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Orville Sherman
Lexington, Oklahoma, USA
Orville Sherman was born in Oklahoma, where his great-grandfather bought land in 1894. He appeared in numerous television episodes, mostly Westerns. Being born in the frontier may…
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Orville Sherman was born in Oklahoma, where his great-grandfather bought land in 1894. He appeared in numerous television episodes, mostly Westerns. Being born in the frontier may have given him an edge to playing cowboys. Although most of his screen time can be counted in seconds, he was good at his craft. Orville started tap dancing at age nine and left home at 19 to pursue his career. According to the 1940 U.S. census, he was living as a boarder in Shawnee, Oklahoma, giving his occupation as "actor, dancer, director". He served in WWII, enlisting from Santa Fe, New Mexico where he was working with a small theater troupe. A few years later he was in New York on stage later traveling to England to appear on stage in "Oklahoma", where he met his future wife, actress Marcella Dodge. They married in 1948 and came to California from New York City in 1956 and appeared in film and TV episodes until his death. Relatives of his brother said Orville was too occupied with work to attend his fathers funeral in 1959. He was divorced from his first wife in the 1960s. In 1973, he wed, secondly, to Jean Reno, a woman eight years his senior. That same year, he added the occupation of minister to his life, teaching speech at the church of Religious Science in Downey, California. Sadly, he died alone, with no known family (his marriage long since ended) from prostate cancer in Los Angeles, aged 68.
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1979
Transplant
Movie Boris
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1978
A Question of Guilt
Movie The Priest
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1977
The Legend of Frank Woods
Movie Jesse Frome
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1974
Little House on the Prairie
TV show Headmaster
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1974
Scream of the Wolf
Movie Coroner
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1973
Westworld
Movie Supervisor
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1973
Your Three Minutes Are Up
Movie Mr. Fisher
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1973
The Letters
Movie Minister
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1971
Pretty Maids All in a Row
Movie Pastor
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1971
Alias Smith and Jones
TV show
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1969
Once You Kiss a Stranger...
Movie Raymond
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1969
Medical Center
TV show
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1965
I Dream of Jeannie
TV show Danny
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1964
Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
TV show
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1964
Daniel Boone
TV show Will Camfield
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1964
Bewitched
TV show
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1963
The Man from Galveston
Movie Ted Dooley (uncredited)
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1963
The Fugitive
TV show Hotel clerk
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1962
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
TV show Charles
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1962
The Virginian
TV show Doctor
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1961
Dr. Kildare
TV show Steward
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1961
Shadow of the Boomerang
Movie
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1960
The Andy Griffith Show
TV show Huey Welch
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1960
Home from the Hill
Movie Ed Dinwoodie (uncredited)
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1959
The Twilight Zone
TV show Tillman Miller
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1959
The Lawless Years
TV show
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1959
Rawhide
TV show Charley Casey
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1958
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
TV show
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1958
Wanted: Dead or Alive
TV show Sheriff Owens
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1958
The Brain Eaters
Movie Mayor Cameron
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1957
26 Men
TV show
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1957
Harbor Command
TV show
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1957
Trackdown
TV show
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1957
Perry Mason
TV show Kirkwood
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1955
Cheyenne
TV show
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1955
Gunsmoke
TV show Sheriff
- 1955
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1954
Lassie
TV show Ride Attendant
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1953
General Electric Theater
TV show Luther Gaines
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1952
Adventures of Superman
TV show Gangster Scientist
