Roy Jenson

Roy Cameron Jenson (also spelled Jensen; February 9, 1927 – April 24, 2007) was a Canadian-American actor, stunt performer, and Canadian football player.

Early life and education Jenson was born in Calgary, Alberta, and moved to Los Angeles with his family as a child. His brother was visual effects artist George Jenson. He was a lumberjack and a construction worker before he joined the United States Navy during World War II.

After the war he graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles, where he was a member of the Delta Tau Delta fraternity and played football.

Professional football career Jenson was selected during the 1951 CFL draft, taken by the Calgary Stampeders. He played five seasons with the Stampeders as a Guard. He was a CFL All-Star in 1954. While still playing for the Stampeders, Jenson was recruited as a stuntman for the Calgary-shot Hollywood film River of No Return. He retired at the end of the 1957 season.

Acting career

Film After retiring from football he moved back to Los Angeles, where he found regular work as a stunt performer. Following a well-received role as a thug in Harper (1966), starring Paul Newman, he began to work regularly as an actor.

As a stuntman, he notably doubled for Robert Mitchum, and as the thug Puddler in Harper, he worked frequently in television in the 1970s and 1980s.

He also appeared in 1967 as “Dace Edwards” (a ranch hand) in S3E6's “Ladykiller” on the TV Western Series The Big Valley.

He also appeared in episodes 11 and 12 of Batman in 1966, was the English newspaper printer in Season 5, Episode 136–2 of Bonanza, appeared in an episode of The Silent Force in 1970, and in 1976 guest-starred in an episode of Gibbsville.

Personal life Jenson was married twice. His second marriage was to Serbian actress Marina Petrova. He had three children, including actor Sasha Jenson.

Filmography Film

Westward the Women (1951) – (uncredited) Operation Secret (1952) – Michel (uncredited) Fighter Attack (1953) – German Soldier (uncredited) Demetrius and the Gladiators (1954) – Gladiator (uncredited) The Caine Mutiny (1954) – Sailor (uncredited) Broken Lance (1954) – Bailiff (uncredited) The Harder They Fall (1956) – Fighter (uncredited) Hell on Devil's Island (1957) – Bruiser No. 1 (uncredited) Operation Mad Ball (1957) – Hospital Guard (uncredited) The Missouri Traveler (1958) – Simpson Buchanan Rides Alone (1958) – Hamp (uncredited) The Last Hurrah (1958) – Fighter (uncredited) Ride Lonesome (1959) – Outlaw (uncredited) Al Capone (1959) – Customer (uncredited) Warlock (1959) – Hasty (uncredited) Career (1959) – Jeep Soldier (uncredited) The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond (1960) – Bodyguard (uncredited) Bells Are Ringing (1960) – Cop (uncredited) 13 Ghosts (1960) – Ghost (uncredited) Let No Man Write My Epitaph (1960) – Whitey (uncredited) North to Alaska (1960) – Ole – Logger Punched by Sam (uncredited) Flaming Star (1960) – Matt Holcom (uncredited) The Wackiest Ship in the Army (1960) – Shark Bait – USS Echo Crewman (uncredited) The Fiercest Heart (1961) – Boer (uncredited) Atlantis, the Lost Continent (1961) – Guard (uncredited) Marines, Let's Go (1961) – Sailor (uncredited) The George Raft Story (1961) – Biggie (uncredited) Confessions of an Opium Eater (1962) – Boat Crewman (uncredited) Five Weeks in a Balloon (1962) – Guard (uncredited) How the West Was Won (1962) – Henchman (uncredited) Law of the Lawless (1964) – Roy Johnson Stage to Thunder Rock (1964) – Harkins 36 Hours (1964) – Soldier (uncredited) Baby the Rain Must Fall (1965) – Tough Patron (uncredited) Black Spurs (1965) – Ambusher (uncredited) The Great Race (1965) – Saloon Brawler (uncredited) Morituri (1965) – Merchant Marine (uncredited) Blindfold (1965) – Goon (uncredited) Apache Uprising (1965) – Sgt. Hogan Daniel Boone: Frontier Trail Rider (1966) – Cash Doyle Our Man Flint (1966) – Gridley – a Guard (uncredited) Harper (1966) – Puddler Smoky (1966) – Ranchhand (uncredited) Red Tomahawk (1967) – Prospector #2 Hostile Guns (1967) – Troublemaking Spectator Waterhole #3 (1967) – Doc Quinlen Will Penny (1967) – Boetius Sullivan The Bandits (1967) – Josh Racker The Ambushers (1967) – Karl The Helicopter Spies (1968) – Carl Jigsaw (1968) – Arnie 5 Card Stud (1968) – Mace Jones Un extraño en la casa (1968) – Walter Number One (1969) – Roy Nelson Paint Your Wagon (1969) – Hennessey Halls of Anger (1970) – Harry Greco Fools (1970) – Man in park Sometimes a Great Notion (1970) – Howie Elwood Big Jake (1971) – Gunman at Bathhouse in Escondero (uncredited) Brute Corps (1971) – Quinn Journey Through Rosebud (1972) – Park Ranger Cry for Me, Billy (1972) – Blacksmith The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (1972) – Outlaw The Getaway (1972) – Cully Soylent Green (1973) – Donovan Dillinger (1973) – Samuel Cowley The Way We Were (1973) – Army Captain The Outfit (1973) – Al The Treasure of Jamaica Reef (1974) – Chief Killer (uncredited) Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974) – Dunlop Chinatown (1974) – Claude Mulvihill Nightmare Honeymoon (1974) – Sandy 99 and 44/100% Dead (1974) – Jake Breakout (1975) – Sheriff Spencer The Wind and the Lion (1975) – Admiral Chadwick Framed (1975) – Haskins Breakheart Pass (1975) – Chris Banion Helter Skelter (1976) – Punchy The Duchess and the Dirtwater Fox (1976) – Bloodworth The Car (1977) – Ray Mott Telefon (1977) – Doug Stark The Gauntlet (1977) – Biker Every Which Way but Loose (1978) – Woody (Black Widow) Tom Horn (1980) – Lee Mendenhour Foolin' Around (1980) – Blue Any Which Way You Can (1980) – Moody (Black Widow) Demonoid (1981) – Mark Baines Bustin' Loose (1981) – Klan Leader Honkytonk Man (1982) – Dub Red Dawn (1984) – Mr. Morris Day of the Survivalist (1986) The Night Stalker (1987) – Cook Deadly Stranger (1988) – Charlie Sudamerica, matar o morir (1989) Solar Crisis (1990) – Bartender The Set-Up (1995) – Older Guard

Television

Not for Hire (1959) – episode – The Hunting License Wagon Train (1959) – episode – The Estaban Zamora Story – Watkins (uncredited) Peter Gunn (1959) – episode – The Lederer Story – Dutch Wagon Train (1959) – episode – The Greenhorn Story – Bully (uncredited) Yancy Derringer (1959) – episode – Longhair – Capt. MacBain (credited as “Roy Jensen”) Bonanza (1959) – episode – The Magnificent Adah – Sledge (uncredited) Peter Gunn (1960) – episode – The Long Green Kill – Frank Garrett Perry Mason (1961) – episode – The Case of the Malicious Mariner – Officer Peter Gunn (1961) – episode – The Murder Bond – Regan Bonanza (1963) – episode – The Prime of Life – Jesse Wade Rawhide (1964) – episode – Incident of the Odyssey – Bit Part (uncredited) The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1964) – episode – The Vulcan Affair – Assassin (uncredited) Bonanza (1965) – episode – Five Sundowns to Sunup – Gang Member (uncredited) Bonanza (1965) – episode – The Brass Box – Harry Daniel Boone (1965) – episode – The Trek – Jensen Laredo (1966) – episode – That's Noway, Thataway – Brawler (uncredited) T.H.E. Cat Episode 1 (1966) – Stavic T.H.E. Cat Episode 10 (1966) – Moonface I Spy (1966) – episode – It's All Done with Mirrors – Tate Batman (1966) – episodes – A Riddle a Day Keeps the Riddler Away & When the Rat's Away, the Mice Will Play – Whitey Daniel Boone (1966) – episode – The High Cumberland: Parts 1 & 2 – Cash Doyle Gunsmoke (1966) – episode – The Goldtakers – Troy The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1967) – episode – The Prince of Darkness Affair: Parts I & II – Carl The Invaders (1967) – episode – The Mutation – Alien #1 I Spy (1967) – episode – Magic Mirror – Roschovsky The Andy Griffith Show (1967) – episode – Andy's Investment – Trooper Leroy Miller Hondo (1967) – episode – Hondo and the Judas – Bob Ford Mannix (1967) – episode – Catalogue of Sins – Duane Toohey The Virginian (1968) – episode – The Storm Gate – Lueders Star Trek (1968) – episode – The Omega Glory – Cloud William Mission: Impossible (1968) – episode – The Killing – Connie Daniel Boone (1968) – episode – Hero's Welcome – Luke I Spy (1968) – episode – Tag, You're It – Abrams Gunsmoke (1968) – episode – Railroad – Larnen Gunsmoke (1968) – episode – The Victim – Crow Bonanza (1969) – episode – The Wish – Craig Daniel Boone (1969) – episode – The Road to Freedom – Crane Hawkins The High Chaparral (1970) – episode – The Guns of Johnny Rondo – Jed Tate Gunsmoke (1970) – episode – The Scavengers – Rath Gunsmoke (1970) – episode – The Badge/II – Keller The F.B.I. (1970) – episode – The Dealer – Lobb McCoy Bearcats! (1971) – pilot movie – Powderkeg – Briggs Nichols (1971) – episode – The One Eyed Mule's Time Has Come – Bull Mannix (1971) – episode – The Man Outside – First Man Bonanza (1972) – episode – Forever – Mr. Hanley Cannon (1972) – episode – Murder by Moonlight – Swede Kung Fu (1972) – episode – Pilot – Fuller Kung Fu (1973) – episode – Superstition – Rupp Movin' On (1974) – episode – In Tandem – Attendant (uncredited) Mannix (1974) – episode – Trap for a Pigeon – Ozzie Gunsmoke (1974) – episode – The Colonel – Jeff Higgins Kojak (1976) – episode – Dead Again – Frank Kelton Little House on the Prairie (1976) – episode – The Bully Boys – George Galender Barnaby Jones (1976) – episode – Silent Vendetta – Hastings How the West Was Won (1977) – episode – Episode #1.1 – Sergeant Macklin Quincy, M.E. (1977) – episode – The Hero Syndrome – Jake Hennafy The Rockford Files (1977) – episodes – The Trees, the Bees and T.T. Flowers: Parts 1 & 2 – Winchell Charlie's Angels (1978) – episode – Mother Angel – Max Vega$ (1979) – episode – Classic Connection – First Assistant Fantasy Island (1979) – episode – Goose for the Gander/The Stuntman – Snuffy Harris How the West Was Won (1979) – TV miniseries – episode – The Slavers – Trako The Dukes of Hazzard (1980) – episode – The Great Santa Claus Chase – Lacey Simon & Simon (1982) – episode – The Hottest Ticket in Town – Nelson Bret Maverick (1982) – episode – Dateline: Sweetwater – Monte Quincy M.E. (1983) – episode – Guilty Until Proven Innocent – Dade Simon & Simon (1983) – episode – D.J., D.O.A. – Tony Magnum, P.I. (1986) – episode – One Picture Is Worth – Jack Wilkins Knight Rider (1986) – episode – The Scent of Roses – Purdue Kung Fu: The Movie (1986) – TV Movie – Warehouse Foreman Dallas (1986) – episode – Return to Camelot: Part 1 Simon & Simon (1987) – episode – Desperately Seeking Dacody – Trucker Fred Simon & Simon (1987) – episode – Tanner, P.I. for Hire – Artie Pike Police Story: The Watch Commander (1988) – TV movie – Kearns

Stuntman Note: Jenson went uncredited as a Stuntman in all the films he did.

Samson and Delilah (1949) The Restless Gun (1957) – TV series – unknown episodes – Credited The Buccaneer (1958) Warlock (1959) Flaming Star (1960) North to Alaska (1960) Atlantis, the Lost Continent (1961) How the West Was Won (1962) McLintock! (1963) The Great Escape (1963) I Spy (1965) – TV Series – unknown episodes – Credited Shenandoah (1965) The Rounders (1965) Camelot (1967) Bonanza (1967) – TV series – episode – False Witness Dillinger (1973)