Sam Edwards

Acting

Sam Edwards

Born 1915-05-26 · Macon, Georgia, USA

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Sam George Edwards (May 26, 1915 – July 28, 2004) was an American actor. His most famous role on television was as banker Bill Anderson on Little House on the Prairie. Film Edwards' first major screen role was as Chuck Ramsey in the movie serial version of Captain Midnight (1942). From 1949 to 1981, he made several film appearances, with significant roles in Twelve O'Clock High (1949), Operation Pacific (1951), Gangbusters (1954), and supporting roles in The Beatniks (1960) and Suppose They Gave A War and Nobody Came (1969). He was also seen in The Absent-Minded Professor (1961), Hello, Dolly! (1969) and The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981). Television Edwards appeared on many television series starting in the mid-1950s. Most notable of these include many episodes of Dragnet and Gunsmoke throughout their long runs. He also appeared on over 60 different series, including The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show, Straightaway, The Andy Griffith Show, Petticoat Junction, Green Acres, Mannix, Mission: Impossible, The Streets of San Francisco, Adam-12, The Red Skelton Show, Happy Days, The Dukes of Hazzard, and even Days of Our Lives. In 1969 Edwards appeared as Will Frazee on the TV series The Virginian in the episode titled "A Woman of Stone." Spouse Beverly Motley Edwards ​(m. 1969)​ Children 3 step-children Death On July 28, 2004, Edwards died of a heart attack in Durango, Colorado. CLR

Acting credits

Bambi poster
7.0

Bambi's tale unfolds from season to season as the young prince of the forest learns about life, love, and friends.

Bambi

1942

The Sun Sets at Dawn poster
6.4

A reporter investigates the story of a young man who may have been wrongly convicted and sentenced to be executed.

The Sun Sets at Dawn

1950

Hello, Dolly! poster
7.0

Dolly Levi is a strong-willed matchmaker who travels to Yonkers, New York in order to see the miserly "well-known unmarried half-a-millionaire" Horace Vandergelder. In doing so, she convinces his niece, his niece's intended, and Horace's two clerks to travel to New York City.

Hello, Dolly!

1969

The Postman Always Rings Twice poster
6.5

The sensuous wife of a lunch wagon proprietor and a rootless drifter begin a sordidly steamy affair and conspire to murder her Greek husband.

The Postman Always Rings Twice

1981

Chase poster
7.0

A special police unit goes after a cop-killer in this pilot film to the short-lived series.

Chase

1973

Flying Leathernecks poster
5.8

Major Daniel Kirby takes command of a squadron of Marine fliers just before they are about to go into combat. While the men are well meaning, he finds them undisciplined and prone to always finding excuses to do what is easy rather than what is necessary. The root of the problem is the second in command, Capt. Carl 'Griff' Griffin. Griff is the best flier in the group but Kirby finds him a poor commander who is not prepared to make the difficult decision that all commanders have to make - to put men in harm's way knowing that they may be killed.

Flying Leathernecks

1951

Twelve O'Clock High poster
7.2

In the early days of daylight bombing raids over Germany, General Frank Savage must take command of a 'hard luck' bomber group. Much of the story deals with his struggle to whip his group into a disciplined fighting unit in spite of heavy losses, and withering attacks by German fighters over their targets.

Twelve O'Clock High

1949

Operation Pacific poster
6.1

During WWII, Duke E. Gifford is second in command of the USS Thunderfish, a submarine which is firing off torpedoes that either explode too early or never explode at all. It's a dilemma that he'll eventually take up personally. Even more personal is his quest to win back his ex-wife, a nurse; but he'll have to win her back from a navy flier who also happens to be his commander's little brother.

Operation Pacific

1951

The Cheyenne Social Club poster
6.3

Cowboy John O'Hanlan is surprised to learn that someone's left him a business in Cheyenne, Wyoming. He sets out to claim it, only to discover it's a brothel.

The Cheyenne Social Club

1970

Captain Midnight poster
6.3

Secret Service Major Steel is one of the few men in America aware of the fact that Captain Albright is also Captain Midnight, daring masked aviator dedicated to fighting gangsters and enemies of America.

Captain Midnight

1942

The Street with No Name poster
6.4

After two gang-related killings in "Center City," a suspect (who was framed) is arrested, released on bail...and murdered. Inspector Briggs of the FBI recruits a young agent, Gene Cordell, to go undercover in the shadowy Skid Row area (alias George Manly) as a potential victim of the same racket. Soon, Gene meets Alec Stiles, neurotic mastermind who's "building an organization along scientific lines." Stiles recruits Cordell, whose job becomes a lot more dangerous.

The Street with No Name

1948

Torpedo Run poster
6.1

A submarine commander is on a relentless pursuit of a Japanese aircraft carrier in the South Seas during World War II.

Torpedo Run

1958

Hog Wild poster
8.0

A Chicago man and his family move to an Idaho pig farm, where he's crippled by an angry sow.

Hog Wild

1974

Period of Adjustment poster
6.0

A newlywed couple on their honeymoon visit friends who are having marital problems of their own.

Period of Adjustment

1962

In Broad Daylight poster
5.8

A newly blind actor discovers his wife is cheating on him with his best friend and hatches a plot to murder her and frame his friend for it.

In Broad Daylight

1971

Hit Lady poster
3.7

At a Texas barbecue, a pretty woman chats up a wealthy rancher, and soon they're off on a horseback ride. Before she shoots him on an isolated road, she gives him a minute to reflect on who he might have offended on his rise to the top. She's Angela de Vries, a contract killer based in L.A. She wants this to have been her last job; her contractor wants one more death, a national union leader, made to look like an accident. She starts her homework on this mark. Meanwhile, in her private life, she's in love with a budding photographer. Is there any way that she can get out of the game and have a full love life?

Hit Lady

1974

Witness to Murder poster
6.3

A woman fights to convince the police that she witnessed a murder while looking out her bedroom window.

Witness to Murder

1954

Guns Don't Argue poster
4.5

The actions of various criminals such as Dillinger, Pretty Boy Floyd, Bonnie and Clyde and Baby Face Nelson are reenacted in this film.

Guns Don't Argue

1957

The Deadly Dream poster
7.0

A scientist keeps having dreams that he is marked for murder by a mysterious tribunal for something that he's not aware that he's done, and that his wife and his friends are part of the conspiracy. Soon he's not sure which is the dream and which is reality.

The Deadly Dream

1971

Just Me and You poster
7.0

A salesman travels cross country with a quirky New Yorker.

Just Me and You

1978

Hoola Boola poster
8.3

Jim Dandy lands on a tropical island and falls in love with a beautiful maiden. A Puppetoon animated short film.

Hoola Boola

1941

The New Daughters of Joshua Cabe poster
8.0

Three young women who posed as the daughters of an elderly homesteader find out that he has been falsely accused of murder, convicted, and sentenced to hang. They hatch a plot to smuggle him out of prison.

The New Daughters of Joshua Cabe

1976

East Side Kids poster
6.4

After living all his childhood in the street, a young boy rapidly notices that crime doesn't pay, leading him to become a policeman. One day, one of his best friends goes to prison for a murder he didn't commit. The policeman tries his best to release the friend by proving his innocence.

East Side Kids

1940

Set This Town on Fire poster
7.0

After serving seven years in prison for manslaughter, a man returns to his hometown to find that the eyewitness whose testimony convicted him has second thoughts, and the town drunk has confessed to the crime.

Set This Town on Fire

1973