# Sandy Kenyon

Sandy Kenyon (born Sanford Klein; August 5, 1922 – February 20, 2010) was an American actor of film and television. He appeared as a guest actor on numerous television series, including a recurring role on the 1961 TV series, The Americans. He was also the original voice of Jon Arbuckle, voicing the character in the first Garfield special Here Comes Garfield.

## Early years

Kenyon was born in The Bronx, New York, and served as a pilot in the U.S. Army Air Forces during World War II.

## Career

Kenyon co-starred as Des Smith in the syndicated television drama Crunch and Des (1956), and portrayed Cashbox Potter in the syndicated adventure series Major Del Conway of the Flying Tigers (1953).$^{:643}$ Among the many television series in which he guest starred are the westerns: The Rifleman, Colt .45, Yancy Derringer, Have Gun-Will Travel, The Tall Man, Gunsmoke, and Bonanza.
In 1960, Kenyon was cast as a pre-presidential Abraham Lincoln in the episode "No Bridge on the River" of the NBC western series, Riverboat. In the story line, Grey Holden (Darren McGavin) sues the railroad when his vessel, the Enterprise, strikes a rail bridge atop the Mississippi River on a dark, stormy night; Lincoln is the attorney representing the railroad. Tyler McVey is cast as a judge and Denver Pyle as Jim Bledsoe.
In 1961, Kenyon was cast in the role of Ritter on The Americans, a 17-episode NBC series about how the American Civil War divided families.
In the 1963-1964 season, Kenyon was cast as Shep Baggott in a recurring role in five episodes of the ABC western series, The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters$^{:1105}$.
Other series in which Kenyon appeared include: Richard Diamond, Private Detective; The Fugitive; Room for One More; All in the Family; Gunsmoke; The Dick Van Dyke Show (including the 2004 reunion special "159th Episode"); That Girl; The Partridge Family; Hogan's Heroes; Adam-12; Kung Fu; Peter Gunn; Quincy, M.E.; Knots Landing; Designing Women and The Twilight Zone.
In the film MacArthur (1977), he portrays General Jonathan M. Wainwright, who survived spending most of World War II in a Japanese POW camp. His other films included Al Capone (1959); Easy Come, Easy Go (1967); Tom Sawyer (1973); Breezy (1973); When Time Ran Out (1980); The Loch Ness Horror (1981); Lifepod (1981); and Down on Us (1989).
He voiced Jon Arbuckle in the first Garfield animated television special, Here Comes Garfield.

## Stage productions

Kenyon performed in the world premiere stage production of Edna St. Vincent Millay's Conversation at Midnight in Los Angeles, in 1961, in a cast that included James Coburn, Jack Albertson, Eduard Franz, and John Marley. The play opened at the Coronet Theatre, but was so successful that after two months it moved to the larger 550-seat Civic Playhouse, running for 6 months altogether. Robert Gist directed the production by Worley Thorne in association with Susan Davis. Three years later, Gist and Thorne re-created the production, which again included Kenyon, in Broadway's Billy Rose Theatre, where—under-financed, unable to afford promotion, or wait for word-of-mouth to kick in, and lacking the charisma and virtuoso acting of James Coburn—it ran for just eight previews and four performances. Kenyon also appeared in regional theatre in Los Angeles.

## Death

Kenyon died of kidney cancer at the age of 87 at his home in Los Angeles.

## Filmography
### Film

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1959 | Al Capone | Bones Corelli | |
| 1966 | Nevada Smith | Clerk in Bank | |
| 1967 | Easy Come, Easy Go | Schwartz | |
| 1972 | Sweet Kill | Newscaster | |
| 1973 | Tom Sawyer | Constable Clemmens | |
| 1973 | Breezy | Real Estate Agent | |
| 1975 | Rancho Deluxe | Skinny Face | Uncredited |
| 1977 | MacArthur | General Wainwright | |
| 1980 | When Time Ran Out | Henderson | |
| 1981 | Lifepod | Dematte | |
| 1982 | The Loch Ness Horror | Professor George Sanderson | |
| 1984 | Down on Us | Alex Stanley | |
| 1984 | Blame It on the Night | Colonel | |
| 1998 | The Scottish Tale | Arthur Golding | |
| 2008 | The Onion Movie | Alzheimers Guy in Crowd | |
| 2009 | Little Fish, Strange Pond | Elderly Man | (final film role) |

### Television

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1950 | Lux Video Theatre | Coastguardsman Fireman #1 | Episode: "Shadow on the Heart" Episode: "The Token" |
| 1951 | The Philco Television Playhouse | | Episode: "Rescue" Episode: "Women of Intrigue" |
| 1952 | Hallmark Hall of Fame | Dale Duncan | Episode: "Woman with a Sword" Episode: "The Last Command" |
| 1952 | The Doctor | | Episode: "Time to Kill" |
| 1954 | Johnny Jupiter | | Episode: "The Physical Examination" |
| 1954 | Studio One | John Carter | Episode: "An Almanac of Liberty" |
| 1955 | Armstrong Circle Theatre | | Episode: "Crisis" |
| 1956, 1957 | Robert Montgomery Presents | | Episode: "Soldier from the Wars Returning" Episode: "His Name Was Death" |
| 1956, 1957, 1958 | The Phil Silvers Show | Man in Box Office Crowd (uncredited) Charlie Pete Summers | Episode: "The Girl from Italy" Episode: "The Mess Hall Mess" Episode: "Bilko the Male Model" |
| 1958 | The Silent Service | Charlie Yeoman Harris | Episode: "The Pargo's Lucky Seventh" Episode: "The Sandshark Story" |
| 1958 | Northwest Passage | Capt. Nathan Hill | Episode: "Break Out" |
| 1958 | Yancy Derringer | Willy Nilly | Episode: "An Ace Called Spade" Episode: "The Saga of Lonesome Jackson" |
| 1958 | Steve Canyon | Lt. Michelson | Episode: "Operation Crash Landing" |
| 1958, 1959 | Playhouse 90 | Billy The Deputy Martinson | Episode: "A Town Has Turned to Dust" Episode: "Old Man" Episode: "The Tunnel" |
| 1958, 1961, 1963, 1965, 1968 | Gunsmoke | Green Ak Docker Bennings Catlin | Episode: "Stage Hold-Up" Episode: "Big Man" Episode: "I Call Him Wonder" Episode: "The New Society" Episode: "Lobo" |
| 1959 | Rawhide | Storekeeper | Episode: "Incident of the Power and the Plow" |
| 1959 | Richard Diamond, Private Detective | Lt. Harry Baker | Episode: "Body of the Crime" Episode: "Boomerang Bait" |
| 1959 | Colt .45 | | Episode: "The Escape" |
| 1959 | The Thin Man | Jim Spyder | Episode: "Nora Goes Over the Wall" |
| 1959 | Alcoa Presents: One Step Beyond | Tim Berryman (Reporter) | Episode: "Front Runner" |
| 1959 | Alcoa Theatre | Ellsworth Show | Episode: "Goodbye Johnny" Episode: "Boyden vs. Bunty (Dear Mom, Dear Dad)" Episode: "The Day the Devil Hid" |
| 1959 | Tightrope! | Jeff Stewart | Episode: "Two Private Eyes" |
| 1959 | The Big Story | Eddie | Episode: "The Hackie Shakedown" |
| 1959, 1960 | Peter Gunn | Ed Mooney Charlie Barnes | Episode: "The Ugly Frame" Episode: "Wings of an Angel" |
| 1959, 1960 | Riverboat | Jeb Grant Abraham Lincoln | Episode: "About Roger Mowbray" Episode: "No Bridge on the River" |
| 1960 | The Rifleman | Jim Profit | Episode: "Mail Order Groom" |
| 1960 | The Chevy Mystery Show | Eddie | Episode: "Thunder of Silence" |
| 1960, 1961 | Have Gun – Will Travel | Rio Jones Orator Oudry Jeb Turner | Episode: "Fight at Adobe Wells" Episode: "Out at the Old Ball Park" Episode: "Squatter's Rights" |
| 1961 | The Americans | Ritter | Episode: "The Regular" Episode: "On to Richmond" |
| 1961 | Gunslinger | Willoughby | Episode: "Zone" |
| 1961 | The Tall Man | Sam Nayfack | Episode: "An Item for Auction" |
| 1961, 1962 | Dr. Kildare | Dr. William Galdi | Episode: "Winter Harvest" Episode: "The Horn of Plenty" |
| 1961, 1963 | The Twilight Zone | Navigator Hatch Frank Henderson The Attendant | Episode: "The Odyssey of Flight 33" Episode: "The Shelter" Episode: "Valley of the Shadow" |
| 1962 | Cain's Hundred | Waldo | Episode: "Take a Number: Jack Garsell" |
| 1962 | Thriller | Mason | Episode: "The Hollow Watcher" |
| 1962 | Room for One More | Bruce | Episode: "Our Man in Brazil" |
| 1962 | Checkmate | George Diedrich | Episode: "The Someday Man" |
| 1962 | The Law and Mr. Jones | Wally Dawson | Episode: "What Can You Learn from Smoke Signals?" |
| 1962 | Sam Benedict | Hank | Episode: "Hannigan" |
| 1962 | Wide Country | Walt | Episode: "The Royce Bennett Story" |
| 1962, 1965 | The Dick Van Dyke Show | Doctor Allergist Lionel Dann Policeman Cox | Episode: "The Attempted Marriage" Episode: "Gesundheit, Darling" Episode: "Baby Fat" Episode: "Br-rooom, Br-rooom" Episode: "You're Under Arrest" |
| 1963 | The Eleventh Hour | Jason Criley | Episode "The Bride Wore Pink" |
| 1963, 1964 | The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters | Shep Baggott | Episode: "The Day of Leaving" Episode: "The Day of the Flying Dutchman" Episode: "The Day of the Pawnees" Episode: "The Day of the Picnic" |
| 1963, 1964 | The Great Adventure | Capt. James Fletcher Lt. Gators | Episode: "The Story of Nathan Hale" Episode: "The Colonel from Connecticut" Episode: "Escape" |
| 1963, 1964 | Death Valley Days | Plowman Spencer | Episode: "With Honesty and Integrity" Episode: "The Quiet and the Fury" |
| 1963, 1967, 1968, 1970, 1971 | The Virginian | Professor Bert Robinson Ben Robbins Rafe Ogden Constable Stokes | Episode: "The Fatal Journey" Episode: "The Girl on the Pinto" Episode: "Image of an Outlaw" Episode: "Holocaust" Episode: "The Politician" |
| 1964 | The Outer Limits | Prof. Henry Craif | Episode: "Counterweight" |
| 1964 | Profiles in Courage | Daniel Webster | Episode: "Daniel Webster" |
| 1964, 1965 | The Fugitive | Sheriff Morris Kyle | Episode: "Angels Travel on Lonely Roads" Episode: "Corner of Hell" |
| 1964, 1970 | Bonanza | Charlie Gibson Eliah Meek | Episode: "Square Deal Sam" Episode: "Caution: Easter Bunny Crossing" |
| 1965 | The Wild Wild West | Hugo | Episode: "Sudden Death" |
| 1965 | Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. | Army Sergeant | Episode: "Gomer Un-Trains a Dog" |
| 1965 | Convoy | Dr. Reece | Episode: "The Heart of an Enemy" |
| 1966 | A Man Called Shenandoah | Matthew Crawson | Episode: "Run, Killer, Run" |
| 1966 | The Donna Reed Show | Clerk | Episode: "Do It Yourself Donna" |
| 1966 | Gidget | Rick Farmer | Episode: "Gidget's Career" |
| 1966, 1967 | Love on a Rooftop | Jim Lucas | Episode: "My Husband, the Knight" Episode: "The Six Dollar Surprise" Episode: "The Fifty Dollar Misunderstanding" Episode: "King of the Castle" Episode: "One Too Many Cooks" |
| 1966, 1967 | The Andy Griffith Show | George Hollander | Episode: "Goober Makes History" Episode: "Opie Steps Up in Class" |
| 1966, 1967, 1969, 1971 | Hogan's Heroes | Maj. Hans Kuehn Col. Bessler SS Maj. Bock Capt. Bohrmann Col. Hauptmann | Episode: "The 43rd, a Moving Story" Episode: "Don't Forget to Write" Episode: "Hot Money" Episode: "The Big Picture" Episode: "Klink for the Defense" |
| 1967 | I Spy | Barnes | Episode: "Casanova from Canarsie" |
| 1967 | The Invaders | Alien Leader | Episode: "The Saucer" |
| 1967, 1969 | Judd for the Defense | Bernard Sandrow Sgt. Shanley | Episode: "A Civil Case of Murder" Episode: "Borderline Girl" |
| 1967, 1969 | That Girl | Ed Burns Mr. Becker | Episode: "Pass the Potatoes, Ethel Merman" Episode: "Mission Improbable" |
| 1968 | Something for a Lonely Man | Bleeck | TV movie |
| 1970 | The Name of the Game | Goldstone | Episode: "The Other Kind of Spy" |
| 1970 | The Bold Ones: The New Doctors | Peterson | Episode: "This Will Really Kill You" |
| 1970 | The Most Deadly Game | Dr. Fred Herbert | Episode: "Breakdown" |
| 1970 | Bracken's World | George Rennick | Episode: "Nude Scene" |
| 1970 | Ironside | Bucky Crawford Kinney | Episode: "Eden Is the Place We Leave" Episode: "Blackout" |
| 1970, 1972 | The Doris Day Show | Randolph Zeke Kraley | Episode: "A Woman's Intuition" Episode: "There's a Horse Thief in Every Family Tree" |
| 1970, 1973 | Mannix | Hammel Liquor Store Owner | Episode: "A Chance at the Roses" Episode: "The Gang's All Here" |
| 1971 | The Partridge Family | Father | Episode: "Road Song" |
| 1971 | The Mod Squad | Bert Petrie | Episode: "Exit the Closer" |
| 1971, 1975, 1978 | All in the Family | Dave the Cop Jim Kitchener Herb | Episode: "Archie Is Worried About His Job" Episode: "Archie the Hero" Episode: "Bogus Bills" |
| 1972 | Me and the Chimp | Cop #2 | Episode: "My Pet, the Thief" |
| 1972, 1974 | Cannon | Matt Seaver Oscar | Episode: "A Long Way Down" Episode: "Photo Finish" |
| 1972, 1978 | Insight | Bert Manager | Episode: "Killer" Episode: "The Flawed Magi" |
| 1973 | The New Dick Van Dyke Show | Sgt. Mulvaney | Episode: "Pot Luck" |
| 1973 | The Streets of San Francisco | Roy Chaffee | Episode: "A Room with a View" |
| 1973 | The Delphi Bureau | McIntyre | Episode: "The Day of Justice Project" |
| 1973 | Columbo | Harris | Episode: "Candidate for Crime" |
| 1973, 1976 | Barnaby Jones | Benjamin Wright Walter Gideon | Episode: "Echo of a Murder" Episode: "Silent Vendetta" |
| 1974 | Kung Fu | Sheriff | Episode: "The Gunman" |
| 1974 | Dusty's Trail | Virgil | Episode: "Wizard of Ooze" |
| 1974 | A Case of Rape | Mike Bracken | TV movie |
| 1974 | Petrocelli | Morrow | Episode: "Music to Die By" |
| 1974 | Apple's Way | Al Werner | Episode: "The Flag" |
| 1974 | Adam-12 | Jack Tennison | Episode: "Excessive Force" |
| 1974 | The Rookies | Officer Bell | Episode: "Take Over" |
| 1975 | Barbary Coast | Sorensen | Episode: "Irish Luck" |
| 1975 | Happy Days | Uncle Tom | Episode: "Three on a Porch" |
| 1976 | Maude | Fred | Episode: "Walter's Stigma" |
| 1976 | The Rockford Files | Mitchell | Episode: "Joey Blue Eyes" |
| 1976 | M*A*S*H | Master Sgt. Woodruff | Episode: "Lt. Radar O'Reilly" |
| 1976 | Wonderbug | Holloway | Episode: "The Not So Great Race" |
| 1977 | The Last Hurrah | Kane | TV movie |
| 1977 | The Bionic Woman | Dr. Yvon Sanders | Episode: "Max" |
| 1977 | Police Woman | Fowler | Episode: "Screams" |
| 1978 | What's Happening!! | Mr. Davidson | Episode: "Going, Going, Gong" |
| 1978 | The Waltons | Willis | Episode: "The Return" |
| 1978, 1979 | Lou Grant | Eddie Talbert | Episode: "Sports" Episode: "Gambling" |
| 1980 | Eight Is Enough | Joe Jackson | Episode: "Strike" |
| 1981 | Meeting of Minds | Adam Smith | Episode: "Margaret Sanger/Mahatma Gandhi/Adam Smith" |
| 1982 | Quincy, M.E. | Capt. McKenna | Episode: "Smoke Screen" |
| 1982 | Here Comes Garfield | Jon Arbuckle (voice) | TV special |
| 1982 | Hart to Hart | Louis | Episode: "A Christmas Heart" |
| 1984, 1985 | Knots Landing | Rev. Kathrun | 8 episodes |
| 1985 | Airwolf | | Episode: "Natural Born" |
| 1985 | The Romance of Betty Boop | Uncle Mischa Bubbles (voice) | TV special |
| 1985 | Crazy Like a Fox | | Episode: "Desert Fox" |
| 1988 | Sledge Hammer! | Hearing Chairman | Episode: "It Happened What Night?" |
| 1988 | War and Remembrance | Ed Flynn | Episode: "Part IV" Episode: "Part V" |
| 1989 | Designing Women | Bud Frazier | Episode: "Odell" |
| 1990 | Good Grief | | Episode: "Mooses, Masons, and the Secret Life of Trees" |
| 1994 | Garfield and Friends | Additional voice | Episode: "The Suburban Jungle/The Thing in the Box/The Feline Philosopher" |
| 1998 | Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction | Mr. Mumbles | Episode: "The Wall/The Chalkboard/The Getaway/The Prescription/Summer Camp" |