Trained at the St Louis School of Theater before serving in the South Pacific with the U.S. Navy, Wright King entered the screen world in 1949 as Midshipman Bascomb on Captain Video and His Video Rangers. He built a reputation in Westerns, appearing as the Kiowa Kid in a 1958 episode of Cheyenne and as a condemned horse thief in a 1957 Gunsmoke story, while also taking part in the original stage p…
