- THE DOAN REPORT: NEW ACTOR TO POP UP
IN "ALIAS SMITH" ROLE IN WESTERN TV SERIES
TV Guide, January 1972
The
star is dead. Long live the star.
ABC will offer no explanation on February 3 when an actor named
Roger Davis turns up on Alias Smith and Jones playing
one of the co-starred title roles. The network will presume that
nearly everybody has read the papers and knows Pete Duel, who
portrayed Hannibal Heyes, alias Joshua Smith, in the drama of
two young outlaws seeking amnesty for their criminal past, was
found dead of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound at his
Hollywood hills home. Viewers of the ABC Western know Davis's
voice: he is the off-camera narrator. He has been seen in a couple
of ABC's made-for-TV movies, "The Young Country" and
"River of Gold," and also in the ABC serial, Dark
Shadows.
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