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unusual facts about Have Gun — Will Travel


Herb Meadow

Herb Meadow (May 27, 1911 – March 1, 1995) was an American television producer and writer, born 1911 in New York, best known for creating such series as Have Gun – Will Travel.


Arny Freeman

Among the television series in which he appeared are Barney Miller, Rothman, The Incredible Hulk, All in the Family, Barnaby Jones, The Jeffersons, Maude, Kojak, The Untouchables, Have Gun, Will Travel, Naked City, T Men in Action, and The Big Story.

Bruce Geller

Geller left New York for Los Angeles, where he was employed writing scripts for episodes of several television series, including Zane Grey Theater, Have Gun, Will Travel, and The Rifleman.

Bud Osborne

As he grew older, Osborne played small character parts in television westerns, where he was considered something of a good luck charm, in addition to being a complete professional on the set, in such series as Have Gun, Will Travel, Bonanza, Bat Masterson and Rawhide.

Eduard Franz

In 1961, Franz and Scott Marlowe guest starred in the episode "The Duke of Texas" of CBS's western series Have Gun - Will Travel, with Richard Boone, as two Austrians involved in intrigue in the days of Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico.

Fintan Meyler

She portrayed memorable characters in shows, such as Perry Mason, Bonanza, Have Gun - Will Travel and Gunsmoke.

Joanna Barnes

She has since had roles in more than twenty films and made guest appearances on many television shows, including the ABC/Warner Brothers programs, 77 Sunset Strip and Maverick, CBS's Have Gun - Will Travel, and the David Janssen crime drama, Richard Diamond, Private Detective.

Kam Tong

Kam Tong (December 18, 1906 – November 8, 1969) was a Chinese American actor best known for his role as Hey Boy on the television series Have Gun – Will Travel and as Dr. Li in the film version of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Flower Drum Song.

Kevin Hagen

Hagen guest starred seven times on Gunsmoke, six times on The Big Valley, five times each on Bonanza, Laramie, and Have Gun - Will Travel, four appearances on Mannix and The Time Tunnel, and three appearances on Perry Mason, two of them in 1965: as murderer Jacob Leonard in "The Case of the Gambling Lady," and Samuel Carleton in "The Case of the Fugitive Fraulein."

Martin Grams, Jr.

After The CBS Radio Mystery Theater, co-authored with Gordon Payton for McFarland Publishers, Grams followed with Radio Drama (McFarland), The Have Gun – Will Travel Companion, co-authored with Les Rayburn, and The Alfred Hitchcock Presents Companion (OTR Publishing, 2000), a 660-page survey of Alfred Hitchcock Presents with a complete episode guide.

Nate Barragar

His credits as a motion picture and television director, production manager, and producer include Gunga Din, Hondo, and Sands of Iwo Jima, and on such television series as The Gene Autry Show, The Roy Rogers Show, Adventures of Superman, Have Gun – Will Travel, Gunsmoke, and Julia.

Patrick McVey

Manhunt was canceled in 1961, and McVey continued his career with guest roles on various television series including General Electric Theater, Cheyenne, The Rifleman, Have Gun – Will Travel, The Virginian, Gunsmoke and three appearances on Perry Mason, including the role of District Attorney Covington in the 1959 episode, "The Case of the Dubious Bridegroom."

Sam Rolfe

Most of Rolfe's subsequent career was spent in television, where he created and was part of the writing staff on the highly regarded western series Have Gun - Will Travel and, most famously, The Man from U.N.C.L.E..

Shimon Wincelberg

Born in Kiel, Germany, he wrote for many 1960s and 1970s television shows including Naked City, Mannix, The Time Tunnel, Police Woman, Star Trek ("The Galileo Seven" and "Dagger of the Mind"), Gunsmoke, Have Gun — Will Travel, The Paper Chase and Lost in Space.


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Tom Abrams

Abrams has sold numerous feature film screenplays in varied genres including western Have Gun Will Travel for Warner Bros., historic adventures The Captain's Wife for Fox 2000, and The American Princess for New Line Cinema, The Battle of Ono for John Woo & Terence Cheng, horror film Cave for Working Title, sci-fi action Metal Machine for producer James Jacks at Universal, and kids action comedy Gameboy Charlie for Bruckheimer producer, Chad Oman.

Warren Stevens

Stevens' appearances on Have Gun, Will Travel introduced him to Richard Boone, who hired him for a continuing television role in The Richard Boone Show, an award-winning NBC anthology series which lasted for the 1963-1964 season.