Raised in Klamath Falls, Oregon, he was the son of Muriel and Pete Colley and excelled in football and track at Klamath Union High School, briefly pursued an Olympic try-out, then studied architecture at the University of Oregon before devoting five years to theater work in San Francisco. Early television roles placed him in 1960s-70s Westerns such as The Wild, Wild West, Cimarron Strip, The Virgi…
