Roger Ewing

{{Infobox person

|name = Roger Ewing

|image = Roger Ewing.jpg

|caption = Ewing in 1967

|birth_name = Roger Lawrence Ewing{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yXAkDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA1935|title=Television Western Players, 1960–1975: A Biographical Dictionary|page=161|first=Everett|last=Aaker|publisher=McFarland|date=May 16, 2017|isbn=9781476628561|via=Google Books}}

|birth_date = {{birth date and age|1942|01|12}}

|birth_place = Los Angeles, California, U.S.

|occupation = Film and television actor

|years_active = 1964–1972

}}

Roger Lawrence Ewing (born January 12, 1942) is an American film and television actor.{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/545310291/|title=Roger Ewing Now Gunsmoke Regular, Fan Long Time|work=The North Adams Transcript|location=North Adams, Massachusetts|date=May 14, 1966|access-date=November 21, 2021|page=18|via=Newspapers.com}} {{Closed access}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/618563042/|title=Roger Ewing Fills 'Gunsmoke' Roles|work=The Sacramento Bee|location=Sacramento, California|date=January 2, 1966|access-date=November 21, 2021|page=134|via=Newspapers.com}} {{Closed access}} He is perhaps best known for playing Thad Greenwood in the American western television series Gunsmoke.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=q3SdDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT40|title=The Gunsmoke Chronicles: A New History of Television's Greatest Western|pages=40–41|first=David|last=Greenland|publisher=BearManor Media|date=August 2013|isbn=9781593937331|via=Google Books}}

Early life

Ewing was born in Los Angeles, California in 1942.

Career

Ewing's first screen appearance was in 1964, in the film Ensign Pulver.

In 1965, Ewing guest-starred in the western television series Gunsmoke, appearing in the episode "Song for Dying". Ewing's performance impressed the producers, who offered him the role of Clayton Thaddeus "Thad" Greenwood, and he joined the regular cast. At the time, there was a contract dispute between star James Arness and CBS, and Ewing's character was created by CBS with a view to replacing Arness should they deem it necessary. By 1967 the disagreement had been resolved, and Ewing's character was written out of the show. Ewing had been a Gunsmoke fan while in high school, where he had appeared in a parody of the show.{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/5191602/roger-ewing-1966/|title=Gunsmoke Fan Hits The Target|work=The Tennessean|location=Nashville, Tennessee|date=June 26, 1966|access-date=August 14, 2022|page=88|via=Newspapers.com}} {{Open access}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/596827320/|title=Ewing is Gunsmoke fan turned actor|first=Erskine|last=Johnson|work=Kenosha News|location=Kenosha, Wisconsin|date=July 9, 1966|access-date=November 21, 2021|page=29|via=Newspapers.com}} {{Closed access}}