Ken Lynch

From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia Kenneth E Lynch July 15 1910 February 13 1990 was an American radio film and television actor with more than 180 credits to his name He was generally known for portraying law enforcement officers and detectives Early life Kenneth Englehart Lynch was born on July 15 1910 in Albany New York the only child of Bertha Dietzel and Charles William Lynch His father was a native of Woburn Massachusetts who started his career as a coffee salesman and then became a creamery owner in Troy New York His mother was from Yonkers New York a third generation GermanAmerican His middle name was his maternal grandmothers maiden name Career He appeared in numerous television series He made three guest appearances on Perry Mason including the role of Wallace Lang in The Case of the Stuttering Bishop in 1959 Robert Hayden in The Case of the Irate Inventor in 1960 and Customs Inspector Wendel in The Case of the Floating Stones in 1963 Some of the other series in which Lynch appeared are Peter Gunn Zorro Have Gun Will Travel Fight at Adobe Wells Gunsmoke Bureaucrat The Patsy Checkmate Cyanide Touch woman Checkmate Born To Hang The Asphalt Jungle Straightaway The Honeymooners The Fugitive The Andy Griffith Show The Dick Van Dyke Show Blue Light Adam12 Star Trek The Devil in the Dark Season 1 Episode 25 as Chief Engineer Vanderberg in 1967 Maverick All In The Family in the famous episode Archie and the Lockup where he played Guard Callaghan The Twilight Zone Mr Denton on Doomsday The Rifleman and The Wild Wild West In 1960 Lynch appeared as Al Killmer in the TV western series Lawman in the episode titled The Escape of Joe Killmer He played The Freighter in S8 E26 The Jarbo Pierce Story on Wagon Train 1965 Between 1972 and 1977 he made 16 guest appearances on McCloud performing as a police sergeant and later a detective named Grover on the series In September 1974 he appeared in the very first episode of the cult classic KolchakThe Night Stalker playing a police captain He previously appeared in 12 episodes of Gunsmoke 10 episodes of The FBI nine episodes of Bonanza and six episodes in both The Virginian and Gomer Pyle USMC Among the feature films in which he appeared are I Married a Monster from Outer Space North By Northwest The Lawbreakers Pork Chop Hill Anatomy of a Murder and Tora Tora Tora He appeared in Battlestar Galactica as Dr Horning in episode 22 Experiment in Terra 1979 Lynchs last credited performance was in the role of Rear Admiral Talbot Gray in the 1983 sevenpart miniseries The Winds of War Flower business Even though Lynch still had a very successful career as an actor by the 1970s he began looking for another more steady source of income He explained in a 1975 newspaper interview In acting you just cant predict the jobs that will come along If you could you could budget Death Lynch died at age 79 from a virus on February 13 1990 in Burbank California He was buried at the San Fernando Mission Cemetery in Mission Hills Los Angeles CLR