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Nov 20, 2014 · Longtime Hollister official Clay Lee, who suffered a stroke in 2010 and later returned to his job, is retiring from the city. Mayor Ignacio Velazquez confirmed Lee will be retiring. A retirement party is scheduled for Saturday.
Jun 28, 2020 · Airing from 1957 to 1959, ‘Tombstone Territory’ told the wild western adventures of Sheriff Clay Hollister (played by Pat Conway) in “the town too tough to die” as he dealt out his own brand of law and order to the Arizona Territory in the 1880’s.
Tombstone Territory: With Pat Conway, Richard Eastham, Quentin Sondergaard, Bill Catching. Tough Sheriff Clay Hollister keeps the law in Tombstone, Arizona with the support of his faithful deputies and the editor of the local newspaper.
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- Pat Conway came from Hollywood royalty. Conway was the grandson of silent film actor Francis X. Bushman, best known as the villain Messala in the 1925 version of Ben-Hur.
- Richard Eastham was Wonder Woman’s boss. Eastham was 15 years older than Conway and enjoyed success as a singer and stage actor before he was cast as Claibourne.
- Tombstone Territory was based on true stories. Unlike other TV Westerns that played fast and loose with fact and folklore, Tombstone Territory was committed to historical accuracy.
- Why isn’t Wyatt Earp in Tombstone Territory? Tombstone’s most famous marshal was already the lead on ABC’s popular Western serial The Life And Legend Of Wyatt Earp, which had debuted two seasons earlier.
In Tombstone Territory, Conway played Tombstone Sheriff Clay Hollister, set in Arizona Territory. The series ran for three seasons from October 16, 1957 to July 8, 1960. He also played many guest roles in Western serials, including Gunsmoke, Rawhide, and Bonanza.
Nov 23, 2023 · Pat Conway was an American actor who rose to fame for his role as Sheriff Clay Hollister in the popular Western television series Tombstone Territory. He was a handsome and talented actor who came from a family of Hollywood royalty. However, his life and career were cut short by a tragic and mysterious death that shocked his fans and colleagues.
Conway played Sheriff Clay Hollister. Eastham, the only other actor besides Conway to appear in all the episodes, played Harris Claibourne, editor of The Tombstone Epitaph (an actual newspaper that still exists in limited form).
