For every hero there has to be a villain, and Gerald held a unique position in the industry, in that he was a very handsome baddie. More often than not, he ended up face down in the dust at the hands of the righteous goodies! A fairly accurate estimate of the number of times he “died” for the cameras, both in films and TV, would be around 50! It was during this time too that the skills and talents he learned as a youngster came to fruition, as he was an expert horseman, able to ride at the gallop close-up for the cameras (see “Duel at Silver Creek”) and, in an episode of Cheyenne called “Rendezvous at Red Rock”, he was seen singing and playing the piano. He had a fine baritone singing voice and should be considered a real loss to the musical comedy stage!
In July 1957 Mrs Rita Mohr was granted a divorce from her husband. Mrs Mohr charged cruelty and told Superior Court that Gerald wouldn’t accept emotional responsibilities for his family. “He just wanted his freedom” Mrs Mohr is quoted as saying in various newspaper articles of the time. She was given custody of their son, Anthony, and ownership of the family home at Sherman Oaks.
A year later, on 8 July 1958, Gerald married Mai Dietrich in a civil ceremony before actress Gloria Winters, a minister ordained by the Institute of Infinite Science (source: various newspaper articles). Please see my link to Mai’s IMDb site below.
Gerald continued to work in films and television. His most notable movies were The Buckskin Lady (1957), Terror in the Haunted House (aka My World Dies Screaming) (1958), Guns, Girls and Gangsters (1959), Date with Death (1959), This Rebel Breed (aka The Black Rebels) (1959) and The Angry Red Planet (1960), a film in which he was actually the hero for once!
The sheer volume of work that Gerald Mohr produced during his lifetime is quite amazing. In the department of statistics, partially attributed to IMDb, he acted in 92 television shows, plus the 15 episodes of “Jungle Girl” and 41 episodes of “Foreign Intrigue: Cross Current”, 70 movies, 540 radio plays (including his 119 Philip Marlowe episodes but not including the broadcasts he made as a news reporter in the early days), 4 stage plays that this biographer is aware of, and 3 cartoon series as voice talent. There also were other pilots he made that did not reach the screen, including “Rough Sketch”, made in Stockholm in 1956, “Rendezvous in Acapulco”, the pilot for “Holiday for Hire”, made in December 1962/January 1963. In 1958, Warner Brothers proposed making a series called “Doc Holliday”, starring Gerald,
In July 1957 Mrs Rita Mohr was granted a divorce from her husband. Mrs Mohr charged cruelty and told Superior Court that Gerald wouldn’t accept emotional responsibilities for his family. “He just wanted his freedom” Mrs Mohr is quoted as saying in various newspaper articles of the time. She was given custody of their son, Anthony, and ownership of the family home at Sherman Oaks.
A year later, on 8 July 1958, Gerald married Mai Dietrich in a civil ceremony before actress Gloria Winters, a minister ordained by the Institute of Infinite Science (source: various newspaper articles). Please see my link to Mai’s IMDb site below.
Gerald continued to work in films and television. His most notable movies were The Buckskin Lady (1957), Terror in the Haunted House (aka My World Dies Screaming) (1958), Guns, Girls and Gangsters (1959), Date with Death (1959), This Rebel Breed (aka The Black Rebels) (1959) and The Angry Red Planet (1960), a film in which he was actually the hero for once!
The sheer volume of work that Gerald Mohr produced during his lifetime is quite amazing. In the department of statistics, partially attributed to IMDb, he acted in 92 television shows, plus the 15 episodes of “Jungle Girl” and 41 episodes of “Foreign Intrigue: Cross Current”, 70 movies, 540 radio plays (including his 119 Philip Marlowe episodes but not including the broadcasts he made as a news reporter in the early days), 4 stage plays that this biographer is aware of, and 3 cartoon series as voice talent. There also were other pilots he made that did not reach the screen, including “Rough Sketch”, made in Stockholm in 1956, “Rendezvous in Acapulco”, the pilot for “Holiday for Hire”, made in December 1962/January 1963. In 1958, Warner Brothers proposed making a series called “Doc Holliday”, starring Gerald,
