Andrew Duggan

Andrew Duggan
Duggan as a guest star on Lawman, 1962.
Born	December 28, 1923(1923-12-28) Franklin, Indiana, U.S.
Died	May 15, 1988(1988-05-15) (aged 64) Hollywood, California, U.S.
Occupation	Actor, Director, Screenwriter
Years active	1949 - 1987
Spouse	Elizabeth Logue (1953-1988) (his death) 3 children

Andrew Duggan (December 28, 1923 – May 15, 1988) was a character actor.

Career

During World War II, Duggan was in the 40th Special Services Company, led by actor Melvyn Douglas^[1] in the China Burma India Theater of World War II. His contact with Douglas later led to his performing with Lucille Ball in the play Dreamgirl. He developed a friendship with Broadway director Daniel Mann^[2] on a troopship when returning from the war. Duggan appeared on Broadway^[3] in The Rose Tattoo, Gently Does It, Anniversary Waltz, Fragile Fox, The Third Best Sport.

He was a character actor who appeared in 70 movies including The Incredible Mr. Limpet with Don Knotts, and over 140 television shows between 1949 and 1987. He was also known for being the main character in the Disney theme parks' Carousel of Progress and the singer of the accompanying song The Best Time of Your Life before being updated with new voices and songs in 1993. Duggan had recurring roles in Cimarron Strip and The Great Adventure but seldom played the same role twice except in a couple of short-lived series in which he played the lead, Bourbon Street Beat and Lancer. He also had a recurring role in seasons 2 and 3 of the series Twelve O'Clock High as General Ed Britt. He appeared in a few episodes of Bonanza and was also in the pilot episodes of both The Restless Gun and Hawaii Five-O, as a former prisoner and an intelligence agent, respectively.

Bourbon Street Beat

In 1959, Duggan was contracted to Warner Bros. where he was cast in Bourbon Street Beat,^[4] in which he portrayed Cal Calhoun, the head of a New Orleans detective agency. (When Bourbon Street Beat was canceled after a single season, the two other detectives in the series moved on to other Warner Bros. detective shows: Van Williams as Kenny Madison remained in the same time slot with the new series Surfside 6. Richard Long as Rex Randolph assumed ailing Roger Smith's position on the hit series 77 Sunset Strip.

In 1962, Duggan starred in the 26-week ABC situation comedy, Room for One More, with co-stars Peggy McCay, Ronnie Dapo, and Tim Rooney. The story was about a couple with two children who adopt two others.

During this time Duggan appeared in several Warner Bros films such as The Chapman Report and Merrill's Marauders and the television pilot FBI Code 99. Duggan also provide narration for several Warner Bros. film trailers.

1960s

He guest starred in numerous television series in the 1960s. He appeared on ABC's western series Tombstone Territory in the episode "The Epitaph".including an appearance on Jack Palance's 1963-1964 ABC circus drama, The Greatest Show on Earth and the NBC medical drama about psychiatry, The Eleventh Hour as Carl Quincy in the 1963 episode entitled "Four Feet in the Morning" 1965 The Fugitive.

He had roles in Seven Days in May (1964) and played the President and an imposter in In Like Flint (1967).

Lancer TV Series (1969)

Duggan portrayed the patriarch in a 1968-1970 series inspired by Bonanza called Lancer,^[5] playing a darker and more complex counterpart of Ben Cartwright named "Murdoch Lancer", while James Stacy portrayed Lancer's gunfighter son. Wayne Maunder portrayed the older son, Scott Lancer, who had been educated in Boston. Ironically, Maunder in real life had been reared in nearby Bangor, Maine. Unlike Bonanza, Lancer lasted for only fifty-one episodes, but critics cited the scripts and performances as excellent. Paul Brinegar co-starred as Jelly Hoskins, having played a similar role of "Wishbone" on CBS's earlier western series Rawhide.

Later television work

Duggan played John Walton in the original 1971 The Waltons^[6] television special The Homecoming: A Christmas Story (the part was played by Ralph Waite in the subsequent series).

In 1980, Duggan appeared as Sam Wiggins in the ABC television movie The Long Days of Summer, and later that same year, guest-starred in an episode of the television series M*A*S*H* as Col. Alvin 'Howitzer Al' Houlihan, the legendary father of Margaret Houlihan.

One of Duggan's last parts was as Dwight D. Eisenhower in a TV biography called J. Edgar Hoover (1987), a role he had played earlier in Backstairs at the White House (1979). He also played Lyndon Johnson in a different biography of Hoover, The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover (1977). He portrayed the fictional President Trent in the spy-spoof In Like Flint (1967). He also played Judge Axel in the movie A Return to Salem's Lot (1987).

Personal life and Duggan's death

Duggan died^[7] of throat cancer at the age of sixty-four.

Andrew Duggan was a homebody^[5] and devoted father who attended Little League games. In 1954, he married Broadway dancer and actress Elizabeth Logue,^[8] whom he called Betty. She survived him by only a few weeks, dying herself of cancer on June 7, 1988.

(Note: No relation to Elizabeth Louise Malamalamaokalani White Logue best known as Hawaiian princess Noelani in the film Hawaii, and as the woman running down the beach in the opening credits of Hawaii Five-O).

The couple had three children, Richard, Nancy and Melissa.

References

External links

• Andrew Duggan at the Internet Movie Database
• Andrew Duggan at the Internet Broadway Database