Hugh Sanders

American actor

Dorothy F Allsup

(m. 1947; div. 1952)

Janet Barrett^[1]

(m. 1952)

Children2

Hugh Sanders (born Howard William Sanders;^[2]^[3]^[4] March 13, 1911^[5]^[6] – January 9, 1966^[7]) was an American actor, probably best known for playing the role of Dr. Reynolds in the movie To Kill a Mockingbird.

Biography

Born and raised in East St. Louis, Illinois,^[8] the only child of William F. Sanders and Edith Broughton,^[9]^[2] Sanders graduated from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism.^[10]

He worked in radio until 1949 and then made the transition to Hollywood. He was a guest star in several series, including The Lone Ranger, Highway Patrol, Four Star Playhouse, Playhouse 90, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Maverick, Richard Diamond, Private Detective, Zane Grey Theater, Bat Masterson, The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, The Asphalt Jungle, and Straightaway. He also made five guest appearances on Perry Mason, including two roles as murder victims: John Callender in "The Case of the Fan Dancer's Horse" (1957), and Ken Bascombe in "The Case of the Bashful Burro" (1960). He also had eight appearances on Rawhide, four on Bonanza, and four on The Fugitive.

Sanders was married to Dorothy Allsup of Dayton, Ohio.^[11]

Filmography

1949: Undertow - Dice Table Bettor (uncredited)
1950: The Great Rupert - Mulligan
1950: The Damned Don't Cry - Grady
1950: Mister 880 - Thad Mitchell
1950: Mrs. O'Malley and Mr. Malone - Mr. Askenfelder (uncredited)
1950: The Magnificent Yankee - Parker, Secretary (uncredited)
1951: Storm Warning - Charlie Barr
1951: Sugarfoot - Asa Goodhue
1951: Three Guys Named Mike - Mr. Wiliams
1951: Only the Valiant - Captain Eversham
1951: I Was a Communist for the FBI - Clyde Garson
1951: The Travelers - Frank Newcombe
1951: That's My Boy - Coach Wheeler
1951: Strictly Dishonorable - Harry Donnelly
1951: Tomorrow Is Another Day - Detective Lieutenant George Conover
1951: Flying Leathernecks - General on Guadalcanal (uncredited)
1951: Cave of Outlaws - Sheriff
1952: Indian Uprising - Ben Alsop
1952: Boots Malone - Matson
1952: The Fighter - Roberts
1952: The Pride of St. Louis - Horst
1952: The Sellout - Judge Neeler
1952: Montana Territory - Jason Waterman
1952: The Winning Team - Joe McCarthy
1952: Something for the Birds - Jim Grady
1952: The Steel Trap - Mr. Greer, Passport clerk
1953: Last of the Comanches - Denver Kinnaird
1953: The Blue Gardenia - 'Chronicle' Managing Editor (uncredited)
1953: Scared Stiff - Cop on Pier
1953: Gun Belt - Douglas Frazer
1953: Here Come the Girls - Captain (uncredited)
1953: City of Bad Men - Sheriff Bill Gifford
1953: Thunder Over the Plains - H.L. Balfour
1953: The Glass Web - Police Lieutenant Mike Stevens
1953: The Wild One - Charlie Thomas
1953: The Lone Ranger (TV Series) (Season 3 Episode 21: "The Godless Men") - Frank Ferris
1953: The Lone Ranger (TV Series) (Season 3 Episode 26: "Sinner by Proxy") - Sheriff Burley
1954: The Lone Ranger (TV Series) (Season 4 Episode 7: "Outlaw's Trail") - Clyde Norton
1954: The Lone Ranger (TV Series) (Season 4 Episode 10: "Rendezvous at Whipsaw") - Matthew Block
1954: Untamed Heiress - Williams
1954: Silver Lode - Reverend Field
1954: Shield for Murder - Packy Reed
1955: The Lone Ranger (TV Series) (Season 4 Episode 21: "The Quiet Highwayman") - Gill Canby
1955: The Lone Ranger (TV Series) (Season 4 Episode 50: "The Sheriff's Wife") - Deputy Waters
1955: I Cover the Underworld - Tim Donovan
1955: 5 Against the House - Pat Winters (uncredited)
1955: Finger Man - Mr. Burns
1955: Chicago Syndicate - Pat Winters
1955: The Last Command - Sam Houston
1955: I Died a Thousand Times - Mr. Baughman (uncredited)
1955: Top Gun - Ed Marsh
1955: The Star and the Story (TV Series) (Season 1 Episode 19: "Newspaper Man") - Lieutenant Hendricks
1955: The Star and the Story (TV Series) (Season 1 Episode 23: "The Norther")
1955: The Star and the Story (TV Series) (Season 2 Episode 3: "The Man Who Was Dead") - Dr. Franklin Crane
1956: The Star and the Story (TV Series) (Season 2 Episode 12: "Payment in Kind") - Captain Sommers
1956: The Star and the Story (TV Series) (Season 2 Episode 18: "Act of Decision") - Mr. Beavers
1956: Glory - Sobbing Sam Cooney
1956: Miami Exposé - Chief Charles Landon
1956: The Peacemaker - Lathe Sawyer
1957: Alfred Hitchcock Presents (Season 2 Episode 21: "Number Twenty-Two") - Booking Officer
1957: Chain of Evidence - Morton Ramsey (uncredited)
1957: The Phantom Stagecoach - Martin Maroon
1957: The Guns of Fort Petticoat - Sergeant Webber (uncredited)
1957: The Careless Years - Uncle Harry
1957: Jailhouse Rock - Prison Warden (uncredited)
1958: Going Steady - Mr. Ahern
1958: Life Begins at 17 - Harry Peck
1958: Voice in the Mirror - A.W. Hornsby
1959: The Twilight Zone (Season 1 Episode 10: "Judgment Night") - Jerry Potter
1959: Never Steal Anything Small - Union Spokesman (uncredited)
1959: Warlock - Sheriff Keller (uncredited)
1959: Don't Give Up the Ship - Admiral Rogers
1959: The Big Operator - Senator Leland (uncredited)
1959: Rawhide (Season 1 Episode 20: "Incident of the Judas Trap") - Marshal McVie
1960: Rawhide (Season 2 Episode 19: "Incident of the Sharpshooter") - Sheriff Fischer
1960: Dennis the Menace (Season 1 Episode 30: "Dennis by Proxy") - Mr. Sanderson
1960: Cage of Evil - Martin Bender, Fence
1960: Shadow of the Boomerang
1960: The Music Box Kid - Stanley Sandman (Chesty's lawyer) (uncredited)
1961: The Twilight Zone (Season 3 Episode 12: "The Jungle") - Templeton
1961: Man-Trap - E.J. Malden
1961: Rawhide (Season 3 Episode 13: "Incident of the Promised Land") - Marshal Thorpe
1961: Rawhide (Season 3 Episode 14: "Incident of the Big Blowout") - Marshal Thorpe
1962: Rawhide (Season 5 Episode 14: "Incident of Decision") - Harvey Calvin
1962: Dennis the Menace (Season 4 Episode 6: "Dennis in Gypsyland") - Police Chief
1962: The Real McCoys - Mr. Merken
1962: The Wild Westerners - Chief Marshal Reuben Bernard
1962: Gunsmoke (Season 7 Episode 18: Old Dan") - Thede
1962: Panic in Year Zero! - Evacuee from Chatsworth (uncredited)
1962: To Kill a Mockingbird - Dr. Reynolds (uncredited)
1962: Mister Ed (Season 3 Episode 13: "Horse of a Different Color") - Mr. Armstrong
1962: Laramie (Season 3 Episode 24: "Justice in a Hurry") - Ev Keleher
1963: Laramie (Season 4 Episode 29: "The Marshals") - Rafferty
1963: The Twilight Zone (Season 4 Episode 14: "Of Late I Think of Cliffordville") - Cronk
1963: The Fugitive (Season 1 Episode 3: "The Other Side of the Mountain") - Leo
1963: The Virginian (Season 2 Episode 3: "No Tears for Savannah") - Foley
1963: Rawhide (Season 6 Episode 9: "Incident of the Prophecy") - Dr. Merrill
1964: Rawhide (Season 6 Episode 26: "Incident at Deadhorse: Part I") - Deputy Ef Wiley
1964: Rawhide (Season 6 Episode 27: "Incident at Deadhorse: Part II") - Deputy Ef Wiley
1964: Petticoat Junction (Season 1 Episode 16: "Bobbie Jo and the Beatnik") - Roger Stanley
1964: The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (Season 2 Episode 13: "The Magic Shop") - 1st Cop
1964: Mister Ed (Season 4 Episode 24: "The Prowler") - Sergeant Myers
1964: Apache Rifles - Arizona Delegate
1964: The Fugitive (Season 2 Episode 15: "Ballad for a Ghost") - Sheriff Larson
1965: Mister Ed (Season 5 Episode 8: "What Kind of Foal Am I?") - Detective Hawkins
1965: Harum Scarum - U.S. Ambassador McCord (uncredited)
1965: The Fugitive (Season 2 Episode 28: "A.P.B.") - Sheriff
1966: The Fugitive (Season 3 Episode 19: "Echo of a Nightmare") - Al
1966: Incident at Phantom Hill - Regan's Party Guest (uncredited)
1966: The Oscar - Mr. Cole (uncredited) (final film role)

References

^ Bruce Sanders - son of Hugh Sanders and Janet Barrett
^ ^a ^b "California, County Marriages, 1850-1953", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K8D1-6LP : Thu Oct 19 16:41:02 UTC 2023), Entry for Hugh Howard William Sanders and Janet Berenice Putnam, 3 Jun 1952.
^ "United States Census, 1920", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MJCF-LWG : Wed Oct 04 20:17:40 UTC 2023), Entry for William F Sanders and Edith Sanders, 1920.
^ "Radio: Freelance Radio Actor St. L. in Jug as Thief". Variety. February 5, 1941. p. 34. ProQuest 1505763446. Howard W. Sanders, 29, a free-lance radio actor and entertainer known as Hugh Sanders was jugged by local cops last week and is said to have confessed to one burglary and six thefts of women's purses that netted him $37 in cash and two diamond rings valued at $450 since last October. [...] Sanders is on parole from a sentence of one year in the city workhouse for similar thefts in 1939. Sanders has had roles in 'The Land We Live In' series produced by KMOX for the Union Electric Co. of Missouri.
^ "United States, Social Security Numerical Identification Files (NUMIDENT), 1936-2007", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6KWS-L1BP : 10 February 2023), Hugh W Sanders, .
^ "United States Social Security Death Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JTSQ-83B : 10 January 2021), Hugh Sanders, Jan 1966; citing U.S. Social Security Administration, Death Master File, database (Alexandria, Virginia: National Technical Information Service, ongoing).
^ Arnold, Mark (2023). Stars of Walt Disney Productions. Orlando, FL: BearManor Productions. p. 1975. ISBN 979-8-88771-072-3.
^ "Hugh Sanders Weds Dayton Girl in Saturday Ritual". The Raleigh Register. April 13, 1947. p. 2. Retrieved November 27, 2023.
^ "United States Census, 1920", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MJCF-LWG : Wed Oct 04 20:17:40 UTC 2023), Entry for William F Sanders and Edith Sanders, 1920.
^ "Hugh Sanders To Marry Ohio Girl Here". Beckley Post-Herald. West Virginia, Beckley. April 11, 1947. p. 3. Retrieved May 5, 2018 – via Newspapers.com.
^ Barton, Bill (May 17, 1950). "Long-Shot Pays Off For Former Daytonian". Dayton Daily News. Ohio, Dayton. p. M - 18. Retrieved May 5, 2018 – via Newspapers.com.