Don Dubbins
Acting • Born 1928-06-28 – Died 1991-08-17
Biography
Don Dubbins (June 28, 1928 - August 17, 1991), originally Donald Dubbins, was an American actor of film and television who in his early career usually played younger military roles, particularly in such classic pictures as From Here to Eternity (1953) and The Caine Mutiny (1954). Screen giant James Cagney took a liking to Dubbins and procured roles for him in two 1956 films, These Wilder Years and Tribute to a Bad Man. In the former, Dubbins played Cagney's long-lost adopted son; in the latter, he was in a romantic triangle with cattle boss Cagney for the affections of a senorita. In 1957, Dubbins played a callow young United States Marines private in Jack Webb's The D.I. In 1958, Dubbins was cast in From the Earth to the Moon, a science fiction picture based on Jules Verne's novel of the same title. As Dubbins matured, he appeared in such films as The Prize in 1963, The Illustrated Man (based on a Ray Bradbury novel) in 1969, and Death Wish II in 1982. Dubbins appeared in many television roles, including four episodes each of CBS's Gunsmoke, Perry Mason and Rawhide in Season 1/14 Incident of the Dog Days. In 1960, Dubbins appeared in the episode "Elegy" of CBS's The Twilight Zone. That same year he guest starred with Mel Torme in NBC's crime drama Dan Raven starring Skip Homeier. In 1961, he played a deputy who inadvertently killed his outlaw-brother in an episode of Stagecoach West, a Four Star Television series on ABC. He later appeared on the CBS anthology The Lloyd Bridges Show, and with Walter Brennan in ABC's The Guns of Will Sonnett. He appeared in the 1965 pilot episode of I Dream of Jeannie, and returned for one of the series' final episodes (as a different character) in 1970. In 1966, Dubbins appeared with Robert F. Simon as guest stars in the episode "Long Journey to Leavenworth" in the NBC series The Road West, starring Barry Sullivan, Andrew Prine, and Glenn Corbett. Dubbins appeared twice on NBC's Little House on the Prairie with Michael Landon and five times on CBS's Barnaby Jones crime drama with Buddy Ebsen. Dubbins appeared in several episodes of Jack Webb's Dragnet 1967 series on NBC. Dubbins played the part of Billy Carter in "The Incident of the Dog Days" on Rawhide. Dubbins' last TV roles were in episodes of CBS's Knots Landing (1979), ABC's Dynasty (1981), and NBC's Highway to Heaven (1984). The Brooklyn-born Dubbins retired to Greenville, South Carolina, where his last acting was at the Warehouse Theater as Willy Loman in Death of a Salesman. He succumbed to cancer at the age of sixty-three. Description above from the Wikipedia article Don Dubbins, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
99 credits
The Prize
Movie • 1963
Ivar Cramer, Light Henchman
Run, Simon, Run
Movie • 1970
Freddie Tomb
The D.I.
Movie • 1957
Pvt. Owens
The Illustrated Man
Movie • 1969
Pickard
From the Earth to the Moon
Movie • 1958
Ben Sharpe
These Wilder Years
Movie • 1956
Mark
Tribute to a Bad Man
Movie • 1956
Steve Miller
Outrage!
Movie • 1973
Mr. Werner
Enchanted Island
Movie • 1958
Tom
Gunfight in Abilene
Movie • 1967
Rod Sprague
From Here to Eternity
Movie • 1953
Pvt. Friday Clark - Bugler (uncredited)
Nightmare at 43 Hillcrest
Movie • 1974
Sanford Bates
The Caine Mutiny
Movie • 1954
Seaman 1st Class Urban (uncredited)
From Here to Eternity
Movie • 1953
Pvt. Friday Clark (uncredited)
The Hoax
Movie • 1972
Sergeant O'Roherty
Death Wish II
Movie • 1982
Mike
The Learning Tree
Movie • 1969
Harley Davis, Defense Attorney
Separate But Equal
Movie • 1991
Professor Al Kelly
The Fix
Movie • 1984
Sheriff Bower
The Great Adventure
TV • 1963
Jason Chiles
Movin' On
TV • 1974
77 Sunset Strip
TV • 1958
The Rookies
TV • 1972
Kung Fu
TV • 1972
Meador
Little House on the Prairie
TV • 1974
Kraft Suspense Theatre
TV • 1963
Corporal Shale
The F.B.I.
TV • 1965
Joel Polk
I Dream of Jeannie
TV • 1965
Pete Conway
Simon & Simon
TV • 1981
Route 66
TV • 1960
Highway to Heaven
TV • 1984
Dynasty
TV • 1981
Petticoat Junction
TV • 1963
Smokey Harner
Mannix
TV • 1967
Knots Landing
TV • 1979
Doctor
Gunsmoke
TV • 1955
Lootie
Perry Mason
TV • 1957
Hartley Elliott
Hawaiian Eye
TV • 1959
Cannon
TV • 1971
Hunter
TV • 1984
John
Run, Joe, Run
TV • 1974
The Twilight Zone
TV • 1959
Peter Kirby
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
TV • 1955
Philip Pryor
The Fugitive
TV • 1963
McCaffrey
The Virginian
TV • 1962
Albi
Search
TV • 1972
One Step Beyond
TV • 1959
First Mate Walter Blake
Climax!
TV • 1954
Chris Barker
The Big Valley
TV • 1965
Grady Shanks
Men Into Space
TV • 1959
M Squad
TV • 1957
Stick Wilson
Adventures in Paradise
TV • 1959
Big Ed Brody
The Alaskans
TV • 1959
The Rifleman
TV • 1958
Wanted: Dead or Alive
TV • 1958
Randy Holleran
Sugarfoot
TV • 1957
Vic Bradley
The Guns of Will Sonnett
TV • 1967
Law of the Plainsman
TV • 1959
Mite Rankin
Wichita Town
TV • 1959
Robert Montgomery Presents
TV • 1950
Luke
The Manhunter
TV • 1974
Johnny Ringo
TV • 1959
Harley Crale
General Electric True
TV • 1962
The Fugitive
TV • 1963
Horton
The Incredible Hulk
TV • 1977
Sgt. Murkland
The F.B.I.
TV • 1965
McKinney
The F.B.I.
TV • 1965
Al, the Gas Station Owner
Sugarfoot
TV • 1957
Sid Garnin
Gunsmoke
TV • 1955
Potts
Gunsmoke
TV • 1955
Orkey
Gunsmoke
TV • 1955
Wendt
Perry Mason
TV • 1957
Deputy D.A. Vincent
Adam-12
TV • 1968
Officer Tyson
Petrocelli
TV • 1974
Joseph Bear
The Six Million Dollar Man
TV • 1974
Zack Meesham
Perry Mason
TV • 1957
Kenneth Dalgran
Perry Mason
TV • 1957
Ned Bertell
Perry Mason
TV • 1957
Burt Blair
The Mod Squad
TV • 1968
Leonard Gault
Perry Mason
TV • 1957
Deputy D.A. Bill Vincent
Perry Mason
TV • 1957
Bill Vincent
Barnaby Jones
TV • 1973
John Riley
Barnaby Jones
TV • 1973
Sheriff Mason
Dragnet
TV • 1967
Steve Deal
The Mod Squad
TV • 1968
Teddy Capp
The Invaders
TV • 1967
Wesley J. Sanders
I Dream of Jeannie
TV • 1965
Jay Russell
Murder, She Wrote
TV • 1984
Dr. Charmichael
Barnaby Jones
TV • 1973
Frank Auburn
Shirley Temple's Storybook
TV • 1958
Prince Peter
Fantasy Island
TV • 1978
Dr. Sidney Block
Dragnet
TV • 1967
Billy Catcher
Separate but Equal
TV • 1991
Professor Al Kelly
Dan August
TV • 1970
Arnold Cane
Bonanza
TV • 1959
Todd McCarren
Kraft Television Theatre
TV • 1947
Then Came Bronson
TV • 1969
Al
Highway to Heaven
TV • 1984
Don Weston
Dragnet
TV • 1967
Donald L. Chapman