Myron Healey

Myron Daniel Healey was an American actor He began his career in Hollywood California during the early 1940s in bit parts and minor supporting roles at various studios Healeys film debut came in 1943 with Young Ideas Returning to film work after the war Healey played villains and henchmen in lowbudget western films He also did some screenwriting In the postwar period he was often seen in westerns from Monogram Pictures often starring Johnny Mack Brown Jimmy Wakely and Whip Wilson In the 1950s Healey moved to more bad guy roles in other films including the Bomba and Jungle Jim series crime dramas and more westerns He portrayed the bandit Bob Dalton in an episode of the syndicated television series Stories of the Century starring and narrated by Jim Davis In 1955 he played a good guy for a change as Phyllis Coates partner in the 1955 Republic Pictures serial Panther Girl of the Kongo Healey appeared seven times as Capt Bandcroft in The Adventures of Kit Carson Healey played the outlaw Johnny Ringo in the western television series Tombstone Territory with Pat Conway as Sheriff Clay Hollister in the episode Johnny Ringos Last Ride He appeared in an episode of the childrens western series Buckskin which aired on NBC from 195859 He was a semiregular on programs produced by Gene Autrys Flying A production company Annie Oakley Buffalo Bill Jr The Range Rider and The Gene Autry Show He also gueststarred on the crime drama with a modern western setting Sheriff of Cochise starring John Bromfield and in the western set in the 1840s Riverboat starring Darren McGavin He also appeared in an episode of the second season of Zorro Between 1960 and 1963 Healey appeared five times on the NBC western Laramie starring John Smith and Robert Fuller He appeared ten times on another NBC western The Virginian and four times on Laredo From 1959 to 1961 he played Maj Peter Horry top aide to Leslie Nielsen in the miniseries Swamp Fox on Walt Disney Presents based on the American Revolutionary War hero Francis Marion In 1970 Healey appeared as Wardlow in the TV western The Men From Shiloh the rebranded name of The Virginian in the episode titled Jenny Collectively Healey appeared in some 140 films including 81 westerns and three serials Among his nonwestern pictures he appeared in at least two horror films the Americanized version of the Japanese giantmonster movie Varan the Unbelievable and The Incredible Melting Man