The High Chaparral AKA WTH happened to Cameron Mitchell????

[chukaluk]

I'm almost through season three of The High Chaparral.

Cameron Mitchell, not many years before he started doing those..."movies"....everyone here knows about, played one of the leads, and not only did it well, but the character he played, "Buck Cannon" had to have been one of the idols of (male) younger kids who watched the show at the time.

Hard-drinking, smooth with the ladies, quick with his fists and his pistol, tough as nails.

What, did he go bankrupt or something? 

That's a long way to fall for an actor, even if it was just a TV show that barely lasted four seasons.