Bruce Cowling (October 30, 1919 – August 22, 1986 ) was a film and television actor in the 1940s and 1950s.
Biography Cowling was born in Coweta, Oklahoma, the son of Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Cowling. His father was a telegrapher. He grew up in Coweta and graduated from Porter High School. Later he and his parents moved to Eufaula. Cowling attended the University of Arkansas and played football there. During his summers in college he was a telegrapher, and in World War II he was a radio operator in the United States Army Signal Corps.
Cowling appeared in twenty films including Song of the Thin Man (1947), Battleground (1949), Ambush (1950), The Painted Hills (1951), Gun Belt (1953) as Virgil Earp and To Hell and Back (1955).
He voiced several characters on the Lone Ranger radio show and also made several appearances in different roles on The Loretta Young Show. He played Brady on "Have Gun Will Travel" S1 E31 "Hey Boy's Revenge" which aired 4/11/1958.
Filmography Year Title Role Notes1946 Till the Clouds Roll By Steve Baker (segment "Show Boat"), Uncredited1947 The Beginning or the End Enola Gay Ground Crewman Uncredited1947 It Happened in Brooklyn Soldier Uncredited1947 High Barbaree Captain Uncredited1947 Dark Delusion Dr. Williams Uncredited1947 The Romance of Rosy Ridge Clancy Uncredited1947 Song of the Thin Man Phil Orval Brant 1948 The Pirate Guard Uncredited1948 Command Decision Operations Officer Uncredited1949 The Stratton Story Ted Lyons 1949 Battleground Wolowicz 1950 Ambush Tom Conovan 1950 A Lady Without Passport Archer Delby James, Pilot 1950 Devil's Doorway Lt. Grimes 1951 Cause for Alarm! Dr. Ranney Grahame 1951 The Painted Hills Lin Taylor 1951 Westward the Women The Cat Uncredited1952 The Battle at Apache Pass Neil Baylor 1953 Gun Belt Virgil Earp 1954 Cannibal Attack Rovak 1954 Masterson of Kansas Wyatt Earp 1955 To Hell and Back Capt. Marks 1956 Perry Mason Joe Bradford "The Case of the Crooked Candle"
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