Sean Garrison

Sean Garrison

Born: October 19, 1937
Died: March 2, 2018
in New York City, New York, USA
Handsome, laconic American leading actor of the 50s and 60s, most often cast as servicemen or brawny outdoor types. Never a serious contender for movie stardom, he was better served on the small screen as a guest actor in westerns and police dramas. A native New Yorker, Sean had left school at 14 and taken on a host of short-term jobs on ranches, construction gangs and sponge boats before landing himself a position at the ABC film vaults in Hollywood. He was subsequently signed by Warner Brothers and made his film debut in a bit role in 1958. He went on to study drama at the Actor's Studio in New York, at one time supplementing his income as a Macy Department Store Santa Claus. Sean appeared twice on Broadway in the early 60s and played Lancelot in a touring theatre production of Camelot. Since he had a good baritone voice, he was tipped to play the part in the motion picture as well but ultimately lost out to Franco Nero (who, ironically, had to be dubbed!).

He did eventually score a leading movie role of note as a naval ensign opposite Jean Seberg in the psychological thriller Moment to Moment (1966). However, his performance seemed somewhat muted and the director, Mervyn LeRoy, later expressed misgivings in not having cast an actor of Paul Newman's caliber instead. Sean briefly co-starred with John Mills in a 1967 series as an impulsive hotshot lawyer (slash gunslinger), apprenticed to a pacifist 'greenhorn' British attorney involved in legal proceedings in 19th century Arizona. Despite its rather off-beat premise and benefiting from being shot in color (frequently on location), Dundee and the Culhane (1967) flopped and was canned after just 13 episodes. Sean was essentially relegated to the fringes of screen acting thereafter and retired in the early 80s to go into the swimming pool construction business.

Movies for Sean Garrison...

Power
Title: Power
Character: Tex
Released: January 14, 1980
Type: Movie
Loosely based on the life of Jimmy Hoffa, this traces the rise of Tommy Vanda (Joe Don Baker) from a Chicago dock worker to an influential labor leader who, like Hoffa, finds himself behind bars in a federal prison, and not long after, taken for a ride by shady men never to be seen again.
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Rendezvous Hotel
Title: Rendezvous Hotel
Character: Guy
Released: July 11, 1979
Type: Movie
A madcap family caters to assorted unpredictable guests availing themselves of the title resort's advertised bliss in this pilot to a prospective series.
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Cover Girls
Title: Cover Girls
Character: Sven
Released: May 18, 1977
Type: Movie
Two beautiful fashion models work undercover as secret agents.
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Title: The Rockford Files
Character: Lanark
Released: September 13, 1974
Type: TV
Cranky but likable L.A. PI Jim Rockford pulls no punches (but takes plenty of them). An ex-con sent to the slammer for a crime he didn't commit, Rockford takes on cases others don't want, aided by his tough old man, his lawyer girlfriend and some shady associates from his past.
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The Adventures of Nick Carter
Title: The Adventures of Nick Carter
Character: Lloyd Deams
Released: February 20, 1972
Type: Movie
Detective discovers that a colleague's death is tied into the disappearance of a wealthy playboy's wife.
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Breakout
Title: Breakout
Character: Frank McCready
Released: August 12, 1970
Type: Movie
A prison inmate comes up with a plan to break out in order to be near his wife--and also the $50,000 in stolen cash for which he was originally imprisoned.
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The Challengers
Title: The Challengers
Character: Cody Scanlon
Released: February 20, 1970
Type: Movie
Racers compete in the Grand Prix.
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Seven in Darkness
Title: Seven in Darkness
Character: Mark Larsen
Released: September 23, 1969
Type: Movie
A plane carrying seven blind people to a convention for the blind in Seattle crashes in the mountains due to severe weather. Only the blind survive the crash and they must make their way back through the wilderness to civilization.
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Title: The Name of the Game
Character: Buck Hambleton
Released: September 20, 1968
Type: TV
The Name of the Game is an American television series starring Tony Franciosa, Gene Barry, and Robert Stack that ran from 1968 to 1971 on NBC, totaling 76 episodes of 90 minutes. It was a pioneering wheel series, setting the stage for The Bold Ones and the NBC Mystery Movie in the 1970s. The show had an extremely large budget for a television series.
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Banning
Title: Banning
Character: Richard Tyson
Released: December 13, 1967
Type: Movie
A playboy golf pro, kicked off the circuit for alleged cheating, is forced to hustle for a living.
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The Outsider
Title: The Outsider
Character: Collin Kenniston III
Released: November 21, 1967
Type: Movie
Darren McGavin is David Ross, a private investigator playing a game of follow the money. A simple case of embezzling turns bad quickly when bodies start dropping and the savvy P.I. is the primary suspect in an attractive woman's death. This NBC TV movie served as a pilot for the later series.
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Title: Dundee and the Culhane
Character: The Culhane
Released: September 6, 1967
Type: TV
Dundee and the Culhane is an American Western television series starring John Mills and Sean Garrison that aired on the CBS television network from September 7 to December 13, 1967.
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Moment to Moment
Title: Moment to Moment
Character: Mark Dominic
Released: January 27, 1966
Type: Movie
When an erring wife's supposedly dead lover turns up an amnesiac, it's her unsuspecting shrink husband who's enlisted to get those memories back.
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Bridge to the Sun
Title: Bridge to the Sun
Character: Fred Tyson
Released: October 17, 1961
Type: Movie
Tells the true story of Gwen Terasaki, who falls in love with, then marries a Japanese diplomat. When war breaks out they find animosity and trouble from both sides.
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Splendor in the Grass
Title: Splendor in the Grass
Character: Glenn
Released: October 10, 1961
Type: Movie
A fragile Kansas girl's unrequited and forbidden love for a handsome young man from the town's most powerful family drives her to heartbreak and madness.
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Up Periscope
Title: Up Periscope
Character: Seaman Floyd
Released: March 4, 1959
Type: Movie
Lieutenant Braden discovers that Sally, the woman he's been falling in love with, has actually been checking out his qualifications to be a U.S. Navy frogman. He must put his personal life behind him after being assigned to be smuggled into a Japanese-held island via submarine to photograph radio codes.
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Violent Road
Title: Violent Road
Character: Ken Farley
Released: May 10, 1958
Type: Movie
Following the crash and explosion of a test rocket, which killed several people, six men volunteer to take explosive rocket-fuel chemical components, in three trucks, over back roads in rugged terrain to a remote missile base. Uncredited "remake" of The Wages of Fear.