Sandy Kenyon
Sandy Kenyon was an American actor of film and television. He appeared as a guest actor on numerous television series, including a recurring role on the 1961 TV series, The Americans. He was also the original voice of Jon Arbuckle, voicing the character in the first Garfield special Here Comes Garfield.
Early years
Kenyon was born in The Bronx, New York, and served as a pilot in the U.S. Army Air Forces during World War II.Career
Kenyon co-starred as Des Smith in the syndicated television drama Crunch and Des, and portrayed Cashbox Potter in the syndicated adventure series Major Del Conway of the Flying Tigers. Among the many television series in which he guest starred are the westerns: The Rifleman, Colt.45, Yancy Derringer, Have Gun-Will Travel, The Tall Man, Gunsmoke, and Bonanza.In 1960, Kenyon was cast as a pre-presidential Abraham Lincoln in the episode "No Bridge on the River" of the NBC western series, Riverboat. In the story line, Grey Holden sues the railroad when his vessel, the Enterprise, strikes a rail bridge atop the Mississippi River on a dark, stormy night; Lincoln is the attorney representing the railroad. Tyler McVey is cast as a judge and Denver Pyle as Jim Bledsoe.
In 1961, Kenyon was cast in the role of Ritter on The Americans, a 17-episode NBC series about how the American Civil War divided families.
In the 1963-1964 season, Kenyon was cast as Shep Baggott in a recurring role in five episodes of the ABC western series, The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters.
Other series in which Kenyon appeared include: Richard Diamond, Private Detective; The Fugitive; Room for One More; All in the Family; Gunsmoke; The Dick Van Dyke Show ; That Girl; The Partridge Family; Hogan's Heroes; Adam-12; Kung Fu; Peter Gunn; Quincy, M.E.; Knots Landing; Designing Women and The Twilight Zone.
In the film MacArthur, he portrays General Jonathan M. Wainwright, who survived spending most of World War II in a Japanese POW camp. His other films included Al Capone ; Easy Come, Easy Go ; Tom Sawyer ; Breezy ; When Time Ran Out ; The Loch Ness Horror ; Lifepod ; and Down on Us.
He voiced Jon Arbuckle in the first Garfield animated television special, Here Comes Garfield.