William Fawcett (actor) - Guest Starring On Television

Guest Starring On Television

Fury aired on Saturday mornings from 1955-1960. Fawcett played the housekeeper and general ranch hand to Jim Newton (Peter Graves) and Jim's adopted son, Joey Clark Newton (Bobby Diamond).

Fawcett guest starred on dozens of television series. He appeared as "Grampa" seven times between 1953 and 1956 in the syndicated series The Cisco Kid, starring Duncan Renaldo and Leo Carrillo. Fawcett appeared nine times on The Range Rider, seven times in The Adventures of Kit Carson and five times on 26 Men. In 1954, he played an unnamed prospector gunned down without provocation by the notorious Joaquin Murietta, bandit of the California Gold Rush, played by Rick Jason, in an episode of Jim Davis' Stories of the Century.

Fawcett's many other roles included The Public Defender, Brave Eagle, The Lone Ranger (five times), Annie Oakley; Pony Express (in the episode "The Story of Julesburg"); Riverboat, The Tall Man; Laramie; Leave It to Beaver; Straightaway; The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin; The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters, Circus Boy; The Dakotas; Adam 12; Cheyenne; I Dream of Jeannie; The Law and Mr. Jones; Tammy; Frontier Justice, Maverick; Dundee and the Culhane; The Investigators; Gunsmoke (nine times); Daniel Boone (three times); The Rifleman (twice); Mr. Lucky; Buffalo Bill, Jr. (five times as Banker Taggert); Wagon Train (five times); Bonanza (seven times); Harrigan and Son; Mr. Smith Goes to Washington; The Virginian (nine times); The Road West; Rawhide, and 77 Sunset Strip.

Fawcett also had a lead as Jed McNabb in a dramatic episode of Fireside Theatre entitled, "To Stand Alone". He portrayed a motel owner in the 1962 Perry Mason episode, "The Case of the Bluffing Blast." He also guest starred on Robert Conrad's unconventional western series, The Wild Wild West.