1. Morris Ankrum was an American radio, television, and film character actor.
12 Facts About Morris Ankrum
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Morris Ankrum was cast in supporting roles as stalwart authority figures, including scientists, military men, judges, trail hands, bankers, and even psychiatrists in more than 270 films and television episodes.
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Morris Ankrum's parts included villainous roles in Paramount's Hopalong Cassidy film series.
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Morris Ankrum's credits were largely concentrated in the western and science-fiction genres.
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Morris Ankrum appeared in such westerns as Ride 'Em Cowboy in 1942, Vera Cruz opposite Gary Cooper and Burt Lancaster, Apache, and Cattle Queen of Montana with Barbara Stanwyck and Ronald Reagan.
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Morris Ankrum made 22 appearances on CBS's Perry Mason as one of several judges who regularly presided over the murder trials of Mason's clients from the show's first season in 1957 until his death in 1964.
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Morris Ankrum appeared in some of the more popular western series such as The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin, Bronco, Maverick, Tales of the Texas Rangers, Cimarron City, Rawhide and The Rifleman.
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Morris Ankrum played an embittered rancher named Cash Billings, who allowed hired gunman Burr Fulton to take over his spread, but Sugarfoot arrives to bring law and justice to the situation.
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Morris Ankrum appeared again, as John Savage, in 1959 in the Sugarfoot episode "The Wild Bunch".
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Morris Ankrum was cast in an episode of the 1959 CBS sitcom Dennis the Menace.
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Morris Ankrum made occasional uncredited appearances in several Roger Corman films.
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On September 2,1964, Morris Ankrum died as the result of trichinosis.