Michael Witney

Michael Witney was an American actor in film and television, born in Ticonderoga, who died in 1983. He started screen acting in 1963 and 1964 with a recurring part as Buck Coulter, the wagon master, across the opening 14 installments of the ABC Western The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters. Western guest spots followed, among them four turns on NBC's Bonanza between 1965 and 1971, one on Daniel Boone, and a cavalry captain in a 1965 Gunsmoke episode. In 1966 he played Sergeant MacDonald in A Man Called Shenandoah, and in 1967 he was Jared Hobson on The Iron Horse. He also portrayed Wild Bill Hickok in a 1965 Death Valley Days episode and pioneer Peter Lassen in a 1968 episode of the same anthology. Later credits included Tyree on NBC's Star Trek, Frank Ward in ten of eleven episodes of the BBC drama Oil Strike North in 1975, and three episodes of ABC's Charlie's Angels between 1978 and 1981.