Bing Russell
Actor/Actriz
52
Movies
57
TV Shows
Neil Oliver "Bing" Russell (May 5, 1926 – April 8, 2003) was an American actor and Class A minor-league baseball club owner. He was the father of Hollywood actor Kurt Russell.
Although best known as the deputy on Bonanza (1959) and Robert in The Magnificent Seven (1960), Russell's was also well known on a national level as the owner of the Portland Mavericks Baseball Club. Helming the only independent team in the class A Northwest League, Russell was an innovator. Before Bull Durham (1988), there were the Mavericks. Russell kept a 30 man roster because he believed that some of the players deserved to have one last season. His motto was simply one three lettered word - not WIN - although the Mavericks did just that - no, the word was FUN. He created a park that kept all corporate sponsorship outside the gates, hired the first female general manager in professional baseball, and the following year hired the first Asian American GM/Manager. That same season his team set a record for the highest attendance in Minor league history, and went on to win the pennant. Ex-major leaguers and never-weres who couldn't stop playing the game flocked to his June tryouts, which were always open to anyone that showed up. From as far away as Capetown, and France, players would head to Portland for a chance with Russell's Mavericks.
As Actor/Actress
Mannix
Bonanza
Sheriff Clem Foster
The Andy Griffith Show
Mr. Burton
El fugitivo
Sgt. Eggins
Ironside
Maverick
Lassie
El hombre del rifle
La Dimensión Desconocida
George Cousins
Rockford Files
Lieutenant
The Virginian
Sgt. Eads
Have Gun, Will Travel
Emergency!
Ben Casey
The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
Mi Bella Genio
Amos Lincoln
The Big Valley
Jack Tolliver
Route 66
Rawhide
Jack Harris
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Sam - Henchman
Randall, el justiciero
Clay
The Donna Reed Show
Gunsmoke
Simon Fletcher
Las calles de San Francisco
La familia Monster
The Texan
Sugarfoot
Sergeant McKinnock
Rompeolas
Los Dos Mosqueteros
Laramie