Robert Horton

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# Meade Howard Horton, Jr. (July 29, 1924 – March 9, 2016), known as Robert Horton, was an American television and stage actor. In his six decades of television, Horton became known for his nice, rugged voice, who was also most noted for his role, from 1957 to 1962, of the frontier scout Flint McCullough in the NBC Western television series, Wagon Train. His co-stars were Ward Bond, John McIntire, Terry Wilson, and Frank McGrath. Horton quit the series to pursue a career in musical theater. His Wagon Train role was replaced by that of Robert Fuller as the scout Cooper Smith, and thereafter the series moved to ABC. Fuller, a veteran of the western series Laramie, resembled Horton and the two actors coincidentally shared the same birthday, albeit nine years apart. He went on to perform for many years in theaters and nightclubs all over America and in Australia as a singer (sometimes with his wife, the former Marilynn Bradley). In 1963, producer David Merrick hired him as the male lead in the musical version of N. Richard Nash's play The Rainmaker (entitled 110 in the Shade), in the part played on the screen by Burt Lancaster. The musical, which boasted a score by Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt, ran for 330 performances on Broadway. Horton was born in Los Angeles, California, Horton attended Hollywood High School, who also graduated cum laude from UCLA. Horton played Ronald Reagan's role in the television version of Kings Row (1955), which featured Jack Kelly and ran for seven e

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