Obituary / Gene Barry Actor Portrayed Tv's Dapper Bat Masterson

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"I went over to the wardrobe department, picked out a brocaded vest, looked in the mirror, and there was this elegant gentleman," he recalled in 1999. "I said, 'Hey, that's [Bat Masterson]! That's me!"'

Barry appeared in the last season of Eve Arden's hit sitcom Our Miss Brooks -- as a P.E. teacher who pines for Miss Brooks -- before landing Bat Masterson in 1958.

After the show ended its run on NBC in 1961, Barry moved to ABC to star as an L.A. detective in Burke's Law, which lasted until 1966. The show was revived on CBS nearly 30 years later with Barry again in the lead but lasted only one season.

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Obituary / Gene Barry Actor Portrayed Tv's Dapper Bat Masterson

LOS ANGELES -- Gene Barry, who played the well-dressed man of action in the television series Bat Masterson, Burke's Law and The Name of the Game, h...

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