Robert Foulk

From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia Robert C Foulk May 5 1908 February 25 1989 was an American television and film character actor who portrayed Sheriff H Miller in the CBS series Lassie from 1958 to 1962 Television Between 1953 and 1959 Foulk was in thirteen episodes of the NBC anthology series The Loretta Young Show From 1954 to 1957 he was in five episodes as Ed Davis in the sitcom Father Knows Best with Robert Young when the series aired on NBC In 1956 he played Jackley in the Walt Disney Mickey Mouse Club serial The Mystery of the Applegate Treasure In 1957 and 1958 Foulk played the outlaw Curly Bill Brocius in three episodes Gunslinger from Galeville Ride Out at Noon and Skeleton Canyon Massacre of the western television series Tombstone Territory In 1958 Foulk portrayed Sheriff Brady in the film The Left Handed Gun From 1959 to 1960 he had the recurring role of bartender Joe Kingston in the NBC western series Wichita Town Foulk appeared in five episodes of The Rifleman He played the blacksmith Toomey in The Second Witness episode 23 Three Legged Terror episode 30 and Outlaws Inheritance episode 38 He played Johannson in The Raid episode 37 and Herbert Newman in The Lost Treasure of Canyon Town episode 99 Foulk made four appearances on CBSs Perry Mason all of them as a lawenforcement officer including the 1958 episode The Case of the Buried Clock He appeared as the sheriff of Cloverville California in the twopart episode of The Untouchables The Big Train which dealt with the attempt to free Al Capone from the train transporting him to Alcatraz He made thirteen appearances on NBCs Bonanza mostly as a sheriff or deputy sheriff He also had recurring roles as Mr Wheeler and Roy Trendall former Hooterville phone company president in sixteen episodes of CBSs Green Acres In 1960 he guest starred in the TV Western Bat Masterson playing Judge Pete Perkins the towns crooked judge in S2E30s Welcome To Paradise In the early 1970s Foulk made four guest appearances on CBSs Heres Lucy in various roles Personal life and death In the 1930s Foulk was married to actress Alice Frost In 1947 he married Barbara Slater an actress who appeared in two Three Stooges short features She left Hollywood in the same year They remained married until his death in 1989 CLR