Burr DeBenning

Burr DeBenning was an American actor whose career took in film and television, largely in character parts. Born in Seminole, Oklahoma, he grew up in Stillwater, began college as a business major, moved over to drama and took roles in plays at Oklahoma State, then served in the Air Force and earned a master's degree in drama at New York University. His first professional job was in an off-Broadway play that ran only four days, after which he acted with a troupe in Boston. Working in close to 100 films and shows, he was a comic Marine in Beach Red (1967) and went on to St. Ives (1976), The Incredible Melting Man (1977) and A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child (1989). On television he played town boss Paul Garrett in Father Murphy from 1981 to 1982 and Navy agent Lt. Jim Porter in the 1978 miniseries The Return of Captain Nemo. He died in 2003.