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Outlaws Cast
Before his starring role as Deputy Will Foreman in Outlaws, Don Collier acted in a wide variety of television, stage, and film roles. A native of Southern California, he was born 17 October in Santa Monica. He was one of two children, having a sister who died when she was thirteen. After finishing high school, he joined the Navy at the end of World War II. When he returned to California, he got a part in the 1948 movie Massacre River, and his career was launched. He also took time for college, enrolling in Hardin-Simmons University in Abilene, Texas, on a football scholarship where he stayed before transferring to Brigham Young in Provo, Utah, again to play football. After college, he returned to acting, and the rest, as they say, is history. For trivia buffs, the name of the horse he rode as Deputy Marshal Will Foreman was "George." This is his web site, so be sure to check all the pages.
Before becoming Marshal Frank Caine in Outlaws, Barton MacLane had a distinguished career as the screen baddie. He was born 35 December 1902, the son of the superintendent of a Columbia, South Carolina, mental institution. When he was still young, his family moved to Cromwell, Connecticut, where he eventually attended Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, majoring in English. It was his goal to become a writer. The fall of 1922, however, changed his life forever. He became a football star and made a 100-yard runback of a kickoff in a game with Massachusetts State. It earned him a great deal of publicity, and since Richard Dix was making a football picture called Quarterback, MacLane entered the acting industry as a football player. He liked it so well that he did bit parts and extra work before gaining experience on the Broadway stage. Paramount Studios eventually brought him to California, where he was happily in demand for his trademark villainy, acting in more than 200 movies and television shows. In addition to his role as Marshal Frank Caine in Outlaws, he is fondly remembered for portraying the police detective Steve MacBride in the Torchy Blaine movie series and as General Peterson on the popular I Dream of Jeannie television series. He married first to Martha Stewart and had two children. They were divorced, and he married second in 1939 to Charlotte Wynters. Barton MacLane died of cancer on 1 January 1969 in Santa Monica, California.
Very little is known about Jock Gaynor. Born in 1929 in New York City, he seems to have spent his entire acting career during the decade of the 1960's. He made his first appearance in an episode of Wichita Town in January 1960 and went from there to the role of Heck Martin in Outlaws. He was replaced about mid-way through the first season by Wynn Pearce in the role of Deputy Steve Corbie. After Outlaws, Jock went on to numerous guest credits in a number of television roles, including Cheyenne, Gunslinger, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Coronet Blue and Mission Impossible. He then apparently stepped behind the camera for the remainder of his career, as he was an executive in the 1984 film The Initiation. Jock Gaynor died 2 April 1998.
Wynn Pearce played Deputy Steve Corbie in a continuing role in Outlaws during the latter part of Season One. He was born 7 November 1929 in Orange, Texas, and he died 11 December 1990 in California. His career spanned the 1950's and 1960's with appearances in numerous television shows. In Outlaws, he was definitely the comic relief, as his slow drawl and hysterical observations of watching Will Foreman at work were just plain funny. Right now, we are attempting to locate a photo and more biographical information on him. Please check back.
All that is really known of Bruce Yarnell is that he was born 28 December 1935, and he had his life tragically cut short in a California airplane crash on 30 November 1970. He was a stage actor and singer when he came to Outlaws, traveling in the decade of the 1950's with touring companies all over America. He took the role of the ethical-minded Deputy Chalk Breeson in the first episode of Season Two and played it to perfection, creating one of the best sidekicks in television history with the way he exasperated his by-the-book boss, Will Foreman. For trivia buff's, the name of the horse he rode a Deputy Marshal Chalk Breeson was "Pawnee." After Outlaws left the air, he continued acting with guest roles in Hogan's Heroes, The Wide Country, and a couple of appearances in Bonanza before he once again turned to singing with Annie Get Your Gun and Irma la Douce. He last appearance was in The Road Hustlers in 1968, as Matt Reedy.
Born 6 November 1935 in Los Angeles, California, Judy Lewis had very well-known acting parents: Loretta Young and Clark Gable. She graduated from Marymount High School in 1953 and promptly moved to New York City to begin her acting career, landing a small part on Kraft Television Theater. Her first television series was Kitty Foyle in 1958, where she played the part of Molly Scharf. It was followed by her role as Connie Masters in Outlaws, where she began as the Wells Fargo clerk and gravitated to the cafe owner. Her part was originally designed as the love interest for Marshal Will Foreman, but the chemistry between her and series star Don Collier never seemed to click with the audience, and her role was rewritten to be that of the "conscience" of Will Foreman. After Outlaws, she moved back to New York City, where she spent a successful career as a featured performer on a number of daytime soap operas, including The Secret Story and General Hospital. She also had a successful career behind the camera as the producer of the daytime soap Texas and as a writer on Search for Tomorrow. In the 1980's, she went to college and earned a Master's degree in Clinical Psychology at Antioch University in Los Angeles. She then took a few years off to write, and her first book Uncommon Knowledge, was published in 1992, after which, she proceeded to work in her field of Psychology. She received her Marriage and Family, Child Counseling license (M.F.C.C.) in the early 1990's and is now using her talent to help others. Now living in Los Angeles, she practices as a licensed clinical psychotherapist, working in a private practice and with a non-profit agency servicing troubled teens. The biography is condensed from the book Uncommon Knowledge, Simon and Shuster, 1994.
Slim Pickens is probably the most quintessential character actor in Hollywood, having acted in more than 150 movie and television roles in all aspects of the spectrum from mean to hysterical. Born Louis Bert Lindley, Jr., on 29 June 1919 in Kingsburg, California's Central Valley, he spent the early part of his career as a real cowboy and the latter part playing cowboys. As a youth, he spent much of his time in nearby Hanford, where he began rodeoing at the age of twelve. For the next two decades, he toured the country on the rodeo circuit, becoming a highly-paid and well-respected rodeo clown, a job of enormous danger. At the age of thirty-one, on the advice of someone who told him that he should take up another line of work because all he would ever get in the rodeo was "Slim Pickin's," he took a stab at his first film, Rocky Mountain, playing the part of Plank. It was to be a turning point in his career, as he easily found a niche in both comic and villainous roles in Westerns. His first Western series was The Saga of Andy Burnett in 1957, and his last one was in Custer in 1967, but he made guest appearances all over the tube, as well as in feature films throughout his entire career. In Outlaws, he was the town character named Slim, guaranteed to get into some predicament or another. With his hoarse voice and pronounced western twang, he was not always easy to cast outside the genre, but one of his most memorable performances came in 1964 when, as bomber pilot Major "King" Kong, waving his cowboy hat rodeo-style, he rode a nuclear bomb onto its target in the great black comedy Dr. Strangelove. He died 8 December 1983 in Modesto, California, after a long and courageous battle against brain cancer. He was survived by his wife Margaret and three children, Darryle Ann, Thom, and Margaret Lou.
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