Bing Russell

Bing Russell

Birthday: 1926-05-05

Deathday: 2003-04-08

Place of birth: Brattleboro, Vermont, USA

Also known as: Neil Oliver "Bing" Russell, Neil Oliver Russell, بینگ راسل

imdb_id: nm0751032

Biography:

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.

Played in movies:

Rio Bravo

Score: 7.8

The Battered Bastards of Baseball

Score: 7.5

The Magnificent Seven

Score: 7.5

Last Train from Gun Hill

Score: 7.1

How the West Was Won

Score: 7.0

The Great Impostor

Score: 6.9

The Loneliest Runner

Score: 6.9

The Horse Soldiers

Score: 6.9

Overboard

Score: 6.8

Attack

Score: 6.8

Elvis

Score: 6.8

Blackbeard's Ghost

Score: 6.7

Cheyenne Autumn

Score: 6.7

The Apple Dumpling Gang

Score: 6.6

Tango & Cash

Score: 6.5

Madame X

Score: 6.4

Now You See Him, Now You Don't

Score: 6.3

Big Leaguer

Score: 6.2

Good Day for a Hanging

Score: 6.2

Dick Tracy

Score: 6.1

The Hallelujah Trail

Score: 6.1

Yuma

Score: 6.1

The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes

Score: 6.0

A Cry in the Wilderness

Score: 6.0

Cattle Empire

Score: 6.0

Cult of the Cobra

Score: 6.0

A Taste of Evil

Score: 5.9

The Million Dollar Duck

Score: 5.8

A Gathering of Eagles

Score: 5.7

Stakeout!

Score: 5.7

Sunset

Score: 5.7

Bombers B-52

Score: 5.6

The Land Unknown

Score: 5.6

Satan's School for Girls

Score: 5.5

Teenage Thunder

Score: 5.4

Drango

Score: 5.4

Flashing Spikes

Score: 5.3

Runaway!

Score: 5.3

Journey to Shiloh

Score: 5.3

Death Sentence

Score: 5.3

A Life at Stake

Score: 5.2

The Deadly Mantis

Score: 4.9

Suicide Battalion

Score: 4.5

The Stripper

Score: 4.4

Ride a Violent Mile

Score: 4.0

One Man's Way

Score: 3.3

The Sex Symbol

Score: 2.3

Without Incident

Score: 0.0

The New Daughters of Joshua Cabe

Score: 0.0

Set This Town on Fire

Score: 0.0

Played in tv shows:

The Twilight Zone

Score: 8.5

The Twilight Zone

Score: 8.5

The Munsters

Score: 7.9

I Dream of Jeannie

Score: 7.8

The Wonderful World of Disney

Score: 7.8

Emergency!

Score: 7.8

The Andy Griffith Show

Score: 7.6

The Rockford Files

Score: 7.6

Bonanza

Score: 7.5

Bonanza

Score: 7.5

Bonanza

Score: 7.5

Bonanza

Score: 7.5

Have Gun, Will Travel

Score: 7.3

Have Gun, Will Travel

Score: 7.3

Rawhide

Score: 7.2

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

Score: 7.2

The Fugitive

Score: 7.2

The Fugitive

Score: 7.2

The Fugitive

Score: 7.2

The Fugitive

Score: 7.2

Petrocelli

Score: 7.2

The Rifleman

Score: 7.1

The Streets of San Francisco

Score: 7.0

Alias Smith and Jones

Score: 6.9

Maverick

Score: 6.9

Maverick

Score: 6.9

Maverick

Score: 6.9

Ironside

Score: 6.8

The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp

Score: 6.8

Wanted: Dead or Alive

Score: 6.8

Wanted: Dead or Alive

Score: 6.8

The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp

Score: 6.8

Ironside

Score: 6.8

Mannix

Score: 6.7

Branded

Score: 6.6

Branded

Score: 6.6

Laramie

Score: 6.6

Gunsmoke

Score: 6.6

Gunsmoke

Score: 6.6

Gunsmoke

Score: 6.6

Gunsmoke

Score: 6.6

Gunsmoke

Score: 6.6

Gunsmoke

Score: 6.6

Hondo

Score: 6.5

Letter to Loretta

Score: 6.5

Letter to Loretta

Score: 6.5

Letter to Loretta

Score: 6.5

Letter to Loretta

Score: 6.5

The Monkees

Score: 6.5

The Virginian

Score: 6.4

The Virginian

Score: 6.4

The Virginian

Score: 6.4

The Virginian

Score: 6.4

The Virginian

Score: 6.4

The Virginian

Score: 6.4

Route 66

Score: 6.3

The Guns of Will Sonnett

Score: 6.2

Science Fiction Theatre

Score: 6.2

The Guns of Will Sonnett

Score: 6.2

The Donna Reed Show

Score: 6.2

The Mod Squad

Score: 6.2

The Big Valley

Score: 6.1

The Big Valley

Score: 6.1

The Big Valley

Score: 6.1

The Big Valley

Score: 6.1

The Big Valley

Score: 6.1

The Big Valley

Score: 6.1

The Big Valley

Score: 6.1

The Big Valley

Score: 6.1

The Big Valley

Score: 6.1

Lassie

Score: 6.1

Sam Benedict

Score: 6.0

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

Score: 6.0

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

Score: 6.0

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

Score: 6.0

Stagecoach West

Score: 6.0

Black Saddle

Score: 6.0

Black Saddle

Score: 6.0

Bronco

Score: 5.9

Johnny Ringo

Score: 5.7

Stoney Burke

Score: 5.7

The Monroes

Score: 5.7

Public Defender

Score: 5.7

Ben Casey

Score: 5.6

The Texan

Score: 5.5

The Alaskans

Score: 5.5

The Outcasts

Score: 5.3

The Living Christ

Score: 5.0

Surfside 6

Score: 5.0

Sugarfoot

Score: 4.8

Sugarfoot

Score: 4.8

Tate

Score: 4.5

Navy Log

Score: 4.5

Harbor Command

Score: 4.0

Dundee and the Culhane

Score: 4.0

Arthur Hailey's The Moneychangers

Score: 2.3

The Man Called X

Score: 0.0

General Electric True

Score: 0.0