Who is this Actor w/ 56 Hawk?

[BobPalma]

Honest, I don't know who this is:



....but it looks like some sort of publicity shot and the Power Hawk / Flight Hawk has a California plate up front, so I figure this is somebody that's supposed to be rich / famous / important / all the above.

Any ideas, Hollywood sleuths? BP

[HAWK64]

Dick Quinn when a bit younger !!!

[BobPalma]

Dick Quinn when a bit younger !!!

I dunno, Jim; would Dick Quinn have even been seen with a postwar Studebaker in 1956? BP

[Lark Parker]

I think an "A" picture actor would surely have a Golden Hawk.
He's a big dude to be able to lean his elbow on the roof.
The 58's had 14" wheels and using that for scale I figured he is 17' 6" tall.
So, logically, he must be the stunt double for John Wayne when Yakima Cornutt wasn't available.

[Welcome]

Honest, I don't know who this is:



....but it looks like some sort of publicity shot and the Power Hawk / Flight Hawk has a California plate up front, so I figure this is somebody that's supposed to be rich / famous / important / all the above.

Any ideas, Hollywood sleuths? BP

How about a 32 year old, 6’-7” James Arness around the time of the first “GUNSMOKE” TV episode in 1955 and “GUN THE MAN DOWN” (a Western movie) filmed in 1956 ...both starring Arness.

[Bo Markham]

Honest, I don't know who this is:



....but it looks like some sort of publicity shot and the Power Hawk / Flight Hawk has a California plate up front, so I figure this is somebody that's supposed to be rich / famous / important / all the above.

Any ideas, Hollywood sleuths? BP

That would be Jim Davis.

[Milaca]

If not John Wayne's stunt double, then he must surely be John Wayne's mechanic. He wears a scarf around his neck for a grease rag and has the cuffs of his pants turned up to hold small parts and/or tools.

[Corvanti]

i'll go with Robert Conrad about 10 years prior to "The Wild Wild West": http://www.imdb.com/media/rm2526451712/nm0001066

looks like he's on his "tippy-toes"!!!

[Welcome]

i'll go with Robert Conrad about 10 years prior to "The Wild Wild West": http://www.imdb.com/media/rm2526451712/nm0001066 looks like he's on his "tippy-toes"!!!

...or maybe it’s a scaled down ’56 Hawk?

I skied Vail Mountain with Robert Conrad and he only came up to my shoulders …and I’m barely 6’ ...on a good day!

[Pat Skelly]

Bo got it right.

[plwindish]

I would go with the younger Jim Davis aka Jock Ewing. Robert Conrad would have had to stand on a bucket to have his elbow on the top of the car.

[Studebaker Wheel]

Not me, my uncle on mothers side Cliff Robertson.

[candbstudebakers]

i'll go with Robert Conrad about 10 years prior to "The Wild Wild West": http://www.imdb.com/media/rm2526451712/nm0001066

looks like he's on his "tippy-toes"!!!

Hardly, Conrad is about 5'6" tall a runt of a man.

[JBOYLE]

Hardly, Conrad is about 5'6" tall a runt of a man.

I bet you wouldn't say that to his face.... I know I wouldn't. I'd never mess with James West or Pappy Boyington.
He is (or was now that he's almost 80) quite a tough guy.

Jim Davis was a customer of my fatyer-in-law's business back in the day...along with another old cowboy actor named Reagan.
Davis also starred in a late 50s TV show called Rescue 8....a pre-Emergency rescue show that was before my time.

[jimmijim8]

I remember Rescue 8.. I would have gone to my grave and never even thought back to then if It werent for reading it here. Thanks for jogging my memory. I believe it was in B&W. cheers jimmijim