considered by many to be among the fastest draws in Hollywood. His roles, however, went well beyond that stereotype. He appeared on a variety of television shows, including The Time Tunnel, Racket Squad, The Range Rider, Wagon Train, The Roy Rogers Show, The Fugitive, The Adventures of Kit Carson, The Cisco Kid, City Detective, Annie Oakley, The Joseph Cotten Show: On Trial, My Friend Flicka, Sky King, The Californians, Broken Arrow, The People's Choice, Sheriff of Cochise, Bat Masterson, Behind Closed Doors, The Texan, Lawman, The Everglades, Mackenzie's Raiders, Bonanza, The Wild Wild West, The Virginian, Have Gun - Will Travel, Kung Fu, The Rat Patrol, Hogan's Heroes, Adventures of Superman, Sea Hunt, Science Fiction Theatre, Walt Disney Presents, and Tales of Wells Fargo. Doucette portrayed a police lieutenant, Tom Gregory, on the television version of Big Town. Between 1959 and 1961, he also played Lieutenant Weston on the series Lock-Up, Aaron William Andrews in the comedy The Partners, and bounty hunter Lou Gore in the episode "Dead Aim" on the series Colt .45 Doucette was cast on television as the Apache Chief Geronimo for the 1958 episode "Geronimo" on the Western series Tombstone Territory. He was also cast in 1961 as Captain Cardiff in The Americans, a 17-episode NBC series, starring Darryl Hickman, about how the American Civil War divided families. In 1963 he played “Michael McGoo”, a proud & lovable storytelling Irish sailor in the S6E26 edition of Wagon Train. Personal life and death John Doucette in 1948 married opera singer Katherine Sambles, with whom he had five daughters and three sons. Katherine died in 1991; and three years later, on August 16, 1994, John died of cancer at age 73 at his home in Banning, California. His mausoleum is at Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City, California. Selected filmography Films Footsteps in the Dark (1941) as Reporter (uncredited) King of the Mounties (1942, Serial) as Boat Henchman (ch. 9) (uncredited) Two Tickets to London (1943) as Larsen (uncredited) The Burning Cross (1947) as Toby Mason Ride the Pink Horse (1947) as Thug (uncredited) The Foxes of Harrow (1947) as Crew Member (uncredited) Road to the Big House (1947) as Danny I Wouldn't Be in Your Shoes (1948) as Prisoner Train to Alcatraz (1948) as McHenry Canon City (1948) as George Bauer Station West (1948) as Bartender In This Corner (1948) as Dunkle (Jimmy's 'second') Rogues' Regiment (1948)