Bruce Cowling

Bruce Cowling
Bruce Cowling
	from the film Till the Clouds Roll By (1946)
Born	October 30, 1919; Coweta, Oklahoma, U.S.
Died	August 22, 1986 (aged 66)
Years active	1946–1961

Bruce Cowling (October 30, 1919 – August 22, 1986^{[citation needed]} ) was a film and television actor in the 1940s and 1950s.

Biography

Born in Coweta, Oklahoma,^[1] Cowling was the son of Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Cowling. His father was a telegrapher.^[2] He grew up in Coweta and graduated from Porter High School. Later he and his parents moved to Eufaula.^[1] Cowling attended the University of Arkansas and played football there. During his summers in college he was a telegrapher, and in World War II he was a radio operator in the United States Army Signal Corps.^[2]

Cowling appeared in twenty films including Song of the Thin Man (1947), Battleground (1949), Ambush (1950), The Painted Hills (1951), Gun Belt (1953) as Virgil Earp and To Hell and Back (1955).

He voiced several characters on the Lone Ranger radio show ^[3] and also made several appearances in different roles on The Loretta Young Show. He played Brady on "Have Gun Will Travel" S1 E31 "Hey Boy's Revenge" which aired 4/11/1958.

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1946	Till the Clouds Roll By	Steve Baker	(segment "Show Boat"), Uncredited
1947	The Beginning or the End	Enola Gay Ground Crewman	Uncredited
1947	It Happened in Brooklyn	Soldier	Uncredited
1947	High Barbaree	Captain	Uncredited
1947	Dark Delusion	Dr. Williams	Uncredited
1947	The Romance of Rosy Ridge	Clancy	Uncredited
1947	Song of the Thin Man	Phil Orval Brant
1948	The Pirate	Guard	Uncredited
1948	Command Decision	Operations Officer	Uncredited
1949	The Stratton Story	Ted Lyons
1949	Battleground	Wolowicz
1950	Ambush	Tom Conovan
1950	A Lady Without Passport	Archer Delby James, Pilot
1950	Devil's Doorway	Lt. Grimes
1951	Cause for Alarm!	Dr. Ranney Grahame
1951	The Painted Hills	Lin Taylor
1951	Westward the Women	The Cat	Uncredited
1952	The Battle at Apache Pass	Neil Baylor
1953	Gun Belt	Virgil Earp
1954	Cannibal Attack	Rovak
1954	Masterson of Kansas	Wyatt Earp
1955	To Hell and Back	Capt. Marks

References

^ ^a ^b "Movie Actor Coweta Born". Coweta Times-Star. March 6, 1947. p. 1. Retrieved July 4, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
^ ^a ^b "From Coweta to Hollywood". The Record-Democrat. Oklahoma, Wagoner. June 10, 1948. p. 1. Retrieved July 4, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
^ Goldin, J. David. "Cowling, Bruce". RadioGOLDINdex. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved June 22, 2013.