James Griffith  James Jeffrey Griffith (February 13, 1916 – September 17, 1993) was an American character actor, musician and screenwriter. Attended Santa Monica High School, where he was a classmate with Glenn Ford. Both were active in school drama productions. He later went on to graduate from UCLA with a degree in music. Born in Los Angeles, Griffith aspired to be a musician rather than an actor. Instead after graduating from University of California, Los Angeles, he managed to find work in little theatres around Los Angeles, where the budding musician eased into a dual career of acting. He found success in the production "They Can't Get You Down" in 1939, but put his career on hold during World War II to serve with the United States Marine Corps. Following the war, Griffith switched from the stage to films when he appeared in the 1948 film noir picture "Blonde Ice". From then on, he enjoyed a lengthy career of supporting and bit roles (sometimes uncredited) in westerns and detective films. Though Griffith was generally cast as the outlaw in Western pictures, he managed to garner a few memorable "good guy" roles over his many years in Hollywood – Abraham Lincoln in both 1950's "Stage to Tucson" and 1955's "Apache Ambush", sheriff Pat Garrett in 1954's "The Law vs. Billy the Kid", and Davy Crockett in 1956's "The First Texan". In 1959 Griffith appeared as John Wesley Hardin on the TV western "Maverick" in the episode titled "Duel at Sundown" featuring James Garner and Clint Eastwood. In the role of Aaron Adams, the town barber, Griffith appeared in 1958 in twelve episodes of the CBS western series, "Trackdown", starring Robert Culp as Texas Ranger Hoby Gilman. Griffith also portrayed deputy Tom Ferguson in the syndicated series, "Sheriff of Cochise," starring John Bromfield, and "U.S. Marshal." Griffith made more than seventy guest appearances on television shows, including eight episodes of "Wagon Train", seven episodes of "The Range Rider", seven episodes of "The Lone Ranger", two episodes of "Annie Oakley", four episodes of "Cheyenne", three episodes of "Buffalo Bill, Jr.", six episodes of "Gunsmoke", four episodes of "Perry Mason", four episodes of "Dragnet", three episodes (42, 43 and 108) of "Batman", and two segments of "Little House on the Prairie".