Bill Coontz

Bill Coontz was an American actor and stuntman, also known as Bill Foster. Born in Iowa, he started in film in 1949 as a stuntman on Apache Chief and worked for almost a quarter of a century as a stunt double in movies and television. He appeared in many TV series, including Gunsmoke, Bonanza, Wagon Train, Rawhide, The Wild Wild West, The Big Valley, The Fugitive and Mission: Impossible. His films included Outlaw Gold (1950), Gold Raiders (1951), Night Stage to Galveston (1952), The Law vs. Billy the Kid (1954), Hidden Guns (1956), The Badge of Marshal Brennan (1957), Gunsmoke in Tucson (1958), Lone Texan (1959), Gunfight at Comanche Creek (1963) and Heaven with a Gun (1969). He starred as Ace Gorenum in Guns of a Stranger (1973), credited as William Foster, and retired in 1978 after appearing in Convoy as the Old Iguana. He died in 1978.