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Hugh Sanders' strong personality and authoritarian demeanor often found the Midwestern character actor portraying judges, sheriffs, and strong-willed men over the course of his nearly 20-year career. Sanders began acting in the '50s with small roles in films like "Only the Valiant," about a ragtag group of Army rejects who must defend an important mountain pass from attack. In 1953, Sand...

Filmography

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Apache Rifles (1964)

Arizona delegate

The Wild Westerners (1962)

Ch. Marshal Reuben Bernard

Panic in Year Zero! (1962)

To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)

Man-Trap (1961)

Shadow of the Boomerang (1960)

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Warlock (1959) -- (Movie Clip) Silk Sheets From China

Boots Malone (1952) -- (Movie Clip) Living On Poverty Row

Biography

Hugh Sanders' strong personality and authoritarian demeanor often found the Midwestern character actor portraying judges, sheriffs, and strong-willed men over the course of his nearly 20-year career. Sanders began acting in the '50s with small roles in films like "Only the Valiant," about a ragtag group of Army rejects who must defend an important mountain pass from attack. In 1953, Sanders appeared as a hotheaded teen in "The Wild One," which starred Marlon Brando in a breakout role as the troubled and aimless leader of an outlaw motorcycle gang. In the Oscar-nominated biopic "The Pride of St. Louis," Sanders portrayed a concerned friend of depressed Hall of Fame baseball pitcher Jerome "Dizzy" Dean. By the '60s, Sanders had transitioned to television work; he appeared as a local deputy on several episodes of the popular western series "Rawhide" and played a hard working doctor on multiple episodes of the adventure comedy "Bonanza." In one of his last roles before his death in 1966, Sanders appeared as a rural villager on "The Fugitive," which followed the wrongfully accused Dr. Richard Kimble (David Janssen) and his desperate attempts to clear his name.

Filmography

Cast (Feature Film)

Apache Rifles (1964)

Arizona delegate

The Wild Westerners (1962)

Ch. Marshal Reuben Bernard

Panic in Year Zero! (1962)

To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)

Man-Trap (1961)

Shadow of the Boomerang (1960)

Cage of Evil (1960)

The Music Box Kid (1960)

Stanley Sandman

Never Steal Anything Small (1959)

Don't Give Up the Ship (1959)

The Big Operator (1959)

Going Steady (1958)

Life Begins at 17 (1958)

Voice in the Mirror (1958)

The Guns of Fort Petticoat (1957)

The Phantom Stagecoach (1957)

The Careless Years (1957)

Uncle Harry Harley

Jailhouse Rock (1957)

Miami Expose (1956)

Chief Charlie Landon

The Peacemaker (1956)

Sobbing Sam Cooney

Chicago Syndicate (1955)

The Last Command (1955)

Finger Man (1955)

I Cover the Underworld (1955)

I Died a Thousand Times (1955)

The Wild One (1954)

Silver Lode (1954)

Untamed Heiress (1954)

Shield for Murder (1954)

The Glass Web (1953)

Thunder Over the Plains (1953)

Last of the Comanches (1953)

Denver Kinnaird

Here Come the Girls (1953)

City of Bad Men (1953)

Sheriff Bill Gifford

Scared Stiff (1953)

Gun Belt (1953)

[Douglas] Frazer

Boots Malone (1952)

Something for the Birds (1952)

Montana Territory (1952)

The Winning Team (1952)

The Steel Trap (1952)

The Sellout (1952)

Indian Uprising (1952)

The Pride of St. Louis (1952)

Flying Leathernecks (1951)

Storm Warning (1951)

Along the Great Divide (1951)

Cave of Outlaws (1951)

Strictly Dishonorable (1951)

Sugarfoot (1951)

Tomorrow Is Another Day (1951)

That's My Boy (1951)

I Was a Communist for the F.B.I. (1951)

Three Guys Named Mike (1951)

Only the Valiant (1951)

The Magnificent Yankee (1951)

Mrs. O'Malley and Mr. Malone (1950)

Mr. Askenfelder

The Great Rupert (1950)

Mister 880 (1950)

The Damned Don't Cry (1950)

Cast (Special)

The Lonely Wizard (1957)

Life Events

Videos

Warlock (1959) -- (Movie Clip) Silk Sheets From China Righteous bit by Hugh Sanders as the territorial sheriff, come to collect prisoners from the title town, arrested by Henry Fonda as highly-paid private lawman Blaisdell, because no locals will take the job, Bartlett Robinson leading the griping, until Richard Widmark as semi-derelict Johnny steps up, in Edward Dmytryk’s byzantine Western Warlock, 1959.

Boots Malone (1952) -- (Movie Clip) Living On Poverty Row Opening sequence introducing William Holden as the title character, a hard-luck jockey's agent, shacking up at the track, with friend Preacher (Basil Ruysdael) then visited by gangster and creditor Matson (Hugh Sanders), in the little-noticed Columbia race-track drama Boots Malone, 1952.

Top Gun (1955) -- (Movie Clip) Draw Poker With Guns Unjustly known about his hometown of Casper, Wyoming as a killer, Rick Martin (Sterling Hayden), returned to look into the death of his mother, deals with upstart Lem (Rod Taylor) and top citizens before visiting his one remaining friend, innkeeper O’Hara (Regis Toomey) in Top Gun, 1955.

Storm Warning (1951) -- (Movie Clip) They Blame The Klan Still on the night of the Klan killing of a nosey reporter, small town prosecutor Rainey (Ronald Reagan) visits local big shots at the bowling alley, Barr (Hugh Sanders) suspected, Faulkner (Raymond Greenleaf) thinking P-R, in Storm Warning, 1951.

Miami Expose -- (Movie Clip) Violence and Death Listen to the narration and look at Lee J. Cobb (as cop "Bart Scott) on location in Miami, rushing to the scene of his colleague's murder in the low-budget crime thriller Miami Expose`, 1956.

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