Bill Raisch - wikipedia Bill Raisch This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. ( November 2013 ) Bill Raisch as the One - Armed Man in The Fugitive Carl William Raisch ( April 5, 1905 -- July 31, 1984 ), was an American dancer and actor, known as the One - Armed Man pursued by Richard Kimble ( David Janssen ) on the 1963 -- 1967 TV series The Fugitive. Contents 1 Early life 2 Career 3 References 4 External links Early life Bill Raisch was from North Bergen, New Jersey. Career A dancer who worked for Ziegfeld Follies in the 1930s, he lost his right arm while serving in World War II. He played bit parts in several movies including a 1953 appearance in the ending of The War Of The Worlds where he is in a crowd scene after the first martian machine crashes. His first memorable film role was in a famous fight scene with Kirk Douglas in Lonely are the Brave ( 1962 ). Raisch 's best remembered role, however, was in the 1963 -- 1967 TV series The Fugitive, in which he played `` The One - Armed Man '' ( who frequently went by the alias Fred Johnson ) who was the real killer of the wife of Dr. Richard Kimble, played by David Janssen. Raisch worked for many years as an acting teacher, and also had a long professional relationship with Burt Lancaster, working as Lancaster 's stand - in in several movies. After The Fugitive ended, Raisch was scarcely seen on TV or the media again as he focused on his career as an acting teacher. He died of lung cancer in 1984 in Santa Monica, California, at age 79. References ^ Jump up to : Whitty, Stephen ( May 18, 2013 ). `` Family Viewing : ' Lonely Are the Brave ' ''. NJ.com. External links Biography portal Bill Raisch on IMDb BNE : XX4907172 ISNI : 0000 0001 1938 7207 VIAF : 107572541 Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bill_Raisch&oldid=845194230 '' Categories : 1905 births 1984 deaths American amputees American people of German descent American male television actors Deaths from cancer in California Deaths from lung cancer People from North Bergen, New Jersey United States Navy sailors Burials at Woodlawn Memorial Cemetery, Santa Monica 20th - century American male actors Hidden categories : Articles needing additional references from November 2013 All articles needing additional references All articles with unsourced statements Articles with unsourced statements from September 2013 Articles with unsourced statements from May 2011 Wikipedia articles with BNE identifiers Wikipedia articles with ISNI identifiers Wikipedia articles with VIAF identifiers Talk Contents About Wikipedia Español Français Nederlands Occitan Polski Edit links This page was last edited on 10 June 2018, at 02 : 56 ( UTC ). About Wikipedia

Question: who played one armed man in the fugitive
Answer: Carl William Raisch