GUY WILKERSON BIOGRAPHY & FILMOGRAPHY:
Guy Wilkerson was born on December 21st, 1899 in Whitewright, Texas. He became most well known for starring in western films, where over sixty of the films he was cast in were Westerns.
He is most known for playing the character, "Panhandle Perkins" in a total of twenty two westerns between 1942 and 1945 known as the, "Texas Rangers" film series. Some of which were, "Hangmen Also Die!" (1943), "West of Texas" (1943), "Border Buckaroos" (1943) and "Trail of Terror" (1943).
His career in entertainment began working as a vaudeville performer and burlesque artist. Later in his career he also began adding other film roles such as, "The Scarlet Horseman" (1946) "Winchester '73" (1950) starring James Stewart, Stephen McNally, Shelley Winters and Dan Duryea, "The Big Sky" (1952) starring Kirk Douglas and Dewey Martin, "The Last Posse" (1953) and "True Grit" (1969) starring John Wayne and Glen Campbell.
Majority of his other film roles were un-credited, although he did also appear on such television series as, "Trackdown", "The Rifleman", "77 Sunset Strip", "The Rebel", "Laramie", "The Tallman" and "Twilight Zone".
His final role was in 1971 on the film, "The Todd Killings". Guy Wilkerson passed away on July 15th, 1971 in Hollywood, California after suffering from cancer.
Filmography
1971 The Todd Killings
1969-1971 Bonanza
1970 Monte Walsh
1970 To Rome with Love
1970 Adam-12
1969 Hello, Dolly!
1969 Mod Squad
1969 The Over-the-Hill Gang
1969 The Great Bank Robbery
1969 True Grit
1969 The Guns of Will Sonnett
1965-1968 Petticoat Junction
1967 My Three Sons
1967 Dundee and the Culhane
1967 Good Times
1952-1967 Death Valley Days
1966 Alvarez Kelly
1966 The Silencers
1965-1966 Green Acres
1965 The Legend of Jesse James
1963-1965 The Virginian
1965 Harlow
1965 Black Spurs
1965 War Party
1965 Kentucky Jones
1964 Kraft Suspense Theatre
1964 Your Cheatin' Heart
1964 The Brass Bottle
1964 The Fugitive
1959-1964 Gunsmoke
1963 The Haunted Palace
1962 To Kill a Mockingbird
1958-1962 Maverick
1962 Moon Pilot
1956-1961 Cheyenne
1961 Susan Slade
1961 Thriller
1960-1961 Stagecoach West
1961 Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color
1959-1961 Lawman
1960 Twilight Zone
1959-1960 Wanted: Dead or Alive
1960 The Case of the Dangerous Robin
1960 The Walking Target
1960 Seven Ways from Sundown
1960 The Tall Man
1960 Markham
1960 Elmer Gantry
1960 Laramie
1960 The Rebel
1960 Toby Tyler, or Ten Weeks with a Circus
1959 Bronco
1959 U.S. Marshal
1959 Hotel de Paree
1959 The FBI Story
1959 The Texan
1959 No Name on the Bullet
1959 The Rifleman
1959 The Hanging Tree
1959 77 Sunset Strip
1957-1958 Trackdown
1958 Zane Grey Theater
1958 Man of the West
1958 Wild Heritage
1958 Tombstone Territory
1958 The Jack Benny Program
1958 Cowboy
1958 Tales of Wells Fargo
1957 Decision at Sundown
1957 Band of Angels
1957 3:10 to Yuma
1957 The Buster Keaton Story
1957 Shoot-Out at Medicine Bend
1956 You Can't Run Away from It
1956 Jubal
1956 Meet Me in Las Vegas
1956 Ransom!
1955 I'll Cry Tomorrow
1955 Lucy Gallant
1955 One Desire
1955 Foxfire
1954 The Far Country
1954 Wyoming Renegades
1954 Ma and Pa Kettle at Home
1954 The Boy from Oklahoma
1954 Crime Wave
1954 Topper
1953 Take the High Ground!
1953 Those Redheads from Seattle
1953 The Man from the Alamo
1953 The Stranger Wore a Gun
1953 The Last Posse
1953 Mr. & Mrs. North
1953 All I Desire
1952 The Cisco Kid
1952 The Big Sky
1952 The Story of Will Rogers
1952 Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
1952 Scandal Sheet
1951 Drums in the Deep South
1951 Mr. Belvedere Rings the Bell
1951 Passage West
1951 Comin' Round the Mountain
1951 The Fat Man
1951 Along the Great Divide
1951 Santa Fe
1951 The Red Badge of Courage
1951 The Great Missouri Raid
1950 Stage to Tucson
1950 Mr. Music
1950 Wyoming Mail
1950 Winchester '73
1950 Return of the Frontiersman
1950 Please Believe Me
1950 A Ticket to Tomahawk
1950 Woman in Hiding
1949 Roseanna McCoy
1949 The Lone Ranger
1949 The Girl from Jones Beach
1949 Red Stallion in the Rockies
1949 The Sun Comes Up
1948 The Decision of Christopher Blake
1948 The Plunderers
1948 Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven
1948 Speed to Spare
1948 Fury at Furnace Creek
1948 Man from Texas
1947 Big Town After Dark
1947 That Hagen Girl
1947 Unconquered
1947 Danger Street
1947 The Sea of Grass
1947 The Michigan Kid
1947 California
1946 Duel in the Sun
1946 The Spider Woman Strikes Back
1946 The Scarlet Horseman
1946 Abilene Town
1945 Captain Tugboat Annie
1945 The Royal Mounted Rides Again
1945 Flaming Bullets
1945 Frontier Fugitives
1945 Three in the Saddle
1945 Enemy of the Law
1945 Marked for Murder
1944 The Whispering Skull
1944 Dead or Alive
1944 Gangsters of the Frontier
1944 Gunsmoke Mesa
1944 Brand of the Devil
1944 Spook Town
1944 The Pinto Bandit
1944 Guns of the Law
1944 Outlaw Roundup
1943 Boss of Rawhide
1943 Return of the Rangers
1943 The Unknown Guest
1943 Trail of Terror
1943 Fighting Valley
1943 Border Buckaroos
1943 West of Texas
1943 Hangmen Also Die!
1943 Bad Men of Thunder Gap
1942 The Rangers Take Over
1942 Vengeance of the West
1942 The Pride of the Yankees
1942 Beyond the Blue Horizon
1942 Juke Girl
1942 Captain Midnight
1941 Swamp Woman
1941 Birth of the Blues
1941 Spooks Run Wild
1941 Sergeant York
1940 Untamed
1939 Gone with the Wind
1939 Our Neighbors - The Carters
1939 Man of Conquest
1939 Dodge City
1938 The Cowboy and the Lady
1938 Professor Beware
1938 Kentucky Moonshine
1938 Gold Is Where You Find It
1937 Wife, Doctor and Nurse
1937 Heart of the Rockies
1937 Mountain Music
1937 Yodelin' Kid from Pine Ridge
1937 Mountain Justice
1937 Servant of the People: The Story of the Constitution of the United States
1937 Paradise Express
