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![]() Dubbins in Bonanza (1960)
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Born |
Donald George Dubbins June 28, 1928 Brooklyn, New York City New York, U.S. |
Died | August 17, 1991 Greenville, South Carolina, U.S. |
(aged 63)
Cause of death | Cancer |
Occupation | Actor of stage, film, and television |
Years active | 1953–1991 |
Spouse(s) | Carolyn M. Kline (1 child) Jeanne Lighty Schaults (1963–1991, his death) |
Donald George "Don" Dubbins (June 28, 1928 – August 17, 1991) was an American actor of film and television who in his early career usually played younger military roles, particularly in such classic pictures as From Here to Eternity (1953) and The Caine Mutiny (1954).
Screen giant James Cagney took a liking to Dubbins and procured roles for him in two 1956 films, These Wilder Years and Tribute to a Bad Man. In the former, Dubbins played Cagney's long-lost biological son; in the latter, he was in a romantic triangle with cattle boss Cagney for the affections of a senorita. In 1957, Dubbins played a callow young United States Marine Corps recruit in Jack Webb's The D.I. In 1958, Dubbins was cast in From the Earth to the Moon, a science fiction picture based on Jules Verne's novel of the same title.
As Dubbins' career progressed, he appeared in such films as The Prize (1963), The Illustrated Man (based on a Ray Bradbury novel) (1969), and Death Wish II (1982).
Dubbins appeared in many television series, including seven episodes of CBS's Perry Mason in many typecasts, from a scheming nephew and murder victim in "The Case of the Counterfeit Crank," to Bill Vincent, one of Hamilton Burger's deputy district attorneys. He appeared in four episodes each of CBS's Gunsmoke and Rawhide, in the latter in the first-season episode "Incident of the Dog Days".