Bing Russell
Neil Oliver "Bing" Russell (May 5, 1926 – April 8, 2003) was an American actor and Class A minor-league baseball club owner. He was the father of Hollywood actor Kurt Russell. Although best known as the deputy on Bonanza (1959) and Robert in The Magnificent Seven (1960), Russell's was also well known on a national level as the owner of the Portland Mavericks Baseball Club. Helming the only independent team in the class A Northwest League, Russell was an innovator. Before Bull Durham (1988), there were the Mavericks. Russell kept a 30 man roster because he believed that some of the players deserved to have one last season. His motto was simply one three lettered word - not WIN - although the Mavericks did just that - no, the word was FUN. He created a park that kept all corporate sponsorship outside the gates, hired the first female general manager in professional baseball, and the following year hired the first Asian American GM/Manager. That same season his team set a record for the highest attendance in Minor league history, and went on to win the pennant. Ex-major leaguers and never-weres who couldn't stop playing the game flocked to his June tryouts, which were always open to anyone that showed up. From as far away as Capetown, and France, players would head to Portland for a chance with Russell's Mavericks.
109 acting credits
Acting · 109
Mannix
1967
Bonanza
1959
The Andy Griffith Show
1960
The Fugitive
1963
Ironside
1967
Maverick
1957
Lassie
1954
The Rifleman
1958
The Twilight Zone
1959
The Rockford Files
1974
The Virginian
1962
Have Gun, Will Travel
1957
Emergency!
1972
Ben Casey
1961
The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
1955
I Dream of Jeannie
1965
The Big Valley
1965
Route 66
1960
Rawhide
1959
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
1956
Wanted: Dead or Alive
1958
The Donna Reed Show
1958
Gunsmoke
1955
The Streets of San Francisco
1972
The Munsters
1964
The Texan
1958
Sugarfoot
1957
Surfside 6
1960
Alias Smith and Jones
1971
Laramie
1959
The Mod Squad
1968
Black Saddle
1959
The Monkees
1966
Branded
1965
Navy Log
1955
Bronco
1958
Petrocelli
1974
The Guns of Will Sonnett
1967
Johnny Ringo
1959
Stagecoach West
1960
Stoney Burke
1962
Public Defender
1954
The Magnificent Seven
1960
The Alaskans
1959
Sam Benedict
1962
Science Fiction Theatre
1955
The Monroes
1966
The Wonderful World of Disney
1954
Hondo
1967
Rio Bravo
1959
Overboard
1987
Letter to Loretta
1953
Tango & Cash
1989
The Outcasts
1968
General Electric True
1962
Harbor Command
1957
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
1957
How the West Was Won
1962
Tate
1960
Dick Tracy
1990
The Living Christ
1951
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951
The Horse Soldiers
1959
Arthur Hailey's The Moneychangers
1976
Last Train from Gun Hill
1959
Dundee and the Culhane
1967
The Man Called X
1956
Cheyenne Autumn
1964
The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes
1969
Sunset
1988
Elvis
1979
The Million Dollar Duck
1971
Blackbeard's Ghost
1968
Attack
1956
Now You See Him, Now You Don't
1972
Death Sentence
1974
The Hallelujah Trail
1965
Journey to Shiloh
1968
Yuma
1971
The Apple Dumpling Gang
1975
Good Day for a Hanging
1959
The Great Impostor
1960
The Land Unknown
1957
Bombers B-52
1957
Madame X
1966
A Gathering of Eagles
1963
The Deadly Mantis
1957
The New Daughters of Joshua Cabe
1976
A Life at Stake
1955
Cult of the Cobra
1955
The Battered Bastards of Baseball
2014
The Sex Symbol
1974
Flashing Spikes
1962
Runaway!
1973
Drango
1957
Satan's School for Girls
1973
The Loneliest Runner
1976
Big Leaguer
1953
A Taste of Evil
1971
One Man's Way
1964
The Stripper
1963
A Cry in the Wilderness
1974
Cattle Empire
1958
Set This Town on Fire
1973
Stakeout!
1962
Suicide Battalion
1958
Without Incident
1957
Teenage Thunder
1957
Ride a Violent Mile
1957