Gene Lyons

From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia Gene Lyons February 9 1921 July 8 1974 was an American television actor from Pittsburgh best known for his role as police commissioner Dennis Randall on the NBC detective series Ironside starring Raymond Burr A life member of The Actors Studio Lyons was in the Broadway production of Witness for the Prosecution for two years His other Broadway credits include Masquerade 1958 The Trip to Bountiful 1953 Harriet 1942 and This Rock 1942 In 1953 Lyons played a police detective on the CBS drama series Pentagon USA He appeared in 1954 as Steve Rockwell on the CBS daytime drama Woman with a Past Before joining Raymond Burr as a regular on Ironside he appeared on Perry Mason in 1965 as murderer Ralph Balfour in The Case of the Wrathful Wraith He also made guest appearances on nearly two dozen other series including The Dick Van Dyke Show Gunsmoke Have Gun Will Travel The Fugitive Ben Casey Star Trek A Taste of Armageddon The Twilight Zone King Nine Will Not Return The Alfred Hitchcock Hour and The Untouchables He also appeared in films including Kiss Her Goodbye and The Young Dont Cry Lyons died in Los Angeles California on July 8 1974 and is buried at Calvary Catholic Cemetery in Pittsburgh