Bing Russell
Known for: Acting
Born: May 5, 1926
Died: April 8, 2003
Place of birth: 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.
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Filmography
53 movies · 59 TV shows, newest first
7.4
The Battered Bastards of Baseball
2014
6.2
Dick Tracy
1990
6.5
Tango & Cash
1989
5.7
Sunset
1988
6.8
Overboard
1987
6.9
Elvis
1979
7.1
The Loneliest Runner
1976
4.0
Arthur Hailey's The Moneychangers
1976
8.0
The New Daughters of Joshua Cabe
1976
6.6
The Apple Dumpling Gang
1975
5.6
Death Sentence
1974
4.0
The Sex Symbol
1974
7.6
The Rockford Files
1974
7.2
Petrocelli
1974
6.5
A Cry in the Wilderness
1974
5.7
Runaway!
1973
5.5
Satan's School for Girls
1973
7.0
Set This Town on Fire
1973
7.1
The Streets of San Francisco
1972
6.3
Now You See Him, Now You Don't
1972
8.0
Emergency!
1972
6.1
A Taste of Evil
1971
5.8
The Million Dollar Duck
1971
5.9
Yuma
1971
7.0
Alias Smith and Jones
1971
6.0
The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes
1969
6.1
The Mod Squad
1968
6.5
The Outcasts
1968
5.4
Journey to Shiloh
1968
6.7
Blackbeard's Ghost
1968
6.8
Mannix
1967
6.5
The Guns of Will Sonnett
1967
6.9
Hondo
1967
5.3
Dundee and the Culhane
1967
4.9
The Ride to Hangman's Tree
1967
6.8
Ironside
1967
6.5
The Monkees
1966
6.8
The Monroes
1966
7.4
An Eye for an Eye
1966
6.4
Madame X
1966
7.8
I Dream of Jeannie
1965
6.2
The Big Valley
1965
6.1
The Hallelujah Trail
1965
6.8
Branded
1965
6.7
Cheyenne Autumn
1964
7.9
The Munsters
1964
4.3
One Man's Way
1964
7.3
The Fugitive
1963
5.9
A Gathering of Eagles
1963
4.6
The Stripper
1963
7.0
How the West Was Won
1962
6.8
Flashing Spikes
1962
6.5
Stakeout!
1962
6.8
Stoney Burke
1962
NR
General Electric True
1962
6.5
The Virginian
1962
6.7
Sam Benedict
1962
5.9
Ben Casey
1961
6.9
The Great Impostor
1960
7.5
The Magnificent Seven
1960
6.7
Route 66
1960
6.3
Surfside 6
1960
6.7
Stagecoach West
1960
7.6
The Andy Griffith Show
1960
5.4
Tate
1960
6.7
The Alaskans
1959
8.5
The Twilight Zone
1959
5.9
Johnny Ringo
1959
6.7
Laramie
1959
7.5
Bonanza
1959
7.1
Last Train from Gun Hill
1959
6.9
The Horse Soldiers
1959
7.8
Rio Bravo
1959
6.2
Black Saddle
1959
7.2
Rawhide
1959
6.4
Good Day for a Hanging
1959
7.1
The Rifleman
1958
6.0
The Texan
1958
6.5
The Donna Reed Show
1958
6.0
Bronco
1958
7.0
Wanted: Dead or Alive
1958
6.2
Cattle Empire
1958
6.3
Suicide Battalion
1958
5.3
Ride a Violent Mile
1957
5.8
Bombers B-52
1957
5.7
The Land Unknown
1957
4.0
Harbor Command
1957
7.0
Maverick
1957
5.1
Sugarfoot
1957
7.3
Have Gun, Will Travel
1957
NR
Without Incident
1957
7.0
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
1957
5.0
The Deadly Mantis
1957
5.6
Drango
1957
6.0
Teenage Thunder
1957
6.2
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
1956
6.8
Attack
1956
10.0
The Man Called X
1956
5.2
Navy Log
1955
6.7
Gunsmoke
1955
6.8
The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
1955
6.3
Science Fiction Theatre
1955
6.0
Cult of the Cobra
1955
5.3
A Life at Stake
1955
7.9
The Wonderful World of Disney
1954
6.3
Lassie
1954
6.3
Public Defender
1954
6.6
Letter to Loretta
1953
7.3
Big Leaguer
1953
6.0
You Are There
1953
7.2
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951
5.7
The Living Christ
1951