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Robert Horton (born July 29, 1924) is an American
United States

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 television
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 actor
Actor

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, who was most noted for the role of Flint McCullough in the TV series Wagon Train
Wagon train

A wagon train is a group of wagons traveling together. In the American Old West, individuals traveling across the plains in covered wagons banded together for mutual assistance....
 (1957 – 1962). When Horton quit that series, he was quickly replaced with near-lookalike Robert Fuller
Robert Fuller

Robert Fuller is a professional wrestler and manager . Robert and his brother Ron co-owned Continental Championship Wrestling for a time....
, whose series, Laramie
Laramie (TV series)

Laramie is an United States Western television series aired on NBC from 1959 in television to 1963 in television. Laramie was a Revue Studios production which originally starred John Smith as Slim Sherman, Robert Fuller as Jess Harper, Hoagy Carmichael as Jonesy and Robert Crawford, Jr., as Andy Sherman....
 had been cancelled by NBC after four years. According to an item in the 4-20-1959 issue of Time magazine
Magazine

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, Horton's measurements were 42-31-40.






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Robert Horton (born July 29, 1924) is an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 television
Television

Television is a widely used telecommunication mass-media for transmitting and receiving moving , either monochrome or color, usually accompanied by sound....
 actor
Actor

An actor or actress is a person who acting in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio programming in that capacity....
, who was most noted for the role of Flint McCullough in the TV series Wagon Train
Wagon train

A wagon train is a group of wagons traveling together. In the American Old West, individuals traveling across the plains in covered wagons banded together for mutual assistance....
 (1957 – 1962). When Horton quit that series, he was quickly replaced with near-lookalike Robert Fuller
Robert Fuller

Robert Fuller is a professional wrestler and manager . Robert and his brother Ron co-owned Continental Championship Wrestling for a time....
, whose series, Laramie
Laramie (TV series)

Laramie is an United States Western television series aired on NBC from 1959 in television to 1963 in television. Laramie was a Revue Studios production which originally starred John Smith as Slim Sherman, Robert Fuller as Jess Harper, Hoagy Carmichael as Jonesy and Robert Crawford, Jr., as Andy Sherman....
 had been cancelled by NBC after four years. According to an item in the 4-20-1959 issue of Time magazine
Magazine

for quarterly in Heraldry see Quartering Magazines, periodicals, glossies or serials are publications, generally published on a regular schedule, containing a variety of Article , generally financed by advertising, by a purchase price, by pre-paid magazine subscription, or all three....
, Horton's measurements were 42-31-40. Horton also played Ronald Reagan
Ronald Reagan

Ronald Wilson Reagan was the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States and the 33rd Governor of California . Born in Illinois, Reagan moved to Los Angeles, California in the 1930s, where he was an actor, president of the Screen Actors Guild , and a spokesman for General Electric ....
's role in the TV version of Kings Row
Kings Row

Kings Row is a 1942 film which tells the story of a group of youths who grow up leading supposedly idyllic lives in a small town with disturbing secrets....
 (1955), which featured Jack Kelly
Jack Kelly (actor)

Jack Kelly was an American film and television actor most noted for the role of Bart Maverick in the TV series Maverick , which ran on ABC from 1957 to 1962....
 and ran for seven episodes as part of the Warner Bros. Presents
Warner Bros. Presents

Warner Bros. Presents is the umbrella title for three television series which were aired as part of the 1955-56 United States network television schedule on American Broadcasting Company: Cheyenne , a concept that originated on Presents, and two others based on classic Warner Bros....
 series, rotating with a TV version of Casablanca
Casablanca (film)

Casablanca is an Cinema of the United States romantic drama film directed by Michael Curtiz, starring Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman and Paul Henreid and featuring Claude Rains, Conrad Veidt, Sydney Greenstreet and Peter Lorre....
 and a western series called Cheyenne
Cheyenne (TV series)

Cheyenne is a Western television series of 108 black-and-white episodes broadcast on American Broadcasting Company from 1955 to 1962. The show was the first hour-long western, the first series to be made by a major Hollywood film studio which did not derive from its established film properties, and the first of a long chain of Warner Bro...
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The ruggedly handsome Horton made dozens of appearances in movies and television shows between 1951 and 1989, including an episode of John Bromfield
John Bromfield

John Bromfield was an United States film and television actor.Bromfield was born in South Bend, Indiana, Indiana. He played football and was a boxing champion in college....
's Sheriff of Cochise
Sheriff of Cochise

Sheriff of Cochise , renamed U.S. Marshal , is a 58-episode Television syndication Western -themed crime drama set in Arizona and starring John Bromfield as law enforcement officer Frank Morgan....
 and seven separate episodes of the anthology series Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Alfred Hitchcock Presents is an anthology television series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock. The series featured both mystery fiction and melodramas....
. He appeared on the NBC interview program Here's Hollywood
Here's Hollywood

Here's Hollywood is a former National Broadcasting Company television celebrity interview program which aired on weekday afternoons at 4:30 Eastern time from September 26, 1960, to December 28, 1962....
. Horton is also remembered for his offbeat role as a cowboy amnesia
Amnèsia

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c in his television series A Man Called Shenandoah
A Man Called Shenandoah

A Man Called Shenandoah is a Western television program that aired on American Broadcasting Company from 1965 to 1966 by MGM Television....
 (1965–1966). Horton even took a turn in daytime, playing the part of Whit McColl on As the World Turns
As the World Turns

As the World Turns is an American television soap opera that airs each weekday on CBS.Set in the fictional town of Oakdale , the show debuted on Monday, April 2, 1956 at 1:30pm Eastern Time Zone....
 (1983-1984). In 1966 he starred in "The Dangerous Days of Kiowa Jones", the first Western made specifically for television and simultaneous distribution to cinemas in Europe. It was made by MGM and co-starred Sal Mineo
Sal Mineo

Salvatore Mineo, Jr. , better known as Sal Mineo, was a Golden Globe-winning United States film and theatre actor, best known for his Academy Awards-nominated performance opposite James Dean in the film Rebel Without a Cause....
 and Diane Baker
Diane Baker

Diane Carol Baker is an United States actress who has appeared in motion pictures and on television since 1959....
.

He went on to perform for many years in theaters and nightclubs all over America and in Australia as a very fine singer (sometimes with his wife, the former Marilynn Bradley). In 1963, producer David Merrick
David Merrick

David Merrick was a prolific Tony Award-winning United States theatrical producer.Born David Lee Margulois to Jewish parents in St. Louis, Missouri, Merrick graduated from Washington University, then studied law at the Jesuit-run Saint Louis University School of Law....
 hired him as the male lead in the musical version of N. Richard Nash
N. Richard Nash

N. Richard Nash was a writer and dramatist best known for writing Broadway Theatre shows, including The Rainmaker .Nash was born Nathan Richard Nusbaum in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania the son of S....
's play The Rainmaker
The Rainmaker (play)

The Rainmaker was a play written by N. Richard Nash in the early 1950s. The play opened on October 28 1954 at the Cort Theatre in New York City and ran for 125 performances....
 (entitled 110 in the Shade
110 in the Shade

110 in the Shade is a Musical theatre with a book by N. Richard Nash, lyrics by Tom Jones , and music by Harvey Schmidt.Based on Nash's 1954 play The Rainmaker , it focuses on Lizzie Curry, a spinster living on a ranch in the Southwestern United States, and her relationships with local sheriff File, a cautious divorc? who fears bein...
), in the part played on the screen by Burt Lancaster. The musical, which boasted a score by Tom Jones (writer)
Tom Jones (writer)

Tom Jones is a lyricist of musical theatre. His best known work is The Fantasticks, which ran off-Broadway from 1960 until 2002, and the hit song from the same, Try to Remember....
 and Harvey Schmidt
Harvey Schmidt

Harvey Lester Schmidt is an American writer of musical theatre, best known for composing the music for the longest running musical in history, The Fantasticks, which ran off-Broadway from 1960 - 2002 for a total of 17,162 performances at the Sullivan Street Playhouse....
, ran for 330 performances on Broadway
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He has been the recipient of several lifetime achievement awards for television, including the prestigious Golden Boot
Golden Boot Awards

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, and recently, the Cowboy Spirit Award at the National Festival of the West. Mr. and Mrs. Horton live in Encino, California
California

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