Frankie Laine (born Francesco Paolo LoVecchio) 

                           (March 30, 1913 – February 6, 2007)

Frankie Laine was a singer, songwriter, and actor with a career that 
spanned 75 years, from his first concert in 1930 with a dance company 
to this final performance of “That’s My Desire” in 2005. He was often 
billed as America’s Number One Song Stylist.

1956

1969

 
Laine recorded well-known theme songs for many Western
movie soundtracks

 
Richard Boone

Have Gun — Will Travel is a Western television series that aired on CBS
from September 14, 1957 to April 20, 1963. It was one of the few television
shows to spawn a successful radio version that debuted November 23, 1958
and starred John Dehner (below). 

There were 225 episodes of the TV series, many of which were written by
Gene Roddenberry. The star of the program was Richard Boone, who
portrayed the gentleman gunfighter named “Paladin”. Boone directed
19 of the shows episodes.

John Dehner

Have Gun Will Travel. Sung by Johnny Western!

Jane and Peter Fonda with their father Henry in the 1950s

Peter Henry Fonda studied acting in Omaha, Nebraska, the home town
of his father Henry. While attending the University of Nebraska, Fonda
joined the Omaha Community Playhouse, where many actors, including
his father and Marlon Brando, had begun their careers.

Fonda found work on Broadway where he gained recognition in Blood,
Sweat and Stanley Poole, before going to Hollywood to make films. He
began his movie career in romantic leading roles, debuting in Tammy
and the Doctor (1963).  

1969

2007

John Arthur Kennedy (February 17, 1914 – January 5, 1990)

Arthur Kennedy got his big break when he was discovered by James
Cagney. His first film role was of Cagney’s younger brother in City for
Conquest in 1940. He appeared in many Western films and police
dramas, equally adapting as hero or villain.

Kennedy won a Tony Award for best supporting actor for his stage
portrayal of Biff in Death of a Salesman in 1949. His role in Trial
(1955) won him a Golden Globe Award for best supporting actor
and his part as the newspaper reporter in Elmer Gantry (1960)
gained him a Film Daily Award and a Limelight Award.   

1952

Rock Hudson, Arthur Kennedy, and James Stewart from Bend of the River

 
Arthur Kennedy as seen in Elmer Gantry

 
   
    Lorne Greene (February 12, 1915 – September 11, 1987)

Greene was a Canadian actor and musician who is best known for his
television roles as Ben Cartwright on the NBC-TV series Bonanza from
1959 to 1973 and as Commander Adama on the the ABC-TV series
Battlestar Galactica, 1978 to 1979.

Lorne Green gave up a career in chemical engineering and, upon
graduation from college, found a job as a radio broadcaster for the
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC)

Greene in Battlestar Galactica