1. Glenn Corbett came to national attention in the early 1960s, when he replaced George Maharis in the cast of the popular CBS adventure drama Route 66.
15 Facts About Glenn Corbett
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Glenn Corbett followed this with roles in high-profile films and television shows, including a guest role in the original Star Trek series, the daytime soap opera The Doctors, the primetime soap Dallas, and movies such as Chisum with John Wayne, as one of Jimmy Stewart's sons in Shenandoah, and the World War II epic Midway.
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Glenn Corbett was seen by a talent scout and was signed to a contract with Columbia Pictures.
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Glenn Corbett took the lead role in William Castle's suspense thriller, Homicidal and was cast as one of the sons of Jimmy Stewart's character in the Civil War film Shenandoah.
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Glenn Corbett again co-starred with Wayne in Big Jake.
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Glenn Corbett, playing Lincoln Case, co-starred with Martin Milner during part of the third season and the fourth and final season of the series.
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Glenn Corbett was featured in 1964 as Dan Collins in an episode of Gunsmoke titled "Chicken" in which a man gets an undeserved reputation as a gunman when he is found at a way station with four dead outlaws at his feet.
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Glenn Corbett was cast in a 1965 episode of Bonanza, "Mighty Is the Word", in which he portrayed a gunfighter who finds religion and becomes a preacher, only to be confronted by a vengeful man whose brother he had killed.
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Glenn Corbett guest-starred in an episode of The Virginian, entitled "The Awakening", in which his character, David Henderson, is a destitute former minister who has had a crisis of faith and comes to Medicine Bow just as a dispute breaks out at a local mine over safety issues.
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Glenn Corbett appeared as Chance Reynolds, a regular cast member on The Road West.
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Glenn Corbett guest-starred in the second season Star Trek episode "Metamorphosis" as Zefram Cochrane, inventor of the warp drive.
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In 1971, Glenn Corbett had a guest appearance with Mariette Hartley on Gunsmoke.
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In 1976, Glenn Corbett joined the cast of the NBC daytime soap opera The Doctors as Jason Aldrich, and stayed on the series until 1981.
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In January 1993, Glenn Corbett died of lung cancer at the Veterans Administration hospital in San Antonio, Texas, at the age of 59.
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Glenn Corbett was buried in Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery, San Antonio.