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
