Bing Russell
Acting
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.
The Battered Bastards of Baseball
Himself (Archive Footage)
Dick Tracy
Club Ritz Patron
Tango & Cash
Van Driver
Sunset
Studio Guard
Overboard
Elk Cove: Sheriff Earl
Elvis
Vernon Presley
The Loneliest Runner
Fred Dawkins
The New Daughters of Joshua Cabe
The Apple Dumpling Gang
Herm Dally
Death Sentence
Trooper
The Sex Symbol
Public Relations Man
A Cry in the Wilderness
Mr. Griffey
Runaway!
Fireman
Satan's School for Girls
Sheriff
Set This Town on Fire
Chuck
Now You See Him, Now You Don't
Alfred
A Taste of Evil
Sheriff
The Million Dollar Duck
Mr. Smith
Yuma
Rol King (as Neil Russell)
The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes
Angelo
Journey to Shiloh
Greybeard
Blackbeard's Ghost
Second Track Meet Official
Madame X
Sergeant Riley
The Hallelujah Trail
Horner
Cheyenne Autumn
Braden's Telegraph Operator (uncredited)
One Man's Way
Tom Rayburn
A Gathering of Eagles
Captain (uncredited)
The Stripper
Mr. Mulvaney
How the West Was Won
Man (uncredited)
Flashing Spikes
Hogan
Stakeout!
Joe
The Great Impostor
Morgan (uncredited)
The Magnificent Seven
Robert
Last Train from Gun Hill
Skag, Belden Hand
The Horse Soldiers
Dunker, Yankee Soldier Amputee
Rio Bravo
Cowboy Murdered in Saloon (uncredited)
Good Day for a Hanging
George Fletcher
Cattle Empire
Douglas Hamilton
Suicide Battalion
Lt. Chet Hall
Ride a Violent Mile
Corporal Norman
Bombers B-52
Operator (uncredited)
The Land Unknown
Radio Operator (uncredited)
Without Incident
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
Harry - Griffin Bartender (uncredited)
The Deadly Mantis
State Trooper
Teenage Thunder
Used-Car Salesman
Drango
Lieutenant with Supply Wagon
Attack
Medic
Cult of the Cobra
A Life at Stake
Bartender (uncredited)
Big Leaguer