Don Galloway

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Actor • Writer • Journalist

Birth Date: July 27, 1937

Death Date: January 8, 2009

Birth Place: Brooksville, Kentucky

Don Galloway was a dapper, pleasingly symmetrical television actor who, for all his comedic prowess and sitcom potential, found most of his fame playing earnest lawmen on the gritty crime dramas of the 1960s and '70s. After getting his start on "Tom, Dick, and Mary," an experimental swinging roommates comedy, his career took a turn for the heavier with a spate of guest spots on several boundary-breaking action series.

Most famously, he landed on "Ironside" (1967-'75), a long-running detective thriller with a twist--he starred as a debonair upstart who aided a disabled crackerjack police consultant (Raymond Burr) in his obsessive methods of law enforcing. Forever associated with the image of pushing the wheelchair-bound Burr across an urban cityscape, Galloway became the elder actor's protégé off-screen as well as on-screen, often reuniting with him for legal-minded TV specials well into the '90s.

In the meantime, he was also a familiar face among the sudsy soaps and glitzy game shows of the 1980s and kept many avid TV watchers glued to their sets with his delectably viscid performance as the suave Dr. Buzz Stryker on two seasons of the enduring daytime staple "General Hospital." Rather fittingly, the perennial TV cop was awarded a California-based reserve-deputy position shortly before his show-biz retirement in '95. After his departure from acting, he began a latter-day career as a staunchly Libertarian journalist for the New Hampshire Union Leader, a job he held nearly until his 2009 death of a stroke at age 71.

Credits

The Return of Ironside

Actor
Ed Brown
Movie
1993

Live-In

Guest Star
Show
1989

Two Moon Junction

Actor
Senator Delongpre
Movie
1988
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MatlockStream

Guest Star
Series
1986

MacGyverStream

Guest Star
Series
1985

Murder, She WroteStream

Guest Star
Andrew Hudson
Series
1984

HunterStream

Guest Star
Bart Muller
Series
1984

E/R

Guest Star
Series
1984
68%

Rearview Mirror

Actor
Roger Seton
Movie
1984

Hotel

Guest Star
Soap
1983

The Big ChillStream

Actor
Richard
Movie
1983
71%

Knight RiderStream

Guest Star
Gilbert Cole
Series
1982

The Fall GuyStream

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Series
1981

Hart to HartStream

Guest Star
Series
1979

Mork & MindyStream

Guest Star
Series
1978
90%

Fantasy Island

Guest Star
Series
1978

Ski Lift to Death

Actor
Ron Corley
Movie
1978

Once Upon a Starry Night

Actor
Sam
Movie
1978

CHiPsStream

Guest Star
Series
1977

The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams

Guest Star
Pinkerton
Series
1977

Cover Girls

Actor
James Andrews
Movie
1977

You Lie So Deep, My Love

Actor
Neal Collins
Movie
1975

Police Woman

Guest Star
Lieutenant Buckles
Series
1974

TattletalesStream

Guest
Game Show
1974

Amy Prentiss

Actor
Det. Sgt. Ed Brown
Series
1974

Lieutenant Schuster's Wife

Actor
Lt. Danny Reilly
Movie
1972

This Child Is Mine

Actor
Martin Thatcher
Movie
1972

The Priest Killer

Actor
Det. Sgt. Ed Brown
Movie
1971

Split Second to an Epitaph

Actor
Det. Sgt. Ed Brown
Movie
1970

Love, American Style

Actor
Dick
Series
1969

Marcus Welby, M.D.Stream

Guest Star
Jack Hartley
Series
1969

IronsideStream

Actor
Det. Sgt. Ed Brown
Series
1967

IronsideStream

Writer
Series
1967

Rough Night in Jericho

Actor
Jace
Movie
1967

Ironside

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Det. Sgt. Brown
Movie
1967

The Ride to Hangman's Tree

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Nevada
Movie
1967

Gunfight in AbileneStream

Actor
Ward Kent
Movie
1967

Les Détrousseurs

Actor
Movie
1967

The Rare BreedStream

Actor
Jamie Bowen
Movie
1966
29%

12 O'Clock High

Guest Star
Series
1964

Alfred Hitchcock HourStream

Actor
Series
1962

Wagon TrainStream

Guest Star
Series
1957