1. Francis King Donovan was an American film, stage, and television actor, as well as a film and television director.
20 Facts About King Donovan
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King Donovan was born in Manhattan on January 25,1918.
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King Donovan's parents were vaudevillians who traveled nationwide in the United States, and at three weeks old he began traveling with them.
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King Donovan's acting debut occurred in his teenage years at the Butler Davenport Theater.
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King Donovan's film acting work includes Jack in the original Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Solly in The Defiant Ones, Joe Capper in Cowboy, Mack McGee in the original Angels in the Outfield, Major Collins in The Perfect Furlough, and an uncredited but recognizable role in Singin' in the Rain as Rod.
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King Donovan left the film industry in the late 1950s because, he said, he hated "about 90 percent of what I was doing".
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King Donovan was part of the Jitney Players traveling troupe in the 1940s.
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King Donovan performed with the Hendrickson Shakespearean Company for two years, and he appeared in The Male Animal for the USO.
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In 1948, King Donovan appeared on Broadway in The Vigil, The Girls in 509 and Morning's at Seven.
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King Donovan appeared in six episodes as Chris Norman of It's a Great Life.
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King Donovan guest starred on the crime drama, Richard Diamond, Private Detective.
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King Donovan played a petty thief Name Baxter who stole from an orphanage.
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King Donovan portrayed Marty in "Academy Award," a 1957 episode of the CBS situation comedy Mr Adams and Eve.
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King Donovan played Mark Dawson in the 1959 Maverick episode "Maverick Springs".
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King Donovan was in Wanted: Dead or Alive in the 1959 episode "Bad Gun" as the gun dealer Sheridan Appleby.
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King Donovan played Twirly Boggs in the 1960 TV series Bonanza, season 1 episode 19 'The Gunmen'.
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King Donovan guest starred as Paddy Britt in the 1959 episode "The Boy from Pittsburgh" of the NBC western series, Riverboat.
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Between 1965 and 1967, King Donovan had a recurring role as neighbor Herb, whose mission in life seemed to be getting from his house through the study window of professor Jim Nash in less than a full minute, on the situation comedy Please Don't Eat the Daisies.
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Later the same year King Donovan directed two episodes of Grindl, which starred his wife Imogene Coca and two more the next year.
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King Donovan filmed scenes for an undetermined role in the 1949 film I Was a Male War Bride, but his scenes were deleted.