Tom Greenway

Tom Greenway (June 5, 1909–February 8, 1985) was an American character actor of film and television, whose career, in movies and television westerns, extended from 1949 to 1965.

Early life
Greenway was born June 5, 1909, to Charles Sanford Greenway and his wife Lena Mai Radford, in Booneville in Logan County, east of 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 Italian and German POW camps. Released from military service, he performed on Broadway in New York City, where he procured his Social Security number, before he moved into films, where he had many uncredited roles in the early years of his 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 film based on Bret Harte's short story, "The Outcasts of Poker Flat". 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 appeared twice in 1954-1955 on the Rod Cameron syndicated television series City Detective. In 1955, he guest starred in the episode "The Big Genius" of NBC's Dragnet, starring and narrated by Jack Webb. In 1958, Greenway appeared four times on Rod Cameron's second syndicated series, State Trooper, a modern western series. He portrayed Sheriff Bronson in the episodes "Stay Lost, Little Girl", "Dangerous Honeymoon", "Full Circle", and "Death on Wheels". In 1957, Greenway was cast in the episode "Copper Wire" of another syndicated crime drama, Sheriff of Cochise, set in Arizona and starring John Bromfield; in 1958, he portrayed Deputy Sheriff Tom Munger in the episode "Sentenced to Death" of Bromfield's successor series, U.S. Marshal.

In 1958, he appeared as Kylie in the episode entitled "Geronimo", of Pat Conway's Tombstone Territory, also set in Arizona. John Doucette was cast in the same episode as the Apache Chief Geronimo. Greenway appeared in 1958 as Dr. Quinn in "The Dan Hogan Story" of the NBC western series, Wagon Train. Another appearance in 1958 was as Lt. Peters in the episode "Double Jeopardy" of the CBS crime drama, Richard Diamond, Private Detective, starring David Janssen. In 1959, he portrayed John Sebrey in "Death of a Gunfighter" on Richard Boone's CBS western series, Have Gun - Will Travel. That same year, he played the role of rancher Frank Chanault in the film These Thousand Hills.

Between 1957 and 1960, he appeared in five different roles in five half-hour episodes of CBS's Gunsmoke, with James Arness. He appeared in 1961 in the episode "Gamble with Death" on the syndicated western anthology series Death Valley Days, with John Doucette again playing Geronimo. That same year, Greenway guest starred twice on both NBC's Bat Masterson and CBS's Rawhide in the latter as Hawthorne in "Incident at the Blackstorms". In 1961, Greenway also played warden Binns in the episode "The Return of the Widow Brown" of Henry Fonda's series The Deputy. That same year, he also played Glenn Cornell, a used car salesman, in the episode "Very Hard Sale" of NBC's police drama, 87th Precinct. Peter Helm appeared as Cornell's son, Andy.

In 1962, he appeared twice on NBC's Laramie. He guest starred as Henry Sharp in the segment "Don't Wake a Tiger" in Dale Robertson's Tales of Wells Fargo. He appeared five times between 1960 and 1962 on NBC's Bonanza. On CBS's Perry Mason, Greenway guest starred as Rod Andrews in "The Case of the Howling Dog" (1959) and as Dick Jenkins in "The Case of the Fifth-Millionth Frenchman" (1964).

Greenway's final video role was in 1965 as a marshal in the episode "The Verdict" of Robert Horton's ABC series, A Man Called Shenandoah.

Greenway died of a heart attack in Los Angeles, California, nearly twenty years after his last acting role. He was survived by his wife, Helen T. Greenway (born 1920) of Hemet in Riverside County, California.

Filmography

 * Impact (1949) - Moving Van Driver
 * Deputy Marshal (1949) - Bartender
 * Blonde Dynamite (1950) - Mr. Carter - Bank Officer (uncredited)
 * Dakota Lil (1950) - (uncredited)
 * The Damned Don't Cry! (1950) - Deputy Tom (uncredited)
 * Love That Brute (1950) - Police Taxi Driver (uncredited)
 * A Lady Without Passport (1950) - Sergeant (uncredited)
 * Big Timber (1950) - Rocky
 * Pretty Baby (1950) - Chauffeur (uncredited)
 * I'll Get By (1950) - Moving Man (uncredited)
 * The Harlem Globetrotters (1951) - Dave Barrett (uncredited)
 * Never Trust a Gambler (1951) - Police Sgt. Frank Wessel (uncredited)
 * Tomorrow Is Another Day (1951) - Tom - Policeman (uncredited)
 * Jim Thorpe – All-American (1951) - Coach Howard (uncredited)
 * The Mob (1951) - Man (uncredited)
 * Westward the Women (1951) - Bart - Rejected Wrangler (uncredited)
 * The Pace That Thrills (1952) - Official (uncredited)
 * The Outcasts of Poker Flat (1952) - Townsman (uncredited)
 * Carson City (1952) - Townsman (uncredited)
 * The Winning Team (1952) - Telephone Lineman Foreman (uncredited)
 * High Noon (1952) - Ezra (uncredited)
 * O. Henry's Full House (1952) - Cop (segment "The Cop and the Anthem") (uncredited)
 * My Man and I (1952) - Patrolman (uncredited)
 * Kansas City Confidential (1952) - Policeman (uncredited)
 * Ride, Vaquero! (1953) - Deputy
 * 99 River Street (1953) - Police Officer (uncredited)
 * Mister Scoutmaster (1953) - Doorman (uncredited)
 * The Moonlighter (1953) - Barbershop Customer (uncredited)
 * How to Marry a Millionaire (1953) - Motorcycle Cop (uncredited)
 * The Glass Web (1953) - District Attorney (uncredited)
 * The Miami Story (1954) - Charles Earnshaw
 * Tight Spot (1955) - Elevator Mechanic (uncredited)
 * 5 Against the House (1955) - Police Lt. Anderson (uncredited)
 * The Boss (1956) - Hood (uncredited)
 * Tension at Table Rock (1956) - Gang Member (uncredited)
 * Death of a Scoundrel (1956) - Stock Market Watcher in Montage (uncredited)
 * Love Me Tender (1956) - Union Captain / Paymaster (uncredited)
 * The True Story of Jesse James (1957) - Deputy Leo (uncredited)
 * Last of the Badmen (1957) - Dallas
 * The Deadly Mantis (1957) - Second Reporter (uncredited)
 * The Wayward Bus (1957) - Mr. Breed (uncredited)
 * Slaughter on Tenth Avenue (1957) - Stu, Photographer (uncredited)
 * Flood Tide (1957) - Coroner (uncredited)
 * Peyton Place (1957) - Judge (uncredited)
 * The Green-Eyed Blonde (1957) - Ed (uncredited)
 * Sing, Boy, Sing (1958) - Reporter-Photographer (uncredited)
 * The Sheepman (1958) - Rancher (uncredited)
 * From Hell to Texas (1958) - Doctor (uncredited)
 * The Naked and the Dead (1958) - General (uncredited)
 * Voice in the Mirror (1958) - Drunk-Tank Guard (uncredited)
 * The Gun Runners (1958) - Deputy (uncredited)
 * A Nice Little Bank That Should Be Robbed (1958) - Lieutenant Green (uncredited)
 * These Thousand Hills (1959) - Frank Chenault (uncredited)
 * North by Northwest (1959) - Silent State Police Detective (uncredited)
 * The Man Who Understood Women (1959) - Studio Cameraman (uncredited)
 * Beloved Infidel (1959) - Director (uncredited)
 * The Story on Page One (1959) - Detective Captain Kelly (uncredited)
 * The Second Time Around (1961) - Deputy Shack
 * The Couch (1962) - Mr. Campbell (uncredited)
 * How the West Was Won (1962) - (uncredited)
 * It Happened at the World's Fair (1963) - Lt. Staffer (uncredited)
 * Della (1964) - Mr. Bennett