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multi-talented actor and teacher who taught in the UCLA Masters Program for
two years, Guy Stockwell was a familiar face on dozens of television
Westerns including Gunsmoke, The Virginian, The Wild ,Wild
West, Lancer, and Wagon Train. In a fine episode of
Bonanza, entitled "Invention of a Gunfighter", Guy played Johnny
Chapman, who after finally learning how to shoot, turns bounty hunter and
even against his friend and mentor Joe Cartwright.
He also starred as Buffalo bill Cody in the 1955
remake of The Plainsman and starred as Zorro in a 1963 Spanish
production, The Three Swords of Zorro. The older brother of actor
Dean Stockwell, Guy passed away on February 6, 2002 in Prescott, Arizona. |