Stacy Harris
Stacy Harris
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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
Known For Acting
Most Rating 7.769
Birthday 1918-07-26
Place of Birth Big Timber, Quebec, Canada
Also Known As Stacy S. Harris, Stacey Harris,
Appointment with Danger
1950

Appointment with Danger

Brainstorm
1965

Brainstorm

Good Day for a Hanging
1959

Good Day for a Hanging

Dragnet
1954

Dragnet

New Orleans Uncensored
1955

New Orleans Uncensored

The Hunters
1958

The Hunters

New Orleans After Dark
1958

New Orleans After Dark

The Great Sioux Uprising
1953

The Great Sioux Uprising

Four for the Morgue
1962

Four for the Morgue

The Wife Swappers
1970

The Wife Swappers

Comanche
1956

Comanche

The Mountain
1956

The Mountain

The Great Sioux Massacre
1965

The Great Sioux Massacre

Noon Sunday
1970

Noon Sunday

The Redhead from Wyoming
1953

The Redhead from Wyoming

The Brass Legend
1956

The Brass Legend

Cast a Long Shadow
1959

Cast a Long Shadow

Sylvia
1965

Sylvia

An American Dream
1966

An American Dream

Three Lives
1953

Three Lives

Countdown
1967

Countdown

The Adventures of Superboy
1961

The Adventures of Superboy

The D.A.: Conspiracy to Kill
1971

The D.A.: Conspiracy to Kill

O'Hara, United States Treasury: Operation Cobra
1971

O'Hara, United States Treasury: Operation Cobra

Companions in Nightmare
1968

Companions in Nightmare

His Kind of Woman
1951

His Kind of Woman

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
1963

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

Raintree County
1957

Raintree County