Stephen McNally

Stephen McNally was born Horace McNally in New York City. McNally attended Fordham University School of Law and was an attorney in the late 1930s before he pursued his passion for acting.{{cite news|title=News and Comment Of Stage and Screen|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/2492502/fitchburg_sentinel/|newspaper=Fitchburg Sentinel|date=November 19, 1940|page=5|via=Newspapers.com|accessdate=May 26, 2015}} {{Open access}}

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He started his stage career using his real name, Horace McNally. He was signed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1942 and cast in supporting roles. His first juvenile lead was as a newspaper editor in the Laurel and Hardy comedy Air Raid Wardens (1943). He remained with MGM, always billed as Horace McNally, until 1946.

In 1948, he changed his stage name to Stephen McNally (taking the name of his then-2-year-old son){{cite news|last1=Carroll|first1=Harrison|title=Hollywood|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/2492387/the_evening_independent/|newspaper=The Evening Independent|date=April 23, 1948|page=4|via = Newspapers.com|accessdate = May 26, 2015}} {{Open access}} and signed with Warner Bros. He played the villainous Locky McCormick in the film version of Johnny Belinda (1948).{{cite news|last1=Sheaffer|first1=Lew|title=Screen|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/2492793/the_brooklyn_daily_eagle/|newspaper=Brooklyn Eagle|date=October 2, 1948|page=14|via = Newspapers.com|accessdate = May 26, 2015}} {{Open access}} (He had played Dr. Richardson in the Broadway stage version, in 1940.)[https://catalog.afi.com/Catalog/moviedetails/25600 AFI American Film Institute]{{cite news|title='Johnny Belinda' Gets New Blood|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/2492701/the_brooklyn_daily_eagle/|newspaper=The Brooklyn Daily Eagle|date=August 30, 1940|page=9|via = Newspapers.com|accessdate = May 26, 2015}} {{Open access}}

He appeared in Winchester '73 (1950) and co-starred in Criss Cross (1949). Notable 1950s films included No Way Out (1950), Split Second (1953), Violent Saturday (1955) and Johnny Rocco (1958).

McNally was cast in three episodes of the ABC religion anthology series Crossroads. He portrayed Monsigneur Harold Engle in "Ringside Padre" (1956) and Father Flanagan of the Boys Town orphanage in Nebraska in "Convict 1321, Age 21" (1957). In between, he was cast as United States Army General George S. Patton, in "The Patton Prayer" (also 1957). McNally also appeared in the episode "Specimen: Unknown" from the anthology series The Outer Limits. He co-starred on the 1958 episode, "The Ben Courtney Story" on Wagon Train as a former Union soldier turned sheriff. In 1959, he portrayed Clay Thompson, a bounty hunter, with Myron Healey as a sheriff, in the CBS Western series, The Texan.

In the 1960 episode "The Mormons" on the CBS Western, Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre McNally played Matt Rowland, who tries to block a wagon train of Mormons from entering his town, as they are suspected of carrying cholera. Things change quickly, when Rowland's son, Tod (Mark Goddard), becomes interested in a young lady on the train, Beth Lawson (Tuesday Weld).{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0754314/|title=The Mormons on Zane Grey Theatre|publisher=Internet Movie Database|accessdate=December 2, 2018}}

In 1967, he started as Dal Neely, a murderous outlaw who tries to take his daughter away with him in the (S12E23) episode "The Lure" on Gunsmoke. In 1971, he appeared as Gus Muller in "The Men From Shiloh" (rebranded name for the TV Western The Virginian) in the episode titled "The Angus Killer". During the 1970s, McNally guest starred on television programs such as Fantasy Island, Starsky & Hutch, Charlie's Angels, The Rockford Files, and Police Story.

McNally died of heart failure June 4, 1994, at age 82, at his home in Beverly Hills, California. He and his wife, Rita, had eight children.{{cite news|title=Stephen McNally, 82, Actor in Villain Roles|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/06/11/obituaries/stephen-mcnally-82-actor-in-villain-roles.html|accessdate=May 27, 2015|newspaper=The New York Times|date=June 11, 1994|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140514094442/http://www.nytimes.com/1994/06/11/obituaries/stephen-mcnally-82-actor-in-villain-roles.html |archive-date=May 14, 2014}}

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• Grand Central Murder (1942) – 'Turk'
• The War Against Mrs. Hadley (1942) – Peters
• Eyes in the Night (1942) – Gabriel Hoffman
• For Me and My Gal (1942) – Mr. Waring
• Dr. Gillespie's New Assistant (1942) – Howard Allwinn Young
• Keeper of the Flame (1942) – Freddie Ridges
• Air Raid Wardens (1943) – Dan Madison
• The Man from Down Under (1943) – 'Dusty' Rhodes
• An American Romance (1944) – Teddy Roosevelt Dangos / Narrator
• Thirty Seconds over Tokyo (1944) – 'Doc' White
• Dangerous Partners (1945) – Co-pilot
• Bewitched (1945) – Eric Russell
• The Harvey Girls (1946) – 'Goldust' McClean
• Up Goes Maisie (1946) – Tim Kingby
• Magnificent Doll (1946) – John Todd
• Johnny Belinda (1948) – Locky McCormick
• Rogues' Regiment (1948) – Carl Reicher
• Criss Cross (1949) – Pete Ramirez
• City Across the River (1949) – Stan Albert
• The Lady Gambles (1949) – Horace Corrigan
• Sword in the Desert (1949) – David Vogel
• Woman in Hiding (1950) – Selden Clark IV
• Winchester '73 (1950) – Dutch Henry Brown
• No Way Out (1950) – Dr. Dan Wharton
• Wyoming Mail (1950) – Steve Davis
• Air Cadet (1951) – Major Jack Page
• Apache Drums (1951) – Sam Leeds
• Iron Man (1951) – George Mason
• The Lady Pays Off (1951) – Matt Braddock
• The Raging Tide (1951) – Lieutenant Kelsey
• Diplomatic Courier (1952) – Colonel Mark Cagle
• The Duel at Silver Creek (1952) – Marshal Lightning Tyrone
• Battle Zone (1952) – Sergeant Mitch Turner
• The Black Castle (1952) – Count Karl von Bruno
• Split Second (1953) – Sam Hurley
• The Stand at Apache River (1953) – Lane Dakota
• Devil's Canyon (1953) – Jessie Gorman
• Make Haste to Live (1954) – Steve Blackford
• A Bullet Is Waiting (1954) – Sheriff Munson
• The Man from Bitter Ridge (1955) – Alec Black
• Violent Saturday (1955) – Harper (bank robber)
• Tribute to a Bad Man (1956) – McNulty
• Hell's Crossroads (1957) – Victor 'Vic' Rodell
• Hell's Five Hours (1958) – Mike Brand
• The Fiend Who Walked the West (1958) – Marshal Frank Emmett
• Johnny Rocco (1958) – Tony Rocco
• Hell Bent for Leather (1960) – Deckett
• Requiem for a Gunfighter (1965) – Red Zimmer
• Panic in the City (1968) – James Kincade
• Once You Kiss a Stranger (1970) – Police Lieutenant Tom Gavin
• Black Gunn (1972) – Laurento
• The Lives of Jenny Dolan (1975, TV movie) – Lieutenant Nesbitt
• Hi-Riders (1978) – Mr. Lewis

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