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Doc Burrage (Robert Burton)

Robert Burton was another one of the six actors who appeared as the semi-regular character Doc Burrage. Only his stint was short lived: he appeared as the character just once, in episode 127, “The Princess.” Burton was a known TV and film star of the 1950s and early 1960s. He appeared in lesser-known films such as I Was a Teenage Frankenstein (1957), Invasion of the Animal People (1962), and The Slime People (1963). His more popular films included The Bad and the Beautiful (1952), The Big Heat (1953), Compulsion (1959) and The Manchurian Candidate (1962). He also starred in TV shows The Lone Ranger, Wagon Train, The Texan and Dennis The Menace.