Allen Case

Allen Case
Case as Deputy Clay McCord, at the age of twenty-five, on the set of NBC's The Deputy with guest star Vivian Vance (1959).
Born	(1934-10-08)October 8, 1934 Dallas, Texas, US
Died	August 25, 1986(1986-08-25) (aged 51) Truckee, California, US
Cause of death	heart attack
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1958–1982

Allen Case (born October 8, 1934 – died August 25, 1986) was an American television actor most noted for the lead role of Deputy Clay McCord in NBC-TV's The Deputy (1959–1961) opposite series regular Henry Fonda, who received top billing but appeared far less frequently than Case.

Case grew up in Dallas, Texas. He attended Southern Methodist University but left in his junior year to audition for the Arthur Godfrey Talent Scout Show in New York. In 1955, Columbia Records signed him to a contract and he starred in his first Broadway show, "Reuben, Reuben." He toured with such musicals as "South Pacific," "Damn Yankees" and "My Fair Lady,".

Case made more than thirty television appearances between 1958 and 1982, often in cowboy roles, such as on the ABC/Warner Brothers western series, Colt .45, starring Wayde Preston.

On September 30, 1958, a year before The Deputy debuted, Case played a hot-headed young deputy, Bud Wilkins, in the episode "Brink of Fear", of the ABC/WB western series, Sugarfoot, starring Will Hutchins. The episode is a lesson about the line of good and evil in the human heart. Tom Brewster as Sugarfoot attempts without success to help his boyhood friend Cully Abbott (Jerry Paris) put aside a lawless past after Abbott is paroled from prison. Other appearing in the episode are Venetia Stevenson, Harry Antrim, and Don Gordon.

On December 3, 1959, Case appeared on NBC's The Ford Show, Starring Tennessee Ernie Ford, a variety program with a Country and Western theme.

Case made three guest appearances on the CBS courtroom drama series Perry Mason including the role of defendant Adam Conrad in the 1964 episode, "The Case of the Ruinous Road."