John Russell

John Russell (1921-1991) was an actor known for his work in Westerns, starring as Marshall Dan Troop on Lawman (1958-1962). In the 1980s, he voiced the Bridgekeeper in three animated segments on Sesame Street.
Russell had supporting film roles in the 1940s, often as cowboys or soldiers in movies like Yellow Sky and The Last Command, before starring on the syndicated TV series Soldiers of Fortune (1957). Guest roles on Warner Bros. Westerns Cheyenne, Sugarfoot, and Maverick led to Lawman. More movie Westerns followed, including Rio Bravo (with John Wayne), Fort Massacre, Buckskin, and The Outlaw Josey Wales (Clint Eastwood). 
Russell's work flow slowed in the later seventies, although he was a regular on the second season of Filmation's Saturday morning series Jason of Star Command (as the blue-skinned commander). He returned in the eighties with cameos in Western-nostalgia fueled episodes of Simon & Simon and The Fall Guy and working with Clint Eastwood again in Honkytonk Man and as the villain in Pale Rider. 
==External links==
*IMDb
__NOWYSIWYG__
Category:Celebrities
Category:Animated Voice Actors