The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp - Featured Cast Members

Featured Cast Members

Buddy Roosevelt and Jimmy Noel appeared as unnamed townsmen in sixty-five and sixty-three episodes, respectively. Randy Stuart was cast in twelve episodes in the 1959-1960 season as saloon owner Nellie Cashman, a romantic interest for Earp. In five episodes, John Anderson played Earp's brother, Virgil Earp. Between 1958 and 1961, Morgan Woodward portrayed loyal deputy "Shotgun Gibbs" in forty-two episodes. Douglas Fowley and Myron Healey were cast forty-nine and ten times, respectively, as Earp's close friend, John H. "Doc" Holliday. Mason Alan Dinehart, also known as Alan Dinehart, III, son of film stars Alan Dinehart and Mozelle Britton, was cast in thirty-four episodes between 1955 and 1959 as Bat Masterson, a role filled on the NBC series of the same name by Gene Barry. Dinehart played Masterson from the ages of nineteen to twenty-three.

Paul Brinegar played Mayor Jim "Dog" Kelly in twenty-four episodes, and Don Haggerty was cast in the role of Marsh Murdock in twenty-one segments. James Seay was cast sixteen times as Judge Spicer. William Phipps was cast ten times as Curly Bill Brocius. Steve Brodie played Sheriff Johnny Behan in nine episodes; Lash La Rue, five times.

Walter Coy appeared twice on Wyatt Earp, as Henry Mason in "The Doctor" (1960) and earlier as Ben Thompson in "Dodge Is Civilized" (1959). In eight other episodes, Denver Pyle was cast as Ben Thompson, the gunfighter who was Earp's sometimes rival and friend and who later became the marshal in Austin, Texas. Bob Steele played Wyatt's deputy for several episodes during the Wichita period.