Terry Wilson

Terry W. Wilson (September 3, 1923 – March 30, 1999) was an American actor most noted for his role as "Bill Hawks", the assistant trail master, in all 267 episodes of the NBC and ABC western television series, Wagon Train, which aired from 1957 to 1965.

Military Service Wilson was on active duty from May 1943 to March 1946. His first choice was to join the United States Marine Raiders, but instead he served in the Service Battalion, 7th Service Regiment 5 Division where he was a carpenter and heavy equipment operator with some truck driving. He was deployed on December 6, 1945, via USS Whiteside, which was in Okinawa in December 1945. Wilson was discharged from the U.S. Marine Corps on April 21, 1946, with the rank of Private First Class during World War II.

Life and career Wilson served with the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II. Upon leaving the service, Warner Bros. chose Wilson among a group of athletes to train for the stunt profession with his initial specialties of fistfights and horse work.

Along with McGrath, Wilson appeared in a dance scene as a Texas Ranger and both were in the "wedding party" in the John Wayne/John Ford film The Searchers. In Hondo, Frank McGrath had a speaking part, and Wilson doubled for John Wayne in the knife fight with the Indian Silva.

Wilson and his wife are interred at Pierce Brothers Valley Oaks Memorial Park in Westlake Village in Los Angeles County. They had three children.

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