John Dehner

 John Dehner, born John Forkum (November 23, 1915 – February 4, 1992)

Dehner was an actor and animator. He played roles in radio, television, and film, often as droll villains. Between 1940 and 1989, he appeared in over 260 films, television series, and made-for-television movies. He initially went into art after studying at the Grand Central School of Art in New York City, New York. He worked as an animator at Walt Disney Studios in Burbank. Dehner's early radio jobs included being a news editor and a disc jockey. While working at KFWB in Los Angeles, California, he was a member of a news team that won a Peabody Award for its reporting on the first United Nations conference. He performed as a lead or supporting player in such radio series as The Whistler, Gunsmoke and Philip Marlowe. He also starred as Paladin in the radio version of Have Gun – Will Travel, one of the few times a show began on television and then was later adapted for radio. On CBS Radio in 1958, he starred in the series Frontier Gentleman. He also appeared on the TV series Gunsmoke, Cimarron City, The Twilight Zone, Bonanza, and Empire. Between 1940 and 1986, Dehner appeared in no fewer than 126 feature films and shorts. He played Sheriff Pat Garrett in Gore Vidal's The Left Handed Gun opposite Paul Newman as Billy the Kid. He also appeared in Scaramouche (1952) as Doutreval of Dijon.

In 1992, at the age of 76, Dehner died from complications of emphysema and diabetes in Santa Barbara, California. His interment is at Carpinteria Cemetery in Carpinteria, California.