Wright King

Acting

Wright King

Born 1923-01-11 · Okmulgee, Oklahoma, USA

Wright Thornburgh King (January 11, 1923 – November 25, 2018) was an American stage, film and television actor whose career lasted for over forty years. He is best known for playing Jason Nichols in the television series Wanted Dead or Alive (1958–1961).

Acting credits

Planet of the Apes poster
7.7

Astronaut Taylor crash lands on a distant planet ruled by apes who use a primitive race of humans for experimentation and sport. Soon Taylor finds himself among the hunted, his life in the hands of a benevolent chimpanzee scientist.

Planet of the Apes

1968

A Streetcar Named Desire poster
7.6

A disturbed, aging Southern belle moves in with her sister for solace — but being face-to-face with her brutish brother-in-law accelerates her downward spiral.

A Streetcar Named Desire

1951

Finian's Rainbow poster
5.9

An Irishman and his daughter arrive in the American South with a stolen pot of gold, hoping to make their fortune. Pursued by a leprechaun desperate to recover his treasure, they become entangled in a battle over land, love, and prejudice in Rainbow Valley—where the gold’s magic turns wishes, and lives, upside down.

Finian's Rainbow

1968

Friendly Persuasion poster
6.6

The story of a family of Quakers in Indiana in 1862. Their religious sect is strongly opposed to violence and war. It's not easy for them to meet the rules of their religion in everyday life but when Southern troops pass the area they are in real trouble. Should they fight, despite their peaceful attitude?

Friendly Persuasion

1956

King Rat poster
7.2

When Singapore surrendered to the Japanese in 1942, the Allied POWs, mostly British but including a few Americans, were incarcerated in Changi prison. Among the American prisoners is Cpl. King, a wheeler-dealer who has managed to establish a pretty good life for himself in the camp. King soon forms a friendship with an upper-class British officer who is fascinated with King's enthusiastic approach to life.

King Rat

1965

Invasion of the Bee Girls poster
4.7

A powerful cosmic force is turning Earth women into queen bees who kill men by wearing them out sexually.

Invasion of the Bee Girls

1973

The Gunfight at Dodge City poster
5.7

Fleeing to Dodge City after killing a man in self defence Masterson finds his brother Ed (Harry Lauter) running for sheriff of the town. When Ed is killed by hired guns of the corrupt incumbent Bat is determined to settle the score with violence but he is convinced by the townspeople that the best way to avenge his brother's death is by taking Ed's place on the ballot. Bat agrees and wins the election but his new role on the right side of the law will lead him to unexpected confrontations as he finds himself torn between his loyalties to his friends and his duties as sheriff.

The Gunfight at Dodge City

1959

Cast a Long Shadow poster
6.6

A young man without surname inherits a big indebted ranch and has to prove his worthiness managing a cattle drive.

Cast a Long Shadow

1959

The Macahans poster
6.7

Zeb Macahan, a pioneering westerner, helps move his brother's family to the wild west. They run into several obstacles including the breakout of the Civil War. This sends the father back to fight in the war and leaves the family to move on ahead.

The Macahans

1976

The Bold and the Brave poster
6.2

An assortment of American types come together in the Italian campaign of 1944.

The Bold and the Brave

1956

Dangerous Charter poster
5.0

The crew of a fishing boat discovers a deserted luxury yacht at sea with a dead body on board. They claim the yacht as salvage, not knowing that a drug smuggling ring has hidden $500,000 worth of heroin on the boat.

Dangerous Charter

1962

Nightmare poster
7.0

A murder witness can't convince the police that the killer lives in the apartment across the courtyard from him, and he realizes he is the sniper's next victim.

Nightmare

1974

The Andersonville Trial poster
6.3

A dramatization of the 1865 war-crimes trial of Henry Wirz, commandant of the notorious Confederate POW camp at Andersonville, Georgia.

The Andersonville Trial

1970

Along Came a Spider poster
5.9

Dr. Janet Furie comes to believe that her husband and fellow scientist were set up to die in a lab accident. She blames another scientist, not only for the murder but also for taking credit for her husband's groundbreaking work. When she can't prove her husband was murdered, she spins a web of intrigue and deceit that results in the suspected scientist being framed for another murder that never actually happened.

Along Came a Spider

1970

We Learn About The Telephone poster
7.7

Bill sketches an animated person, Mr. Man, who takes us back through history to explain how people developed a need to communicate, and shows us devices that helped to do so.

We Learn About The Telephone

1965

Shadow Over Elveron poster
6.6

A corrupt sheriff knows the secrets of everyone in town and uses that information to go unchallenged. But after the arrest of an innocent teenager, the new doctor cannot keep quiet and tries to get the community to stand up for what is right.

Shadow Over Elveron

1968

House Made of Dawn poster
8.0

A young Native American, Abel has come home from war to find himself caught between two worlds. The first is the world of his father’s, wedding him to the rhythm of the seasons, the harsh beauty of the land, and the ancient rites and traditions of his people. But the other world—modern, industrial America—pulls at Abel, demanding his loyalty, trying to claim his soul, and goading him into a destructive, compulsive cycle of depravity and disgust. Adaption of N. Scott Momaday's Pulitzer Prize winning novel

House Made of Dawn

1972

The Spell poster
5.0

A distraught mother must cope with her embittered daughter who has the ability to cause "accidents" to happen.

The Spell

1977

Journey Through Rosebud poster
10.0

A young draft dodger helps militant Native Americans in their protest against the government at Wounded Knee.

Journey Through Rosebud

1972

The Young Guns poster
7.2

After he's continually harrassed and bullied by his town's citizens, the orphaned teenage son of a notorious gunslinger takes flight and joins a gang of youthful outlaws.

The Young Guns

1956

Stagecoach To Fury poster
5.4

A group of stagecoach passengers are held hostage by bandits waiting for a shipment of gold they plan to steal.

Stagecoach To Fury

1956

Hot Rod Rumble poster
8.0

Big Arnie tries to make it in a hot-rod gang and get the girl... none who find him all that appealing.

Hot Rod Rumble

1957