Ronald R. Foster (February 19, 1930 – February 26, 2015)
was an American actor.
Partial filmography
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The Proud and Profane
''The Proud and Profane'' is a dramatic war romance made by William Perlberg-George Seaton Productions for Paramount Pictures released in theaters on June 13, 1956. It was directed by George Seaton and produced by William Perlberg, from a screenp ...
'' (1956) - Bolton (uncredited)
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The Storm Rider
''The Storm Rider'' is a 1957 American Western film directed by Edward Bernds, written by Edward Bernds and Don Martin, and starring Scott Brady, Mala Powers, Bill Williams, John Goddard, William Fawcett and Roy Engel. It is based on the short ...
'' (1957) - Burns (uncredited)
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Under Fire
Under Fire may refer to:
Books
* ''Under Fire'' (Barbusse novel) (French: ''Le Feu''), a novel by Henri Barbusse
* ''Under Fire'' (Blackwood novel), by Grant Blackwood in Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan Jr. franchise series
* ''Under Fire'' (North book ...
'' (1957) - Lieutenant (uncredited)
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Young and Dangerous
''Young and Dangerous'' () is a 1996 Hong Kong crime film about a group of triad members, detailing their adventures and dangers in a Hong Kong Triad society. Directed by the film's cinematographer Andrew Lau, the film features a large ensemb ...
'' (1957) - Rock's Buddy (uncredited)
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Rockabilly Baby
''Rockabilly Baby'' is a 1957 American musical film directed by William F. Claxton and written by William Driskill and William George. The film stars Virginia Field, Douglas Kennedy, Les Brown, Irene Ryan, Ellen Corby, Marlene Willis and Judy ...
'' (1957) - Carnival Barker (uncredited)
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Cattle Empire
''Cattle Empire'' is a 1958 American Western DeLuxe Color movie in CinemaScope directed by Charles Marquis Warren, starring Joel McCrea and released by 20th Century Fox. The film also features Gloria Talbott, Don Haggerty, Phyllis Coates, and ...
'' (1958) - Stitch (uncredited)
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Thundering Jets'' (1958) - Control Tower Sergeant (uncredited)
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Desert Hell'' (1958) - Pvt. Bergstrom
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Diary of a High School Bride
''Diary of a High School Bride'' is a 1959 film directed by Burt Topper about a 17-year-old high school student who gets married. American International Pictures released the film as a double feature with '' Ghost of Dragstrip Hollow''.
Plot
A 17 ...
'' (1959) - Steve
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Ma Barker's Killer Brood
''Ma Barker's Killer Brood'' is a neo noir crime film, released in 1960. The low-budget film was directed by Bill Karn and starred Lurene Tuttle as the title character, Ma Barker.
The film is a highly fictionalized account of the life of Ma Bark ...
'' (1960) - Doc
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Three Came to Kill'' (1960) - Herb Morely (uncredited)
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The Music Box Kid'' (1960) - Larry Shaw
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Cage of Evil'' (1960) - Det. Scott Harper
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The Walking Target
''The Walking Target'' is a 1960 crime film directed by Edward L. Cahn and starring Joan Evans, Merry Anders, and Ronald Foster. The screenplay concerns an ex-con who, upon release from prison, sets out to retrieve the $260,000 he hid before he ...
'' (1960) - Nick Harbin
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Operation Bottleneck'' (1961) - Lt. Rulan H. Voss
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Secret of Deep Harbor'' (1961) - Skip Hanlon
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House of the Dammed'' (1963) - Scott Campbell
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Private Lessons'' (1981) - Fillmore
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The Muppets Take Manhattan
''The Muppets Take Manhattan'' is a 1984 American musical comedy drama film directed by Frank Oz. It is the third theatrical film in ''The Muppets'' franchise. In addition to the Muppet performance, the film features special appearances by Art ...
'' (1984) - Man in Winesop's Office
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Ninja III: The Domination'' (1984) - Jiminez
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The Money Pit
''The Money Pit'' is a 1986 American comedy film directed by Richard Benjamin and starring Tom Hanks and Shelley Long as a couple who attempt to renovate a recently purchased house. The film is a remake of the 1948 Cary Grant comedy film '' Mr. ...
'' (1986) - Record Producer
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Legal Eagles
''Legal Eagles'' is a 1986 American legal romantic comedy mystery crime thriller film directed by Ivan Reitman, written by Jim Cash and Jack Epps, Jr. from a story by Reitman and the screenwriters, and starring Robert Redford, Debra Winger, an ...
'' (1986) - Reporter #3
Other television roles
''Highway Patrol'' (1957-1959) Officer Garvey / Dispatcher / Officer / Officer 1410 / Officer 3220 / Officer Dennis / Officer Dorsey / Officer Foster / Officer Garvey - Unit 2108 / Plainclothes Officer / Sgt. Garvey / Unit 2174 / Unit 2370 / Unit 3110 (24 episodes)
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Official Detective
''Official Detective'' is an American anthology television series which aired in syndication from 1957 to March 19, 1958. The series was hosted by veteran film actor Everett Sloane.McNeil, Alex (1996). ''Total Television'' (4th ed.). New York: ...
'' "Murder In A Girls' School" - Miller Dolce (1958)
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Peter Gunn
''Peter Gunn'' is an American private eye television series, starring Craig Stevens as Peter Gunn with Lola Albright as his girlfriend, Edie Hart. The series aired on NBC from September 22, 1958, to 1960 and on ABC in 1960–1961. The ser ...
'' "Murder on the Midway" - Martin Franklin (1958)
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Perry Mason
Perry Mason is a fictional character, an American criminal defense lawyer who is the main character in works of detective fiction written by Erle Stanley Gardner. Perry Mason features in 82 novels and 4 short stories, all of which involve a cli ...
'' as Fred Pike in "The Case of the Prudent Prosecutor" (1960) loop
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The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
''The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp'' is the first Western television series written for adults, premiering four days before ''Gunsmoke'' on September 6, 1955. Two weeks later came the Clint Walker western ''Cheyenne''. The series is loosely bas ...
'' as Johnny in "Arizona Lottery" (1960)
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Sea Hunt
''Sea Hunt'' is an American action adventure television series that aired in syndication from 1958 to 1961 and was popular for decades afterwards. The series originally aired for four seasons, with 155 episodes produced. It stars Lloyd Bridges a ...
'', twice (1959–1960, Season 3, Episode 18)
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Colt .45'' as Tommy Potts in "Bounty List" (1960)
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Checkmate
Checkmate (often shortened to mate) is any game position in chess and other chess-like games in which a player's king is in check (threatened with ) and there is no possible escape. Checkmating the opponent wins the game.
In chess, the king is ...
'' as Bill in "The Mask of Vengeance" (1960)
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Bat Masterson
Bartholemew William Barclay "Bat" Masterson (November 26, 1853 – October 25, 1921) was a U.S. Army scout, lawman, professional gambler, and journalist known for his exploits in the 19th and early 20th-century American Old West. He was born to ...
'', twice as Toby Dawson in "Six Feet of Gold" (1960) and as Sheriff Buck Simpson in "Jeopardy at Jackson Hole" (1961)
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Gunsmoke
''Gunsmoke'' is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman Macdonnell and writer John Meston. It centers on Dodge City, Kansas, in the 1870s, during the settlement of the American West. The central chara ...
'', twice (1961); once as Jim Garza in “Nina’s Revenge” (S7E12).
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Tales of Wells Fargo
''Tales of Wells Fargo'' is an American Western television series starring Dale Robertson that ran from 1957 to 1962 on NBC. Produced by Revue Productions, the series aired in a half-hour format until its final season, when it expanded to a ...
'' as Ken Logan in "Royal Maroon" (1962)
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Alcoa Premiere
'' Alcoa Premiere'' (also known as ''Premiere, Presented by Fred Astaire'') is an American anthology drama series that aired from October 1961 to July 1963 on ABC. The series was hosted by Fred Astaire, who also starred in several of the epis ...
'' as Lieutenant Durham in "
Seven Against the Sea
''McHale's Navy'' is an American sitcom starring Ernest Borgnine that aired 138 half-hour episodes over four seasons, from October 11, 1962, to April 12, 1966, on the ABC television network. The series was filmed in black and white and originate ...
" (1962)
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Laramie'' as Lee Taylor in "The Wedding Party" (1963)
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The Virginian'' as Charlie Dorsey in "The Money Cage" (1963)
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G.E. True'' as Captain James Dunlop in "Black Market" (1963)
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The Outer Limits ''The Outer Limits'' or ''Outer Limits'' may refer to:
Television
* ''The Outer Limits'' (1963 TV series), a black-and-white science fiction series that aired from 1963 to 1965
* ''The Outer Limits'' (1995 TV series), a revival of the older series ...
'' as Dr. Robert Richardson in "
The Mice" (1964)
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Kraft Suspense Theatre
The ''Kraft Suspense Theatre'' is an American television anthology series that was produced and broadcast from 1963 to 1965 on NBC. Sponsored by Kraft Foods, it was seen three weeks out of every four and was pre-empted for Perry Como's ''Kraft Mu ...
'' as Reverend Larson in "Portrait of an Unknown Man" (1964)
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Combat!
''Combat!'' is an American television drama series that originally aired on ABC from 1962 until 1967. The exclamation point in ''Combat!'' was depicted on-screen as a stylized bayonet. The show covered the grim lives of a squad of American s ...
'' as Private Marshall in "Crossfire" (1965)
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Twelve O'Clock High
''Twelve O'Clock High'' is a 1949 American war film about aircrews in the United States Army's Eighth Air Force, who flew daylight bombing missions against Germany and Occupied France during the early days of American involvement in World War II ...
'' as Captain Borega in "Gauntlet of Fire" (1966)
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Run for Your Life'' as Major Conway in "Rendezvous in Tokyo" (1967)
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The High Chaparral
''The High Chaparral'' television series, which was broadcast on NBC from 1967 to 1971, is an American Western action adventure drama set in the 1870s. It stars Leif Erickson and Cameron Mitchell. The series was made by Xanadu Productions in ...
'' as Lieutenant Corey in "The Peacemaker" (1968)
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The Bill Cosby Show
''The Bill Cosby Show'' is an American sitcom television series, that aired for two seasons on NBC's Sunday night schedule from 1969 until 1971, under the sponsorship of Procter & Gamble. There were 52 episodes made in the series. It marked Bill ...
'' as Dr. Madeo in "Let X Equal a Lousy Weekend" (1969)
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O'Hara, U.S. Treasury'' as Al Ellis in "Operation Crystal Springs" (1970)
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Petrocelli
''Petrocelli'' is an American legal drama that ran for two seasons on NBC from September 11, 1974 to March 31, 1976.
Plot
Tony Petrocelli is an Italian-American, Harvard-educated lawyer, who grew up in South Boston and gave up the big money and ...
'', twice (1974 and 1976)
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Dynasty
A dynasty is a sequence of rulers from the same family,''Oxford English Dictionary'', "dynasty, ''n''." Oxford University Press (Oxford), 1897. usually in the context of a monarchical system, but sometimes also appearing in republics. A ...
'', as a sheriff in "Colorado Roulette" (1988)
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The Cosby Show
''The Cosby Show'' is an American television sitcom co-created by and starring Bill Cosby, which aired Thursday nights for eight seasons on NBC between September 20, 1984, until April 30, 1992. The show focuses on an upper middle-class Africa ...
'', twice (1987 and 1991)
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Law & Order
''Law & Order'' is an American police procedural and legal drama television series created by Dick Wolf and produced by Wolf Entertainment, launching the '' Law & Order'' franchise.
''Law & Order'' aired its entire run on NBC, premiering o ...
'' as Charles Jefferson in "
Everybody's Favorite Bagman
"Everybody's Favorite Bagman" is the sixth episode of the police procedural and legal drama ''Law & Order''. It originally aired on NBC on October 30, 1990. It was produced in 1988 and was the pilot episode of the series.Courrier and Green (1999) ...
" (1990)
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The Twilight Zone
''The Twilight Zone'' is an American media franchise based on the anthology series, anthology television program, television series created by Rod Serling. The episodes are in various genres, including fantasy, science fiction, absurdism, dysto ...
'', Season 5. Episode 10, “The 7th is Made Up of Phantoms", Tank Commander MSG Conners, 1963
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1930 births
2015 deaths
American male television actors
American male film actors
American male soap opera actors
Male actors from Kansas
Actors from Wichita, Kansas
Male actors from Los Angeles