Frontier
Premiered: Sep 25, 1955 | 1 seasons | 30 episodes
Popularity: 2
| Creator: | Morton S. Fine |
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| Updated: | Feb 13, 2025 (Update) |
| Entered: | Feb 13, 2025 |
| Frontier is an American Western anthology series that aired on NBC from September 1955, to September 1956. The series de-emphasizes gunplay and focuses on the hazards of the settlement of the American West. It was only the second anthology Western series in television history, having been preceded by Death Valley Days. Frontier aired premiered on September 25, 1955, and ran sporadically in its last five months. Walter Coy narrated the series and starred in occasional episodes, which are dramatizations based on actual events. The program was produced by Worthington Miner. |
| Name | Character | Episodes |
|---|---|---|
| Walter Coy | Narrator | 30 |
| James Best | 2 | |
| Denver Pyle | 2 | |
| Jack Elam | 2 | |
| John Dehner | 1 | |
| Claude Akins | 1 | |
| Beverly Garland | 1 | |
| Richard Crenna | 1 | |
| Jeff Morrow | 1 | |
| Richard Boone | Everett Brayer | 1 |
| Leo Gordon | 1 | |
| Leo Gordon | Lou | 1 |
| Leo Gordon | Pauk | 1 |
| Dabbs Greer | Ray | 1 |
| Phyllis Coates | 1 | |
| Paul Richards | 1 | |
| Ray Teal | 1 | |
| Don Diamond | 1 | |
| Trevor Bardette | 1 | |
| Coleen Gray | 1 | |
| Frank Puglia | 1 | |
| Dennis Moore | 1 | |
| Raymond Bailey | 1 | |
| Tom Tryon | 1 | |
| Kenneth Tobey | 1 | |
| Mike Connors | 1 | |
| Gloria Talbott | 1 | |
| Helen Kleeb | 1 | |
| John Smith | Willie Magill - aka The Colfax Kid | 1 |
| Addison Richards | 1 | |
| King Donovan | Joe Thornton | 1 |
| Sean McClory | 1 | |
| James Griffith | 1 | |
| Dick Wessel | 1 | |
| Dorothy Adams | 1 | |
| Joan Vohs | 1 | |
| Tommy Kirk | 1 | |
| Guy Way | Gunman | 1 |
| Lee Erickson | 1 | |
| Hayden Rorke | 1 | |
| Anna Navarro | 1 | |
| Herbert Heyes | 1 | |
| Rodd Redwing | 1 | |
| Charles Stevens | Indian | 1 |
| Jay Novello | 1 | |
| Lisa Gaye | 1 | |
| John Bromfield | 1 | |
| Robert Arthur | Kip Ross | 1 |
| George Chandler | Ames | 1 |
| Jan Merlin | Clay Chandler | 1 |