Ty Hardin (born Orison Whipple Hungerford Jr.; January 1, 1930 – August 3, 2017) was an American actor best known as the star of the 1958 to 1962 ABC/Warner Bros. Western television series Bronco.

[3] A football scholarship enabled him to attend Blinn College in Brenham, Texas, for one year,[2] and then he went to the Dallas Bible Institute for one semester.

He was commissioned after attending Officer Candidate School in Fort Monmouth, New Jersey, and he became a pilot of Forward Observer O-1 Bird Dog liaison aircraft.

After his return from service, he began taking courses at Texas A&M University[2] in College Station on a scholarship under Coach Bear Bryant, for whom he played tight end.

[citation needed] When Clint Walker walked out on his ABC series Cheyenne in 1958 during a contract dispute with Warner Bros., Hardin got his big break.

Warner bought out Hardin's contract from Paramount Studios and installed him into Cheyenne for the remainder of the season, as the country cousin Bronco Layne.

Like many other American actors, Hardin traveled to Europe, where he made several spaghetti Westerns, including Man of the Cursed Valley (1964).

Hardin starred in the 1968–1969 Australian television series Riptide,[12] in which he played an American running a charter boat company along the eastern seaboard of Australia.

"[14] He returned to Europe to star in The Last Rampage (1970), Quel maledetto giorno della resa dei conti (1971), and Drummer of Vengeance (1971).

[19] The group first gained public notice by its efforts to clog the Arizona court system with lawsuits in the 1980s, a tactic also employed by Posse Comitatus.