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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Kenneth E. Lynch (July 15, 1910 – February 13, 1990) was an American radio, film, and television actor with more than 180 credits to his name. He was generally known for portraying law enforcement officers and detectives. Early life Kenneth Englehart Lynch was born on July 15, 1910, in Albany, New York, the only child of Bertha Dietzel and Charles William Lynch. His father was a native of Woburn, Massachusetts, who started his career as a coffee salesman, and then became a creamery owner in Troy, New York. His mother was from Yonkers, New York, a third generation German-American. His middle name was his maternal grandmother's maiden name. Career He appeared in numerous television series. He made three guest appearances on Perry Mason, including the role of Wallace Lang in "The Case of the Stuttering Bishop" in 1959, Robert Hayden in "The Case of the Irate Inventor" in 1960 and Customs Inspector Wendel in "The Case of the Floating Stones" in 1963. Some of the other series in which Lynch appeared are Peter Gunn, Zorro, Have Gun - Will Travel ("Fight at Adobe Wells"), Gunsmoke (“Bureaucrat” & “The Patsy”), Checkmate ("Cyanide Touch"), woman"), Checkmate ("Born To Hang"), The Asphalt Jungle, Straightaway, The Honeymooners, The Fugitive, The Andy Griffith Show, The Dick Van Dyke Show, Blue Light, Adam-12, Star Trek ("The Devil in the Dark") Season 1, Episode 25 as Chief Engineer Vanderberg in 1967, Maverick, All In The Family (in the famous episode, "Archie and the Lockup", where he played Guard Callaghan), The Twilight Zone ("Mr. Denton on Doomsday"), The Rifleman, and The Wild Wild West. In 1960 Lynch appeared as Al Killmer in the TV western series Lawman in the episode titled "The Escape of Joe Killmer." He played The Freighter in S8 E26 "The Jarbo Pierce Story" on "Wagon Train", 1965. Between 1972 and 1977, he made 16 guest appearances on McCloud, performing as a police sergeant and later a detective named Grover on the series. In September 1974, he appeared in the very first episode of the cult classic, Kolchak:The Night Stalker, playing a police captain. He previously appeared in 12 episodes of Gunsmoke, 10 episodes of The F.B.I., nine episodes of Bonanza, and six episodes in both The Virginian and Gomer Pyle, USMC. Among the feature films in which he appeared are I Married a Monster from Outer Space, North By Northwest, The Lawbreakers, Pork Chop Hill, Anatomy of a Murder and Tora! Tora! Tora!. He appeared in Battlestar Galactica as Dr Horning in episode 22, "Experiment in Terra" (1979). Lynch's last credited performance was in the role of Rear Admiral Talbot Gray in the 1983 seven-part miniseries The Winds of War. Flower business Even though Lynch still had a very successful career as an actor by the 1970s, he began looking for another, more steady source of income. He explained in a 1975 newspaper interview: "In acting you just can't predict the jobs that will come along. If you could, you could budget." Death Lynch died at age 79 from a virus on February 13, 1990, in Burbank, California. He was buried at the San Fernando Mission Cemetery in Mission Hills, Los Angeles. CLR

The Winds of War
as Talbot Gray

Rooster
as Poker Player

Galactica 1980
as Grover

Battlestar Galactica
as Dr. Horning

Grizzly Adams
as Luck Harry

Switch
as Stoker

Kolchak: The Night Stalker
as Capt. Warren

The Rockford Files
as Vince Whitehead

W
as Guard

Willie Dynamite
as Judge #1

Bad Charleston Charlie
as Sherrif Koontz

Poor Devil
as Desk Sergeant

Across 110th Street
as Tailor Shop Patrolman

Kung Fu
as Percy McCoy

Jigsaw
as Mr. Cummings

Incident in San Francisco
as Detective Hanson

All in the Family
as Guard Callahan

Run, Simon, Run
as Warden Lomis

McCloud
as Grover

Tora! Tora! Tora!
as Rear Adm. John H. Newton (uncredited)

My Dog, the Thief
as Lt. Burrows

Adam-12
as Bernie Ryan

Never a Dull Moment
as Police Lieutenant (uncredited)

P.J.
as Thorson

He & She
as Inspector MacGregor

Ironside
as Russ Quinn

Hotel
as Joe Laswell

The Invaders
as Lieutenant Conners

That Girl

Star Trek
as Chief Engineer Vanderberg

Mister Buddwing
as Dan

The F.B.I.
as Jackie

Honey West
as Lt. Barney Keller

Dear Heart
as Hotel masher

Apache Rifles
as Hodges

Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
as Patrolman Dugan

Dead Ringer
as Captain Johnson

The Patty Duke Show
as Lt. Gregory

The Fugitive
as Concession Owner

Days of Wine and Roses
as Proprietor (uncredited)

The Lucy Show
as Officer Peters

The Virginian
as Big Jim Todd

Walk on the Wild Side
as Frank Bonito

The Dick Van Dyke Show
as Lieutenant Yarnell

The Honeymoon Machine
as Capt. James Angle

The Lawbreakers
as Ed Rackin

Portrait of a Mobster
as Anthony Parazzo

The Andy Griffith Show
as Capt. Barker

The Dark at the Top of the Stairs
as Harry Ralston

Seven Ways from Sundown
as Graves

Checkmate
as Lt. Thomas Brand (uncredited)

The Twilight Zone
as Charlie

Bonanza
as Collier

North by Northwest
as Charley

The Legend of Tom Dooley
as Father

Anatomy of a Murder
as Det. Sgt. James "Jim" Durgo

Pork Chop Hill
as Major General Trudeau

Paratroop Command
as Lieutenant

Unwed Mother
as Probation Officer Curtis

77 Sunset Strip
as Fred Thorn