

CENTER B: With Margarita Sierra, Troy Donahue, Diane McBain, and Van Williams. CENTER A: With costars Troy Donahue and Van Williams.
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The films of lee patterson The Good Die Young (1954)įrom the ABC series Surfside 6, produced by Warner Bros. This beganĪ 20-year association with the series, but Patterson also was a regular on the NBC daytime dramas Another World and the After some guest shots on such series as Perry MasonĪnd Bonanza, he was cast as Joe Riley on the then-new ABC daytime drama One Life to Live, starting in July 1968. Himself without a contract, and film and television roles were few and far between. When the series was canceled in 1962, Patterson found Stardom eluded Patterson, despite being cast on ABC's hit series Surfside 6. The studio cast him as Dave Thorne on the ABCĭetective series Surfside 6 (1960-1962 with Troy Donahue, Diane McBain, and Needing to be closer to home, in 1959 Patterson landed a contract with Warner Bros.Īnd left Britain, as his mother was ill. He was supporting his motherĪnd putting his brother through college back in Canada. (1959 with Eddie Byrne) and the Disney family film Third Man on the Mountain (1959 with Michael Rennie, Patterson's career in the late 1950s was going well, as he starred in five films in 1959 alone, including Jack the Ripper

Plan (1957 with Zachary Scott and Peggie Castle). Soon, he was starring in British noir including The Passing Stranger (1954 withĭiane Cilento), Spin a Dark Web (1956 with Faith Domergue), and The Counterfeit Role came in the crime drama The Good Die Young (1954 with Laurence Harvey, Gloria Grahame, and Throughout the early phase of Patterson's career, he most often portrayed Americans in a number of British B movies. By 1953 he was landing small roles, until he signed a contract with Romulus Films in 1954.
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He quickly found work as a stage manager on British TV programs and as a stageĪctor before getting his break in films. Patterson found work as a stage actor in Canada and,įollowing a trip to London, decided to stay in Britain. He soon abandoned his art career in favor of acting. The opening credits would alternate the order among the four stars.Born Beverley Frank Atherly Patterson on March 31, 1929, in Vancouver, British Columbia, actor Lee Patterson attended Ontario College of Art,Īiming to be a cartoonist. Greene, Roberts, Blocker, and Landon were billed equally. The family's cook was the Chinese immigrant Hop Sing (Victor Sen Yung). Via exposition (Bonanza, "Rose For Lotta", premiere September 12, 1959) and flashback episodes, each wife was accorded a different ethnicity: English (Bonanza, "Elizabeth My Love" episode #65) Swedish (Bonanza, "Inger My Love", episode #95) and French Creole (Bonanza, "Marie My Love", episode #120) respectively. He had three sons, each by a different wife: the eldest was the urbane architect "Adam Cartwright" (Pernell Roberts) who built the ranch house the second was the warm and lovable giant Eric "Hoss" Cartwright (Dan Blocker) and the youngest was the hotheaded and impetuous Joseph or "Little Joe" (Michael Landon). The show chronicles the weekly adventures of the Cartwright family, headed by the thrice-widowed patriarch "Ben Cartwright" (Lorne Greene).
