Bing Russell
Acting
1926-05-05 · Brattleboro, Vermont, USA
Neil Oliver "Bing" Russell (May 5, 1926 – April 8, 2003) was an American actor and Class A minor-league baseball club owner. He was the father of Hollywood actor Kurt Russell. Although best known as the deputy on Bonanza (1959) and Robert in The Magnificent Seven (1960), Russell's was also well known on a national level as the owner of the Portland Mavericks Baseball Club. Helming the only independent team in the class A Northwest League, Russell was an innovator. Before Bull Durham (1988), there were the Mavericks. Russell kept a 30 man roster because he believed that some of the players deserved to have one last season. His motto was simply one three lettered word - not WIN - although the Mavericks did just that - no, the word was FUN. He created a park that kept all corporate sponsorship outside the gates, hired the first female general manager in professional baseball, and the following year hired the first Asian American GM/Manager. That same season his team set a record for the highest attendance in Minor league history, and went on to win the pennant. Ex-major leaguers and never-weres who couldn't stop playing the game flocked to his June tryouts, which were always open to anyone that showed up. From as far away as Capetown, and France, players would head to Portland for a chance with Russell's Mavericks.
Filmography
The Battered Bastards of Baseball
2014 · Movie
Dick Tracy
1990 · Movie
Tango & Cash
1989 · Movie
Sunset
1988 · Movie
Overboard
1987 · Movie
Elvis
1979 · Movie
The Loneliest Runner
1976 · Movie
Arthur Hailey's The Moneychangers
1976 · Series
The New Daughters of Joshua Cabe
1976 · Movie
The Apple Dumpling Gang
1975 · Movie
Death Sentence
1974 · Movie
The Sex Symbol
1974 · Movie
The Rockford Files
1974 · Series
Petrocelli
1974 · Series
A Cry in the Wilderness
1974 · Movie
Runaway!
1973 · Movie
Satan's School for Girls
1973 · Movie
Set This Town on Fire
1973 · Movie
The Streets of San Francisco
1972 · Series
Now You See Him, Now You Don't
1972 · Movie
Emergency!
1972 · Series
A Taste of Evil
1971 · Movie
The Million Dollar Duck
1971 · Movie
Yuma
1971 · Movie
Alias Smith and Jones
1971 · Series
The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes
1969 · Movie
The Mod Squad
1968 · Series
The Outcasts
1968 · Series
Journey to Shiloh
1968 · Movie
Blackbeard's Ghost
1968 · Movie
Mannix
1967 · Series
The Guns of Will Sonnett
1967 · Series
Hondo
1967 · Series
Dundee and the Culhane
1967 · Series
The Ride to Hangman's Tree
1967 · Movie
Ironside
1967 · Series
The Monkees
1966 · Series
The Monroes
1966 · Series
An Eye for an Eye
1966 · Movie
Madame X
1966 · Movie
I Dream of Jeannie
1965 · Series
The Big Valley
1965 · Series
The Hallelujah Trail
1965 · Movie
Branded
1965 · Series
Cheyenne Autumn
1964 · Movie
The Munsters
1964 · Series
One Man's Way
1964 · Movie
The Fugitive
1963 · Series
A Gathering of Eagles
1963 · Movie
The Stripper
1963 · Movie
How the West Was Won
1962 · Movie
Flashing Spikes
1962 · Movie
Stoney Burke
1962 · Series
Stakeout!
1962 · Movie
General Electric True
1962 · Series
The Virginian
1962 · Series
Sam Benedict
1962 · Series
Ben Casey
1961 · Series
The Great Impostor
1960 · Movie
The Magnificent Seven
1960 · Movie
Route 66
1960 · Series
Surfside 6
1960 · Series
Stagecoach West
1960 · Series
The Andy Griffith Show
1960 · Series
Tate
1960 · Series
The Alaskans
1959 · Series
The Twilight Zone
1959 · Series
Johnny Ringo
1959 · Series
Laramie
1959 · Series
Bonanza
1959 · Series
Last Train from Gun Hill
1959 · Movie
The Horse Soldiers
1959 · Movie
Rio Bravo
1959 · Movie
Black Saddle
1959 · Series
Rawhide
1959 · Series
Good Day for a Hanging
1959 · Movie
The Rifleman
1958 · Series
The Texan
1958 · Series
The Donna Reed Show
1958 · Series
Bronco
1958 · Series
Wanted: Dead or Alive
1958 · Series
Cattle Empire
1958 · Movie
Suicide Battalion
1958 · Movie
Ride a Violent Mile
1957 · Movie
Bombers B-52
1957 · Movie
The Land Unknown
1957 · Movie
Harbor Command
1957 · Series
Maverick
1957 · Series
Sugarfoot
1957 · Series
Have Gun, Will Travel
1957 · Series
Without Incident
1957 · Movie
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
1957 · Movie
The Deadly Mantis
1957 · Movie
Drango
1957 · Movie
Teenage Thunder
1957 · Movie
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
1956 · Series
Attack
1956 · Movie
The Man Called X
1956 · Series
Navy Log
1955 · Series
Gunsmoke
1955 · Series
The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
1955 · Series
Science Fiction Theatre
1955 · Series
Cult of the Cobra
1955 · Movie
A Life at Stake
1955 · Movie
The Wonderful World of Disney
1954 · Series
Lassie
1954 · Series
Public Defender
1954 · Series
Letter to Loretta
1953 · Series
Big Leaguer
1953 · Movie
You Are There
1953 · Series
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951 · Series
The Living Christ
1951 · Series