Robert Horton, who played frontier scout Flint McCullough on the long-running TV Western Wagon Train, has died. He was 91.
Horton, who also starred as the title character in another TV Western, A Man Called Shenandoah, died March 9 in Los Angeles. His niece, Joan Evans,
told The New York Times that her uncle had been injured in a fall in November.
The handsome actor starred on Wagon Train from the start of the series in September 1957 through the end of its fifth season in June 1962, when he quit the show. The very popular Wagon Train — about a trek from Missouri to California — aired on NBC while he was there, then shifted to ABC for its final three seasons.
On ABC’s A Man Called Shenandoah, which lasted just a season (1965-66), Horton played a cowboy in the 1870s who develops amnesia after he’s shot and left for dead. He also performed the theme song.
