John Dehner

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John Dehner born Staten Island N.Y.(1915-1992) was an American actor in television, radio, and films, playing countless roles on TV series and in movies, usually as a mildly comical villain. Between 1941 and 1988, he appeared in over 260 films and TV shows.

He played Paladin in a radio version of Have Gun Will Travel, the only time a show started on TV and later turned up on radio instead of the other way around. Two memorable performances were on the television series Maverick (1957) opposite James Garner in the episodes "Shady Deal At Sunny Acres" ("...if you can't trust your banker, whom can you trust?") and "Greenbacks, Unlimited." Dehner also played Pat Garrett in Gore Vidal's The Left-Handed Gun, opposite Paul Newman as Billy the Kid. Another film role for Dehner came in 1952's Scaramouche as Doutreval of Dijon.

In 1961 John Dehner starred in an episode of The Twilight Zone called "The Jungle" as an engineer who has had an African curse placed on him - in which he refuses to believe - until the end.

From 1971-73 he played the part of Sy Bennett, Doris' boss on the Doris Day Show.