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Don Dubbins

Don Dubbins

Actor · 1928 – 1991 · Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

Don Dubbins (June 28, 1928 - August 17, 1991), originally Donald Dubbins, was an American actor of film and television who in his early career usually played younger military roles, particularly in such classic pictures as From Here to Eternity (1953) and The Caine Mutiny (1954). Screen giant James Cagney took a liking to Dubbins and procured roles for him in two 1956 films, These Wilder Years and Tribute to a Bad Man. In the former, Dubbins played Cagney's long-lost adopted son; in the latter, he was in a romantic triangle with cattle boss Cagney for the affections of a senorita. In 1957, Dubbins played a callow young United States Marines private in Jack Webb's The D.I. In 1958, Dubbins was cast in From the Earth to the Moon, a science fiction picture based on Jules Verne's novel of the same title. As Dubbins matured, he appeared in such films as The Prize in 1963, The Illustrated Man (based on a Ray Bradbury novel) in 1969, and Death Wish II in 1982. Dubbins appeared in many television roles, including four episodes each of CBS's Gunsmoke, Perry Mason and Rawhide in Season 1/14 Incident of the Dog Days. In 1960, Dubbins appeared in the episode "Elegy" of CBS's The Twilight Zone. That same year he guest starred with Mel Torme in NBC's crime drama Dan Raven starring Skip Homeier. In 1961, he played a deputy who inadvertently killed his outlaw-brother in an episode of Stagecoach West, a Four Star Television series on ABC. He later appeared on the CBS anthology The Lloyd Bridges Show, and with Walter Brennan in ABC's The Guns of Will Sonnett. He appeared in the 1965 pilot episode of I Dream of Jeannie, and returned for one of the series' final episodes (as a different character) in 1970. In 1966, Dubbins appeared with Robert F. Simon as guest stars in the episode "Long Journey to Leavenworth" in the NBC series The Road West, starring Barry Sullivan, Andrew Prine, and Glenn Corbett. Dubbins appeared twice on NBC's Little House on the Prairie with Michael Landon and five times on CBS's Barnaby Jones crime drama with Buddy Ebsen. Dubbins appeared in several episodes of Jack Webb's Dragnet 1967 series on NBC. Dubbins played the part of Billy Carter in "The Incident of the Dog Days" on Rawhide. Dubbins' last TV roles were in episodes of CBS's Knots Landing (1979), ABC's Dynasty (1981), and NBC's Highway to Heaven (1984). The Brooklyn-born Dubbins retired to Greenville, South Carolina, where his last acting was at the Warehouse Theater as Willy Loman in Death of a Salesman. He succumbed to cancer at the age of sixty-three. Description above from the Wikipedia article Don Dubbins, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Series24

  • TV6.9

    Knots Landing

    1979 · 47 votes

  • TV7.7

    Perry Mason

    1957 · 139 votes

  • TV7.5

    Murder, She Wrote

    1984 · 471 votes

  • TV8.0
  • TV7.5

    Bonanza

    1959 · 500 votes

  • TV7.1

    The Rifleman

    1958 · 54 votes

  • TV7.1

    Adam-12

    1968 · 48 votes

  • TV7.3

    The Fugitive

    1963 · 63 votes

  • TV6.8

    Mannix

    1967 · 56 votes

  • TV7.8

    I Dream of Jeannie

    1965 · 842 votes

  • TV7.3
  • TV6.5

    Dynasty

    1981 · 135 votes

  • TV7.1

    Hunter

    1984 · 102 votes

  • TV6.0
  • TV8.5

    The Twilight Zone

    1959 · 1.1K votes

  • TV7.8

    Alfred Hitchcock Presents

    1955 · 265 votes

  • TV7.4

    Highway to Heaven

    1984 · 207 votes

  • TV5.7

    One Step Beyond

    1959 · 15 votes

  • TV6.7

    Cannon

    1971 · 41 votes

  • TV6.5

    The Virginian

    1962 · 35 votes

  • TV5.9

    Petticoat Junction

    1963 · 42 votes

  • TV6.8

    Hotel

    1982 · 26 votes

  • TV5.6

    The F.B.I.

    1965 · 25 votes

  • TV3.8

    Climax!

    1954 · 12 votes

Movies18

  • Movie7.3

    From Here to Eternity

    1953 · 733 votes

  • Movie6.2

    Death Wish II

    1982 · 553 votes

  • Movie7.2

    The Caine Mutiny

    1954 · 383 votes

  • Movie6.7

    The Prize

    1963 · 119 votes

  • Movie7.0

    Tribute to a Bad Man

    1956 · 31 votes

  • Movie6.5
  • Movie5.3
  • Movie5.4

    Run, Simon, Run

    1970 · 8 votes

  • Movie6.8

    The Learning Tree

    1969 · 26 votes

  • Movie6.5

    Separate but Equal

    1991 · 14 votes

  • Movie5.6

    The Illustrated Man

    1969 · 74 votes

  • Movie4.9

    Enchanted Island

    1958 · 12 votes

  • Movie6.5

    Gunfight in Abilene

    1967 · 14 votes

  • Movie7.1

    The D.I.

    1957 · 12 votes

  • Movie10.0

    The Fix

    1984 · 1 votes

  • Movie6.5

    These Wilder Years

    1956 · 15 votes

  • Movie6.6

    Outrage!

    1973 · 8 votes

  • Movie6.0

    The Hoax

    1972 · 3 votes