Invited Guests
 
Dodie Rogers-Patterson
Gary Lockwood
James Drury
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Jon Patterson
Edward Faulkner
Marlyn Mason
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| | Jon & Dodie Rogers-Patterson |
Dodie and Jon will be making their third visit to the Roy Rogers Festival. The fans and collectors have overwhelmingly accepted Dodie and Jon, and made them part of the Roy Rogers Festival family. They will be in the Dealers' Room daily to meet and visit with fans.
| | Jon's ideas and creativity are bringing back an ancient inovation in teaching the younger ones about Roy and Dale, Trigger, Buttermilk, Bullet and the rest of the gang, through the magic of puppetry. |
| | Marlyn Mason |
| | Gary Lockwood |
 | | James Drury |
 | | Col. Bill Sanders |
 | | John Patterson |
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 Dodie Rogers-Patterson
 I am the youngest of Mom and Dad's nine children. Six are still living; Tom, Cheryl, Marion (Mimi), Linda Lou, Dusty and me.
After Mom and Dad's two year old Robin died, they still had to fulfill many commitments and go on tour. My parents told me the story of going through Dallas, TX and thought they would stop once again at Hope Cottage, where my sister Cheryl was adopted. They had been through there a couple of months before and looked at babies, but it was painful. This time, as Dad told me, he didn't even have the car completely stopped, before Mom was out of the car and going up the steps. She told me she remembered me and wanted to see if I was still there. I was, and she rushed in and scooped me up. The personnel were so shocked and said that it was against the rules to pick up the babies. I was already spoken for, but Mom was insistent, saying she had just lost a child and needed me, and, I needed her. Fortunately, Dad had Native American blood, and the same tribe as I am, Choctaw. An emergency meeting was held with the Board of Directors and Mom was given the okay.
In the picture below, on the right, there I am as a baby; as my mom was getting me ready for the trip to California to a new home and family. Dusty tells about it in his show that Dad had called, letting him know he was bringing a present for Dusty's birthday. Well, I don't know if he considered it a present or not, because on that tour, Mom and Dad had also adopted a new brother for us kids, Sandy, from Covington, KY. Mom and Dad stepped off the airplane with "two new children in tow"!! Brad and Angelina still have a ways to go to catch up!!
We lived on a ranch growing up and I loved the land, the outdoors, animals, and exploring. I always tried to follow my brothers, whether it was on the roof of the house or the rock cliffs. Naturally, I wasn't quite as surefooted. I tried to follow my brother Dusty once on the face of a rockcliff that Dad had made into a waterfall, but got stuck. Dusty had to help me down.
Dad and Mom use to take us out on the property in his jeep and we'd have picnics or pretend some of the downed trees were horses. We had a lot of acres. Mom was in great shape and we use to go for hikes. I remember once we hiked to the top of the property to the fence, and by the time we got up there, I was gasping for breath and was so exhausted; while Mom was saying it was so invigorating!
In this picture to the left; it's a picture of Dad and me. I believe I was two or three, when it was taken.
I have lived in the area of Huntsville, AL for eight years. I have a daughter, Kristen Faro and three grandchildren; Andrew, twenty-one, Tessa, eighteen, and Tala seventeen, who live here in AL. Andrew has moved back to California.
I now am a great-grandmother. My granddaughter Tessa has a son, Jackson Wayne Verley, born 8/15/08. My grandson Andrew and his wife, Jenny have a son, Andrew Jacob Wrey Faro, born 8/8/08.
I am married to Jon Patterson, who works for NASA, at Marshall Space Center in Huntsville. I have two step-children, Wes, seventeen and Rosalyn, fourteen.
 We are rejuvenating an historical, old Civil War house, called the "Gurley Hotel", in Gurley, AL. We have about seventy-four acres of beautiful rolling hills and a nice pond for fishing. We have five horses, and of course, one of them is a "palamino"! We have three dogs and three cats. I have always loved animals!
I have taken stained glass classes in Huntsville and now I like to dabble in that.
I have always admired my parents for their caring of children, healthy and those born physically or mentally challenged, and also their fellow man. They worked very hard during their lifetime and appreciated those that did. I am so blessed to be able to call them "Mom" and "Dad"!!
(Dodie was the baby boy Jimmie, in the "The Roy Rogers Show", 'Little Dynamite'. Uncredited). |
| Jon Patterson
 Jon is a space engineer at Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, AL. They develop key space transportation and propulsion technologies including the Ares I crew exploration and Ares V cargo launch vehicles; manages space shuttle propulsion elements and aboard the International Space Station; and pursues scientific researh in space that will improve life here on earth.
With a loud roar and a bright flash, engineers at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, AL, successfully completed the first round of development testing for the ullage settling motor ..... a critical element of the Ares I rocket, Oct 8, 2009. The Ares I is the first rocket under development for NASA's Constellation Program, a program tasked with the development of vehicles necessary to carry explorers on future journeys of exploration.
The opposite side of the coin will find Jon playing music and singing some of his favorite tunes by a variety of different artists and styles. He does a mighty fine job of singing and performs with a local band back home in Alabama.
Jon and his lovely bride are in the process of giving the "Gurley Hotel", an historical Civil War house in Gurley, AL, a makeover.
The above mentioned does keep him quite busy, but he finds quality time to enjoy his family and the company of his best girl and wife, Roy and Dale's youngest daughter, Dodie. |
| Marlyn Mason
 She may not be a household name, but would be familiar to anyone who watched TV during the sixies and seventies. The actress appearred in dozens of shows, including "Hogan's Heroes", "The Big Valley" (where she was delighted to meet the lengendary, Barbara Stanwick), "The Invaders", and "Bonanza".
This blue-green eyed and button nose unconventional beauty had the talent to play comedy and drama to good effect. Being an extremely versatile performer, she was a much sought after TV actress playing a variety of roles on all the top series, including "I Spy", "The Man from U.N.C.L.E.", "Mission: Impossible", and "Matt Helm". She also co-starred with James Franciscus in "Longstreet". Marlyn was featured in the regular role of Nikki Bell, secretary to Mike Longstreet, a blind insurance investigator.
Marlyn with Ray "Crash" Corrigan
 
Marlyn with Roy Rogers Marlyn with Charles Starrett
Born in San Fernando, CA, Ms Mason showed a talent for singing and dancing and was enrolled in a children's theatre group.
When she was nine years old, she visited the infamous Iversen Ranch, meeting such western stars as Ray "Crash" Corrigan, Roy Rogers and Charles Starrett, who was filming a Durango Kid feature.
After high school, Marlyn was hired as a dancer by Harold Minsky for a banker's convention in Chicago, Il.
Mason also proved to be a more than competent singer and dancer on two TV musical specials with Robert Goulet "Brigadoon" and "Carousel" and on Broadway in "How Now Dow Jones".
After appearing on television for almost a decade, her singing and dancing prowess was finally put to good use. She was discovered by Hollywood and found herself on the big screen with the lead role opposite Elvis Presley in a 1969 film "The Trouble With Girls".
She raised a few eyebrows when she starred in a desperate housewife comedy-drama, "Making It", in 1971. The following year, the film's producer, Albert Ruddy, received an Acadamey Award fo producer of "The God Father".
For the next twenty years, Mason was all over the television appearing in TV movies, like, "My Wicked Wicked Ways", the autobiography of Errol Flynn, "The New Adventures of Heidi " and "Last of the Good Guys".
 Mason came out of a self-imposed retirement to star in "Model Rules" (2008), a short film directed by Ray Robison that she also produced and wrote on location in Medford, Oregon.
In it she played an aging artist's model who envisages being with one of the men sketching her. Warmly received, "Model Rules" was accepted into the Rhode Island International Film Festival and the Los Angeles International Short Festival. Also in 2008, Ms Mason won the Jury Prize of Best Actress for Model Rules at the BendFilm Festival in Bend, Oregon.
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| Gary Lockwood
 Lockwood was born in Van Nuys, in the San Fernando Valley of southern California with the birth name of John Gary Yurosek. He attended the University of California at Los Angeles on a football scholarship.
A familiar face to film and television audiences for nearly a half century, Lockwood was a former movie stuntman, and a stand-in for Anthony Perkins prior to his acting debut in 1959 in an uncredited bit role in "Warlock".
Lockwood's two series came early in his career, and each lasted only one season. ABC's Hawaii-set "Follow the Sun" in 1961–1962 cast him in support of Brett Halsey and Barry Coe, who played adventurous magazine writers based in Honolulu. Lockwood was Eric Jason, who did the legwork for their articles, but his on-screen time was limited since most of the plot focused on Halsey or Coe.
 On November 12, 1961, Lockwood appeared as a rodeo cowboy named Bo in love with an 18-year-old singer, Cherie, played by Tuesday Weld in ABC's "Bus Stop". The 26-week series starred Marilyn Maxwell as the owner of a diner in fictitious Sunrise, Colorado.
Bus Stop aired a half-hour after Follow the Sun. Thereafter, he starred with Jeff Bridges in the acclaimed 'My Daddy Can Beat Your Daddy' episode of CBS's anthology series, "The Lloyd Bridges Show.
Lockwood co-starred with Elvis in the 1963 film, ""It Happened At the World's Fair". Mike (Elvis) and Danny (Gary) flew a cropduster, but because of Danny's gambling debts, a local sheriff took custody of it. Trying to earn money, they hitch-hiked to the World's Fair in Seattle. While Danny tried to earn money playing poker, Mike took care of a small girl, Sue-Lin, whose father had disappeared.
In 1963-1964, Lockwood starred as a young U.S. Marine second lieutenant named William T. "Bill" Rice in the NBC series "The Lieutenant". The drama about the peacetime Marines was produced by the Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry, and The Man from U.N.C.L.E. creator Norman Felton. The series co-starred Robert Vaughn as Lieutenant Rice's immediate superior, Captain Raymond Rambridge. Despite moderately good reviews, The Lieutenant's Saturday night time slot opposite CBS's blockbuster Jackie Gleason's American Scene Magazine caused its cancellation after twenty-nine episodes.
 Shortly afterwards, Lockwood starred in another NBC television series called "The Kraft Mystery Theater", also known as Crisis, in an episode titled 'Connery's Hands'. He was cast opposite Sally Kellerman, whom he would appear with again in a Star Trek episode called 'Where No Man Has Gone Before' as Helmsman Gary Mitchell, and Kellerman as the ship's psychiatrist Dr. Elizabeth Dehner, who both develop super powers after being jolted and knocked unconscious by an unknown electrical force. This episode was originally produced in 1965, but aired in 1966, due to the pilot episode 'The Cage' being rejected. (It was filmed as the series' second pilot, but broadcast as the third episode.)
In 1966, Lockwood guest starred as Clint Bethard in the episode 'Reunion' of ABC's "The Legend of Jesse James", starring Christopher Jones in the title role. That same year, Lockwood appeared as Danny Hamil on the episode 'Day of Thunder' of NBC's drama, "The Long Hot Summer", based loosely on the works of William Faulkner. He appeared twice in 1966 as Jim Stark in the two-part episode 'The Raid' of CBS's Gunsmoke with James Arness.
 In 1968, Lockwood co-starred in one of his best-known films as scientist, Dr, Frank Poole. 2001: A Space Odyssey, an adventurous, sci-fi film that deals with thematic elements of human evolution, technology, artificial intelligence, and extraterrestrial life, and is notable for its scientific realism, pioneering special effects, ambiguous and often surreal imagery, sound in place of traditional narrative techniques, and minimal use of dialogue.
Lockwood also appeared in the second episode of a special two episode tribute to Roy Rogers, simply called, 'King of the Cowboys', on "The Fall Guy", starring Lee Majors in 1984. Lockwood portrayed a horse boarding ranch owner named "LaRue", who was part of a multi-million diamond heist. To get the diamonds safely out of the country, they embedded the diamonds in the horseshoes of horses who were being shipped out. (Hmm, does the plot sound familiar to anyone, say, a 1949 Roy & Dale movie ?) 
Between 1959 and 2004, Gary Lockwood had roles in some forty theatrical and made-for-TV features and made almost eighty television guest appearances, including several as a villain on CBS-TV's "Barnaby Jones" starring Buddy Ebsen.
More Gary Lockwood at .
www.gary-lockwood2001.com |
| James Drury
 James Drury was born in New York, New York, where his father was a New York University professor of marketing. He grew up in both New York and Oregon.
Trained as a classical actor at New York University from Shakespeare to Shaw, he eventually relocated to California.
After a series of bit parts and playing second-lead for Walt Disney, Drury landed the top-billed leading role of the ranch foreman on The Virginian, a lavish series which ran for nine seasons. The show was based on Owen Wister's classic novel and the various screen versions that had been filmed since; Drury was probably cast because of a vague resemblance to Gary Cooper, who had
 played the part in an early movie version.
In the series, as the novel, the actual name of "The Virginian" is never revealed. Drury also played the part in a refurbished version called The Men From Shiloh. Drury had a cameo role in the 2000 TV movie of The Virginian starring Bill Pullman. This film follows Wister's novel more closely than had the television series.
 Drury appeared in a number of films and other television programs, including the TV cowboy reunion movie The Gambler Returns: Luck of the Draw with Doug McClure, who played Trampas for the entire run of The Virginian. Other Drury costars on The Virginian included Lee J. Cobb, Randy Boone, Roberta Shore, Gary Clarke, Clu Gulager, and toward the end of the run, Tim Matheson.
Drury also appeared on the TV western Alias Smith and Jones costarring Pete Duel and Ben Murphy. Drury played a sheriff who was a former outlaw. Drury had also worked with Duel twice before in different episodes of The Virginian.
In 1991 Drury was inducted into the Hall of Great Western Performers at the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City.
Drury was in the oil and natural gas business in Houston at the turn of the 21st century. His son, Timothy Drury, is a keyboardist, guitarist and vocalist who has played with The Eagles and currently with Whitesnake. Drury was a close friend of the Houston marksman Joe Bowman, who trained numerous actors on how to use weapons.
 Drury settled in Houston in the mid-1970s. He and Carl Ann, his wife of more than 20 years, have lived there ever since. "I asked her where she wanted to live for the rest of her life," Drury says. "She said, 'Well, I live in Houston,' which meant the end of that discussion."
Drury has been "in and out of the oil business" for years, and he recently recorded a series of novels by Acclaimed Western Author Kirby Jonas, for a books-on-tape company called Books in Motion. "Who knows?" the actor says. "It could be the start of a new career."
More James Drury at .
www.thevirginian.net |
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