Myron Healey

Acting June 8, 1923 (82 years old) December 21, 2005 Petaluma, California, USA

Biography

Myron Daniel Healey was an American actor. He began his career in Hollywood, California, during the early 1940s in bit parts and minor supporting roles at various studios. Healey's film debut came in 1943 with Young Ideas. Returning to film work after the war, Healey played villains and henchmen in low-budget western films. He also did some screenwriting. In the post-war period he was often seen in westerns from Monogram Pictures, often starring Johnny Mack Brown, Jimmy Wakely and Whip Wilson. In the 1950s Healey moved to more "bad guy" roles in other films, including the Bomba and Jungle Jim series, crime dramas and more westerns. He portrayed the bandit Bob Dalton in an episode of the syndicated television series Stories of the Century, starring and narrated by Jim Davis. In 1955, he played a "good guy" for a change as Phyllis Coates' partner in the 1955 Republic Pictures serial Panther Girl of the Kongo. Healey appeared seven times as Capt. Bandcroft in The Adventures of Kit Carson. Healey played the outlaw Johnny Ringo in the western television series Tombstone Territory, with Pat Conway as Sheriff Clay Hollister, in the episode "Johnny Ringo's Last Ride". He appeared in an episode of the children's western series Buckskin, which aired on NBC from 1958-59. He was a semi-regular on programs produced by Gene Autry's Flying A production company: Annie Oakley, Buffalo Bill, Jr., The Range Rider, and The Gene Autry Show. He also guest-starred on the crime drama with a modern western setting, Sheriff of Cochise, starring John Bromfield, and in the western set in the 1840s, Riverboat, starring Darren McGavin. He also appeared in an episode of the second season of Zorro. Between 1960 and 1963, Healey appeared five times on the NBC western Laramie, starring John Smith and Robert Fuller. He appeared ten times on another NBC western, The Virginian, and four times on Laredo. From 1959 to 1961, he played Maj. Peter Horry, top aide to Leslie Nielsen, in the miniseries Swamp Fox on Walt Disney Presents, based on the American Revolutionary War hero Francis Marion. In 1970, Healey appeared as Wardlow in the TV western "The Men From Shiloh" (the rebranded name of The Virginian) in the episode titled "Jenny." Collectively, Healey appeared in some 140 films, including 81 westerns and three serials. Among his non-western pictures, he appeared in at least two horror films: the Americanized version of the Japanese giant-monster movie Varan the Unbelievable and The Incredible Melting Man.

Myron Healey

Biography

Movies 137

Rio Bravo

True Grit

In a Lonely Place

The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes

Journey to Shiloh

The Cheyenne Social Club

Slightly Scarlet

Spider-Man: The Dragon's Challenge

The Incredible Melting Man

The Man from Colorado

Wake of the Red Witch

Knock on Any Door

It Had to Be You

Ladies of the Chorus

The Time of Their Lives

The Shakiest Gun in the West

The Fuller Brush Girl

Mirage

Pulse

Buck Privates Come Home

Cattle Queen of Montana

The Over the Hill Gang

Varan the Unbelievable

You Gotta Stay Happy

The Big Night

The Man from Bitter Ridge

Swing Shift Maisie

Shoot-Out at Medicine Bend

Rage at Dawn

The Other Side of the Mountain: Part II

Escape from Red Rock

Ma Barker's Killer Brood

The Restless Breed

Fighting Lawman

Silver Lode

Roar of the Iron Horse

Pioneer Marshal

Claws

The Kid from Broken Gun

Count Three and Pray

Gunfight in Abilene

Across The Rio Grande

Smoke In The Wind

Convicts 4

Walk a Crooked Mile

Rails Into Laramie

No Sad Songs for Me

Fort Osage

African Manhunt

Mr. Soft Touch

Shadow on the Land

Tennessee's Partner

Silver City

Slightly French

The Hard Man

The Texas Rangers

The First Texan

Son of Belle Starr

Kansas Pacific

Baby Sitters Jitters

Hot News

The Unearthly

Blondie's Big Moment

Hi-Jacked

Ghost Fever

Night Riders of Montana

Air Hostess

Apache Territory

Tall, Dark and Gruesome

Rodeo

Quantrill's Raiders

Short Grass

The Young Guns

I Killed Geronimo

Storm Over Tibet

Lure of the Swamp

Guns Don't Argue