BYRON FOULGER BIOGRAPHY & FILMOGRAPHY:
Byron Foulger was born on August 27th, 1899 in Ogden, Utah. His career in entertainment began performing in local community theater stage productions and later in stock repertory companies.
After earning his high school diploma he went on to earn a college degree from the University of Utah. Foulger then decided to pursue a full time career as an actor, He made his first Broadway appearance in 1920 performing in a production of, “Medea” followed by a number of other stage roles. He then relocated to California and found work at the Pasadena Playhouse where he not only worked as an actor, but was also given the chance to work as a director.
Soon, along with his wife, actress, Dorothy Adams, they began to break into the film industry. He added over the course of his career more than 400 television and film roles. Early film roles included, "The Little Minister" (1934) starring Katharine Hepburn, Reginald Denny, Alan Hale Sr., Donald Crisp, John Beal, Lumsden Hare and Andy Clyde, "The President's Mystery" (1936) starring Henry Wilcoxon, Betty Furness, Evelyn Brent and Sidney Blackmer and "The Man They Could Not Hang" (1939) starring Boris Karloff, Charles Trowbridge, James Craig, Lorna Gray and Don Beddoe.
Some of his more well known film roles included, "Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe" (1940) starring Larry 'Buster' Crabbe, Charles Middleton, Carol Hughes and Frank Shannon, "The Great McGinty" (1940) starring Brian Donlevy, Akim Tamiroff, Thurston Hall, William Demarest and Muriel Angelus, "Sullivan's Travels" (1941) starring Joel McCrea, Veronica Lake, Robert Warwick, Porter Hall, Margaret Hayes, Franklin Pangborn and William Demarest, "The Palm Beach Story" (1942) starring Claudette Colbert, Joel McCrea, Mary Astor, Rudy Vallee, Franklin Pangborn, William Demarest, Robert Warwick, Fred 'Snowflake' Toones, Victor Potel and J. Farrell MacDonald, "The Miracle of Morgan's Creek" (1944) starring Eddie Bracken, Betty Hutton, Diana Lynn, William Demarest, Porter Hall, Brian Donlevy and Akim Tamiroff, "The Great Moment" (1944) starring Joel McCrea, Betty Field, Harry Carey, William Demarest, Franklin Pangborn, Thurston Hall, Victor Potel, J. Farrell MacDonald and Porter Hall, "The Inspector General" (1949) starring Danny Kaye, Walter Slezak, Gene Lockhart, Barbara Bates, Elsa Lanchester, Alan Hale Sr. and Rhys Williams and "Superman and the Mole Men" (1951) starring George Reeves, Phyllis Coates, Jeff Corey, Stanley Andrews, J. Farrell MacDonald and Walter Reed.
Along with working in films he made quite a name for himself as a prolific television actor beginning in the 1950's. He made appearances on such series as, "Climax!", "The Amos 'n Andy Show", "The Man Behind the Badge", "Richard Diamond, Private Detective", "The Beverly Hillbillies", "Make Room for Daddy", "The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin", "Death Valley Days", "Our Miss Brooks", "Jungle Jim", "Judge Roy Bean", "The Cisco Kid", "The Jim Backus Show", "Terry and the Pirates", "Hopalong Cassidy", "One Step Beyond", "The Mickey Rooney Show", "My Little Margie", "The Lone Ranger", "The Abbott and Costello Show", "Captain Midnight", "Suspense", "Daniel Boone", "The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show", "Racket Squad", "The Loretta Young Show", "The Roy Rogers Show", "Burke's Law", "Space Patrol", "The Lucy Show", "Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok", "Perry Mason", "Wagon Train", "Twilight Zone", "I Love Lucy", "Bonanza", "Mister Ed", "The Gene Autry Show", "Rawhide", "The Red Skelton Show" and his final television appearance in, "Petticoat Junction".
His final film role was in "There Was a Crooked Man..." (1970) starring Alongside Kirk Douglas, Henry Fonda, Warren Oates, Hume Cronyn, Burgess Meredith, Alan Hale Jr., Victor French, Bert Freed, Ann Doran, C.K. Yang, Lee Grant, John Randolph, Michael Blodgett, Arthur O'Connell and Gene Evans.
He remained married to Dorothy until he passed away on April 4th, 1970 in Hollywood, California after suffering from a heart condition, He was survived by his wife and two children. His remains are buried in Inglewood Park Cemetery in California.
Filmography
1970 There Was a Crooked Man...
1970 Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County
1970 The Love War
1968-1969 The Mod Squad
1969 Hook, Line and Sinker
1965-1969 Petticoat Junction
1968 Adam-12
1968 The Wild Wild West
1960-1968 Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color
1968 Blackbeard's Ghost
1967 The Danny Thomas Hour
1967 The Guns of Will Sonnett
1967 The Gnome-Mobile
1967 The Spirit Is Willing
1966-1967 Laredo
1965-1967 The Lucy Show
1967 Love on a Rooftop
1967 Daniel Boone
1967 The Monkees
1967 The Time Tunnel
1967 Captain Nice
1962-1966 Gunsmoke
1966 Green Acres
1966 The Swinger
1966 Felony Squad
1965-1966 The Andy Griffith Show
1961-1966 Hazel
1966 My Mother the Car
1966 Get Smart
1966 Honey West
1966 O.K. Crackerby!
1965 The Patty Duke Show
1965 The Fugitive
1965 Marriage on the Rocks
1962-1965 Perry Mason
1965 The Beverly Hillbillies
1965 The Addams Family
1965 Profiles in Courage
1965 Guns of Diablo
1965 Mister Ed
1964 The Tycoon
1964 Burke's Law
1964 The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters
1959-1964 Bonanza
1959-1964 Wagon Train
1960-1963 The Red Skelton Hour
1960-1963 Rawhide
1963 Who's Minding the Store?
1963 Son of Flubber
1962 Ride the High Country
1960-1962 Lassie
1962 Have Gun - Will Travel
1962 77 Sunset Strip
1961-1962 Pete and Gladys
1961 Pocketful of Miracles
1957-1961 Tales of Wells Fargo
1961 Devil's Partner
1961 Wanted: Dead or Alive
1961 The Jim Backus Show
1960 Full Circle
1960 The Slowest Gun in the West
1960 Twelve Hours to Kill
1960 Dennis the Menace
1960 Alcoa Presents: One Step Beyond
1960 Hawaiian Eye
1960 Ma Barker's Killer Brood
1959 The Untouchables
1959 Twilight Zone
1959 Markham
1959 The Rebel Set
1959 High School Big Shot
1959 King of the Wild Stallions
1959 The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin
1959 Lawman
1958 Make Room for Daddy
1958 Playhouse 90
1958 Onionhead
1958 Terror in a Texas Town
1958 Maverick
1958 Alcoa Theatre
1957-1958 December Bride
1958 The Long, Hot Summer
1951-1958 Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
1958 Suspicion
1958 Richard Diamond, Private Detective
1958 Going Stead
1958 Man from God's Country
1957 Up in Smoke
1955-1957 Climax!
1957 Gun Battle at Monterey
1957 The Loretta Young Show
1954-1957 Lux Video Theatre
1957 The Buckskin Lady
1957 Dino
1957 You Are There
1950-1957 The Lone Ranger
1953-1957 The Ford Television Theatre
1957 Sierra Stranger
1957 The Iron Sheriff
1957 The River's Edge
1957 The Phantom Stagecoach
1957 Curfew Breakers
1957 The Young Stranger
1957 How to Marry a Millionaire
1957 The Gray Ghost
1957 Dr. Christian
1956 The Desperados Are in Town
1956 You Can't Run Away from It
1956 Telephone Time
1956 The Roy Rogers Show
1956 Thunder Over Arizona
1956 TV Reader's Digest
1953-1956 Four Star Playhouse
1956 The Millionaire
1956 Our Miss Brooks
1956 Jungle Jim
1956 Front Row Center
1955-1956 It's a Great Life
1956 Judge Roy Bean
1955 At Gunpoint
1955 The Spoilers
1955 The Gene Autry Show
1955 The Man Behind the Badge
1955 The Scarlet Coat
1953-1955 Schlitz Playhouse
1955 The Mickey Rooney Show
1955 Treasury Men in Action
1954-1955 The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show
1955 The Whistler
1954 Cattle Queen of Montana
1954 Captain Midnight
1952-1954 My Little Margie
1954 Silver Lode
1954 The Rocket Man
1950-1954 The Cisco Kid
1954 Waterfront
1954 Alarm
1953 Paris Model
1953 The Amos 'n Andy Show
1953 The Moonlighter
1953 Bandits of the West
1953 Gun Belt
1953 Cruisin' Down the River
1953 Run for the Hills
1953 I Love Lucy
1953 Death Valley Days
1950-1953 Fireside Theatre
1953 A Perilous Journey
1953 Cowboy G-Men
1953 Your Favorite Story
1953 Confidentially Connie
1953 The Magnetic Monste
1953 The Flaming Urge
1953 The Abbott and Costello Show
1952 The Star
1952 Hopalong Cassidy
1951-1952 Racket Squad
1952 We're Not Married!
1952 Cripple Creek
1952 Space Patrol
1952 Apache Country
1952 Skirts Ahoy!
1952 The Snipe
1952 Hold That Line
1952 My Six Convicts
1952 Mutiny
1952 Rose of Cimarron
1952 The Steel Fist
1952 Terry and the Pirates
1951 Superman and the Mole-Men
1951 Gruen Guild Theater
1951 The Sea Hornet
1951 FBI Girl
1951 Disc Jockey
1951 A Millionaire for Christy
1951 Best of the Badmen
1951 Home Town Story
1951 Stars Over Hollywood
1951 Lightning Strikes Twice
1950-1951 The Bigelow Theatre
1951 Gasoline Alley
1950 The Magnavox Theatre
1950 Experiment Alcatraz
1950 Dark City
1950 To Please a Lady
1950 Union Station
1950 Pal, Canine Detective
1950 Dick Tracy
1950 The Return of Jesse James
1950 The Silver Theatre
1950 Champagne for Caesar
1950 Salt Lake Raiders
1950 Riding High
1950 The Girl from San Lorenzo
1950 Key to the City
1949 The Inspector General
1949 Samson and Delilah
1949 Red Desert
1949 Dancing in the Dark
1949 Chinatown at Midnight
1949 The Dalton Gang
1949 Satan's Cradle
1949 Mighty Joe Young
1949 Arson, Inc
1949 Streets of Laredo
1949 Tucson
1949 I Shot Jesse James
1949 They Live by Night
1948 Trouble Preferred
1948 Let's Live a Little
1948 He Walked by Night
1948 The Kissing Bandit
1948 The Return of October
1948 The Three Musketeers
1948 I Surrender Dear
1948 Out of the Storm
1948 A Southern Yankee
1948 Borrowed Trouble
1948 The Bride Goes Wild
1948 Relentless
1948 Arch of Triumph
1947 The Chinese Ring
1947 Linda Be Good
1947 Song of Love
1947 Unconquered
1947 Second Chance
1947 They Won't Believe Me
1947 The Trouble with Women
1947 The Long Night
1947 Too Many Winners
1947 Fun on a Week-End
1947 The Adventures of Don Coyote
1947 Love and Learn
1947 Hard Boiled Mahoney
1947 Stallion Road
1947 Bells of San Fernando
1947 The Michigan Kid
1947 Easy Come, Easy Go
1947 It's a Joke, Son!
1946 The Show-Off
1946 San Quentin
1946 Till the Clouds Roll By
1946 Magnificent Doll
1946 Dick Tracy vs. Cueball
1946 Plainsman and the Lady
1946 The Secret of the Whistler
1946 Courage of Lassie
1946 The Mysterious Mr. M
1946 Suspense
1946 The French Key
1946 The Postman Always Rings Twice
1946 Two Sisters from Boston
1946 The Hoodlum Saint
1946 Blonde Alibi
1946 House of Horrors
1946 Deadline at Dawn
1946 Just Before Dawn
1946 Sentimental Journey
1946 Breakfast in Hollywood
1945 Scarlet Street
1945 Adventure
1945 Cornered
1945 Follow That Woman
1945 Snafu
1945 The Lost Weekend
1945 Purity Squad
1945 Voice of the Whistler
1945 Sensation Hunters
1945 Week-End at the Waldorf
1945 Arson Squad
1945 The Hidden Eye
1945 The Cheaters
1945 The Blonde from Brooklyn
1945 Wonder Man
1945 Don Juan Quilligan
1945 The Master Key
1945 It's in the Bag!
1945 Circumstantial Evidence
1945 Brewster's Millions
1945 Adventures of Kitty O'Day
1945 Grissly's Millions
1945 Let's Go Steady
1944 Music for Millions
1944 And Now Tomorrow
1944 Enemy of Women
1944 He Forgot to Remember
1944 The Mystery of the Riverboat
1944 Girl Rush
1944 Black Arrow
1944 Ministry of Fear
1944 Mrs. Parkington
1944 An American Romance
1944 Music in Manhattan
1944 Dark Mountain
1944 Barbary Coast Gent
1944 Ever Since Venus
1944 The Great Moment
1944 Marriage Is a Private Affair
1944 Casanova Brown
1944 When Strangers Marry
1944 Maisie Goes to Reno
1944 Swing in the Saddle
1944 Summer Stor
1944 Since You Went Away
1944 Henry Aldrich's Little Secret
1944 Take It Big
1944 Roger Touhy, Gangster
1944 A Night of Adventure
1944 3 Men in White
1944 Stars on Parade
1944 Ladies of Washington
1944 Once Upon a Time
1944 Gambler's Choice
1944 The Whistler
1944 Lady in the Death House
1944 Beautiful But Broke
1944 The Miracle of Morgan's Creek
1943 What a Woman!
1943 In Old Oklahoma
1943 Sweet Rosie O'Grady
1943 The Kansan
1943 So Proudly We Hail!
1943 The Adventures of a Rookie
1943 Silver Spurs
1943 Hi Diddle Diddle
1943 First Comes Courage
1943 Appointment in Berlin
1943 Henry Aldrich Swings It
1943 Coney Island
1943 The Black Raven
1943 Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case
1943 Shantytown
1943 The Falcon Strikes Back
1943 Hangmen Also Die!
1943 Hoppy Serves a Writ
1943 Dixie Dugan
1943 The Human Comedy
1943 Margin for Error
1942 Stand by for Action
1942 Quiet Please: Murder
1942 Keep 'Em Sailing
1942 Wrecking Crew
1942 The Palm Beach Story
1942 The Forest Rangers
1942 Apache Trail
1942 The Man in the Trunk
1942 Sabotage Squad
1942 The Magnificent Dope
1942 Miss Annie Rooney
1942 Flying with Music
1942 Pacific Rendezvous
1942 The Panther's Claw
1942 A Desperate Chance for Ellery Queen
1942 The Tuttles of Tahiti
1942 Fingers at the Window
1942 Who Is Hope Schuyler?
1942 Reap the Wild Wind
1942 The Adventures of Martin Eden
1942 Man from Headquarters
1942 Road to Happiness
1941 Remember the Day
1941 Bedtime Story
1941 Harvard, Here I Come!
1941 Dude Cowboy
1941 Sullivan's Travels
1941 H.M. Pulham, Esq.
1941 Night of January 16th
1941 Ellery Queen and the Murder Ring
1941 Fancy Answers
1941 Come Back, Miss Pipps
1941 You Belong to Me
1941 The Stork Pays Off
1941 Helping Hands
1941 Mystery Ship
1941 The Deadly Game
1941 I Was a Prisoner on Devil's Island
1941 Sweetheart of the Campus
1941 She Knew All the Answers
1941 The Gay Vagabond
1941 Under Age
1941 Roar of the Press
1941 Sis Hopkins
1941 Man Made Monster
1941 The Penalty
1941 Meet Boston Blackie
1941 Blonde Inspiration
1941 Ridin' on a Rainbow
1940 Behind the News
1940 Dr. Kildare's Crisis
1940 Ellery Queen, Master Detective
1940 Arizona
1940 Sky Murder
1940 Good Bad Boys
1940 I Want a Divorce
1940 Boom Town
1940 The Great McGinty
1940 Golden Gloves
1940 Untamed
1940 Three Faces West
1940 Opened by Mistake
1940 Edison, the Man
1940 The Man with Nine Lives
1940 Curtain Call
1940 Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe
1940 Parole Fixer
1940 The Saint's Double Trouble
1940 Abe Lincoln in Illinois
1940 Heroes of the Saddle
1939 The Secret of Dr. Kildare
1939 Bad Little Angel
1939 Beware Spooks!
1939 Television Spy
1939 Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
1939 Sabotage
1939 A Woman Is the Judge
1939 The Man They Could Not Hang
1939 The Girl from Rio
1939 In Name Only
1939 Mutiny on the Blackhawk
1939 The Spellbinder
1939 Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever
1939 Million Dollar Legs
1939 The Girl from Mexico
1939 Exile Express
1939 Missing Daughters
1939 Some Like It Hot
1939 Union Pacific
1939 Streets of New York
1939 Let Us Live
1939 Mystery of the White Room
1938 Smashing the Spy Ring
1938 I Am a Criminal
1938 Say It in French
1938 Gangster's Boy
1938 Tarnished Angel
1938 A Man to Remember
1938 The Spider's Web
1938 The Mad Miss Manton
1938 I Am the Law
1938 You Can't Take It with You
1938 Delinquent Parents
1938 Crime Ring
1938 Strange Glory
1938 The Lady in the Morgue
1938 Test Pilot
1938 It's All in Your Mind
1938 King of the Newsboys
1938 Born to Be Wild
1937 True Confession
1937 The Duke Comes Back
1937 The Luck of Roaring Camp
1937 The Awful Truth
1937 It Happened in Hollywood
1937 The Prisoner of Zenda
1937 Tenth Avenue Kid
1937 Soak the Poor
1937 The Devil Is Driving
1937 A Day at the Races
1937 Make Way for Tomorrow
1937 History Is Made at Night
1937 Dick Tracy
1937 The Devil Diamond
1937 Larceny on the Air
1936 The President's Mystery
1934 The Little Minister
1932 Night World