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==Background==

==Background==

Born '''Russell Clarence Zink''' in Brandon in the province of [[Manitoba]], Conway earned a bachelor's degree in 1937 from the [[University of California, Los Angeles]]. Years later, he procured a master's degree in theatre arts from UCLA as well as teaching credentials.<ref name=lat>{{cite web|url=http://groups.google.com/group/alt.obituaries/browse_thread/thread/4dbfd7b84f6e0b30|title=Actor, Russell Zink, 95 - Played father in 'The Hardy  

Born '''Russell Clarence Zink''' in Brandon in the province of [[Manitoba]], Conway earned a bachelor's degree in 1937 from the [[University of California, Los Angeles]]. Years later, he procured a master's degree in theatre arts from UCLA as well as teaching credentials.<ref name=lat>{{cite web|url=http://groups.google.com/group/alt.obituaries/browse_thread/thread/4dbfd7b84f6e0b30|title=Actor, Russell Zink, 95 - Played father in 'The Hardy  

Boys'|publisher=''[[Los Angeles Times]]''|title=Russ Conway obituary|accessdate=October 30, 2019}}</ref>​

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During [[World War II]], he served in the [[United States Army]], attached to the Special Services entertainment unit. For several months, he was entertainment director at the since defunct Fort Ord on Monterey Bay in [[California]] before he was sent to the [[Philippines]] and then [[Japan]]. He worked as a producer and announcer for Armed Forces Radio.<ref name=lat/>​

During [[World War II]], he served in the [[United States Army]], attached to the Special Services entertainment unit. For several months, he was entertainment director at the since defunct Fort Ord on Monterey Bay in [[California]] before he was sent to the [[Philippines]] and then [[Japan]]. He worked as a producer and announcer for Armed Forces Radio.<ref name=lat/>​

 

==Early roles==​

==Early roles==​

At first, he had uncredited roles in some two dozen motion pictures from 1947 to 1953, beginning as a medic in ''Buck Privates Come Home.'' He played the role of Quintus Seabury in the film, ''Flamingo Road.'' He appeared in ''If I Was a Male War Bride,'' ''Calamity Jane and Sam Bass'' about frontier characters [[Calamity Jane|Martha Jane Cannary]] and the bandit Sam Bass (1851-1878), ''Twelve O'Clock High.'' ''Ma and Pa Kettle on Vacation,'' and the 1952 film, ''The Outcasts of Poker Flat, based on a Bret Harte [[short story]] of the same name.<ref name=imdb>{{cite web|url=http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0176773/|title=Russ Conway|publisher=Internet Movie Database|accessdate=October 30, 2019}}</ref>​

At first, Conway had uncredited roles in some two dozen motion pictures from 1947 to 1953, beginning as a medic in ''Buck Privates Come Home.'' He played the role of Quintus Seabury in the film, ''Flamingo Road.'' He appeared in ''If I Was a Male War Bride,'' ''Calamity Jane and Sam Bass'' about frontier characters [[Calamity Jane|Martha Jane Cannary]] and the bandit Sam Bass (1851-1878), ''Twelve O'Clock High.'' ''Ma and Pa Kettle on Vacation,'' and the 1952 film, ''The Outcasts of Poker Flat, based on a Bret Harte [[short story]] of the same name.<ref name=imdb>{{cite web|url=http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0176773/|title=Russ Conway|publisher=Internet Movie Database|accessdate=October 30, 2019}}</ref>

 

Though most of his work after 1953 was on television, Conway also appeared in notable films. He was [[Elvis Presley]]'s friend Ed Galt in Presley's 1956 screen debut ''[[Love Me Tender]].'' He also played the police officer who discovered [[Joan Crawford]]'s body on the beach at the end of ''What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?'' (1962). He played the Reverend Bethany in the 1953 film, ''The War of the Worlds.''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://monsterkidclassichorrorforum.yuku.com/topic/21367/t/Russ-Conway.html|title=''Russ Conway: Final Farewells''|publisher=Monster Kid Classic Horror Forum|accessdate=March 7, 2009}}</ref>​

Though most of his work after 1953 was on television, Conway also appeared in notable films. He was [[Elvis Presley]]'s friend Ed Galt in Presley's 1956 screen debut ''[[Love Me Tender]].'' He also played the police officer who discovered [[Joan Crawford]]'s body on the beach at the end of ''What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?'' (1962). He played the Reverend Bethany in the 1953 film, ''The War of the Worlds.''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://monsterkidclassichorrorforum.yuku.com/topic/21367/t/Russ-Conway.html|title=''Russ Conway: Final Farewells''|publisher=Monster Kid Classic Horror Forum|accessdate=March 7, 2009}}</ref>​

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In 1969, Conway played Maxy Parker, bewildered father of the rebellious 16-year-old George Leroy Parker (Michael Margotta), in the syndicated series, ''Death Valley Days,'' then hosted by Robert Taylor not long before Taylor's own death. Young Parker leaves home in search of riotous living, first in [[Salt Lake City]], [[Utah]]. He takes the name [[Butch Cassidy]] from an older rustler acquaintance, Mike Cassidy  (Tony Russel). The episode aired the same year as the popular [[Paul Newman]] and [[Robert Redford]] film, ''[[Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0959695/?ref_=tt_ep_nx|title=Drop Out on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Database|date=April 25, 1969|accessdate=July 16, 2015}}</ref>​

In 1969, Conway played Maxy Parker, bewildered father of the rebellious 16-year-old George Leroy Parker (Michael Margotta), in the syndicated series, ''Death Valley Days,'' then hosted by Robert Taylor not long before Taylor's own death. Young Parker leaves home in search of riotous living, first in [[Salt Lake City]], [[Utah]]. He takes the name [[Butch Cassidy]] from an older rustler acquaintance, Mike Cassidy  (Tony Russel). The episode aired the same year as the popular [[Paul Newman]] and [[Robert Redford]] film, ''[[Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0959695/?ref_=tt_ep_nx|title=Drop Out on ''Death Valley Days''|publisher=Internet Movie Database|date=April 25, 1969|accessdate=July 16, 2015}}</ref>​

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==Dramatic roles==

==Dramatic roles==

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