Roger Mobley

Roger Lance Mobley (born January 16, 1949) is a former child actor in the 1950s and 1960s who made more than 118 television appearances and co-starred in nine feature films in a nine-year career. He served in the Green Berets (46th Special Forces Company) during the Vietnam War, and was subsequently a police officer in Beaumont, Texas. and Charlene V. Mobley (1924–2012). Lance Mobley, as the father was known, was born in Centralia in southern Illinois, and a retired pipefitter at the time of his death in a hospital in Beaumont, Texas. Charlene and he married in 1939, when he was 17, and she was 15. The couple moved from Indiana in the early 1950s to Pecos in Reeves County in West Texas before they headed in 1957 to Whittier, near Los Angeles.

Acting

Mobley (pronounced "Mawbley" ) sang with his older brother and sister in The Little Mobley Trio in Texas where the family then lived. After moving to California when Mobley was six or seven, the trio appeared on the Ted Mack's Original Amateur Hour with disappointing results.

They were spotted, though, by Lola Moore, then the pre-eminent agent for child actors, who expressed an interest in Roger and arranged his audition for the part of eight-year-old Homer "Packy" Lambert in the NBC Saturday-morning Western television series, Fury, starring Peter Graves, Bobby Diamond, and William Fawcett. He appeared in 38 episodes of the series. In 1959 he appeared on Wagon Train S2 E36 "The Rodney Lawrence Story" in which he portrayed the title character as a young boy. The adult Rodney was played by Dean Stockwell.

In 1964, after having been impressed with Mobley's performance as Gustav in Emil and the Detectives, Walt Disney signed him to the title role in the highly acclaimed and Emmy-nominated "Adventures of Gallegher" serials for the Wonderful World of Color. Gallegher is an amateur sleuth newspaper reporter, a character created by author Richard Harding Davis.

The Runaway Felipe Roberto Film

Buckskin Noah Wesley Episode: "Mr. Rush's Secretary" (with Jane Darwell) Bachelor Father Little Leaguer Episode: "Bentley Goes to Washington" (with Whit Bissell, Sue Ane Langdon, and Flip Mark) 1959—1963 Wagon Train Multiple roles Eight episodes 1960 Hawaiian Eye Stevie Hughes Episode: "With This Ring" (with Paul Richards and Ruta Lee) 1960—1961 The Detectives Boy and Paul Two episodes: "A Barrel Full of Monkeys" and "Shuttle"

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre Little Martin Episode: "The Scar" (with Lew Ayres, Mort Mills, Patricia Barry, and Alan Hale, Jr.) The Donna Reed Show Tony Martin, Jr. Episode: "Tony Martin Visits" (with Tony Martin) Outlaws Davey Morgan Episode: "Blind Spot" (with Gary Merrill) National Velvet Bradley Walton, III Episode: "The Riding Mistress" (with Richard Deacon and Beverly Lunsford) The Loretta Young Show Henry Sands, Jr. Episode: "Not in Our Stars" (with Loretta Young and H. M. Wynant) Gunsmoke Thad Ferrin Episode: "Miss Kitty" (with Frank Sutton, Harold J. Stone, and Dabbs Greer) Cain's Hundred Cort Cortner Episode: "The Fixer" 1961—1962 87th Precinct Danny and Lane Conners, respectively Episodes: "Lady Killer" and "A Bullet for Katie" 1961 and 1963 Death Valley Days Little Matt Denby and Matt, respectively Episodes: "The Madstone" (with Myron Healey) and "Deadly Decision" (with James Caan) 1961 and 1965 Dr. Kildare Jamie Carroll and Alan Burnside, respectively Episodes: "Hit and Run" and "The Time Buyers"

Straightaway Dale Episode: "A Moment in the Sun" (with Robert Blake) The Tall Man David Harper Episode: "St. Louis Woman" (with Jan Clayton and Russ Conway) Alcoa Premiere Lonnie Dunlap "Second Chance" (with Earl Holliman, Andrew Prine, Cliff Robertson, Jacqueline Scott, Roy Barcroft, and Don "Red" Barry) Frontier Circus Andy Jukes Episode: "Mighty Like Rogue" (with J. Pat O'Malley, Jena Engstrom, and Joby Baker) The Law and Mr. Jones Tommy Pierce Episode: "The Boy Who Said 'No'" (with Russell Johnson and Eve McVeagh) The Virginian Homer Tatum Episode: "Throw a Long Rope" (with fellow guest stars John Anderson, Ted Knight, and Jacqueline Scott) The Wide Country (series spun off from Alcoa Premiere episode above) Billy-Joe Perry Episode: "Journey Down a Dusty Road" (with Wallace Ford) Cheyenne Gabe Morse and Billy Zachary Episodes "The Idol" and "Sweet Sam" Going My Way Mike Corbin Episode: "Ask Me No Questions" (with Kevin McCarthy and Joanne Linville) Empire Kieran Haskell Episode: "When the Gods Laugh" (with James Gregory) 1962—1963 Our Man Higgins Jamie and Jamie MacDermott, respectively Two episodes: "Golf Partner" and "The Royal and Ancient Game" (both with Roy Roberts)

Route 66 Joby Paxton Episode: "Somehow It Gets to Be Tomorrow" (with Martin Balsam) I'm Dickens, He's Fenster Ralph Episode: "Number One Son" The Dakotas Christopher Deus Episode: "Feud at Snake River"

Insight The Urchin Episode: "The Urchin" Ben Casey Paul Hamilton, Jr. Episode: "Keep Out of Reach of Adults" (with Richard Kiley and Geraldine Brooks) Destry Toby Brady Episode: "Red Brady's Kid" 1964—1980 Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color Multiple roles 17 episodes 1965 The Farmer's Daughter Alan Page Episode: "Follow the Leader" 1967—1968 Dragnet Audie Fulton and Charles L. Vail, respectively Episodes: "The Big Kids" and "The Big Departure"