Dewey Martin

Dewey Martin was an American actor whose career spanned film and television. Born in Katemcy, Texas, he spent his teenage years in Florence, Alabama. He first appeared on screen in a small, uncredited role in Knock on Any Door (1949), with Humphrey Bogart, and followed it with The Thing from Another World (1951). He shared the screen with Kirk Douglas in The Big Sky (1952), then returned to work with Bogart in The Desperate Hours (1955) as Bogart's younger brother, an escaped convict. He took one of the main parts in Land of the Pharaohs (1955) and appeared opposite Dean Martin in Ten Thousand Bedrooms (1957), although he did not become a full-fledged star. On television he was seen on The Twilight Zone in I Shot an Arrow Into the Air (1960), on The Outer Limits in The Premonition (1965), and from 1960 he played Daniel Boone in four Walt Disney Presents episodes. He died in 2018.