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==Background==
==Background==
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Duggan was born in [[Franklin, Indiana|Franklin]] in [[Johnson County, Indiana|Johnson County]] in central [[Indiana]]. During [[World War II]], he served in the [[United States Army]] 40th [[Special Services (entertainment)|Special Services]] Company, led by actor [[Melvyn Douglas]]<ref name="Andrew Duggan Death">{{cite news|title=Andrew Duggan Death|newspaper=Toledo Blade|date=May 17, 1988|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=fHsUAAAAIBAJ&sjid=7wIEAAAAIBAJ&pg=5299,3164039&dq=andrew+duggan&hl=en}}</ref> in the [[China Burma India Theater of World War II]]. His contact with Douglas later led to his performing with [[Lucille Ball]] in the play ''Dreamgirl''. Duggan developed a friendship with Broadway director [[Daniel Mann]]<ref name="Daniel Mann">{{Cite web|title=Daniel Mann|publisher=Internet Broadway Database|url=http://www.ibdb.com/person.php?id=15528|access-date=May 29, 2010}}</ref> on a troop ship when returning from the war. Duggan appeared on Broadway<ref name="IBDB Andrew Duggan">{{Cite web|title=IBDB Andrew Duggan|publisher=Internet Broadway Database|url=http://www.ibdb.com/person.php?id=38635|access-date=May 29, 2010}}</ref> in ''[[The Rose Tattoo]]'', ''Gently Does It'','' Anniversary Waltz'', ''Fragile Fox'', and ''The Third Best Sport''.
Duggan was born in [[Franklin, Indiana|Franklin, Johnson County, Indiana]]. During [[World War II]], he served in the [[United States Army]] 40th [[Special Services (entertainment)|Special Services]] Company, led by actor [[Melvyn Douglas]]<ref name="Andrew Duggan Death">{{cite news|title=Andrew Duggan Death|newspaper=Toledo Blade|date=May 17, 1988|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=fHsUAAAAIBAJ&sjid=7wIEAAAAIBAJ&pg=5299,3164039&dq=andrew+duggan&hl=en}}</ref> in the [[China Burma India Theater of World War II]]. His contact with Douglas later led to his performing with [[Lucille Ball]] in the play ''Dreamgirl''. Duggan developed a friendship with Broadway director [[Daniel Mann]]<ref name="Daniel Mann">{{Cite web|title=Daniel Mann|publisher=Internet Broadway Database|url=http://www.ibdb.com/person.php?id=15528|access-date=May 29, 2010}}</ref> on a troop ship when returning from the war. Duggan appeared on Broadway<ref name="IBDB Andrew Duggan">{{Cite web|title=IBDB Andrew Duggan|publisher=Internet Broadway Database|url=http://www.ibdb.com/person.php?id=38635|access-date=May 29, 2010}}</ref> in ''[[The Rose Tattoo]]'', ''[[Gently Does It]]'','' Anniversary Waltz'', ''Fragile Fox'', and ''The Third Best Sport''.


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 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 was the main character in the Disney theme parks' ''[[Carousel of Progress]]'' and the singer of the accompanying song, ''[[The Best Time of Your Life]]'', subsequently updated with new voices and songs in 1993. {{citation needed|date=August 2014}} Duggan also did voice-over work including [[Ziebart|Ziebart's]] 1985 Clio Award-winning "Friend of the Family (Rust in Peace)" television commercial.<ref>Archived at [https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211205/Mxz9hRuUiWw Ghostarchive]{{cbignore}} and the [https://web.archive.org/web/20200830052220/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mxz9hRuUiWw&gl=US&hl=en Wayback Machine]{{cbignore}}: {{cite web| url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mxz9hRuUiWw| title = 1988 - Ziebart Rust Protection - Rust in Peace | website=[[YouTube]]}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
Duggan did voice-over work including [[Ziebart|Ziebart's]] 1985 Clio Award-winning "Friend of the Family (Rust in Peace)" television commercial.<ref>Archived at [https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211205/Mxz9hRuUiWw Ghostarchive]{{cbignore}} and the [https://web.archive.org/web/20200830052220/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mxz9hRuUiWw&gl=US&hl=en Wayback Machine]{{cbignore}}: {{cite web| url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mxz9hRuUiWw| title = 1988 - Ziebart Rust Protection - Rust in Peace | website=[[YouTube]]| date = December 5, 2012 }}{{cbignore}}</ref>


==On film, television, and stage==
==On film, television, and stage==
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In 1957, Duggan appeared as Major Ellwood in the TV Western ''[[Cheyenne (TV series)|Cheyenne]]'' in the episode titled "Land Beyond the Law". He also appeared in the TV series Gunsmoke in the episode titled “Cheap Labor” in 1957. Duggan also played a villain in the first episode of [[NBC]]'s ''[[Wagon Train]]'', starring [[Ward Bond]]. That same year, Duggan was cast with [[Peter Brown (actor)|Peter Brown]] and [[Bob Steele (actor)|Bob Steele]] in the guest cast of the first episode of the [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]]/[[Warner Bros.]] series, ''[[Colt .45 (TV 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.{{Citation needed |date=December 2020}}
In 1957, Duggan appeared as Major Ellwood in the TV Western ''[[Cheyenne (TV series)|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 (actor)|Peter Brown]] and [[Bob Steele (actor)|Bob Steele]] in the guest cast of the first episode of the [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]]/[[Warner Bros.]] series, ''[[Colt .45 (TV 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.

Duggan had a recurring role as General Ed Britt in the second and third seasons of the ABC war series, ''[[Twelve O'Clock High (TV series)|Twelve O'Clock High]]''. He appeared on the NBC Westerns ''[[Jefferson Drum]]'', ''[[Bonanza]]'', and ''[[The Big Valley]]'', and was also in the pilot episodes of both NBC's ''[[The Restless Gun]]'' and CBS's ''[[Hawaii Five-O (1968 TV series)|Hawaii Five-O]]'', as a former prisoner and an intelligence agent, respectively

[[File:Room for One More cast.jpg|thumb|230px|right|upright|[[Peggy McCay]], [[Ronnie Dapo]], Carol Nicholson, Tramp the dog and Andrew Duggan, [[Tim Rooney]] and [[Ahna Capri]] in ''[[Room for One More (TV series)|Room for One More]]'' (1962)]]
[[File:Room for One More cast.jpg|thumb|230px|right|upright|[[Peggy McCay]], [[Ronnie Dapo]], Carol Nicholson, Tramp the dog and Andrew Duggan, [[Tim Rooney]] and [[Ahna Capri]] in ''[[Room for One More (TV series)|Room for One More]]'' (1962)]]
In 1959, Duggan was contracted to Warner Bros., where he was cast in ABC's ''[[Bourbon Street Beat]]'',<ref name="Bourbon Absinthe House is the Real Thing">{{cite news |title=Bourbon Absinthe House is the Real Thing |first=Beacham |last=Ingrid |newspaper=The Southeast Missiourian |date=4 March 1960 |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=1rEfAAAAIBAJ&sjid=PdcEAAAAIBAJ&pg=2848,5056157&dq=andrew+duggan&hl=en}}</ref> in which he portrayed Cal Calhoun, the head of a [[New Orleans]] detective agency. When ''Bourbon Street Beat'' was canceled after a single season, the two other detectives in the series were transferred to other Warner Bros. detective series: [[Van Williams]] as Kenny Madison remained in the same time slot with a new series ''[[Surfside 6]]''. [[Richard Long (actor)|Richard Long]] as Rex Randolph assumed ailing [[Roger Smith (actor)|Roger Smith]]'s position on the hit series ''[[77 Sunset Strip]]''.
In 1959, Duggan was contracted to [[Warner Brothers Television]] where he was cast in ABC's ''[[Bourbon Street Beat]]'',<ref name="Bourbon Absinthe House is the Real Thing">{{cite news |title=Bourbon Absinthe House is the Real Thing |first=Beacham |last=Ingrid |newspaper=The Southeast Missiourian |date=March 4, 1960 |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=1rEfAAAAIBAJ&sjid=PdcEAAAAIBAJ&pg=2848,5056157&dq=andrew+duggan&hl=en}}</ref> in which he portrayed Cal Calhoun, the head of a [[New Orleans]] detective agency. ''Bourbon Street Beat'' was canceled after a single season.

In 1962, Duggan starred in the [[sitcom]] ''[[Room for One More (TV series)|Room for One More]]'', with co-stars [[Peggy McCay]], [[Ronnie Dapo]], and [[Tim Rooney]], a son of [[Mickey Rooney]]. The series was based on a [[Cary Grant]] movie with Duggan playing Grant's part, and involved a couple with two children who adopt two others.


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 (film)|Merrill's Marauders]]'', and the [[television pilot]] ''[[FBI Code 98]]''. He also provide narration for several Warner Bros. film trailers.
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 (film)|Merrill's Marauders]]'', and the [[television pilot]] ''[[FBI Code 98]]''. He also provide narration for several Warner Bros. film trailers.
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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 (TV series)|Lawman]]'', starring [[John Russell (actor)|John Russell]]. In 1963, he guest-starred on the short-lived ABC/WB Western series, ''[[The Dakotas (TV series)|The Dakotas]]''.
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 (TV series)|Lawman]]'', starring [[John Russell (actor)|John Russell]]. In 1963, he guest-starred on the short-lived ABC/WB Western series, ''[[The Dakotas (TV series)|The Dakotas]]''.


Duggan was cast on [[Jack Palance]]'s ABC circus drama, ''[[The Greatest Show on Earth (TV series)|The Greatest Show on Earth]]'' and the NBC [[medical drama]] about psychiatry, ''[[The Eleventh Hour (1962 TV series)|The Eleventh Hour]]'' in the role of Carl Quincy in the 1963 episode entitled "Four Feet in the Morning". He played the over-protective Police Chief Dixon in the 1963 [[spring break]] film ''[[Palm Springs Weekend]]'', in which he attempts to prevent his daughter (Bunny Dixon played by [[Stefanie Powers]]) from seeing student Jim Munroe ([[Troy Donahue]]). In 1965, he appeared on [[David Janssen]]'s ABC series, ''[[The Fugitive (1963 TV series)|The Fugitive]]''. Duggan had recurring roles on CBS's 90-minute Western, ''[[Cimarron Strip]]'', and on ABC's ''[[The Great Adventure (U.S. TV series)|The Great Adventure]]''. {{citation needed|date=August 2014}}
Duggan was cast on [[Jack Palance]]'s ABC circus drama, ''[[The Greatest Show on Earth (TV series)|The Greatest Show on Earth]]'' and the NBC [[medical drama]] about psychiatry, ''[[The Eleventh Hour (1962 TV series)|The Eleventh Hour]]'' in the role of Carl Quincy in the 1963 episode entitled "Four Feet in the Morning". He played the over-protective Police Chief Dixon in the 1963 [[spring break]] film ''[[Palm Springs Weekend]]'', in which he attempts to prevent his daughter from seeing student Jim Munroe ([[Troy Donahue]]). In 1965, he appeared on [[David Janssen]]'s ABC series, ''[[The Fugitive (1963 TV series)|The Fugitive]]''. Duggan had recurring roles on CBS's 90-minute Western, ''[[Cimarron Strip]]'', and on ABC's ''[[The Great Adventure (U.S. TV series)|The Great Adventure]]''. He had a recurring role as General Ed Britt in the second and third seasons of the ABC war series, ''[[Twelve O'Clock High (TV series)|Twelve O'Clock High]]''.


He performed in a pivotal supporting role in the 1964 film, ''[[Seven Days in May]]'' starring [[Burt Lancaster]], [[Kirk Douglas]], [[Ava Gardner]] and [[Fredric March]], and played the [[U.S. President]] and an imposter in the 1967 film, ''[[In Like Flint]]'' with [[James Coburn]]. Duggan was cast in a 1964 episode of ''[[The Alfred Hitchcock Hour]]'' entitled "The McGregor Affair". In this segment, he portrays a man who finally determines a way to get rid of his drunken wife, only to later regret what he had done and becomes a victim of the same fate he had planned for his wife.
He performed in a pivotal supporting role in the 1964 film, ''[[Seven Days in May]]'' starring [[Burt Lancaster]], [[Kirk Douglas]], [[Ava Gardner]] and [[Fredric March]], and played the [[U.S. President]] and an imposter in the 1967 film, ''[[In Like Flint]]'' with [[James Coburn]]. Duggan was cast in a 1964 episode of ''[[The Alfred Hitchcock Hour]]'' entitled "The McGregor Affair".


In 1966, he played Father Michael in "The Eighth Day", an episode of'' [[Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre]]''. Also, in 1966, Duggan 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''.
In 1966, he played Father Michael in "The Eighth Day", an episode of'' [[Bob 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''.
[[File:Andrew Duggan Elizabeth Baur Lancer 1968.JPG|thumb|right|upright|Duggan and [[Elizabeth Bauer]] in ''[[Lancer (TV series)|Lancer]]'' (1968)]]
[[File:Andrew Duggan Elizabeth Baur Lancer 1968.JPG|thumb|right|upright|Duggan and [[Elizabeth Baur]] in ''[[Lancer (TV series)|Lancer]]'' (1968)]]
Duggan played a leading role as cattle baron Murdoch Lancer in the 1968–1970 series ''[[Lancer (TV series)|Lancer]]''.<ref name="Andrew Duggan is Lancer in Series">{{cite news |title=Andrew Duggan is Lancer in Series |newspaper=Herald-Tribune |date=8 December 1968 |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=F04gAAAAIBAJ&sjid=F78EAAAAIBAJ&pg=4088,2430319&dq=andrew+duggan&hl=en}}</ref> ([[Quentin Tarantino]] fictionalized the shooting of an episode of the series in both the movie version and his novel ''[[Once Upon a Time in Hollywood]]'', although Duggan's character did not appear in either one.)
Duggan played a leading role as cattle baron Murdoch Lancer in the 1968–1970 series ''[[Lancer (TV series)|Lancer]]''.<ref name="Andrew Duggan is Lancer in Series">{{cite news |title=Andrew Duggan is Lancer in Series |newspaper=Herald-Tribune |date=December 8, 1968 |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=F04gAAAAIBAJ&sjid=F78EAAAAIBAJ&pg=4088,2430319&dq=andrew+duggan&hl=en}}</ref>


Duggan played John Walton in the television film ''The Homecoming: A Christmas Story'' (1971).<ref name="Earl Hamner: From Walton's Mountain To Tomorrow">{{cite book|title=Earl Hamner: From Walton's Mountain To Tomorrow|last=Person Jr.|first=James E.|year=2005|publisher=Cumberland House Publishing |isbn=978-1-58182-455-1|page=21}}</ref> 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 played John Walton in the television film, ''The Homecoming: A Christmas Story'' (1971).<ref name="Earl Hamner: From Walton's Mountain To Tomorrow">{{cite book|title=Earl Hamner: From Walton's Mountain To Tomorrow|last=Person Jr.|first=James E.|year=2005|publisher=Cumberland House Publishing |isbn=978-1-58182-455-1|page=21}}</ref> 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.


In 1973, Duggan had a cameo appearance in the [[blaxploitation]] film ''[[Black Caesar (film)|Black Caesar]]''. In 1974, he portrayed General [[Maxwell D. Taylor]] in the TV [[docudrama]] ''[[The Missiles Of October]]''. He appeared as FBI Inspector Ryder in the 1975 NBC-TV movie ''[[Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan]]'', and had roles in the 1976 TV miniseries ''[[Rich Man, Poor Man (miniseries)|Rich Man, Poor Man]]'' and ''[[Once an Eagle (miniseries)|Once an Eagle]]''. In 1978, he appeared in the episode "And the Sea Shall Give Up Her Dead" of the [[NBC]] crime drama ''[[The Eddie Capra Mysteries]]''. In 1980, he 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 series ''[[M*A*S*H (TV 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 the NBC miniseries, ''[[Backstairs at the White House]]'' (1979). He also played President [[Lyndon B. Johnson]] in a different biography of Hoover, ''[[The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover]]'' (1977). He played Judge Axel in ''[[A Return to Salem's Lot]]'' (1987).
In 1973, Duggan had a cameo appearance in the [[blaxploitation]] film ''[[Black Caesar (film)|Black Caesar]]''. In 1974, he portrayed General [[Maxwell D. Taylor]] in the TV [[docudrama]] ''[[The Missiles Of October]]''. He appeared as FBI Inspector Ryder in the 1975 NBC-TV movie ''[[Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan]]'', and had roles in the 1976 TV miniseries ''[[Rich Man, Poor Man (miniseries)|Rich Man, Poor Man]]'' and ''[[Once an Eagle (miniseries)|Once an Eagle]]''. In 1978, he appeared in the episode "And the Sea Shall Give Up Her Dead" of the [[NBC]] crime drama ''[[The Eddie Capra Mysteries]]''. In 1980, he appeared as Sam Wiggins in the ABC television movie ''[[The Long Days of Summer]]''.
One of Duggan's last roles was as [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]] in a TV biography called ''[[J. Edgar Hoover]]'' (1987), a role he had played earlier in the NBC miniseries, ''[[Backstairs at the White House]]'' (1979). He also played President [[Lyndon B. Johnson]] in a different biography of Hoover, ''[[The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover]]'' (1977). He played Judge Axel in ''[[A Return to Salem's Lot]]'' (1987).


==Personal life==
==Personal life==
In 1954, he married Broadway dancer and actress Elizabeth Logue,<ref name="Elizabeth Logue">{{Cite web|title=Elizabeth Logue|publisher=Internet Broadway Database|url=http://www.ibdb.com/person.php?id=96886|access-date=May 29, 2010}}</ref> whom he called Betty.<ref>Note: no relation to Elizabeth Louise Malamalamaokalani White Logue, best known as Hawaiian princess Noelani in the film ''[[Hawaii (1966 film)|Hawaii]]'', and as the woman running down the beach in the opening credits of ''Hawaii Five-O''</ref> The couple had three children, Richard, Nancy, and Melissa.
Duggan in 1953 married Broadway dancer and actress Elizabeth Logue,<ref name="Elizabeth Logue">{{Cite web|title=Elizabeth Logue|publisher=Internet Broadway Database|url=http://www.ibdb.com/person.php?id=96886|access-date=May 29, 2010}}</ref> whom he called Betty.<ref>Note: no relation to Elizabeth Louise Malamalamaokalani White Logue, best known as Hawaiian princess Noelani in the film ''[[Hawaii (1966 film)|Hawaii]]'', and as the woman running down the beach in the opening credits of ''Hawaii Five-O''</ref> His wife has no relation to the Hawaiian actress of the same name {{citation needed|date=December 2023}}. The couple had three children, Richard, Nancy, and Melissa.{{Citation needed |date=September 2023}}


Duggan died<ref name="Andrew Duggan, an Actor on TV, Stage and the Screen, Dies at 64">{{cite news|title=Andrew Duggan, an Actor on TV, Stage and the Screen, Dies at 64|first=Yarrow|last=Andrew L.|newspaper=The New York Times|date=May 18, 1988|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1988/05/18/obituaries/andrew-duggan-an-actor-on-tv-stage-and-the-screen-dies-at-64.html}}</ref> of throat cancer on May 15, 1988, aged 64.
The veteran actor, at age 64, died of throat cancer on May 15, 1988.<ref name="Andrew Duggan, an Actor on TV, Stage and the Screen, Dies at 64">{{cite news|title=Andrew Duggan, an Actor on TV, Stage and the Screen, Dies at 64|first=Yarrow|last=Andrew L.|newspaper=The New York Times|date=May 18, 1988|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1988/05/18/obituaries/andrew-duggan-an-actor-on-tv-stage-and-the-screen-dies-at-64.html}}</ref>


==Partial filmography==
==Partial filmography==
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===Television===
===Television===
*''[[Gunsmoke]]'' (1956 episode: "How To Cure A Friend") - Nick Search (S2E8)
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*''[[Cheyenne (TV series)|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.
*''[[Wagon Train]]'' (1957 first episode)
*''[[Wagon Train]]'' (1957 first episode)
*''[[Gunsmoke]]'' (1957 episode: "Cheap Labor") - Fos Capper
*''[[Gunsmoke]]'' (1957 episode: "Cheap Labor") - Fos Capper (S2E32)
*''[[Decision (TV series)|Decision]]'' (1958 episode: "The Virginian") - Ben Stocker (S1E1)
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*''[[Cheyenne (TV series)|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), and (1963 in the series finale "Showdown at Oxbend") as Ed Foster.
*''[[Maverick (TV series)|Maverick]]'' (1961 episode: "The Ice Man") - Calvin Powers
*''[[Maverick (TV series)|Maverick]]'' (1961 episode: "The Ice Man") - Calvin Powers
*''[[Bonanza]]'' (1964 episode: "The Lila Conrad Story") - Judge David Knowlton
*''[[Bonanza]]'' (1964 episode: "The Lila Conrad Story") - Judge David Knowlton
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*''[[12 O'Clock High (TV series)|12 O’Clock High]]'' (series 2/3, Major General Ed Britt)
*''[[12 O'Clock High (TV series)|12 O’Clock High]]'' (series 2/3, Major General Ed Britt)
*''[[The Fugitive (1963 TV series)|The Fugitive]]'' (1966 episode: "Shadow of the Swan") - Harry Anderson
*''[[The Fugitive (1963 TV series)|The Fugitive]]'' (1966 episode: "Shadow of the Swan") - Harry Anderson
*''[[Gunsmoke]]'' (1965 episode: "Gilt Guilt") - Crail (S10E31)
*''[[The FBI]]'' (1967 episode: "A Question of Guilt") - Lt. Harris
*''[[The FBI]]'' (1967 episode: "A Question of Guilt") - Lt. Harris
*''[[The Invaders]]'' (1967 episode: "Doomsday Minus One") - General Theodore Beaumont
*''[[Lancer (TV series)]]'' (1968-1970) Murdoch Lancer
*''[[Lancer (TV series)]]'' (1968-1970) Murdoch Lancer
*''[[Hawaii Five-Oh]]''(1968 Episode: "The Cocoon")
*''[[Hawaii Five-O (1968 TV series)|Hawaii Five-O]]'' (1968 Episode: "The Cocoon")
*''[[The Waltons|The Homecoming: A Christmas Story]]'' (1971 TV movie) - John Walton, Sr.
*''[[The Waltons|The Homecoming: A Christmas Story]]'' (1971 TV movie) - John Walton, Sr.
*''[[Mission Impossible]]'' (1971 episode: "A Ghost Story") - Justin Bainbridge
*''[[Mannix]]'' (1971 episode: "The Man Outside") - General Alec Holt
*''[[Cannon (TV series)|Cannon]]'' (1972 episode: "The Endangered Species") as Bill Coates, (1976 episode: "The Quasar Kill") as Dr. Lawrence
*''[[Cannon (TV series)|Cannon]]'' (1972 episode: "The Endangered Species") as Bill Coates, (1976 episode: "The Quasar Kill") as Dr. Lawrence
*''[[Wonder Woman (TV series)|Wonder Woman]]'' (1979 episode: "The Starships Are Coming" as Mason Steele
*''[[McMillan and Wife]]'' (1972 episode: "Terror Times Two") - Frank Carstairs
*[[Hawaii Five-O (1968 TV series)|Hawaii Five-O]] (1973 episode "Death With Father") - Cliff Morgan
*''[[The Streets of San Francisco]]'' (1974 episode: "Target: Red")
*''[[Hawaii Five-O (1968 TV series)|Hawaii Five-O]]'' (1978 episode: "The Sleeper", 1979 episode: "Use a Gun, Go to Hell")
*''[[Wonder Woman (TV series)|Wonder Woman]]'' (1979 episode: "The Starships Are Coming") - Mason Steele
*''[[Backstairs at the White House]]'' (1979 TV miniseries) - President [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]]
*''[[Backstairs at the White House]]'' (1979 TV miniseries) - President [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]]
*''[[M A S H (TV series)|M*A*S*H]]'' (1980 episode: "Father's Day") - Margaret Houlihan's father Col. Alvin 'Howitzer Al' Houlihan
*''[[M A S H (TV series)|M*A*S*H]]'' (1980 episode: "Father's Day") - Margaret Houlihan's father Col. Alvin 'Howitzer Al' Houlihan
*''[[Hart to Hart]]'' (1983 episode: "Bahama Bound Harts") - Loring Nichols
*''[[Hart to Hart]]'' (1983 episode: "Bahama Bound Harts") - Loring Nichols
*''[[Falcon Crest]]'' (1984 episode: “The Outcasts”) - Paul Hartford
*''[[Highway To Heaven]]'' (1985 episode: "An Investment in Caring") - Crawford
*''[[Highway To Heaven]]'' (1985 episode: "An Investment in Caring") - Crawford
*''[[Remington Steele]]'' (1986 episode: "Steele Blue Yonder") - Johnny Cooper


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Andrew Duggan
Duggan as a guest star on the ABC/Warner Brothers western television series, Lawman (1962)
Born(1923-12-28)December 28, 1923
Franklin, Indiana, U.S.
DiedMay 15, 1988(1988-05-15) (aged 64)
Hollywood, California, U.S.
Occupations
  • Actor
  • director
  • screenwriter
Years active1949–1987
Spouse
Elizabeth Logue
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(m. 1953)​
Children3

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.

Background

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Duggan was born in Franklin, Johnson County, Indiana. During World War II, he served in the United States Army 40th Special Services Company, led by actor Melvyn Douglas[1] in the China Burma India Theater of World War II. His contact with Douglas later led to his performing with Lucille Ball in the play Dreamgirl. Duggan developed a friendship with Broadway director Daniel Mann[2] on a troop ship when returning from the war. Duggan appeared on Broadway[3] in The Rose Tattoo, Gently Does It, Anniversary Waltz, Fragile Fox, and The Third Best Sport.

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]

On film, television, and stage

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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.

Peggy McCay, Ronnie Dapo, Carol Nicholson, Tramp the dog and Andrew Duggan, Tim Rooney and Ahna Capri in Room for One More (1962)

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 pilot FBI 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.

Duggan was cast on Jack Palance's ABC circus drama, The Greatest Show on Earth and the NBC medical drama about psychiatry, The Eleventh Hour in the role of Carl Quincy in the 1963 episode entitled "Four Feet in the Morning". He played the over-protective Police Chief Dixon in the 1963 spring break film Palm Springs Weekend, in which he attempts to prevent his daughter from seeing student Jim Munroe (Troy Donahue). In 1965, he appeared on David Janssen's ABC series, The Fugitive. Duggan had recurring roles on CBS's 90-minute Western, Cimarron Strip, and on ABC's The Great Adventure. He had a recurring role as General Ed Britt in the second and third seasons of the ABC war series, Twelve O'Clock High.

He performed in a pivotal supporting role in the 1964 film, Seven Days in May starring Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Ava Gardner and Fredric March, and played the U.S. President and an imposter in the 1967 film, In Like Flint with James Coburn. Duggan was cast in a 1964 episode of The Alfred Hitchcock Hour entitled "The McGregor Affair".

In 1966, he played Father Michael in "The Eighth Day", an episode of Bob 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 and Elizabeth Baur in Lancer (1968)

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.

In 1973, Duggan had a cameo appearance in the blaxploitation film Black Caesar. In 1974, he portrayed General Maxwell D. Taylor in the TV docudrama The Missiles Of October. He appeared as FBI Inspector Ryder in the 1975 NBC-TV movie Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan, and had roles in the 1976 TV miniseries Rich Man, Poor Man and Once an Eagle. In 1978, he appeared in the episode "And the Sea Shall Give Up Her Dead" of the NBC crime drama The Eddie Capra Mysteries. In 1980, he appeared as Sam Wiggins in the ABC television movie The Long Days of Summer.

One of Duggan's last roles was as Dwight D. Eisenhower in a TV biography called J. Edgar Hoover (1987), a role he had played earlier in the NBC miniseries, Backstairs at the White House (1979). He also played President Lyndon B. Johnson in a different biography of Hoover, The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover (1977). He played Judge Axel in A Return to Salem's Lot (1987).

Personal life

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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]

Partial filmography

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Film

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Television

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  • 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.
  • Wagon Train (1957 first episode)
  • Gunsmoke (1957 episode: "Cheap Labor") - Fos Capper (S2E32)
  • Decision (1958 episode: "The Virginian") - Ben Stocker (S1E1)
  • Maverick (1961 episode: "The Ice Man") - Calvin Powers
  • Bonanza (1964 episode: "The Lila Conrad Story") - Judge David Knowlton
  • Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1964 episode: "The McGregor Affair") - McGregor
  • The Big Valley 2 episodes: "Forty Rifles" as Wallant and "The Haunted Gun" as Senator Jud Robson
  • 12 O’Clock High (series 2/3, Major General Ed Britt)
  • The Fugitive (1966 episode: "Shadow of the Swan") - Harry Anderson
  • Gunsmoke (1965 episode: "Gilt Guilt") - Crail (S10E31)
  • The FBI (1967 episode: "A Question of Guilt") - Lt. Harris
  • The Invaders (1967 episode: "Doomsday Minus One") - General Theodore Beaumont
  • Lancer (TV series) (1968-1970) Murdoch Lancer
  • Hawaii Five-O (1968 Episode: "The Cocoon")
  • The Homecoming: A Christmas Story (1971 TV movie) - John Walton, Sr.
  • Mission Impossible (1971 episode: "A Ghost Story") - Justin Bainbridge
  • Mannix (1971 episode: "The Man Outside") - General Alec Holt
  • Cannon (1972 episode: "The Endangered Species") as Bill Coates, (1976 episode: "The Quasar Kill") as Dr. Lawrence
  • McMillan and Wife (1972 episode: "Terror Times Two") - Frank Carstairs
  • Hawaii Five-O (1973 episode "Death With Father") - Cliff Morgan
  • The Streets of San Francisco (1974 episode: "Target: Red")
  • Hawaii Five-O (1978 episode: "The Sleeper", 1979 episode: "Use a Gun, Go to Hell")
  • Wonder Woman (1979 episode: "The Starships Are Coming") - Mason Steele
  • Backstairs at the White House (1979 TV miniseries) - President Dwight D. Eisenhower
  • M*A*S*H (1980 episode: "Father's Day") - Margaret Houlihan's father Col. Alvin 'Howitzer Al' Houlihan
  • Hart to Hart (1983 episode: "Bahama Bound Harts") - Loring Nichols
  • Falcon Crest (1984 episode: “The Outcasts”) - Paul Hartford
  • Highway To Heaven (1985 episode: "An Investment in Caring") - Crawford
  • Remington Steele (1986 episode: "Steele Blue Yonder") - Johnny Cooper

References

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  1. ^ "Andrew Duggan Death". Toledo Blade. May 17, 1988.
  2. ^ "Daniel Mann". Internet Broadway Database. Retrieved May 29, 2010.
  3. ^ "IBDB Andrew Duggan". Internet Broadway Database. Retrieved May 29, 2010.
  4. ^ Archived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Machine: "1988 - Ziebart Rust Protection - Rust in Peace". YouTube. December 5, 2012.
  5. ^ Ingrid, Beacham (March 4, 1960). "Bourbon Absinthe House is the Real Thing". The Southeast Missiourian.
  6. ^ "Andrew Duggan is Lancer in Series". Herald-Tribune. December 8, 1968.
  7. ^ Person Jr., James E. (2005). Earl Hamner: From Walton's Mountain To Tomorrow. Cumberland House Publishing. p. 21. ISBN 978-1-58182-455-1.
  8. ^ "Elizabeth Logue". Internet Broadway Database. Retrieved May 29, 2010.
  9. ^ 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
  10. ^ Andrew L., Yarrow (May 18, 1988). "Andrew Duggan, an Actor on TV, Stage and the Screen, Dies at 64". The New York Times.
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