ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Earl Bellamy, who directed scores of popular TV shows in a prolific career that began with the birth of commercial television and continued well into the 1980s, has died of a heart attack at age 86.
Bellamy died Sunday at a hospital in Albuquerque. He had lived in Rio Rancho, N.M., since 1991.
The director, who was particularly adept at Westerns, had credits on almost every popular show of that genre, including "The Lone Ranger," "Rawhide," "Laredo," "Wagon Train," "Daniel Boone," "Sergeant Preston of the Yukon," "The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin," "The Monroes" and "The Virginian."