Harry Swoger



Not much is known about Harry Edward Swoger. He was born on March 6, 1919 in Clinton, Ohio, but there is not much known about his career. He was a character actor in more than a hundred television shows, mostly westerns, through the Sixties. He was a member of the Screen Actors Guild, a past master of the Farmers Lodge #153 and a 32nd Degree Mason at Scioto Consistory in Columbus, Ohio. His TV roles included appearances on "Mike Hammer," "The Texan," "Lawman," "Rawhide," "Maverick," "The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis" with Dwayne Hickman and Bob Denver, "Alfred Hitchcock Presents," "The Twilight Zone," "The Andy Griffith Show," "The Untouchables," "Gunsmoke," "Wagon Train," "The Fugitive," "Bonanza," "Gilligan's Island," "Bewitched," "Wild, Wild West," "Ironsides," "Adam 12," "The Big Valley" and "Mannix." Among his movies are "The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond," "Pocketful of Miracles," "Robin and The 7 Hoods," "The Over-the-Hill Gang" and an uncredited role in "Hello Dolly." He passed away at the age of 51 at the Valley Emergency Hospital in Van Nuys, California. He was buried at Pierce Brothers Valhalla Memorial Park in North Hollywood, California.

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 * The Pigeon