Don Haggerty
Birthday: 1914-07-03
Place of Birth: Poughkeepsie, New York, USA
Biography: Don Haggerty (b. July 3, 1914, Poughkeepsie, New York – d. August 19, 1988, Cocoa Beach, Florida) was an American film actor appearing in films in the 1940s and 1950s. Before entering films in 1947, Haggerty was a Brown University athlete and served in the US military. Usually cast as tough policemen or cowboys, he appeared in a number of memorable films including Sands of Iwo Jima (1949), The Asphalt Jungle (1951), Angels in the Outfield (1951) and The Narrow Margin. The B-movie actor continued to appear in films until the early 1980s. In the 1955-1956 season, he appeared as the outlaw Sam Bass in an episode of Jim Davis's syndicated Stories of the Century. In 1956-1957, Haggerty appeared as Sheriff Elder in Rod Cameron's syndicated western-themed crime drama, State Trooper. He appeared at this time in three episodes of the syndicated western 26 Men about the Arizona Rangers. In 1959, he guest starred in Bruce Gordon's docudrama about the Cold War, Behind Closed Doors. In 1960, Haggerty guest starred on the NBC crime drama Dan Raven starring Skip Homeier. He also appeared as Joe Wine in the 1961 episode "Alien Entry" of the syndicated series The Blue Angels. About this time, he also appeared in the episode "The Green Gamblers" of the crime drama The Brothers Brannagan.
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The escapades of Huck Finn, Tom Sawyer, and the runaway slave, Jim, drifting down the Mississippi on...
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The Night of the Grizzly
Marshall "Big Jim" Cole turns in his badge and heads to Wyoming with his family in order to settle o...
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Armored Car Robbery
While executing an armored car heist in Los Angeles, icy crook Dave Purvis shoots policeman Lt. Phil...
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The Killers
A hit man and his partner try to find out why their latest victim, a former race-car driver, did not...
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Hell Is for Heroes
World War II drama where the action centers around a single maneuver by a squad of GIs in retaliatio...
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King of the Rocket Men
Prof. Millard pretends to be dead and helps Jeff King ferret out Vulcan, the evil traitor at the sci...
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Loophole
Bank teller Mike Donovan (Barry Sullivan) takes the first step on the road to Perdition when he fail...
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Texas John Slaughter: Geronimo's Revenge
Texas John Slaughter is a peace-loving family man and successful rancher who values his friendship w...
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Naked Alibi
Questioned as a murder suspect, solid (but drunk) citizen Al Willis attacks his police questioners, ...
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I Cover the Underworld
Gunner O'Hara is about to be released from prison after serving a five-year sentence, and receives a...
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Cry Vengeance
Ex-cop Vic Barron crossed the wrong mobsters; his wife and child were killed and he was scarred, fra...
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Cause for Alarm!
A bedridden and gravely ill man believes his wife and doctor are conspiring to kill him, and outline...
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The Crooked Way
A war veteran suffering from amnesia, returns to Los Angeles from a San Francisco veterans hospital ...
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Back Door to Heaven
The life of a young kid, who starts stealing small things to fit in with the "cool crowd"....
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Chain of Evidence
A police lieutenant fights to prove a boy's innocence after he's accused of murder. The fourth of fi...
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Calling Homicide
Cop Andy Doyle investigates a car-bombing murder and the killing of a sleazy modeling agency owner. ...
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Footsteps in the Night
Two detectives investigate the strangulation murder of a man whom everyone seemed to like....
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The Man Who Died Twice
An innocent nightclub singer becomes mixed up in illegal drug dealings shortly after witnessing her ...
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The Stooge
Bill Miller is an unsuccessful Broadway performer until his handlers convince him to enhance his act...
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Take the High Ground!
Sgt. Thorne Ryan, who once fought bravely in Korea, now serves as a hard-nosed drill instructor to n...
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Go for Broke!
A tribute to the U.S. 442nd Regimental Combat Team, formed in 1943 by Presidential permission with J...
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Seven Ways from Sundown
A Texas Ranger must capture an outlaw and take him-in, while tangling with savage Apaches and greedy...
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The Gunfight at Dodge City
Fleeing to Dodge City after killing a man in self defence Masterson finds his brother Ed (Harry Laut...
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Sailor Beware
Meeting in a navy recruiting line, Al Crowthers and Melvin Jones become friends. Al has tried to enl...
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The Private War of Major Benson
A Major noted for advancing with his mouth before thinking is given a choice: to be drummed out of t...
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Lost Planet Airmen
Feature version of the 1949 serial, KING OF THE ROCKETMEN: Young member of scientific group uses ne...
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Spoilers of the Plains
An experimental weather satellite and a missile base are at stake when Roy discovers foreign agents ...
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The Great Sioux Massacre
Colonel Custer, an outspoken believer in fair treatment for the Indians, is ousted from his post and...
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The Rocket Man
After procuring a special ray gun, a precocious orphan helps his community by exposing the shady doi...
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Back from the Dead
A woman is possessed by the spirt of her husband's deceased first wife, turning her into a cold, sch...
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Air Strike
Tasked with training a group of untested new recruits, a no-nonsense Navy commander faces a host of ...
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Crashing Las Vegas
An electric shock enables Sach to predict numbers, so the Bowery Boys are off to Las Vegas to win en...
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Storm Over Wyoming
Dave Saunders and his sidekick Chito, cowhands looking for work, arrive in Sundown Valley, Wyoming j...
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Cattle Empire
After serving a five year prison sentence for allowing his men to destroy a town in a drunken spree,...
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The Crooked Circle
A young prizefighter finds himself being squeezed on all sides to throw a fight....
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Dynamite Pass
A cowhand becomes involved in a war between a road construction crew and the greedy toll-owner hopin...
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The Resurrection of Zachary Wheeler
A U.S. Senator is spirited away to a secret New Mexico medical lab after a serious car crash. His in...
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Bronco Buster
A veteran rodeo rider takes on a young apprentice in order to "teach him the ropes", and winds up co...
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Gundown at Sandoval
In this exciting western, cowpoke Texas John Slaughter rides out for revenge against the man who kil...
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Combat Squad
A tough sergeant helps a raw recruit find courage under fire during the Korean War....
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An Annapolis Story
Two brothers, both cadets at Annapolis, fall in love with the same girl....
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The Asphalt Jungle
Recently paroled from prison, legendary burglar "Doc" Riedenschneider, with funding from Alonzo Emme...
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Canadian Pacific
A surveyor for the Canadian Pacific Railroad must fight fur trappers who oppose the building of the ...
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Vigilante Hideout
Cattle detective, Rocky Lane, arrives in town to investigate cattle disappearances only to realize j...
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That Lady in Ermine
Circa 1861, Angelina, ruling countess of an Italian principality, is at a loss when invaded by a Hun...
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Callaway Went Thataway
Two smart marketing people resurrect some old films starring cowboy Smoky Callaway and put them on t...
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Dirty Harry
When a madman dubbed 'Scorpio' terrorizes San Francisco, hard-nosed cop, Harry Callahan – famous for...
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The Solid Gold Girl
While searching for the man who framed him for a crime he didn't commit, Harrison Destry (John Gavin...
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Denver and Rio Grande
Jim Vesser and his team of railroading men try to build a rail line through a mountain pass, while a...
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Blood Arrow
Phyllis Coates, TV's erstwhile Lois Lane, essays one of her largest film roles in Blood Arrow. Coate...
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Fight for the Title
An champion light-heavyweight boxer batters a young challenger so severely that the youthful pugilis...
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False Paradise
A banker is trying to cheat people out of their silver-rich land. Hoppy learns that the banker is in...
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Return from the Sea
A hardened career navel officer must come to terms with adapting to civilian life with the help of a...
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Rustlers
A group of Arizona ranchers, trying to learn the identities of the Salt River Gang and prevent any f...
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The Dead Don't Dream
Hoppy, California and Lucky arrive at a remote inn, where Lucky expects to be married - but finds th...
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Borrowed Trouble
Finishing a trail drive, Hoppy and the boys head to town and immediately get caught up in the confli...
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Somebody Up There Likes Me
The story of boxer Rocky Graziano's rise from juvenile delinquent to world champ....
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Angels in the Outfield
The short-tempered manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates mends his ways in return for a little divine as...
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Phantom Stallion
Ex-cavalry buddies, Rex and Slim, band together to capture a wild stallion, solve a murder and thwar...
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Sands of Iwo Jima
Haunted by personal demons, Marine Sgt. John Stryker is hated and feared by his men, who see him as ...
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Angel in Exile
An ex-convict on his way to make his fortune in a gold mine in Arizona has his trip interrupted when...
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Cowboy and the Prizefighter
Red Ryder KO's a fight racket with sidekick Little Beaver (Little Brown Jug) and a new friend....
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The Sundowners
Brother is pitted against brother in this tale of fueding ranchers in the old west....
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Sinister Journey
Lee Garvin has eloped with the daughter of a railroad man who didn't approve of the marriage. Hoppy ...
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USS VD: Ship of Shame
This film was made by the U.S. government during World War II to show its young servicemen the resul...
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Wild Stallion
A young orphan grows into adulthood, all the while searhing for his beloved white horse that disappe...
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Spoilers of the Forest
Vera Ralston plays Joan Milna, who shares several thousand acres of valuable Montana timberland with...
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Silent Conflict
One of Hoppy's Bar 20 ranch hands is tricked into participating in nefarious activities after being ...
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The Vanishing Westerner
Posing as wanted men, Chris and Waldorf get hired by Sanderson. He sends them to kill the Sheriff bu...
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South of Rio
The town of Rio Blanco is the center of a fight over the statehood issue and is a perfect setup for ...
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Hannah Lee: An American Primitive
Professional killer Bus Crow is hired by cattlemen to eliminate squatters. When Marshal Sam Rochelle...
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Texas Lady
Claudette Colbert plays Prudence Webb, who arrives in the wide-open town of Fort Ralston, Texas, to ...
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Day of the Badman
Judge Jim Scott must contend with the vicious relatives of a murderer he's about to sentence...and h...
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California Gold Rush
Author Bret Harte relates the story of the discovery of gold in California at Sutter's Mill, and how...
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The Narrow Margin
A tough cop meets his match when he has to guard a gangster's widow on a train journey from Chicago ...
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Some Came Running
A former novelist returns to his small Midwest town after serving in the Army during WWII, to the ch...
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Pitfall
An insurance man wishing for a more exciting life becomes wrapped up in the affairs of an imprisoned...
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The Kid from Texas
Billy the Kid becomes embroiled in Lincoln County, NM, land wars. When rancher who gave him a break ...
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The Desperate Hours
Escaped convicts terrorize a suburban family they're holding hostage....
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Rhubarb
Rich, eccentric T.J. Banner adopts a feral cat who becomes an affectionate pet he names Rhubarb. The...
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Roar of the Crowd
Johnny Tracy, son of veteran race driver Pop Tracy, is working his way up on the racing circuit, but...
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Problem Drinkers
This edition of the March of Time series (Volume 12, Number 11) deals with the growing problem of al...
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The Loved One
Newly arrived in Hollywood from England, Dennis Barlow finds he has to arrange his uncle's interment...
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Mobs, Inc.
Captain Braddock of the Los Angeles Racket Squad schools a group of cadet policemen by telling them ...
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Starbird and Sweet William
A plane crash survivor draws upon the sensibilities of his Native American ancestry in order to stay...
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The Incredible Rocky Mountain Race
An old man observes a boy bullying his playmates and treats him to a morality lesson. The man tells ...
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The Gentleman from Nowhere
Security guard, wounded in a robbery of furs, arouses the suspicions of an insurance investigator....
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That's My Boy
Jack Jackson, the greatest football player in Ridgefield College history, is disappointed that his o...
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Act of Violence
A former prisoner of war, Frank Enley is hailed as a hero in his California town. However, Frank has...
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