Druxy,
There was another actor name John Pleschette (not sure of the spelling) stocky, balding...lots of heavies, cowboy black hats, and cops. But I first became aware of him on a show in the early sixties, where he played a good guy-- a tough heart-of-gold sergeant in the Civil War (Union side, I think). The series, if I recall, was called THE AMERICANS, and starred...hmmm...was it Daryll Hickman and Dick Davalos as two brothers who went off to fight in the Civil War on opposite sides. One week would be an episode about the Union brother (Hickman?); the following week about the Confederate brother (Davalos?). It came out during the Civil War Centennial craze and was very short-lived.