Peggy Rea Movies
American actress Peggy Rea began gaining notice in the 1960s as a member of Red Skelton's TV stock company. In the 1970s, she was seen as Olivia Walton's cousin Rose Burton in The Waltons and on an irregular basis as man-chasing Lulu Hogg in The Dukes of Hazzard. Later seen in maternal roles, Peggy Rea was featured on Step By Step (1991) as Ivy Williams, the mother of Suzanne Sommers' character, and as Brett Butler's mom Jean Kelly in Grace Under Fire (1993- ). ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Tony Randall has the showcase of a lifetime in the marvelous George Pal production The Seven Faces of Dr. Lao. We first see Randall as Dr. Lao, an enigmatic Chinese medicine-show impresario. The doctor brings his travelling show into the frontier town of Abalone, which is chafing under the oppression of land-hungry Clint Stark (Arthur O'Connell). Newspaper editor Ed Cunningham (John Ericson) is conducting a campaign of words against Stark, but he is no match for the land baron's money, power, and hulking henchmen. Nonetheless, Cunningham continues his crusade, all the while attempting to romance icy young widow Angela Benedict (Barbara Eden). All of this is observed with bemusement by Dr. Lao, who has already established himself as a man of many talents by alternating between pidgin-English and eloquent articulation, depending on the circumstances. Each of the townspeople--including the three already mentioned--learn a great many truths about themselves when they attend Dr. Lao's unusual circus. In the course of straightening out everyone's problems, Lao metamorphoses into (1) Merlin the Magician, (2) Pan, (3) Medusa, (4) The Abominable Snowman, (5) Apollonius of Tyana and (6) a Talking Serpent. The combined talents of Randall, puppeteer Pal and make-up wizard William J. Tuttle (who won two Special Oscars) resulted in this captivatingly unique entertainment experience. Curiously, Tony Randall is not fond of Seven Faces of Dr.Lao, and refuses to be interviewed on the subject. Perhaps he was unhappy that much of the philosophy dispensed in the original Charles G. Finney novel The Circus of Dr. Lao was weeded out of Charles Beaumont's script....or perhaps he just didn't like having his head shaved for the part. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Tony Randall, Barbara Eden, (more)
- 1963
Woodrow Parfrey guest stars as Bob Wire, a likeable eccentric who decides to capitalize on his given name by becoming a barbed-wire salesman. Unfortunately, there is an abundance of open-range advocates who don't want the territory to be fenced in, and they intend to kill anybody who even mentions the words "barbed wire." Inevitably, Paladin (Richard Boone) is called in to protect Mr. Wire during his brave but foolhardy efforts to ply his trade. Featured in the cast is the statuesque Irish McCalla, best known to baby boomers as the star of the TV series Sheena, Queen of the Jungle. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1963
This is the story of two old men who have outlived their time and usefulness, but are determined not to go gentle into that good night. Harry Morgan is cast as elderly sheriff Ernie Backwater, who joins his friend Paladin in search of another senior citizen, condemned fugitive Will Tybee (Robert J. Wilke). In his lifelong search for the killer of his son, Tybee has murdered five innocent men--and he won't stop at murdering two more, no matter how futile the gesture. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1963
Paladin (Richard Boone) is hired to escort a notorious wife murderer named Fairchild (Whit Bissell) to trial. But during a stopover in Osage Springs, Sheriff Stinchcomb (Paul Fix) demands at gunpoint that Paladin hand Fairchild over to him. It seems that every time the chief of a neighborhood Indian tribe dies, custom dictates that a white scalp be used in the burial ceremony--and Fairchild's scalp just about fills the bill. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1962
Richard Connell's venerable suspense yarn "The Most Dangerous Game" was the obvious inspiration for this nail-biting episode. Summoned to Oregon to help lumberwoman Vanessa Stuart (Joan Elan) fend off her enemies, Paladin (Richard Boone) arrives to discover that he has been lured into a trap. Debauched Russian monarch Prince Radachev (Leonard Kinskey), a hunting aficionado, has grown bored with merely tracking and killing animals and birds. Now Radachev wants to hunt down a human quarry--and Paladin fits the bill perfectly! The climactic chase sequence was filmed on location in Bend, Oregon. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1962
British criminologist Dr. Avatar (Philip Coolidge) is a staunch advocate of phrenology, a once-popular (and long discredited) theory which states that a man's criminal tendencies can be determined by the bumps on his head. Hiring Paladin (Richard Boone) as his guide, Avatar is determined to prove his theory by studying the noggin of an elderly, reclusive gunfighter named Jake Trueblood (Roy Barcroft)--who is understandably disinclined to be anyone's guinea pig! This episode was originally scheduled to air on December 30, 1962. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1962
A ferocious storm rages outside a remote wayside inn. The building's occupants include innkeeper Jeri Marcus (Jeanette Nolan), US Marshal Jim Buell (Crahan Denton), Buell's prisoner Davey Walsh (played by Gomer Pyle USMC's future "Sergeant Carter", Frank Sutton). . .and Paladin (ichard Boone), who has stopped at the inn during his search for a fugitive killer. Throughout the night, Walsh desperately insists that he is innocent--while Marshal Buell, convinced that Paladin has arrived to help Walsh escape, is nervously poised to shoot first and ask questions later. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1962
Astrologer Samuel H. Keel (Richard Boone) has predicted that someone named Seth Carter is destined to win a $500,000 lottery. In hopes of locating the elusive Carter, Keel hires Paladin (Richard Boone) to help in his search. Unfortunately, the first three people presumed to be linked to Carter are brutally murdered--and if the pattern continues, Paladin may be unable to prevent further bloodshed. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1962
Stuntman and future film director Hal Needham plays a sizeable role in this episode as Buddy Webster, a tough but incredibly naïve gold miner. Now that he has struck it rich, Buddy wants to fulfill a lifelong dream: to marry a beautiful saloon girl named Ginger (Peggy Ann Garner), whom he met casually years earlier. Paladin (Richard Boone) must open Buddy's eyes to the cruel fact that Ginger is far from the sweet, virginal damsel that she is imagined to be. Featured in the cast are two longtime members of the Have Gun, Will Travel production staff, wardrobe supervisor Joseph Dimmit and stunt coordinator Fred Hakim. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1962
William Conrad, who also directed several episodes of Have Gun, Will Travel, is here cast as Moses Kadish, a man who has isolated himself in order to conquer his alcoholism. After barely avoiding being shot by the taciturn Kadish, Paladin (Richard Boone) tries to help the man overcome his demons. This soon proves to be a difficult if not impossible task when the well on Moses' property suddenly starts gushing 100-proof moonshine whiskey! ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1961
Bound by a debt of honor dating back to the Civil War, Paladin (Richard Boone) offers his gun in service to ruthless land baron Costigan (Warren Stevens). A family of squatters led by a hothead named Clemenceau (Robert Stevenson) has settled on Costigan's land, and refuses to be moved--backing up their refusal with buckshot. Though legally Costigan is in the right, Paladin becomes disgusted by the land baron's violent methods, and by episode's end a change of heart seems to be on the menu. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1961
Paladin (Richard Boone) is hired by the family of wealthy Mexican Don Esteban (Hans Conried) to return the aging aristocrat to his hacienda. Now in his dotage, the eccentric Don Esteban is laboring under the delusion that he is Don Quixote, and has dashed off into the wilderness to tilt at windmills and rescue fair damsels. Also interested in the old man's welfare--but for entirely mercenary reasons--is an unsavory character named Dirty Dog (Robert Carricart). Like many another episode of Have Gun, Will Travel, this one is largely location-filmed at Lone Pine, California. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1961
Jewish immigrants Nathan and Rivka Shotness (Martin Gabel, Roxane Berard), first seen in the fourth-season episode "The Fatalist", make return appearances in this entry. Paladin (Richard Boone) is invited to serve as best man on the occasion of Rivka's wedding. Unfortunately, the festivities may be interrupted--violently--by the arrival of Billy Buckstone (Noah Keen), against whom Nathan once testified in a murder trial. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1961
Entering into a poker game with a loudmouthed miner named Moriarity (Jacques Aubuchon), Paladin (Richard Boone) ends up winning a month's worth of Moriarity's "Silver Strike." But this is hardly a reason to celebrate: "Silver Strike" turns out to be Moriarity's young son (Flip Mark), as wild and unruly a creature as has ever walked the earth. In the month alotted him, Paladin endeavors to scrub, tame and educate the incorrigible youngster--a formidable task indeed. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1961
The fifth season of Have Gun, Will Travel begins as soldier-of-fortune Paladin (Richard Boone) provides escort for Adella Forsyth (Mary Fickett), a prim, idealistic nurse who is determined to minister to a frontier town that would rather have a male doctor. While trekking through a wintry mountain pass, the two travellers meet a pair of scrungy prospectors (one of whom is played by future Oscar winner George Kennedy), who may have killed their partner. The experience proves to be a harrowing one for Adella--so much so that Paladin worries that she'll forget her dreams about being an "angel of mercy." With this episode, Kam Tong returns after a season's absence in the role of pixieish bellhop Hey Boy. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1961
En route to a job in Portland, Paladin (Richard Boone) meets a wild, unkempt mountain girl named Sarah Jane Darrow (Jean Engstrom), who is determined to avenge the death of her father. This meeting plunges Paladin into a deadly family feud, which also involves Sarah Jane's beau--who happens to be a member of the rival family. This episode features a rare acting appearance by guitarist Duane Eddy, who would later enjoy great success with his Have Gun, Will Travel-inspired record "The Ballad of Paladin". ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1961
Paladin (Richard Boone) catches up with a wanted outlaw in a saloon called Big Red's Roundup. In the ensuing gun battle, female saloon owner Big Red (played by Hope Holiday, best remembered to Billy Wilder fans as Jack Lemmon's Christmas-eve pickup in The Apartment) is seriously wounded. Whether or not the lady will survive is up to her erstwhile boyfriend Guy Fremont (Richard Ney), whose claims of possessing medical skill may just be a lot of hot air. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1961
In his second fifth-season Have Gun, Will Travel guest appearance, Charles Bronson is cast as vicious murderer Ben Jalisco. Escaping from custody, Jalisco vows to wreak vengeance against his treacherous wife Lucy (Coleen Gray)--and against Paladin (Richard Boone), the man who brought him in for trial. Much of this episode is filmed on location in Lone Pine, California. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1961
Popular African American folksinger Odetta guest stars as Sarah Gibbs, the wife of a man condemned to be executed. Hoping to bid one last goodbye to her husband Aaron (Rupert Crosse), and to claim the body after the hanging, Sarah hires Paladin (Richard Boone) to help her carry out her wishes. Unfortunately, the town marshal (Roy Barcroft) adamantly refuses to allow Aaron any visitors--and the hostile townsfolk already have plans for the poor man's corpse. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1961
Keith Andes guest stars as Franz Lister, a celebrated German musician who has been brought to the US by his wealthy sponsor, a social-climbing former saloon hostess named Mona Lansing (Gertrude Flynn). No sooner has Lister arrived than his priceless piano is "kidnapped" and held for ransom. Paladin (Richard Boone) is hired to bring the piano back in one piece--assuming that he can remain in one piece as well! ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1960
Paladin (Richard Boone) has been summoned to the town of Whiskey Slide, where a baseball game has been going on for days and days. Unfortunately, the makeshift ballpark has become a battleground due to long-standing feuds amongst the local players and their professional out-of-town rivals; in fact, several men have been killed or wounded in the course of the marathon game! Donning an umpire's uniform, Paladin attempts to bring the game to a satisfactory conclusion--while simultaneously avoiding further bloodshed. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1960
Paladin (Richard Boone) is hired by a mortally woman named Mrs. Kilmer (Lillian Bronson), who wants to learn the whereabouts of her long-long son before she dies. The trail of clues leads Paladin to Harper City, a town held in the grip of the wealthy--and psychotic--Fred Harper (Charles Aidman). Clearly, Harper knows something about Mrs. Kilmer's prodigal son, but he isn't telling...and Paladin is fully aware that the previous detective hired to locate the boy turned up dead. This is the final episode of Have Gun, Will Travel's third season. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1959
En route to his next assignment, Paladin is bushwacked, beaten, and stripped of everything he owns. Upon recovering, he wanders into the ranch owned by the beautiful--and desperately lonely--Maggie O'Bannion (Marion Marshall) and talks himself into a job as all-purpose ranch hand. As the days pass, Paladin realizes that Maggie is being systematically robbed by her crooked foreman, and tries to tell her so. But Maggie seems less interested in the future of her ranch than in her future with the enigmatic Paladin. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1957
Paladin (Richard Boone) is hired by Colonel Lathrop (Robert F. Simon), a wealthy and aristocratic ex-military man who claims to be writing a history of the West. Lathrop wants Paladin to find out what became of a legendary saloon queen who once presided over a now-deserted Nevada mining town. The job turns out to be a lot more dangerous than it first appears: no one previously hired by the Colonel to find the missing lady has ever returned alive. Supporting players Denver Pyle (Clay Sommers) and Peggy Rea (Lulu) were later reteamed on another popular TV series, The Dukes of Hazzard. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1953
Elizabeth Patterson makes her first series appearance as Mrs. Trumbull, the Ricardos' elderly, cranky neighbor. Disturbed by Little Ricky's constant crying, Mrs. Trumbull invokes the "no children" clause in the apartment house's lease and demands that landlady Ethel (Vivian Vance) evict the Ricardos immediately -- adding that if this doesn't happen, Mrs. Trumbull and all the other tenants will themselves move out. Refusing to kowtow to this threat, Ethel loyally stands by her pal Lucy (Lucille Ball): "My friendship with the Ricardos means more to me than all the money in the world!" Well and good -- but then Ethel proceeds to repeat the story of her loyalty, over and over and over again, to anyone who will listen (and a few who won't!). Ultimately, Lucy gets fed up with Ethel's "nobility" and tells her off -- whereupon World War III erupts between the Ricardos and the Mertzes. ~ All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Elizabeth Patterson, Peggy Rea, (more)
