Television Transition

 

Jack Hogan (1929 -)

The television medium offered a logical career move away from low-budget movies, keeping them quite busy and in demand.

Jack Hogan (Richard Roland Benson Jr.) is an American actor most notable for his recurring roles on two hit series, Adam-12, and Combat! His interests have included painting, fishing, reading, and poetry since retirement.

The Chapel Hill-born Hogan studied architecture at the University of North Carolina before enlisting in the Korean War. He studied drama at the Pasadena Playhouse and in New York after his hitch was up. Hogan's acting career was established on the small screen but he massaged in five films during the mid-Fifties, with a "best-of" performance as The Cat Burglar (1961). Hogan made supporting appearances on nearly every popular television show in a variety of roles from the Fifties into the Nineties, always with a genuine, believable delivery. His most visible role, however, was his 111 episodes of the five-season hit drama, Combat!, above as PFC William G. Kirby. Most may not know he was a casting director for another hit show, Magnum, P.I.