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Stacy Harris (July 26, 1918 – March 13, 1973) was a Canadian-born actor with hundreds of film and television appearances. His name is often found spelled Stacey Harris.
Harris was an Army pilot whose leg was injured in a plane crash less than six months after he enlisted in 1937. That injury prevented him from re-enlisting when World War II began, but he served with the American Volunteer Group as an ambulance driver and with the French Foreign Legion as a dispatch rider. Before becoming an actor, he held a variety of jobs, including newspaper reporter, boxer, sailor, and artist.
Harris played varied characters, often villains, on various programs produced by Jack Webb's Mark VII Limited, such as Dragnet, Noah's Ark, GE True, Adam-12, and Emergency!.
Harris guest starred in the religion anthology series, Crossroads, and played a gangster in the 1956 time travel television episode of the anthology series Conflict entitled "Man from 1997" opposite James Garner and Charles Ruggles. Thereafter, he appeared as Whit Lassiter in the 1958 episode "The Man Who Waited" of the NBC children's western series, Buckskin. He guest starred as Colonel Nicholson in the 1959 episode "A Night at Trapper's Landing" of the NBC western series, Riverboat, starring Darren McGavin.
Harris appeared too in three syndicated series, Whirlybirds, starring Kenneth Tobey, Sheriff of Cochise and U.S. Marshal, both with John Bromfield, and as the character Ed Miller in the episode "Mystery of the Black Stallion" of the western series, Frontier Doctor, starring Rex Allen. He was cast in two episodes of the David Janssen crime drama, Richard Diamond, Private Detective.
Harris in 1958 portrayed Max Bowen in "The Hemp Tree" and in 1959 as Abel Crowder in "Rough Track to Payday", episodes of the CBS western series, The Texan, starring Rory Calhoun.
In 1960, Harris was cast as a drummer named Cramer in the episode "Fair Game" of the ABC western series, The Rebel, starring Nick Adams. Harris appeared in three episodes of CBS's Perry Mason, playing the role of murder victim Frank Curran in "The Case of the Married Moonlighter" (1958), Perry's client Frank Brooks in "The Case of the Lost Last Act" (1959), and murderer Frank Brigham in "The Case of the Crying Comedian" in 1961.
In 1969, Harris played the corrupt and cowardly Mayor Ackerson of the since ghost town of Helena, Texas, in the episode "The Oldest Law" of the syndicated television series, Death Valley Days, hosted by Robert Taylor not long before Taylor's own death. Popular character actor Jim Davis played Colonel William G. Butler (1831-1912), who takes revenge on the town after its citizens refuse to disclose the killer of Butler's son, Emmett, who died from a stray bullet from a saloon brawl. Butler arranges for the San Antonio and Aransas Pass Railway to bypass Helena; instead Karnes City, south of San Antonio, becomes the seat of government of Karnes County. Tom Lowell (born 1941) played Emmett Butler, and Tyler McVey was cast as Parson Blake in this episode.
Harris died March 13, 1973, at the age of 54 in Los Angeles, California of an apparent heart attack. CLR
1972
as James Dillon
1971
as Emmett Grosvenor
1971
as Agent Ben Hazzard
1971
as Dr. Leonard
1970
as Psychiatrist
1970
as Agent McClellan
1970
as Operations Commander Callan
1968
as Phillip Rootes
1968
as Jim Ralston
1968
as Dr. Edward Lane
1968
as Carl Kegan
1967
as Russ
1967
as Technician (uncredited)
1967
as Gordon
1967
as Dan Mungol
1967
as Michael Cooper Smith
1967
as Walter Kinnett
1967
as Dr. Manning
1967
as Frank Baker
1967
as Clifford Ray Owens alias Barney Regal
1966
as Detective O'Brien
1965
as Charlie Kenyon
1965
as Josh Reynolds
1965
as Mr. Turner
1965
as Mr. Leland (uncredited)
1963
as Police Radio Unit F-7 (voice) (uncredited)
1963
as Cliff Carteret
1962
as Lieutenant Victor Beaujac
1962
as Prosecutor
1962
as Lawyer
1962
as Harry Clark
1961
as Jake
1960
as Buck Lavery
1959
as Capt. Reardon
1959
as Harry Teague
1959
as Judge Simpson
1959
as Regis
1959
as Lee Troy
1959
as Eph Brown (as Stacy S. Harris)
1959
as George Scales
1959
as Ben Loomis
1959
as Coley
1958
as Carpie
1958
as Col. Monk Moncavage
1958
as Detective Vic Beaujac
1957
as Union Lieutenant (uncredited)
1957
as Ira Black
1957
as Vandy Vance
1957
as Ed Brigham
1957
as Frank Curran
1957
as Frank Brooks
1957
as Sheriff Francher
1957
as Sheriff
1957
as The Sheriff
1957
as Steve Rand
1957
as Capt. Brownell
1956
as George Barlow
1956
as Doc Currie
1956
as Nicholas Servoz
1956
as Art Downey
1955
as Detective Vic Beaujac
1955
as Cullen
1955
as Leonard
1955
as John P. Clum
1955
as Mayor John Clum
1955
as Mayor Clum
1955
as John P. Clum (uncredited)
1955
as Sam Rolfe
1955
as Scrappy Durant
1954
1954
as Max Edward Troy
1953
as Reuben Zadok
1953
as Uriah (as Stacy S. Harris)
1953
as Nate
1953
as Chet Jones
1952
as Frank Le Beau
1952
as Troy
1951
as William Tanner
1951
as Frank Larson
1951
as Benny Davis
1951
as Harry (uncredited)
1950
as Paul Ferrar