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Ford Rainey

A highly experienced stage actor, Ford Rainey was also a familiar face in motion pictures, including The Sand Pebbles and Two Rode Together. He was even better recognized by television viewers as a guest star on such popular series as Bonanza, Gunsmoke, Route 66, Perry Mason and The Untouchables. The craggy-faced actor played guardian to The Bionic Woman, a general in M*A*S*H, and a judge in The Waltons and Matlock. Ford Rainey worked well into his 90s, appearing in such recent series as ER and The King of Queens


Aliases
  • Ford Raney
English
  • Born In Mountain Home, Idaho, USA
  • Born August 8, 1908
  • Died July 25, 2005
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Halloween II

1981
as Dr. Mixter

Claudelle Inglish

1961
as Rev. Armstrong

Kings of the Sun

1963
as The chief

Key West

1973
as Prescott Webb

My Sweet Charlie

1970
as Treadwell

The Last Mile

1959
as Red Kirby

Amerika

1987
as Will Milford

A Howling in the Woods

1971
as Bud Henshaw

The Human Jungle

1954
as Jones-Older Cop

Guardian of the Wilderness

1976
as Abraham Lincoln

Flaming Star

1960
as Doc Phillips

3:10 to Yuma

1957
as Bisbee Marshal

Manhunter

1974
as James Barrett, Dave's father

My Old Man's Place

1971
as Sheriff Coleman

The Last of Mrs. Lincoln

1976
as Ninnian Edwards

White Heat

1949
as Zuckie

Johnny Tiger

1966
as Sam Tiger

Two Rode Together

1961
as Rev. Henry Clegg

Ada

1961
as Speaker

The Parallax View

1974
as Commission Spokesman #2

Friendly Fire

1979
as Mr. Hamilton

Inferno

1999
as Pop Reynolds

The Cellar

1989
as T.C. van Houten

Dead to the World

1961
as Congressman Keach

Who Is Julia?

1986
as The Commentator

Guest Star

Episode Cannon
Country Blues
1971
Episode Petrocelli
Death Ride
1975
Episode Charlie's Angels
Angels on the Street
1979
Episode Have Gun, Will Travel
Cage at McNaab
1963
Episode The Mary Tyler Moore Show
Mary Midwife
1976
Episode The Untouchables
Come and Kill Me
1962
Episode The F.B.I.
Passage Into Fear
1967
Episode The F.B.I.
The Legend of John Rim
1967
Episode Search
The Murrow Disappearance
1972
Episode ER
Power
1999
Episode Mannix
Desert Run
1973
Episode The Streets of San Francisco
Trail of Terror
1975
Episode The Invaders
Summit Meeting: Part I
1967
Episode Little House on the Prairie
I'll Be Waving As You Drive Away (1)
1978
Episode Perry Mason
The Case of the Ugly Duckling
1964
Episode The King of Queens
Art House
1999
Episode Route 66
Fly Away Home (2)
1961
Episode Stoney Burke
The Mob Riders
1962
Episode The Tall Man
Forty-Dollar Boots
1960
Episode The Guns of Will Sonnett
A Bell for Jeff Sonnett
1967
Episode Get Smart
Weekend Vampire
1965
Episode The Wild Wild West
The Night of the Kraken
1968
Episode Cannon
Hounds of Hell
1973
Episode Search
One of Our Probes is Missing
1972
Episode Barnaby Jones
Deadly Homecoming
1977
Episode The Six Million Dollar Man
The Return of the Bionic Woman (2)
1975
Episode Daniel Boone
My Brother's Keeper
1964
Episode Newhart
Tell a Lie, Get a Check
1984
Episode The Richard Boone Show
Statement Of Fact
1963
Episode Kung Fu
Superstition
1973
Episode Mannix
Edge of the Knife
1968
Episode St. Elsewhere
In Sickness and in Health
1984
Episode The Tall Man
The Lonely Star
1960
Episode The Rockford Files
Counter Gambit
1975
Episode The Six Million Dollar Man
The Bionic Woman (1)
1975
Episode The Fugitive
Ten Thousand Pieces of Silver
1966
Episode Black Sheep Squadron
The War Biz Warrior
1977
Episode Search
Short Circuit
1972
Episode Rawhide
Incident of the Dogfaces
1962
Episode Checkmate
A Brooding Fixation
1962
Episode Search
Moonrock
1972
Episode Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
Hail to the Chief
1964
Episode Perry Mason
The Case of the Unsuitable Uncle
1962
Episode Barnaby Jones
Day of the Viper
1973
Episode Mannix
To Kill a Memory
1972
Episode The Guns of Will Sonnett
Meeting in a Small Town
1968
Episode Wiseguy
Day Seven
1989
Episode Matlock
The Mayor (1)
1989
Episode The Wild Wild West
The Night of the Flying Pie Plate
1966
Episode Perry Mason
The Case of the Paper Bullets
1964
Episode Bonanza
The Debt
1965
Episode Judd for the Defense
Between the Dark and the Daylight
1969
Episode M*A*S*H
Dreams
1980
Episode Wiseguy
Day Nine
1989
Episode The Outer Limits
I, Robot
1964
Episode The Six Million Dollar Man
The Bionic Woman (2)
1975
Episode The Time Tunnel
The Death Trap
1966
Episode Saints and Sinners
Ten Days For A Shirt Tail
1963
Episode Slattery's People
Question: What Time Is the Next Bandwagon?
1965
Episode Rawhide
Incident of the Wager on Payday
1961
Episode Quincy, M.E.
Accomplice to Murder
1978
Episode Mannix
The World Between
1970
Episode Falcon Crest
Law and Ardor
1986
Episode The Untouchables
Line of Fire
1963
Episode The Virginian
The Small Parade
1963
Episode Alias Smith and Jones
The Biggest Game in the West
1972
Episode Matlock
The Mayor (2)
1989
Episode Cannon
Voice from the Grave
1974
Episode The Wild Wild West
The Night of the Iron Fist
1967
Episode Ironside
Ring of Prayer
1971
Episode Dr. Kildare
The Lonely Ones
1961
Episode Gunsmoke
The Search
1962
Episode China Beach
Through and Through
1991
Episode Gunsmoke
Song for Dying
1965
Episode How the West Was Won
The Rustler
1979
Episode Alias Smith and Jones
Exit from Wickenburg
1971
Episode Cimarron Strip
The Legend of Jud Starr
1967
Episode Alias Smith and Jones
The Man Who Broke the Bank at Red Gap
1972
Episode The Invaders
Panic
1967
Episode The Iron Horse
A Dozen Ways To Kill A Man
1966
Episode Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
Hot Line
1964
Episode The Wide Country
The Bravest Man In The World
1962
Episode Falcon Crest
Unholy Alliance
1986
Episode Search
In Search of Midas
1972
Episode Picket Fences
Heart of Saturday Night
1995
Episode The Fugitive
Echo of a Nightmare
1966
Episode Mannix
Huntdown
1967
Episode Perry Mason
The Case of the Fatal Fortune
1965
Episode B.J. and the Bear
Gasohol
1979
Episode Deadline
Wetback
1961
Episode Gunsmoke
Thirty a Month and Found
1974
Episode Alias Smith and Jones
Never Trust an Honest Man
1971
Episode Doc Elliot
The Touch of God
1974
Episode Night Gallery
The Phantom Farmhouse
1971
Episode Rawhide
Retreat
1965
Episode Alias Smith and Jones
Bushwhack!
1972
Episode Cain's Hundred
The Schemer
1962