Roger Ewing R.I.P.

Roger Ewing was born in Los Angeles on January 12, 1942. He attended college for a year and worked as a lifeguard before becoming an actor. He made his television debut in an episode of Bewitched. After guest starring in a different role on Gunsmoke, in its tenth season, Roger Ewing joined the cast as Thad Greenwood in the show's eleventh season. He would remain with the show through the show's 12th season. He also guest starred on the shows The Baileys of Balboa, The Bing Crosby Show, Rawhide, The Mothers-In-Law, and Death Valley Days. He made his movie debut in Ensign Pulver in 1964. He also appeared in the movies None But the Brave (1965), and Smith! (1969). He made his last appearance on screen in the movie Play It As It Lays (1972). 

Roger Ewing retired from acting in the early Seventies and took up photography. 

Roger Ewing's acting career was short, but memorable. Aside from playing Thad on Gunsmoke, he appeared in other notable roles. In the Bewitched episode "Girl Reporter," he played Marvin "Monster" Grogan, the football player and boyfriend of the girl reporter (Liza Randall, played by Cheryl Holdridge) who has a crush on Darrin (Dick York). In the Rawhide episode "The Calf Women," Roger Ewing played one of his rare unlikable characters, a young buffalo hunter who tries to force himself on a young woman. On The Mothers-In-Law he played a wealthy ex-boyfriend of Suzie (Deborah Walley) that Suzie fails to tell that she is still married. Roger Ewing was always a welcome presence on television and in movies and always gave good performances.