Joshua Bryant
{{Short description|American actor, director and author (1940–2024)}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=December 2022}}
{{for|Arkansas politician|Joshua P. Bryant}}
{{infobox person
| name = Joshua Bryant
| image =
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| birth_date = {{birth date|1940|7|02}}
| birth_place = Norfolk, Virginia, U.S.
| death_date = {{death date and age|2024|06|25|1940|7|02}}
| death_place = Maisonnais-sur-Tardoire, France
| othername = Josh Bryant
| birth_name = Joseph Bryant
| occupation = Actor, director, author, speaker
| yearsactive = 1968–2024
| spouse = {{marriage|Melinda Mullins|2005}}
}}
Joshua Bryant (born Joseph Bryant; July 2, 1940 – June 25, 2024) was an American actor, director, author, and speaker who was the founder of the Taos Talking Pictures Film Festival in Taos, New Mexico.{{cite news |last1=Romancito |first1=Rick |title=The End ; Taos Talking Pictures Founder Josh Bryant Has a Final Word |work=Taos News |publisher=The Santa Fe New Mexican |date=March 13, 2008}}
Early life and education
Bryant was born in Norfolk, Virginia. After attending the Pasadena Playhouse College of Theater Arts and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London and serving for three years in the Signal Corps, he began a career in the theater that eventually led to his guest-starring in several television shows.{{cite web |title=Joshua Bryant |url=https://joshuabryant.fr/ |website=joshuabryant.fr |access-date=December 13, 2022}}
Career
Bryant's movie credits have included acting roles in films and television movies, such as The Curious Female (1970), Black Noon (1971), Enter the Devil (1972), A Scream in the Streets (1973), The Morning After (1974), Trapped Beneath the Sea (1974), Framed (1975), The Night That Panicked America (1975), Maneaters Are Loose! (1978), Salem's Lot (1979), First Monday in October (1981), Gone Are the Dayes (1984), The Education of Allison Tate (1986), and Project Eliminator (1991) He was also active in television, including guest roles on Columbo, Kojak, Little House on the Prairie, M*A*S*H (three episodes), The Rockford Files (four episodes), The Mary Tyler Moore Show and Barnaby Jones (four episodes).{{Cite book |last1=Solomonson |first1=Ed |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=e6ezCgAAQBAJ&dq=Joshua+Bryant+actor&pg=PA172-IA27 |title=TV's M*A*S*H: The Ultimate Guide Book |last2=O’Neill |first2=Mark |publisher=BearManor Media |language=en}}
For four years, Bryant hosted the syndicated series, Game Warden Wildlife Journal.{{cite news |title=Game Show |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Lh0DAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA17 |access-date=December 12, 2022 |work=Indianapolis Monthly |publisher=Emmis Communications |date=July 1999 |language=en}}
Personal life and death
In June 2018, Bryant told Le Populaire du Centre newspaper that he had decided to leave the United States with his wife, Melinda Mullins, if the Bush administration invaded Iraq. In response to the 2003 invasion of Iraq, Bryant and his wife organized or sold all their property and relocated to the Limousin region of France.{{cite news |title=Pourquoi Joshua Bryant, acteur d'Hollywood et Melinda Mullins, actrice newyorkaise, ont choisi la Haute-Vienne |lang=fr |trans-title=Why Hollywood actor Joshua Bryant and New York actress Melinda Mullins chose Haute-Vienne |first=Muriel |last=Mingau |date=June 9, 2018 |newspaper=Le Populaire du Centre |url=https://www.lepopulaire.fr/limoges/loisirs/art-litterature/2018/06/29/pourquoi-joshua-bryant-acteur-d-hollywood-et-melinda-mullins-actrice-newyorkaise-ont-choisi-la-haute-vienne_12899855.html |access-date=February 27, 2022 |quote=En 2003, nous ... avons affirmé : si le gouvernement Bush envahit l’Irak, nous quitterons les Etats-Unis. Evidemment, nous ne pensions que cela n’arriverait pas. ... Il nous a fallu quatre ans pour nous organiser, vendre ce que nous avions. |trans-quote=In 2003, we ... said: If the Bush administration invades Iraq, we will leave the United States. Obviously, we didn't think that would happen. But on March 20, 2003, war on Iraq was declared. ... It took us four years to get organized, to sell what we had.}}
Bryant died in Maisonnais-sur-Tardoire, France on June 25, 2024, at the age of 83. He was survived by his wife, Melinda Mullins.{{Cite web|last=Romancito|first=Rick|url=https://www.taosnews.com/tempo/film/taos-talking-pictures-founder-joshua-bryant-dies/article_8a059440-37cd-11ef-9dfa-aff048ebbb76.html|title=Taos Talking Pictures founder Joshua Bryant dies|date=July 1, 2024|access-date=January 4, 2025|website=Taos News|language=En-US}} https://www.libramemoria.com/defunts/bryant-jr-joseph/99e6ae30811240bdb4f041c8ec1c4895
Filmography
= Film =
class="wikitable sortable"
|+ ! Year ! Title ! Role ! Notes |
1970
| The Curious Female | Dr. Tower | |
1972
| Enter the Devil | Glenn | |
1973
| Officer Ed Haskell | |
1975
| Framed | Andrew Ney | |
1981
| Bill Russell | |
1986
| The Education of Allison Tate | Richard Tate | |
1991
| Project Eliminator | Dr. Markson | |
= Television =
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! Year ! Title ! Role ! Notes |
1968
| Lieutenant | Episode: "Fool's Gold" |
1968
| Lieutenant | Episode: "The Night Riders" |
1969
| Gunsmoke | Young | Episode: "Twisted Heritage" |
1970
| Eben | Episode: "The Last Winter" |
1970
| Lester Mzarek | Episode: "In the Eyes of God" |
1970
| Stefan | Episode: "Decoy" |
1970, 1974
| Mannix | Ed Pryor / Paul Russell | 2 episodes |
1971
| Mr. Thomas | Episode: "The Barber Shop" |
1971
| Towhead | Television film |
1971
| Eliot Blackman | Episode: "Pickman's Model" |
1971
| Brother Zachary | Episode: "Brother Zachary" |
1971–1973
| Ironside | rowspan="2" | Various roles | rowspan="2" | 3 episodes |
1971–1976
| Cannon |
1972
| Anton Styrokowski (Sandy) | Episode: "Baby Sit-Com" |
1972
| Harold / Lester | Episode: "Love and the Sensuous Twin" |
1972
| Search | Air Reservationist | Episode: "Moonrock" |
1972
| Mr. Bodine | Episode: "Women" |
1973
| The Doctor | Episode: "Death's Head" |
1973
| Carney | Episode: "Memory of a Legend" |
1973
| Me | Rick | Television film |
1973
| Roll Out | Sgt. Briggs | Episode: "No Wages: All Fear" |
1974
| Dr. Emmett | Television film |
1974
| Kojak | Simon Hecht | Episode: "The Only Way Out" |
1974
| The Streets of San Francisco | Dr. Benjamin Blakely | Episode: "I Ain't Marchin' Anymore" |
1974
| Sam Wallants | Television film |
1974, 1976
| Columbo | Wayne Taylor / Dr. MacMurray | 2 episodes |
1974–1979
| rowspan="2" | Various roles | rowspan="2" | 4 episodes |
1974–1980 |
1975
| The Night That Panicked America | Television film |
1975
| Bub Stuart | Episode: "Murder on the Run" |
1976
| Paul Andrews | Episode: "Any Number Can Die" |
1976
| Duncan | Episode: "The Parting Shot" |
1976
| Bill Kelly | Episode: "The Crop Duster" |
1976
| Sgt. Rainey | rowspan="2" | 2 episodes |
1976, 1981
| Insight | Jim / Walter |
1977
| Switch | Stafford Hayes | Episode: "The Snitch" |
1977
| Dr. Doug Berkley | Episode: "Man from Atlantis" |
1977
| Jerry Tabor | Episode: "Long Walk Down a Short Dirt Road" |
1977
| Andrew | Episode: "The Kansas City Kid" |
1977
| Washington | Episode: "The Judas Bug" |
1977
| Rafferty | Robert Cardler | Episode: "The Epidemic" |
1977
| Visions | Dr. Rosen | Episode: "The Dancing Bear" |
1977
| Jack Plymouth | Episode: "Lost and Found/The Understudy/Married Singles" |
1977
| Hunter | Pohlman | Episode: "U.F.M. 13" |
1977, 1978
| Adam Simms | 2 episodes |
1978
| Joe Boyd | Episode: "When Does a War End?" |
1978
| Killing Stone | Harold Rizzi | rowspan="2" | Television film |
1978
| Maneaters Are Loose! | Tom Purcell |
1978
| Dallas | Peter Larson | Episode: "Election" |
1978, 1980
| CHiPs | Arthur Holmes / Benson | 2 episodes |
1979
| Married: The First Year | Michael Huffman | Episode: "The Married Machine" |
1979
| Ted Petrie | 2 episodes |
1979
| M*A*S*H | Jack Scully | 3 episodes |
1979, 1984
| Dan Wilmott / Paul Villon | 2 episodes |
1981
| Walt Liebowitz | Episode: "Goals" |
1981
| Gerry Holmby | Episode: "Pilot" |
1982
| Busted Bill Sharples | Episode: "Dateline: Sweetwater" |
1982
| Larry Wilson | 2 episodes |
1982
| Director | Episode: "Three for the Road" |
1982
| To Climb a Mountain | John Novak | Television film |
1982
| Keeler | Episode: "Foiled Again" |
1982
| Wait Until Dark | Mike Talman | Television film |
1983
| Martin Ragland | Episode: "36 Hours" |
1983
| Secrets of a Mother and Daughter | Barry | Television film |
1983
| Jim Baker | Episode: "The White Ballot" |
1984
| Riptide | Dr. Robert Atkins | Episode: "The Hardcase" |
1984
| Fred Cooper | Television film |
1985
| Colonel Glendon | Episode: "The Geronimo Machine" |
1985
| Wildside | Pike | Episode: "Delinquency of a Miner" |
1986
| Dr. Bond Stevens | Episode: "Out on a Limb" |
1986
| News at Eleven | Martin Kent | Television film |
1986
| Prosecutor | Miniseries |
1986
| Matlock | Dave Edwards | Episode: "The Seduction" |
1986
| Sam the Vet | Episode: "The Thanksgiving Promise" |
1987
| Starman | Wayne Geffner | 2 episodes |
1987
| Billy | Episode: "First You've Got to Go to the Picnic" |
1987
| Metzger | Episode: "Yankee Boodle Dandy" |
1989
| Caz | Episode: "Summer Camp" |
1989
| L.A. Law | Dr. Gregory Stark | Episode: "Lie Down and Deliver" |
1992
| Mr. Farley | Episode: "Chi è Mr. Josephs?" |
2001
| Harry | Episode: "Thief of Hearts" |
2005
| Episode: "Hell on Wheels" |
2006
| Art O'Dougherty | Episode: "The Comb and the Box" |
2008
| Wildfire | Dr. Ronald | 2 episodes |
References
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External links
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Category:American male television actors
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