Donald Poe Galloway

 Donald Poe Galloway (July 27, 1937 – January 8, 2009)

Galloway was perhaps best known for his role as Detective Sergeant Ed Brown on the long-running crime drama Ironside (1967–75). He reprised the role for a made-for-TV film in 1993. He was a politically active Libertarian and journalist. Galloway began his television career in 1962 in the New York-based soap opera The Secret Storm as the first actor to play Kip Rysdale. His first nighttime stint was in the role of Mitchell Harris on Arrest and Trial (1963-1964).He also was seen on Tom, Dick and Mary, one-third of the 90-minute weekly sitcom 90 Bristol Court in 1964-1965. He signed up with Universal Studios in 1963 and guest-starred on Wagon Train, Run for Your Life, and others. Beginning in 1967, he co-starred on Ironside as Det. Sgt. Ed Brown. During the sixth season of Ironside, he and Burr co-starred in the TV movie Portrait: A Man Whose Name Was John. Galloway stayed through the entire run of Ironside until its cancellation in 1975. He was reunited with Burr on two Perry Mason television movies before reprising his role on Return to Ironside in 1993. In 1983, he appeared in the movie The Big Chill, as the husband of the character played by Jobeth Williams. In 1985, Galloway joined the cast of the ABC soap opera General Hospital, playing Buzz Stryker until 1987. After retiring from acting, Galloway briefly worked for the San Bernardino County (California) Sheriff's Department as a deputy sheriff. Galloway died at age 71 at the Renown Regional Medical Center in Reno, Nevada after suffering a stroke two weeks earlier. He is buried at Concord Cemetery in Bladeston, Kentucky.