Bing Russell
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
148
Gender
Male
Birthday
1926-05-05
Day of death
2003-04-08 (76 years old)
Place of Birth
Brattleboro, Vermont, USA
Bing Russell
Biography
Neil Oliver "Bing" Russell (May 5, 1926 – April 8, 2003) was an American actor and Class A minor-league baseball club owner. He was the father of Hollywood actor Kurt Russell. Although best known as the deputy on Bonanza (1959) and Robert in The Magnificent Seven (1960), Russell's was also well known on a national level as the owner of the Portland Mavericks Baseball Club. Helming the only independent team in the class A Northwest League, Russell was an innovator. Before Bull Durham (1988), there were the Mavericks. Russell kept a 30 man roster because he believed that some of the players deserved to have one last season. His motto was simply one three lettered word - not WIN - although the Mavericks did just that - no, the word was FUN. He created a park that kept all corporate sponsorship outside the gates, hired the first female general manager in professional baseball, and the following year hired the first Asian American GM/Manager. That same season his team set a record for the highest attendance in Minor league history, and went on to win the pennant. Ex-major leaguers and never-weres who couldn't stop playing the game flocked to his June tryouts, which were always open to anyone that showed up. From as far away as Capetown, and France, players would head to Portland for a chance with Russell's Mavericks.
Known For
Mannix
Bonanza
Bonanza
Bonanza
Bonanza
The Andy Griffith Show
Lassie
Ironside
Ironside
The Fugitive
The Fugitive
The Fugitive
The Fugitive
Maverick
Maverick
Maverick
The Twilight Zone
The Twilight Zone
Have Gun, Will Travel
Have Gun, Will Travel
The Rockford Files
The Rifleman
Emergency!
The Virginian
The Virginian
The Virginian
The Virginian
The Virginian
The Virginian
The Big Valley
The Big Valley
The Big Valley
The Big Valley
The Big Valley
The Big Valley
The Big Valley
The Big Valley
The Big Valley
I Dream of Jeannie
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Gunsmoke
Gunsmoke
Gunsmoke
Gunsmoke
Gunsmoke
Gunsmoke
Wanted: Dead or Alive
Wanted: Dead or Alive
Rawhide
The Munsters
The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
Ben Casey
Route 66
The Monkees
The Donna Reed Show
Laramie
The Magnificent Seven
How the West Was Won
The Texan
Sugarfoot
Sugarfoot
The Streets of San Francisco
Surfside 6
Alias Smith and Jones
The Mod Squad
The Guns of Will Sonnett
The Guns of Will Sonnett
Tango & Cash
Rio Bravo
Bronco
Branded
Branded
Navy Log
Johnny Ringo
Sam Benedict
Petrocelli
Overboard
The Stripper
Hondo
Black Saddle
Black Saddle
Runaway!
Public Defender
Madame X
Stoney Burke
Elvis
Cattle Empire
The Alaskans
General Electric True
Suicide Battalion
Cheyenne Autumn
Stagecoach West
Last Train from Gun Hill
A Life at Stake
Dick Tracy
The Million Dollar Duck
A Gathering of Eagles
The Outcasts
Science Fiction Theatre
The Apple Dumpling Gang
The Horse Soldiers
Letter to Loretta
Letter to Loretta
Letter to Loretta
Letter to Loretta
Blackbeard's Ghost
Journey to Shiloh
Stakeout!
The Battered Bastards of Baseball
Now You See Him, Now You Don't
The Wonderful World of Disney
The Monroes
The Hallelujah Trail
Tate
The Great Impostor
The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes
Harbor Command
Bombers B-52
The Deadly Mantis
The Land Unknown
Big Leaguer
Arthur Hailey's The Moneychangers
The Loneliest Runner
One Man's Way
Good Day for a Hanging
A Cry in the Wilderness
The Sex Symbol
Cult of the Cobra
Death Sentence
Set This Town on Fire
Ride a Violent Mile
Yuma
The Living Christ
The Man Called X
Dundee and the Culhane
Attack
A Taste of Evil
Sunset
Satan's School for Girls
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Flashing Spikes
Drango
The New Daughters of Joshua Cabe
Teenage Thunder
Without Incident
