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Chuck Connors

More known as "The Rifleman" , Kevin Joseph Aloysius Connors was born into a poor family of Irish immigrants in New York on April 10, 1921.

The high elevation (measured 197 centimeters) and their athletic abilities earned him a scholarship to a private school and, later, in Setton Hall University in which would last for two years until his enlistment for World War II where he began playing basketball, a sport that, having been part of the Boston Celtics, left for baseball, his passion, coming to play for the Brooklyn Dodgers.

the sport was a team in Los Angeles when a talent scout for MGM, in turn baseball fan, noticed him giving police a small role (initially going to do a boxer , but the character ended up being played by Aldo Ray) in the delightful comedy of George Cuckor "Pat and Mike" (1952) designed for the couple Spencer Tracy-Katherine Hepburn. This was followed by small interventions in the comedy feature set in the world of sport "A conflict in every corner" directed in 1953 by Michael Curtiz and starring John Wayne, the adventure film "Hurricane of emotions" also in 1953 where he meets Burt Lancaster to become a great friend, and "Designing Woman My " high comedy directed by Vincente Minnelli in 1957 with Gregory Peck and Lauren Bacall, at the same time it was seen in several television series (" Letter to Loretta" with Loretta Young, "Gunsmoke," "Size 44 " or Caravan").

becomes 1958 in key year as it participates in the great William Wyler western "The Big Country" with Gregory Peck, Jean Simmons and Charlton Heston, in which he played the bully and coward son of Burl Ives, while ABC offered the role Lucas McCain, a settler from New Mexico that seeks to educate your child in a hostile territory while trying to help the sheriff of the area, series "The Rifleman" was maintained screen for 168 episodes broadcast between 1958 and 1963, participating in some of them as a screenwriter and director Sam Pekinpah. With this series would become a star, making an unforgettable image shooting from the hip a Winchester lever with a more rounded than usual.

In subsequent years involved in blockbuster films such as "My Friend Flipper" that would create a television series or "Geronimo " which gave life to the chief of the Apaches chiricauas and star, with varying fortune, three television series "Arrest and trial " (thirty episodes between 1963 and 1964) with Ben Gazzara, " Marked " (forty-eight episodes between 1965 and 1966 ) also set in the West and which he played a captain Jason McCord expelled from West Point cowardice allegedly became a sort of government agent and "Cowboy in Africa " (twenty-six episodes between 1967 and 1968).

is in 1968 when its debut on the spaghetti western, starring in the remarkable film directed by Enzo G. Castellari "Kill them and return " pity that the rest of their roles in this genre were less interesting.

As happened in the western euro and even during the seventies and eighties did not lack work, his appearances were held in most cases in films made on either side of the Atlantic of little interest, among which we highlight " Whip" by Burt Kennedy with James Garner , "Airplane 2: the sequel" , "Soylent Green: Soylent When" great science fiction film directed by Richard Fleischer and starring Charlton Heston and Edward G. Robinson or " Salmonberries " Percy Adlon, made a year before his death.

also he was seen in numerous TV movies as "Texas Train" directed by Burt Kennedy in 1988 and starring Richard Widmark and television series "Roots " for which he was nominated for an Emmy or The Rose yellow "with Cybill Shepherd, David Soul, and Edward Albert.

In 1991, Lucas returned to play McCain in the television production "The Gambler Returns " and in 1992 died of pneumonia aggravated by the suffering lung cancer.

Of fame he achieved in life gives an idea that has since 1985 a star on the Walk of Fame in Hollywood, since 1991 a plaque at the Cowboy Hall of Fame.

As curious comment that is one of twelve athletes who have performed professionally in basketball and baseball. Filmography

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1968 .- "Kill them and becomes" .
1971 .- "The gorge of the devil" .
1972 .- "The challenge of Pancho Villa" .
1981 .- "The women of Jeremiah."