Spacemens Luck

 

Where Tom Corbett, Captain Video, CMDR Corry and Other Spacemen Still Live

Actor Richard Crane Played Rocky Jones, Space Ranger

Space Travel Hero Role: Rocky Jones, Space Ranger

Played by Richard Crane, Rocky was the quintessential action hero – brave, strong, handsome, highly moral, and always ready to defend his beliefs with action. To the women of the stories he was irresistible, even to arch villainess Cleolanta, but there were no kisses or other physical displays.

The show was based on the exploits of the clean-cut, square-jawed Rocky Jones, the best known of the Space Rangers. The Space Rangers were Earth-based space policemen who patrolled the United Worlds of the Solar System in the not-too-distant future.

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Classic Space Travel Actor Peter Graves

Space Travel Hero Role: 1950′s Actor for Science Fiction and Classic Space Travel Movies.

What They Are Doing Today:
Peter Graves passed away this past week on 14 March 2010 at the age of 83 in Pacific Palisades, California. Peter Graves died of an apparent heart attack. A legendary actor of 1950′s SciFi and classic Space Travel Movies is with us no more.

Space Travel Bio:
Peter (Aurness) Graves born 1926 in Minneapolis, Minnesota was the younger brother of James (Aurness) Arness himself a Classic Space Travel actor as the alien from 1951′s The Thing from Another World, and long time actor of Televisions Marshall Matt Dillon of Gunsmoke. Peter (Aurness) Graves took his grandfather’s name (Graves) to cut down on the confusion between him and his older brother.

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Space Patrol Show Logo

Space Travel Hero Role: Television and Radio series Space Patrol as “Buzz Corry” Commander in Chief of the Space Patrol

What They Are Doing Today: Ed Kimmer passed away on November 09, 2004 age 84 in New York City, New York

Ed Kemmer, who played Commander “Buzz” Corry, Commander in Chief of the Space Patrol, in the popular ABC 1950′s sci-fi television and radio show Space Patrol.

Space Patrol chronicled the adventures of Commander “Buzz” Corry, who fought intergalactic villains of the 30th century while flying around in the Space Patrols Terra V spacecraft with comic sidekick, Cadet Happy, played by Lyn Osborn.

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Tom Corbett Space Cadet Show Logo

Space Travel Hero Role: Television and Radio series “Tom Corbett, Space Cadet” 1950 – 1955. Fifty years after the series ended, he was still making personal appearances as a result of that role.

What They Are Doing Today: Tom passed away on May 11, 2006 at age 85 only a few weeks before he was to appear as a special guest at the 2006 Worldcon in Los Angeles (LA Con IV).

Biography
Frankie Thomas began acting on Broadway in the early 1930′s and soon went to Hollywood, where he appeared in films including Tim Tyler’s Luck (1937 serial), Boys Town (1938), the Dead End Kids at Military School (1939), Flying Cadets (1941) and The Major and the Minor (1942) as well as four Nancy Drew movies.

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