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I. Stanford Jolley

I. Stanford Jolley

Birthday: 1900-10-24 | Place of Birth: Morristown, New Jersey, USA

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Isaac Stanford Jolley (October 24, 1900 – December 7, 1978) was an American character actor of film and television, primarily in western roles as cowboys, law-enforcement officers, or villains. Recognized by his slight build, narrow face, and pencil-thin moustache, Jolley appeared some five hundred times on the large or small screen. Isaac Stanford Jolley was born in a circus trailer in Elizabeth, New Jersey, while the circus owned by his father had a three-day stop there.[2] Jolley toured as a child with his father's traveling circus and worked in vaudeville. He was a student of the Edward Clark Academy Theater. Television roles From 1950 to 1953, Jolley first appeared on television with six castings in different role in the series, The Lone Ranger with Clayton Moore. He appeared twice in 1953 in the syndicated western series, The Range Rider. He made two appearances as Parker in Tales of the Texas Rangers, with series stars Willard Parker and Harry Lauter. Jolley guest starred as the henchman Walt, along with Clayton Moore and Darryl Hickman in the 1954 episode "Annie Gets Her Man" of the syndicated Western, Annie Oakley. He appeared as Sheriff Bascom in the 1954 episode "Black Bart" of Stories of the Century. Jolley soon appeared multiple times on a wide range of other western series, including, The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok (three times), The Cisco Kid (ten), Tales of the Texas Rangers (twice), Sergeant Preston of the Yukon (twice), The Roy Rogers Show (three), The Gene Autry Show (four), Sky King (four), Death Valley Days (five), 26 Men (five appearances, again with Tristram Coffin, the series star), Wanted Dead or Alive (two), Bronco (twice), Tales of Wells Fargo (twice), The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp (six), Maverick (six), Lawman (six), Cheyenne (seven), Rawhide (five), Wagon Train (ten), The Virginian (two), Daniel Boone (two), Laredo (two), The Big Valley (three), Bonanza (eight), and Gunsmoke (nine). In 1960, he guest starred as the Indian named Singing Arrow in the series finale, "The Search," of the syndicated western, Pony Express, with Grant Sullivan. In 1962, he was cast as The Stranger in the episode "Quarantine" of the NBC western series, The Tall Man, starring Barry Sullivan, and Clu Gulager. In 1965, Jolley appeared as Enos Scoggins in "The Greatest Coward on Earth" of the Chuck Connors series, Branded. He had also appeared with Connors on ABC's The Rifleman in one of the last episodes of the series in 1963 in the role of Joe Fogner in "Hostages to Fortune" (1963). He appeared four times in 1956 in archival footage on the children's western The Gabby Hayes Show. In 1966, Jolley appeared on the show F Troop as Colonel Ferguson in the episode "Survival of the Fittest". Jolley's last Western roles were in 1976: as (1) a farmer in ABC's The Macahans, the pilot of James Arness's second western series, How the West Was Won, and (2) as a drunkard in the short-lived Tim Matheson and Kurt Russell series The Quest. CLR

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

1961
Valley of the Dragons

as    Patoo

1957
Gun Battle at Monterey

as    Idwall

1956
Kentucky Rifle

as    Jed Williams

1956
The Violent Years

as    Judge Raymond Clara

1956
The Wild Dakotas

as    Tabor

1954
The Forty-Niners

as    Everett (as Stanford Jolley)

1952
The Gunman

as    Dan Forester

1951
Texas Lawmen

as    Bart Morrow

1951
Lost Planet Airmen

as    Prof. Bryant

1950
The Return of Jesse James

as    Commissioner Morton

1950
Trigger, Jr.

as    Doc Brown

1949
Gun Law Justice

as    Duke Corliss

1949
King of the Rocket Men

as    Prof. Bryant

1948
Congo Bill

as    Bernie MacGraw

1947
Land of the Lawless

as    Cherokee Kid

1947
Wild Country

as    Rip Caxton (as Stanford Jolley)

1946
The Crimson Ghost

as    Dr. Blackton [Ch. 11]

1946
Terrors on Horseback

as    Grant Barlow

1946
'Neath Canadian Skies

as    Haley

1946
Ambush Trail

as    Hatch Bolton

1946
North of the Border

as    Ivy Jenkins

1946
Swing, Cowboy, Swing

as    James Beeton

1945
Gangster's Den

as    Horace Black

1945
Prairie Rustlers

as    Matt

1945
Stagecoach Outlaws

as    Steve Kirby

1944
Call of the Jungle

as    Carlton

1944
Oklahoma Raiders

as    Henchman Higgins

1944
Shake Hands with Murder

as    Mr. Haskins

1943
The Kid Rides Again

as    Mort Slade

1943
The Black Raven

as    Whitey Cole