
Don Dubbins
Born June 28, 1928 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA · Died August 17, 1991 (aged 63)
Don Dubbins (June 28, 1928 - August 17, 1991), originally Donald Dubbins, was an American actor of film and television who in his early career usually played younger military roles, particularly in such classic pictures as From Here to Eternity (1953) and The Caine Mutiny (1954). Screen giant James Cagney took a liking to Dubbins and procured roles for him in two 1956 films, These Wilder Years and Tribute to a Bad Man. In the former, Dubbins played Cagney's long-lost adopted son; in the latter, he was in a romantic triangle with cattle boss Cagney for the affections of a senorita. In 1957, Dubbins played a callow young United States Marines private in Jack Webb's The D.I. In 1958, Dubbins was cast in From the Earth to the Moon, a science fiction picture based on Jules Verne's novel of the same title.
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As Dubbins matured, he appeared in such films as The Prize in 1963, The Illustrated Man (based on a Ray Bradbury novel) in 1969, and Death Wish II in 1982.
Dubbins appeared in many television roles, including four episodes each of CBS's Gunsmoke, Perry Mason and Rawhide in Season 1/14 Incident of the Dog Days. In 1960, Dubbins appeared in the episode "Elegy" of CBS's The Twilight Zone. That same year he guest starred with Mel Torme in NBC's crime drama Dan Raven starring Skip Homeier. In 1961, he played a deputy who inadvertently killed his outlaw-brother in an episode of Stagecoach West, a Four Star Television series on ABC. He later appeared on the CBS anthology The Lloyd Bridges Show, and with Walter Brennan in ABC's The Guns of Will Sonnett. He appeared in the 1965 pilot episode of I Dream of Jeannie, and returned for one of the series' final episodes (as a different character) in 1970. In 1966, Dubbins appeared with Robert F. Simon as guest stars in the episode "Long Journey to Leavenworth" in the NBC series The Road West, starring Barry Sullivan, Andrew Prine, and Glenn Corbett.
Dubbins appeared twice on NBC's Little House on the Prairie with Michael Landon and five times on CBS's Barnaby Jones crime drama with Buddy Ebsen. Dubbins appeared in several episodes of Jack Webb's Dragnet 1967 series on NBC. Dubbins played the part of Billy Carter in "The Incident of the Dog Days" on Rawhide.
Dubbins' last TV roles were in episodes of CBS's Knots Landing (1979), ABC's Dynasty (1981), and NBC's Highway to Heaven (1984).
The Brooklyn-born Dubbins retired to Greenville, South Carolina, where his last acting was at the Warehouse Theater as Willy Loman in Death of a Salesman. He succumbed to cancer at the age of sixty-three.
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He Was a Quiet Man2007
The Good Shepherd2006
An Inconvenient Truth2006
LearningThe Secret Life of Words2005
LearningStones2004
LearningThe Hook2004
Big Fish2003
Mulholland Drive2001
Flickering Lights2000
Joint Security Area2000
The Art of War2000
LearningWhat Becomes of the Broken Hearted?1999
LearningThe Commissioner1998
Fathers' Day1997
Street Fighter1994
LearningSolar Crisis1992
My Cousin Vinny1992
LearningDriving Me Crazy1991
LearningSeparate but Equal1991
Do the Right Thing1989
No Way Out1987
Death Wish II1982
LearningSeason of Peace in Paris1981
The China Syndrome1979
LearningViolette Nozière1978
LearningSmall Change1976
Caged Heat1974
LearningOutrage!1973
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid1973
The Wild Child1970
LearningThe Defector1966
LearningPreludio 111964
LearningThe Prize1963
LearningThe Squeaker1963
LearningFrom the Earth to the Moon1958
LearningEnchanted Island1958
LearningSnow Country1957
LearningTribute to a Bad Man1956
The Caine Mutiny1954
From Here to Eternity1953
Beauty and the Beast1946
LearningHorse Feathers1932