Secrets Of TV’s The Rifleman: More Than Just Guns And Good Times

Judge Hanavan’s Wife, Sister, Daughter (Kathleen Mulqueen)

Kathleen Mulqueen appeared in four episodes of The Rifleman playing various characters. She was Nancy Hanavan in the pilot episode, The Sharpshooter,” Mrs. Peterson in “The Angry Gun” (episode 12), a woman in “Eddie’s Daughter” (episode 46) and Judge Hanavan’s wife/sister/daughter in “The Actress” (episode 94). Mulqueen was a character actress who worked on TV and films in the 1950s and 1960s. Her movies included Marty, (1955), Texas Lady (1955), These Wilder Years (1956), The Outsider (1962) and The Night Walker (1965). She had a recurring role as Grandma Wilson in the popular TV series Dennis the Menace.