This child star found an adult career playing tough, athletic heroes and anti-heroes since the 1980s. Kurt Russell began acting at age nine as a stock player for Disney's film and TV projects. After several TV guest spots, he starred in his own Western series, "The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters" (ABC, 1963-64), also featuring Charles Bronson and the very young Osmond brothers.

Russell was likable in a string of Disney family features through the mid-70s, including "Follow Me, Boys!" (1966), as a boy scout, "The Horse in the Gray Flannel Suit" (1968), "The Barefoot Executive" and "The