Ty Hardin
Actor
Orison Whipple Hungerford Jr., known as Ty Hardin, was an actor best known as the star of the 1958 to 1962 ABC/Warner Bros. Western television series Bronco.
A Paramount Pictures talent scout discovered Hardin while Hardin attended a costume party. He had rented revolvers from a motion picture costume rental company.
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MoreOrison Whipple Hungerford Jr., known as Ty Hardin, was an actor best known as the star of the 1958 to 1962 ABC/Warner Bros. Western television series Bronco.
A Paramount Pictures talent scout discovered Hardin while Hardin attended a costume party. He had rented revolvers from a motion picture costume rental company.
By 1957, Hardin acquired the services of agent Henry Willson and made his way to Hollywood, where he was put under contract by Paramount Pictures.
Initially billed as "Ty Hungerford", he made various minor appearances in several Paramount films, such as The Space Children (1958), As Young as We Are (1958) I Married a Monster from Outer Space (1958), The Buccaneer (1958) and Last Train from Gun Hill (1959).
When Clint Walker walked out on his ABC series Cheyenne in 1958 during a contract dispute with Warner Bros., Hardin got his big break. Warner bought out Hardin's contract from Paramount Studios and installed him into Cheyenne for the remainder of the season, as the country cousin "Bronco Layne".
Hardin guest starred on other Warners shows such as Maverick and 77 Sunset Strip.
Warners cast Hardin in some films such as Merrill's Marauders (1962), where he was second billed to Jeff Chandler; The Chapman Report (1962); the spring break film Palm Springs Weekend (1963); PT 109; and Wall of Noise (1963).
Subject ID: 64097
Subject ID: 64097
