'WW2 Navajo Indian Code Talker' 'One of the Original 29'

Actor - Boots & Saddles, Gunslinger, True Grit, Gunsmoke (12). Small parts in mostly Westerns & crime dramas (1936-1987). He was almost cast as Marshal Dillon in Gunsmoke until the producer later acknowledged that he floundered a love scene with Kitty