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James Jeter

James Jeter, also known as James Jeeter, first appeared in films such as The Sand Pebbles and Cool Hand Luke and on TV series such as The Wild Wild West. His recurring appearances as various guards, blacksmiths, and storekeepers on the long-running Western series Bonanza set the mold for a long career portraying rural lawmen and blue-collar workers, and his best known role as blacksmith Hans Dorfler in the drama series Little House on the Prairie


Aliases
  • James Jeeter
  • James E. Jeter
English

Assault on Precinct 13

1976
as Precinct Captain

The Border

1982
as Frank

A Perfect World

1993
as Oldtimer

Cool Hand Luke

1967
as Wickerman

Guest Star

Episode Nanny and the Professor
Spring, Sweet Spring
1970
Episode The Rockford Files
The Paper Palace
1978
Episode Little House on the Prairie
The Third Miracle
1979
Episode M*A*S*H
The Price of Tomato Juice
1975
Episode Little House on the Prairie
Wilder and Wilder
1980
Episode The Mary Tyler Moore Show
The Shame of the Cities
1975
Episode Batman
The Great Train Robbery
1968
Episode The Wild Wild West
The Night of the Human Trigger
1965
Episode Gunsmoke
The Town Tamers
1974
Episode The Dukes of Hazzard
Big Brothers, Duke
1983
Episode Rawhide
The Testing Post
1965
Episode Little House on the Prairie
The Race
1976
Episode Land of the Giants
Comeback
1969
Episode The Mary Tyler Moore Show
Menage-a-Lou
1976
Episode Quincy, M.E.
Visitors in Paradise
1977
Episode The Rockford Files
Heartaches of a Fool
1978
Episode B.J. and the Bear
Lobo's Revenge
1979
Episode I Spy
This Guy Smith
1968
Episode Rawhide
The Winter Soldier
1965
Episode T.J. Hooker
The Fast Lane
1983
Episode Harry O
Accounts Balanced
1974
Episode Gunsmoke
Shadler
1973
Episode Hunter
The Last Kill
1985
Episode Mayberry R.F.D.
Goober the Elder
1971
Episode Little House on the Prairie
A Harvest of Friends
1974
Episode My Favorite Martian
Go West, Young Martian (1)
1965