Andrew Duggan (December 28, 1923 – May 15, 1988) was an American character actor. His work includes 185 screen credits between 1949 and 1987 for roles in both film and television, as well a number more on stage.
Duggan appeared in some 70 films and in more than 140 television programs between 1949 and 1987. In film he appeared in Westerns, war pictures, political thrillers, dramas, horror films, and other genres, generally assaying authority figures. Among his roles were playing a pastor and padre, sheriff and warden, doctor and professor, numerous judges and generals, and three times the President of the United States.
Duggan did voice-over work including Ziebart's 1985 Clio Award-winning "Friend of the Family (Rust in Peace)" television commercial.[4]
In 1957, Duggan appeared as Major Ellwood in the TV Western Cheyenne in the episode titled "Land Beyond the Law". He appeared on Gunsmoke in the episode titled “Cheap Labor” in 1957. He played a villain in the first episode of NBC's Wagon Train. That same year, he was cast with Peter Brown and Bob Steele in the guest cast of the first episode of the ABC/Warner Bros. series, Colt .45, starring Wayde Preston as Christopher Colt, an undercover agent and pistol salesman in the Old West. In the opening episode, "The Peacemaker" or "Judgment Day", Duggan plays Jim Rexford; Brown is cast as Dave, and Steele as Sergeant Granger. He made three Westerns for Columbia Pictures in 1957 and 1958.
In 1959, Duggan was contracted to Warner Brothers Television where he was cast in ABC's Bourbon Street Beat,[5] in which he portrayed Cal Calhoun, the head of a New Orleans detective agency. Bourbon Street Beat was canceled after a single season.
During this time, Duggan guest-starred in several Warner Bros. television series and appeared in several Warner Bros. films, including The Chapman Report and Merrill's Marauders, and the television pilotFBI Code 98. He also provide narration for several Warner Bros. film trailers.
Duggan guest-starred in numerous television series in the 1960s, including the Western Tombstone Territory in the episode "The Epitaph". He appeared as an incorrigible criminal trying to gain amnesty in the 1962 episode "Sunday" of the ABC/WB series, Lawman, starring John Russell. In 1963, he guest-starred on the short-lived ABC/WB Western series, The Dakotas.
In 1966, he played Father Michael in "The Eighth Day", an episode ofBob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre. That same year, he appeared on F Troop as Major Chester Winster, in the episode "The New I. G.". He also played Brigadier/Major General Ed Britt (seasons two and three) in the ABC TV series 12 O'clock High.
Duggan played a leading role as cattle baron Murdoch Lancer in the 1968–1970 series Lancer.[6]
Duggan played John Walton in the television film, The Homecoming: A Christmas Story (1971).[7] In the TV series it inspired, The Waltons, the role of John Walton was played by Ralph Waite. Even earlier, Henry Fonda had played essentially the same role in the movie based on Earl Hamner's writing that inspired them both, Spencer's Mountain (1963), although the character's name was different.
Duggan in 1953 married Broadway dancer and actress Elizabeth Logue,[8] whom he called Betty.[9] His wife has no relation to the Hawaiian actress of the same name [citation needed]. The couple had three children, Richard, Nancy, and Melissa.[citation needed]
The veteran actor, at age 64, died of throat cancer on May 15, 1988.[10]
Gunsmoke (1956 episode: "How To Cure A Friend") - Nick Search (S2E8)
Cheyenne (1956 episode: "The Bounty Killers") as Marshall Frank Moxon, (1957 episode: "Land Beyond the Law") as Major Ellwood, (1958 episode: "The Angry Sky") as Granger Ward (Black Jack), (1961 episode: "The Frightened Town") as Marshal Delaney, and (1963 in the series finale "Showdown at Oxbend") as Ed Foster.
^Note: no relation to Elizabeth Louise Malamalamaokalani White Logue, best known as Hawaiian princess Noelani in the film Hawaii, and as the woman running down the beach in the opening credits of Hawaii Five-O
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