John Harmon (actor)

John Harmon
John Harmon as Eddie Halstead on TV's The Rifleman (1959)
Born	John Harmon 30 June 1905 Ritzville, Adams County, Washington , USA, United States
Died	20 August 1985 (aged 80) Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, United States
Years active	1935–1985

John Harmon (June 30, 1905 – August 6, 1985) was an American character actor.

Harmon was a very prolific bit actor. His career spanned over six decades and almost 300 movie and television roles in a wide variety of genres. Many of his earlier appearances are uncredited. His first major screen credit was in I Was Framed (1942). His movie career highlights were roles in Gallant Bess, The Monster of Piedras Blancas, Live Fast, Die Young and The Street is my Beat. The movie in which he made his last screen appearance, The Naked Monster, was released in 2005, twenty years after his death. Harmon's most notable TV roles were in Bonanza, The Twilight Zone, Perry Mason (as a police fingerprint/ballistics expert), Star Trek (in the episodes "The City on the Edge of Forever" and "A Piece of The Action"), and The Rifleman (as the hotel clerk Eddie Halstead).

In his later years, Harmon became a used books dealer in Los Angeles. He collected first editions of Mark Twain. He suffered a stroke about a year before he died from heart failure.^[1]

Selected filmography

References

External links

• John Harmon on IMDb

• John Harmon at Memory Alpha (a Star Trek wiki)
• John Harmon at the Internet Broadway Database