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Myron Healey

Myron Healey

Birthday: 1923-06-08 | Place of Birth: Petaluma, California, USA

Myron Daniel Healey was an American actor. He began his career in Hollywood, California, during the early 1940s in bit parts and minor supporting roles at various studios. Healey's film debut came in 1943 with Young Ideas. Returning to film work after the war, Healey played villains and henchmen in low-budget western films. He also did some screenwriting. In the post-war period he was often seen in westerns from Monogram Pictures, often starring Johnny Mack Brown, Jimmy Wakely and Whip Wilson. In the 1950s Healey moved to more "bad guy" roles in other films, including the Bomba and Jungle Jim series, crime dramas and more westerns. He portrayed the bandit Bob Dalton in an episode of the syndicated television series Stories of the Century, starring and narrated by Jim Davis. In 1955, he played a "good guy" for a change as Phyllis Coates' partner in the 1955 Republic Pictures serial Panther Girl of the Kongo. Healey appeared seven times as Capt. Bandcroft in The Adventures of Kit Carson. Healey played the outlaw Johnny Ringo in the western television series Tombstone Territory, with Pat Conway as Sheriff Clay Hollister, in the episode "Johnny Ringo's Last Ride". He appeared in an episode of the children's western series Buckskin, which aired on NBC from 1958-59. He was a semi-regular on programs produced by Gene Autry's Flying A production company: Annie Oakley, Buffalo Bill, Jr., The Range Rider, and The Gene Autry Show. He also guest-starred on the crime drama with a modern western setting, Sheriff of Cochise, starring John Bromfield, and in the western set in the 1840s, Riverboat, starring Darren McGavin. He also appeared in an episode of the second season of Zorro. Between 1960 and 1963, Healey appeared five times on the NBC western Laramie, starring John Smith and Robert Fuller. He appeared ten times on another NBC western, The Virginian, and four times on Laredo. From 1959 to 1961, he played Maj. Peter Horry, top aide to Leslie Nielsen, in the miniseries Swamp Fox on Walt Disney Presents, based on the American Revolutionary War hero Francis Marion. In 1970, Healey appeared as Wardlow in the TV western "The Men From Shiloh" (the rebranded name of The Virginian) in the episode titled "Jenny." Collectively, Healey appeared in some 140 films, including 81 westerns and three serials. Among his non-western pictures, he appeared in at least two horror films: the Americanized version of the Japanese giant-monster movie Varan the Unbelievable and The Incredible Melting Man.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

1988
Pulse

as    Howard

1987
Ghost Fever

as    Andrew Lee

1977
The Incredible Melting Man

as    General Michael Perry

1977
Claws

as    Sheriff

1962
Varan the Unbelievable

as    Cmdr. James Bradley

1959
The Swamp Fox

as    Major Peter Horry

1958
Cole Younger, Gunfighter

as    Phil Bennett / Charlie Bennett

1958
Apache Territory

as    Webb

1957
Hell's Crossroads

as    Cole Younger

1957
Escape from Red Rock

as    Joe Skinner (as Michael Healey)

1957
The Unearthly

as    Mark Houston

1957
Shoot-Out At Medicine Bend

as    Rafe Sanders

1956
The Young Guns

as    Deputy Nix

1956
The White Squaw

as    Eric Swanson

1956
Calling Homicide

as    Jim Haddix

1956
Running Target

as    Marty Kaygo

1955
The Man from Bitter Ridge

as    Clem Jackman

1955
Gang Busters

as    John Omar Pinson

1955
Rage at Dawn

as    John Reno

1955
Panther Girl of the Kongo

as    Larry Sanders

1955
Jungle Moon Men

as    Mark Santo

1955
Tennessee's Partner

as    Reynolds

1954
Rails Into Laramie

as    Con Winton

1954
Cattle Queen of Montana

as    Hank

1953
Texas Bad Man

as    Jackson

1953
Saginaw Trail

as    Miller Webb

1953
Kansas Pacific

as    Morey

1953
Fighting Lawman

as    Sheriff Dave Wilson