William Lundigan

William Lundigan was an American film actor. His films include Dodge City , The Fighting 69th , The Sea Hawk , Santa Fe Trail , Dishonored Lady , Pinky , Love Nest with Marilyn Monroe, The House on Telegraph Hill , I'd Climb the Highest Mountain and Inferno . The oldest of four sons, Lundigan's father owned a shoe store in the same building as a local radio station. Fascinated by radio, he was playing child roles on radio and producing radio plays at sixteen. He studied law at Syracuse University, earning money as a radio announcer. A Universal Pictures production chief heard Lundigan's... voice, met him, arranged a screen test and signed him to a motion picture contract in 1937. Moving over to MGM, Lundigan's last film before enlisting in the U.S. Marine Corps was Salute to the Marines. He served as a combat cameraman in the Battle of Peleliu and the Battle of Okinawa returning at war's end as a Corporal. From September 30, 1959, to September 7, 1960, Lundigan portrayed Col. Edward McCauley in the CBS television series, Men Into Space.
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