Mason Alan Dinehart

Mason Alan Dinehart (born 1936) He is also known as Mason Alan Dinehart III, Alan Dinehart III, and Mase Dinehart.

Family background In 1936, he legally changed his name to Mason Alan Dinehart, the same name as his father, so that his younger son from the second marriage could be known as Mason Alan Dinehart III. This name change created confusion because the senior Dinehart's first son from his first marriage was already Alan Dinehart Jr, the former animation and voice director for Hanna-Barbera.

By the time Dinehart left The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp, Gene Barry had already assumed for nearly a year the role of a more mature Masterson, one in his early forties, in the NBC western series Bat Masterson. Some viewers complained of the change in actors portraying Bat Masterson,