Disney Roles
Some of Conway's most memorable roles were on the Walt Disney anthology series. He appeared in fifteen of the nineteen episodes of the Mickey Mouse Club serial The Hardy Boys: "The Mystery of the Applegate Treasure" (1956). The next year, he starred in the Hardy Boys' "The Mystery of the Ghost Farm". He portrayed Fenton Hardy, the father of teenagers Frank and Joe Hardy, played respectively by Tim Considine, later of My Three Sons, and Tommy Kirk, later the Disney characters The Shaggy Dog and Merlin Jones.
In 1959, Conway appeared as the father, Monty Morgan, of ABC's Disneyland in the two-part episode, "Moochie of the Little League", with 10-year-old Kevin Corcoran (born 1949) in the title role. James Brown appeared in the miniseries too as Andy Clinton. In 1960, he appeared in another two-part Disney episode starring Kevin Corcoran, "Moochie of Pop Warner Football".
In September 1968, Conway starred as a rancher in the Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color two-part episode "Boomerang, Dog of Many Talents". His co-stars were Patricia Crowley, Darby Hinton, and Darren McGavin.
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