Bing Russell
Bing Russell was born in Brattleboro, Vermont, United States on May 5th, 1926 and is the TV Actor. At the age of 76, Bing Russell biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, TV shows, and networth are available.
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Neil Oliver "Bing" Russell (May 5, 1926 – April 8, 2003) was an American actor and Class A minor-league baseball club owner.
He was the father of Golden Globe Award-nominated actor Kurt Russell and grandfather of ex-major league baseball player Matt Franco.
Personal life
Russell was born in Brattleboro, Vermont, the son of Ruth Stewart (née Vogel) and Warren Oliver Russell. He always wanted to become an actor and studied drama at Brattleboro High School. He grew up around the New York Yankees’ spring training camp in St. Petersburg, Florida, in the 1930s and 1940s, where his father ran a floatplane service. As a result, he was an unofficial mascot of the New York Yankees, and became friendly with players including Lefty Gomez and Joe DiMaggio. When Lou Gehrig was weakened by illness, he gave Russell the bat he used to hit his last home run before retiring.
Russell graduated from Dartmouth College with a business degree.
During part of the 1950s, Bing ran Teddy's Restaurant in Newport, New Hampshire, where a co-working waitress, Alfreda Couitt (Barney), introduced Bing to his future wife, Louise.
Career
Russell made his debut in the film Cavalry Patrol and had a few uncredited roles in his early career.
He appeared in episodes of many television series, including Playhouse 90, Highway Patrol, Wagon Train, The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp, The Untouchable, The Wolfe Gray Show, The Rockford Files, The Boulevard in San Francisco, I Dream of Jeannie (1959) and Robert in The Magnificent Seven (1960), The Untouchables, A.P., The Monkees, The Monkees, I Dream of Jeannie, Robert, a, The Tremo, In The Monkeye, Deputy Cleman, The Fighte, The Fugitive, The Fugie, The Uncertaint Ea, The Fiatt E.
In the episode "Field to Hell" of Jack Webb's CBS anthology series, GE True, John Quigley, a Chicago mobster, was cast in 1963. Quigley travels to Chihua, Mexico, where he robs the mint of $500,000 and kills seven men in the commission of the murder. Quigley and his three accomplices are tracked down by police Lieutenant Juan Garcia (Carlos Romero). BarBara Luna appears on the program as well.
Russell plays outlaw Burt Alvord, who is offered a lenient sentence if he surrenders and announces the location of the notorious bandit Augustine Chacon, a replay of the 1963 film "The Measure of a Man." Rory Calhoun was portrayed as Burt Mossman, who convinces a hesitant Alvord to set a trap to capture Chacon. Chacon is cuffed, and Alvord is ordered to toss the key away from the main door. Chacon is convicted of a recent arrest for which he had escaped.
Russell appeared in the original pilot (filmed in November 1965) for The Monkees TV series as Rudy, a record store owner and the group's boss; after the show was approved by NBC, Russell's character was not retained; Russell appears in this pilot, an edited version of the show's first season, and is included in the show's syndication program to this day.
In the television film Elvis (1979), Russell Presley portrayed Vernon Presley to his son Kurt's Elvis Presley. Kurt had appeared in the film It Happened at the World's Fair, and recalled the actor, who had professing to be a fan, in a later interview.
Russell owned the Portland Mavericks, the only independent team in the Class A Northwest League. Russell kept a 30-man roster because he felt that some of the players deserved to have one last season. His motto was amusing. He created a park that retained all corporate support outside of the gates, recruited Lanny Moss, the first female general manager in professional baseball, and named the first Asian American GM/Manager. His team set a record for the largest audience in minor league history, but the Bellingham Mariners lost the 1977 pennant to the Bellingham Mariners. Major League Baseball revived interest in Portland and revived the Class AAA Portland Beavers minor league franchise. After Russell brought the case to arbitration, the Portland area was retrieved, but Russell was forced to pay $206,000; it was the highest payout in baseball history for a minor league territory. Ex-major-leaguers and never-weres who couldn't avoid playing the sport flocked to their June try-outs, which were always open to everyone who attended. Russell's team and archived video were included in the documentary The Battered Bastards of Baseball (2014).