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Chuck Connors
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Born Kevin Connors in Brooklyn in April 1921, Chuck Connors was an avid athlete and intelligent student in his youth. He attended Seton Hall College but dropped out to join the Army. Following the end of World War II, Connors started a basketball career with the Boston Celtics but soon ditched basketball for baseball, playing in both the major and minor leagues. He married in the late 1940s, and with a growing family that would soon include four children, Connors longed for a career with a steady paycheck. After stints with the Brooklyn Dodgers and the Chicago Cubs, Connors was playing baseball for a Los Angeles minor league team when a talent scout spotted him. He was quickly cast in the Spencer Tracy/Katherine Hepburn MGM comedy Pat and Mike (1952; with Aldo Ray).
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Captain Jason McCord (Chuck Connors) is a West Point graduate who is the sole survivor of a massacre at Bitter Creek. He is judged to have been a coward in the battle and is dismissed in disgrace.
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ENGLEWOOD, Colo., Jan. 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Stuart Whitman and Chuck Connors set the bad men straight on Encore Westerns in 2006. The channel will present the entire run of "Cimarron Strip" and "The Rifleman" beginning July and December, respectively. Both shows will each feature hosted segments, with Stuart Whitman handling "Cimarron Strip," while Johnny Crawford ("Mark McCain") talks about "The Rifleman." Each will reminisce about their show, talk about the actors they worked with, and about their life and experiences in Hollywood at that time.
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After a successful first season, Chuck Connors returned in 1965 to reprise the role of Jason McCord in Branded. McCord, a West Point graduate and decorated Cavalry Officer, was branded a coward by the Army following the Battle at Bitter Creek. He is disgraced in the eyes of the world, but as he travels throughout the Old West, he proves the label false over and over again. Whatever trouble he rides into, Jason McCord finds a way to get justice and redemption for those in need of help.
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Chuck Connors portrayed Lucas McCain, New Mexico rancher and the fastest shot around with his Winchester rifle. McCain is a widower raising his son Mark on his own but he aides the local sheriff, with his Winchester, in keeping the peace near the town of North Fork.
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Chuck Connors plays a social worker who helps a group of troubled, potentially delinquent boys by forming them into a club at a youth center. The "boy with a knife" is Jerry, a kid with a bitchy stepmother and a wimpy father who won't stand up to her verbal diatribes against him. Jerry takes out his rage by periodically threatening other kids with a knife, when he's not using it to carve up other people's property. When he finds out through the grapevine that his stepmother is planning to send him away to live with his grandmother, he takes out his rage by carving up all the sofa cushions into ribbons. Somehow, this makes his dad finally stand up to his stepmom. "Jerry's not going anywhere," he says to her and this totally cures Jerry of his rage––he immediately goes outside and turns over his knife to Chuck.
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