Bobby Diamond
| Bobby Diamond | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Robert Leroy Diamond August 23, 1943 Los Angeles, California, USA |
| Occupation |
Attorney Actor: Fury (NBC) The Nanette Fabray Show, NBC The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis (CBS) |
| Spouse(s) | Divorced from Tara Parker Diamond (born 1960) |
Robert Leroy Diamond, known as Bobby Diamond (born August 23, 1943), is an American attorney in his native Los Angeles, California, who was a child star and young-adult actor in the 1950s through the early 1970s. He is best remembered after more than a half-century for his role as Joey Clark Newton in the television series Fury, a western which ran on NBC from October 15, 1955 through March 19, 1960. He was listed as Robert Diamond in the cast credits during the first season in 1955.
Diamond was spotted in Los Angeles in 1955 by a talent scout and was subsequently cast on Fury.
Diamond's character, Joey, had run afoul of the law, befriended a handsome wild black stallion, and lived on the Broken Wheel Ranch in California with his widowed and adopted father, Jim Newton, portrayed by Peter Graves, later known for his role on Mission: Impossible. Newton's wife and son had been killed by a drunk driver.
Joey called Jim by his first name but in time looked upon him as a father. Character actor William Fawcett played the housekeeper and top ranch hand, Pete Wilkey. Fawcett was the veteran of many westerns on both television and in motion picutures.
Cast as friends of Joey are Roger Mobley as Homer "Packy" Lambert, who appeared in forty-one episodes from 1958 to 1960, and Jimmy Baird (born 1945) as Rodney "Pee Wee" Jenkins from 1957 to 1958. The popular program originally ran after school hours during the week, but moved to Saturday mornings, was subtitled: "The Story of a Horse and the Boy Who Loves Him." Fury reruns continued on NBC until September 3, 1966, and later in syndication under the title the Black Stallion and as Brave Stallion.
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