Robert Karnes  Robert A. Karnes (June 19, 1917 – December 4, 1979) was a prolific television actor who also appeared in some films early in his career, including mostly uncredited parts in "The Best Years of Our Lives" (1946), "Miracle on 34th Street" (1947), "Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye" (1950), and "From Here to Eternity" (1953). A Kentucky native, Karnes was living in Arizona at the time he procured his Social Security number. He was a costar with James Gregory in the NBC crime drama "The Lawless Years", having appeared as Max Fields in fifteen episodes between 1959 and 1961. The program, set during the Roaring 20s preceded the more successful "The Untouchables" by a half-season. Karnes even appeared twice on "The Untouchables". He appeared eight times on the half-hour or hour-long versions of the Alfred Hitchcock program on CBS. In 1960, Karnes had a role in the western film "Five Guns to Tombstone". He was frequently cast in various television westerns, including the 1959 episode "Murder Is the Bid" of the syndicated "Mackenzie's Raiders", starring Richard Carlson. Between 1957 and 1974, he guest starred in ten episodes of CBS's "Gunsmoke" series starring James Arness. He appeared six times on Richard Boone's "Have Gun – Will Travel" series, set in San Francisco, California. Between 1962 and 1971, he guest starred in five episodes of NBC's most successful western "Bonanza" with Lorne Greene. He appeared five times as the Roman Catholic Father Esteban in ABC's "The Big Valley" with Barbara Stanwyck. He starred four times in different roles on NBC's "The Virginian" with James Drury and Doug McClure. In 1970 Karnes appeared as Hendricks on "The Men From Shiloh" (rebranded name for "The Virginian" in the episode titled "Hannah." On three occasions, he appeared on CBS's Four Star Production "Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre" anthology series. He appeared twice as a sheriff in ABC's "The Guns of Will Sonnett" with Walter Brennan and Dack Rambo. Twice he appeared on CBS's "Rawhide" with Clint Eastwood and Eric Fleming and in "Frontier Justice", another Four Star anthology. He starred once in NBC's "The Californians", "Tales of Wells Fargo" with Dale Robertson, the syndicated "26 Men", true stories of the Arizona Rangers with Tristram Coffin, "Broken Arrow" with John Lupton, and "Outlaws" in the 1961 episode "Chalk's Lot" with Bruce Yarnell.