Bing Russell
Actor
Born May 5, 1926 in Brattleboro, Vermont, USA
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.
Filmography
The Battered Bastards of Baseball
Himself (Archive Footage)
Dick Tracy
Club Ritz Patron
Tango & Cash
Van Driver
Sunset
Studio Guard
Overboard
Elk Cove: Sheriff Earl
Elvis
Vernon Presley
The Loneliest Runner
Fred Dawkins
Arthur Hailey's The Moneychangers
Timberwell
The New Daughters of Joshua Cabe
The Apple Dumpling Gang
Herm Dally
Death Sentence
Trooper
The Sex Symbol
Public Relations Man
The Rockford Files
Lieutenant
Petrocelli
A Cry in the Wilderness
Mr. Griffey
Runaway!
Fireman
Satan's School for Girls
Sheriff
Set This Town on Fire
Chuck
The Streets of San Francisco
Now You See Him, Now You Don't
Alfred
Emergency!
A Taste of Evil
Sheriff
The Million Dollar Duck
Mr. Smith
Yuma
Rol King (as Neil Russell)
Alias Smith and Jones
The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes
Angelo
The Mod Squad
The Outcasts
Journey to Shiloh
Greybeard
Blackbeard's Ghost
Second Track Meet Official
Mannix
The Guns of Will Sonnett
Hondo
Thompson
Dundee and the Culhane
The Ride to Hangman's Tree
Keller (Uncredited)
Ironside
The Monkees
Rudy
The Monroes
An Eye for an Eye
Madame X
Sergeant Riley
I Dream of Jeannie
Amos Lincoln
The Big Valley
Jack Tolliver
The Hallelujah Trail
Horner
Branded
Cheyenne Autumn
Braden's Telegraph Operator (uncredited)
The Munsters
One Man's Way
Tom Rayburn
The Fugitive
Sgt. Eggins
A Gathering of Eagles
Captain (uncredited)
The Stripper
Mr. Mulvaney
How the West Was Won
Man (uncredited)
Flashing Spikes
Hogan
Stakeout!
Joe
Stoney Burke
General Electric True
The Virginian
Sgt. Eads
Sam Benedict
Len George (uncredited)
Ben Casey
The Great Impostor
Morgan (uncredited)
The Magnificent Seven
Robert
Route 66
Frank Satterfield
Surfside 6
Stagecoach West
The Andy Griffith Show
Mr. Burton
Tate
The Alaskans
The Twilight Zone
Ben Braden
Johnny Ringo
Dick Walsh
Laramie
Bonanza
Sheriff Clem Foster
Last Train from Gun Hill
Skag, Belden Hand
The Horse Soldiers
Dunker, Yankee Soldier Amputee
Rio Bravo
Cowboy Murdered in Saloon (uncredited)
Black Saddle
Lee Curry
Rawhide
Jack Harris
Good Day for a Hanging
George Fletcher
The Rifleman
The Texan
The Donna Reed Show
Bronco
Wanted: Dead or Alive
Clay
Cattle Empire
Douglas Hamilton
Suicide Battalion
Lt. Chet Hall
Ride a Violent Mile
Corporal Norman
Bombers B-52
Operator (uncredited)
The Land Unknown
Radio Operator (uncredited)
Harbor Command
Maverick
Sugarfoot
Sergeant McKinnock
Have Gun, Will Travel
Without Incident
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
Harry - Griffin Bartender (uncredited)
The Deadly Mantis
State Trooper
Drango
Lieutenant with Supply Wagon
Teenage Thunder
Used-Car Salesman
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Sam - Henchman
Attack
Medic
The Man Called X
Navy Log
Gunsmoke
Simon Fletcher
The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
Science Fiction Theatre
Cult of the Cobra
A Life at Stake
Bartender (uncredited)
The Wonderful World of Disney
Arne
Lassie
Public Defender
2nd Cop
Letter to Loretta
Convict
Big Leaguer
You Are There
Lendall Pitts
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Assistant Director
The Living Christ
Lazarus