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The Hotel Clerk

John Harmon played hotel clerk Eddie Halstead. Prior to landing the role he appeared in The Untouchables. He later appeared in Cheyenne, Have Gun – Will Travel, Wagon Train, Perry Mason, Gunsmoke, The Fugitive, Green Acres, The Big Valley, and The Virginian. When Harmon got older, he became a used-book dealer and possessed several first editions of Mark Twain books. His store was located in and took up a large portion of Shirley’s Antiques on Topanga Canyon Blvd. just south of Ventura Blvd. in Woodland Hills, California. Harmon had a stroke and died a year later in 1985 due to heart failure.