Morgan Woodward

Morgan Woodward (born September 16, 1925, in Fort Worth, Texas) is an American actor.

He is probably best known for his recurring role on the soap opera Dallas as Marvin "Punk" Anderson. He also played the silent, sunglasses-wearing "man with no eyes", Boss Godfrey (the Walking Boss) in Cool Hand Luke (1967), and has the most guest appearances on Gunsmoke, according to "Gunsmoke" by Barabas.

One of Woodward's longest television roles was in forty-two episodes between 1958 and 1961 in the ABC television series The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp, as the deputy/sidekick "Shotgun" Gibbs. The series stars Hugh O'Brian. In that series, Woodward played a tall, cantankerous, shotgun-toting backwoodsman who eventually became the trusted deputy of lawman Wyatt Earp in his days as a Kansas and later Arizona lawman. Several episodes have comedy scenes about Gibbs and his beloved and supposedly highly intelligent mule, Roscoe. Though often overshadowed by the cool menace of Douglas Fowley's Doc Holliday, Woodward portrayed Gibbs as a solid, trustworthy, and more pragmatic partner to Earp, making Gibbs a character who, though ostensibly rough around the edges, would gradually come to share many of the qualities demonstrated over the years by another trusted television deputy, Ken Curtis' world-weary Festus Haggen on Gunsmoke, who like Shotgun Gibbs also rode a mule. He also made multiple guest appearances on Wagon Train between 1958 and 1965.

Woodward guest starred in two different episodes of the original series of Star Trek as two different characters. In the first-season episode "Dagger of the Mind" (1966), Woodward plays Dr. Simon van Gelder, a deputy director of a facility for the criminally insane. Van Gelder himself becomes a victim of sadistic experiments being carried out on patients by the facility's director and is confined as one of the patients. Escaping to the orbiting USS Enterprise, the deranged and incoherent (due to his condition) Van Gelder eventually recovers enough to be able to divulge the nefarious goings-on at the hospital. (This is with the aid of Mr. Spock's "mind meld", which is used for the first time in this episode.)

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