1958
The Rough Riders
Regular Cast: Kent Taylor
Jan Merlin
Peter Whitney |
Episode: The Counterfeiters (Dec 11, 1958)
Season 1 - Episode 11
Director: Eddie Davis
Writers: George and Gertrude Fass
Also Starring: John Vivyan, Nancy Hadley,
House Peters, Jr., George Aldredge
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Notes:
A 30-minute
Western that ran on ABC for 39 episodes from October 1958 to July 1959, this was
Ted's screen debut followed quickly by several other guest appearances on other
television Westerns. It was the story of two Union and one Confederate
soldier who team up after the war to head west. |
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1958
The Restless
Gun
Regular Cast:
John Payne |
Episode: Peligroso (Dec 15, 1958)
Season 2 - Episode 12
Director: Christian Nyby
Also Starring: Robert Fuller, Marcia Henderson, Dabbs Greer,
Trevor Bardette, and Ashley Cowan
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Notes:
Ted plays "Collie
Smith" in this second season episode that was HC
creator David Dortort's debut as a producer. Dortort also wrote the screenplay
for the pilot of this 30-minute Western that ran on NBC for 78 episodes from
March 1957 to June 1959. It was the story of Vint Bonner, a legendary fast gun
whose reputation won't let him give up the business.
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1959
Buckskin
Regular Cast: Tommy Nolan
Sally Brophy
Michael Road
Shirley Knight
Michael Lipton |
Episode: Coup Stick (February 2, 1959)
Season 1 - Episode 23
Director: Earl Bellamy
Also Starring: Frank de Kova,
Cris Roberts
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Notes:
Ted played
"Nestor" in this episode of NBC's 30-minute Western about a
Montana boarding house that ran for only 39 episodes during
the 1958-59 season. HC guest, Frank de Kova, has a
guest star role in this episode. |
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1959
Have Gun Will Travel
Regular Cast:
Richard Boone
Kam Tong
Lisa Lu |
Episode: Incident at Borasca Bend (March
9, 1959)
Season 2 - Episode 27
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
Writer: Jay Simms
Also Starring: Jacques Aubuchon, Perry Cook,
Ben Wright, Ed Faulkner, Stewart East
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Ted as Patterson
swears Paladin in. |
Ted with
Richard Boone as Paladin |
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Notes:
Ted plays
"Patterson", one of several rather dim-witted
miners in this episode of Have Gun Will Travel,
a popular 30-minute Western that ran on CBS from 1957 to
1963. Richard Boone starred as "Paladin", a dapper
gunslinger who only used his gun as a last resort.
Jerry Summers, Alex Sharp, Red Morgan, and Charles Horvath
were some of the HC stuntmen who had contributions over the
course of the series.
The full series is now available on DVD in excellent black &
white quality. |
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1959
The Man from Blackhawk
Regular Cast: Robert Rockwell |
Episode: Death is the Best Policy (December 18, 1959)
Season 1 - Episode 11
Director: John Peyser
Writer: Eric Freiwald
Also Starring: Walter Burke, Virginia Christine
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Notes:
Ted played "Early
Schuler" in this episode of another
short-lived 30-minute Western. It ran for 37 episodes
on ABC, about an insurance investigator who traveled the
West in the 1880's. |
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1960
Have Gun Will Travel
Regular Cast: Richard Boone
Kam Tong
Lisa Lu
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Episode: The Search (June 18, 1960)
Season 3 - Episode 39
Director: Richard Boone
Writers: Sloan Nibley and Frank R. Pierson
Also Starring: Charles Aidman, Wright King, Perry Cook,
Peggy Rea, Earle Hodgins, Tex Lambert
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Ted Markland as "Shorty" |
Ted with Paladin, played
by Richard Boone |
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Notes:
In this, his
second appearance on Have Gun Will Travel, Ted has a
significant role as "Shorty", with two long conversational
scenes. HC guest, Charles Aidman, is the guest star here. |
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1960
Tate
Regular Cast: David McLean
Patricia Breslin |
Episode: Tigero (August 3, 1960)
Season 1 - Episode 7
Director: David Lowell Rich
Writer: Harry Julian Fink
Also Starring: Martin Landau, Ronald Nicholas,
Mark Norton
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Notes:
Ted played "Bill
Towley" in this episode of the
short-lived 30-minute NBC Western about a
one-armed gunslinger that ran for only 13 episodes. |
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1961
Outlaws
Regular Cast: Barton MacLane, Don Collier,
Jock Gaynor, Wynn Pearce,
Bruce Yarnell, Slim Pickens,
Judy Lewis |
Episode: The Little Colonel (May 18, 1961)
Season 1 - Episode 26
Directors: John Rich, Douglas Heyes
Writer: Lowell Barrington
Also Starring: Ralph Manza, Graig Curtis,
Rafael Campos, Anna Navarro
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Notes:
Ted played
"Cass" in this episode of Outlaws an edgy
NBC Western played from the outlaw point-of-view that ran for two
seasons in Thursday evening prime-time. Don Collier played
Deputy Marshal, "Will Foreman", in what was his
break-out film role. HC producer, Kent McCray, was Associate
Producer for the series. |
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1965
The Wild, Wild West
Regular Cast: Robert Conrad
Ross Martin
Michael Dunn |
Episode: The Night of the Red-Eyed Madmen (Nov. 26,
1965)
Season 1 - Episode 11
Director: Irving Moore
Writer: Stanford Whitmore
Also Starring: Martin Landau, Marianna Case, Ray Kellogg,
Joan Huntington, Shary Marshall, Gregg Martell
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Notes:
Ted played "Jack
Talbot" in this first 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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1965 The Hallelujah Trail
Director: John Sturges
Starring: Burt Lancaster,
Lee Remick,
Donald Pleasance, Brian Keith,
Martin Landau,
Jim Hutton
John Anderson |
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Ted Markland as "The Bandleader" |
Ted with senior officer, John Anderson |
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Ted appears with the cavalry in many shots,
here he is just to the left behind Burt Lancaster |
Ted directing his army band. |
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Notes:
After appearing for eight years in a variety of television guest roles, Ted made
his debut on the big screen in Hallelujah Trail. He plays the cavalry band
leader commandeered by the local ladies temperance group to play marches for
them. The movie has a lot of major star presence and some beautiful
cinematography but it is a bit long for a film that is working hard to be a
comedy/satire. Lots of horse and wagon stunt work here along with some
tongue-in-cheek pokes at the Western genre. Other HC Actors include:
Dub Taylor, Helen Kleeb, Jerry Gatlin, John McKee, Carl Pitti, John Dehner, and
Eddie Little Sky. HC Stunt Contributions: Steven Burnett, Tony
Epper, Jerry Gatlin, John McKee, and Carl Pitti. |
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1966
Bonanza
Regular Cast: Lorne Greene
Michael Landon
Dan Blocker
Pernell Roberts
Victor Sen Yung |
Episode: Credit for a Kill (October 23,
1966)
Season 8 - Episode 7
Director: William F. Claxton
Writers:
Also Starring: Don Collier, Luana Patten, Dean Harens,
Charles Maxwell, Regina Gleason, Ed Faulkner, Troy Melton
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Notes:
Ted plays "Boone"
in this episode of David Dortort's
sister series, Bonanza. It ran on NBC from 1959-73.
Nearly everyone involved with HC is credited with
contributions to Bonanza as well. This episode
included Don Collier in a guest star role as well as HC
guests, Charles Maxwell and Troy Melton. HC stuntmen
who also 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 Water Hole No. 3
Director: William A. Graham
Writers: Joseph T. Steck and Robert R. Young
Starring: James Coburn, Carroll O'Connor, Margaret Blye, Claude Akins,
Bruce Dern,
Joan Blondell, James Whitmore |
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Notes:
Ted has a role as "Soldier #2 in this comedy Western film, which is not
quite politically correct in its attitudes towards women.
It is irreverent but fun if you can set aside the
insensitivities of its production era. Includes a
stellar cast. HC associated actors appearing here include
Bruce Dern, Roy Jenson, Robert Cornthwaite, and Buzz Henry. |
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1971
The Hired Hand
Director: Peter Fonda
Starring: Peter Fonda, Warren Oates,
Verna Bloom, Robert Pratt,
Severn Darden, Owen Orr |
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Ted Markland as Luke in The Hired Hand |
Luke with his cohort, Mace, played by Owen
Orr |
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Notes:
Ted plays a minor villain, "Luke", in this wistful independent film in the
vagabond tradition of Easy Rider. This was Peter Fonda's
directorial debut. Very fine cinematography and
effects with lots of attention to set and scenery detail
along with a haunting soundtrack. One of the first Westerns
of the era where pioneer women don't wear false eyelashes
and heavy make-up. A fine sleeper if you haven't seen
it yet. |
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1972
Ulzana’s Raid
Director: Robert Aldrich
Writer: Alan Sharp
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Bruce Davison, Joaquin Martinez, Jorge Luke,
Richard Jaeckel |
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Notes:
Ted plays one of the troopers in this cult classic that continues to win
rave reviews as an early realistic Western, sometimes
referred to as a Viet Nam allegory. Joaquin Martinez,
who guested in four HC episodes plays the title role here as
Ulzana. Other HC personnel with acting credits
include: John McKee, Tony Epper, Fred Brookfield,
Jerry Gatlin, and Richard Farnsworth. HC stunt
contributions from Fred Brookfield, Chuck Courtney,
Patty Elder, Tony Epper, and John McKee. |
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1973 Jory
Director: Jorge Fons
Writers: Milton R. Bass, Jerry Herman, Robert Irving
Starring: John Marley, B.J. Thomas, Robby Benson, Claudio Brook, Patricia
Aspillaga, Brad Dexter |
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Notes:
Ted plays "Corporal Hap Evans" in this story of an orphaned boy learning to
make his way in the West. HC guest, Todd Martin also
appears here. |
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1977
The Great Gundown
(AKA Forty Graves for
Forty Guns)
Director: Paul Hunt
Writers: Steve Fisher, Paul Hunt, Robert Padilla
Starring: Robert Padilla, Malila Saint Duval, Richard Rust, Steve Oliver,
David Eastman,
Stanley Adams, Rockne Tarkington, Michael Christian, Michael
Greene |
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Notes:
Ted plays "Horton" in this New Mexico Western about an Indian who is half
white who attacks a gang of outlaws. |
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1978 How the West
Was Won
Directors: Bernard and Vincent
McEveety
Writers: Jim Byrnes, Colley Cibber, Calvin Clements, Howard Fast,
William Kelley, John Mantley,
Jack Miller, Katharyn Powers, Earl W. Wallace
Starring: James Arness, Fionnula Flanagan, Bruce Boxleitner, Kathryn
Holcomb, William Kirby,
Richard Basehart, Lloyd Bridges, Brian Keith, Tim Matheson,
William Shatner,
Slim Pickens, Eric Braeden |
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Notes:
Ted plays "Nugget" in the first two parts of this star-studded 10-part mini-series about a the Macahan family's emigration west. HC cast members,
Cameron Mitchell and Don Collier also have roles, along with
a host of other HC actors includeing James Almanzar, Robert
Donner, Robert DoQui, Bert Freed, Warren J. Kemmerling,
Eddie Little Sky, Sean McClory, Ricardo Montalban, Gregg
Palmer, John Pickard, Dub Taylor, Mills Watson, Morgan
Woodward, William Conrad, Robert Phillips, Ted Jordan, and
Larry D. Mann. Neil Summers worked on the stunt crew. |
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1994
The Adventures of Brisco County Jr.
Regular Cast: Bruce Campbell
Julius Carry
Christian Clemenson |
Episode: Wild Card (April 8, 1994)
Season 1 - Episode 23
Also Starring: Kelly Rutherford, Jeff Phillips, Elaine
Hendrix, Louis Giambalvo, Paul Ben-Victor, Peter Dobson
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Notes:
Ted has a minor
role as "Duster #1" in this futuristic Western series with
similarities to The Wild, Wild, West. It ran on the
Fox Network for just 26 60-minute episodes during the
1993-94 season. |
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1994
The Outsider
Director: Grainger Hines
Writers: Grainger Hines and Bridget Hoffman
Starring: Grainger Hines, Conrad Bachmann, Emilio Borelli, Sabrina
Chateau, Denise Johnson,
Robert Ketecki, Ted Markland, Bill Roger, Vanusa Spindler, Lea Anne Wolfe |
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Notes:
Ted plays a significant role here as "Colonel Howling", a Colorado rancher
turned gold prospector in this independently made Western
set in 1879. Great Colorado scenery, authentic
costuming and excellent cinematography. |
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1995
Wild Bill
Director: Walter Hill
Starring: Jeff Bridges, Ellen Barkin,
John Hurt, Diane Lane,
David Arquette, Keith Carradine,
Christina Applegate |
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Ted as "Tommy Drum", Saloon Owner |
Ted facing away from the camera talking to
Wild Bill, played by Jeff Bridges |
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Notes:
Ted plays "Tommy Drum", the saloon owner who comes to Wild Bill's rescue when
he is set upon by a gang of thugs. Unfortunately he is mostly shot from
behind or in low light and fast motion. This stylistic portrayal of the
life of Wild Bill Hickock shows the rough edges of Deadwood and a man caught by
his own reputation. HC actors James Gammon and Bruce Dern also have roles
here. |
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1995 Bonanza: Under Attack
Director: Mark Tinker
Writers: David Dortort, Denne Bart Petitclerc
Starring: Ben Johnson, Michael Landon Jr., Emily Warfield, Brian Leckner,
Jeff Phillips,
Richard Roundtree, Jack Elam, Dirk Blocker, Dennis Farina, Leonard Nimoy |
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Ted Markland as Cole |
Ted Markland as Cole |
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Notes:
Ted plays "Cole" in this 1995 revision of life on the Ponderosa.
Other HC actors who had parts here include HC cast member,
Don Collier, and HC guest, Jack Elam. |
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