Name
Bing Russell
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1926-05-05
Deathday
2003-04-08 (77 years old)
Place of Birth
Brattleboro, Vermont, USA
Biography
Neil Oliver "Bing" Russell (May 5, 1926 – April 8, 2003) was an American actor and Class A minor-league baseball club owner. He was the father of Hollywood actor Kurt Russell.
Although best known as the deputy on Bonanza (1959) and Robert in The Magnificent Seven (1960), Russell's was also well known on a national level as the owner of the Portland Mavericks Baseball Club. Helming the only independent team in the class A Northwest League, Russell was an innovator. Before Bull Durham (1988), there were the Mavericks. Russell kept a 30 man roster because he believed that some of the players deserved to have one last season. His motto was simply one three lettered word - not WIN - although the Mavericks did just that - no, the word was FUN. He created a park that kept all corporate sponsorship outside the gates, hired the first female general manager in professional baseball, and the following year hired the first Asian American GM/Manager. That same season his team set a record for the highest attendance in Minor league history, and went on to win the pennant. Ex-major leaguers and never-weres who couldn't stop playing the game flocked to his June tryouts, which were always open to anyone that showed up. From as far away as Capetown, and France, players would head to Portland for a chance with Russell's Mavericks.
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- 1959 Good Day for a Hanging as George Fletcher
- 1964 Cheyenne Autumn as Braden's Telegraph Operator (uncredited)
- 1959 The Horse Soldiers as Dunker, Yankee Soldier Amputee
- 1968 Journey to Shiloh as Greybeard
- 1962 How the West Was Won as Man (uncredited)
- 1963 A Gathering of Eagles as Captain (uncredited)
- 1971 Yuma as Rol King (as Neil Russell)
- 1971 A Taste of Evil as Sheriff
- 1956 Attack as Medic
- 1974 The Sex Symbol as Public Relations Man
- 1958 Suicide Battalion as Lt. Chet Hall
- 1973 Set This Town on Fire as Chuck
- 1955 A Life at Stake as Bartender (uncredited)
- 1960 The Magnificent Seven as Robert
- 1957 The Land Unknown as Radio Operator (uncredited)
- 1957 The Deadly Mantis as State Trooper
- 1957 Drango as Lieutenant with Supply Wagon
- 1959 Rio Bravo as Cowboy Murdered in Saloon (uncredited)
- 1988 Sunset as Studio Guard
- 1987 Overboard as Elk Cove: Sheriff Earl
- 1955 Cult of the Cobra
- 1962 Stakeout! as Joe
- 1958 Cattle Empire as Douglas Hamilton
- 1965 The Hallelujah Trail as Horner
- 1974 A Cry in the Wilderness as Mr. Griffey
- 1966 Madame X as Sergeant Riley
- 1969 The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes as Angelo
- 1972 Now You See Him, Now You Don't as Alfred
- 1957 Bombers B-52 as Operator (uncredited)
- 1975 The Apple Dumpling Gang as Herm Dally
- 1990 Dick Tracy as Club Ritz Patron
- 1971 The Million Dollar Duck as Mr. Smith
- 1973 Satan's School for Girls as Sheriff
- 1968 Blackbeard's Ghost as Second Track Meet Official
- 1976 The Loneliest Runner as Fred Dawkins
- 1989 Tango & Cash as Van Driver
- 1957 Ride a Violent Mile as Corporal Norman
- 1963 The Stripper as Mr. Mulvaney
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- 1973 Runaway! as Fireman
- 2014 The Battered Bastards of Baseball as Himself (Archive Footage)
- 1974 Death Sentence as Trooper
- 1976 The New Daughters of Joshua Cabe
- 1953 Big Leaguer
- 1962 Flashing Spikes as Hogan
- 1960 The Great Impostor as Morgan (uncredited)
- 1957 Without Incident
- 1957 Gunfight at the O.K. Corral as Harry - Griffin Bartender (uncredited)
- 1967 The Ride to Hangman's Tree as Keller (Uncredited)
- 1960 The Andy Griffith Show ( 1 episode ) as Mr. Burton
- 1957 Maverick ( 2 episodes )
- 1965 I Dream of Jeannie ( 1 episode ) as Amos Lincoln
- 1964 The Munsters ( 1 episode )
- 1959 The Twilight Zone ( 1 episode ) as George Cousins
- 1959 The Twilight Zone ( 1 episode ) as Ben Braden
- 1972 The Streets of San Francisco ( 1 episode )
- 1971 Alias Smith and Jones ( 1 episode )
- 1967 Mannix ( 2 episodes )
- 1960 Surfside 6 ( 1 episode )
- 1968 The Mod Squad ( 1 episode )
- 1955 Gunsmoke ( 1 episode ) as Simon Fletcher
- 1963 The Fugitive ( 1 episode ) as Sgt. Eggins
- 1959 Black Saddle ( 1 episode ) as Lee Curry
- 1963 The Fugitive ( 2 episodes ) as Officer
- 1972 Emergency! ( 3 episodes )
- 1954 Lassie ( 1 episode )
- 1967 Ironside ( 1 episode )
- 1966 The Monroes ( 1 episode )
- 1966 The Monkees ( 1 episode ) as Rudy
- 1959 Rawhide ( 1 episode ) as Jack Harris
- 1957 Have Gun, Will Travel ( 1 episode )
- 1968 The Outcasts ( 1 episode )
- 1963 The Fugitive ( 2 episodes ) as Matt Davis
- 1962 The Virginian ( 2 episodes ) as Sgt. Eads
- 1955 The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp ( 1 episode )
- 1965 The Big Valley ( 1 episode ) as Jack Tolliver
- 1974 Petrocelli ( 1 episode )
- 1958 Bronco ( 2 episodes )
- 1958 The Donna Reed Show ( 1 episode )
- 1959 The Alaskans ( 1 episode )
- 1955 Navy Log ( 2 episodes )
- 1959 Black Saddle ( 1 episode ) as Ken Wilson
- 1965 Branded ( 1 episode )
- 1958 Wanted: Dead or Alive ( 1 episode ) as Clay
- 1958 The Rifleman ( 2 episodes )
- 1957 Sugarfoot ( 1 episode ) as Sergeant McKinnock
- 1961 Ben Casey ( 1 episode )
- 1959 Laramie ( 1 episode )
- 1967 The Guns of Will Sonnett ( 2 episodes )
- 1967 Dundee and the Culhane ( 1 episode )
- 1958 The Texan ( 1 episode )
- 1960 Stagecoach West ( 1 episode )
- 1956 Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre ( 1 episode ) as Sam - Henchman
- 1960 Tate ( 1 episode )
- 1962 Stoney Burke ( 1 episode )
- 1959 Johnny Ringo ( 1 episode ) as Dick Walsh
- 1962 General Electric True ( 1 episode )
- 1956 The Man Called X ( 1 episode )
- 1957 Harbor Command ( 1 episode )
- 1953 Letter to Loretta ( 1 episode ) as Convict
- 1963 The Fugitive ( 1 episode ) as Officer Westphal
- 1951 The Living Christ ( 12 episodes ) as Lazarus
- 1957 Maverick ( 1 episode ) as Tyler Brink
- 1957 Maverick ( 1 episode ) as Russ Aikens
- 1974 The Rockford Files ( 1 episode ) as Lieutenant
- 1965 The Big Valley ( 1 episode ) as Clint
- 1965 The Big Valley ( 1 episode ) as Rancher
- 1965 The Big Valley ( 1 episode ) as Joe Garrett
- 1965 The Big Valley ( 1 episode ) as Mac
- 1957 Sugarfoot ( 1 episode ) as Hank Gibson
- 1965 The Big Valley ( 1 episode ) as Dan Kelsey
- 1965 The Big Valley ( 1 episode ) as Sheriff
- 1965 The Big Valley ( 1 episode ) as Slade
- 1965 The Big Valley ( 1 episode ) as Sheriff Jim Dolan
- 1959 Bonanza ( 7 episodes ) as Sheriff Clem Foster
- 1962 The Virginian ( 1 episode ) as John Rudd
- 1955 Gunsmoke ( 1 episode ) as Ed Shelby
- 1962 The Virginian ( 1 episode ) as Donovan
- 1955 Gunsmoke ( 1 episode ) as Tabor
- 1962 The Virginian ( 1 episode ) as Sam Fuller
- 1962 The Virginian ( 1 episode ) as Gabe Sloan
- 1962 The Virginian ( 1 episode ) as Ned Smith
- 1955 Gunsmoke ( 1 episode ) as Head
- 1955 Gunsmoke ( 1 episode ) as Walsh
- 1953 Letter to Loretta ( 1 episode ) as Jim Murphy
- 1953 Letter to Loretta ( 1 episode ) as Newsman
- 1953 Letter to Loretta ( 1 episode ) as Sergeant
- 1955 Gunsmoke ( 1 episode ) as Arnold Rolfing
- 1956 Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre ( 1 episode ) as Deputy Stover
- 1956 Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre ( 1 episode ) as Cole
- 1958 Wanted: Dead or Alive ( 1 episode ) as Billy Hemp
- 1959 Bonanza ( 32 episodes ) as Deputy Clem Foster
- 1959 Bonanza ( 1 episode ) as Major Reynolds
- 1959 Bonanza ( 1 episode ) as Poindexter
- 1962 Sam Benedict ( 1 episode ) as Len George (uncredited)
- 1957 Have Gun, Will Travel ( 1 episode ) as Sheriff Reagan
- 1955 The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp ( 1 episode ) as Sergeant Turner
- 1951 Schlitz Playhouse of Stars ( 1 episode ) as Assistant Director
- 1954 Public Defender ( 1 episode ) as 2nd Cop
- 1955 Science Fiction Theatre ( 1 episode )
- 1967 Ironside ( 1 episode ) as Cal Bristold
- 1965 Branded ( 1 episode ) as Sheriff Gorman
- 1954 The Wonderful World of Disney ( 1 episode ) as Arne
- 1976 Arthur Hailey's The Moneychangers ( 2 episodes ) as Timberwell
- 1967 The Guns of Will Sonnett ( 1 episode ) as Chet
- 1967 Hondo ( 1 episode ) as Thompson
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- 1958 Bronco ( 1 episode ) as Johnny Rawlins
- 1953 You Are There ( 1 episode ) as Lendall Pitts
- 1953 You Are There ( 1 episode ) as Disheartened Soldier
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