The Rifleman (1958)
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Cast & Crew.
Chuck Connors
Lucas McCain
Johnny Crawford
Mark McCain
Paul Fix
Micah Torrance
Sam Peckinpah
Creator / Director / Writer
Arthur H. Nadel
Producer / Director
Herschel Burke Gilbert
Music
Guy Roe
Director of Photography
Bobby Somers
Stunts
Joseph H. Lewis
Director
Gene Nelson
Director
Don Medford
Director
Richard Donner
Director
Lewis Allen
Director
Jerry Hopper
Director
Don Taylor
Director
Arthur Hiller
Director
Ted Post
Director
William Claxton
Director
John Rich
Director
James Clavell
Director
Lamont Johnson
Director
Robert Butler
Director
Ida Lupino
Director
David Swift
Director / Writer
Arnold Laven
Director
William Conrad
Director
Jesse Hibbs
Director
Budd Boetticher
Director
Otto Lang
Director
Bernard L. Kowalski
Director
David Friedkin
Director
John English
Director
Montgomery Pittman
Director / Writer
Lester Orlebeck
Editor
Jules V. Levy
Producer
Arthur Gardner
Producer
Lynn Stalmaster
Casting
Cyril Hume
Writer
Ed Adamson
Writer
George W. George
Writer
Herman Groves
Writer
Bruce Geller
Writer
Robert Lewin
Writer
Frank D. Gilroy
Writer
Samuel A. Peeples
Writer
Robert C. Dennis
Writer
David Lane
Writer
Calvin Clements Sr.
Writer
Luci Ward
Writer
Peter B. Germano
Writer
Dale Eunson
Writer
Tom Gries
Writer
Clair Huffaker
Writer
Oliver Crawford
Writer
John Dehner
Al Walker
Ed Ames
Lee Coyle
Agnes Moorehead
Bertie Hoakam
Edgar Buchanan
Grandpa Fogarty
Joe Higgins
Nils Swenson / Nils Swenson (uncredited)
Richard Anderson
Griff / Jason Gowdy
Dabbs Greer
Marcus Trimble
James Coburn
Cy Parker
Lee Kinsolving
Tim Elder
Herbert Rudley
Gorman
John Anderson
Samuel Gibbs
Don Kennedy
Clyde
Rex Holman
Bob Sherman
Robert Culp
Dave Foley / Writer
Alexander Scourby
Byron Claremont
Marc Lawrence
Cougar
Frank De Kova
Chief Hostay
Conlan Carter
Haslam Jackman
Gregory Walcott
Blade Kelby
Vic Morrow
Johnny Cotton
Alex Montoya
Ear Digger
Bill Quinn
Frank Sweeney
Rex Ingram
Thaddeus
Teddy Rooney
Woody Fogarty
Jimmy Carter
Charley
Hank Stohl
Britt / Cowboy
Pat Close
Noah Fergus
George Brenlin
Kid Porter
Frank Hagney
Nils Swenson
Jack Gordon
Townsman (uncredited)
William Bishop
Dave Stafford
Fred Graham
Hank - a Drunk (uncredited)
Patricia Blair
Lou Mallory
Lon Chaney Jr.
Charlie Gordo
Allen Case
Jeremy Ashford
Lewis Charles
Slade
Ted de Corsia
Norv Waggoner
Dick Rich
Line Boss
Lovyss Bradley
Townswoman (uncredited)
Charles Seel
Willard (uncredited)
Michael Forest
Chaqua
Mark Goddard
Walt / Marty Blair
Robert Foulk
Toomey
Michael Ansara
Deputy U.S. Marshal Sam Buckhart
Adam Williams
Jax / Jake Pardee / Corporal Troc / Russell Ganaway / Cory Platt / Mal Sherman / Teleplay / Story
Michael Harris
Ed Bundy / Cowhand
John Davis Chandler
Brooks
Tom Kennedy
Man Reading Newspaper (uncredited)
Norman Alden
Duff
Harry Hickox
Mason
Leo Gordon
Abe Jordan / Stack Wade
Jack Hogan
Rudy Gray / Joe Carson
Fred Sherman
Telegraph Operator
Orangey
Cat (uncredited)
Dal McKennon
Judge Moze / Judge Hopkins
Lee Farr
Sam Montgomery
Harold J. Stone
Benjamin Stark / The Marshal / Oat Jackford
Gene Tyburn
Deputy Ben
Norman Leavitt
Hotel Clerk
Jean Allison
Woman
Robert Webber
Argentina Brunetti
Sammy Davis Jr.
Beatrice Kay
Cliff Osmond
Raymond Bailey
Jerome Courtland
George Lindsey
Clancy Cooper
Royal Dano
Paul Wexler
Lee Van Cleef
Martin Kosleck
Whit Bissell
Lawrence Dobkin
Director / Writer / Teleplay
Ross Elliott
Glenn Strange
Irving Mitchell
Tommy Cook
Mike Kellin
George N. Neise
Jason Johnson
Stephen Wootton
Leonard P. Geer
John Milford
Chris Alcaide
John Abbott
Dennis Cross
Paul Richards
John Pickard
Philip Carey
Douglas Spencer
Harlan Warde
William Bryant
K.T. Stevens
Cesare Danova
Charles Watts
William Schallert
Chubby Johnson
Sidney Blackmer
John Hoyt
Bethel Leslie
Patricia Breslin
Richard Deacon
Henry Rowland
William Benedict
Regis Parton
Carolyn Craig
Frank Sully
Bartlett Robinson
Stanley Adams
Larry Thor
Edward Binns
Frank Wilcox
Adam West
Josephine Hutchinson
Carleton Carpenter
Clegg Hoyt
Ben Cooper
Joan Shawlee
James Franciscus
Diana Millay
Arthur Hunnicutt
Denny Miller
Patrick McVey
Eddie Quillan
Richard Alexander
Joan Taylor
Dennis Hopper
Akim Tamiroff
Keith Andes
Jim Hayward
Richard Kiel
Valora Noland
Russell Collins
Karl Swenson
Mickey Simpson
Brian G. Hutton
Michael Fox
Michael Pate
Warren Oates
Betty Lou Gerson
Stefan Schnabel
Gloria DeHaven
Ralph Moody
Linda Dangcil
Arthur Batanides
Bert Freed
John Dierkes
James Drury
Bing Russell
Paul Mazursky
Writer
Michael Landon
Don Grady
Buddy Hackett
James Westerfield
Parley Baer
Sean McClory
Lonny Chapman
William Fawcett
Olive Carey
Douglas Kennedy
Ron Hayes
James Best
Jeff York
R. G. Armstrong
Robert J. Wilke
Virginia Christine
Ron Hagerthy
Dee J. Thompson
Gigi Perreau
Kevin McCarthy
George Macready
Paul Mantee
Don Megowan
Robert H. Harris
Kent Taylor
Jack Kruschen
Peter Whitney
Robert Ellenstein
John Alvin
Bill Zuckert
Lee Patrick
Walter Sande
Leif Erickson
Robert Vaughn
Rhodes Reason
Cheryl Holdridge
Robert Burton
Gordon Jones
Kay E. Kuter
Hal Baylor
Lin McCarthy
Lillian Bronson
James Parnell
Jonathan Gilbert
Roberto Contreras
Max Wagner
Joseph Mell
Don Drysdale
Roy Barcroft
Noam Pitlik
Maurice Dallimore
Sandy Kenyon
Frank Ferguson
Robert Osterloh
Arthur Space
Victor Sen Yung
Steve Pendleton
Alan Baxter
Harry Dean Stanton
Luana Anders
Perry Lopez
Richard Whorf
Molly Dodd
Johnny Carpenter
Gerald Mohr
Les Tremayne
Media.
Details.
Release DateSeptember 30, 1958
StatusEnded
Seasons5
Episodes168
Running Time30m
Content RatingTV-PG
Genres
Wiki.
The Rifleman is an American Western television series starring Chuck Connors as rancher Lucas McCain and Johnny Crawford as his son Mark McCain. It was set in the 1880s in the fictional town of North Fork, New Mexico Territory. The show was filmed in black and white, in half-hour episodes. The Rifleman aired on ABC from September 30, 1958, to April 8, 1963, as a production of Four Star Television. It was one of the first primetime series on US television to show a single parent raising a child.
The program was titled to reflect McCain's use of a Winchester Model 1892 rifle, a historical anachronism, as the show was set in the 1880s, and customized to allow repeated firing by cycling its lever action. He demonstrated this technique in the opening credits, as well as a second modification that allowed him to cycle the action with one hand using a technique known as "spin-cocking".