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Dillinger's Pa

posted 16 years ago by jrobertclark
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Was played by Victor Killian, who was uncredited. Kilian was in scores of Westerns during the 40s and 50s, including "The Ox-Bow Incident." He is probably best-known for his numerous roles as cranky but lovable old men on 1970s network television comedies and dramas. He is, however, probably best-known as Grandpa Larkin, the "Fernwood Flasher," on "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman."

[–] LCShackley 15 years ago

And BTW, Dillinger's dad and a couple of other family members did go on the road after Johnnie's death to talk about him and his life.

[–] max von meyerling 12 years ago

I'm always amused by the fact that Dillinger's father, in newsreels of the period, pronounced the family name with a hard "g", a fact which the media assiduously ignored from that day to this, in favor of the more sonorous pronunciation.