Dehner, John (1915)

A disc-jockey and animator before taking up acting, he brought to a plethora of usually villainous support?ing roles a laconic quality which could be inflected toward irony and even sensitivity, as well as toward hard-bitten intransigence. Most  of his  earlier  appearances  were  in routine B-features, but he later had some more expansive opportunities,  notably as one of Lee J. Cobb's gang in Man of the West. His most memorable Western role was as a sympathetic and authoritative Pat Garrett in The Left Handed Gun