Name
Don Dubbins
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1928-06-28
Deathday
1991-08-17 (63 years old)
Place of Birth
Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Biography
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.
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- 1963 The Prize as Ivar Cramer, Light Henchman
- 1970 Run, Simon, Run as Freddie Tomb
- 1957 The D.I. as Pvt. Owens
- 1969 The Illustrated Man as Pickard
- 1958 From the Earth to the Moon as Ben Sharpe
- 1956 These Wilder Years as Mark
- 1956 Tribute to a Bad Man as Steve Miller
- 1973 Outrage! as Mr. Werner
- 1958 Enchanted Island as Tom
- 1967 Gunfight in Abilene as Rod Sprague
- 1953 From Here to Eternity as Pvt. Friday Clark - Bugler (uncredited)
- 1974 Nightmare at 43 Hillcrest as Sanford Bates
- 1954 The Caine Mutiny as Seaman 1st Class Urban (uncredited)
- 1953 From Here to Eternity as Pvt. Friday Clark (uncredited)
- 1972 The Hoax as Sergeant O'Roherty
- 1982 Death Wish II as Mike
- 1969 The Learning Tree as Harley Davis, Defense Attorney
- 1991 Separate but Equal as Professor Al Kelly
- 1984 The Fix as Sheriff Bower
- 1963 The Great Adventure ( 1 episode ) as Jason Chiles
- 1974 Movin' On ( 1 episode )
- 1958 77 Sunset Strip ( 1 episode )
- 1972 The Rookies ( 1 episode )
- 1972 Kung Fu ( 1 episode ) as Meador
- 1974 Little House on the Prairie ( 2 episodes ) as Jim Bowers
- 1963 Kraft Suspense Theatre ( 1 episode ) as Corporal Shale
- 1965 The F.B.I. ( 1 episode ) as Joel Polk
- 1965 I Dream of Jeannie ( 1 episode ) as Pete Conway
- 1960 Route 66 ( 1 episode )
- 1984 Highway to Heaven ( 1 episode )
- 1981 Dynasty ( 2 episodes )
- 1963 Petticoat Junction ( 1 episode ) as Smokey Harner
- 1967 Mannix ( 1 episode )
- 1979 Knots Landing ( 1 episode ) as Doctor
- 1955 Gunsmoke ( 1 episode ) as Lootie
- 1957 Perry Mason ( 1 episode ) as Hartley Elliott
- 1959 Hawaiian Eye ( 1 episode )
- 1971 Cannon ( 1 episode )
- 1984 Hunter ( 1 episode ) as John
- 1974 Run, Joe, Run ( 1 episode )
- 1959 The Twilight Zone ( 1 episode ) as Peter Kirby
- 1955 Alfred Hitchcock Presents ( 1 episode ) as Philip Pryor
- 1963 The Fugitive ( 1 episode ) as McCaffrey
- 1962 The Virginian ( 1 episode ) as Albi
- 1972 Search ( 1 episode )
- 1959 One Step Beyond ( 1 episode ) as First Mate Walter Blake
- 1954 Climax! ( 1 episode ) as Chris Barker
- 1959 Men Into Space ( 1 episode )
- 1965 The Big Valley ( 1 episode ) as Grady Shanks
- 1957 M Squad ( 1 episode ) as Stick Wilson
- 1959 Adventures in Paradise ( 1 episode ) as Big Ed Brody
- 1959 The Alaskans ( 1 episode )
- 1958 Wanted: Dead or Alive ( 1 episode ) as Randy Holleran
- 1958 The Rifleman ( 1 episode )
- 1957 Sugarfoot ( 1 episode ) as Vic Bradley
- 1967 The Guns of Will Sonnett ( 1 episode )
- 1959 Law of the Plainsman ( 1 episode ) as Mite Rankin
- 1959 Wichita Town ( 1 episode )
- 1950 Robert Montgomery Presents ( 1 episode ) as Luke
- 1974 The Manhunter ( 1 episode )
- 1959 Johnny Ringo ( 1 episode ) as Harley Crale
- 1962 General Electric True ( 1 episode )
- 1963 The Fugitive ( 1 episode ) as Horton
- 1977 The Incredible Hulk ( 1 episode ) as Sgt. Murkland
- 1965 The F.B.I. ( 1 episode ) as McKinney
- 1965 The F.B.I. ( 1 episode ) as Al, the Gas Station Owner
- 1957 Sugarfoot ( 1 episode ) as Sid Garnin
- 1955 Gunsmoke ( 1 episode ) as Potts
- 1955 Gunsmoke ( 1 episode ) as Orkey
- 1955 Gunsmoke ( 1 episode ) as Wendt
- 1957 Perry Mason ( 1 episode ) as Deputy D.A. Vincent
- 1968 Adam-12 ( 1 episode ) as Officer Tyson
- 1974 Petrocelli ( 1 episode ) as Joseph Bear
- 1974 The Six Million Dollar Man ( 1 episode ) as Zack Meesham
- 1957 Perry Mason ( 1 episode ) as Kenneth Dalgran
- 1957 Perry Mason ( 1 episode ) as Ned Bertell
- 1957 Perry Mason ( 1 episode ) as Burt Blair
- 1968 The Mod Squad ( 1 episode ) as Leonard Gault
- 1957 Perry Mason ( 1 episode ) as Deputy D.A. Bill Vincent
- 1957 Perry Mason ( 1 episode ) as Bill Vincent
- 1973 Barnaby Jones ( 1 episode ) as John Riley
- 1973 Barnaby Jones ( 1 episode ) as Sheriff Mason
- 1967 Dragnet ( 1 episode ) as Steve Deal
- 1968 The Mod Squad ( 1 episode ) as Teddy Capp
- 1967 The Invaders ( 1 episode ) as Wesley J. Sanders
- 1965 I Dream of Jeannie ( 1 episode ) as Jay Russell
- 1984 Murder, She Wrote ( 1 episode ) as Dr. Charmichael
- 1973 Barnaby Jones ( 1 episode ) as Frank Auburn
- 1958 Shirley Temple's Storybook ( 1 episode ) as Prince Peter
- 1978 Fantasy Island ( 1 episode ) as Dr. Sidney Block
- 1967 Dragnet ( 1 episode ) as Billy Catcher
- 1991 Separate but Equal ( 2 episodes ) as Professor Al Kelly
- 1970 Dan August ( 1 episode ) as Arnold Cane
- 1959 Bonanza ( 1 episode ) as Todd McCarren
- 1947 Kraft Television Theatre ( 1 episode )
- 1969 Then Came Bronson ( 1 episode ) as Al
- 1984 Highway to Heaven ( 1 episode ) as Don Weston
- 1967 Dragnet ( 1 episode ) as Donald L. Chapman
- 1981 Simon & Simon ( 1 episode ) as Philip Bloom
- 1982 Hotel ( 1 episode ) as Jim Mitchell
