Tom Greenway
| Tom Greenway | |
|---|---|
| Born |
June 5, 1909 Booneville, Logan County, Arkansas, U.S. |
| Died | February 8, 1985 (aged 75) Los Angeles, California. U.S. |
| Cause of death | Heart attack |
| Occupation | Television & film actor |
| Years active | 1949-1965 |
| Spouse(s) | Helen T. Greenway (m. ?–1985) |
Tom Greenway (June 5, 1909–February 8, 1985) was an American character actor of film and television, whose career, in movies and television westerns, extended from 1949 to 1965.
Greenway was born June 5, 1909, to Charles Sanford Greenway and his wife Lena Mai Radford, in Booneville in Logan County, east of Fort Smith in western Arkansas. During World War II he served in the United States Army Air Corps as a flight engineer on a B-17 bomber. While on a mission, he was shot down and spent more than a year in Italian and German POW camps. Released from military service, he performed on Broadway in New York City, where he procured his Social Security number, before he moved into films, where he had many uncredited roles in the early years of his career.
Greenway's first appearances were uncredited in two 1949 films, Impact and Deputy Marshal. Often he was cast as a law enforcement officer. He was an unnamed townsman in the 1952 Dale Robertson film based on Bret Harte's short story, "The Outcasts of Poker Flat". Greenway later appeared in many well known films including North by Northwest, High Noon, How the West was Won, Peyton Place and Who Wants to Marry a Millionaire.
Greenway appeared twice in 1954-1955 on the Rod Cameron syndicated television series City Detective. In 1955, he guest starred in the episode "The Big Genius" of NBC's Dragnet, starring and narrated by Jack Webb. In 1958, Greenway appeared four times on Rod Cameron's second syndicated series, State Trooper, a modern western series. He portrayed Sheriff Bronson in the episodes "Stay Lost, Little Girl", "Dangerous Honeymoon", "Full Circle", and "Death on Wheels". In 1957, Greenway was cast in the episode "Copper Wire" of another syndicated crime drama, Sheriff of Cochise, set in Arizona and starring John Bromfield; in 1958, he portrayed Deputy Sheriff Tom Munger in the episode "Sentenced to Death" of Bromfield's successor series, U.S. Marshal.
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