intends to kill them to eliminate any witnesses to his revenge, but on hearing that Culhane is a lawyer he decides to have a little trial for King. The unsuspecting King arrives with his girl Maria and is pushed into a chair to face charges, in turn, of not speaking up for an innocent Indian who was hanged, of refusing food to starving families, and of stealing Reservation land. Though clearly an Indian-hating bigot, King manages to make a plausible case of "just following orders" until confronted by Ulzana's wife Chatha. King had raped the woman, beaten her and left her to die in the wilderness. Ulzana tells Santana to finish off the witnesses. Maria pleads for Ulzana to take her with him, since she is one of his people; when he refuses, despising her for having sold herself to a white man, she grabs a knife and is shot. Chatha faints, giving Nora a chance to slip a knife to Culhane. Ulzana takes King out, ties him to a fence, and begins lashing him with a bull-whip, intending to whip him to death. Back inside, Santana dawdles too long over the killing and Culhane kills him with a knife-throw and goes to rescue King. While Culhane is engaged in fisticuffs with Ulzana and Nachita, Nora frees King. King promptly shoots Ulzana, Culhane grapples with him for the rifle, and King is shot dead. Culhane gives the wounded Ulzana and Chatha time to get away before reporting the incident, and pretends to the marshal that he didn't know who they were.

Notes: Definitely one of the most despicable heavies Kelley was ever given.
Dead Again: Shot while tussling for control of a rifle; dies with a surprised look on his face.

Sources: viewing; Brooks & Marsh

1959 WALT DISNEY PRESENTS:
The Nine Lives of Elfego Baca:
“Mustang Man, Mustang Maid"

Role: ** Silas Morgan (Bigoted storekeeper)
Episode: #8 (of 10) Airdate: 11/20/59
Commercial Recording: None known

As Silas Morgan, Nine Lives of Elfego Baca

Series Notes: ABC; 60m; color; 1954-?
The ten-episode Elfego Baca series recounted the adventures of a Hispanic Tombstone lawyer, and was broadcast on Walt Disney Presents 10/3/59-.
Regulars: Robert Loggia (Elfego Baca)
Guest Cast:

James Coburn (Jack Carter)
Beverly Garland (Susanna)
Arthur Hunnicut (Elias)

Brian Keith (Shadrach)
William Schallert (Deputy Denby)

Episode Summary:
"Mustang Man, Mustang Maid" is the second of two episodes of Elfego Baca concerning the trials and tribulations of a clan of “Mustangers” - a nomadic group that moved west after the war and makes their living by breaking mustangs. In the previous episode, the Mustangers decide to settle near Pecos City, but the townspeople there consider them undesirables and try to stop them. The Mustangers have hired Baca to help them file for homesteads.
As Part 2 takes up, the betrothed and entertainingly quarrelsome Mustanger couple Susanna and Shadrach try to go shopping in Silas' store. He refuses to serve them, afraid of alienating his more prosperous customers. This results in a fine Disney free-for-all with dry goods flying everywhere and many of them landing on Silas' head. Shadrach ends up in jail but Baca bails him out and confronts Silas over the incident, threatening legal action. Some of the local hot-head cowboys, led by Jack Carter, destroy the Mustangers' crops by stampeding animals through their fields; Baca prevents Shadrach from shooting the culprits and instead files legal papers. Carter's men beat Baca up and put him on a stage for somewhere far away, but he wends his way back and an obsequious Silas about falls all over himself to outfit him with new clothes and weapons. Meanwhile, hostilities have grown ever more serious; the cowboys have burned down the Mustangers' homes and Carter has killed Josh. Baca and the hitherto unhelpful town sheriff arrest Carter. Back in town, the Mustangers' leader Elias has brought the whole clan in with their wagons to set up camp and prevent any trade until they see justice done. Silas demands that Deputy Denby "do something" but Denby says he just doesn't have it in him to fight a whole camp full of Mustangers. Silas then tries to wheedle Elias into leaving, but Elias berates him for being both a bigot and a coward. The sheriff and Baca arrive with their prisoner. The sheriff assures the Mustangers their trade will be welcome in town, they agree to go home, and Baca catches a stage to his next case.

Notes:
Rather a change of pace for Kelley, playing the cowardly comic relief.
For Trekkers:
William Schallert (Denby) played Nilz Barris in "The Trouble with Tribbles."

Sources: viewing; Brooks & Marsh

1959 RICHARD DIAMOND: “The Adjustor”

Role: ** Kenneth Porter (Double-crossed husband)
Episode: 4.10 Airdate: 12/7/59
Commercial Recording: None known

As Ken Porter, Richard Diamond: "The Adjustor"

Series Notes: CBS; 30m; b/w; 1957-1960; 51 episodes
Adventures of a NYC cop turned private eye. Syndicated as Call Mr. D
Regulars:
David Janssen (Richard Diamond); "Sam" - never-seen sexy answering service operator
Guest Cast:

Dick Foran (David Steele)
Dabbs Greer (Scooter Jaffe)

Nancy Valentine (Nancy Porter)

Episode Summary:
Ex-con Scooter Jaffe delivers money and a handgun to Kenneth Porter (Kelley), who was supposed to have drowned in a boating accident the previous year. Porter looks very sinister as he tells Scooter, "I've been dead for a year. It's lonely down there. I'm taking company back with me." Porter's wife Nancy collected on the life insurance, and Jaffe offers to sell proof of the fraud to insurance agent David Steele. Steele brings Diamond along to meet with Jaffe; Jaffe is displeased by Diamond's presence and tells Steele to act fast because he can sell his information elsewhere - presumably to the "widow," whom Diamond and Steele now visit. Diamond upsets Steele by accusing Nancy of fraud. Diamond receives a midnight phone call warning him off the case and in the morning Jaffe's body is delivered to Diamond. Back at Jaffe's apartment, Diamond encounters Porter. Porter is rather put out that his wife failed to meet up with him abroad as planned after receiving the insurance money, and admits the fraud but denies killing Jaffe. He locks Diamond in another room and goes off, presumably to wreak vengeance on the wife and her lover. By the time Diamond gets out, Sam reports that contrary to what Steele had told Diamond, Porter's company is almost bankrupt. Diamond concludes that Steele was the boyfriend. Diamond races over to Mrs. Porter's and arrives in time to hear shots and find Steele standing over Ken and Nancy's bodies, saying that Porter had already killed Nancy when he arrived, and would have killed him but for a momentary distraction that enabled him to get the gun. Diamond accuses Steele of being in on the fraud and murdering Jaffe and the Porters to eliminate witnesses. Cornered, Steele offers Diamond a cut, then goes for a gun; Diamond shoots first and kills Steele.

Dead Again: Gunned down at his wife's home by her greedy lover.

Sources:viewing; Brooks & Marsh

1959 MACKENZIE'S RAIDERS:
“Son of the Hawk”

Role: *** Charles Barrons (Bad-ass outlaw)
Episode: ? Airdate: ?
(listed on Classic TV Archive website episode guide as #22, with unofficial title "The Avenger")
Commercial Recording: None known

Series Notes: Syndicated; 30m; b/w; 1958-1959; 39 episodes
Based on the historical Colonel Ranald Mackenzie at Fort Clark, Texas and his campaign to subdue marauding bandits from over the border.
Regulars: Richard Carlson (Ranald Mackenzie)
Guest Cast: (Roles not named in credits)
Allen B. Breneman, John Stephenson, Joan Tompkins, Jack Ging, Riley Hill.

Episode Summary:
In 1873 Charles Barrons (Kelley), who was court-martialed by Colonel Mackenzie and had escaped from prison 6 years before, is carrying out a vendetta against Fort Clark from over the Rio Grande, killing any soldiers he catches. He is going by the name El Halcon, The Hawk. When he is reported to have attacked a civilian couple, the Taylors (in town to open a store), Mackenzie investigates and finds that Barrons was previously married to Mrs. Taylor and had come for his son John. The Taylors and John move to the Fort for security. John believes his father to be a hero, hates Mr. Taylor and is wishing to run off to join Barrons. Barrons and his henchman come back for John and Barrons roughs up a neighbor to find out where the Taylors are, then burns down the house in a fit of pique. He scales the fort, kills the sentry with his trademark falcon-headed knife, and escapes with his son. The Raiders go after him. John sees them, warns his father, and they escape, Barrons taking John on the horse with him so the Raiders can’t shoot him. John falls off and Barrons deserts him. Mackenzie catches him, wins the ensuing fist fight, and takes him prisoner.

Notes:
Kelley gets to be a very nasty, peevish villain in this one, with lots of knife-throwing.

Sources: viewing; Brooks & Marsh