| John Bryant | |||||||||||
| Birth Name: | Charles Briton Yonts Jr. | ||||||||||
| Birth Date: | 10 August 1916 | ||||||||||
| Birth Place: | Dixon, Illinois, U.S. | ||||||||||
| Death Place: | Los Angeles, California, U.S. | ||||||||||
| Alma Mater: | School of the Art Institute of Chicago | ||||||||||
| Occupation: | Actor | ||||||||||
| Years Active: | 1944–1969 | ||||||||||
| Other Names: | C.B. Yonts | ||||||||||
| Children: | 1
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John Bryant (August 10, 1916 – July 13, 1989)[1] was a prolific American actor active from 1944 through 1969. He performed in the famous G.I. version of Hamlet, both in the Central Pacific Theater during World War II and later on Broadway. He also acted in films, but was most prevalent on television, playing many lead and character parts including a five-year recurring role as Dr. Carl Spalding on The Virginian.
He was born Charles Briton Yonts Jr. in Dixon, Illinois on August 10, 1916. His parents were C. B. Yonts Sr. and Mary E. Monaghan. His father, a power company manager, moved the family to LaCrosse, Wisconsin while Bryant was still a toddler.[2] By 1930, the family had moved again, to Milwaukee, where his father was now president of an electric utility company.[3] Bryant appears to have been an only child.[4]
He attended Washington High School in Milwaukee.[5] In September 1934, at age 18, he arrived at the Port of New York from Hamburg, Germany.[6] The reason for this trip is not known, but having been made at the height of the Great Depression, points up the comfortable circumstances of his upbringing.
Bryant applied for his social security card in March 1938 under his birth name. He was still living at home in April 1940 when the US Federal Census for that year showed him as having completed three years of college. In October 1940, he registered for the draft, giving his parents' home in Milwaukee as his address while indicating he was a student at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.[7] The draft registrar recorded him as being 6'1" (185.4 cm), 165 pounds (74.8 kg), with black hair, blue eyes, and a slight scar under his right eye.
Bryant enlisted in the US Army at Milwaukee, under his birth name, in August 1941.[8] His enlistment papers noted he was married, had completed three years of college, his civil occupation was "Actor", but recorded a much lower height, 5'10" (177.8 cm), and weight, 156 pounds (70.7 kg).
By May 1944 he was a first lieutenant,[9] in a Hawaiian-based Army Entertainment Section attached to the Signal Corps.[10] (Performers assigned to these units were often given officer rank if they had some college or formal professional training). The unit to which Bryant was assigned was commanded by Major Maurice Evans, one of the foremost interpreters of Shakespeare on the pre-war American stage.
During October 1944, Bryant played Horatio to Evans title role in a famous G.I. version of Hamlet. Reviewer Edna B. Lawson said "Capt. C.B. Yonts portrayed Horatio with quietness, strength, and poise". The production was performed for both military and civilian audiences in Hawaii during October and November 1944 then taken on tour to bases throughout the Central Pacific region for the remainder of the war.[11] [12]
The "G.I. Hamlet" was so successful that following the war's end Michael Todd decided to mount a Broadway revival, with Maurice Evans reprising the title role.[13] Bryant, on terminal leave from the Army, flew from Hawaii to New York in November 1945 to audition and was given the part of Francisco.[14] Notably, the newspaper reporting this identified him as "Capt. John Bryant". For both the one week tryout in Boston and the four-month run on Broadway his billing was John Bryant.[15] There is no public record of him ever using his birth name again.
From April 1946 to November 1950 there is a gap in the record of Bryant's performing career. He may have been doing regional theater for which no record is available, or perhaps switched to other employment. An internet obituary mentions him attending UCLA; he may very well have used his G.I. Bill benefits for this, despite his earlier college attendance. The 1950 US Census records him as living in a rooming house in Los Angeles, working part-time as a bus boy in a restaurant.[16] Later that same year he began getting uncredited bit parts in films at several different movie studios. The first one released was Dial 1119, followed in 1951 by four more minor films.
With 1952 Bryant's career began to blossom. He had his first credited film role in Red Snow,[17] his first known television roles on episodes of Big Town and The Lone Ranger, and played the lead in an original play Willow Whistle at the Laguna Beach Playhouse.[18] Bryant was cast as a psychopathic killer in another original production, Nightshade, at the Pasadena Playhouse in March 1953, for which he received high praise from the Los Angeles Times critic.[19]
Bryant had a minor uncredited part in From Here to Eternity. He returned to summer stock at Laguna Beach in July 1953 with a co-star role in Lo and Behold.[20] He did another original play, Music in the Distance, at Laguna in September 1953, in which he most favorably impressed the reviewer.[21]
With 1954 the focal point of Bryant's performances swung permanently to television, while his film career remained negligible, a string of uncredited bit parts. He did a dozen TV episodes that year, including three for The Loretta Young Show, and two for Schlitz Playhouse of Stars. He also handled leading roles in three week-long productions at the Laguna Beach Playhouse during the summer.[22] [23] [24] The following year he had fourteen appearances on television, all but three for anthology series. He also performed on stage in My Three Angels for a weeklong run in Phoenix.[25]
For 1956 Bryant again did fourteen episodes of television, a large number for any actor not playing a regular on a series. For most of these appearances he was either the lead or a featured performer. His tally of TV episodes dipped slightly in 1957, as he had a flurry of film roles that year. Three were uncredited, one was a short subject, but Courage of Black Beauty marked his first lead film role.[26] The following year he had his second lead film role, albeit for an independent Christian-themed production with a limited distribution, I'll Give My Life.[27] [28] He also did nearly a dozen television episodes in 1958, and the play Dream Girl.[29]
By 1959 anthology shows share of television had diminished in favor of narrative series with continuing casts. Bryant also rode this trend, doing three episodes of Perry Mason, playing a different character on each.[30] [31] [32] He did six other television shows that year, as well as a film, The Bat.[33]
His only other film role of consequence during this period was as a neglectful husband to Kim Novak in Strangers When We Meet. His mainstay was television; he did twenty-five episodes on nearly as many series from 1960 through 1962.
Beginning in 1963 Bryant had a long-running recurring role on the top-rated series The Virginian. For five years he played Dr. Carl Spalding[34] in this 90-minute western, performing in two dozen episodes.[35] [36] He had other television work during these years, appearing on Dr. Kildare, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., My Three Sons, Run for Your Life, Dragnet 1967, and The Mod Squad among others. During the fall of 1969 he appeared in the pilot episode of a new series called The New People. This was his last screen performance for nearly twenty years, until he appeared in a single episode of Highway to Heaven during early 1988. However, he continued to act in stage productions in the Southern California area,[37] and had completed a run in Very Nearly a Pinter[38] just two months before his death from cancer on July 13, 1989.[39] [40]
While studying at the Art Institute of Chicago, Bryant met a model named Janet Remick, who was from Massachusetts.[41] They were married in 1941, and initially lived with Bryant's parents in Milwaukee. The couple had a daughter Brittony in 1942, but divorced in 1946.[42]
| Year | Play | Role | Venue | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1944 | Hamlet | Horatio | Military Touring Company | This was an Army production of the famous G.I. Hamlet, devised by and starring Major Maurice Evans. |
| 1945 | Hamlet | Francisco | Boston Opera House Columbus Circle Theater | The G.I. Hamlet was commercially produced by Michael Todd, with Maurice Evans, Lili Darvas, Thomas Gomez, Walter Coy, Alexander Lockwood, Frances Reid, Thomas Chalmers, and Emmett Rogers. |
| 1952 | Willow Whistle | Robert Tomlin | Laguna Beach Playhouse | Original summer fantasy by Frances Wetmore. Bryant starred, with David Stollery, Betty Paul, Michael Hayes, Bach Mantell, Glenn Wells, and Maryanne O. Neil. |
| 1953 | Nightshade | Pasadena Playhouse | Original chiller by Ken Englund and Sidney Field. Bryant, Paula Raymond, and George Reeves starred, with Jack Hill, Evelyn Scott, Louise Lorimer, Natividad Vacío, George Truitt, and Harris Brown. | |
| Lo and Behold | Dr. Robert Dorsey | Laguna Beach Playhouse | Broadway comedy in its West Coast premiere, starred Douglas Wood, with Bryant in the co-star role. Also with Regina Gleason, Sandra Stone, Joseph Paul, and Stephen Coit. | |
| Music in the Distance | Laguna Beach Playhouse | Original play by Patterson Greene; starred Bryant, Charlotte Fletcher, Sandra Stone and Maury Hill, with Louise Lorimer and Stephen Coit. | ||
| 1954 | The Deep Blue Sea | Freddie Page | Laguna Beach Playhouse | Erin O'Brien-Moore starred, supported by Bryant and Glen Wells, with Stephen Coit, Connie Wells, Robert Hafner, Charleen Ward, and Skip Fickling. |
| The Moon Is Blue | Donald Gresham | Laguna Beach Playhouse | Joan Evans and Edward Ashley co-starred, with Bryant featured in this four-character play. | |
| The Little Hut | Henry Brittingham-Brett | Laguna Beach Playhouse | Bryant, Elizabeth Paul, and Maury Hill starred, with Fred Nilsoon and Jack Beavers. | |
| 1955 | My Three Angels | Paul | Sombrero Playhouse | Starring Thomas Gomez, Henry Brandon, Liam Sullivan, with Carl Harbord, Margaret Wells, Elinor Donahue, Louis Martin, Barbara Morrison, Mark Herron. |
| 1958 | Dream Girl | Clark Redfield | Palm Springs Playhouse[43] | Starring Julia Meade, with Loyal Lukas, Jesse Glendining, John Bonitz, Lynn Bailey. |
| 1987 | Jitters | Gnu Theater[44] | Backstage comedy by David French has Bryant and others as feuding professionals in a Toronto theater. | |
| 1989 | Very Nearly a Pinter | Actors Alley Theater[45] | One act drawing room parody by Maximilian Bocek has Bryant playing a semi-senile English eccentric. | |
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950 | Dial 1119 | Reporter | Uncredited |
| 1951 | The Mating Season | Wedding Usher/Party Guest | Uncredited |
| Inside Straight | Wagon Captain | Uncredited | |
| Darling, How Could You! | Lieutenant | Uncredited | |
| A Millionaire for Christy | Wedding Usher | Uncredited | |
| 1952 | Red Snow | Enemy Pilot Alex | His first credited and named role in film. |
| 1953 | From Here to Eternity | Capt. G.R. Ross | Uncredited. Bryant plays the officer taking over when Capt. Holmes (Philip Ober) is relieved of command. |
| 1954 | Johnny Dark | Patrolman | Uncredited |
| 1955 | To Hell and Back[46] | Jim Houston | Uncredited |
| Two Sons[47] | Denny Bennett | Bryant and Wright King play sons of John Hoyt. Christian-themed independent short produced by Family Films. | |
| 1957 | Four Girls in Town[48] | Young Man | Uncredited |
| The 27th Day | Federal Agent Kelly | Uncredited | |
| Courage of Black Beauty | Sam Adams | A rare lead role for Bryant, though for a Grade B film. With Johnny Crawford, Mimi Gibson, Diane Brewster, Russell Johnson, J. Pat O'Malley, Ziva Rodann, Nancy Abbate. | |
| Man of a Thousand Faces | William R. Darrow Jr | Uncredited | |
| Book of Israel | Religious-themed independent short produced by Family Films. With Robert Shayne, Joan Woodbury, John Marshall, Michael Ross, Claudia Drake, Maxine Jennings.[49] | ||
| 1958 | Run Silent, Run Deep | Carl Beckman | Uncredited.[50] |
| The Last Hurrah | Man at Campaign HQ | Uncredited.[51] | |
| I'll Give My Life[52] | James W. Bradford | Bryant has the lead for this feature length Christian-themed independent film. With Ray Collins, Angie Dickinson, Donald Woods. | |
| 1959 | Where Your Treasure Is | Congregationalist-themed short starring John Litel.[53] | |
| The Bat | Mark Fleming | Bryant plays nephew of murdered bank president. | |
| Never So Few | Gen. Sloan's Aide | Uncredited | |
| Front Page Bible | Bill Adams | ||
| 1960 | The House Hunters | David Blair | Bryant plays prospective home buyer in this 16mm color short produced for NAR. With Edward Everett Horton, Douglas Kennedy, William Bakewell, Helen Mowery, Sally Fraser.[54] |
| Bells Are Ringing | Doorman | Uncredited | |
| Strangers When We Meet | Ken Gault | Bryant negelcts wife Kim Novak so married architect Kirk Douglas dallies with her.[55] | |
| 1961 | The Marriage-Go-Round | Young Professor | Uncredited |
| The Flight that Disappeared | Hank Norton | ||
| Twist Around the Clock | Harry Davis | ||
| 1962 | Walk on the Wild Side | Spence | |
| 1964 | To Trap a Spy | Henchman | Uncredited |
| 1965 | Those Calloways | Doug | Uncredited |
| Runaway Girl | |||
| 1969 | Winning | Uncredited; his final known film role. | |
| Year | Series | Episode | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1952 | Big Town | The Hero | Nelson Karnes | |
| The Lone Ranger | Best Laid Plans | Chick Thompson | ||
| 1954 | Mr. & Mrs. North | Model for Murder | Robert Hastings | |
| Four Star Playhouse | Masquerade | Sabin | Ida Lupino and fiancée Bryant are target of her ex- during Mardi Gras.[56] | |
| Schlitz Playhouse | Something Wonderful | Paul Chalmers | Deceitful producer (Claude Dauphin) entices young hopeful (Marcia Patrick) into ignoring her beau (Bryant).[57] | |
| Topper | The Wedding | Roger | ||
| The Loretta Young Show | No Help Wanted | Sgt. Nick Hummerstein | ||
| City Detective | Midnight Supper | |||
| The Loretta Young Show | It's a Man's Game | Dr. Lindy | ||
| Schlitz Playhouse | The Long Trail | Sam Gates | Anthony Quinn plays a Texas Ranger looking in Oregon for wanted man (Bryant).[58] | |
| The Loretta Young Show | Our Sacred Honor | David Walton | ||
| Adventures of the Falcon | Invisible Destroyer | Lowell | ||
| The Lineup | Cop Shooting Story | Jack Lee | ||
| Waterfront | Troubled Waters | Dan Brennan | ||
| 1955 | Studio 57 | The Big Jump | Jim Clayton | Uranium prospecting couple (Bryant and Nancy Gates) fight off a claim jumper.[59] |
| The Loretta Young Show | 600 Seconds | Andy Delaney | ||
| The Public Defender | A Pair of Gloves | Allen Logan | ||
| The Loretta Young Show | The Little Teacher | David Lindsay | ||
| Science Fiction Theatre | Y..O..R..D.. | Warrant Officer Milligan | ||
| Studio 57 | The Deadly Doubt | Paul | Employer wants to breakup office romance between Bryant and Laura Elliott[60] | |
| The Millionaire | The Uncle Robby Story | Richard Curtis | Uncle Robby (Percy Helton) dies untimely for newlyweds Bryant and Barbara Bates.[61] | |
| The Lone Ranger | The Sheriff's Wife | Sheriff Frank Russell | ||
| The Man Behind the Badge | The Case of Operation Sabotage | Pierce Torrington | ||
| Science Fiction Theatre | Target Hurricane | Lieutenant | ||
| TV Reader's Digest | The Voyage of Captain Tom Jones, Pirate | Captain Miles Standish | Louis Hayward stars, with Kathryn Beaumont, Noel Drayton, John Stephenson, Edward Colmans.[62] | |
| This Is the Life | Too Late... Yet Not Too Late | Hot-tempered man (Bryant) regrets his angry words.[63] | ||
| Star Stage | The Girl Who Wasn't Wanted | |||
| Cavalcade of America | Barbed Wire Christmas | Fred | Bryant and Chuck Connors are Americans in German POW camp during Dec 1944.[64] | |
| 1956 | Cavalcade of America | The Boy Who Walked to America | Security Officer | |
| Studio 57 | Georgia Man | Maj. Sandie | Caught sleeping on guard duty, a Confederate soldier is given a second chance.[65] | |
| The 20th Century Fox Hour | Crack-Up | Draftsman #2 | [66] | |
| Navy Log | Not a Leg to Stand On | Lt. Robbins | ||
| Schlitz Playhouse | Officer Needs Help | Lt. Lyle Smith | New police chief (Stephen McNally) tries to improve his poorly trained force.[67] | |
| Studio 57 | The Faithful Heart | Ralph | Woman battles small town hostility. With Teresa Wright, Gracie Fields, Isabel Withers, John Hamilton.[68] | |
| Lux Video Theatre | She Married Her Boss | George | With Jan Sterling.[69] | |
| Sunday Spectacular | The Road to Hollywood | Himself | Bob Hope NBC color special with host of stars.[70] | |
| Schlitz Playhouse | Witness to Condemn | Tony Savage | Beaten blind by gangsters, girl hopes to see again. With Teresa Wright, Warren Stevens, Ray Walker.[71] | |
| This Is the Life | The Voice Within | Al Walsh | Fatal fire caused by poor wiring haunts electrician (Bryant). With Forrest Taylor, Onslow Stevens, Nan Boardman, Jean Howell, James Seay.[72] | |
| The Adventures of Dr. Fu Manchu | The Secret of Fu Manchu | Franklin Arnold Jr. | ||
| The Adventures of Jim Bowie | Natchez Trace | Samuel Cummings | Bowie escorts travelers to Natchez. With Ross Elliott, Brad Morrow, Havis Davenport.[73] | |
| Lux Video Theatre | Because of You | Mike | ||
| State Trooper | Nevada Boy, Pride and Joy | Hank Greenlee | ||
| 1957 | Father Knows Best | Short Wave | Skipper | |
| This Is the Answer | Mission to Korea | Henry Fowler | Bryant plays reporter in this religious-themed drama for Sunday morning viewing.[74] | |
| Code 3 | The Rookie Sheriff | Lane | ||
| Navy Log | Ito of Attu | Doc | Navy doctor treats wounded Japanese soldier (Harold Fong) during WWII.[75] | |
| Panic! | The Airline Hostess | Captain Jenkins | Enemy agent tries to flee by commercial airline. With Carolyn Jones and Paul Picerni.[76] | |
| The Silent Service | The Trout at the Rainbow's End | Lt. Alvin H. Clark | ||
| This Is the Life | Design from Heaven | Pastor Dwyer | Polio-stricken woman loses hope of treatment. With Mary Lawrence, Alan Hale Jr., Linda Bennett, Herb Ellis.[77] | |
| Official Detective | The Wristwatch | Reeves | ||
| Schlitz Playhouse | The Hole Card | Robert | Lady gambler (Tallulah Bankhead) feels her losing streak will soon end.[78] | |
| 1958 | Sgt. Preston of the Yukon | The Diamond Collar | Alex Kieth | |
| Official Detective | Trail of Terror | Detective Ellery | ||
| The Adventures of McGraw | The Lie That Came True | Neal Denquist | Man (Charles Watts) invents fake crime to which another man (Bryant) confesses.[79] | |
| The Gray Ghost | Contraband | Lattimore | ||
| The Silent Service | The U.S.S. Cod's Lost Boarding Party | Lt. Cmdr. Edward L. Westbrook | ||
| Schlitz Playhouse | Way of the West | Lt. Harry Ryan | Frontier town suffering from epidemic is also beset by gunmen.[80] | |
| Schlitz Playhouse | False Alarm | Patrolman Kenny | Cabbie is forced into armored car heist. Stars Jack Carson, Janice Rule, Joseph Wiseman, with Madge Blake.[81] | |
| Flight | Experiment Oxygen | |||
| How to Marry a Millionaire | A Job for Jesse | Dr. Strick | ||
| The Donna Reed Show | Guest in the House | Major Barker | Bryant plays father to runaway boy (Charles Herbert); with Stephen Courtleigh and John Reach.[82] | |
| Yancy Derringer | Three Knaves from New Haven | Joshua Devon | ||
| 1959 | Perry Mason | The Case of the Footloose Doll | Bob Wallace | Bryant phones in his only scene as an embezzling heel. |
| The Case of the Romantic Rogue | Stacy Chandler | Con-man (Bryant) falls for his mark. | ||
| Lux Playhouse | The Case of the Two Sisters | |||
| Tightrope! | Getaway Day | Lt. Jackson | Bryant plays police officer after race track robbers.[83] | |
| Border Patrol | Test of Strength | Goodwin | ||
| Perry Mason | The Case of the Watery Witness | George Clark | Bryant is accused of murdering an old-time movie star. | |
| M Squad | Another Face, Another Life | Albert Taylor | ||
| Laramie | Man of God | Husband | ||
| The Fat Man: The Thirty-Two Friends of Gina Lardelli | (TV Movie) | Larry Scott | ||
| 1960 | The Donna Reed Show | The New Mother | Major Barker | Bryant reprises a character from a two-year old storyline. |
| Johnny Midnight | Once Again | Mark Sanders | ||
| Laramie | Death Wind | Prison Guard | Uncredited. | |
| The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis | Room at the Bottom | Esmond Adams | Bryant and Jean Byron are parents to private school whiz kid (Ron Howard).[84] | |
| Men Into Space | Is There Another Civilisation? | Maj. Bowers | ||
| Not for Hire | Uniformed Mugger | Grayson | ||
| The Comedy Spot | Meet the Girls | Ken Evans | Unsold pilot, starred Mamie Van Doren, Virginia Field, Gale Robbins. | |
| Perry Mason | The Case of the Nine Dolls | Larry Osborne | Bryant is revealed to be secret benefactor of orphan girl (Laurie Perreau).[85] | |
| Coronado 9 | A Bookie Is Not a Bibliophile | Frank Banner | ||
| The Ann Sothern Show | Secret Admirer | Dave Shelley | ||
| Shotgun Slade | The Lady and the Piano | Saloon Owner | ||
| 1961 | The Islanders | Escape from Kaledau | Maxwell | Two castaways (Bryant and Henry Daniell) hijack a rescue plane and fly it to Kaledau.[86] |
| Lock-Up | End of a Titan | Attorney defends artist accused of murdering architect.[87] | ||
| Checkmate | Phantom Lover | Roland Devers | Young girl is being haunted.[88] | |
| Coronado 9 | Flee Now, Pay Later | Mike Telford | ||
| The Case of the Dangerous Robin | Falling Star | |||
| Mr. Ed | Pine Lake Lodge | Jerry | ||
| Sea Hunt | Imposter | Investigator Larrabee | ||
| Cain's Hundred | Blue Water, White Beach | Ronnie | ||
| Everglades! | Heat in Town | Whitney Luten | ||
| 1962 | Checkmate | The Star System | The Leading Man | [89] |
| Perry Mason | The Case of the Crippled Cougar | Arnold Keith | No one could play a complete louse as well as Bryant.[90] | |
| Wagon Train | The Charley Shutup Story | Cavalry Officer | ||
| Ripcord | The Helicopter Race | Owen's Boss | ||
| Saints and Sinners | Daddy's Girl | Hal Simmons | ||
| 1963 | Ripcord | The Money Line | Stuart Langton | |
| Perry Mason | The Case of the Prankish Professor | Mike Estridge | ||
| The Virginian | Say Goodbye to All That | Dr. Carl Spalding | Bryant's first of many recurring appearances on this show | |
| Vengenance Is the Spur | Dr. Carl Spalding | |||
| The Golden Door | Dr. Carl Spalding | |||
| The Eleventh Hour | Everybody Knows You Left Me | Ed | ||
| This Is the Life | When Parents Fail | Don Griffin | Religious-themed series | |
| The Virginian | The Evil That Men Do | Frank Mason | The only episode of this series in which Bryant performed as a character other than Dr. Spaulding | |
| Dr. Kildare | The Eleventh Commandmant | Mike Shipman | ||
| The Virginian | A Time Remembered | Dr. Carl Spalding | ||
| 1964 | Wagon Train | The Michael Malone Story | The Doctor | |
| The Virginian | The Thirty Days of Gavin Heath | Dr. Carl Spalding | Larger role than usual for Bryant as his character deals with a case of rabies. | |
| The Long Quest | Dr. Carl Spalding | |||
| A Bride for Lars | Dr. Carl Spalding | |||
| Dark Destiny | Dr. Carl Spalding | |||
| Ryker | Dr. Carl Spalding | |||
| Dark Challenge | Dr. Carl Spalding | |||
| The Hour of the Tiger | Dr. Carl Spalding | |||
| 1965 | The Virginian | Two Men Named Laredo | Dr. Carl Spaulding | |
| Hideout | Dr. Carl Spalding | [91] | ||
| Lost Yesterday | Dr. Carl Spalding | |||
| The Man from U.N.C.L.E. | The Four-Steps Affair | Henchman | An uncredited role | |
| The Virginian | Old Cowboy | Dr. Carl Spaulding | ||
| 1966 | The Man from U.N.C.L.E. | The Minus-X Affair | Officer | |
| The Man from U.N.C.L.E. | The Super-Colossal Affair | Hardy Twill | [92] | |
| The Monroes | Ordeal By Hope | Doctor | Once again Bryant is a frontier doctor dealing with rabies. | |
| The Virginian | Beloved Outlaw | Dr. Carl Spaulding | ||
| 1967 | The Virginian | Doctor Pat | Dr. Carl Spaulding | Spalding (Bryant) acquires a female colleague (Jill Donohue), and a wife (Jacqueline Mayo), for this episode only. |
| The Girl on the Pinto | Dr. Carl Spaulding | |||
| The Strange Quest of Claire Bingham | Dr. Carl Spaulding | |||
| Johnny Moon | Dr. Carl Spaulding | |||
| Bitter Autumn | Dr. Carl Spaulding | |||
| My Three Sons | Ernie, the Bluebeard | Jim Walters | ||
| 1968 | The Virginian | Stacey | Dr. Carl Spaulding | Spalding (Bryant) calls in a specialist (Robert H. Harris) for a case of partial paralysis. |
| Run for Your Life | The Exchange | Charles Stuyvesant | Bryant's character is held prisoner behind the Iron Curtain.[93] | |
| Dragnet 1967 | Robbery: DR-15 | Ray | ||
| The Virginian | Nora | Dr. Carl Spaulding | ||
| 1969 | The Mod Squad | Shell Game | Dispatcher | |
| The New People | Pilot | Pilot | Appearing as a pilot in this pilot episode, Bryant's character dies early. | |
| 1988 | Highway to Heaven | Time in a Bottle | Chairman | How Bryant came to appear on this show after a 20-year absence from TV is unknown. |