TOMBSTONE TRIBUTES

Douglas Fowley
by: Joe Wallison

    Douglas Fowley, a versatile character actor who played everything from gunslingers to gangsters, is probably best remembered as Doc Holliday on television during the late 1950s and early 1960s. He portrayed the hard drinking, gun toting doctor on The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp, starring Hugh O'Brian. He also appeared as the cantankerous, old sharpshooter "Granpa Hanks" in the short-lived series, Pistols n' Petticoats with Ann Sheridan from 1966 to 1967.
    Fowley made his film debut in The Mad Game with Spencer Tracy in 1933. His 200-plus appearances include Singin' in the Rain, Charlie Chan on Broadway, Mighty Joe Young, The Naked Jungle, Barabbas, The High and the Mighty, and The 7 Faces of Dr. Lao. Fowley also produced and directed Macumba Love with blonde bombshell June Wilkinson. Of Fowley's career in Westerns, the finest were Across the Wide Missouri, The Good Guys and the Bad Guys, Walking Tall, Massacre River, The Lone Gun, and From Noon Till Three. He died at the age of 86.