Robert Horton, ‘Wagon Train’ Actor, Dies at 91, Robert Horton, accepted for his role as advance Flint McCullough in the Emmy-nominated alternation “Wagon Train,” died March 9 in Los Angeles, his niece Joan Evans told the New York Times. He was 91.
After getting medically absolved from the Coast Guard in 1943, Horton fabricated his awning acting admission in an bearding allotment in the 1945 WWII ball “A Walk in the Sun.”
He landed his blemish role starring as McCullough in the hit western alternation “Wagon Train” for 5 seasons, departure the appearance afterward the blanket of division 5 in 1962. Around the time he larboard “Wagon Train”– which accumulated seven Primetime Emmy nominations throughout the continuance of its eight-season run — the appearance switched networks, transitioning from NBC to ABC.
Soon afterwards abandonment from “Wagon Train,” Horton starred in the one-season western alternation “A Man Called Shenandoah,” for which he aswell sang the affair song. His added key TV acting roles cover bedfellow spots on “Murder, She Wrote,” “As the World Turns,” “Alfred Hitchcock Presents,” “Public Defender” and “The Lone Ranger.”
Horton aswell performed on Broadway and pursued a singing career. In 1963, he starred as arms Bill Starbuck in the aboriginal casting of “110 in the Shade,” which was a agreeable adjustment of N. Richard Nash’s aboriginal ’50s play “The Rainmaker.” The assembly ran at Manhattan’s Broadhurst Theatre for over 300 performances. He aswell recorded albums and performed in nightclubs during his administration on “Wagon Train.”
Horton is survived by his wife Marilynn.
After getting medically absolved from the Coast Guard in 1943, Horton fabricated his awning acting admission in an bearding allotment in the 1945 WWII ball “A Walk in the Sun.”
He landed his blemish role starring as McCullough in the hit western alternation “Wagon Train” for 5 seasons, departure the appearance afterward the blanket of division 5 in 1962. Around the time he larboard “Wagon Train”– which accumulated seven Primetime Emmy nominations throughout the continuance of its eight-season run — the appearance switched networks, transitioning from NBC to ABC.
Soon afterwards abandonment from “Wagon Train,” Horton starred in the one-season western alternation “A Man Called Shenandoah,” for which he aswell sang the affair song. His added key TV acting roles cover bedfellow spots on “Murder, She Wrote,” “As the World Turns,” “Alfred Hitchcock Presents,” “Public Defender” and “The Lone Ranger.”
Horton aswell performed on Broadway and pursued a singing career. In 1963, he starred as arms Bill Starbuck in the aboriginal casting of “110 in the Shade,” which was a agreeable adjustment of N. Richard Nash’s aboriginal ’50s play “The Rainmaker.” The assembly ran at Manhattan’s Broadhurst Theatre for over 300 performances. He aswell recorded albums and performed in nightclubs during his administration on “Wagon Train.”
Horton is survived by his wife Marilynn.
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