William Bramley
William Bramley (April 18, 1928 – October 28, 1985) was an American actor.
William Bramley | |
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 Bramley in Laredo (1967) | |
| Born | April 18, 1928 New York City, U.S. |
| Died | October 28, 1985 (aged 57) Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Bucknell University |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1958–1984 |
Biography
Born in New York, New York, Bramley graduated from Bucknell University in 1953. While there, he was involved with the Cap and Dagger Club theatrical organization.[1]
Bramley made his film debut in the Academy Award-winning 1961 movie musical West Side Story,[2] co-directed by Robert Wise and co-starring Richard Beymer. Bramley played the role of policeman Officer Krupke. He also appeared in the 1968 film Madigan. Other film credits include Gunpoint (1966), I Love You, Alice B. Toklas (1968), Getting Straight (1970), Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came? (1970), Doctors' Wives (1971), Bless the Beasts & Children (1971), Hangup (1974), Revenge of the Cheerleaders (1976), and The Wild Life (1984).
He appeared in TV movies including Ready for the People (1964), Trial Run (1969), Michael O'Hara the Fourth (1972), The Last Day (1975), Tough Girl (1981).
Bramley played a number of characters in various TV series including the lead policeman in the second-season episode of the TV series Star Trek entitled "Bread and Circuses". Bramley made guest appearances on such TV series as Gunsmoke, Bonanza, Combat!, Straightaway, Kentucky Jones, Lassie (1969 episode "Patsy"),The Virginian, Bewitched, I Dream of Jeannie (as a policeman), Emergency!, McCloud, Gomer Pyle, and Barnaby Jones. His final television appearance was in an episode of St. Elsewhere.
Bramley died on October 28, 1985, in the Tarzana Medical Center in Tarzana, California, at the age of 57.[1]
Filmography
Film
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1961 | West Side Story | Krupke | |
| 1963 | The Thrill of It All | Angry Driver | |
| 1968 | Madigan | O'Brien | Uncredited |
| 1968 | I Love You, Alice B. Toklas! | 1st Patrolman | |
| 1970 | Getting Straight | Wade Linden | |
| 1970 | Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came | Deputy Henry | |
| 1971 | Doctors' Wives | Dr. Hagstrom | |
| 1971 | Bless the Beasts & Children | Mr. Goodenow | |
| 1974 | Hangup | Simpson | |
| 1974 | Freebie and the Bean | Mr. Franklin | Uncredited |
| 1976 | Revenge of the Cheerleaders | Walter Hartlander | |
| 1984 | The Wild Life | Security Officer | Final film role |
Television
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1955 | Pond's Theater | Episode: "Prologue to Glory" | |
| 1958–1959 | The Phil Silvers Show | Pvt. Pete Masters | 2 episodes; uncredited in one episode and credited as Bill Bramley in another |
| 1960 | Diagnosis: Unknown | Detective McClutchey | Episode: "The Case of the Radiant Wine"; uncredited |
| 1961 | The Aquanauts | Mr. Wesson | Episode: "The Defective Tank Adventure" |
| 1961 | The Detectives | Range Manager | Episode: "Other Cheek" |
| 1961 | Checkmate | Burke | Episode: "The Button Down Break" |
| 1962 | Straightaway | Episode: "Escape from Darkness" | |
| 1962 | Alfred Hitchcock Presents | Dr. Hagerty | Episode: "The Test" |
| 1962 | Alcoa Premiere | Bosun Gallagher | Episode: "Seven Against the Sea" |
| 1962 | The Tall Man | Bart Tugwell | Episode: "The Runaway Groom" |
| 1962 | The Untouchables | Stephen Millerick | Episode: "Elegy" |
| 1962–1963 | Laramie | Tulman / Hanson | 2 episodes |
| 1962–1964 | The Alfred Hitchcock Hour | Fred Starcher / Lt. McDonald | 2 episodes |
| 1962–1972 | Bonanza | Mr. Mueller / Dan Fowler / Gifford Owens / Townsend | 4 episodes |
| 1962–1973 | Gunsmoke | Loomis / Anderson / Cane / Miller / Turner / Adam Haley / Jake Struck / Jed Woodard / Davis Henry / Browder | 10 episodes |
| 1963 | The Dakotas | Jellicoe | Episode: "Mutiny at Fort Mercy" |
| 1963 | G.E. True | Frank Joseph | Episode: "Firebug" |
| 1963 | Wide Country | Mike Knudsen | Episode: "The Care and Handling of Tigers" |
| 1963 | Empire | Marty Albee | Episode: "The Convention" |
| 1963 | Breaking Point | Lloyd | Episode: "The Bull Roarer" |
| 1963–1964 | Temple Houston | Gus Finney / Ford Conley | 2 episodes |
| 1963–1964 | Kraft Suspense Theatre | Roy David 'Biff' Mueller / District Attorney | 2 episodes |
| 1963–1968 | The Virginian | Karnes / Arnold Bowden / Del Hobart / John Ferguson / Charlie Tressider | 5 episodes |
| 1964 | 77 Sunset Strip | Bridges | Episode: "Dead as in 'Dude'" |
| 1964 | The Farmer's Daughter | Desk Sergeant | Episode: "Katy Gets Arrested" |
| 1964 | The Donna Reed Show | Harvey Jay | Episode: "My Son the Catcher" |
| 1964 | Destry | Red Brady | Episode: "Red Brady's Kid" |
| 1964 | The Bing Crosby Show | 1st Officer | Episode: "The Green Couch" |
| 1964 | Ready for the People | Nick Williams | TV movie |
| 1964 | Tom, Dick, and Mary | Sergeant | Episode: "And Baby Makes Four" |
| 1964 | Wendy and Me | Policeman | Episode: "Wendy, the Woman in the Gray Flannel Suit" |
| 1964–1969 | Lassie | Police Officer / Mr. Munson / Chet McCabe | 4 episodes |
| 1965 | The Outer Limits | 'Baldy' Baldwin | Episode: "The Premonition" |
| 1965 | Hazel | Mr. Camden | Episode: "Stop Rockin' Our Reception" |
| 1965 | Death Valley Days | McCartney | Episode: "The Battle of San Francisco Bay" |
| 1965 | Kentucky Jones | Cal Dryer | Episode: "Most Precious Gold" |
| 1965 | Slattery's People | Beecher | Episode: "A Sitting Duck Named Slattery" |
| 1965 | Honey West | George Mortimer | Episode: "The Owl and the Eye" |
| 1965 | Dr. Kildare | Dr. Bernard Krantz | 2 episodes |
| 1965–1966 | Lost in Space | Robotoid (voice) / Mr. Nobody | 2 episodes; uncredited |
| 1966 | The Wackiest Ship in the Army | Episode: "Chinese Checkers" | |
| 1966 | Perry Mason | Leon Vandenberg | Episode: "The Case of the Crafty Kidnapper" |
| 1966 | The Fugitive | Lynch / Tim Oates | 2 episodes; credited as Bill Bramley |
| 1966 | The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. | Ingo | Episode: "The Danish Blue Affair" |
| 1966 | Gomer Pyle: USMC | Cop #2 | Episode: "Follow That Car" |
| 1966 | Combat! | Desk Sergeant | Episode: "Gulliver" |
| 1966 | 12 O'Clock High | Col. Farnum | Episode: "The Duel at Mont Sainte Marie" |
| 1966 | Bewitched | Mr. Mills | Episode: "Soapbox Derby" |
| 1966–1967 | Iron Horse | Sheriff Stevenson / Ferris | 2 episodes |
| 1966–1973 | The F.B.I. | Kurt Milkey / Foreman / Howard Spain / Steve Drake / Ray Scott | 5 episodes |
| 1967 | Laredo | Luke Bergstrom | Episode: "The Seventh Day" |
| 1967 | The Invaders | Constable Gabbard | Episode: "Nightmare" |
| 1967 | The Monkees | Larry | S1:E27, "Monkee Mother" |
| 1967 | The Road West | Anderson | Episode: "The Eighty-Seven Dollar Bride" |
| 1967–1968 | Cimarron Strip | Fargo Jones / Whiskey Jack | 2 episodes |
| 1967–1969 | That Girl | Bert Weevle / Tim | 2 episodes; as Bill Bramley |
| 1967–1972 | The Magical World of Disney | Police Commissioner / Oscar Gruber | 3 episodes |
| 1968 | Star Trek: The Original Series | Policeman | Episode: "Bread and Circuses" |
| 1968 | The Ugliest Girl in Town | Car Salesman | Episode: "The Ugliest Girl in Town" |
| 1968–1969 | Land of the Giants | P.G. Hanley / 1st Giant | 2 episodes |
| 1968–1974 | Adam-12 | Fred Culligan / Mr. Cullen | 2 episodes |
| 1969 | The Outcasts | Stretter | Episode: "They Shall Rise Up" |
| 1969 | Trial Run | Karlson | TV movie |
| 1969 | I Dream of Jeannie | Policeman | Episode: "Jeannie for the Defense" |
| 1969 | Love, American Style | Policeman | Episode: "Love and the Phone Booth" |
| 1969 | My World and Welcome to It | Beeman | Episode: "Rally Round the Flag" |
| 1969 | The Last of the Powerseekers | Sergeant Grady | TV movie |
| 1969–1975 | Ironside | Paul Pacheco / Brooks / Bert Martin / Ken Hansen / Joe Lorca | 5 episodes |
| 1970 | Julia | Stanley Maguire | Episode: "The Prisoner of Brenda" |
| 1970 | Nanny and the Professor | Deliveryman #1 | Episode: "Spring, Sweet Spring" |
| 1970–1971 | Room 222 | Mr. Windisch / Coach Windish | 2 episodes |
| 1971 | The Name of the Game | Paul / Deputy | Episode: "The Showdown" |
| 1971 | Bearcats! | Mr. Overton | Episode: "The Feathered Serpent" |
| 1971 | Nichols | Hemmings | Episode: "Deer Crossing" |
| 1971 | Mod Squad | Artie Ralston | Episode: "Real Loser"; uncredited |
| 1971 | Cannon | Lieutenant Egan | Episode: "Death Is a Double-Cross" |
| 1971–1972 | McMillan & Wife | Whitey / Sergeant Warthheimer | 2 episodes |
| 1972 | O'Hara, U.S. Treasury | Grover Potter | Episode: "Operation: Dorias" |
| 1972 | Longstreet | Leonard Ames | Episode: "Through Shattering Glass" |
| 1972 | Michael O'Hara the Fourth | Police Commissioner | TV movie |
| 1972 | Emergency! | Sam | Episode: "Crash" |
| 1972 | The Delphi Bureau | Dr. Kantor | Episode: "The White Plague Project" |
| 1973 | The Waltons | Matt Beckwith | Episode: "The Gypsies" |
| 1973 | McCloud | Detective Sgt. Reese | Episode: "The Solid Gold Swingers" |
| 1973–1975 | The Streets of San Francisco | Condon / John Condon / Parole Board Chief / Officer Pete Morgan | 4 episodes |
| 1973–1976 | Barnaby Jones | Sheriff Martin Perry / Sheriff Lunceford / Mike | 3 episodes |
| 1974 | Get Christie Love! | Bartender | Episode: "Pawn Ticket for Murder" |
| 1974–1975 | Petrocelli | Cyrus Mitchell / Milt Daniels | 2 episodes |
| 1975 | The Last Day | Oates | TV movie |
| 1975 | Barbary Coast | Hatch | Episode: "Funny Money" |
| 1979 | How the West Was Won | Ferryman | Episode: "Hillary" |
| 1981 | Little House on the Prairie | Jed Finley | Episode: "Blind Justice" |
| 1981 | ABC Afterschool Specials | Judge M.A. Dibella | Episode: "Tough Girl" |
| 1982 | The Dukes of Hazzard | Boss Bowman | Episode: "The Hazzardgate Tape" |
| 1983 | St. Elsewhere | Mr. Czeski | Episode: "Qui Transtulit Sustinet" |
References
- "William Bramley, 57, actor". The Daily Item. Pennsylvania, Sunbury. November 14, 1985. p. 8. Retrieved 16 January 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
- Williams, Whitney (27 September 1961). "Review: 'West Side Story'". Variety. ISSN 0042-2738.
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