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'''Tom Greenway''' (June 5, 1909 – February 8, 1985)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/175233998/tom-greenway|title=Tom Greenway|publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate=July 12, 2020}}</ref> was an [[United States|American]] character [[actor]] of [[film]] and [[television]], whose work in westerns extended from 1949 to 1965.<ref name=imdb>{{cite web|url=http://italy.imdb.com/name/nm0339281/|title=Tom Greenway|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=July 12, 2020}}</ref>
'''Tom Greenway''' (June 5, 1909 – February 8, 1985)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/175233998/tom-greenway|title=Tom Greenway|publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate=July 12, 2020}}</ref> was an [[United States|American]] character [[actor]] of [[film]] and [[television]], whose work in westerns extended from 1949 to 1965.<ref name=imdb>{{cite web|url=http://italy.imdb.com/name/nm0339281/|title=Tom Greenway|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=July 12, 2020}}</ref>
==Background==
==Background==
Greenway was born to Charles Sanford Greenway and the former Mai Radford, in Booneville in Logan County, east of [[Fort Smith, Arkansas|Fort Smith]] in western [[Arkansas]]. During [[World War II]] he served in the [[United States Army]] Air Corps as a flight engineer on a B-17 bomber. While on a mission, he was shot down and spent more than a year in [[Italy|Italian]] and [[Germany|German]] prisoner-of-war camps.<ref name=nyt>{{cite news|url=http://movies.nytimes.com/person/28597/Tom-Greenway|title=About this Person: Tom Greenway|publisher=''[[The New York Times]]''|accessdate=January 18, 2010 |author=Bosley Crowther}}</ref> Released from military service, he performed on [[Broadway]] in [[New York City]] before he moved into films. Very early in his career, he had many uncredited roles.<ref name=nyt/>
Greenway was born to Charles Sanford Greenway and the former Mai Radford, in Booneville in Logan County, east of [[Fort Smith, Arkansas|Fort Smith]] in western [[Arkansas]]. During [[World War II]] he served in the [[United States Army]] Air Corps as a flight engineer on a B-17 bomber. While on a mission, he was shot down and spent more than a year in [[Italy|Italian]] and [[Germany|German]] prisoner-of-war camps.<ref name=nyt>{{cite news|url=http://movies.nytimes.com/person/28597/Tom-Greenway|title=About this Person: Tom Greenway|publisher=''[[The New York Times]]''|accessdate=January 18, 2010 |author=Bosley Crowther}}</ref> Released from military service, he performed on [[Broadway]] in [[New York City]] before he moved into films. Very early in his career, he had many uncredited roles.<ref name=nyt/>
==Acting career==
==Acting career==
Greenway's first appearances were uncredited in two 1949 films, ''Impact'' and ''Deputy Marshal.'' Often he was cast as a law enforcement officer. He was an unnamed townsman in the 1952 Dale Robertson (1922-2013) film based on [[Bret Harte]]'s [[short story]], "The Outcasts of Poker Flat".<ref name=imdb/> Greenway later appeared in many well known films including ''North by Northwest,' ''High Noon,'' ''How the West Was Won,'' ''Peyton Place,'' and ''Who Wants to Marry a Millionaire?''
Greenway's first appearances were uncredited in two 1949 films, ''Impact'' and ''Deputy Marshal.'' Often he was cast as a law enforcement officer. He was an unnamed townsman in the 1952 Dale Robertson (1922-2013) film based on [[Bret Harte]]'s [[short story]], "The Outcasts of Poker Flat".<ref name=imdb/> Greenway later appeared in many well known films including ''North by Northwest,' ''High Noon,'' ''How the West Was Won,'' ''Peyton Place,'' and ''Who Wants to Marry a Millionaire?''