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Victor French
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Director, Actor Born: December 4, 1934 in Santa Barbara, CA Death: June 15, 1989 in Sherman Oaks, CA Biography:The son of a movie stunt man, Victor French made his screen entree in westerns, where his unkempt beard and scowling countenance made him a perfect heavy. He carried over his robbin' and rustlin' activities into television, making multiple appearances on such series as "Gunsmoke" and "Bonanza". It was former "Bonanza" star Michael Landon, a great friend of French's, who "humanized" the veteran screen villain with the role of farmer Isiah Edwards in the weekly TV drama "Little House on the Prairie". French temporarily left "Little House" in 1977 to star in his own sitcom, "Carter Country", in which he played an affable Southern sheriff who tried his best to accommodate the ever-changing racial relationships of the 1970s. In 1984, Landon cast French as ex-cop Michael Gordon, whose bitterness at the world was softened by the presence of a guardian angel (Landon), in the popular TV series Highway to... Full Biography
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