Acting

Sean Garrison

Born October 19, 1937 · New York City, New York, USA

Died March 2, 2018 · aged 80

Handsome, laconic American leading actor of the 50s and 60s, most often cast as servicemen or brawny outdoor types. Never a serious contender for movie stardom, he was better served on the small screen as a guest actor in westerns and police dramas. A native New Yorker, Sean had left school at 14 and taken on a host of short-term jobs on ranches, construction gangs and sponge boats before landing …

Known For

Splendor in the Grass

Splendor in the Grass · 1961

Splendor in the Grass

MovieDramaRomance

A fragile Kansas girl's unrequited and forbidden love for a handsome young man from the town's most powerful family drives her to heartbreak and madness.

Onionhead

Onionhead · 1958

MovieDramaComedy

An irresponsible student enlists in the Coast Guard expecting to sit out World War II.

Banning

Banning · 1967

MovieRomanceDrama

A playboy golf pro, kicked off the circuit for alleged cheating, is forced to hustle for a living.

Up Periscope

Up Periscope · 1959

MovieWarAdventure

Lieutenant Braden discovers that Sally, the woman he's been falling in love with, has actually been checking out his qualifications to be a U.S. Navy frogman. He must put his personal life behind him after being assigned to be smuggled into a Japanese-held island via submarine to photograph radio codes.

Bridge to the Sun

Bridge to the Sun · 1961

Bridge to the Sun

MovieDramaRomance

Tells the true story of American Gwen Terasaki, who falls in love with, then marries a Japanese diplomat. When World War II breaks out, they encounter animosity and trouble from both sides.

The Adventures of Nick Carter

The Adventures of Nick Carter · 1972

The Adventures of Nick Carter

MovieTV MovieMystery

Detective discovers that a colleague's death is tied into the disappearance of a wealthy playboy's wife.

Seven in Darkness

Seven in Darkness · 1969

Seven in Darkness

MovieAdventureDrama

A plane carrying seven blind people to a convention for the blind in Seattle crashes in the mountains due to severe weather. Only the blind survive the crash and they must make their way back through the wilderness to civilization.

Cover Girls

Cover Girls · 1977

MovieActionTV Movie

Two beautiful fashion models work undercover as secret agents.

Filmography

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Splendor in the Grass

Splendor in the Grass · 1961

Splendor in the Grass

MovieDramaRomance

A fragile Kansas girl's unrequited and forbidden love for a handsome young man from the town's most powerful family drives her to heartbreak and madness.

Glenn

Onionhead

Onionhead · 1958

MovieDramaComedy

An irresponsible student enlists in the Coast Guard expecting to sit out World War II.

Yeoman Kaffhamp

Banning

Banning · 1967

MovieRomanceDrama

A playboy golf pro, kicked off the circuit for alleged cheating, is forced to hustle for a living.

Richard Tyson

Up Periscope

Up Periscope · 1959

MovieWarAdventure

Lieutenant Braden discovers that Sally, the woman he's been falling in love with, has actually been checking out his qualifications to be a U.S. Navy frogman. He must put his personal life behind him after being assigned to be smuggled into a Japanese-held island via submarine to photograph radio codes.

Seaman Floyd

Bridge to the Sun

Bridge to the Sun · 1961

Bridge to the Sun

MovieDramaRomance

Tells the true story of American Gwen Terasaki, who falls in love with, then marries a Japanese diplomat. When World War II breaks out, they encounter animosity and trouble from both sides.

Fred Tyson

The Adventures of Nick Carter

The Adventures of Nick Carter · 1972

The Adventures of Nick Carter

MovieTV MovieMystery

Detective discovers that a colleague's death is tied into the disappearance of a wealthy playboy's wife.

Lloyd Deams

Seven in Darkness

Seven in Darkness · 1969

Seven in Darkness

MovieAdventureDrama

A plane carrying seven blind people to a convention for the blind in Seattle crashes in the mountains due to severe weather. Only the blind survive the crash and they must make their way back through the wilderness to civilization.

Mark Larsen

Cover Girls

Cover Girls · 1977

MovieActionTV Movie

Two beautiful fashion models work undercover as secret agents.

Sven

Moment to Moment

Moment to Moment · 1966

Moment to Moment

MovieDramaMystery

When an erring wife's supposedly dead lover turns up an amnesiac, it's her unsuspecting shrink husband who's enlisted to get those memories back.

Mark Dominic

The Outsider

The Outsider · 1967

MovieDramaCrime

Darren McGavin is David Ross, a private investigator playing a game of follow the money. A simple case of embezzling turns bad quickly when bodies start dropping and the savvy P.I. is the primary suspect in an attractive woman's death. This NBC TV movie served as a pilot for the later series.

Collin Kenniston III

The Challengers

The Challengers · 1970

The Challengers

MovieTV MovieDrama

Racers compete in the Grand Prix.

Cody Scanlon

Violent Road

Violent Road · 1958

MovieAdventureDrama

Following the crash and explosion of a test rocket, which killed several people, six men volunteer to take explosive rocket-fuel chemical components, in three trucks, over back roads in rugged terrain to a remote missile base. Uncredited "remake" of The Wages of Fear.

Ken Farley

Breakout

Breakout · 1970

MovieAdventureDrama

A prison inmate comes up with a plan to break out in order to be near his wife--and also the $50,000 in stolen cash for which he was originally imprisoned.

Frank McCready

The Rockford Files

The Rockford Files · 1974

The Rockford Files

SeriesCrimeDrama

Cranky but likable L.A. PI Jim Rockford pulls no punches (but takes plenty of them). An ex-con sent to the slammer for a crime he didn't commit, Rockford takes on cases others don't want, aided by his tough old man, his lawyer girlfriend and some shady associates from his past.

Lanark

Love, American Style

Love, American Style · 1969

Love, American Style

An anthology comedy series featuring a line up of different celebrity guest stars appearing in anywhere from one, two, three, and four short stories or vignettes within an hour about versions of love and romance.

Ali

The Name of the Game

The Name of the Game · 1968

The Name of the Game

SeriesAction & AdventureSci-Fi & Fantasy

The Name of the Game is an American television series starring Tony Franciosa, Gene Barry, and Robert Stack that ran from 1968 to 1971 on NBC, totaling 76 episodes of 90 minutes. It was a pioneering wheel series, setting the stage for The Bold Ones and the NBC Mystery Movie in the 1970s. The show had an extremely large budget for a television series.

Buck Hambleton

Dundee and the Culhane

Dundee and the Culhane · 1967

Dundee and the Culhane

SeriesWesternDrama

Dundee and the Culhane is an American Western television series starring John Mills and Sean Garrison that aired on the CBS television network from September 7 to December 13, 1967.

The Culhane

Power

Loosely based on the life of Jimmy Hoffa, this traces the rise of Tommy Vanda (Joe Don Baker) from a Chicago dock worker to an influential labor leader who, like Hoffa, finds himself behind bars in a federal prison, and not long after, taken for a ride by shady men never to be seen again.

Tex