Don Dubbins

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 Cagneys longlost 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 Webbs The DI In 1958 Dubbins was cast in From the Earth to the Moon a science fiction picture based on Jules Vernes 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 CBSs Gunsmoke Perry Mason and Rawhide in Season 114 Incident of the Dog Days In 1960 Dubbins appeared in the episode Elegy of CBSs The Twilight Zone That same year he guest starred with Mel Torme in NBCs crime drama Dan Raven starring Skip Homeier In 1961 he played a deputy who inadvertently killed his outlawbrother 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 ABCs 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 NBCs Little House on the Prairie with Michael Landon and five times on CBSs Barnaby Jones crime drama with Buddy Ebsen Dubbins appeared in several episodes of Jack Webbs 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 CBSs Knots Landing 1979 ABCs Dynasty 1981 and NBCs Highway to Heaven 1984 The Brooklynborn 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 sixtythree Description above from the Wikipedia article Don Dubbins licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia