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Andrew Duggan (1923-1988) was a tall and authoritative character actor who appeared in 70 movies and over 140 television shows between 1949 and 1987. He had recurring roles in Cimarron Strip and The Great Adventure but seldom played the same role twice except in a couple of short-lived series in which he played the lead, Bourbon Street Beat and Lancer. One of his last parts was as Dwight D. Eisenhower in a TV biography called J. Edgar Hoover (1987), a role he'd played earlier in Backstairs at the White House (1979), and he also played Lyndon Johnson in a different biography of Hoover, The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover (1977).

Duggan seemed ubiquitous on television screens in the 1950s and 1960s, appearing in practically every narrative television series in production more than once, and played the lead in a 1969 series inspired by Bonanza called Lancer (playing a more complex counterpart of Ben Cartwright named "Murdoch Lancer"). Unfortunately, unlike Bonanza, Lancer only lasted 51 episodes, but critics cited the scripts and performances as excellent. Duggan had also played the lead in another ill-fated TV series ten years earlier, Bourbon Street Beat (1959), in which he portrayed Cal Calhoun, the head of a New Orleans detective agency.

Duggan died of throat cancer at the age of 65; his career had been still going strong when he fell ill.

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