Stacy Harris

Stacy Harris (July 26, 1918 – March 13, 1973) was an American actor with hundreds of film and television appearances. His name is sometimes misspelled Stacey Harris.

Early years Harris was born on July 26, 1918, in Big Timber, Quebec, Canada; as an infant he and his family moved to Seattle, Washington.

Harris was an Army pilot whose leg was injured in a plane crash less than six months after he enlisted in 1937. That injury prevented him from re-enlisting when World War II began, but he served with the American Field Service as an ambulance driver and with the French Foreign Legion as a dispatch rider. Before becoming an actor, he held a variety of jobs, including newspaper reporter, boxer, sailor, and artist.

Radio Harris was known for his role as agent Jim Taylor on ABC Radio's This Is Your FBI. In 1946, Jerry Devine, that program's producer-director, told newspaper columnist Jack O'Brian: "Stacy has just the sort of voice I need for the quiet authority of the special agent on my show. On top of that, he's a good actor, and it's a combination on radio which can't be beat."

His other roles in radio programs included Batman in The Adventures of Superman, and Ted Blades in The Strange Romance of Evelyn Winters. He was also a member of the casts of Confession, Dragnet, Pepper Young's Family, Destiny's Trails, and Frontier Gentleman.

Television A partial list of Harris's roles in television programs includes: Year Title Role Notes1951-1953 Doorway to Danger Agent Doug Carter 1953 Four Star Playhouse Frank Le Beau Season 2 Episode 3: "A Place of His Own" (aired on October 8, 1953) 1955-1957 N.O.P.D. Detective Victor Beaujac 18 episodes1956 Four Star Playhouse Troy Season 4 Episode 22: "To Die at Midnight" 1957-1961 The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp Mayor John P. Clum 23 episodes1959 Rawhide Riggs Season 1 Episode 12: "Incident of the Chubasco"1960 Bonanza Regis Season 1 Episode 18: "A House Divided"1961 Bonanza Colonel Clinton Wilcox Season 3 Episode 3: "The Honor of Cochise"1961 Rawhide Sheriff Season 4 Episode 2: "The Sendoff"1961 Alfred Hitchcock Presents Cullen Season 7 Episode 8: "The Old Pro" 1963 Bonanza Mr. Corman Season 5 Episode 4: "Twilight Town"1963 The Alfred Hitchcock Hour District Attorney Season 1 Episode 15: "The Thirty-First of February"1964 The Alfred Hitchcock Hour Lawyer Season 2 Episode 18: "The Final Escape" 1965 Bonanza Martin Melviney Season 6 Episode 16: "The Far, Far Better Thing"1965 Bonanza Judge Simpson Season 7 Episode 12: "Five Sundowns to Sunup"1968 Adam-12 Jim Ralston Season 1 Episode 15: "Jimmy Eisley's Dealing Smack"1968 Adam-12 Dr. Edward Lane Season 1 Episode 20: "I'm Still a Cop"1969 Bonanza Harry Teague Season 11 Episode 5: "Anatomy of a Lynching"1970 Adam-12 Carl Kegan Season 3 Episode 12: "Sign of The Twins"1971 Bearcats! Emmet Grosvenor Season 1 Episode 11: "The Big Guns"1971 O'Hara, U.S. Treasury Ben Hazzard Season 1 Pilot Episode: O'Hara, U.S. Treasury"1971 O'Hara, U.S. Treasury Ben Hazzard Season 1 Episode 1: "Operation Big Store"1971 O'Hara, U.S. Treasury Ben Hazzard Season 1 Episode 10: "Operation: Hijack"1972-1974 Return to Peyton Place Leslie Harrington

Harris played varied characters, often villains, on various programs produced by Jack Webb's Mark VII Limited, such as Dragnet, Noah's Ark, GE True, Adam-12, and Emergency!.

Harris guest starred in the religion anthology series Crossroads and played a gangster in the 1956 time travel television episode of the anthology series Conflict entitled "Man from 1997" opposite James Garner and Charles Ruggles. Thereafter, he appeared as Whit Lassiter in the 1958 episode "The Man Who Waited" of the NBC children's western series Buckskin. He guest starred as Colonel Nicholson in the 1959 episode "A Night at Trapper's Landing" of the NBC western series Riverboat starring Darren McGavin.

Harris also appeared in three syndicated series, Whirlybirds, starring Kenneth Tobey, Sheriff of Cochise and U.S. Marshal, both with John Bromfield, and as the character Ed Miller in the episode "Mystery of the Black Stallion" of the western serious Frontier Doctor starring Rex Allen. He was cast in two episodes of the David Janssen crime drama Richard Diamond, Private Detective.

Harris in 1958 portrayed Max Bowen in "The Hemp Tree" and in 1959 as Abel Crowder in "Rough Track to Payday", episodes of the CBS western series, The Texan, starring Rory Calhoun.

In 1960, Harris was cast as a drummer named Cramer in the episode "Fair Game" of the ABC western series The Rebel starring Nick Adams. Harris appeared in three episodes of CBS's Perry Mason, playing the role of murder victim Frank Curran in "The Case of the Married Moonlighter" (1958), Perry's client Frank Brooks in "The Case of the Lost Last Act" (1959), and murderer Frank Brigham in "The Case of the Crying Comedian" in 1961. In 1963 Harris appeared as a Gambler on the TV western The Virginian in the episode titled "If You Have Tears". In 1969, Harris played the corrupt and cowardly Mayor Ackerson in the episode "The Oldest Law" of Death Valley Days.

Death Harris died March 13, 1973, at the age of 54 in Los Angeles, California, of an apparent heart attack.

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