Myron Healey

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Myron Daniel Healey (born June 8, 1923 in Petaluma , California - December 21, 2005 in Burbank , California) was an American film actor and screenwriter .

Life

Myron Healey began his acting career in the early 1940s as an extra in Hollywood productions. During the Second World War Healey enlisted in the United States Air Force , which he left in the 1960s with the rank of captain .

Since the end of the war, he has also resumed acting. At first he played mostly villains and shady characters in B-movies and TV series . In over 300 film and television productions he was rarely seen in sympathetic roles. He played in Smoking Colts , Bonanza , Perry Mason and Knight Rider , among others .

However, Healey became known to a wide audience primarily through his numerous western roles. He played alongside numerous stars of this genre such as Glenn Ford ( The Judge of Colorado ) , Sterling Hayden (Kansas Pacific) , Lee van Cleef ( City of the Damned and Riot in Laramie ), Barbara Stanwyck and Ronald Reagan ( Queen of the Mountains ) , Randolph Scott (city of dead souls) , Lex Barker (duel with the devil) and Kirk Douglas (with a fist as hard as steel) . Particularly popular made him the role of the legendary gunslinger Doc Holliday , whom he played for two years in the successful television series The Life and Times of Wyatt Earp as a replacement for Douglas V. Fowley . He also worked occasionally as a screenwriter, including for Texas Lawmen from 1951 with Johnny Mack Brown .

Myron Healey was married four times and had two daughters. In the fall of 2005, he broke his hip in a fall . He should not recover from the complications of this injury. He died on December 21, 2005 at the age of 82 in a Burbank hospital.

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SURNAME Healey, Myron
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Healey, Myron Daniel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American film actor and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH June 8, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Petaluma , California , United States
DATE OF DEATH December 21, 2005
Place of death Burbank , California , United States