Samuel Gardner "Sam" Melville (August 20, 1936 â€" March 9, 1989) was
an American actor. He appeared as a guest star on many television
programs of the 1960s and 1970s. He portrayed Officer Mike Danko in
four seasons of Aaron Spelling's ABC series, The Rookies, and The Bear
in the 1978 surfing movie, Big Wednesday, with Celia Kaye as his
unnamed "bride."Melville also had small parts in Hour of the Gun
(1967) playing the role of Morgan Earp, The Thomas Crown Affair (1968)
starring Steve McQueen, as Lieutenant James Crandall / Schmidt on
Hogan's Heroes (1966), and the television disaster film Terror in the
Sky (1971) as the co-pilot. On Gunsmoke and Hawaii Five-O, both on
CBS, he played villains as a guest-star. However, on the episode "A
Mule ... Like the Army's Mule" of the syndicated anthology series
Death Valley Days, Melville portrayed United States Army Lt. Jason
Beal, who befriended Sandy King, played by Luke Halpin, the youngest
member of the Curly Bill Brocius outlaw gang. In 1967, he guest
starred in an episode of the CBS western, Dundee and the Culhane.In
1970, Melville was cast as Indian agent John Clum in the Death Valley
Days episode, "Clum's Constabulary", hosted by Dale Robertson. In the
story line, Clum recruits an elite team of Apaches to aid the U.S.
Cavalry in the Southwest but faces opposition within the white
community. Tris Coffin was cast as Captain Loren Phillips and John
Considine as Lago.Melville again portrayed a villain on CBS's
Scarecrow and Mrs. King, and later portrayed Mrs. King's ex-husband
and father of her children. He played opposite Kate Jackson as her
husband in The Rookies. He guest starred as a jewel thief, alongside
Janie Fricke, in the seventh-season episode of CBS's The Dukes Of
Hazzard, "Happy Birthday, General Lee".
an American actor. He appeared as a guest star on many television
programs of the 1960s and 1970s. He portrayed Officer Mike Danko in
four seasons of Aaron Spelling's ABC series, The Rookies, and The Bear
in the 1978 surfing movie, Big Wednesday, with Celia Kaye as his
unnamed "bride."Melville also had small parts in Hour of the Gun
(1967) playing the role of Morgan Earp, The Thomas Crown Affair (1968)
starring Steve McQueen, as Lieutenant James Crandall / Schmidt on
Hogan's Heroes (1966), and the television disaster film Terror in the
Sky (1971) as the co-pilot. On Gunsmoke and Hawaii Five-O, both on
CBS, he played villains as a guest-star. However, on the episode "A
Mule ... Like the Army's Mule" of the syndicated anthology series
Death Valley Days, Melville portrayed United States Army Lt. Jason
Beal, who befriended Sandy King, played by Luke Halpin, the youngest
member of the Curly Bill Brocius outlaw gang. In 1967, he guest
starred in an episode of the CBS western, Dundee and the Culhane.In
1970, Melville was cast as Indian agent John Clum in the Death Valley
Days episode, "Clum's Constabulary", hosted by Dale Robertson. In the
story line, Clum recruits an elite team of Apaches to aid the U.S.
Cavalry in the Southwest but faces opposition within the white
community. Tris Coffin was cast as Captain Loren Phillips and John
Considine as Lago.Melville again portrayed a villain on CBS's
Scarecrow and Mrs. King, and later portrayed Mrs. King's ex-husband
and father of her children. He played opposite Kate Jackson as her
husband in The Rookies. He guest starred as a jewel thief, alongside
Janie Fricke, in the seventh-season episode of CBS's The Dukes Of
Hazzard, "Happy Birthday, General Lee".
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