{{Short description|American actor (1918–1973)}} {{for|the American cookbook author|Stacy Lyn Harris}} {{More citations needed|date=January 2014}} {{Use mdy dates|date=December 2023}} {{Use American English|date=December 2023}} {{Infobox person | image = File:Stacy Harris Doorway to Danger.jpg | image_size = | caption = Harris as Doug Carter in ''Doorway to Danger'', 1953. | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth date|1918|7|26}} | birth_place = Big Timber, Quebec, Canada | death_date = {{death date and age|1973|3|13|1918|7|26}} | death_place = Los Angeles, California, U.S. | occupation = Actor | years_active = 1951–1972 }}
'''Stacy Harris ''' (July 26, 1918 – March 13, 1973) was an American actor with hundreds of film and television appearances.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.allmovie.com/artist/stacy-harris-p30681|title=Stacy Harris – Biography, Movie Highlights and Photos |website=AllMovie}}</ref> His name is sometimes misspelled '''Stacey Harris'''.
==Early years== Harris was born on July 26, 1918, in Big Timber, Quebec, Canada; as an infant he and his family moved to Seattle, Washington.<ref name="kcs">{{cite news |title=TV Mail Bag |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-kansas-city-star/168504602/ |access-date=March 21, 2025 |work=The Kansas City Star |date=April 14, 1957 |page=8 G|via = Newspapers.com }}</ref>
Harris was an Army pilot whose leg was injured in a plane crash less than six months after he enlisted in 1937. That injury prevented him from re-enlisting when World War II began, but he served with the American Field Service as an ambulance driver and with the French Foreign Legion as a dispatch rider. Before becoming an actor, he held a variety of jobs, including newspaper reporter, boxer, sailor, and artist.<ref name=hs/>
==Theatre== Harris acted in five Broadway plays and received a New York Critics Award.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1973/03/14/archives/stacy-harris-54-actor-on-radio-stage-and-tv.html|title=Stacy Harris, 54, Actor On Radio, Stage and TV|date=14 March 1973|publisher=|via=The New York Times |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230509055651/https://www.nytimes.com/1973/03/14/archives/stacy-harris-54-actor-on-radio-stage-and-tv.html |archive-date= May 9, 2023 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://stacysharris.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/actor-moved-by-applause.html|title=Actor Moved By Applause|website= The Big September Man |date=Apr 8, 1973 |publisher=Abilene (TX) Reporter News |author=Celluloid Heroes |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230512220839/http://stacysharris.blogspot.com/2014/03/actor-moved-by-applause.html |archive-date= May 12, 2023 }}</ref>
==Radio== Harris was known for his role as agent Jim Taylor on ABC Radio's ''This Is Your FBI''. In 1946, Jerry Devine, that program's producer-director, told newspaper columnist Jack O'Brian: "Stacy has just the sort of voice I need for the quiet authority of the special agent on my show. On top of that, he's a good actor, and it's a combination on radio which can't be beat."<ref name="hs">{{cite news|last1=O'Brian|first1=Jack|title=Broadway|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/5698856/hope_star/|work=Hope Star|date=November 16, 1946|location=Hope, Arkansas|page=4|via = Newspapers.com|accessdate = June 26, 2016}}</ref>
His other roles in radio programs included Batman in ''The Adventures of Superman'',<ref name=rp>Terrace, Vincent (1999). ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=nIiACgAAQBAJ&pg=PA16 Radio Programs, 1924–1984: A Catalog of More Than 1800 Shows]''. McFarland & Company, Inc. {{ISBN|978-0-7864-4513-4}}. p. 16.</ref> and Ted Blades in ''The Strange Romance of Evelyn Winters''.{{r|rp|page1=319}} He was also a member of the casts of ''Confession'',<ref name="sies">Sies, Luther F. (2014). ''Encyclopedia of American Radio, 1920–1960, 2nd Edition''. McFarland & Company, Inc. {{ISBN|978-0-7864-5149-4}}. p. 156.</ref> ''Dragnet'',{{r|sies|page1=200}} ''Pepper Young's Family'',{{r|sies|page1=294}} ''Destiny's Trails'',{{r|rp|page1=98}} and ''Frontier Gentleman''.<ref>{{cite web |title=Frontier Gentleman |url=http://www.idleminds.me/otr/page8/index.html |website=Idle Minds Design |accessdate=June 4, 2018}}</ref>
==Television== A partial list of Harris's roles in television programs includes: {| class="wikitable" |- ! Year ! Title ! Role ! Notes |- |1951-1953|| ''Doorway to Danger'' || Agent Doug Carter<ref name=etvs>Terrace, Vincent (2011). ''Encyclopedia of Television Shows, 1925 through 2010''. McFarland & Company, Inc. {{ISBN|978-0-7864-6477-7}}. p. 278.</ref> |- |1953|| ''Four Star Playhouse'' || Frank Le Beau || Season 2 Episode 3: "A Place of His Own" (aired on October 8, 1953) |- |1955-1957|| ''N.O.P.D.'' || Detective Victor Beaujac{{r|etvs|page1=770–771}} || 18 episodes |- |1956|| ''Four Star Playhouse'' || Troy || Season 4 Episode 22: "To Die at Midnight" |- |1957-1961|| ''The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp'' || Mayor John P. Clum{{r|etvs|page1=600}} || 23 episodes |- |1959|| ''Rawhide'' || Riggs || Season 1 Episode 12: "Incident of the Chubasco" |- |1960|| ''Bonanza'' || Regis || Season 1 Episode 18: "A House Divided" |- |1961|| ''Bonanza'' || Colonel Clinton Wilcox || Season 3 Episode 3: "The Honor of Cochise" |- |1961|| ''Rawhide'' || Sheriff || Season 4 Episode 2: "The Sendoff" |- |1961|| ''Alfred Hitchcock Presents'' || Cullen || Season 7 Episode 8: "The Old Pro" |- |1963|| ''Bonanza'' || Mr. Corman || Season 5 Episode 4: "Twilight Town" |- |1963|| ''The Alfred Hitchcock Hour'' || District Attorney || Season 1 Episode 15: "The Thirty-First of February" |- |1964|| ''The Alfred Hitchcock Hour'' || Lawyer || Season 2 Episode 18: "The Final Escape" |- |1965|| ''Bonanza'' || Martin Melviney || Season 6 Episode 16: "The Far, Far Better Thing" |- |1965|| ''Bonanza'' || Judge Simpson || Season 7 Episode 12: "Five Sundowns to Sunup" |- |1968|| ''Adam-12'' || Jim Ralston || Season 1 Episode 15: "Jimmy Eisley's Dealing Smack" |- |1968|| ''Adam-12'' || Dr. Edward Lane || Season 1 Episode 20: "I'm Still a Cop" |- |1969|| ''Bonanza'' || Harry Teague || Season 11 Episode 5: "Anatomy of a Lynching" |- |1970|| ''Adam-12'' || Carl Kegan || Season 3 Episode 12: "Sign of The Twins" |- |1971|| ''Bearcats!'' || Emmet Grosvenor || Season 1 Episode 11: "The Big Guns" |- |1971|| ''O'Hara, U.S. Treasury'' || Ben Hazzard{{r|etvs|page1=783}} || Season 1 Pilot Episode: O'Hara, U.S. Treasury" |- |1971|| ''O'Hara, U.S. Treasury'' || Ben Hazzard{{r|etvs|page1=783}} || Season 1 Episode 1: "Operation Big Store" |- |1971|| ''O'Hara, U.S. Treasury'' || Ben Hazzard{{r|etvs|page1=783}} || Season 1 Episode 10: "Operation: Hijack" |- |1972-1974|| ''Return to Peyton Place'' || Leslie Harrington<ref>{{cite news|title=Actor Stacy Harris Dies|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/5699225/the_times/|work=The Times|agency=United Press International|date=March 14, 1973|location=San Mateo, California|page=4|via = Newspapers.com|accessdate = June 26, 2016}}</ref> |}
Harris played varied characters, often villains, on various programs produced by Jack Webb's Mark VII Limited, such as ''Dragnet,'' ''Noah's Ark'', ''GE True'', ''Adam-12'', and ''Emergency!''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tvguide.com/celebrities/stacy-harris/credits/175105/|title=Stacy Harris|website=TVGuide.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tvguide.com/tvshows/adam-12/episode-20-season-1/log-73-im-still-a-cop/100016/|title=Adam-12|website=TVGuide.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cixPyu5pCaUC&q=Emergency%21+episode%3A+women+stacey+harris&pg=PA162|title=Emergency!: Behind the Scene|first1=Richard|last1=Yokley|first2=Rozane|last2=Sutherland|date=1 May 2007|publisher=Jones & Bartlett Learning|isbn=9780763748968|via=Google Books}}</ref>
Harris guest starred in the religion anthology series ''Crossroads'' and played a gangster in the 1956 time travel television episode of the anthology series ''Conflict'' entitled "Man from 1997" opposite James Garner and Charles Ruggles.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://vintage45.wordpress.com/2012/02/03/conflict-1956-57-man-from-1997-november-271956/|title=Conflict (1956–57) Man From 1997–November 27, 1956|date=3 February 2012|publisher=}}</ref> Thereafter, he appeared as Whit Lassiter in the 1958 episode "The Man Who Waited" of the NBC children's western series ''Buckskin''.{{Citation needed |date=March 2021}} He guest starred as Colonel Nicholson in the 1959 episode "A Night at Trapper's Landing" of the NBC western series ''Riverboat'' starring Darren McGavin.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b8aecba27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180216090628/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b8aecba27|url-status=dead|archive-date=February 16, 2018|title=A Night at Trapper's Landing (1959)|publisher=}}</ref>
Harris also appeared in three syndicated series, ''Whirlybirds'', starring Kenneth Tobey, ''Sheriff of Cochise'' and ''U.S. Marshal'', both with John Bromfield, and as the character Ed Miller in the episode "Mystery of the Black Stallion" of the western serious ''Frontier Doctor'' starring Rex Allen.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tvguide.com/tvshows/the-whirlybirds/205472/|title=The Whirlybirds|website=TVGuide.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tvguide.com/tvshows/us-marshal/cast/388076/|title=U.S. Marshal|website=TVGuide.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b87bbe095|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180216090239/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b87bbe095|url-status=dead|archive-date=February 16, 2018|title=Mystery of the Black Stallion (1956)|publisher=}}</ref> He was cast in two episodes of the David Janssen crime drama ''Richard Diamond, Private Detective''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tvguide.com/tvshows/richard-diamond-private-detective/episode-15-season-2/the-purple-penguin/204038/|title=Richard Diamond, Private Detective|website=TVGuide.com}}</ref>
Harris in 1958 portrayed Max Bowen in "The Hemp Tree" and in 1959 as Abel Crowder in "Rough Track to Payday", episodes of the CBS western series, ''The Texan'', starring Rory Calhoun.{{Citation needed |date=March 2021}}
In 1960, Harris was cast as a drummer named Cramer in the episode "Fair Game" of the ABC western series The Rebel starring Nick Adams.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tvguide.com/tvshows/the-rebel/episode-25-season-1/fair-game/203972/|title=The Rebel|website=TVGuide.com}}</ref> Harris appeared in three episodes of CBS's ''Perry Mason'', playing the role of murder victim Frank Curran in "The Case of the Married Moonlighter" (1958), Perry's client Frank Brooks in "The Case of the Lost Last Act" (1959), and murderer Frank Brigham in "The Case of the Crying Comedian" in 1961.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.allmovie.com/artist/stacy-harris-p30681/filmography|title=Stacy Harris – Movies and Filmography |website=AllMovie}}</ref> In 1963 Harris appeared as a Gambler on the TV western ''The Virginian'' in the episode titled "If You Have Tears".{{citation needed|date=September 2019}} In 1969, Harris played the corrupt and cowardly Mayor Ackerson in the episode "The Oldest Law" of ''Death Valley Days''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tvguide.com/tvshows/death-valley-days/episode-24-season-17/the-oldest-law/200859/|title=Death Valley Days|website=TVGuide.com}}</ref>
==Death== Harris died March 13, 1973, at the age of 54 in Los Angeles, California, of an apparent heart attack.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1368&dat=19730314&id=cM0wAAAAIBAJ&pg=7427,2661938|title=The Milwaukee Sentinel |via= Google News Archive Search|website=news.google.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Stacy Harris|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/5699071/idaho_state_journal/|work=Idaho State Journal|agency=Associated Press|date=March 16, 1973|location=Pocatello, Idaho|page=13|via = Newspapers.com|accessdate = June 26, 2016}}</ref>
==Filmography== {| class="wikitable" |- ! Year ! Title ! Role ! Notes |- |1950|| ''Appointment with Danger'' || Paul Ferrar || |- |1951|| ''His Kind of Woman'' || Harry || Uncredited |- |1953|| ''The Redhead from Wyoming'' || Chet Jones || |- |1953|| ''The Great Sioux Uprising'' || Uriah || |- |1954|| ''Dragnet'' || Max Troy || |- |1955|| ''New Orleans Uncensored'' || Scrappy Durant || |- |1956|| ''Comanche'' || Downey || |- |1956|| ''The Mountain'' || Nicholas Servoz || |- |1956|| ''The Brass Legend'' || George Barlow || |- |1957|| ''Raintree County'' || Union Lieutenant || Uncredited |- |1958|| ''New Orleans After Dark'' || Vic Beaujac || this is an expanded version for theaters of "The Case Of The Missing Cigars" episode from the ''N.O.P.D.'' TV series |- |1958|| ''The Hunters'' || Colonel Monk Moncavage || |- |1959|| ''Good Day for a Hanging'' || Coley || |- |1959|| ''Cast a Long Shadow'' || Eph Brown || |- |1962|| ''Four for the Morgue'' || Lieutenant Victor Beaujac || |- |1963|| ''It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World'' || Police Radio Unit F-7 || Voice, Uncredited |- |1965|| ''Sylvia'' || Mr. Leland || Uncredited |- |1965|| ''Brainstorm'' || Josh Reynolds || |- |1965|| ''The Great Sioux Massacre'' || Mr. Turner || |- |1965|| ''The Money Trap'' || Drunken Man || (scenes deleted) |- |1966|| ''An American Dream'' || Detective O'Brien || |- |1967|| ''Countdown'' || Technician || Uncredited |- |1968|| ''Bullitt'' || || Voice, Uncredited |- |1970|| ''Bloody Mama'' || Agent McClellan || |- |1970|| ''The Wife Swappers'' || Psychiatrist || |- |1970|| ''Noon Sunday'' || Operations Commander Callan || |}
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== * {{IMDb name|0365345}} * {{IBDB name|472839}}
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