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Bing Russell
Brattleboro, Vermont, USA
Neil Oliver "Bing" Russell (May 5, 1926 – April 8, 2003) was an American actor and Class A minor-league baseball club owner. He was the father of Hollywood actor Kurt Russell. Al…
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Neil Oliver "Bing" Russell (May 5, 1926 – April 8, 2003) was an American actor and Class A minor-league baseball club owner. He was the father of Hollywood actor Kurt Russell. Although best known as the deputy on Bonanza (1959) and Robert in The Magnificent Seven (1960), Russell's was also well known on a national level as the owner of the Portland Mavericks Baseball Club. Helming the only independent team in the class A Northwest League, Russell was an innovator. Before Bull Durham (1988), there were the Mavericks. Russell kept a 30 man roster because he believed that some of the players deserved to have one last season. His motto was simply one three lettered word - not WIN - although the Mavericks did just that - no, the word was FUN. He created a park that kept all corporate sponsorship outside the gates, hired the first female general manager in professional baseball, and the following year hired the first Asian American GM/Manager. That same season his team set a record for the highest attendance in Minor league history, and went on to win the pennant. Ex-major leaguers and never-weres who couldn't stop playing the game flocked to his June tryouts, which were always open to anyone that showed up. From as far away as Capetown, and France, players would head to Portland for a chance with Russell's Mavericks.
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2014
The Battered Bastards of Baseball
Movie Himself (Archive Footage)
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1990
Dick Tracy
Movie Club Ritz Patron
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1989
Tango & Cash
Movie Van Driver
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1988
Sunset
Movie Studio Guard
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1987
Overboard
Movie Elk Cove: Sheriff Earl
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1979
Elvis
Movie Vernon Presley
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1976
The Loneliest Runner
Movie Fred Dawkins
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1976
Arthur Hailey's The Moneychangers
TV show Timberwell
- 1976
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1975
The Apple Dumpling Gang
Movie Herm Dally
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1974
Death Sentence
Movie Trooper
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1974
The Sex Symbol
Movie Public Relations Man
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1974
The Rockford Files
TV show Lieutenant
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1974
Petrocelli
TV show
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1974
A Cry in the Wilderness
Movie Mr. Griffey
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1973
Runaway!
Movie Fireman
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1973
Satan's School for Girls
Movie Sheriff
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1973
Set This Town on Fire
Movie Chuck
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1972
The Streets of San Francisco
TV show
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1972
Now You See Him, Now You Don't
Movie Alfred
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1972
Emergency!
TV show Carl Wilson
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1971
A Taste of Evil
Movie Sheriff
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1971
The Million Dollar Duck
Movie Mr. Smith
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1971
Yuma
Movie Rol King (as Neil Russell)
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1971
Alias Smith and Jones
TV show
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1969
The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes
Movie Angelo
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1968
The Mod Squad
TV show
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1968
The Outcasts
TV show
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1968
Journey to Shiloh
Movie Greybeard
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1968
Blackbeard's Ghost
Movie Second Track Meet Official
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1967
Mannix
TV show
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1967
The Guns of Will Sonnett
TV show
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1967
Hondo
TV show Thompson
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1967
Dundee and the Culhane
TV show
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1967
The Ride to Hangman's Tree
Movie Keller (Uncredited)
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1967
Ironside
TV show
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1966
The Monkees
TV show Rudy
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1966
The Monroes
TV show
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1966
An Eye for an Eye
Movie Writer
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1966
Madame X
Movie Sergeant Riley
