Jimmy Noel


Jimmy Noel was a Massachusetts-born actor and stuntman who appeared in hundreds of largely uncredited roles in film and television between 1949 and 1975. He appeared 202 times on CBS's western series, Gunsmoke, starring James Arness, and in 144 episodes of the ABC/Desilu production, The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp, with Hugh O'Brian in the title role of deputy Marshal Wyatt Earp. Buddy Roosevelt made similar appearances in sixty-five Wyatt Earp episodes. On Gunsmoke, Noel also served as a stand-in and stuntman for Milburn Stone.

Other roles

His other multiple appearances, mainly in westerns, included Annie Oakley, The Gene Autry Show, The Texan and Have Gun, Will Travel, The Adventures of Jim Bowie, The Range Rider, Death Valley Days, The Rifleman, and Outlaws, Buffalo Bill, Jr. and The Big Valley, and Tales of Wells Fargo, Rawhide, Johnny Ringo, and .
Among the many parts Noel played were hotel clerk, rancher, cowhand, courtroom spectator, henchman, prisoner, bartender, gambler, dinner and party guest, circus worker, church member, guard, bank clerk, miner, vigilante, and numerous others.
He also had bit parts, most uncredited, in such films as The Younger Brothers, Ride the Man Down,
Pack Train and Jack McCall Desperado, Masterson of Kansas and Battle of Rogue River, and Quantrill's Raiders