Gregory Walcott (born January 13, 1928) is an American actor television and film actor. He is perhaps most well known for having appeared in a much-maligned 1959 Ed Wood film, the science-fiction flop Plan 9 from Outer Space.
Born Bernard Mattox in Wendell, North Carolina, Walcott was raised in Wilson, North Carolina. While serving in the Army, he appeared as a drill instructor in the film Battle Cry, then as a military policeman in 1955's war-th...
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Gregory Walcott (born January 13, 1928) is an American actor television and film actor. He is perhaps most well known for having appeared in a much-maligned 1959 Ed Wood film, the science-fiction flop Plan 9 from Outer Space.
Born Bernard Mattox in Wendell, North Carolina, Walcott was raised in Wilson, North Carolina. While serving in the Army, he appeared as a drill instructor in the film Battle Cry, then as a military policeman in 1955's war-themed classic Mister Roberts with Henry Fonda and later Midway.
Walcott had roles in many television series, often in Westerns like Bonanza (on which he appeared seven times), Maverick, Wagon Train, 26 Men, Laramie, The Rifleman and in several episodes of Rawhide, where he began a long collaboration with Clint Eastwood. Walcott had featured roles in Eastwood's films Thunderbolt and Lightfoot, The Eiger Sanction, Joe Kidd and Every Which Way But Loose.
He also was one of the stars of a 1961-62 NBC television series, 87th Precinct, as Detective...
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