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Don Dubbins
Actor
Died August 17, 1991 (63 years)
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.
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Filmography
| 1991 | Separate But Equal (TV Series) · as Professor Al Kelly |
| 1986 | Starman (TV Series) · as Frank Radin |
| 1985 | The Fix · as Sheriff Bower |
| 1985 | Stingray (1985) (TV Series) · as David Dearborn |
| 1984 | Murder, She Wrote (TV Series) · as Dr. Charmichael |
| 1984 | Hunter (TV Series) · as John |
| 1984 | Highway to Heaven (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1983 | Hotel (TV Series) · as Jim Mitchell |
| 1982 | Death Wish II · as Mike |
| 1981 | Dynasty (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1981 | Simon & Simon (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1979 | Knots Landing (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1978 | Mork & Mindy (TV Series) · as Secretary General |
| 1977 | The Incredible Hulk (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1977 | Eight is Enough (TV Series) · as Allen |
| 1977 | Fantasy Island (TV Series) · as Dr. Sidney Block |
| 1974 | Petrocelli (TV Series) · as Joseph Bear |
| 1974 | Movin' On (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1974 | The Rockford Files (TV Series) · as Agent Frazee |
| 1974 | The Six Million Dollar Man (TV Series) · as Zack Meesham |
| 1974 | Little House on the Prairie (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1974 | Run, Joe, Run (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1973 | Barnaby Jones (TV Series) · as Bill Hummel |
| 1973 | Police Story (TV Series) · as Farley |
| 1972 | The Hoax · as Sergeant O'Roherty |
| 1972 | The Rookies (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1972 | Kung Fu (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1972 | Banacek (TV Series) · as Sheriff Jessup |
| 1971 | Cannon (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1970 | Run, Simon, Run · as Freddy Tomb |
| 1969 | The Illustrated Man · as Pickard |
| 1969 | The Learning Tree · as Harley Davis, Defense Attorney |
| 1968 | The Mod Squad (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1968 | Adam-12 (TV Series) · as Officer Steve Tyson |
| 1967 | The Invaders (TV Series) · as Wesley J. Sanders |
| 1967 | Mannix (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1967 | Dragnet (TV Series) · as Billy Catcher |
| 1965 | The Big Valley (TV Series) · as Grady Shanks |
| 1965 | Days of Our Lives (TV Series) · as McGraw |
| 1965 | I Dream of Jeannie (TV Series) · as Pete Conway |
| 1965 | The F.B.I. (TV Series) · as Al, the Gas Station Owner |
| 1964 | Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (TV Series) · as C.P.O. Beach |
| 1963 | The Prize · as Ivar Cramer, Light Henchman |
| 1963 | The Fugitive (TV Series) · as McCaffrey |
| 1963 | Kraft Suspense Theatre (TV Series) · as Corporal Shale |
| 1963 | Petticoat Junction (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1962 | The Virginian (TV Series) · as Albi |
| 1960 | Stagecoach West (TV Series) · as Ken Rawlins |
| 1960 | National Velvet (TV Series) · as Willoughby |
| 1960 | Checkmate (TV Series) · as Paul McGill |
| 1960 | Route 66 (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1959 | Rawhide (TV Series) · as Billy Carter |
| 1959 | Men into Space (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1959 | |
| 1959 | One Step Beyond (TV Series) · as First Mate Walter Blake |
| 1959 | The Twilight Zone (TV Series) · as Peter Kirby |
| 1958 | From the Earth to the Moon · as Ben Sharpe |
| 1958 | 77 Sunset Strip (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1958 | Shirley Temple's Storybook (TV Series) · as Prince Peter |
| 1958 | The Rifleman (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1958 | Wanted: Dead or Alive (TV Series) · as Randy Holleran |
| 1957 | The D.I. · as Pvt. Owens |
| 1957 | M Squad (TV Series) · as Stick Wilson |
| 1957 | Perry Mason (TV Series) · as Hartley Elliott |
| 1957 | Sugarfoot (TV Series) · as Vic Bradley |
| 1956 | These Wilder Years · as Mark |
| 1956 | Tribute to a Bad Man · as Steve Miller |
| 1956 | Zane Grey Theater (TV Series) · as Lt. William Homeyer |
| 1955 | Gunsmoke (TV Series) · as Lootie |
| 1955 | Star Tonight (TV Series) · as actor |
| 1955 | Alfred Hitchcock Presents (TV Series) · as Philip Pryor |
| 1954 | Climax! (TV Series) · as Chris Barker |
| 1954 | The Caine Mutiny · as Seaman 1st Class Urban (uncredited) |
| 1953 | From Here to Eternity · as Pvt. Friday Clark (uncredited) |