Later Television Work
Duggan played John Walton in the original 1971 The Waltons television special The Homecoming: A Christmas Story (the part was played by Ralph Waite in the subsequent series).
In 1980, Duggan appeared as Sam Wiggins in the ABC television movie The Long Days of Summer, and later that same year, guest-starred in an episode of the CBS television series M*A*S*H* as Col. Alvin 'Howitzer Al' Houlihan, the legendary father of Margaret Houlihan in the episode "Father's Day".
One of Duggan's last parts was as Dwight D. Eisenhower in a TV biography called J. Edgar Hoover (1987), a role he had played earlier in Backstairs at the White House (1979). He also played Lyndon B. Johnson in a different biography of Hoover, The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover (1977). He portrayed the fictional President Trent in the spy-spoof In Like Flint (1967). He also played Judge Axel in the movie A Return to Salem's Lot (1987).
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