From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia John Bromfield né Farron Bromfield June 11 1922 September 19 2005 was an American film and television actor Bromfield was born in South Bend Indiana He played football and was a boxing champion in college He served in the United States Navy In 1948 he twice harpooned a whale in the documentary film Harpoon In 1948 he was cast as a detective in the film Sorry Wrong Number starring Burt Lancaster and Barbara Stanwyck for Columbia Pictures In 1953 Bromfield appeared with Esther Williams in the film Easy to Love set in bathing suit attire in Cypress Gardens Florida In the middle 1950s he appeared in westerns such as NBCs Frontier anthology series in the role of a sheriff in the episode The Hanging at Thunder Butte Creek He also starred in horror films including the 1955 3D production Revenge of the Creature one of the Creature from the Black Lagoon sequels In 1956 Bromfield was cast as law enforcement officer Frank Morgan in the syndicated westernthemed crime drama series Sheriff of Cochise later retitled by studio boss Desi Arnaz Sr as US Marshal The real sheriff of Cochise County at the time Jack Howard visited the set when the program began and made Bromfield an honorary deputy Bromfield once told the Los Angeles Times About 40 million see Sheriff of Cochise or US Marshal every week Id have to do about twentyfive pictures major pictures over a span of eight or nine years for enough people to see me in the theater who see me in one week on US Marshal The show is seen all over the world Television is a fabulous medium The series was actually created by his costar Stan Jones 19141963 who appeared in twentyfour segments as Deputy Harry Olson Sheriff of Cochise featured numerous young actors who later became wellknown in the industry Mike Connors Gavin MacLeod David Janssen Michael Landon Stacy Keach Charles Bronson Jack Lord Doug McClure Ross Martin and Martin Milner In 1960 Bromfield retired from acting to produce sports shows and work as a commercial fisherman off Newport Beach California Bromfield was divorced from actresses Corinne Calvet 19252001 and Larri Thomas born 1933 He died at the age of eightythree of renal failure in Palm Desert California having been survived by his third wife of fortythree years Mary Bromfield Description above from the Wikipedia article John Bromfield licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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