Bing Russell
Acting
Born 1926-05-05
Died 2003-04-08
Brattleboro, Vermont, USA
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Neil Oliver "Bing" Russell (May 5, 1926 – April 8, 2003) was an American actor and Class A minor-league baseball club owner. He was the father of Hollywood actor Kurt Russell.
Although best known as the deputy on Bonanza (1959) and Robert in The Magnificent Seven (1960), Russell's was also well known on a national level as the owner of the Portland Mavericks Baseball Club. Helming the only independent team in the class A Northwest League, Russell was an innovator. Before Bull Durham (1988), there were the Mavericks. Russell kept a 30 man roster because he believed that some of the players deserved to have one last season. His motto was simply one three lettered word - not WIN - although the Mavericks did just that - no, the word was FUN. He created a park that kept all corporate sponsorship outside the gates, hired the first female general manager in professional baseball, and the following year hired the first Asian American GM/Manager. That same season his team set a record for the highest attendance in Minor league history, and went on to win the pennant. Ex-major leaguers and never-weres who couldn't stop playing the game flocked to his June tryouts, which were always open to anyone that showed up. From as far away as Capetown, and France, players would head to Portland for a chance with Russell's Mavericks.
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Acting
40 credits
The Fugitive
Bonanza
The Andy Griffith Show
Ironside
Maverick
The Twilight Zone
The Virginian
The Rockford Files
Have Gun, Will Travel
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
I Dream of Jeannie
Rawhide
The Magnificent Seven
The Big Valley
Wanted: Dead or Alive
Gunsmoke
Route 66
The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
Laramie
The Monkees
Sugarfoot
The Streets of San Francisco
Bronco
The Guns of Will Sonnett
Branded
Rio Bravo
Black Saddle
Public Defender
Tango & Cash
Johnny Ringo
Sam Benedict
Dick Tracy
Overboard
How the West Was Won
You Are There
The Wonderful World of Disney
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
Hondo
Last Train from Gun Hill
The Living Christ
Other credits
20 credits
Lassie
The Rifleman
The Donna Reed Show
Mannix
Emergency!
Ben Casey
Navy Log
The Munsters
Surfside 6
Alias Smith and Jones
The Texan
Petrocelli
The Mod Squad
Stoney Burke
The Alaskans
The Monroes
Stagecoach West
Science Fiction Theatre
The Outcasts
General Electric True
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