1959 Wagon Train
Regular Cast: Ward Bond, Robert Horton,
Terry Wilson, Frank McGrath
Episode: The Stagecoach Story (September 30, 1959)
Season 3 - Episode 1
Also Starring: Clu Gulager, Debra Paget, Lalo Rios,
Abraham Sofaer |
Henry on the left as "Benito DeVarga"
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Notes:
Henry, credited here as Henry
Delgado, played "Benito DeVarga" in his television debut on
this episode of Wagon Train. This popular NBC
series ran from 1957-1965. In 1962 Wagon Train
migrated to ABC, expanded from 60 minutes to 90 minutes, and
went from black & white to color. It was the story of
a wagon train traveling from Missouri to California.
This episode included HC guest, Abraham Sofaer. HC
stunt men, Red Morgan and Henry Wills also worked on
Wagon Train. |
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1966 The Iron
Horse
Regular Cast: Dale Robertson, Gary Collins,
Robert Random, Roger Torrey
Henry played "Cougar Man" |
Episode: Cougar Man (October 24, 1966)
Season 1 - Episode 7
Directors: Samuel Fuller, Murray Golden
Writers: Mort Lewis, Robert Sabaroff, George Slavin
Also Starring: Rodolfo Acosta, Richard Hale, Morgan Woodward
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Notes:
Henry played the
title role of "Cougar Man" in this episode of The Iron
Horse, the story of the building of an 1880's railroad
line through the West. The series ran for 47 episodes
over two seasons. This episode also included HC cast
member, Rodolfo Acosta and HC guest, Morgan Woodward.
HC stunt men on this series included Bob Hoy and Steven
Burnett. |
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1966 Gunsmoke
Regular Cast:
James Arness,
Dennis Weaver,
Milburn Stone,
Amanda Blake,
Burt Reynolds,
Ken Curtis
Episode: The Hanging (December 31, 1966)
Season 12 - Episode 15
Director: Bernard L. Kowalski
Also Starring: Richard Bakalyan, Byron Foulger,
Edmund Hashim, Robert Knapp,
Anna Navarro, Kit Smythe, Tom Stern,
Larry Ward, Morgan Woodward
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As "Oro" in The Hanging |
Notes:
Henry is now using his new stage name, Henry Darrow, in the
starring guest role as "Oro" in this morality play about an
unwilling hangman. One of the longest running television series,
Gunsmoke ran on CBS for twenty
years from 1955 to 1974 with James Arness in the lead role
the whole time. It began as half-hour episodes and
expanded to an hour in 1961. In 1966 it switched from
black & white to color. Like most long running
Westerns, most of the HC actors appeared on Gunsmoke at one
time or another. This episode included HC guests,
Morgan Woodward and Anna Navarro. Stunt work was contributed by HC
actors/stuntmen, Bob Hoy, Jerry Summers, Neil Summers, Alex
Sharp, Bob Terhune, Steve Raines, Red Morgan, Roy Jenson,
Loren Janes, Jerry Gatlin, Richard Farnsworth and Carl Pitti. |
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1967 The Wild,
Wild West
Regular Cast:
Robert Conrad
Ross Martin
Michael Dunn
Roy Engel
Episode:
The Night of the Tottering Tontine (Jan.
6, 1967)
Season 2 - Episode 16
Also Starring: Robert Emhardt, Steve Gravers, Ted Stanhope,
Mike Road, Arthur Space, William Wintersole,
Harry Townes, Wilhelm von Homburg, Lisa Pera,
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Henry as "Maurice" |
Notes:
Henry played
"Archduke Maurice of Moldafia" in this second season episode
of the popular CBS Western-Spy series that ran from
1965-1969. It used a 60-minute format that began as
black & white but switched to color in 1966. |
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1967 Gunsmoke
Regular Cast:
James Arness,
Dennis Weaver,
Milburn Stone,
Amanda Blake,
Burt Reynolds,
Ken Curtis
Episode: Ladies from St. Louis (March 25, 1967)
Season 12 - Episode 27
Also Starring: Claude Akins, Lew Brown, John Carter,
Aneta Corsaut, Josephine Hutchinson
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Henry as Ross Segurra |
Notes:
Henry plays a
rather nasty character, "Ross Segurra", in his second
appearance on Gunsmoke. HC guest, Lew Brown,
also appears in this episode. |
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1967 Bonanza
Regular Cast:
Lorne Greene,
Michael Landon,
Dan Blocker
Pernell Roberts,
Victor Sen Yung
Episode: Amigo (February 12, 1967)
Season 8 - Episode 22
Director: William F. Claxton
Also Starring: Tim Herbert, Warren J. Kemmerling,
Troy Melton, Anna Navarro,
Grandon Rhodes, Robert Stevenson,
Gregory Walcott
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Henry as "Amigo" |
Notes:
Henry plays the
title role of "Amigo", a bandit with a good heart, in this
episode of David Dortort's
sister series, Bonanza, that ran on NBC from 1959-73.
Nearly everyone involved with HC is credited with
contributions to Bonanza as well. This episode
included HC
guests, Gregory Walcott, Anna Navarro, Warren J. Kemmerling, and Troy Melton. HC stuntmen
who worked on Bonanza during its run included
Henry Wills, Bob Hoy, Jerry Summers, Jerry Gatlin, Bob
Herron, Whitey Hughes, Troy Melton, Alex Sharp, Neil
Summers, Bob Terhune, Jack Williams, Jay Jones, and Carl
Pitti. |
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1967 Daniel Boone
Regular Cast: Fess Parker, Ed Ames,
Patricia Blair,
Darby Hinton,
Dal McKennon,
Veronica Cartwright |
Episode: Take the Southbound Stage (April 6, 1967)
Season 3 - Episode 27
Also Starring: Paul Brinegar, Mabel Albertson,
Karl Bruck, Alan Carney,
Robert Donner, Sarah Marshall,
Arnold Moss
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Notes:
Henry plays
"Gideon" in this episode of the popular Daniel Boone
series that ran on NBC for six seasons from 1964 to 1970.
HC actors and stunt men who contributed stunt work over the
course of this series included Chuck Bail, Steven Burnett,
Tony Epper, Orwin C. Harvey, Charles Horvath, Bob Hoy, Loren
Janes, Roy Jenson, Red Morgan, Walter Scott, Neil Summers,
Bob Terhune, and Jack Williams. |
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1978 Centennial
Director: Henry Falk, Paul
Krasny, Bernard McEveety, Virgil Vogel
Writer: James Michener
Starring: Richard Chamberlain, Raymond Burr, Timothy Dalton,
Robert Conrad, Alex Karras,
William Atherton, Robert Vaughn, Dennis Weaver, Andy Griffith, Mark
Harmon |
Notes:
Henry played "Alvarez", one of more than 100 speaking roles in this
ambitious 12-part mini-series based on the James Michener
novel about the town of Centennial, Colorado. Numerous
HC actors participated including Chief Dan George, Morgan
Woodward, Alan Caillou, Alan Vint, Dave Cass, Lou Frizzell,
Michael Ansara, Ed Bakey, Robert Do'Qui, Clint Ritchie, and
Joaquin Martinez. Stunt contributions from Dave Cass,
Tony Epper, and Neil Summers. |
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1981 The New
Adventures of Zorro
Regular Cast: Henry Darrow, Julio Medina,
Eric Mason, Don Diamond,
Christine Avila, Socorro Valdez,
Carl Rivas, Ismael 'East' Carlo
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Henry as the voice of
Zorro |
Notes:
This was an
animated version of the Zorro legend with Henry Darrow as
the voice of Don Diego/Zorro. There were thirteen
30-minute episodes. This was the first time that a
Latino was cast for the part of Don Diego/Zorro. |
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1983 Zorro and Son
Regular Cast: Henry Darrow, Paul Regina,
Bill Dana,
Gregory Sierra, Richard Beauchamp,
Barney Martin, John Moschitta Jr.,
Catherine Parks
Directors:
Gabrielle Beaumont and Alan Myerson
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Henry as Zorro in his
mature years |
Notes:
Henry played
Zorro (Don Diego de Vega), twenty-five years after his prime
in this short-lived comedic "next-generation" series
produced by Disney Studios that ran for only five episodes
in 1983. This was also the first non-animated
production to cast a Latino was cast in the role of Don Diego/Zorro. HC guest, Gregory Sierra also
had a regular cast role. |
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1990-1994 Zorro
Regular Cast: Duncan Regehr, Patrice
Martinez,
James Victor, Michael Tylo,
J.G. Hertzler, Juan Diego Botto,
Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Henry Darrow
Directors:
Ray Austin, Peter Diamond, Michael Levine,
Robert McCullough, Donald Paonessa,
Ron Satlof, Michael Vejar
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Henry as Don Alejandro de la Vega |
Notes:
Henry played one
of the regular cast roles as Don Alejandro de la Vega, the
father of Zorro, for seasons two through four of this Family
Channel series that ran for four seasons from 1990 to 1993.
He is the only actor to have played a part in three
different versions of the legend. Filmed in Spain,
this series was widely acclaimed as one of the best
television renditions of the Zorro legend, with much
attention to locations, sets, and costuming. There were 88
30-minute episodes, but several have been compiled into two
movie length features, "Zorro: The Legend Begins" and
"Zorro: Conspiracy of Blood". The full series has not
yet been released. |
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1994 Maverick
Director: Richard Donner
Writers: Roy Huggins, William Goldman
Starring: Mel Gibson, Jodie Foster, James Garner,
Graham Greene, Alfred Molina, James Coburn,
Linda Hunt, Margot Kidder, Reba McEntire,
Waylon Jennings, Clint Black |
Henry as a "Riverboat Poker Player" |
Notes: Henry plays one of several high rolling
poker players in the climax scene that included several
other former Western television stars including Doug
McClure, Will Hutchins, Paul Brinegar, and Robert Fuller.
The movie brought James Garner back to play the father of
Maverick (Mel Gibson), a role he made famous in the
television series of the same name. Other HC actors
included Dub Taylor, Denver Pyle, Leo Gordon, Charles
Dierkop, |
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