Francis De Sales

Francis DeSales was an American actor best known for his television parts: Ralph Dobson on The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, Harold Faller on The Big Story, and Sheriff Maddox on Two Faces West. Born in Philadelphia, he appeared in films and television from the 1950s, often cast as authority figures such as sheriffs, sergeants, captains, attorneys and detectives. His film credits included All Mine to Give (1957), The Lineup (1958), No Time for Sergeants (1958), Apache Territory (1958), Face of a Fugitive (1959) and Psycho (1960). He also turned up in episodes of Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Leave It to Beaver and Perry Mason, and kept working in films into the 1970s, with a final role in Rabbit Test (1978). He died in 1988.