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Movie Release Date Character Age at Release
Greenboy: Prescription for Death 04/20/13 Bill Gannon (archive footage) 96
Los Angeles Plays Itself 07/28/04 Officer Bill Gannon in Dragnet (archive footage) 89
M*A*S*H: 30th Anniversary Reunion 05/17/02 Himself 87
The Shootist: The Legend Lives On 07/24/01 Self (archive footage) (uncredited) 86
Family Plan 01/01/97 Sol Rubins 81
Incident in a Small Town 01/23/94 Judge Bell 78
Against Her Will: An Incident in Baltimore 01/19/92 Judge Stoddard Bell 76
Memories of M*A*S*H 11/25/91 Self / Sherman Potter 76
The Incident 03/04/90 Judge Bell 74
14 Going on 30 03/06/88 Uncle Herb 72
Dragnet 06/23/87 Captain Gannon 72
The Flight of Dragons 12/19/84 Carolinus (voice) 69
Sparkling Cyanide 11/05/83 Captain Kemp 68
Showbiz Goes to War 12/31/82 (archive footage) 67
Rivkin: Bounty Hunter 05/20/81 Father Everett Kolodny 66
More Wild Wild West 10/07/80 Robert T. 'Skinny' Malone 65
Scout's Honor 09/30/80 Mr. Briggs 65
Roughnecks 07/15/80 Plug Champion 65
Better Late Than Never 10/17/79 Mr. Scott 64
The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again 06/27/79 T.P. Gaskill 64
You Can't Take it With You 05/16/79 Mr. DePinna 64
The Wild Wild West Revisited 05/09/79 Robert T. Malone 64
The Cat from Outer Space 06/09/78 General Stilton 63
Kate Bliss and the Ticker Tape Kid 05/26/78 Hugo Peavey 63
The Bastard 05/22/78 Capt. Caleb 63
Murder at the Mardi Gras 05/10/78 Jim Bob Jackson 63
Maneaters Are Loose! 05/03/78 Toby Waites 63
Confessions of the D.A. Man 01/20/78 H.M. 'Staff' Stafford 62
Exo-Man 06/18/77 Arthur Travis 62
The Shootist 07/21/76 Marshall Thibido 61
The Apple Dumpling Gang 07/01/75 Homer McCoy 60
The Last Day 02/15/75 Narrator 59
Sidekicks 03/21/74 Sheriff Jenkins 58
Charley and the Angel 03/23/73 Angel 57
Snowball Express 12/22/72 Jesse McCord 57
The Century Turns 10/08/72 Doc Amos B. Coogan 57
Ellery Queen: Don't Look Behind You 11/19/71 Insp. Richard Queen 56
Cat Ballou 09/06/71 The Rancher 56
Scandalous John 06/22/71 Sheriff Pippin 56
Support Your Local Gunfighter 05/26/71 Taylor 56
The Barefoot Executive 03/17/71 E.J. Crampton 55
The Feminist and the Fuzz 01/26/71 Horace Bowers 55
But I Don't Want to Get Married! 10/06/70 Mr. Good 55
Viva Max! 12/01/69 Chief of Police Sylvester 54
Support Your Local Sheriff! 03/26/69 Olly Perkins 53
Dragnet 01/27/69 Bill Gannon 53
Star Spangled Salesman 02/09/68 TV Cop 52
The Flim-Flam Man 08/22/67 Sheriff Slade 52
What Did You Do in the War, Daddy? 08/31/66 Major Pott 51
Frankie and Johnny 03/31/66 Cully 50
John Goldfarb, Please Come Home! 03/24/65 Sarajevo 49
How the West Was Won 11/02/62 Gen. Ulysses S. Grant 47
Cimarron 12/01/60 Jessie Rickey 45
Inherit the Wind 07/07/60 Judge Mel 45
The Mountain Road 06/15/60 Mike Michaelson 45
It Started with a Kiss 08/19/59 Charles Meriden 44
Under Fire 09/23/57 Sgt. Joseph C. Dusak 42
The Teahouse of the August Moon 07/01/57 Sergeant Gregovich 42
Star in the Dust 06/13/56 Lew Hogan 41
Backlash 03/14/56 Tony Welker 40
Strategic Air Command 07/12/55 Sergeant Bible 40
Not as a Stranger 07/01/55 Oley 40
About Mrs. Leslie 08/03/54 Fred Blue 39
The Forty-Niners 07/30/54 Alf Billings 39
Prisoner of War 05/04/54 Maj. O.D. Hale 39
The Far Country 02/12/54 Ketchum 38
The Glenn Miller Story 01/04/54 Chummy MacGregor 38
Torch Song 10/01/53 Joe Denner 38
Champ for a Day 08/15/53 Al Muntz 38
Arena 06/24/53 Lew Hutchins 38
Thunder Bay 05/21/53 Rawlings 38
Stop, You're Killing Me 12/10/52 Innocence 37
Toughest Man in Arizona 10/10/52 Verne Kimber 37
Apache War Smoke 09/25/52 Ed Cotten 37
What Price Glory 08/22/52 Sergeant Moran 37
High Noon 06/09/52 Sam Fuller 37
My Six Convicts 03/20/52 Dawson 36
The Devil and John Q 02/03/52 Abe Lincoln 36
Bend of the River 01/23/52 Shorty 36
Scandal Sheet 01/16/52 Biddle 36
Boots Malone 01/11/52 Quarter Horse Henry 36
The Blue Veil 10/26/51 Charles Hall 36
The Well 09/24/51 Claude Packard 36
When I Grow Up 04/19/51 Father Reed (Modern) 36
Belle Le Grand 01/27/51 Abel Stone 35
Dark City 10/17/50 Soldier 35
The Showdown 08/15/50 Rod Main 35
Appointment with Danger 03/31/50 George Soderquist 34
Outside the Wall 02/08/50 Garth 34
Holiday Affair 12/12/49 Police Lieutenant 34
Strange Bargain 11/05/49 Richard Webb 34
Red Light 09/30/49 Rocky 34
Madame Bovary 08/25/49 Hyppolite 34
Down to the Sea in Ships 02/15/49 Britton 33
Hello Out There 01/01/49 The Young Gambler 33
Yellow Sky 12/24/48 Half Pint 33
Moonrise 10/01/48 Billy Scripture 33
The Saxon Charm 09/28/48 Hermy 33
Race Street 09/11/48 Hal Towers 33
All My Sons 05/01/48 Frank Lubey 33
The Big Clock 03/18/48 Bill Womack 32
The Gangster 11/25/47 Shorty 32
It Shouldn't Happen to a Dog 07/01/46 Gus Rivers 31
Somewhere in the Night 06/12/46 Bath Attendant 31
Dragonwyck 04/19/46 Klaas Bleecker 31
Johnny Comes Flying Home 04/05/46 Joe Patillo 30
From This Day Forward 03/02/46 Hank Beesley 30
State Fair 08/29/45 Barker 30
A Bell for Adano 06/21/45 Capt. N. Purvis 30
Gentle Annie 12/05/44 Cottonwood Goss (as Henry Morgan) 29
Take It or Leave It 07/17/44 Himself 29
Roger Touhy, Gangster 06/03/44 Thomas "Smoke" Reardon 29
The Eve of St. Mark 05/22/44 Private Shevlin 29
Wing and a Prayer 01/01/44 Malcolm Brainard 28
Happy Land 11/10/43 Tony Cavrek (as Henry Morgan) 28
Crash Dive 04/22/43 Brownie 28
The Ox-Bow Incident 03/11/43 Art Croft 27
To the Shores of Tripoli 11/09/42 Mouthy 27
Orchestra Wives 09/04/42 Cully Anderson 27
The Omaha Trail 09/01/42 Henchman Nat 27
The Loves of Edgar Allan Poe 08/28/42 Ebenezer Burling 27
The Kennel Murder Case 10/28/33 Gamble (uncredited) 18