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John Alderson (actor)

John Alderson
Born John Bramwell Alderson
(1916-04-10)10 April 1916
Horden, County Durham, England, United Kingdom
Died 4 August 2006(2006-08-04) (aged 90)
Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Occupation Actor
Years active 1951-1990
Television Boots and Saddles

(for the similar sounding English actor, *see John Alderton)

John Alderson (10 April 1916 – 4 August 2006) was an English actor noted for playing the lead in the 1957-58 syndicated western television series, Boots and Saddles, which ran for thirty-eight episodes in a single season, and many supporting roles in films in a career spanning almost forty years, from 1951 to 1990, including Don't Go Near the Water (1957), No Name on the Bullet (1959), Romanoff and Juliet (1961), My Fair Lady(1964), 'The War Lord (1965), I Deal in Danger (1966), Double Trouble (1967), Hellfighters (1968), The Molly Maguires (1970), Top of the Heap (1972), The Klansman (1974), The Duchess and the Dirtwater Fox (1976), Candleshoe (1977), The Cat from Outer Space (1978), The Wild Geese (1978) and The American Way (1986). He also appeared uncredited as the gum-chewing bandit shot by antagonist Hedley Lamarr in Blazing Saddles (1974).


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