- Born Name: Richard Webb
- Birthday: 1915-09-15 (Year-Month-Day)
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- Spouse(s): Elizabeth Sterns (1942-?) (divorced) 2 children Florence Webb (?-1993) (his death) 2 children
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Richard Webb (actor), Richard Webb (September 9, 1915 – June 19, 1993) was a film, television and radio actor. He was born in Bloomington, Illinois.He appeared in more than fifty films, including many westerns and films noir including Out of the Past (1947), Night Has a Thousand Eyes (1948), I Was a Communist for the FBI (1951) and Carson City (1952). Today, he may be best remembered as the star of the 1950s TV series Captain Midnight, based on a long-running radio program of the same name. In 1958, he guest starred as agent James Foster in Bruce Gordons short-lived docudrama about the Cold War, Behind Closed Doors.In 1954, Webb played the notorious gunfighter John Wesley Hardin in an episode of Jim Daviss Stories of the Century western anthology. The segment shows Hardin shooting two Indians in the back, gunning down a sheriff in a saloon, and finally being outgunned himself by an El Paso officer attempting to arrest Hardin, then a lawyer, on a new murder warrant, possibly his 41st or 45th killing.Webb played Lieutenant Commander Ben Finney on Star Trek: The Original Series — Court MartialIn 1959, he appeared as the fictitious Don Jagger, the deputy chief of the United States Border Patrol in the syndicated series Border Patrol.In the 1970s, Webb became a writer, having published four books on psychic phenomena. He committed suicide in Van Nuys, California, having been afflicted with a long-term illness.[edit] References^ ”Behind Closed Doors’. ctva.biz. http://ctva.biz/UtS/Spy/BehindClosedDoors.htm. Retrieved September 2, 2009. [dead link]^ Stories of the Century. Classic TV Archive. http://ctva.biz/US/Western/StoriesOfTheCentury.htm. Retrieved July 3, 2009. [edit] External linksRichard Webb (actor) at the Internet Movie DatabaseRichard Webb at Memory Alpha (a Star Trek wiki)Find-A-Grave profile for Richard WebbRichard Webb in Captain Midnight Information and memorabilia illustrations, on the Collecting Books and Magazines websitePersondataNameWebb, RichardAlternative namesShort descriptionDate of birthSeptember 15, 1915Place of birthBloomington, Illinois, USADate of deathJune 10, 1993Place of deathVan Nuys, California, USARetrieved from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Webb_(actor)Categories: American film actors | American television actors | 1915 births | 1993 deaths | People from Bloomington, Illinois | Actors who committed suicide | Suicides in California | People from the Greater Los Angeles Area | People from the San Fernando ValleyHidden categories: All articles with dead external links | Articles with dead external links from October 2010 | Infobox person using deprecated parameters | Articles with hCardsPersonal toolsLog in / create accountNamespacesArticleDiscussionVariantsViewsReadEditView historyActionsSearchNavigationMain pageContentsFeatured contentCurrent eventsRandom articleDonate to WikipediaInteractionHelpAbout WikipediaCommunity portalRecent changesContact WikipediaToolboxWhat links hereRelated changesUpload fileSpecial pagesPermanent linkCite this pagePrint/exportCreate a bookDownload as PDFPrintable versionLanguagesEspañol This page was last modified on 29 January 2011 at 15:15.Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License;additional terms may apply.See Terms of Use for details.Wikipedia is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization.Contact usPrivacy policyAbout WikipediaDisclaimers if ( window.isMSIE55 ) fixalpha(); if (window.runOnloadHook) runOnloadHook();