Episode 4, Season 1 of Highway Patrol features a number of rugged-looking young actors, the kind that you think turned into someone famous. One fellow was listed in the cast as Stagg Salem. Stagg, if you didn't make it big in Hollywood, you could be a character in a Harlequin romance novel. Stagg reverted to his birth name for the bulk of his career. Stagg Salem = Vance Skarstedt.
Stagg/Vance had a recurring role on HP as Officer Larrabee. I think his folks probably liked it when he went back to using his real name. I will watch for him in future episodes. Right now he's just a guy in uniform to me and I can't tell him from the others, but his name jumped out at me when the closing credits rolled. William Boyett, who was the sergeant on Adam-12 and who seems to have been born to play a police officer, is one fellow I do recognize.
"Lookout" was an interesting episode. The bad boys were played by Joe Turkel and Bill Page. Their buddy caught in the middle was Michael Garth (character was Tom). His wife, Grace, was played by Meg Randall.
Tom: You read about it in the papers all the time. Guys wanted by the police who change their name, move to a strange town. They build a whole new life for themselves.
Grace: You read about it when they're caught.
Michael Garth has a lot of screen credits between 1955 and 1959. And then he disappears from Internet Movie DataBase. Maybe he went somewhere, built a whole new life for himself.
Stagg/Vance had a recurring role on HP as Officer Larrabee. I think his folks probably liked it when he went back to using his real name. I will watch for him in future episodes. Right now he's just a guy in uniform to me and I can't tell him from the others, but his name jumped out at me when the closing credits rolled. William Boyett, who was the sergeant on Adam-12 and who seems to have been born to play a police officer, is one fellow I do recognize.
"Lookout" was an interesting episode. The bad boys were played by Joe Turkel and Bill Page. Their buddy caught in the middle was Michael Garth (character was Tom). His wife, Grace, was played by Meg Randall.
Tom: You read about it in the papers all the time. Guys wanted by the police who change their name, move to a strange town. They build a whole new life for themselves.
Grace: You read about it when they're caught.
Michael Garth has a lot of screen credits between 1955 and 1959. And then he disappears from Internet Movie DataBase. Maybe he went somewhere, built a whole new life for himself.