In 1959, he was cast as the young rancher Slim Sherman, the lead role on Laramie (1959–1963) with Robert Fuller, Hoagy Carmichael, Robert L. That same year, Smith played a pilot, Joe Walker, in the film Island of Lost Women. In 1959, he appeared as Irving Randall in the episode of "A Night with the Boys" of CBS's Alfred Hitchcock Presents. In 1958, he played the part of Smitty in "Letter of the Weak" in the detective series, Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer, starring Darren McGavin. The episodes rotated among Smith and two other stars, George Montgomery as Mayor Matt Rockford and Audrey Totter as Beth Purcell, the owner of the Cimarron City boarding house. In the 1958–1959 television season, Smith landed a starring role as the blacksmith/deputy sheriff Lane Temple on Cimarron City. In 1958, Smith appeared in the episode "The Irwin Brown Story" of the United States Navy television drama Men of Annapolis. In this episode Cameron Mitchell portrayed Dr. 45 as Shelby Taylor in "Point of Honor" (March 21, 1958). The child actor Ken Osmond was cast as Tommy. He was cast as The Comanche Kid in "Gallows at Granite Gap" (November 8, 1957), with Virginia Gregg as Martha Naylor and Stuart Randall, later a recurring character with Smith on Laramie, as Sheriff Mort Cory.
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Smith appeared twice on the ABC/ Warner Brothers western series Colt. He was cast as Private Reynolds that year in the picture Tomahawk Trail, starring Chuck Connors. In 1957, Smith starred with Fay Spain as a young prizefighter, Tommy Kelly, in the film The Crooked Circle.
He appeared as David in the 1956 episode "Cholera" of CBS's Gunsmoke. He was further cast in 1956 as Steve Maguire in the episode "The Singing Preacher", with Dick Foran in the lead role, on the religion anthology series, Crossroads.
That same year, he was the lead guest in "The Story of Lucky Swanson" on CBS's fantasy drama, The Millionaire, and as a character called "Utah" on Father Knows Best, the Robert Young situation comedy. That same year, he appeared as Wesley Mason in another film, Rebel in Town, starring John Payne. He appeared as Thursday October Christian in another film, The Women of Pitcairn Island. He played Jeff Northrup in another 1956 film, Hot Rod Girl. In 1956, Smith had a small role as Caleb Cope in the film Friendly Persuasion, starring Gary Cooper. Sontag and Evans turn to crime to fight the encroachment of the Southern Pacific Railroad.
The episode is entitled "Sontag and Evans," referring to Sontag's older partner in crime, Chris Evans, played by Morris Ankrum. Smith guest-starred in 1955 in the role of John Sontag in the syndicated television series Stories of the Century, the first western series to win an Emmy Award. That same year, he played the part of Willie McGill or the "Colfax Kid" in the episode "Paper Gunman" of NBC's anthology series Frontier, hosted and narrated by Walter Coy. In 1955, Smith played the part of James Earp, older brother of Wyatt Earp in the film Wichita, starring Joel McCrea and Vera Miles. In 1954, Smith appeared as the newlywed Milo Buck, opposite Karen Sharpe as Nell Buck, in the Academy Award-winning airplane disaster film, The High and the Mighty, starring and produced by John Wayne. He was renamed by his agent Henry Willson in contrast to the more exciting names of Willson's other clients as he was "the only John Smith in the business". Acting career, 1950-1963īy 1950, he was working as a messenger for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and in 1952, the studio cast him as James Stewart's brother in Carbine Williams, although the part was uncredited. In the early 1940s, Smith joined the Robert Mitchell Boys Choir and appeared in several films, including Bing Crosby's Going My Way and The Bells of St. He sang with a dance band and played football and basketball and engaged in gymnastics during his school years. Smith graduated from Susan Miller Dorsey High School in Los Angeles and enrolled at the University of California at Los Angeles. He had his leading roles in two NBC western television series, Cimarron City and Laramie.Ī descendant of Peter Stuyvesant, the Dutch governor of New Netherland in the 17th century, Smith was born in Los Angeles, California, to Errol and Margaret Van Orden. John Smith (born Robert Errol Van Orden, Ma– January 25, 1995) was an American actor whose career primarily focused on westerns.
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