Gary Cooper (Frank James Cooper) (May 7, 1901 – May 13, 1961)

Cooper’s career spanned from 1925 until shortly before his death, and
comprised more than one hundred films. Cooper received five Academy
Award nominations for Best Actor, winning twice for Sergeant York (1941)
and High Noon (1952). He also received an Honorary Award in 1961 from
the Academy. The American Film Institute named Cooper among the their
100 Years…100 Stars, ranking 11th among males.

1936

The Western television series The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok ran for eight
seasons from 1951 through 1958. The Screen Gems production began in
syndication, but ran on CBS from 1955 through 1958, and, at the same time,
on ABC from 1957 through 1958.

Andy Devine (left) and Guy Madison

Wyatt Berry Stapp Earp (March 19, 1848 – January 13, 1929)

Earp was a gambler, Pima County Deputy Sheriff, and Deputy Town 
Marshal in Tombstone, Arizona, and was in the Gunfight at the O.K.
Corral during which lawmen killed three outlaw Cowboys. The gunfight,
which lasted just 30-seconds, defined the rest of his life. Before fame,
Wyatt Earp had worked as a farmer, miner, and boxing referee.

Dickie Jones

As a child and young adult, Jones achieved success especially in
B-Westerns and television. He was an accomplished horseman
from infancy, billed at the age of four as the World’s Youngest
Trick Rider and Trick Roper. At the age of six, he was hired to
perform riding and lariat tricks in the rodeo owned by western
film star Hoot Gibson. Dickie Jones is best remembered as the
voice of the lead character in the 1940 Walt Disney animated
film ”Pinocchio”.

Jones starred as Dick West, sidekick to the Western hero known as 
The Range Rider (1951), in a TV series that ran for 76 episodes
(and for decades in syndication). He was given his own series in
1955, Buffalo Bill, Jr. which ran for 40 episodes. Jones continued
working in films throughout the 1950s, then retired and entered the
business world.

Fort Laramie was a radio Western series that aired Sunday afternoons at 
5:30pm (ET) on CBS from January 22 to October 28, 1956. Once a week
the cast and crew gathered at CBS Studio One in Hollywood to tape the
show. In 1956 this was the last radio production studio in use in California.

Produced and directed by Norman Macdonnell, the Western drama depicted
life at old Fort Laramie during the 19th Century. The 41 episodes starred
Raymond Burr as Lee Quince, captain of the cavalry. One year later, Burr
became a television star as Perry Mason.