Jack Kruschen

[3] Following the war, he resumed working on network programs,[1] including Broadway Is My Beat (as Mugovin, a detective),[4] and Pete Kelly's Blues (as club owner George Lupo),[4]: 269  as well as frequent episodic roles on anthology series, westerns and crime dramas.

He also performed on Escape; Dragnet; Gunsmoke (usually as law-abiding locals); Full House; Crime Classics; Frontier Gentleman; Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar; Nightbeat and Suspense.

[6] His other films included George Pal's The War of the Worlds (as Salvatore, one of the first three victims, a role he reprised on the Lux Radio Theater adaptation); in Cecil B. DeMille's final film, The Buccaneer; as astronaut Sam Jacobs in the 1959 cult classic The Angry Red Planet; The Unsinkable Molly Brown (as saloon owner Christmas Morgan); Abbott and Costello Go to Mars; Lover Come Back; McLintock!

(with John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara); Follow That Dream (with Elvis Presley); Cape Fear, starring Gregory Peck and Robert Mitchum; and Money to Burn with Eve McVeagh.

[citation needed] His roles included Sam Markowitz on Busting Loose,[8] fireman Mike Woiski on Emergency!,[8]: 306  Morris Sheinfeld on E/R,[8]: 310  Tully on Hong Kong,[8]: 474  and Jay Burrage on The Rifleman.

[8]: 895  He also appeared on Columbo (The Most Dangerous Match, 1973), Barney Miller, The Odd Couple, The Incredible Hulk, and, in later years, Murphy Brown and Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman.

Front row, from left to right: Jack Kruschen, John Wayne , Maureen O'Hara and Chill Wills in McLintock!