From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia Stacy Harris July 26 1918 March 13 1973 was a Canadianborn actor with hundreds of film and television appearances His name is often found spelled Stacey Harris Harris was an Army pilot whose leg was injured in a plane crash less than six months after he enlisted in 1937 That injury prevented him from reenlisting when World War II began but he served with the American Volunteer Group as an ambulance driver and with the French Foreign Legion as a dispatch rider Before becoming an actor he held a variety of jobs including newspaper reporter boxer sailor and artist Harris played varied characters often villains on various programs produced by Jack Webbs Mark VII Limited such as Dragnet Noahs Ark GE True Adam12 and Emergency Harris guest starred in the religion anthology series Crossroads and played a gangster in the 1956 time travel television episode of the anthology series Conflict entitled Man from 1997 opposite James Garner and Charles Ruggles Thereafter he appeared as Whit Lassiter in the 1958 episode The Man Who Waited of the NBC childrens western series Buckskin He guest starred as Colonel Nicholson in the 1959 episode A Night at Trappers Landing of the NBC western series Riverboat starring Darren McGavin Harris appeared too in three syndicated series Whirlybirds starring Kenneth Tobey Sheriff of Cochise and US Marshal both with John Bromfield and as the character Ed Miller in the episode Mystery of the Black Stallion of the western series Frontier Doctor starring Rex Allen He was cast in two episodes of the David Janssen crime drama Richard Diamond Private Detective Harris in 1958 portrayed Max Bowen in The Hemp Tree and in 1959 as Abel Crowder in Rough Track to Payday episodes of the CBS western series The Texan starring Rory Calhoun In 1960 Harris was cast as a drummer named Cramer in the episode Fair Game of the ABC western series The Rebel starring Nick Adams Harris appeared in three episodes of CBSs Perry Mason playing the role of murder victim Frank Curran in The Case of the Married Moonlighter 1958 Perrys client Frank Brooks in The Case of the Lost Last Act 1959 and murderer Frank Brigham in The Case of the Crying Comedian in 1961 In 1969 Harris played the corrupt and cowardly Mayor Ackerson of the since ghost town of Helena Texas in the episode The Oldest Law of the syndicated television series Death Valley Days hosted by Robert Taylor not long before Taylors own death Popular character actor Jim Davis played Colonel William G Butler 18311912 who takes revenge on the town after its citizens refuse to disclose the killer of Butlers son Emmett who died from a stray bullet from a saloon brawl Butler arranges for the San Antonio and Aransas Pass Railway to bypass Helena instead Karnes City south of San Antonio becomes the seat of government of Karnes County Tom Lowell born 1941 played Emmett Butler and Tyler McVey was cast as Parson Blake in this episode Harris died March 13 1973 at the age of 54 in Los Angeles California of an apparent heart attack CLR