Terry Wilson
Terry Wilson was born in Huntington Park, California, United States on September 3rd, 1923 and is the TV Actor. At the age of 75, Terry Wilson 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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Terry W. Wilson (September 3, 1923 to 1964 in Huntington Park, California) was an American actor best known for his role as "Bill Hawks," the assistant trail master, on all 267 episodes of the NBC and ABC western television series Wagon Train, which aired from 1957 to 1965.
Life and career
Wilson appeared in more than thirty-five films and television shows between 1948 and 1981. Many of his early appearances were uncredited. In episode 121, "Woman from Omaha," of The Lone Ranger, he was cast as a stagecoach guard on July 2, 1953. Clint Walker appeared in a new uncredited role as a robber in the ABC/Warner Brothers western series Cheyenne, the first television western in an hour-long format.
Wilson was with Wagon Train for the entire season, performing with many of the program's other stars, including Ward Bond, Robert Horton, John McIntire, Robert Fuller, Frank McGrath, Denny Miller, and Michael Burns.
Wilson appeared in many westerns, including ABC's short-lived Custer and Hondo in 1967, and twice in Don Knotts' The Virginian/The Men from Shiloh starring James Drury, 1972, and 1971 in Buddy Ebsen's "Counterall" of Buddy Ebsen's CBS detective series Barnaby Jones.
In the 1975 Walt Disney film Escape to Witch Mountain, Wilson portrayed Biff Jenkins. Norman Scroggs appeared in a 1981 episode of CBS' The Dukes of Hazzard, his last acting role.
Wilson appeared in Sands of Iwo Jima (1949 and Rio Grande in 1950, see below for more). He was a member of John Ford's stock troupe and appeared as an uncredited extra in numerous dance scenes. Frank McGrath, his friend and fellow stunt performer, appeared on stage often. Ward Bond had specifically requested Wilson and McGrath to be regulars on the Wagon Train in 1957. Wilson broke the news to Bond's closest friend, John Wayne, when Bond died. "Hold on... Ward just died," he said. According to reports, they both cried together on the phone. Wilson, John Wayne, McGrath, Harry Carey, Jr. (Dobe), and Ken Curtis, Jr., later known as Bond's pallbearers, were among Bond's pallbearers.
Wilson appears in a dance scene as a Texas Ranger, as well as McGrath, and all are in the "wedding party" in John Wayne/John Ford's "The Searchers." Frank McGrath appears in Hondo, as well as Wilson doubles for John Wayne in the Indian Silva's knife combat.
Wilson and his wife are laid to rest at Pierce Brothers Valley Oaks Memorial Park in Westlake Village, Los Angeles County. They had three children.