Films of The 1960s
In the 1960s, the roles in film grew fewer. He was Lester Lonnergan in Meredith Willson's The Music Man in 1962 and Mike in The Quick Gun in 1964. He appeared as Steinmetz in King Rat (1965) and as Jensen the Pharmacist in Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter (1966). He was Ollie Jensen in Hostile Guns in 1967. He played Tax Man in Blackbeard's Ghost in 1968. In 1969 and 1970, Fawcett appeared, respectively, in two Disney films, The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes (starring the teenaged Kurt Russell) and Menace on the Mountain. In 1969, Fawcett played the key supporting role as Old Man Warner in the film version of Shirley Jackson's famous short story, "The Lottery."
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