Stacy Harris

Acting • Born 1918-07-26 – Died 1973-03-13

Acting1Big Timber, Quebec, Canada

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Stacy Harris (July 26, 1918 – March 13, 1973) was a Canadian-born actor with hundreds of film and television appearances. His name is often found spelled Stacey Harris. 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 Volunteer Group 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. 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 appeared too 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 series, 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 1969, Harris played the corrupt and cowardly Mayor Ackerson of the since ghost town of Helena, Texas, in the episode "The Oldest Law" of the syndicated television series, Death Valley Days, hosted by Robert Taylor not long before Taylor's own death. Popular character actor Jim Davis played Colonel William G. Butler (1831-1912), who takes revenge on the town after its citizens refuse to disclose the killer of Butler's son, Emmett, who died from a stray bullet from a saloon brawl. Butler arranges for the San Antonio and Aransas Pass Railway to bypass Helena; instead Karnes City, south of San Antonio, becomes the seat of government of Karnes County. Tom Lowell (born 1941) played Emmett Butler, and Tyler McVey was cast as Parson Blake in this episode. Harris died March 13, 1973, at the age of 54 in Los Angeles, California of an apparent heart attack. CLR

Filmography

93 credits

Appointment with Danger

Movie • 1950

Paul Ferrar

His Kind of Woman

Movie • 1951

Harry (uncredited)

Brainstorm

Movie • 1965

Josh Reynolds

Dragnet

Movie • 1954

Max Edward Troy

Good Day for a Hanging

Movie • 1959

Coley

New Orleans Uncensored

Movie • 1955

Scrappy Durant

The Hunters

Movie • 1958

Col. Monk Moncavage

New Orleans After Dark

Movie • 1958

Detective Vic Beaujac

The Adventures of Superboy

Movie • 1961

Jake

The Great Sioux Uprising

Movie • 1953

Uriah (as Stacy S. Harris)

The Wife Swappers

Movie • 1970

Psychiatrist

Four for the Morgue

Movie • 1962

Lieutenant Victor Beaujac

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

Movie • 1963

Police Radio Unit F-7 (voice) (uncredited)

The D.A.: Conspiracy to Kill

Movie • 1971

Dr. Leonard

O'Hara, United States Treasury: Operation Cobra

Movie • 1971

Agent Ben Hazzard

Comanche

Movie • 1956

Art Downey

Companions in Nightmare

Movie • 1968

Phillip Rootes

Raintree County

Movie • 1957

Union Lieutenant (uncredited)

The Mountain

Movie • 1956

Nicholas Servoz

The Great Sioux Massacre

Movie • 1965

Mr. Turner

Noon Sunday

Movie • 1970

Operations Commander Callan

The Redhead from Wyoming

Movie • 1953

Chet Jones

The Brass Legend

Movie • 1956

George Barlow

Cast a Long Shadow

Movie • 1959

Eph Brown (as Stacy S. Harris)

Sylvia

Movie • 1965

Mr. Leland (uncredited)

An American Dream

Movie • 1966

Detective O'Brien

Three Lives

Movie • 1953

Reuben Zadok

Countdown

Movie • 1967

Technician (uncredited)

Bloody Mama

Movie • 1970

Agent McClellan

Black Saddle

TV • 1959

George Scales

Ironside

TV • 1967

Gordon

Meet McGraw

TV • 1957

Steve Rand

Goodyear Theatre

TV • 1957

Vandy Vance

Ghost Story

TV • 1972

James Dillon

Black Saddle

TV • 1959

Ben Loomis

The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp

TV • 1955

John P. Clum

The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp

TV • 1955

Mayor John Clum

Perry Mason

TV • 1957

Ed Brigham

Bonanza

TV • 1959

Harry Teague