A stage actor and night club singer/dancer during the regular theatrical seasons, Fowley took such jobs as athletic … Fowley was born in 1939 to actor Douglas Fowley and actress Shelby Payne in Los Angeles. Looking for something to watch? He encouraged me to stick around and be an actor after the war was over. "I started playing old character roles by removing my false upper plate, adding a beard, voice and gait to match my interpretation."[6]. While no official cause of death has been announced, Fowley had been undergoing numerous rounds of caner treatments. He never sloughed off anything.       - Le Roy Mason For a time, later on, he ran his own drama school in Hollywood. One of his last roles was as Delaney Rafferty in Disney's The North Avenue Irregulars, in which he dressed in drag.       - John Merton Not at all so encumbered Doc would occasionally take the law into his own hands behind Earp's back to protect his friend from legal action or even death when the marshal was legally or morally ham-strung. In 2014, he made an appearance in Beyoncé's "Haunted" video, and most recently co-wrote some songs on Ariel Pink's pom pom.       - Stephen McNally       - Lee Marvin       - Henry Silva As a young man, he moved to Los Angeles and studied at Los ... Father of '60s record producer Kim Fowley.       - L. Q. Jones Doug was married several times and had five children. An Interview With…       - Mari Blanchard During the third year of the series Doug got a deal to do a picture in Europe while “Earp” wasn’t filming. May 30, He died nine days before his 87th birthday and was interred at the Murrieta, California, Laurel Cemetery. 7:56 AM PDT The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Condé Nast. Wife: Shelby Payne (div.) Fowley served in the Navy in the South Pacific in World War II, and lost all of his own teeth in an explosion aboard his aircraft carrier during battle. Born: 30-May-1911 Birthplace: Bronx, NY Died: 21-May-1998 Location of death: Woodland Hills, CA Cause of death: unspecified Remains: Buried, Laurel Cemetery, Murrieta, CA.       - Douglas Kennedy One especially I remember. Holliday, as played by Fowley, having no problem working around morals or the law, could be either hilarious or cold-blooded.[8]. Manhattan Angel Mr. Fowley - Press Photographer (1949) Take Me Out to the Ball Game Karl (1949) Flaxy Martin Max, Detective (1949) At the beginning of WWII Doug was 30, married and had one child, so was exempt from the draft until late in the war, 1944. Portraying a member of Tyrone Power's orchestra in Alexander's Ragtime Band, in the early scenes of the film, Fowley's character quarrels with his bandmates, but this is not developed in the film's later scenes. He not only always knew what he was going to say, he also had a very definite feeling about how he was going to handle it physically.       - Warner Richmond       - Claude Akins Towards the end of the evening…he’d been kinda keeping an eye on everybody throughout the whole party…he went into a rhythm and rhyme type of thing about everybody that was there, about the whole evening.         - Archives, Will "Sugarfoot" Hutchins As for “Wyatt Earp”, before he was Doc Holliday, he played the part of Doc Fabrique in Wichita during the first season (‘55-‘56). In 1966, he appeared as "Rufus C. Hoops" in "The Search" season 2, episode 24, of the series "Daniel Boone".       - Jan Merlin An all around good guy.”.       - George Macready       - George Chesebro, The Stuntmen - Neil Summers Douglas Fowley (born Daniel Vincent Fowley, May 30, 1911 – May 21, 1998) was an American movie and television actor in more than 240 films and dozens of television programs, He is probably best remembered for his role as the frustrated movie director Roscoe Dexter in Singin' in the Rain (1952), and for his regular supporting role as Doc Holliday in The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp. He also co-produced 1976's Queens of Noise and 1977's Waitin' for the Night, though he and the Runaways severed their ties that same year. Rock Gypsy DNA.